2024-12-27
47 分钟Hi, it's Mike here.
This is part two of our Taylor Swift double bill,
which I've dug out from the archive as a festive treat.
Part one is available just above this in the feed.
Have a good Christmas, and we'll be back next week.
You know, we're about to go on a little adventure,
you and I. That adventure is going to span 18 years of music,
and we're going to be doing this on Arrow.
In June, I flew to Paris to see what is perhaps the greatest show on earth.
The Ears Tour, which includes tracks written throughout Taylor Swift's career,
is expected to gross more than $2 billion.
It's hard to point to any one factor alone that has enabled Swift to elevate herself to the pinnacle of the music industry.
But a good candidate is the devotion she inspires in her fans.
How she engages with them is something she's thought a lot about,
as she told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
The first time that I started dropping sort of cryptic clues and things in my music was when I was 14 and 15 putting together my first album.
And I wanted to do something that incentivized fans to read the lyrics.
Swiftie's now obsessed over these so-called Easter eggs,
buried in album booklets and music videos,
where she hides references to everything from future releases to ex-lovers.