rich 1.0 GET TICKETS TO SEE US ON TOUR THIS SUMMER: https://www.evolutionofasnake.com  We’re rewinding to Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech 2022 and reading it like a prophecy. At the time, it felt like a charming, self-aware victory lap. But in hindsight? It’s loaded with real easter eggs about everything that followed: the emotional architecture of Midnights, the meta-theatre of The Eras Tour, the unraveling of her long-term relationship with Joe Alwyn, and the chaotic re-entry of Matty Healy. We’re dissecting the language, the tone, the “mistakes” motif, the self-mythologizing — and asking: was Taylor already preparing us for the next era… or trying to convince herself of it?  ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/swiftologist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Evolution of a Snake: The Taylor Swift Fan Podcast https://audioboom.com/channels/5168765-evolution-of-a-snake-the-taylor-swift-fan-podcast Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43562174/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8885114/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>