“I was ridin’ shotgun with my hair undone,” and the rest is history. This week, we do a full line-by-line deep dive into a classic, “Our Song” (Taylor Swift, 2006). Join us as we discuss the self-referential recursion (she wrote a song about their song, and that song is their song) and the sounds and silences Taylor chose to define a teenage romance. This is Taylor before anyone believed in her, holding the pen, writing herself into her debut album.

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Mentioned in this episode:

“Replay,” Zendaya

“Replay,” Iyaz

“Your Song,” Elton John

Inception, 2010

Mean Girls, 2004

“God is a DJ,” Pink

American Beauty, 1999

Inferno, Dante Alighieri

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

Harry Potter, JK Rowling

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Episode Highlights

• [03:40] A song about a song
• [11:02] "Baby" - a term of endearment
• [22:55] The "Replay" Era
• [30:29] A very short, very dramatic bridge
• [37:01] She is the writer

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