Decoding Tolerate It, Taylor’s Gothic gem, and an ironic, but tragic “portrait of a trad wife”

Joe Romm· Host0:00

Hi, I'm Joe Rome And I'm his daughter, Toni Welcome to Decoding Taylor Swift, where you'll learn the storytelling tools Swift uses that make her a modern-day Shakespeare But can make you a better communicator, so you can drive your mission and build your tribe. This podcast will not only transform how you think about Swift's songs, but also give you the life-changing tools to lead, connect, and change the world.

Toni Romm· Co-host0:22

This time we are talking about the fifth, and usually most emotionally potent song off of her album, uh, Evermore, uh, Tolerate It. I really love this song. When we saw the Eras Tour, when we watched it originally, um, when it came out in mood- movie theaters, gosh, um, this was one of the songs that I went back and listened to because I had never heard it, and I thought that it was really quite good.

Joe Romm· Host0:46

All right. Well, um, and- And I hate Jake Gyllenhaal, and I hope that every day he's walking around- You think this is about Jake Gyllenhaal?

Toni Romm· Co-host0:53

... and he's ashamed of what he's done. I think it's reminiscent of Jake Gyllenhaal. He's so much older and wiser, and he tolerates it.

Joe Romm· Host0:59

There's certainly hints to, of All Too Well in this. It's a, uh, a very potent song. Um, according to Swift on the prologue to Evermore, it's part of a trilogy, the Unhappily Ever After anthology of marriages gone bad that includes infidelity, ambivalent toleration, and even murder.

Toni Romm· Co-host1:19

Yeah.

Joe Romm· Host1:20

So that's Ivy- Nope ... Tolerate It, and No- And No Body, No Crime. Yeah, right.

Toni Romm· Co-host1:25

Yeah.

Joe Romm· Host1:25

So that's her tril- Good for you, Taylor. Three unhappy marriages on one