Taylor Swift's New Album Breaks Spotify (and a Few Hearts)
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4.0 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Swifties, rejoice! Last Friday, Taylor Swift released her tenth studio album “Midnights” and it not only broke sales records, it literally broke Spotify! Of course, Taylor’s most enthusiastic fans are already combing through her lyrics to figure out which of her exes are referred to in the lyrics. And there are already plenty of theories about that. But it’s not just Taylor’s lyrics that are getting people talking. In the music video for her song “Anti-Hero,” there’s a scene that has a lot of people online calling Taylor, fatphobic. Given how open Taylor’s been about her own struggles with body image issues, are people misunderstanding her messaging or is she being insensitive?
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| 0:00.0 | Heads up Ritchie's. In today's episode, we mention eating disorders and fat phobia. |
| 0:04.5 | Please be advised. So, Arisha, I feel like there's nothing sweeter than like the build-up in |
| 0:16.6 | anticipation of something you've been looking forward to. Like I mean, I like to |
| 0:20.8 | think it's how our listeners feel every day before we drop a new episode. |
| 0:24.3 | Yep 100% every day they wake up and they're like God God God |
| 0:29.8 | 1 PM Pacific time please get here. Yeah, that checks out. And while we'd like to believe |
| 0:35.8 | we're living up to people's expectations, there really is no one who understands setting |
| 0:40.3 | and then meeting a high bar better than Taylor Swift. |
| 0:43.1 | She just released her very highly anticipated new album, |
| 0:46.9 | Midnights. |
| 0:47.7 | And as you can imagine, the Swifties are absolutely losing their minds. |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, those Swifties, they're going swiftly wild. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:57.0 | But yeah, I mean, sales for her new record are through the roof. |
| 1:01.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:02.0 | And it's been what, three days yeah and she has received critical |
| 1:06.6 | claim but her new music video is raising some eyebrows and people are wondering if maybe Taylor is a little insensitive. |
| 1:15.0 | Yes, people are wondering that aren't they? |
| 1:18.0 | They're always wondering. |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah they are. |
| 1:21.0 | From Wundery, I'm Brooke Ziffon. |
| 1:23.0 | And I'm Ereisha Skidmore Williams. |
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