Culture chat: Is Taylor Swift’s new album too much? 文化聊天：泰勒•斯威夫特的新专辑是不是过火了？ - Snapshot
This is an audio transcript of the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘Culture chat — Is Taylor Swift’s new album too much?’
Lilah Raptopoulos
Welcome to Life and Art from FT Weekend. I’m Lilah Raptopoulos, and this is our Friday chat show. Today we are talking about Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, which was the outrageously anticipated album released last week. It quickly broke records, becoming the first album in Spotify history to surpass 300mn streams in a day. And two hours after it was released, Taylor Swift announced that it was a surprise double album with 31 tracks instead of the expected 16. The Tortured Poets Department is widely interpreted as an album about break-ups and fame. It has references to her six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn, which ended last year, and her short subsequent fling with the 1975 singer Matty Healy and her new boyfriend, football star Travis Kelce. Today we have our favourite music duo back with us to talk about it. They were here last to talk about Cowboy Carter . I’m Lilah and all my friends smell like weed or little babies. Joining me in New York is the US labour inequality correspondent. She’s working her life away just to pay for a timeshare down in Destin. It’s Taylor Nichole Rogers.