The Year of Taylor Swift

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Swift grabbed many headlines in 2023. Her widely popular Eras Tour, which proved too much for Ticketmaster to handle, has been both a business and a cultural juggernaut. And Time magazine named her as its person of the year. Taffy Brodesser-Akner, a staff writer for The New York Times, explains why, for her, 2023 was the year of Taylor Swift. Guest: Taffy Brodesser-Akner, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bolarro. This is the Daily.
0:07.0	Today.
0:10.0	2023 was many different things to many different people.
0:15.0	For our guest, Times magazine writer, Taffy Brodesser actor,
0:21.0	It was the year of Taylor Swift.
0:26.7	It's Friday, December 15th. So I have to say this is the episode I've been looking forward to the most of the whole year.
0:44.6	What?
0:45.6	Which probably says something about the gestation of a daily episode that it's taken us as long to make.
0:50.1	And the news this year.
0:51.1	And the news this year.
0:52.1	I have been looking forward to talking to you, Taffey about Taylor Swift for months and months and
0:57.1	months and I think it's appropriate that this ends up being one of the last episodes we do in
1:01.3	2023.
1:02.3	I am so happy to be here talking to you about it. Yeah and here
1:06.5	just going to get this out of the way not objective about Taylor Swift. Neither am I.
1:10.9	I'm a fan. I'm a Swiftie. We have to disclose these things. We have to.
1:14.8	Part of the rules. The ethics guidelines. I don't pretend to be open-minded. I'm bought in.
1:21.5	And within the context of I suppose fandom yeah we're going to apply a critical
1:26.3	lens yes of course of course that's what we do we're going to be journalists sure so I want to
1:31.2	understand in your mind why Taylor is not someone to just be a fan of to become entranced by during a commute, workout, cleaning session, and here I'm being my graphical but somebody worthy of a journalistic inquiry of the kind that
1:49.8	you carried out a little bit earlier this year.
1:53.5	My pitch for the story was that we are neglecting our audience
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