Swiftory
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 [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 43
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Monologue Song
In today’s episode, we harken back to November 2009 when Taylor Swift hosted Saturday Night Live with perhaps the very best musical monologue in SNL’s history, appropriately enough titled “Monologue …
00:17:33 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
Marjorie
This week we give a lot of love to grandmothers. Taylor Swift wrote a beautiful song for her grandmother Marjorie Finlay, released as Track 13 on Evermore. In this episode we explore a little bit abo…
00:29:14 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
How You Get the Girl
On the heels of the last episode in which we explored the Folklore Love Triangle, this week seemed like the perfect time for a little surprise episode about 1989’s Track 10 banger, “How You Get the G…
00:18:02 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
August, Betty, Cardigan | The Folklore Love Triangle
In today’s episode, we harken back to the Folklore album to get into all the messy teenage drama of Augustine, Betty and James. Taylor writes three songs that unfold this teenage love triangle, Augus…
00:50:49 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Everything We Know About TS12: The Life of a Showgirl
In this super-fast emergency episode, Alicia is dropping everything we know about Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, so far! We all moved Monday night with the countdown, and from tha…
00:10:04 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
The Glory of Giving Everything: The Taylor Swift Business Model | Author Crystal Haryanto Joins Us!
Crystal Haryanto joins Alicia and Melissa this week for a discussion about her book, The Glory of Giving Everything: The Taylor Swift Business Model. Crystal shares so much about the book as well as …
00:35:18 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
The 1, ft. A Long December by Counting Crows
It’s a mash-up episode this week, with Alicia bringing you all the details on “The 1” from Folklore, and its musical journey this summer with the Counting Crows. Adam Duritz is using this Taylor Swif…
00:49:42 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
NYC Through the Songs of Taylor Swift
Join us this week as we take a little tour of New York City through Taylor Swift’s songs. Taylor’s love for this city is well known and she references many locations in The Big Apple in her lyrics. A…
00:36:37 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
Cassandra, with Alicia King Anderson, Ph.D.
In today’s Swiftory journey, Alicia is joined by Alicia King Anderson Ph.D., our resident expert in all things mythology. The Mad Cassandra is our focus this week – the woman who was always correct i…
00:46:35 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
The Prophecy
In this little bit of a teaser episode for next week, Alicia is joined by her Trashy Divorces and Trashy Royals co-host Stacie, to break down “The Prophecy,” the track 26 bombshell from TTPD: The Ant…
00:19:30 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Swift or Shakespeare?
In this kickoff to summer, Alicia and Melissa celebrate Taylor owning her Masters (finally)! But there is so much more. Play along with our quiz this week – Swift or Shakespeare?
Alicia brings thirt…
00:25:24 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
There's Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift | Author Kevin Evers Joins Us!
Alicia and Melissa were thrilled to have a chance to speak with Kevin Evers, Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review and author of There's Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift. Ke…
01:03:50 |
Tue 27 May 2025
The Swiftory of Anne Boleyn | My Tears Ricochet
In our BIG finale of All Songs Anne Boleyn week, there could be no other song to send this Queen of England into her afterlife. Our featured song this week is “My Tears Ricochet” from Taylor Swift’s …
01:05:30 |
Fri 23 May 2025
The Swiftory of Anne Boleyn | False God and If This Was a Movie
In this continuing arc of Anne Boleyn’s Swiftory Playlist, Alicia continues with songs three and four of Anne’s traumatic 1536, "False God" and "If This Was a Movie". These choices, from Lover and Sp…
00:41:44 |
Thu 22 May 2025
The Swiftory of Anne Boleyn | Paper Rings
In this second installment of the Taylor Swift Playlist of Anne Boleyn, it's time to pull out the anti-Anne song Paper Rings from the Lover album. Alicia feels that Anne gets handed a terrible reputa…
00:33:00 |
Wed 21 May 2025
The Swiftory of Anne Boleyn | The Archer
In this episode, Alicia begins her Anne Boleyn/Taylor Swift playlist with The Archer, from the Lover album. This song is packed full of literature references along with self-sabotage, revenge and so …
00:44:30 |
Tue 20 May 2025
The Swiftory of Mary, Queen of Scots | Anti-Hero, Cruel Summer, Evermore
This week, Alicia takes us through her imagined Taylor Swift musical journey of Mary, Queen of Scots! Mary has been the focus of one of her other podcasts, Trashy Royals, recently, and there is so mu…
01:41:12 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Introducing: Psychedelic Women
Hello Swiftorians, I want to tell you about a new show that I’m really excited about. My friend Rainbow Valentine has been collecting the stories of the first generation of women to have access to Th…
00:03:45 |
Fri 09 May 2025
The Swiftory of Queen Victoria
This week, Melissa takes us through The Swiftory of Queen Victoria, with seven songs to take this long-reigning Queen of England from childhood through her romantic entanglements.
As always, we wan…
00:51:04 |
Tue 06 May 2025
22
In this episode of Swiftory, Alicia and Melissa are feeling 22! From Taylor's RED album, 22 is a joyous glitter pen ride of a song. It is hard not to groove along to this one - this one is truly 22,0…
00:43:01 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
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