This was a great episode, thank you! Maisie's lyrics are even more specific than you noted in the pod - Columbia Road in London is a flower market on Sundays, which explains the lyrics "I'm running down Columbia Road / They're selling sunflowers cheap", and in the same area is a notable street called Brick Lane, referenced later in the song. The conversation with Jensen was also great - her point about journaling becoming feminised and thus not high art anymore was so real!! The episode is already long, but it's interesting to note the songwriters that preceded Taylor with this level of detail - Alanis Morissette, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, so many others. But I guess they don't all nessecarily have the specifity / minimal melody / big bridge combo of Taylor.
We are obviously biased, because all we do is overanalyze Taylor's lyrics, but we loved this episode.
Lyrical hyper-specificity really came through on Brat too (not sure Charli was necessarily influenced by Taylor though)
I once saw her open for Taylor!
This was a great episode, thank you! Maisie's lyrics are even more specific than you noted in the pod - Columbia Road in London is a flower market on Sundays, which explains the lyrics "I'm running down Columbia Road / They're selling sunflowers cheap", and in the same area is a notable street called Brick Lane, referenced later in the song. The conversation with Jensen was also great - her point about journaling becoming feminised and thus not high art anymore was so real!! The episode is already long, but it's interesting to note the songwriters that preceded Taylor with this level of detail - Alanis Morissette, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, so many others. But I guess they don't all nessecarily have the specifity / minimal melody / big bridge combo of Taylor.