Taylor's Swift's new album - let's GOOOOO

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just... so disappointed in this album. I'm one of the posters who absolutely loved her last four albums and had a feeling this one was just too soon and unnecessary. I like three songs on it: Life of a Showgirl, Opalite, and The Fate of Ophelia. Wood is just an utter embarrassment and beneath her.

My 21 yr. old daughter texted me and said:
"I detest Taylor's new album. The lyricism is so horrible, I cannot believe it's the same person who wrote Folklore and such."

I agree completely!

Texts that did not happen. What 21 year old, or X year old for that matter, texts like that to her mom?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm just... so disappointed in this album. I'm one of the posters who absolutely loved her last four albums and had a feeling this one was just too soon and unnecessary. I like three songs on it: Life of a Showgirl, Opalite, and The Fate of Ophelia. Wood is just an utter embarrassment and beneath her.

My 21 yr. old daughter texted me and said:
"I detest Taylor's new album. The lyricism is so horrible, I cannot believe it's the same person who wrote Folklore and such."

I agree completely!

+2. Loved her last 4 albums + some of Reputation & Lover too. Her new album is boring. Ime, people who broadcast over and over how happy they are in their relationship, and how satisfied they are with their partner's "wood", usually aren't. It seems like she is trying to make Matty Healy jealous and one-up him and Charlie xcx.

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I flew to Europe to see her with my youngest daughter. Oldest daughter and I went to Reputation tour. We have every cd. So I’m not a casual fan. And I hate this album. The first 3 songs are good (but not as good as anything else she’s done , just good for this album) and the rest are pretty much unlistenable. Cancelled is the wordy thing she’s ever put out. Everything is so dated and cheesy. It’s not fun and vampy like Reputation or fun pop like Lover. It’s just bad garbage. She is so insulated now that all her experiences revolve around fame. I’m tired of listening to her lament fame. Write the memoir. Give us good music , not whining about the cage you’re trapped in and how your house is haunted. Just disappointing. She’s regressed as a musician and a songwriter - it’s not just that the lyrics are simplistic , they don’t add up to earworm pop songs like 1989 either. A largely forgettable collection of songs. And no it doesn’t match the showgirl theme. Nor do her press junket outfits of burnt orange sweaters and tweed skirts? Just so confusing and jumbled all around.

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Canceled is the worst** thing, not wordy thing!

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Lyrics, music and muse - cheesy & cringey. It's like she wrote an album that Travis can understand, lmao.
Signed, an OG Swiftie

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Anonymous wrote:The songs don't seem to match the show girl theme, which is my issue with it but I really love some of the songs! Just feels like a disconnect between the branding and what it is.

I don’t get it either. I really like some of the songs.

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I’m a fan but have not listened to her last album. It just didn’t really do it for me, and I gave up. Is it worth a re-listen?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a fan but have not listened to her last album. It just didn’t really do it for me, and I gave up. Is it worth a re-listen?

Meant to add - will listen to the new one today.

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This album is so good and so fun. It sounds like Taylor’s albums before 2020 but more mature. She is a goofball at heart. Her voice sounds amazing too.

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Is Taylor the emperor and some of her fans refuse to admit she's naked?

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Anonymous wrote:Is Taylor the emperor and some of her fans refuse to admit she's naked?

What?

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I think it's very hot or miss. Sadly (because I like Charli XCX and think the provenance of the song is petty/stupid), Actually Romantic is one of the better sounding songs on the record, even though (or maybe because) its fully just a Pixies rip off.

Cancelled! Could have been good but they went with a really aggressive instrumentation and it's very lyric-heavy, and the combination feels like a bummer. I also HATE the repetition of the phrase "Gucci-clad" -- it feels so cheap and easy. Taylor sometimes has cheap lyrics like that but putting it in the chorus? Ugh.

Opaline is the boppiest song and most likely to get ear worm status, but it's nowhere near prior hits.

One of the things that really jumps out to me is how heavily produced the whole thing is, to it's detriment. I know these are the 1989 producers, and is a more popular sound than her recent albums, but it sounds like the production of a far less experienced artist, someone they were trying to elevate with production tricks. I just don't get it conceptually. If she wanted to do pure pop, write some actual hooks? Lighten up some of the songs with fewer lyrics? I don't know. It just sounds overdone and try hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually romantic will be the song all your teenage and 20 year old daughters sing when someone is talking shit about them behind thier back.

Kids aren't checking for her like that. Swift's core fan base is 43 year old wine moms and spinsters.

Um, do you just post to post with no credibility to your statements, often? Her tour was filled with young girls and teenagers.

Do the wine moms (alleged fan base noted in an earlier post) want their young girls listening to a song that talks about what helped to open her thighs?

Gimmie a break, I was listening to Tori “so you can make me cum that doesn’t make you Jesus” and “boy you best pray that I bleed real soon” and Hole and Snoop at my daughter’s age.

Alanis was going down on some dude in a theater in my youth. It was fine.

That song is why I give the best blowjobs today. Inspiring.

"Wood" by TS lacks nuance, and the "key to my thighs" lyric is cheesy along with referring to her fiance's pe-is as "hardwood" "magic wand" or "redwood" or whatever she said. Just ew. Not sexy at all.

The redwood line (and maybe entire song) is a callback to a viral tweet (2020ish) making fun of Taylor. Basically saying how Ariana can write sexy songs but when Taylor tries it’s like “he stuck his long wood into my redwood forest and let his sap ferment my roots.” She’s in on the joke.

Except it wasn’t a joke. The tweet said that Taylor can’t write sexy songs and that’s true. This song is crap and shouldn’t have been written. It’s not sexy, funny, or even listenable.

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Anonymous wrote:This album is so good and so fun. It sounds like Taylor’s albums before 2020 but more mature. She is a goofball at heart. Her voice sounds amazing too.

It’s a good and fun album because that’s what TS produces. It’s not a groundbreaking departure from previous work, but it doesn’t need to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually romantic will be the song all your teenage and 20 year old daughters sing when someone is talking shit about them behind thier back.

Kids aren't checking for her like that. Swift's core fan base is 43 year old wine moms and spinsters.

Um, do you just post to post with no credibility to your statements, often? Her tour was filled with young girls and teenagers.

Do the wine moms (alleged fan base noted in an earlier post) want their young girls listening to a song that talks about what helped to open her thighs?

Gimmie a break, I was listening to Tori “so you can make me cum that doesn’t make you Jesus” and “boy you best pray that I bleed real soon” and Hole and Snoop at my daughter’s age.

Alanis was going down on some dude in a theater in my youth. It was fine.

That song is why I give the best blowjobs today. Inspiring.

"Wood" by TS lacks nuance, and the "key to my thighs" lyric is cheesy along with referring to her fiance's pe-is as "hardwood" "magic wand" or "redwood" or whatever she said. Just ew. Not sexy at all.

The redwood line (and maybe entire song) is a callback to a viral tweet (2020ish) making fun of Taylor. Basically saying how Ariana can write sexy songs but when Taylor tries it’s like “he stuck his long wood into my redwood forest and let his sap ferment my roots.” She’s in on the joke.

Except it wasn’t a joke. The tweet said that Taylor can’t write sexy songs and that’s true. This song is crap and shouldn’t have been written. It’s not sexy, funny, or even listenable.

Give Taylor a break. She’s never had sex so how could she write a sexy song? If all you can do is imagine, you’ll come up with pathetic shit like “magic wand.”