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Welcome back to TAYLOR TALK, our monthly segment discussing the latest and greatest news in la nacion de taylor. On the docket today: but of course, the revamp of The Eras Tour. Including all of the glaring omissions (RIP Long Live) and an appreciation of the gorgina TTPD set which has truly gagged us into another dimension. Elsewhere: Taylor Swift's insane first-week chart numbers, the disappearance and sudden reappearance of her catalogue on TikTok, how critics need to understand swifties in order to appraise Tortured Poets correctly, and the surprising restraint of merch this time around. Enjoy!

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Erastourology (Tortured Poets Version)

Listen to this episode from Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Podcast on Spotify. Welcome back to TAYLOR TALK, our monthly segment discussing the latest and greatest news in la nacion de taylor. On the docket today: but of course, the revamp of The Eras Tour.

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Sally Ho

Thank you snake parents for feeding me 🙏🙏🙏

Katherine Herring

Ok but y’all are still delulu thinking The Alchemy is about Ratty. There’s nothing athletic about that man lol! Taylor is not going to make an entire song full of sports metaphors about him it’s not possible. Matty is starry eyed, constellations, maroon (red wine he chugs on stage and spilled on her), passing out like a tattooed golden retriever…. Drug addict 🥴 On the playlist she chews Ratty a new one on Smallest Man and then talks about her chemistry with him? No it’s how she’s moved on after him. She probably wrote it in October and turned it in as later addition… There are so many references to jokes, beer, and football. That is Travis! He was making fun of Ratty’s heroin problem. And then Taylor called out the 87th Paris show with Travis there and played it for him…. I mean come on now will you accept it’s about Travis?? Also Joe put her in jail. But Matty put her in a mental hospital. “The hospital was a drag.” “I’m making a comeback to where I belong” ie American Man. Ok that’s my argument 🧐😂☺️

Theresa Mayo Tinaglia

This is what I've been thinking and you formulated the argument way better than I could have, thank you!!! The tracklist is roughly chronological so putting the alchemy after smallest man would make no sense. I think the "comeback to where I belong" parts can also be interpreted in the context of fame and the public eye; there was and still is so much positive press around their relationship which was a sharp contrast to how the ratty relationship was covered

Ty Eldridge

thank you for these videos plus madelines new i hate it here video i have a 4 hour trip ahead of me and will be listening to these🙏

Jessica

So obsessed with The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived bridge. It looks like she’s leading a military troop into war and they’re all getting shot down one by one. She sings the hard-hitting lyrics and the stage flashes red like there have been shots fired literally and figuratively. Then she’s left wounded on the ground. Brilliant.

Liz A

Lol yes to what you guys said about the travis/taylor fan fiction

Michaela Wagner

the MOST annoying thing about the Reputation bodysuit discourse is that she gave speak now new gowns before TV?? so why would she only save it for then! 1989 got 20 million variations before she went all blue! so what's the correlation?? there isn't one!

Michaela Wagner

Also ???? Australian media talks about pink’s 15 sold out shows every time she comes here! MAYBE if she went to MCG instead of the small arena they’d talk about how big her show was! Like she could have decided to do the biggest Australian show by a woman years ago and decided not to! That’s on her

Lain Pierce

This is what I am thinking too. That there is no way Travis would make a tasteless joke like that- and if her did- it wouldn't end up in a song. The only way the Heroin with an E line is not the cruelest thing I ever heard- is if Matty said it about himself.

Katherine Herring

That is hardly the cruelest thing Taylor has ever written. Remember. In Smallest man she openly calls him out for trying to buy drugs from her friends. “Sank in stoned oblivion” and “smallest man who ever lived” because of all that. Friends and family of addicts have a ton to cope with and recover from. Humor is a coping mechanism so if she wants to include that as part of her art and recovering from the hell Matty put her through she can do that. But it was a Travis joke. He is a jokester. She smokes his jokes all night. If Matty had made the joke then he was lying because he was still buying pills behind her back. It was one of his braids of lies. But Alchemy is 100% about football and Travis. Who makes touchdowns?? She puts him down in smallest man and then makes fun of him in Alchemy because of how dirty he did her. He love bombed her, convinced her to leave Joe, told her he would marry her and have babies, hooked up with her. Then ghosted her.

Lain Pierce

I see you are deeply, personally invested in this song being about Travis, so I'm gonna let you rock.

Ash 🪻

The way I screamed!!! Thank you so much for this, I deliberately come to the comments hoping for it!

Julie Pittman

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I really wish T would stop the bodysuits altogether - to me, they look like 1970s Wonder Woman costume meets 1970s Miss America swimsuits as designed by 1970s costumer Bob Mackie. It would be interesting for her to wear something a little more sleek and sophisticated at times, with few pounds less rhinestone. JMO