Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know Taylor Swift just dropped a new album. The numbers are massive, the headlines are glowing… but the discourse tells another story. From feminist contradictions to feud fatigue, from AI controversies to cultural blind spots, the shine of Showgirl has sparked something we haven’t seen in years: a real backlash. In this episode of The Pop Professor, we unpack why this moment feels different. Is Taylor still leading the cultural conversation, or has...
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know Taylor Swift just dropped a new album. The numbers are massive, the headlines are glowing… but the discourse tells another story. From feminist contradictions to feud fatigue, from AI controversies to cultural blind spots, the shine of Showgirl has sparked something we haven’t seen in years: a real backlash. In this episode of The Pop Professor, we unpack why this moment feels different. Is Taylor still leading the cultural conversation, or has...
Every pop era has its winners — but for every band that survives, a dozen get left behind. In this bonus lecture, The Pop Professor takes you on a graveyard tour of pop history’s forgotten giants: the doo-wop idols and teen heartthrobs wiped out by the British Invasion, the Motown hitmakers who lost their crown in the ’70s, the British Invasion copycats who couldn’t keep up with the Beatles, the hair-metal gods made obsolete by grunge, the ’90s alt-rockers blindsided by teen pop, the TRL darl...
THE POP PROFESSOR PODCAST
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know Taylor Swift just dropped a new album. The numbers are massive, the headlines are glowing… but the discourse tells another story. From feminist contradictions to feud fatigue, from AI controversies to cultural blind spots, the shine of Showgirl has sparked something we haven’t seen in years: a real backlash. In this episode of The Pop Professor, we unpack why this moment feels different. Is Taylor still leading the cultural conversation, or has...