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In this episode, The Snakes attend to the most pressing matter in the Taylor Nation: the re-release of the HBIC, the pop girlie who took no prisoners and changed the game. On the agenda today is an analysis of the minute (and sometimes overt) differences between the Stolen Versions & Taylor's Versions, an impending billionaire status that leaves a sour taste, and for the very first time an in-depth lyric analysis of each vault track. Harry Styles, as a muse, you were everything. Thank you!

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1989 (Taylor's Intergalactic Version)

Listen to this episode from Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Podcast on Spotify. In this episode, The Snakes attend to the most pressing matter in the Taylor Nation: the re-release of the HBIC, the pop girlie who took no prisoners and changed the game.

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Gracie Day

Thank you! The bit about Jack putting on whatever dress Taylor is wearing with his hobbit hair sticking out and playing a xylophone 😂 I can’t get over how botched Style is

Yasmin Alnassar

Madeline I noticed the grunting thing on SIO on my first listen tooo !!!

Candace Tirado

Curious as to why you think if the same person is doing the mixing, why it does it sound so different ? Is making a record really just catching lightening in a bottle once? Are there more external factors that effect music that we aren’t thinking of ?

Joey Caleb

I think Fearless TV was so good because the original used mainly real instruments, not synthesizers. I would imagine asking the studio musicians to bring in the same instrument they used back then and simply re-record made things a lot easier.

Abigail Ray

Madeline YOU'RE SO RIGHT ABOUT SHAKE IT OFF with the weird ass screams

laurens82

There were a lot of things I loved about 1989 tv and the vault was so fun, but there are some things I just can’t get over and it’s unfortunately just not the same without Max Martin and Shellback. Style was done so dirty, and I think all of the people on twitter saying it doesn’t sound any different are lying because they are so scared of saying anything negative about Taylor. Shake it off would be fine for me except there is this horrible clicking in the background of the second verse that literally gives me a headache and I feel like I’m going crazy because no one else notices it. I wish you would was so disappointing to me because that is a top 3 for me on 1989 and the guitar just does not hit the same. I want to love blank space, but they have a tambourine on tv instead of what other sound was on the og one and it bothers me so much. Also the ahh’s on new romantics sound like kidzbop to me. I feel like I’m being nitpicky but after listening to og 1989 so many times, it’s impossible for me to ignore some of this stuff.

Diana

I felt the same about OOTW, IKP, and Wonderland. Out of the vault tracks, Is it over now spilled all the tea and I was here for it.

Ria

I agree with the tayconsumerism of it all but I do have to not- she is not the only one. In fact out of albums released in the 2020's she's not even in the top 10 of the most number of varients- Olivia Rodrigo actually leads that list with both of her albums with over 10 variants each! Many other artists do it too. MY biggest issue is with her merch items which are unethical, fast fashion and just poor quality for such ridiculous prices.

Cynthia

"Jack put on his assless chaps....." I can't Madeline! I laughed so hard! I LOVE Out of the Woods TV too-- it's soo good.

Ash 🪻

I’m SO glad Madeline mentioned the grunts in Shake It Off!! They are WAY too loud and it totally stops me from being able to listen to the TV

Ash 🪻

Also Jack in his mini gown with his chest chair out LMAO you are truly a painter of words Zach

em

if they turned the volume on that super loud sparkly sound over style chorus it would be so improved. and the HUH HAH sounds in shake it off were always there but i had never heard them so loud before. those are the main two things that my ears cannot ignore

em

i’m happy and clapping tho because i’m an out of the woods stan and she was treated with such care

em

i love the lyrical discussion! this is super interesting to hear your perspectives on it

Joseph Edge

When will the video be up? :)

Erin S

I interpreted the “only rumors about my hips and thighs and my whispered sighs” was about the tabloid articles that started coming out in 2014 about both how thin she was and how she was having a secret fling with Karlie.

Ria

I just found out it was actually 15 variants💀

Lazarre

Idea: would love an opinion episode about Gracie abrams music👀

Caitorade

I’m glad someone else was just as LIVIDDDDDDD for Chicago n2 surprise songs. 😂😂