October 6, 2025 • 24 mins
On this very special edition of Calm Down with Erin and Charissa, Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson — dive headfirst into the cultural moment that is Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl.
From their favorite tracks to all the emotional lyrics, Erin and Charissa are giving full Swiftie energy. And that’s not all — stick around for a surprise unboxing of the exclusive vinyl and official Taylor Swift merch.
Whether you're a die-hard Swiftie or just love a fun, unfiltered pop culture breakdown, this episode has something for everyone.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wishless got me. I got emotional listening to it. Yep,
we have obviously had a chance to see these people
be around each other. And I said to you, guys,
the part I think that teared me up was got
the whole block looking like you.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
That's so sweet, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I also love when she said that you just want
a best friend who is hot. Yeah, calm down with
Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. This is
what happens when the most how would you free? I
mean talented, But I was going to say she has
(00:38):
the most basically soa and every gorgeous orange thing in
the world is sold out. So I got this very
sad looking Oscar the grouse thing, and this was the
only red feather piece left to celebrate the gipe of
(00:59):
the show. Show and with that, we welcome you to
the preview everybody. To Aaron's point, I had to go
for Flapper Girl from the Halloween Store because I couldn't
get an orange bow to save my life. We got
Christmas lights that are I don't know up against the
podcast equipment. We might erupt in flames. But you know
what I look like, Mac did my makeup? This is
(01:20):
not how I wanted to come across in celebration of
our gal we are so what we got. Oh we're
going We're already doing that. Sure we can do it. Yeah,
I think, I mean, why wouldn't we Okay, for anyone
that is great, not a incredible fan of Taylor Swifts
(01:42):
like ours, this is not the podcast for you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Calm down, is not your place.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Keep scrolling through the algorithm onto something else, because here
we celebrate one of the greatest superstars to ever live, songwriters, people,
all the things. We are so excited for the release
of the Life of a show Girl, Taylor Swift's twelfth album.
Twelve out of twelve is what we give this rating.
And so we'll go through for the next fifteen minutes
some of our favorite songs. What we think they might
(02:09):
mean with they don't I don't know. There's so many
things out there, speculation, and it's part of the fun
with our gals, little Easter eggs. So grab a cocktail,
sit back, and enjoy Aaron and I's take of the
Life of a Showgirl music review.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I have wine, I have a coffee and a green juice. Oh,
oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well that summarizes everything mine's gatorade. But while you sit
back and lead the troops. In the next portion of
the program, I'm going to open up the old champagne
and joy to get in the box with me. I'm
gonna open the box with you. Let me pour some
champagne out. Taylor and her entire team. Congratulations. It is fantastic.
(02:55):
We love the album. I made Steve stay up all
night with me after Thursday Night football was done. We
had a listening party, to which he ended up falling
sleep on the couch because I made him go through
every single song with me.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Cheers, cheering, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And with that, we were lucky enough to receive Oh
you already did some pre opening.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh you haven't gotten that far. Okay, I'll wait, good,
hold on.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Why don't you explain to the listeners what we got
going on here?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So we got a special delivery today which thank you guys, Yes,
thank you, thank you. This is I said Chris, I said,
did you get one? She goes I got it, and
I said, okay, don't open it until we do the podcast.
We have an unboxing, a very special unboxing from.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How does she Make a red Lipstick Look So Good?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
There's no chance in how I can do that. Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So Aaron and I were told we were getting a
special surprise from the gal herself. So we have not
seen this opening it for the first time. Where are
you at in the unboxing so I can get caught up?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh you're already that fuar. Oh my gosh, this is
so exciting.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Steve goes, wait till I get home to open it. No, see,
we're going to be annoyed to also if he got
their own. Steve was so excited when we were having
our listening party. He goes, Wow, this is really getting
me fired up. He went and bought me Gucci pajamas
so I could be Lovecci.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
What a guy. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And what did Jared say about that last night? Pave,
I don't have any money.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
To do that. Okay, here we go, ts box.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Gelie we are. It's a major award. Oh my gosh.
A cute note. Okay, well we won't because it's a
personal one. We'll read that privately. Some things need to
be private.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But in she said, dear Aaron, I like you so much. Okay,
we have the album. This is so so fun.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
She looks.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
God, she looks great. I also love listening because you know,
I went through how comfortable that braw was. I went
through every video.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
She was saying that when they were doing me shots,
she didn't know that this would be the album cover.
But the second she's really she said, yes, that's it
because she liked the color of the blue or the well.
I guess it's awkwa. What color is that bathtub she's in?
And then she's also open light. I don't think that's
the well. We'll get to that in a second. Okay, okay.
According to her, since she's been on her media tour,
(05:25):
she was explaining some of the things and you.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Know, the behind the scenes stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
She said that when she'd get off tour after her
three hour marathon shows, she'd go home and take a
bath and look at that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What a gal. Okay, So what album she's using? WHOA
hold on, I'm opening the album. I want to see
just a minute.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
This is like if you did Christmas okay with Aeron
and Chrisa. Although I keep shaking the table, I need
to settle down here.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'm so oh wow. She looks so fire in this.
This is in the video. She looks incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I don't want to mess any sing up. Oh yeah, hey, Chris, And.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
This reminds us. Reminds me when the four of.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Us sat in the hallway, that's right, we didn't look
that glamorous. We were wearing ratty pajamas. But she looks
like a million bucks. Okay, we've got let's see here
opening it up. She also was saying that there's a
special poem on the inside.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yea. And of course the gal's always leaving Eastering.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
She said, there's something to this poem, but it's up
to us to figure out what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
She's always up to something. This gal should have the time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I mean. Well, and that's the other thing too. So
anyone that's stayed with us this long five minutes into
the pregame is here because you love Taylor Swift as
much as we do. And we've talked about it before.
We are people who, obviously, professionally, we.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Work really hard.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
We you know, like to think that we've obtained some
sort of level of I don't know, consistency in this
an industry that's not consistent. But then I look at her,
and I look at her career, and I'm thinking to myself.
She makes me want to work harder, and she's kind
to people, and she writes all her own music, and
she she's just somebody who I very much look up
to as a business woman in addition to how uber
(07:13):
talented she is.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So this is just I don't know. I'm very happy
for her. Wow, this is beautiful. And then the record again,
the lipstick. How does she do this?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I don't know, but she said she had never made
an Orange record before. I shouldn't touch this. Let me
set this down. Okay, so this is so gorgeous. I'm
going to really dive into this later. But oh my god,
look at this. Also, how glossy this is too? Did
you see how glossy this is? Oh my gosh, this
literally is like Christmas morning. When I watch people unbox
(07:48):
like purses and stuff, I'm always like, why am I
watching this? This is something that I want to unbox,
and they're always clicking, you know, the clicking.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, you want to move on to the next part.
I'm so excited. But how hot is she in this photo? Incredible?
I want that dress?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, okay, okay, together here tig miss Sticker, Sigma Sticker.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's guccie no woo.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh my gosh, the merch cute.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Those are the shorts, and this is the sweatshirt The
Life of a show Girl. I'm putting it on take it.
I can't take it. It's so great, so good. I'm
wearing it on air for the Ravens Rams game.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
This is amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Thank you so much to Taylor and her incredible team,
who again never.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Miss on anything.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I just don't know how I can't even get my
life together in the morning, let alone what they did.
All of this entire album while she was on tour
continues to inspire me in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Thank you for this. So to say.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
As an entrepreneur with an apparel line, this thread count
is incredible.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh my god, right, this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Okay, Taylor, congrats, Thank you so much. We're so grateful
and we love all of this. The presentation, I got
to say from the.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Gal is second to not me.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
She's thought of everything, the details, there's nothing that they
leave out amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So let's get to our review.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Not a review, but let's get to some of the
songs that we love. Because you could go on and
on and on in this podcast will be ten hours,
but my number one. Okay, on the counter of three,
because I don't know which one.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We haven't talked about it. So on the counter three,
you say what your favorite song is? Okay, ready, one, two, three?
Fother figure, woky, but Canceled is a one bee? Okay,
very close, okay, very you want to start? Then, while
I put my headphone back in and you tell me
why you like Canceled or why you like father father figure,
I'm dying in some sort of life to discuss this
(10:14):
further meaning thoughts and get the behind the scenes. But
in my mind, it just feels like somebody that she
helped brought along along the way. That's the same word
twice and then.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Be disloyal. There is the end when she is hammering it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I played it back to back to back to back
to back to back to back.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Today, where is it? Where is it? Where is it?
Here we go?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Here we go. I was your father figure. I drank
the brown liquor. I made the deal with this devil.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You want to fight, you found you? This is what
I like. You want to fight. You found it. I
got the place surrounded. You'll be sleeping with the fishes
before you know you're drowning.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Who's portraits on the mantu? Who's covered up your scandals? Mistigma?
You got it? Mistake my kindness for weakness, and you
find your card canceled. I uh huh uh huh. So
right here, right here grew up.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
My dad would always make me pull out the front
of a CD and listen and read, like instead of
singing this song. He would always be like, what you
say you like the song? You don't even know what
it's about. Make me take out the front of a CD.
And so I'm such a lyric person. So we talked
about this when it first came out. Everyhow, and the
fact that she writes every single one of her songs,
(11:46):
do you understand like a modern day poet as I
like to call them. My father always says that too,
is that I can't even write a poem lit alone,
song after song after song, And she's talked about it
at length, like how it's her favorite thing to do
and how cathartic it must be, and even if it's
not directly correlated to her, she talks a lot. Since
I've clearly watched every interview of hers to understand a
(12:06):
little bit more of her process that it's almost like
she's taking on like a character role or like her
interpretation of Elizabeth Taylor, how she would feel like all
of those things, like how much fun would it be?
And no wonder she keeps, you know, making record after
record because it's so probably the process is enjoyable for her,
but cathartic too. The reason why I love Canceled Girl
(12:30):
because it I just love the beat. The second that
I turned the song on, I was like, ooh, okay,
because my favorite album of her to date has been
reputation reputation. I just love like those like bad bitch
anthems as she calls them, and the you know, there's
a real like kind of grit to it. When she
said I liked like my whiskey sour poison thorns.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They're the ones with matchings guns.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I love that your friends are the ones matching scars,
the friends that have been through shit and been there
for you. To me, it's easy to love what goes
on to say, it's easy to love you when you're popular.
I mean, isn't that the truth? The optics click, everyone prospers,
but one single drop and you're off the roster obviously
resonates with us, because how quick we are, you know,
(13:19):
in the world to get rid of people tone deaf
and hot. Let's fucking off her? Did you make a
joke only a man could? Were you just too smug
for your own good? Or bring it me jo that
a man could? I love that one baby that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
All ends tonight. Good thing my friends. I mean, I
bet you know we shouldn't sing, but you get it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I just like that when the world is going to
turn against you, She's like, come over here, come over here,
I got you. I like my friends that are canceled because,
as we know, so many times you're canceled for the
wrong reasons and they're unsubstantiated, and it's for a myriad
of bullshit reasons. So come and sit next to me,
you know you know what I mean? Now that's our favorite?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
What else do you love?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
On?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Here?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
One?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
A one b wishless got me.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I got emotional listening to it. We have obviously had
a chance to see these people be around each other.
And I said to you, guys, the part I think
that teared me up was got the whole block looking
like you.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And all so sweet, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I also love when she said that you just want
a best friend who is hot. Yeah, I think that
we've all been with this group, like with Jared and
myself and the Traps and whatever. We all have men
who are incredibly good looking, yes, superficial, but who cares
because you want to be attracted to your partner whatever.
Your version of attraction is good looking but also your
(14:45):
best friend. And I didn't know that that really existed.
I always thought you had to sacrifice one thing or
the other. So I love that she highlights that and
then dreaming of a basketball hoop in the driveway. That
the bigger and the bigger and the bigger you get
in life, it goes back to like you just want
the simple things. And I grew up with a basketball
hoop in my driveway, So I love that. Wish list
(15:06):
is a great one. We when we first knew the
album was or heard it was coming out, and she
went through the list of songs on New Heights, we
were like, what is opal Light?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
So uh when she was talking about it, she was
saying that it's okay that things didn't work out because
now there are good there. Now they are good and
you have perspective that you know that the things that
weren't supposed to be meant for you aren't and that
you know, the couples, they always looked at the perfect couples,
and when you know, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
So I love that one. I love in opal light.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I had a bad habit of missing lovers past my
brothers used to call. My brother used to call it
eating out of the trash.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Good good, good good.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I also appreciate go can I say something sorry, I yeah,
that's what we're here. I feel like in this two
stories one when this came out and sitting there and
it's a lot like what you said with your dad,
because we have a different perspective of all this.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I just sat with the with the lyrics, you know,
and I just wanted to it was different this time
listening to it. Jarrett was doing the same thing the
next day when he was away for hockey and then
came back and he was listening to it and he goes, Babe,
she's a really good writer. Yeah, yeah, I think she's
(16:28):
done a pretty good job of that. Hey. One thing
I will say though, in my deep dive of interviews,
to get a little better perspective from her whole process,
and everything with this is that somebody said, and it's not.
It wasn't the fault of the individual. I think it
was probably just fodder that was out there. And he
was asking about it, like, oh, now that you're going
to get.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Married, are you done writing? Are you done with music?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And she was like, well, that's a very offensive thing
to say.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's like, what world are we living in that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
All of a sudden, it's like, because she is going
to get married, that this just ends now you stop. Yeah,
just anyways, that really struck me. I was like, wait,
what are we doing here? But a little bit more
with that, she was saying that the fear of she
was fearful that being happy might make like, oh my god, dude,
can I not write songs anymore? Because I'm like blissfully happy?
(17:17):
And she said wasn't Adele like that too? She said,
I wrote this whole like track about breaking up or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, I mean I think a lot of times for
incredible songwriters, it's like so much of their incredible music
has been you know, rooted in heartbreak and everything. And
Taylor went on to say that it was in fact,
it wasn't direct that if the songwriting wasn't directly correlated
to her pain and torment, would she still be able
to do it? And then she said, in this one,
(17:44):
someone will always end up forcing drama into my consciousness,
which is also fun to write about. So, even if
it's not about heartbreak, and you know, drama, we have
constant things in our orbit that give us things to
talk about, and in her particular case, about it. So
I thought that was interesting. What I love the fate
(18:04):
of Ophelia. I heard you calling on the megaphone, which
is what he did through his podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Cute, very curable.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Also, how about us looking up who Ophelia was? I'm
sure at this point everybody has Jared last night even
saying that when we were looking up for anyone that
doesn't know who Ophelia is, I've taken the liberty of
looking it up for you. Ophelia is a character in Hamlet.
She's a young noble woman of Denmark and the daughter
of some of the names I don't know due to
(18:34):
Hamlet's actions, Ophelia ultimately enters the state of madness that
leads her to her drowning. And so the song she
said was that she was fearful that you know she
might end up with a similar fate to Ophelia, driven
Matt over the years, slowly by love, but then Trav
came to the rescue with the megaphone, and only you
(18:55):
possessed the key. No longer drowning and deceived, all because
you came for me, locked inside my the movie and
only you possessed the key.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I mean, I know, I know, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Should we try to write a song for Jared and
Steve Imagina drive you crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
But boy you want to baby.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
See, We'll leave the writing to her, But no, this
is so I'm just it's so fun to also see
this in terms of, like not just the music, but
then you've got the music videos, and then you've got
the uh the theater, like and we got to go
buy tickets and be with the little uh me boring
Barbie when the Kochs got You Brave. That's the actually
(19:45):
romantic song. I don't there's a whole theory about who
that's about. I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Everyone's gonna have a theory. I work theory.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
But I also oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, great suiting,
so father figure. Also, what else do I have on
here that I wanted to talk about? Oh oh, I
love this in keep it one hundred on the land
and the sea and the sky. Pledge your allegiance. Pledge
allegiance to your hands, your team.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Your vibes.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Don't care where the hell you've been, because now you're mine.
It's all about the sleepless night you've been dreaming of.
And can we give a shan att to the girl
in her hands? I know we all watched the video
last night. We were like on the phone, by the way,
the four of us meet Chris and Steve and Jarrett
doing some deep therapy and having a Sunday night where
(20:32):
we were drinking wine on the phone. We look down
it's an hour forty minutes and Steve goes, oh my god,
the videos on YouTube call each other back.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
We watch it. So that line you just said, that's
the part where.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
She's like and she catches the ball and she puts
it back and then she runs in in this dress
looking fit whatever I want that dress?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah? Wait, I also bring the video is so good.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
And then I saw in her interviews it's all her
dancer from the tour everybody got back together. I thought
that was amazing. I also do love this because I
love you know, performances and all that kind of stuff
from dancing my whole life, in the life of the
show girl.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
At the end she goes, well, let's give it up
for our band, yeah, and the dancers.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That was really her last moment, I think in Vancouver
when she closed the show out. And that is so
special having a sister who's a dancer. Giving the people
that's a part of your team credit. I thought was
so so sweet and I love her for that, but
love her for so many reasons. But the other thing too,
that and I'm glad it did make headlines. I know
she didn't do it for that. She never does. But
like even giving the truck drivers or all these other
(21:37):
individuals that the behind the scenes people that have given
up so much of their time and their lives and
time away from their family and everybody to be with her,
she never lets that go unnoticed. But her name was
Katie made her money being pretty in witty Witty. They
gave her the keys to the city and then you
go and came going. I like the part where it
(21:58):
says where she saigm it thank you father, lovely bookay,
you're sweeter than a peach. But you don't know the
life of a showgirl, babe, and you're never ever gonna wait.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
The more you play, the more you play.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh wow, I shouldn't sing this your such within a kittie.
She keeps going on, but I just the idea that
people shouldn't look at these people like her, and it's like,
oh my god, I want that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I want that.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It's like, well, do you, because how much actually goes
into it?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't know. Review is twelve out of twelve.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Congratulations Taylor on an incredible album.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Crowd Friends.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
This is just like, I mean, I don't know, I
don't know how you do it, but you continue to
inspire Aaron and I for a lot of different reasons.
But you work your strength, your courage and the fact
you just don't let the haters keep you down.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And I know it's cliche, but man, it speaks to
these two girls more than you ever know.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
It just does.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And she was saying something too in these interviews where
don't get into this rage clickbait, where this world that
we live in, you feel like you want to always
defend yourself because who doesn't want to defend themselves? But
it said in time and it all works out and karmicalley.
It's just I just love her so much, and I
will leave you with one last little thing that I
(23:18):
just well, no, just not this, not just that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
This run here we go as begun thing.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I like my friends kings.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I like them drinking Gucci and Scan. All right, we
can go on and on. We love you, Taylor.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Congratulations to you and your team and everyone involved in
this incredible album.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Thank you for the sweet gift. We are always your
biggest supporters.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I would say that, but you have a globe full
of supporters. Thank you so much for inspiring us, the
younger gals, the older.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Goals, all the goals. We appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
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Wishless got me. I got emotional listening to it. Yep,
we have obviously had a chance to see these people
be around each other. And I said to you, guys,
the part I think that teared me up was got
the whole block looking like you.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
That's so sweet, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I also love when she said that you just want
a best friend who is hot. Yeah, calm down with
Erin and Carissa is a production of iHeartRadio. This is
what happens when the most how would you free? I
mean talented, But I was going to say she has
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the most basically soa and every gorgeous orange thing in
the world is sold out. So I got this very
sad looking Oscar the grouse thing, and this was the
only red feather piece left to celebrate the gipe of
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the show. Show and with that, we welcome you to
the preview everybody. To Aaron's point, I had to go
for Flapper Girl from the Halloween Store because I couldn't
get an orange bow to save my life. We got
Christmas lights that are I don't know up against the
podcast equipment. We might erupt in flames. But you know
what I look like, Mac did my makeup? This is
(01:20):
not how I wanted to come across in celebration of
our gal we are so what we got. Oh we're
going We're already doing that. Sure we can do it. Yeah,
I think, I mean, why wouldn't we Okay, for anyone
that is great, not a incredible fan of Taylor Swifts
(01:42):
like ours, this is not the podcast for you.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Calm down, is not your place.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Keep scrolling through the algorithm onto something else, because here
we celebrate one of the greatest superstars to ever live, songwriters, people,
all the things. We are so excited for the release
of the Life of a show Girl, Taylor Swift's twelfth album.
Twelve out of twelve is what we give this rating.
And so we'll go through for the next fifteen minutes
some of our favorite songs. What we think they might
(02:09):
mean with they don't I don't know. There's so many
things out there, speculation, and it's part of the fun
with our gals, little Easter eggs. So grab a cocktail,
sit back, and enjoy Aaron and I's take of the
Life of a Showgirl music review.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I have wine, I have a coffee and a green juice. Oh,
oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well that summarizes everything mine's gatorade. But while you sit
back and lead the troops. In the next portion of
the program, I'm going to open up the old champagne
and joy to get in the box with me. I'm
gonna open the box with you. Let me pour some
champagne out. Taylor and her entire team. Congratulations. It is fantastic.
(02:55):
We love the album. I made Steve stay up all
night with me after Thursday Night football was done. We
had a listening party, to which he ended up falling
sleep on the couch because I made him go through
every single song with me.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Cheers, cheering, all right.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And with that, we were lucky enough to receive Oh
you already did some pre opening.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh you haven't gotten that far. Okay, I'll wait, good,
hold on.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Why don't you explain to the listeners what we got
going on here?
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So we got a special delivery today which thank you guys, Yes,
thank you, thank you. This is I said Chris, I said,
did you get one? She goes I got it, and
I said, okay, don't open it until we do the podcast.
We have an unboxing, a very special unboxing from.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How does she Make a red Lipstick Look So Good?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
There's no chance in how I can do that. Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So Aaron and I were told we were getting a
special surprise from the gal herself. So we have not
seen this opening it for the first time. Where are
you at in the unboxing so I can get caught up?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh you're already that fuar. Oh my gosh, this is
so exciting.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Steve goes, wait till I get home to open it. No, see,
we're going to be annoyed to also if he got
their own. Steve was so excited when we were having
our listening party. He goes, Wow, this is really getting
me fired up. He went and bought me Gucci pajamas
so I could be Lovecci.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
What a guy. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
And what did Jared say about that last night? Pave,
I don't have any money.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
To do that. Okay, here we go, ts box.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Gelie we are. It's a major award. Oh my gosh.
A cute note. Okay, well we won't because it's a
personal one. We'll read that privately. Some things need to
be private.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
But in she said, dear Aaron, I like you so much. Okay,
we have the album. This is so so fun.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
She looks.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
God, she looks great. I also love listening because you know,
I went through how comfortable that braw was. I went
through every video.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
She was saying that when they were doing me shots,
she didn't know that this would be the album cover.
But the second she's really she said, yes, that's it
because she liked the color of the blue or the well.
I guess it's awkwa. What color is that bathtub she's in?
And then she's also open light. I don't think that's
the well. We'll get to that in a second. Okay, okay.
According to her, since she's been on her media tour,
(05:25):
she was explaining some of the things and you.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Know, the behind the scenes stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
She said that when she'd get off tour after her
three hour marathon shows, she'd go home and take a
bath and look at that.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What a gal. Okay, So what album she's using? WHOA
hold on, I'm opening the album. I want to see
just a minute.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
This is like if you did Christmas okay with Aeron
and Chrisa. Although I keep shaking the table, I need
to settle down here.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'm so oh wow. She looks so fire in this.
This is in the video. She looks incredible.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I don't want to mess any sing up. Oh yeah, hey, Chris, And.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
This reminds us. Reminds me when the four of.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Us sat in the hallway, that's right, we didn't look
that glamorous. We were wearing ratty pajamas. But she looks
like a million bucks. Okay, we've got let's see here
opening it up. She also was saying that there's a
special poem on the inside.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yea. And of course the gal's always leaving Eastering.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
She said, there's something to this poem, but it's up
to us to figure out what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
She's always up to something. This gal should have the time.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I mean. Well, and that's the other thing too. So
anyone that's stayed with us this long five minutes into
the pregame is here because you love Taylor Swift as
much as we do. And we've talked about it before.
We are people who, obviously, professionally, we.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Work really hard.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
We you know, like to think that we've obtained some
sort of level of I don't know, consistency in this
an industry that's not consistent. But then I look at her,
and I look at her career, and I'm thinking to myself.
She makes me want to work harder, and she's kind
to people, and she writes all her own music, and
she she's just somebody who I very much look up
to as a business woman in addition to how uber
(07:13):
talented she is.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So this is just I don't know. I'm very happy
for her. Wow, this is beautiful. And then the record again,
the lipstick. How does she do this?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I don't know, but she said she had never made
an Orange record before. I shouldn't touch this. Let me
set this down. Okay, so this is so gorgeous. I'm
going to really dive into this later. But oh my god,
look at this. Also, how glossy this is too? Did
you see how glossy this is? Oh my gosh, this
literally is like Christmas morning. When I watch people unbox
(07:48):
like purses and stuff, I'm always like, why am I
watching this? This is something that I want to unbox,
and they're always clicking, you know, the clicking.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Okay, you want to move on to the next part.
I'm so excited. But how hot is she in this photo? Incredible?
I want that dress?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, okay, okay, together here tig miss Sticker, Sigma Sticker.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It's guccie no woo.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Oh my gosh, the merch cute.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Those are the shorts, and this is the sweatshirt The
Life of a show Girl. I'm putting it on take it.
I can't take it. It's so great, so good. I'm
wearing it on air for the Ravens Rams game.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
This is amazing.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Thank you so much to Taylor and her incredible team,
who again never.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Miss on anything.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I just don't know how I can't even get my
life together in the morning, let alone what they did.
All of this entire album while she was on tour
continues to inspire me in so many ways.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Thank you for this. So to say.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
As an entrepreneur with an apparel line, this thread count
is incredible.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh my god, right, this is amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Okay, Taylor, congrats, Thank you so much. We're so grateful
and we love all of this. The presentation, I got
to say from the.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Gal is second to not me.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
She's thought of everything, the details, there's nothing that they
leave out amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So let's get to our review.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Not a review, but let's get to some of the
songs that we love. Because you could go on and
on and on in this podcast will be ten hours,
but my number one. Okay, on the counter of three,
because I don't know which one.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
We haven't talked about it. So on the counter three,
you say what your favorite song is? Okay, ready, one, two, three?
Fother figure, woky, but Canceled is a one bee? Okay,
very close, okay, very you want to start? Then, while
I put my headphone back in and you tell me
why you like Canceled or why you like father father figure,
I'm dying in some sort of life to discuss this
(10:14):
further meaning thoughts and get the behind the scenes. But
in my mind, it just feels like somebody that she
helped brought along along the way. That's the same word
twice and then.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Be disloyal. There is the end when she is hammering it.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I played it back to back to back to back
to back to back to back.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Today, where is it? Where is it? Where is it?
Here we go?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Here we go. I was your father figure. I drank
the brown liquor. I made the deal with this devil.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
You want to fight, you found you? This is what
I like. You want to fight. You found it. I
got the place surrounded. You'll be sleeping with the fishes
before you know you're drowning.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Who's portraits on the mantu? Who's covered up your scandals? Mistigma?
You got it? Mistake my kindness for weakness, and you
find your card canceled. I uh huh uh huh. So
right here, right here grew up.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
My dad would always make me pull out the front
of a CD and listen and read, like instead of
singing this song. He would always be like, what you
say you like the song? You don't even know what
it's about. Make me take out the front of a CD.
And so I'm such a lyric person. So we talked
about this when it first came out. Everyhow, and the
fact that she writes every single one of her songs,
(11:46):
do you understand like a modern day poet as I
like to call them. My father always says that too,
is that I can't even write a poem lit alone,
song after song after song, And she's talked about it
at length, like how it's her favorite thing to do
and how cathartic it must be, and even if it's
not directly correlated to her, she talks a lot. Since
I've clearly watched every interview of hers to understand a
(12:06):
little bit more of her process that it's almost like
she's taking on like a character role or like her
interpretation of Elizabeth Taylor, how she would feel like all
of those things, like how much fun would it be?
And no wonder she keeps, you know, making record after
record because it's so probably the process is enjoyable for her,
but cathartic too. The reason why I love Canceled Girl
(12:30):
because it I just love the beat. The second that
I turned the song on, I was like, ooh, okay,
because my favorite album of her to date has been
reputation reputation. I just love like those like bad bitch
anthems as she calls them, and the you know, there's
a real like kind of grit to it. When she
said I liked like my whiskey sour poison thorns.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They're the ones with matchings guns.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I love that your friends are the ones matching scars,
the friends that have been through shit and been there
for you. To me, it's easy to love what goes
on to say, it's easy to love you when you're popular.
I mean, isn't that the truth? The optics click, everyone prospers,
but one single drop and you're off the roster obviously
resonates with us, because how quick we are, you know,
(13:19):
in the world to get rid of people tone deaf
and hot. Let's fucking off her? Did you make a
joke only a man could? Were you just too smug
for your own good? Or bring it me jo that
a man could? I love that one baby that.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
All ends tonight. Good thing my friends. I mean, I
bet you know we shouldn't sing, but you get it.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I just like that when the world is going to
turn against you, She's like, come over here, come over here,
I got you. I like my friends that are canceled because,
as we know, so many times you're canceled for the
wrong reasons and they're unsubstantiated, and it's for a myriad
of bullshit reasons. So come and sit next to me,
you know you know what I mean? Now that's our favorite?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
What else do you love?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
On?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Here?
Speaker 1 (14:04):
One?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
A one b wishless got me.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I got emotional listening to it. We have obviously had
a chance to see these people be around each other.
And I said to you, guys, the part I think
that teared me up was got the whole block looking
like you.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
And all so sweet, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I also love when she said that you just want
a best friend who is hot. Yeah, I think that
we've all been with this group, like with Jared and
myself and the Traps and whatever. We all have men
who are incredibly good looking, yes, superficial, but who cares
because you want to be attracted to your partner whatever.
Your version of attraction is good looking but also your
(14:45):
best friend. And I didn't know that that really existed.
I always thought you had to sacrifice one thing or
the other. So I love that she highlights that and
then dreaming of a basketball hoop in the driveway. That
the bigger and the bigger and the bigger you get
in life, it goes back to like you just want
the simple things. And I grew up with a basketball
hoop in my driveway, So I love that. Wish list
(15:06):
is a great one. We when we first knew the
album was or heard it was coming out, and she
went through the list of songs on New Heights, we
were like, what is opal Light?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
So uh when she was talking about it, she was
saying that it's okay that things didn't work out because
now there are good there. Now they are good and
you have perspective that you know that the things that
weren't supposed to be meant for you aren't and that
you know, the couples, they always looked at the perfect couples,
and when you know, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
So I love that one. I love in opal light.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I had a bad habit of missing lovers past my
brothers used to call. My brother used to call it
eating out of the trash.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Good good, good good.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I also appreciate go can I say something sorry, I yeah,
that's what we're here. I feel like in this two
stories one when this came out and sitting there and
it's a lot like what you said with your dad,
because we have a different perspective of all this.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I just sat with the with the lyrics, you know,
and I just wanted to it was different this time
listening to it. Jarrett was doing the same thing the
next day when he was away for hockey and then
came back and he was listening to it and he goes, Babe,
she's a really good writer. Yeah, yeah, I think she's
(16:28):
done a pretty good job of that. Hey. One thing
I will say though, in my deep dive of interviews,
to get a little better perspective from her whole process,
and everything with this is that somebody said, and it's not.
It wasn't the fault of the individual. I think it
was probably just fodder that was out there. And he
was asking about it, like, oh, now that you're going
to get.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Married, are you done writing? Are you done with music?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And she was like, well, that's a very offensive thing
to say.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's like, what world are we living in that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
All of a sudden, it's like, because she is going
to get married, that this just ends now you stop. Yeah,
just anyways, that really struck me. I was like, wait,
what are we doing here? But a little bit more
with that, she was saying that the fear of she
was fearful that being happy might make like, oh my god, dude,
can I not write songs anymore? Because I'm like blissfully happy?
(17:17):
And she said wasn't Adele like that too? She said,
I wrote this whole like track about breaking up or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, I mean I think a lot of times for
incredible songwriters, it's like so much of their incredible music
has been you know, rooted in heartbreak and everything. And
Taylor went on to say that it was in fact,
it wasn't direct that if the songwriting wasn't directly correlated
to her pain and torment, would she still be able
to do it? And then she said, in this one,
(17:44):
someone will always end up forcing drama into my consciousness,
which is also fun to write about. So, even if
it's not about heartbreak, and you know, drama, we have
constant things in our orbit that give us things to
talk about, and in her particular case, about it. So
I thought that was interesting. What I love the fate
(18:04):
of Ophelia. I heard you calling on the megaphone, which
is what he did through his podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Cute, very curable.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Also, how about us looking up who Ophelia was? I'm
sure at this point everybody has Jared last night even
saying that when we were looking up for anyone that
doesn't know who Ophelia is, I've taken the liberty of
looking it up for you. Ophelia is a character in Hamlet.
She's a young noble woman of Denmark and the daughter
of some of the names I don't know due to
(18:34):
Hamlet's actions, Ophelia ultimately enters the state of madness that
leads her to her drowning. And so the song she
said was that she was fearful that you know she
might end up with a similar fate to Ophelia, driven
Matt over the years, slowly by love, but then Trav
came to the rescue with the megaphone, and only you
(18:55):
possessed the key. No longer drowning and deceived, all because
you came for me, locked inside my the movie and
only you possessed the key.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I mean, I know, I know, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Should we try to write a song for Jared and
Steve Imagina drive you crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
But boy you want to baby.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
See, We'll leave the writing to her, But no, this
is so I'm just it's so fun to also see
this in terms of, like not just the music, but
then you've got the music videos, and then you've got
the uh the theater, like and we got to go
buy tickets and be with the little uh me boring
Barbie when the Kochs got You Brave. That's the actually
(19:45):
romantic song. I don't there's a whole theory about who
that's about. I don't.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Everyone's gonna have a theory. I work theory.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
But I also oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, great suiting,
so father figure. Also, what else do I have on
here that I wanted to talk about? Oh oh, I
love this in keep it one hundred on the land
and the sea and the sky. Pledge your allegiance. Pledge
allegiance to your hands, your team.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Your vibes.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Don't care where the hell you've been, because now you're mine.
It's all about the sleepless night you've been dreaming of.
And can we give a shan att to the girl
in her hands? I know we all watched the video
last night. We were like on the phone, by the way,
the four of us meet Chris and Steve and Jarrett
doing some deep therapy and having a Sunday night where
(20:32):
we were drinking wine on the phone. We look down
it's an hour forty minutes and Steve goes, oh my god,
the videos on YouTube call each other back.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
We watch it. So that line you just said, that's
the part where.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
She's like and she catches the ball and she puts
it back and then she runs in in this dress
looking fit whatever I want that dress?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah? Wait, I also bring the video is so good.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
And then I saw in her interviews it's all her
dancer from the tour everybody got back together. I thought
that was amazing. I also do love this because I
love you know, performances and all that kind of stuff
from dancing my whole life, in the life of the
show girl.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
At the end she goes, well, let's give it up
for our band, yeah, and the dancers.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
That was really her last moment, I think in Vancouver
when she closed the show out. And that is so
special having a sister who's a dancer. Giving the people
that's a part of your team credit. I thought was
so so sweet and I love her for that, but
love her for so many reasons. But the other thing too,
that and I'm glad it did make headlines. I know
she didn't do it for that. She never does. But
like even giving the truck drivers or all these other
(21:37):
individuals that the behind the scenes people that have given
up so much of their time and their lives and
time away from their family and everybody to be with her,
she never lets that go unnoticed. But her name was
Katie made her money being pretty in witty Witty. They
gave her the keys to the city and then you
go and came going. I like the part where it
(21:58):
says where she saigm it thank you father, lovely bookay,
you're sweeter than a peach. But you don't know the
life of a showgirl, babe, and you're never ever gonna wait.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
The more you play, the more you play.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Oh wow, I shouldn't sing this your such within a kittie.
She keeps going on, but I just the idea that
people shouldn't look at these people like her, and it's like,
oh my god, I want that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I want that.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It's like, well, do you, because how much actually goes
into it?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't know. Review is twelve out of twelve.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Congratulations Taylor on an incredible album.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Crowd Friends.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
This is just like, I mean, I don't know, I
don't know how you do it, but you continue to
inspire Aaron and I for a lot of different reasons.
But you work your strength, your courage and the fact
you just don't let the haters keep you down.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
And I know it's cliche, but man, it speaks to
these two girls more than you ever know.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
It just does.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And she was saying something too in these interviews where
don't get into this rage clickbait, where this world that
we live in, you feel like you want to always
defend yourself because who doesn't want to defend themselves? But
it said in time and it all works out and karmicalley.
It's just I just love her so much, and I
will leave you with one last little thing that I
(23:18):
just well, no, just not this, not just that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
This run here we go as begun thing.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I like my friends kings.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I like them drinking Gucci and Scan. All right, we
can go on and on. We love you, Taylor.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Congratulations to you and your team and everyone involved in
this incredible album.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Thank you for the sweet gift. We are always your
biggest supporters.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I would say that, but you have a globe full
of supporters. Thank you so much for inspiring us, the
younger gals, the older.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Goals, all the goals. We appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
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Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
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