Tate McRae: From Ballet Prodigy to Global Pop Idol
A twelve-year-old elite ballet dancer becomes a lockdown-era bedroom pop sensation, then reinvents herself again as a stadium-filling, choreography-heavy pop star, all before turning 23. This episode ...
2 Jul 18min
Taylor Swift's Reputation: Owning the Villain Era
America's sweetheart became the internet's villain almost overnight, branded a snake and buried under a wave of hashtags. Instead of panicking, Taylor Swift deleted her online presence, posted a silen...
2 Jul 19min
The Eras Tour: A Pop Concert on a Geopolitical Scale
Fourteen million people flooded a single ticketing site fighting over 625,000 tickets, and the meltdown triggered congressional hearings and a federal antitrust investigation, all to see a pop star. T...
2 Jul 19min
Tortured Poets Department: Taylor Swift's Raw Diary
At the peak of a billion-dollar tour and total public scrutiny, Taylor Swift released a messy, unbridled 31-track double album about grief, destructive rebounds and emotional violence. This episode ex...
2 Jul 20min
Midnights: Taylor Swift's 2 A.M. Confessional Blockbuster
Seventeen years into her career, an artist who jokingly called herself a geriatric pop star released an album about her darkest, most isolating 2 a.m. insecurities and turned it into a multi-billion-d...
2 Jul 20min
Thalia: The Queen of Latin Pop's Story of Survival
A six-year-old girl in Mexico City loses her father and stops speaking for an entire year. She grows up to become Thalia, the queen of Latin pop and queen of telenovelas, whose voice reached an estima...
2 Jul 17min
Folklore: How Isolation Made Taylor Swift's Masterpiece
The world's biggest pop star scrapped a technicolor stadium tour and, during pandemic isolation, secretly recorded a moody, fictional, indie-folk album in a makeshift home studio. This episode explore...
2 Jul 24min
Aretha Franklin: The Anatomy of the Queen of Soul
With roughly twenty minutes' notice, a soul singer stepped in for an ailing Pavarotti at the 1998 Grammys and conquered an opera aria before a billion people. This episode explores the anatomy of Aret...
2 Jul 19min
