For our last episode, I sit down with functional mental health practitioner Kelley Erickson to explore The Life of a Showgirl through the lens of emotional integration, identity, and resistance. We unpack why this album feels so different, the emotional arc of Taylor’s discography, and why this album is a culmination, not a contradiction. We talk about performance, power, and what it looks like refuse to play by patriarchy’s rules while remaining within the system—and we go DEEP. I lear...
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For our last episode, I sit down with functional mental health practitioner Kelley Erickson to explore The Life of a Showgirl through the lens of emotional integration, identity, and resistance. We unpack why this album feels so different, the emotional arc of Taylor’s discography, and why this album is a culmination, not a contradiction. We talk about performance, power, and what it looks like refuse to play by patriarchy’s rules while remaining within the system—and we go DEEP. I lear...
No, Taylor hasn’t gone tradwife. In this episode, we look at “Wi$h Li$t“ not as a love letter to domesticity, but as the showgirl’s fantasy of escape, her quiet breaking point in Act II. We’ll unpack the ironic dollar signs, the list of luxuries our showgirl says she doesn’t want, and the line that reveals the real enemy in this story. “Wi$h Li$t“ isn’t a retreat into tradition—it’s the showgirl imagining the one thing she can’t buy, can’t outrun, and can’t ever fully have. Plus: discus...
LIT112: The Life of a Showgirl with Mara Eller
For our last episode, I sit down with functional mental health practitioner Kelley Erickson to explore The Life of a Showgirl through the lens of emotional integration, identity, and resistance. We unpack why this album feels so different, the emotional arc of Taylor’s discography, and why this album is a culmination, not a contradiction. We talk about performance, power, and what it looks like refuse to play by patriarchy’s rules while remaining within the system—and we go DEEP. I lear...
