We were SO STOKED to speak with none other than Hannah Connolly, a writer and content creator who promotes positivity in an often scary world. Listen in on our conversation, where we discuss literature, her VIP experience seeing a surprise Ed Sheeran at the Eras tour, TTPD, Rep TV, what it means to be a Swiftie, and more! We had the best time chatting, and hope you like it!

Please check out Hannah's TikTok @hanauchocolat or subscribe to her Substack here: https://hannahconnolly.substack.com/

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So it continues! This week, we finished up talking about the folklore love triangle by covering the songs betty + cardigan. Chaos ensues. We hope you like it!

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Because we hadn't seen each other in a few weeks, this episode of Swiftlore is especially unhinged - surprising no one. We reminisce on childhood, our friendship, and do everything in our power not to cry (even though we are allowed to ♥️).

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It's been one year since we saw Taylor live at MetLife. Hard to believe! In this episode, we cover the first and last songs of the Eras Tour, as well as discuss the changes Taylor has made to the set these last few weeks. Also, you're going to want to stick around until the end - otherwise, you'll miss the lore of the Car Shrimp™️

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If you think about it, The Tortured Poets Department has two track fives, one for the standard edition and one for the Anthology. So since we can’t stop thinking about TTPD, we decided to cover both So Long, London + How Did It End?

We are both big fans of Ed Sheeran, so this week we decided to cover two of Taylor’s songs that feature Ed Sheeran: Everything Has Changed and End Game! We did have some audio issues with this episode, so we had to switch to our camera’s audio halfway through — we apologize for the sound quality issues, but they’ll be fixed next week! Thank you for listening 🫶🏻

This week we got to talk to an author we love, Megan Collins. Megan is a huge Swiftie and it was so much fun to hear more about her thoughts on Taylor and writing. You can learn more about Megan’s books on her website: https://www.megancollins.com/ as well as on her TikTok and Instagram, which are both @megancollinswriter.

You know where Swiftlore is this April 29th, covering two Taylor songs about cheating: High Infidelity and Illicit Affairs.

NOTE: we recorded this before TTPD came out.

The Tortured Poets Department is here! For our first episode, sorry, meeting, after the release, we decided to dive into our two favorite songs from our initial listens: loml and I Can Do It With a Broken Heart. We can’t wait to keep listening and seeing if these songs stay our favorites or if they’ll change as time goes on!

To get ready for TTPD dropping this Friday (!!!!) we decided to cover two songs with literary references: Invisible String and Tolerate It. We loved talking about these songs, and we hope you enjoy listening to us discussing them!

Taylor has written a lot of songs about hiding her relationships from the public eye, and this week we decided to cover two of our favorites: Dancing With Our Hands Tied and I Know Places.

We hope you enjoyed our little April Fool’s day prank in the first few minutes of this episode! We promise not to do it again unless Taylor actually comes on the pod. Instead, enjoy us talking about some songs we aren’t the biggest fans of: Stay Stay Stay and ME!

Are you ready to unpack teenage hot-messery? We are! In our first ever two-part episode, we dive into the folklore love triangle between James, Betty, and Augustine. This week, for part one, Cat goes over the lore and timeline of the story, while Abby talks about the song "august."

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To celebrate Cat's birthday, we decided to mix things up and cover one of our favorite non-Taylor albums of all time: Decide by Djo. We've been planning this for months (longtime listeners will know we mention Djo almost every episode), and got so excited that End of Beginnings went viral a few weeks ago! Enjoy our journey through this incredibly well thought out album that we both love so much.

This week we decided to explore two of Taylor's songs about mental illness: This Is Me Trying and The Archer.

Light content warning for discussions of mental illness and addiction. You can watch the full clip of Abby and Silvia talking here: https://youtu.be/J9mTFgVisT4

This week we covered two songs that we love that have to do with driving (and crashing): Getaway Car and Out of the Woods.

It’s our twenty-second episode, so of course we had to do some Swiftie math and cover 22 and Fifteen. This was a fun episode as we dove into what we were like at 15 and 22 and also discovered how horrifying owls are without feathers. Enjoy!

This week we wanted to talk all things Tortured Poets Department before we actually know anything about the album! Enjoy our guesses about what might be on the album. We can’t wait to find out what we’re right and wrong about!

In honor of Taylor Lautner’s birthday, we decided to cover two songs that have to do with him: Back to December and I Can See You. We love an unproblematic ex! Check out Finer Finds here: https://www.shopfinerfinds.com/ Cat’s shirt: https://www.shopfinerfinds.com/products/the-repuslaytion-t-shirt?_pos=2&_psq=repuslay&_ss=e&_v=1.0 Abby’s shirt: https://www.shopfinerfinds.com/products/the-dream-girl-t-shirt?_pos=1&_psq=dream&_ss=e&_v=1.0 The poster: https://www.shopfinerfinds.com/products/the-people-pleaser-poster?_pos=2&_psq=peop&_ss=e&_v=1.0

We are so excited to have musician Sarah Gross on the podcast this week! She has been described as “queer cowboy Taylor Swift” and has written some incredible songs (our favs are Deep End and Arizona). We talked with her about how Taylor has impacted the music industry from her unique songwriting to her ability to connect with fans to her re-recordings. Sign up for Sarah’s monthly email list and find Sarah on Instagram + TikTok + Facebook + YouTube + X

Welcome to the new podcast set! In honor of Cat’s move, we decided to do two songs about moving: Never Grow Up and Welcome to New York. We get a little weepy this week and even manage to make WTNY emo (we know, we were surprised too).

For the final episode recorded on our first podcast set, we decided to work on emptying Cat’s liquor cabinet to make it easier for her to move next week 🫶🏻 To make the drinking on theme and not just a fun Saturday night, we chose two Taylor songs that mention drinking: Nothing New and Maroon. Cat’s poem “Wrinkles in the Year of the Barbie Movie” - https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8sY4Xbr/

No one asked us to die on these hills, but honestly the view is great so why not choose here to die: It’s Nice to have a Friend and Midnight Rain.

This week, we cover two songs that refer to the same poem - Hoax + The Black Dog! Cat recovers from Karmic Covid, Abby learns some of what she's missed on the internet, and somehow we end up talking about a conspiracy for ten minutes. It's that kind of day.

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Engineers WISH they could construct bridges as iconic and flawless as the ones in these songs: Cruel Summer and Death by a Thousand Cuts. Diving into these songs made us realize they're even more amazing that we originally thought if that was even possible. Also, please excuse our audio problems in the ten minutes or so of the episode, we had a recording issue!

Happy 2024! We’re kicking off the new year with a few fitting songs: Begin Again and New Years Day. Watch the behind the scenes of the rep secret sessions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sMLapsao8

To finish out 2023, we decided to do a few different Taylor Swift rankings and share our results! You can find the song sorter/ranking here: https://jesseepinkman.tumblr.com/tswiftsong and the link to the mathematical ranking is in @lizwizdom on TikTok’s bio! Thank you again for listening this year, it’s meant the world to us and we can’t wait to see what 2024 will bring ✨

This week we covered the two songs that appeared on Glee: Mean and Mine. We also have our first ever guests on the pod this week! It was so much fun having Andrew and Allison from Gleek of the Week on this week to talk about Glee, Taylor Swift, and everything else we ended up discussing on our many tangents. Head over to our YouTube channel to see the non-abridged version of our conversation with them! Check out Gleek of the Week: https://beacons.ai/gleekoftheweekpod/

We asked a few weeks ago what songs you wanted us to cover, and these two were highly requested! So this week we’re covering two very interconnected songs: Dear John and Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve. Enjoy! Link to the Speak Now Tour’s Dear John performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FQCpSg65jU

It’s December and we’re getting in the spirit with two of Taylor’s songs about this time of year: ‘Tis the Damn Season and Christmas Tree Farm! And while these two songs may be about the same time of year, they definitely have… very different vibes. Enjoy!

This week we decided to throw it back with two Taylor songs that remind us of sleepovers when we were kids: I Knew You Were Trouble and Enchanted! These songs make us think of being teenagers, gossiping about our crushes, and pretending like we understood what it was like to be in love.

Well, this episode didn’t stay lost for long! We talked about this a few weeks ago, but we had an issue with Cat’s mic about halfway through the episode and had to switch to camera audio. Sorry for the slightly worse audio, it will be better again next week! In this episode, originally recorded for Halloween, we chose two murder-y songs to get in the spirit. The Halloween decorations are out of Cat’s apartment by now, rest assured.

Buckle in for this week’s episode as we do our first special episode: a deep dive into Taylor’s longest song and the accompanying short film. CW: This episode includes discussions of toxic relationships, age gaps, and power imbalances in relationships. If any of these topics might trigger you, we encourage you to skip this episode and come back next week.

We've been covering a lot of sad songs lately, so we wanted to be a little more lighthearted this week and cover the songs that we first remember loving from Taylor: Our Song for Cat and You Belong With Me for Abby!

Has anyone ever called you crazy for having feelings? That's what we're here to talk about today at Swiftlore. This week, we cover Mad Woman + Cassandra, two songs that really put us in our feminine rage era. Fun fact! Abby fully has a tattoo about this exact topic and somehow forgot to talk about it??? We're gonna blame it on Apollo.

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Happy 1989 (Taylor’s Version) release week! We’re celebrating by diving into our favorite vault tracks off of the album: Say Don’t Go and Is It Over Now?

In honor of the 1 year anniversary of Midnights, we broke into a bottle of cheap ass screw top rose and talked about some of our favorite Midnights tracks: Bejeweled ✨ and Mastermind ♟️

This week we dove into the Taylor Swift songs that inspired our tattoos and go into why we love these Taylor songs enough to permanently tattoo references to them on us.

This week, Abby and Cat dive into the lore and lyrics of two amazing breakup songs from Taylor Swift: Forever and Always from Fearless and You’re Losing Me from Midnights (Til Dawn Edition).

Promised links!

Forever and Always on the Fearless Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFyGIYz2Hes

Journey to Fearless documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnIZN0WgrAE

Welcome to the first episode of Swiftlore! This week, we dove into the background, lyrical meaning, and performance history of False God and Holy Ground. We loved seeing them live at our Eras Tour show at Metlife, and it was so much fun learning more about them ✨

Welcome to the Swiftlore podcast where we explore the lyrics and lore of Taylor Swift's discography. Every week lifelong best friends and devoted swifties Abby and Cat will dive into two songs and discuss the cultural significance, meanings, and more.

This week, we cover two songs from The Tortured Poets Department Anthology that we can't get enough of despite being sad: The Prophecy + The Albatross! In this episode, Cat is having a certified Bad Day while Abby does a deep dive on albatrosses. It's truly chaotic and a marvelous time.

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Happy July 9th! This week we covered 2 songs about feeling like an outsider: I Look in People's Windows + Last Kiss! Hope you like it 🫶🫶

Make sure to check out our Instagram or TikTok for clips and more @Swiftlorepod! And get ready for the launch of our PATREON (!!!!!!) 7/9/2024, in honor of Last Kiss. See you there!

Update: Patreon is here! Subscribe at https://patreon.com/SwiftlorePodcast

We decided to balance the scales this week between misogyny and feminism by covering two more songs we love: Better Than Revenge & The Man. We address the gender dynamics in both songs, how Taylor has grown throughout her career, and reveal our own former revenge plots. No men were harmed in the making of this episode (but in 2010, some egos may have been bruised. Who's to say?).

Our Patreon will also be launching next week! If you're interested in joining, make sure to follow us on TikTok and Instagram @swiftlorepod for updates 🫶

Disclaimer: This episode contains discussion of misogyny and other related topics. While we do not go in depth, in the second half there is a mention of how survivors are treated in the justice system. Please be advised, and stay safe!

Can you believe it's been 10 years since this album dropped and changed our lives? In this episode, we celebrate Abby's 27th birthday while celebrating X's, too. Abby learns that Wikipedia can't be trusted, Cat reflects on her first live performance, and both of us share how no one commits to the bit like our high school. It's a fun one, folks - even if you don't know the album, we assure you that we mostly talk about ourselves as usual🫶

Disclaimer: This album deals with heavy themes such as death, grief, and substance use. While we do not go in depth into these topics, they are mentioned. If you are especially sensitive to those subjects, feel free to come back next week! ♥️ Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @swiftlorepod for more content, and keep an eye out next month for our Patreon!

Happy pride! To celebrate, we decided to cover two songs that sapphics (aka WLW) have claimed: Dress + Ivy! We loved covering these songs, so we hope you enjoy the chaos as much as we did.

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Taylor has finished her leg of the tour in London, and we have a lot to say about it! This week, we cover two songs that mention London: London Boy + Come Back...Be Here. It starts off chaotic and doesn't get any less so. Cheers!

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Swiftlore takes on Taylor's title tracks in a new series! To kick it off, we've covered Fearless + Speak Now, in which Taylor dreams of her perfect first date and how she would ruin a wedding. In the process, she offends all bald people and keeps the bride-to-be from life-saving surgery - or, at least that's OUR headcanon. Enjoy!For more free content, check us out on TikTok and Instagram @swiftlorepod or subscribe to us at patreon.com/swiftlorepodcast for extended episodes and other shenanigans!

We're back with more chaos! In this episode, we cover two songs that sound happy, but are they really? Together we clown around some more and randomly give life advice. And to any ninth graders out there - listen to this ep for the Swiftlore Spark Notes for The Scarlet Letter and Romeo & Juliet.

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We're back and with more tangents than ever! Join us this week where we talk about two songs that mention being a fool: Foolish One + Look What You Made Me Do!

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