Welcome to Swiftly Spoken Season Four! This week we’re deep diving the topic of name dropping on Taylor Swift songs, from the innocent call outs in debut, to the shift in her approach after having been burned by someone else name checking Taylor herself, we’re going over every single reference Taylor has made over the years. Not only do we list all of the famous figures, made up characters and niche references, we also categorise them and try to see the patterns in each album as well as understand why Taylor made specific reference to these people in particular throughout her discography. We conclude by going through a fun “other” category in which we speak about indirect call outs, such as the waitress from the lakes or the high man in bejewelled.