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Full Episode Description: On this patreon exclusive, Torry (she/her) and Nick (he/him) finish their discussion of The Life of a Showgirl and share their superlatives. 

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
But have you thought more about the life of a showgirl since we
last chatted? Yeah, so I I have for songs that
we haven't talked about, but I feel like Taylor, Taylor Tori
did did breathe some new life into me for father figure.
I was definitely in my my hater era and I think it's a better

(00:21):
song now, you know, now knowing the meaning behind it.
Like look at the impact of education on world outlook.
Yeah, say more. I still don't think that it's
like, you know, a great everydayman song, but I definitely
appreciate it a lot more. So yeah, it it didn't jump to

(00:44):
one of my my favorites, but it it is off of the the shit list.
The. Shit list that's good.
And I would say it's even, it iseven now like firmly in the OK,
I'll listen to that one list. OK, because I I especially
really like the, what would it be called?
Like the bridge. The fucking bridge, Yeah.

(01:05):
It looks. Like no, no way.
She's going for bridge. No, just wait.
It's not the bridge. I do.
It's very tailored. The like your thoughtless
ambition sparked the ignition. I'm like, that's so fucking
Taylor. Yes.
That's the part that I came around on now, interpreting the
song through a new lens. That's fair, I think.

(01:26):
No. OK, it is the chorus, but it's
like when she changes it of like, you'll be sleeping with
the fishes before you know you're drowning.
Yeah. Whose portrait?
Because. When the when I when I heard
that and I thought she was talking about like, I thought
that there was like her a continue not not just not not
Olivia. I just couldn't think of like
others. Yeah, yeah.
Contemporaries well enough, but I thought she was punching down

(01:48):
again and I was like to her like, we don't need to be doing
that Miss billionaire like there's not that many people we
need to be coming for still. But then when you said that I
was like, OK, so one way more justified and I get it now.
And from the everyday person lens, like, oh, like this is

(02:09):
somebody who like, you know, more justifiably wronged me
versus like, you know, quote UN quote, like new friend that I
was like leading into something right, Like, you know, those
types of like Mean Girls, right,Like when what the fuck was that

(02:30):
girl's name? Janice.
When Well, yeah, sure, this works in both cases.
Like when Janice was like takingKatie and then it was like, oh,
like I'm like, you know, leadingand then you like fuck me over,
right? Like it was like, oh, like that
is not like a super applicable, you know, everyday life scenario

(02:50):
for people. So it felt a little like too
niche. But now that I see it from the
other side, I'm like, oh, I got it.
Yeah. I, like, also really feel like
until we knew about the Masters scandal, I guess that I just
like, really underestimated. I feel like the rules Scott

(03:12):
Borchetta played in her career until like we saw, I like
obviously there's like tons of pictures and like edits that
like I would have probably seen at the time, but not like taken
into account. Like, even he's like on the
stage, like accepting awards with her and stuff.
I do kind of think like it. It does seem like he was a
father figure to her and that she would have maybe kept

(03:35):
working with him if he hadn't done this, which is like, wild
to think. I do feel also, yeah, it is just
relatable to a lot of like, I feel like this would be really
relatable to a lot of people in the entertainment industry,
which I guess relates back to the show.
The showgirl of it all. I think I was just.
I was just like, I'm not understanding where the the

(03:57):
perspective the song was coming from, like in that sense and the
lyric about like, I'll drink thebrown liquor with my Dick's
bigger. Like those were the two things
that kind of lost me. So now, now I'm back, you know,
back on the map. Is it weird that I actually like
the my checks bigger lyric? It is a better lyric.

(04:20):
It's like objectively a better. I know it like I like that
better except for then it makes I pay the check before it kisses
the mahogany green a little. Like OK now we've said check
1000 times during the song but Ikind of like cuz you know how
she switches the POVII think it would be funny if when she
switched the POV she changed it to Dick.

(04:42):
I'm not enough on the song I think to provide it a well
thought out opinion on that, so I'm just gonna say I will think
about that. I just didn't the time I
listened to it. Yeah, I just didn't need that
metaphor. Yes, like every, every chorus.
I feel like it would have been funny if it was like one of
them, I guess. I don't know.
Yeah, like in the bridge would be the place, Yeah.

(05:05):
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