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

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Anonymous wrote:The more I listen to it, the more I love "The Fate of Ophelia". Makes me want to get up and dance every time.

You can thank Lana Del Rey.

Why is that?

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Dang. Travis is SO HOT. Their kids are going to be amazing.

Fat, dim and hairy. So amazing.

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Dang. Travis is SO HOT. Their kids are going to be amazing.

Fat, dim and hairy. So amazing.

Stick to your skinny soy boy beta male. There are plenty of them around. But you're probably not their type.

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Anonymous wrote:Showgirl is probably in my top 3 albums of hers. But I never loved evermore or folklore like some did.

Pretty big Taylor fan though don’t know much about the Easter eggs or her personal life - pretty much a fan of her music only. I think Ruin the Friendship is going to end up being in my top 10 songs of hers so that for me is worth the album.

Same. The outro is so good. I also think the bridge of Eldest Daughter is fantastic.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a casual fan (Folklore and Evermore being my favorites) and I think this new album is… not good. I don’t get all the showgirl imagery either, it feels very off because Taylor just isn’t sexy. She is pretty, talented, successful, seems like a good person, etc. etc. but IMO she has zero sex appeal.

I think the showgirl theme is pretty clearly about her time on the Eras tour…

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And life on the road is not at all glamorous. She's portraying "the life of a showgirl" ironically, not literally.

The switched on Pop guys had a great episode on this album that got into the (many!) golden era/showtunes references on this album. Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, jazz clubs… it gave me a new appreciation for the album and its “theme” for sure.

I think the theme is very well done and the cringe/campiness is absolutely intentional.

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Anonymous wrote:The more I listen to it, the more I love "The Fate of Ophelia". Makes me want to get up and dance every time.

You can thank Lana Del Rey.

Im not sure who that is, so I’ll thank Taylor

I guess you missed their collaboration then.

Lana is the one Taylor took elements of the song from. Without Lana’s song, you would not have Taylor’s song.

Taylor copied elements from Jackson 5, Pixies, and more. You can thank all of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Her album just broke record in the United States for most sales in a week. She’s crushing it.

People bought it before they listened to it. That’s hardly an endorsement t.

Plus there are forty variants of the album so a small number of people are buying all these albums—not 4 million unique individuals.

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Anonymous wrote:Her album just broke record in the United States for most sales in a week. She’s crushing it.

Charts are all fake these days. And she jukes every chart with a dozen variations and several mediums (digital, cassette, vinyl, CD) all her craziest parasocial fans buy up.

Parasocial precisely describes her rabid haters who continue to froth at the mouth about her while claiming they couldn't care less. You are just so amusing to the rest of us.
DP

I do care that she manipulated the charts. I used to enjoy her music but I don’t anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a casual fan (Folklore and Evermore being my favorites) and I think this new album is… not good. I don’t get all the showgirl imagery either, it feels very off because Taylor just isn’t sexy. She is pretty, talented, successful, seems like a good person, etc. etc. but IMO she has zero sex appeal.

As a parent of a tween daughter who likes her, that's part of the appeal. Sabrina Carpenter is a bit more in your face with it. Taylor feels safe and vanilla. If that's what my tween likes, then all the better. I don't care if her lyrics are lame or repetitive because she doesn't need to be censored.

Have you listened to Wood?

“Your love was the key that opened my thighs…”

Ew.

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Anonymous wrote:Her album just broke record in the United States for most sales in a week. She’s crushing it.

People bought it before they listened to it. That’s hardly an endorsement t.

Plus there are forty variants of the album so a small number of people are buying all these albums—not 4 million unique individuals.

The streaming numbers do not double/quadruple count for variants, it’s straight up streams of the songs and it’s crushing records. So even if someone bought the album, not knowing what would be like and decided they didn’t like it, lots of Someone elses are streaming the hell out of it.

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Yikes, so did anyone else catch Charli XCX coming out as “Sally“ on SNL last night during role models performance with a Kansas City shirt?

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Anonymous wrote:The more I listen to it, the more I love "The Fate of Ophelia". Makes me want to get up and dance every time.

You can thank Lana Del Rey.

Im not sure who that is, so I’ll thank Taylor

I guess you missed their collaboration then.

Lana is the one Taylor took elements of the song from. Without Lana’s song, you would not have Taylor’s song.

Taylor copied elements from Jackson 5, Pixies, and more. You can thank all of them.

Taylor sounds absolutely nothing like Lana. They could not be more different artists. Their Collab on midnights was the worst song on the album which was a shame because they are both excellent artist artists

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The more I listen to it, the more I love "The Fate of Ophelia". Makes me want to get up and dance every time.

You can thank Lana Del Rey.

Im not sure who that is, so I’ll thank Taylor

I guess you missed their collaboration then.

Lana is the one Taylor took elements of the song from. Without Lana’s song, you would not have Taylor’s song.

Taylor copied elements from Jackson 5, Pixies, and more. You can thank all of them.

Taylor sounds absolutely nothing like Lana. They could not be more different artists. Their Collab on midnights was the worst song on the album which was a shame because they are both excellent artist artists

Taylor didn’t mind borrowing from Lana for “Wildest Dreams” though…

“Wildest Dreams sounds like a paint-by-numbers Without You by Lana Del Rey. Taylor borrows a LOT from Lana in terms of style/sound, though her Lana-esque songs always feel like cheap imitations, including The Lakes which seems to be ripped from Born to Die.”

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes, so did anyone else catch Charli XCX coming out as “Sally“ on SNL last night during role models performance with a Kansas City shirt?

Saw that, thought it was funny. Here's the video and backstory for anyone interested:

https://people.com/charli-xcx-crashes-role-model-s-saturday-night-live-performance-change-11828701

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Anonymous wrote:The more I listen to it, the more I love "The Fate of Ophelia". Makes me want to get up and dance every time.

You can thank Lana Del Rey.

Im not sure who that is, so I’ll thank Taylor

I guess you missed their collaboration then.

Lana is the one Taylor took elements of the song from. Without Lana’s song, you would not have Taylor’s song.

Taylor copied elements from Jackson 5, Pixies, and more. You can thank all of them.

Taylor sounds absolutely nothing like Lana. They could not be more different artists. Their Collab on midnights was the worst song on the album which was a shame because they are both excellent artist artists

I love Lana and think Taylor is mid, but I don't really hear Lana on Fate of Ophelia. If Taylor sampled Lana for it, whatever, artists sample all the time, it's normal.

Talking about this does remind me of when Taylor dragged Lana up on stage at the Grammy's to accept an award on Midnights and you could tell Lana really didn't want to and it was incredibly cringe and awkward.

Cringe really is Taylor's brand sometimes. I think it's at least partly intentional but it's is very much not my thing.