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The Self-Deprecation of Anti-Hero
We’re back and we’re kicking 2026 off with the three remaining tracks from Taylor’s submission to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Spoiler alert: she was inducted! We’ll talk more about that in the final of these three episodes, but today we are focused on Anti-Hero. Uncle Jerry wonders about Taylor’s psychological status when writing this song and Angela has an A-ha! moment about how the music cues us to maybe feel differently than the lyrics alone would make us feel.
Works Cited:
First Person Deixis
Charles Barkley Nike Commercial
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Brigid Kaelin on Instagram
Taylor…
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