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276: Before the Fame: Journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis on Taylor Swift's Early Years


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Journalist and host of the Infamous podcastt, Vanessa Grigoriadis joins Molly as they dive deep into the life, career, and public image of global pop star, Taylor Swift. Vanessa profiled Taylor Swift for Rolling Stone in 2009 right after the release of her second album, “Fearless.” Since then she has been following Taylor from country pop-start to a dominated figure in our culture. 

In this episode of the "Allegedly" series, Vanessa and Molly discuss Taylor’s PR from her early days of running her own Myspace to her and Travis Kelce’s full-on PR push, this episode has no blank spaces. 


Links:

Follow Vanessa Grigoriadis:

https://twitter.com/vanessagrigor

Vanessa’s Rolling Stone Profile on Taylor Swift:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/the-very-pink-very-perfect-life-of-taylor-swift-107451/

Vanessa’s Podcast: Infamous:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infamous/id1652941051


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