BLEACHELLA: The Life Of The Original Showgirl
Added 2025-09-04 14:00:15 +0000 UTCWhat happens when Taylor Swift trades in the bow gowns and crop tops for chokers, combat boots, and a peroxide bob? You get Bleachella—the messy, chaotic, and unforgettable era where Taylor was less America’s sweetheart and more… the original showgirl. From Anna Wintour’s makeover experiment to Coachella antics, Calvin drama, Hiddleswift PDA, and a Met Gala look that had the fashion world divided, we chart the rise and spectacular crash of Taylor’s bleached-out reinvention. Was it camp? Was it cringe? Or was it simply Taylor’s most showgirl moment yet?
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wait zach, blunt rotation??👀 fav strain ?? /j
Cameron Pennington
2025-09-09 16:01:56 +0000 UTCAlso is there an episode already on Taylor products (perfume etc) you mentioning that she never did a beauty or clothing line made me think of it.
Isabela Krall
2025-09-08 03:24:06 +0000 UTCSo this means her “cruel summer” with Joe was going on at the same time as Hiddleston correct? No judgment on our Tay. I’m here for it. Slay queen. Just making sure I got that right 😂
Isabela Krall
2025-09-08 03:22:51 +0000 UTCSomeone tell me if I’m wrong… but co chairs outfits have to be “approved” (somewhat selected) by Anna.
Kat
2025-09-07 14:46:28 +0000 UTCYAS I MEANT TO SAY THANK YOU BUT YAS THIS IS TWO TREADMILL VIDEOS LITERALLYYYYY YAS THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Kate!!!
2025-09-07 14:03:31 +0000 UTCthis is why you guys are my favs and why I joined the patreon from YT - I've been a swiftie for a good 15 years and I was always aware of who she was dating, the gossip, what was going on etc. but never super intrenched in it (clearly didn't spend enough time on tumblr!!) so I love watching these videos and re-living the moments/learning new details that I wasn't aware of before.
Elsa ✨🩷
2025-09-07 08:05:37 +0000 UTCI LOVE IT WHEN MADELINE IS THE BONE COLLECTOR!!!!!!
Madeline
2025-09-06 21:42:40 +0000 UTCMy theory on label mania is that Travis buys her all these clothes and because she loves him she just wears them no matter how ugly cos she wants him to know that even though she has way more money he can still treat her special
Nicola
2025-09-06 03:53:58 +0000 UTCI love this recap of the Bleachella era. I loved the Hiddleswift period bc the paparazzi pics were so good. It was the first time I really started following Taylor’s personal life and was floored at Snakegate.
Teresa Salas
2025-09-05 18:54:35 +0000 UTCIconic episode - amazing forensics. I learned so much new info and and that is maybe my favorite thing. Thank you!
Karen Valentino
2025-09-05 15:36:29 +0000 UTCSo after consideration, the timeline in Glitch has to be a Matty overlap during bleachella. Has she ever been before or since more appropriately matched to him? There was something about this heroin chic look that brought him briefly back around and I stand by this theory!
Sarah Koenig
2025-09-05 15:16:47 +0000 UTCDidn’t realize Bleachella was so manic!
Dana Hinton
2025-09-05 14:39:57 +0000 UTCAs someone who was not quite in the fandom at this time, I appreciate your boots-on-the-ground reporting of this important historical event.
CandaceBryantArt
2025-09-05 14:29:43 +0000 UTCeven louis vuitton makes mistakes
James M
2025-09-05 14:06:48 +0000 UTCSo weird seeing her with flat shoes so many times during that time. I feel like now she always wears heels for any occasion
Hanna
2025-09-05 13:22:07 +0000 UTCManifest baby!!!
Syd
2025-09-05 13:07:11 +0000 UTCThis is why we love our snakes!!! 🐍
Syd
2025-09-05 13:03:42 +0000 UTCYes, please!
Edith Ferrufino
2025-09-05 05:39:27 +0000 UTCSame!
Michelle Forge
2025-09-05 05:02:13 +0000 UTCAll content. I mean ALL content by you both, how can it consistently be so top tier. Never a boring episode. Thank you for choosing this as a career. We love you. And this episode 🔥🔥
Monique New
2025-09-05 04:13:47 +0000 UTCAlso hats off to Madeline the bone collector this is an amazing deep dive episode. Loved every minute!
Ellajoy
2025-09-05 03:55:31 +0000 UTC1:44:24 “well these are autumnal colors my friend” lives rent free in my mind
lucca_ns
2025-09-05 03:05:31 +0000 UTCThis is true herstorian work
vvc
2025-09-05 02:48:37 +0000 UTCHiddleswift being in love in Rome gave me an entire epiphany on the etymology of the word "romantic"
Anastasia
2025-09-05 02:38:07 +0000 UTCThis was so goooood!! Thanks for thinking of us who can’t attend Sneras tour Bleachella 😆
Bonnie
2025-09-05 02:23:00 +0000 UTCI don’t know if this would be an official episode (maybe more of a Kiki lounge topic) but I never really got the whole background of the lorde/taylor/Jack drama. I feel like you guys would make a hilarious retelling 🤭
Kelsey
2025-09-05 02:21:47 +0000 UTCBut I actually like coconut head… I’m mean not forever but for that moment. I feel like that Grammy look was iconic. It is kinda funny how it was the exact same… I have to say I didn’t realise at the time.
Ellajoy
2025-09-05 02:00:58 +0000 UTCTaylor Swift was always in my orbit, being in middle school and high school when she started making music. At the time, though, I wasn't a fan. I started paying attention during this Bleachella time and Snakegate. It's so cool to be able to learn what it was like in the swiftie trenches at that time!
micky baby
2025-09-05 01:37:37 +0000 UTCOmg I somehow had never seen that photo of Taylor in the crowd at Coachella with her hair looking all fucked up and I actually howled 💀 She looked like weird Barbie!!
Miss_Lippy
2025-09-05 01:11:52 +0000 UTCI thought she met Joe at Gigi’s Birthday Party - Gigi had just done a photo shoot with Joe and I guess invited him… #April29th
Ally ❤️
2025-09-05 01:04:47 +0000 UTCThat was so fun! Thanks!
Erin Marshall
2025-09-05 00:55:08 +0000 UTCThe way you dropped that so nonchalantly! Truth!
Ally ❤️
2025-09-05 00:32:40 +0000 UTCShe looked sooo gooood in this era it needed to last longer and needed and album!!!
dmarie
2025-09-04 23:05:55 +0000 UTCThe RV Chickadee mention was not a social media crossover I was at allll expecting today 🤣🙏🏼
Jessy Allison
2025-09-04 22:57:04 +0000 UTCAnd during that whole time Matty Healy was over peeking out from the corner and Taylor was winking at him.
Dana Hinton
2025-09-04 22:06:56 +0000 UTCI just want the rep vault to tell us what Calvin did... why was she bullying him? 😄
Maria
2025-09-04 22:00:57 +0000 UTCI need it ✏️ I want it ✏️ Go get it 📝
Chelsea Bauscher
2025-09-04 21:49:11 +0000 UTCOmg SAME
Kenna
2025-09-04 21:33:00 +0000 UTCthis whole video has made me feel so “i wanna be like her i wanna be blondeeeee”
Evie Eleanor🐍
2025-09-04 20:42:12 +0000 UTCSame, I need to know.
iLaney90
2025-09-04 20:16:53 +0000 UTCYES!!!!! TOM WAS MY IMMEDIATE THOUGHT when I first heard Midnight Rain. That second verse!?!? 4th of July Hiddleswift.
iLaney90
2025-09-04 20:16:13 +0000 UTCHiddleswift, you will always be in my heart, but also I was relieved when it was over because I myself was in love with Tom and went through the 5 stages of grief when everything started.
iLaney90
2025-09-04 20:15:06 +0000 UTCWhen Bleachella was happening, I was working in northern Canada without access to the internet. And when I finally had internet one day, it was the day after the Tom beach photos… imagine my gag
Katie
2025-09-04 20:08:43 +0000 UTCAll I want from the reputation vault is more Hiddleswift tea. Was she still talking to Joe? How did it fall apart? He seemed so genuinely devastated by the breakup — he’s still weird when she’s mentioned!
Elle Kaye
2025-09-04 19:43:57 +0000 UTCI bet the turkey NEVER would’ve danced when no one else was, and to that I say: Good for you, Mr. Hiddleston.
Elle Kaye
2025-09-04 19:35:35 +0000 UTCHot take: I think the met gala dress looks better from the back 🫣
Elle Kaye
2025-09-04 19:26:08 +0000 UTCLove this so much!!!! Wish I lived in Dublin!!
Amy Versprille
2025-09-04 19:01:50 +0000 UTC100% would love that
Erica
2025-09-04 18:27:49 +0000 UTCThis made me google where Tom Hiddleston is now… engaged??? Has a CHILD?? EXPECTING A SECOND BABY?? Not in my universe
Chloe Blakesley
2025-09-04 18:15:32 +0000 UTCHot damn not even two minutes in and you’re already cooking so hard with the Bleachella/Rep + Matty/Showgirl prediction. When you said that I felt it in my bones
Joanna
2025-09-04 18:09:44 +0000 UTCI haven’t considered it before (and I definitely don’t think Karma was real) but the whole “she’s a rock n’ roll girl” does make me think she was considering that direction for her next album — especially with the 1989 tour version of WANEGBT popping off the way it did.
Elle Kaye
2025-09-04 17:37:40 +0000 UTCif y’all ever need a Tayrewind episode to bank i think y’all’s take on the vogue 73 questions would be amazing!!
shreya
2025-09-04 17:27:48 +0000 UTC“You’ve got that long haired, slicked back etc. etc.” “some people don’t have that”. So true!
LH
2025-09-04 17:12:33 +0000 UTCListen Ik you said you’d never come to Philly but maybe one day snake nations gonna be so huge you can’t ignore it🙈
Mia Mar
2025-09-04 16:09:59 +0000 UTCThe quote about real love is something else considering what we know now about Matty and Joe. “Real love takes it page by page,” — if the story’s over why am I still writing pages……..
Anastasia Davydova
2025-09-04 16:01:30 +0000 UTCThe one tayspiracy I will clutch until my dying breath is this was an era that never got to see completion. I hope the rep vaults are Bleachella/rep
Kenna
2025-09-04 15:36:12 +0000 UTCMost iconic moment OF MY LIFE!
Lise Caillaud
2025-09-04 15:31:33 +0000 UTCokay I am laughing my ass off because I never realized just how similar the coconut head haircut was to Anna Wintour, i mean that REALLY was the exact same cut. I'm dying...and I completely missed that segment in 2019 when she legit asked Anna about her copying it! This is giving me life
Leah Rose
2025-09-04 15:20:26 +0000 UTCWell yes! 🖤🐍
Ashley
2025-09-04 15:19:19 +0000 UTCThis is my formal request for yinz to make the 73 questions video 🙏
Lee
2025-09-04 15:15:50 +0000 UTCIn the white outfit? I love it too!
Jackie Lehman
2025-09-04 14:44:50 +0000 UTCPart of the alluring nature of bleachella is that she came and went so fast. She left us wanting more. Like all good show girls
Emeraldgreen373
2025-09-04 14:40:34 +0000 UTCWho else is diving this deep into bleachella … show meeee
Abby Voelk
2025-09-04 14:33:15 +0000 UTCIdk why the second coconut picture gives me like princess Diana vibes ? I think she looks so good lol, model off duty
Maria
2025-09-04 14:32:32 +0000 UTCLiterally same. I said to myself "Edith, patience. It will come" LOL
Edith Ferrufino
2025-09-04 14:30:38 +0000 UTCTHE EYE SHADOW. That's MY Lizard 😤
Edith Ferrufino
2025-09-04 14:29:53 +0000 UTCSame!
Milda
2025-09-04 14:21:12 +0000 UTCmadeline with that eyeshadow matching her goosebumps tshirt - diva fashion icon bone collector extraordinaire YESSS
hayleywilliamsmademegay
2025-09-04 14:20:23 +0000 UTCThe Bone Collector is Back, Baby!!! 🦎🕵️♀️
Jackie Lehman
2025-09-04 14:20:05 +0000 UTCFeeling sooo grateful for the actual STRENGTH it took for me not to just start listening to the audio-only version already! 😂
lilbirdiebb
2025-09-04 14:07:54 +0000 UTCOMGeeeeeee
Dana Hinton
2025-09-04 14:05:28 +0000 UTCI am SO glad you are going over of this. I LOVED Bleachella! It was honestly a really unhinged and fun time to be a Swiftie. We had never seen her experiment so much with her style this way and as someone who looooves Tom Hiddleston...this was was just peak drama and fun. BLEACHELLA FOREVER!
Leah Rose
2025-09-04 14:04:55 +0000 UTCDid I start listening to the audio upload already? Yes. Will I start over on the video upload because I love this video so much already? Well YESSS
Linds
2025-09-04 14:03:09 +0000 UTCYAS 👏
lisam
2025-09-04 14:02:15 +0000 UTC