158. Let's Talk SPEAK NOW (OG, TV, & more!)

And today is that day because, well, shit, man, I love Speak Now.

I know.

And I feel like it's just not been talked about, like, at all in Swiftie spaces lately.

Yeah.

I also adore Speak Now.

I know [laughs] I know sometimes I get shit because I rank Speak Now so low on my overall Taylor Swift album rankings, but I adore that album.

So-

I have so much nostalgia for both the original and Taylor's version

... something I've been thinking about a lot lately is that the Eras Tour put rose-colored glasses on a lot of Swifties.

I would absolutely say-

Mm-hmm

... myself included.

And the reason that I just wanna, like, throw that out there, and you might not have this experience.

You, the listener, might not have this experience.

But for me, while the Eras Tour was going on, and at any given time you could hear any song from any album-

Yeah

... or outside of any album, I feel like the affection for albums or certain songs was really inflated 'cause it was like, "Oh, what if I hear that song?" I, I'm trying to, like-

Yeah

... find the straightest line through this thought here, and I'm really struggling.

But my point is, is that people looked at, like, every single Taylor Swift project with these rose-colored glasses.

Now that we are a year and a half removed from the Eras Tour, I am finding online that people are having an easier time, generally speaking, ranking the albums, saying whether or not they're into a certain song or not because they're not at risk of like-

[laughs]

...

I don't know, hearing it on a live stream after publicly saying, "I don't like it." [laughs] Like, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah.