Happy Pride! By which we mean LET’S TALK KAYLOR. We’re kicking off our own version of a month-long rainbow apparel section by getting knee-deep in the love affair that is Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss. This week we’re doing an overview and timeline of their relationship: from the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show to Big Sur to #kissgate, we break down the biggest moments of Kaylor, discuss public perception of their relationship, and, obviously, provide some psychoanalysis. Sidebars this week: getting scouted at Costco, Taymojis, #girlboss + #squadgoals energy disguising romance, Jack Halberstam, Kimby Kloss, and whether Taylor has read the comphet Google Doc.

Find this week’s visual accompaniment here and Madeline’s aforementioned Gold Rush theory Tik Tok here.

It’s time to talk about Sour. We’re diving into the many conversations (lyrical, musical, literal) happening between Taylor and Olivia Rodrigo in the context of the bops-only album Sour — talking through Taylor’s lineage in today’s music industry, giving a quick song-by-song review of Sour in the context of Red, and a draft pick to design our ultimate breakup playlists using both albums. Sidebars this week: Alyson Stoner and the Disney industrial complex, HSMTMTS, teenage girl supremacy, Tik Tok democratizing music, Avril Lavinge’s album art, and Y2K culture.

Find our respective draft picks here and here.

And find the articles we referenced here and here.

LIVE FROM THE SAME PLACE, IT’S MADELINE & HANNAH. In honor of us being together for the first time in over a year, today we’re taking a winding trip down memory lane to reminisce on the three Taylor Swift shows we’ve attended together (plus the shared tumblr we started), and imagining what the next era of Taylor’s concerts could look like. Sidebars this week: the Freeform original show Cruel Summer, the origin of our Chewbacca tour outfits, trying to buy concert tickets in the pre-iPhone age, Taylor-specific Coachella, and Madeline’s brief lip-sync career. You can join us on memory lane with the accompanying photos to this episode: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XUQQTUnt4L72fdQy6

We’re building a timeline of Taylor’s past & present love affairs — the songs that they inspired, the way they were received, the paparazzi that documented them, and whether we believe they were really what the PR machine wanted us to think they were. Also, we drop our first references to what will become BIG THINGS on this pod: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and #kissgate. Sidebars this week: Fiddler on the Roof, the infamous Joe Jonas Barbie doll, Glee, and Ethel Kennedy’s pets. Find the episode’s playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MXm3tbIjk6JyQkfFU3MAa?si=puQn18TkSwCqIpsQ9tJiMQ&dl_branch=1

This week, we’re processing the non-events of April 30 (including the Girl in Red recommendation and all its innuendo) and getting into a true deep cut category — breaking down songs where Taylor is a featured artist. Sidebars this week: Sheryl Crow, the time we got heatstroke during the 1989 tour, Route 66, and Madeline’s abiding neutrality towards Dakota Johnson. Find us on Twitter at @ihopeyouthinkof, and find the episode’s playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3f0mEnLuALzrYVZ8iUFqAh?si=EeQpoGXlRwWY5UYRicwpgQ&dl_branch=1

Our most chaotic and juiciest episode yet — we’re going into the wild world of personality assessments. We use our years of deep dives on astrology & the Enneagram and offer some hot psychoanalytic takes on Taylor’s internality, then close the episode with the question of the hour: what is going to happen on April 30th??? Sidebars this week: the time Taylor got into a car crash during an interview, Tumblr HTML, working at Target, sneaking Go-Gurt into a Disney on Ice show, and Al Gore.

We’re getting into the six vault songs from Fearless (Taylor’s Version). More track-by-track deep dives, more superlatives, more Gaylor — plus a walkthrough of what we think is coming next. Sidebars this week: getting high on Jesus, the graphic t-shirt wall at Delia’s, white wine-core, and Lizzo’s fanfiction.

The first rerelease has dropped, and so have literally hundreds of our takes. We’re breaking down the first 20 tracks, covering all of the previously released songs through the lens of our own history with each song and the new meaning imbued by Taylor re-recording. Sidebars this week: Chewbacca costumes, hawk sounds, God as camp, fruit gummies from Costco, and ASMR. And, obviously, Gaylor. 

Join us, Madeline and Hannah, as we elevate our friendship in its 13th year to a Taylor Swift podcast. We'll discuss each rerecord as it's released this year, including track-by-track analysis and topics from every era of the Taylor Swift extended universe.