Taylor Swift's Sister Songs: The Lucky One & Clara Bow

Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Podcast

The Snakes & Studio71

Society & Culture, Music, Music Commentary

4.8 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Evolution of a Snake. In this episode, we're introducing a new format: Sister Songs. This is a series where we draw parallels and themes between two (or more!) songs from different points in Taylor Swift's discography. On the menu today is an evergreen connective tissue: Taylor's musings on fame, being replaced, and ageing. Initially, we were inspired by the mashup she performed for Stevie Nicks in Dublin. But as we got into our in-depth lyrical analysis, it quickly became clear there are more than just two songs to pay attention to. We delve into Nothing New and Mirrorball to flesh out our analysis and better understand how Taylor's relationship to the public eye has evolved but also stayed the same over the years. As always, you can find more EOAS on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/swiftologist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the evolution of snake. I'm Zach. And I'm Madeline.
0:23.8	And we're so excited to bring you a new series today. This is our sister song series. And we are going to be covering the songs,
0:29.9	The Lucky One, Nothing New, Mirabal, and Clara Bow. Madeline, do you want to explain to our
0:36.2	beautiful, lovely audience what a sister
0:38.4	song is? You know what? I've been done and talk about it. So happy that you ask. What is a
0:45.1	sister song, you ask? To me, sister songs are simply songs that are related to one another
0:51.0	or have similar theming. But to tell you the truth, there's lots of different
0:54.8	ways that a song can be considered a sister song. For example, a really obvious one is would
0:58.9	have could have should have and dear John. Those are sister songs because not only just because
1:02.2	they're about John Mayer, but also because they reference one another, if you will, or I should
1:07.9	say would have could have should have references dear John. john obviously it can't be the other way around but then by another token it's not like every song about joe alwin is a sister
1:15.2	song obviously that's not the case i think he knows it's not a sister song to so long london however
1:21.2	london boy is a sister song to so long london i tell you what it it can go a lot of different ways. And I think that's
1:28.9	why it's so interesting. I think it's a gorgeous, gorgeous thing. And we've been waiting to do it for a long
1:34.4	time, but she wouldn't stop making moves. Oh, we've been waiting to do it. And we finally have a
1:38.8	moment to do it. And I think, I mean, this is where we really get to shine as Taylor Swift historians
1:43.8	and lyric analysts.
1:45.5	We loved doing our 1989 Walt Track analyses.
1:49.0	And you guys loved it too.
1:50.4	So we were like, you know what?
1:51.4	Let's go ham and deep on a theme.
1:53.9	And I think that's the other thing about a sister song is that usually they are united by tone or theme or lesson and message. They could be completely sonically
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