Taylor Swift may technically only be the featured artist on Renegade, but let’s be honest... this feels like a Taylor Swift song.

This week we're finally giving our persistent lovely lobsters what they have been asking for and that’s breaking down Big Red Machine's Renegade featuring Taylor Swift. And the deeper we get into these lyrics, the more brutally honest this song starts to feel.

Was Taylor writing fictionally, or could Renegade have revealed something about what she was experiencing in her relationship at the time? We're talking anxiety, emotional baggage, trying to love someone who keeps pushing you away, the genius of “future history,” and that painfully direct question: is something really stopping you from loving me... or do you just not want to?

Plus, crustation nation gives us a brilliant idea for a future episode involving where we can go next after The Life of a Showgirl… and our one listener from Ohio calls in on the defense.

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