🎪 TayRewind: The NYU Speech That Predicted Joe, Matty & Midnights
Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Fan Podcast
Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Fan Podcast
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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We’re rewinding to Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech 2022 and reading it like a prophecy. At the time, it felt like a charming, self-aware victory lap. But in hindsight? It’s loaded with real easter eggs about everything that followed: the emotional architecture of Midnights, the meta-theatre of The Eras Tour, the unraveling of her long-term relationship with Joe Alwyn, and the chaotic re-entry of Matty Healy. We’re dissecting the language, the tone, the “mistakes” motif, the self-mythologizing — and asking: was Taylor already preparing us for the next era… or trying to convince herself of it?
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| 0:00.0 | There's no one like you, and there never will be. From the producer of Bohemian Rhapsody. There are many legends, but there is only one. Michael in IMAX and Cinema's Wednesday, a Snake. I'm Zach. |
| 0:33.6 | And I am Madeline. |
| 0:35.3 | And we have another Gorgina episode of Tay Rewind for you. |
| 0:39.4 | It is a timely one because we are approaching the anniversary of a time when Taylor gave us a very deep insight into what was going on into her life accidentally or on purpose. |
| 0:49.7 | We don't know. |
| 0:50.9 | We really don't know. |
| 0:52.1 | It is her NYU speech from the graduation of the class of 2022. |
| 0:56.3 | But before we get into that, girls, there's a little thing going on tour and that thing is us, the evolution of snakes. |
| 1:03.2 | There's a sexy little beast that you might have heard of that's going on tour. And it's us. |
| 1:10.0 | And it's us. The showgirl experience is coming to a city |
| 1:12.0 | near you in north america and you should go to evolution of a snake dot com to get tickets we would |
| 1:16.7 | love to see you there it's coming faster than we think as we record this it's pretty much less than a |
| 1:21.6 | month until opening night of the showgirl experience in new york city and we can't wait and we're |
| 1:27.4 | thrilled and we're thrilled. |
| 1:28.4 | We're so excited. |
| 1:30.1 | We're tickled pink, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:32.7 | Evolutionofusnake.com to get tickets. |
| 1:35.1 | We can't wait to see you soon. |
| 1:37.0 | But Madeline, when I was revisiting this period of time, I felt as though she really was on the precipice of like a huge change in her life. |
| 1:48.7 | And she kind of hints at that and suggested it over and over again. |
| 1:52.7 | It's a beautiful speech. |
| 1:54.4 | It's a gorgeous speech. |
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