Taylor Swift's music has given a voice to millions of people who've found the narrative arcs of their own lives in Swift's endlessly engaging songs. With Swiftory, two Gen X besties - Alicia, from Trashy Divorces, and Melissa, from Love Letters To... - have a whole new take on Taylor's work, exploring the music as it is, but also as the duo sees it best: as a lens into history.
If Taylor's greatest gift is the universality of her experiences, join Alicia and Melissa as they follow those experiences to all the places, personalities, and eras where they lead - and share your takes along the way.
As always, we want your Midnights. Reach out at swiftorypodcast@gmail.com.
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Sharing good things happening in the world is essential and in this episode Alicia wants you to know about the good thing going on with Brigid Kaelin. Brigid, talented out the wazoo, is breaking down Taylor Swift's songs on her YouTube channel, and you will never hear Taylor's music the same way again.
Check Brigid out here! And the entire Taylor playlist here!
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SWIFTYNOMICS | Author Misty L. Heggeness Joins Us!
Épisode 54
mardi 27 janvier 2026 • Durée 32:22
This week Alicia is joined by author Misty L. Heggeness as
we discuss her new release SWIFTYNOMICS:
How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy. Join us for this far-reaching conversation on the dynamics of women on our local and global economies the with Taylor Swift as a muse.
Find out more:
https://www.mistyheggeness.com/
https://thecareboard.org/
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Joy Blackout
Épisode 53
lundi 22 décembre 2025 • Durée 20:51
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What a month to be a Swiftie! Alicia checks in with all the Taylor joy in December, including the Colbert appearance, the docuseries, and final film. And maybe a little clowning?
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Twelve Days of a Showgirl | The Fate of Ophelia
Épisode 52
samedi 6 décembre 2025 • Durée 54:20
Dr. Alicia King Anderson joins Alicia this week as we continue our 12 Days of a Showgirl tour! It is time for the spotlight to shine on track one “The Fate of Ophelia’. There is so much layered into this one – from the real characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the twists of changing the course of fate, this bop really delivers.
Get to know Dr. Alicia King Anderson!
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Sources
Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video) (YouTube)
Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Lyric Video) (YouTube)
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Twelve Days of a Showgirl | Actually Romantic
Épisode 51
mardi 2 décembre 2025 • Durée 24:34
Our December journey begins! This month we will be breaking down each track of Taylor Swift's twelfth album, The Life of a Showgirl. Today, we start with track seven "Actually Romantic" which does promote a certain attitude, but becomes even more interesting when we view the song as an evolution through Swift's work on the theme of perception, feedback, and criticism.
Please join the fun this month with your thoughts on the game (introduced in the episode) we are playing with TS12. Send your themes and thoughts to swiftorypodcast@gmail.com or leave a message at 404-594-3658.
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The Trashy Spiderwebs of Elizabeth Taylor
Épisode 50
dimanche 19 octobre 2025 • Durée 42:53
Alicia's taking over *all* the podcasts this week, with the stories and spiderwebs of screen goddess Elizabeth Taylor. In this week's musically-themed episode, Alicia breaks down some of the lyrics in Taylor Swift's new track, Elizabeth Taylor, from her album The Life of a Showgirl. From Portofino to the very best table at Musso & Frank's, certain themes resonate across these two titanic figures in American pop culture - and leave our podcasts absolutely covered in spiderwebs.
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The Big Magic Mirrorball of The Life of a Showgirl!
Épisode 48
samedi 11 octobre 2025 • Durée 45:53
Alicia has now had a week to process album The Life of a Showgirl, and wow – there is a lot happening in 42 minutes of twelve straight bops. Taylor has done something incredible in this release, and this episode provides the foundation of how we are going to unfold the magic of TS 12 on Swiftory. It is a little bit Big Magic from Elizabeth Gilbert, and a little bit the Folklore track “Mirrorball” as we set up the themes of TLOAS and the evolution of Taylor Swift.
As always, we want your Midnights! Share your Swiftory stories at
swiftorypodcast@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at 404-594-3658. We may use your Swiftories on a future episode!
Sources and Related Links:
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
All 274 of Taylor Swift’s Songs, Ranked, by Rob Sheffield. Rolling Stone, April 2024.
Mirrorball Lyric Version
Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs, by Annie Zaleski
(Amazon.com)
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The Love Affair of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester | Part Two
Épisode 47
samedi 4 octobre 2025 • Durée 49:59
Welcome to the finale of the love affair of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, today’s Trashy Royals crossover.
When Elizabeth assumed the throne in 1558, she made it clear to the members of her court that they shouldn’t plan to have their wives or female companions around the place. She intended to be singular as she consolidated power, but perhaps she had another motive as well; by banishing the wives, Robert Dudley, newly appointed Master of the Horse to Her Majesty the Queen, was not required to send for his wife, Amy Robsart, to join him in London.
Elizabeth and Robert were not overly discreet in their enjoyment of one another’s company, while the young queen’s advisors, especially William Cecil, her Secretary of State, grew more and more insistent that Elizabeth find a suitable strategic marriage to enter into with some titled European. This, of course, was not to be. Her relationship with Robert became such a scandal that Cecil himself decided it would cause her government to fall, and everything carried on very precariously until the morning of September 8, 1560, when Amy Robsart was discovered dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs at her home at Cumnor Place. The scandal banished Robert from court for more than a year, and while he and Elizabeth remained close for the rest of his life, the intense romance that characterized the beginnings of her reign was over.
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stories at swiftorypodcast@gmail.com
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The Love Affair of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester | Part One
Épisode 46
samedi 4 octobre 2025 • Durée 50:02
While Queen Elizabeth I of England famously never married, her close relationship with Robert Dudley began when the two were small children together in the court of Henry VIII. Elizabeth was a princess who was downgraded to a lady after her mother, Anne Boleyn’s, death. Robert was the grandson of an advisor to King Henry VII who was executed for treason upon the ascension of Henry VIII, forcing the Dudley family to struggle mightily to rehabilitate its noble image at court.
All of which is to say that these two could really relate to each other, tossed about as they were by their families’ fortunes and the whims of a King both had reasons to love and hate. But when Mary I seized the throne in 1553, everything changed for both of them. Robert’s father had engineered the ascension of Lady Jane Grey, his daughter in law, to the throne over Henry VIII’s eldest daughter, Mary, and after The Nine Days’ Queen was deposed, the male Dudleys were imprisoned in the Tower of London, condemned to death.
Catholic Mary also imprisoned her protestant half-sister Elizabeth, fearing a credible challenge to her reign. Alicia imagines – with the help of some Taylor Swift lyrics – what the months Elizabeth and Robert spent together in The Tower must have been like, doomed as they both believed themselves to be, confidants since they were toddlers.
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TS12 TLOAS Intuitions
Épisode 45
mardi 30 septembre 2025 • Durée 22:41
Alicia takes it super high level this week for her best intuition about what might be going down on The Life of a Showgirl. Part of the fun of being in a Swiftie is the clowning, and Alicia has a feeling that each track may correspond to an actual era. Tune in for the maybe details of how it
all breaks down in Alicia’s heart, and wishing YOU the very best new era release possible!
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