The Self-Deprecation of Anti-Hero | The Swiftie and The Scholar

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
https://glossary.sil.org/term/first-person-deixis

Charles Barkley Nike Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gqk4WPnrpM

Beauty and the Beast (1991)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101414/

Brigid Kaelin on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/brigidkaelin/

Taylor talking about Anti-Hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2t1cvSdgDA

Anti-Hero Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kbLwvqugk&list=RDb1kbLwvqugk&start_radio=1

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