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Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl Track by Track (Patreon Preview)

Pop Pantheon

DJ Louie XIV

Music Commentary, Music, Pop Culture, Pop, Pop Music

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon: All Access episode, what else could it be? Louie and Russ go extra long on Taylor Swift's 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, consider each track, and ask the big questions about what it all means in the career trajectory of the biggest pop star of them all. 


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0:00.0

Hello, Swifties and the Swift Curious alike.

0:03.1

This is DJ Louis dropping a preview of this week's Pop Pantheon All Access episode

0:08.1

in which Russ and I are talking about what else?

0:10.5

Taylor Swift's 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, which dropped this past Friday.

0:15.5

If you like this preview and you want to hear the rest of this episode, you can subscribe

0:19.1

at patreon.com slash pop pantheon.

0:22.0

And for a limited time only, with the code Taylor, all caps, you can get a 15% discount

0:28.8

on a yearly subscription to Pop Pantheon All Access. There, you'll get weekly bonus episodes

0:33.9

of this show, along with a ton of other perks and this review of Taylor Swift's The Life

0:39.3

of a Showgirl. So pop on over to patreon.com slash pop pantheon, or you can subscribe for the audio

0:44.3

only directly in the Apple Podcasts app. Welcome to the life of a podcaster, the podcast where we

0:51.4

attempt to dissect and divulge everything we possibly can from the reams of shit

0:57.7

surrounding Taylor Swift's 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. I'm DJ Louis the 14th and Russ.

1:05.7

This has been one of the most roller coaster experiences of my entire life. I feel like the past, what do we want to say?

1:13.4

96 hours or so have been a mind fuck of extraordinary proportions over an album that I would say

1:21.5

is ultimately pretty good yet also disappointing.

1:27.3

How are you, first of all?

1:29.0

Lily, how are you doing?

1:30.0

Are you hanging in there?

1:31.5

I'm fantastic.

1:33.0

Thank you for checking in on me.

1:35.9

Check in on all of your friends.

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