Episodic: 7 episodes
Caroline King is the host of “Perched in the Dark: A Taylor Swift Podcast”. Follow along as she explores the lore that surrounds one of the most influential women in pop, Dr. Taylor Allison Swift. Album dissections, hot takes, theories: It’s all here. She’ll have a marvelous time ruining everything.
Commentary
03 Oct 2023
Show Intro
05 Dec 2023
thanks for giving the season a listen. be on the lookout for season two coming soon!
04 Oct 2023
The first leg of The Eras Tour ended in August, but the conversation surrounding it continues. Caroline unpacks the unprecedented popularity of the tour and surveys the mentality of the fandom in retrospect, gearing up for the second leg in 2024.
20 Oct 2023
Caroline investigates the messy rollout of Taylor Swift's seventh studio album Lover and asks if the album is really the ugly child that many Swifties have claimed it is.
09 Nov 2023
CW: brief mentions of disordered eating 11:00-12:57
she has arrived!! 1989 (taylor's version) dropped October 27th, and the world's most opinionated swiftie is here to talk about it all. join caroline as she discusses the re-release of her favorite album and the fandom behavior that has ensued.
creator's note: please forgive both my sniffly nose and the many, many tour groups that decided to come through the edit bays. it's november in oklahoma, so that means I am sickly and children invade my college campus.
19 Nov 2023
CW: death
Caroline discusses recent events surrounding the eras tour and fan consumption.
Benevides Law Petition
28 Nov 2023
caroline did the math and is here with her official T Swift album ranking. it's controversial yet brave. you won't want to miss it.
creator's note: at 10:10, I say that "you're losing me" is not yet availble on streaming. let it be known that this blonde woman dropped it the NEXT DAY. it does not change my ranking, if you are curious, but it is a 10.