Tess Bellomo

Welcome back to Right Answers, mostly a podcast on what you didn't learn in history class, but you really wanted to.

My name is Tess Pulomo.

And my name's Claire Donald.

Today, Claire, we are here to discuss the one, the only, the crazy, crazy bitch, Elizabeth Holmes.

That's true.

Um, so John Carreyrou.

Car- this is spelled- fuck, Tess.

It's spelled incorrectly.

I'm Claire Donald.

And I'm Tess Bellomo.

And welcome to spooky season.

It's so spooky.

I have issues with Taylor because I think the amount of privilege that she's always had but that she's amassed is not being used to help the greater good or make good music.

And in a dream world, she could do both, but if she's not gonna be a good person, goddammit, can you just give us some good fucking music? I want to round things out with a quote from a piece that my friend Tess Bellomo wrote in her Substack, which will be linked in the show notes for you.

Uh, I just thought Tess did a really brilliant job encapsulating the push/pull of, like, loving Taylor's music and internalized misogyny as far as, like, the conversation around her and, like, this idea of, like, we need Taylor to be sad again.

We need her to be heartbroken.

And also, as someone who loves Taylor, being kind of frustrated right now.

So Tess wrote, "Maybe what changes an artist isn't happiness.

Maybe it's insulation.

Taylor spent years writing from the perspective of someone desperate to be understood by the world.