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- 9 Mar 2022
Huh? And here I was thinking Eras was her last thing before heading off the sunset with her himbo footballer.
I can't be the only one who was looking at the marketing campaign and thiking so....right?
...right?
The life of a showgirl hot takes and opinions? (Charlie xcx diss, etc)
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I can't be the only one who was looking at the marketing campaign and thiking so....right?
...right?
- Dołączono
- 14 Lut 2023
And that's why you're not a billionaire.
Where you saw an ending, she saw and endless stream of money from devoted fans who are only too happy to hand over money to someone who doesn't need any more ever.
- Dołączono
- 3 Paź 2022
I don't understand the hate, the album is pretty decent. There are some songs I quite like even. I think people are just sick of the overexposure, and now that she has a steady relationship a lot of Taylor's fangirls feel alienated.
Here's my irrelevant middle aged hot take: Lover was her worst album. That was truly terrible.
Here's my irrelevant middle aged hot take: Lover was her worst album. That was truly terrible.
- Dołączono
- 14 Lut 2023
It's the fact that she's the most hyped musician on the planet for the last two years, dick-ridden by the press to the point where you might start to think you're the one who's crazy if you don't think the sun shines out her ass.
For all the fame and money, she SHOULD be better than mid. And she isn't. And people are rightfully pissed about having to not escape the fact that she's literally everywhere.
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- 11 Lip 2022
For the most part I don't care about Taylor Swift, however I will say I'm tired of how overrated she is. She has never been anything more than a slightly above average pop artist. That's it. Yet somehow she's treated like the modern equivalent of The Beatles (who are also overrated but had more talent so its less egregious).
Her music is just high quality slop for people who struggle to appreciate anything that isn't contemporary.
- Dołączono
- 13 Lut 2024
Wood is horrendous, Travis can't even inspire one song, he's not going to keep inspiring album after album after this. Do you think she will finally turn to subjects other than romance, like motherhood, or do you think she'll break up with him?
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- 3 Paź 2022
I think she's better than mid, even with this album, but that's just because most pop is so fucking awful that Taylor still stands out. But yeah, the attention and hype she has gotten during her career is a bit insane. I can understand the frustration, and if people want to dunk on her now that's fine. I'm just surprised it's this album that broke the dam. The previous one had more to criticise, imo. Although maybe Fortnite saved that one.
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- 11 Lip 2022
She isn't better than mid, its more like the bar has been lowered to the point where she is perceived to be better than mid by comparison.
Pop music, by the nature of the genre, has an inherent level of transience to it. The Beatles hit harder in their era than they do now, same with the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson. It isn't impossible for Pop music to age well, but its harder than it is for other genres. That is the price Pop music pays for being defined favorably by contemporary standards.
Truly great music is timeless, and stands out regardless of when it is listened to. You could put a Steely Dan record in a time machine and Mozart would be stunned by it.
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- 16 Sie 2018
The biggest crime of her recent album is that it’s a snooze fest. A lot of the songs have nearly identical sounds, and “Opalite” and “Fate of Ophelia” are the only memorable songs. I couldn’t even sit through all of “Wood,” it was lyrically atrocious. It was on par with what I’d expect a middle schooler to write that just discovered double entendres for “penis” exist. “Cancelled” is super boring, and the lyrics try to be “emo” while the tune is the furthest thing from that, like a baby kitten trying to roar like a lion. “Actually Romantic” tries to be a diss track, but I say “tries to” because it has no real bite. The lyrics are also forgettable, which takes away from it being a diss track, because you want your rival to remember the lyrics and hope they cut deep (they don’t). The only song I could probably listen to more than once is “Fate of Ophelia,” but that’s only because it reminds me of a Lana Del Ray song.
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- 10 Paź 2019
I've never willingly listened to Taylor Swift. It's Co-worker music.
There's this video that I am too lazy to look up, where Courtney Love (say what you will, I think Love has some good hot takes from time to time) essentially says Taylor's music isn't interesting and I'm on the same page there.
I think she's a very mid performer who was very successfully astroturfed (and I'm surprised it's lasted this long).
There's this video that I am too lazy to look up, where Courtney Love (say what you will, I think Love has some good hot takes from time to time) essentially says Taylor's music isn't interesting and I'm on the same page there.
I think she's a very mid performer who was very successfully astroturfed (and I'm surprised it's lasted this long).
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- 1 Kwi 2024
I was really hoping for something more bombastic, given the imagery we were sold on. But that's just the theatre kid in me. Like an introspective, self-aware broadway. I expected some commentary on her fame and maybe even the parasocial stuff. Like you can see glimpses of it in TTPD--Clara Bow especially.
I don't hate TLOAS. But we know she can do better, and she would have done better if she allowed herself more time. Its like she has this "strike while the iron is hot" mentality. But it's like...girlie there's not even an iron there.
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- 16 Sie 2018
I ultimately think the rush to roll out albums is more greed than anything else. She’s had way too many “yes men” tell her for years everything she’s producing is good. I think the biggest tell it’s for money hungry purposes over art is the amount of variants she has for the same song (so people can spend extra for an acoustic version of the same song). Additionally, she has a lot of limited edition versions of the same exact album so people feel the need to buy more of the same album. It was more impressive to me the amount of records she could sell before this practice, because this just muddies the water, as the most hardcore fans will buy multiple of the same album.
If this album were enough to stand on its own, there would be no need for this. Take away the people buying multiples, and the sales become less impressive.
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- 11 Lip 2020
She's not at all the usual genre I listen to but I have to admit that 1989 was really good, I just thought it was a really well made pop album. Since then, I haven't really been paying much attention but I did give this a listen since everyone said it was such shit and i just found it to be mid. It's not awful and the first song is cute. I even went and listened to the album before it and it sounds the same, like if this is just her vibe, the verbose lyrics that don't really say much and kind of halting singing thing ala "Blank Space" (Nice to. meet you. where you. been.etc") all of those albums sound the same so why is everyone hating on this one in particular? It's gotta just be oversaturation. If anything, people should have jumped ship after that painfully embarrassing "look what you made me do" song. How her people let that be the first single is beyond me.
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- 6 Cze 2025
I did like Fate of Ophelia but that’s about it. It was really sad though seeing one of my friends visibly upset that the album wasn’t as good as she wanted it to be.
What has been annoying me is that some YouTubers have to turn it political and say that the album is ‘maga’ propaganda as one of the justifications for not liking it.
What has been annoying me is that some YouTubers have to turn it political and say that the album is ‘maga’ propaganda as one of the justifications for not liking it.
- Dołączono
- 20 Sty 2022
Did my husband make a KF account just to post about his music tastes? Is that you babe?
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- 11 Lip 2022
No, but your man sounds like a classy guy who likes good music.
- Dołączono
- 20 Sty 2022
That's exactly what he says!
Grimoire Canthari
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- Dołączono
- 17 Mar 2019
Went to the theater for their Horrorween monthly special, found out Life of a Showgirl was also being shown. There was a random drawing for Taylor Swift merch being advertised...and then a sandwich board full of rules specifically about it placed directly where you came in trying to head off scalpers and bitchfights.
Vitrealis
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- 29 Lip 2025
. I bet you whatever you want that she has a carefully selected team of people making sure every word is acceptable for maximum profit. She'll never write anything exceptional because to have mass appeal you have to make it as corporate and bland as humanly possible.Part of me wants to believe that this is a marketing campaign. Like they did with The Beatles originally. The whole "crowd of girls going insane" manufactured act, but since teenage girls are so susceptible to social contagion it literally made lots of them start to obsess over the band.
I wonder if this couldn't be the same. Pay a bunch of people on social media to display ungodly amounts of copies and merch and wait for the social contagion to kick in.
I'm sure some of these people are real, but... I hope not too many.
She will never be allowed to. She's a gold-laying hen for the music corpos, once you reach that level of success you're basically a slave. They won't let you go. That's why I think it's way better for any musician who wants to live off their music to remain indie. Once you sell your soul for fame and money, you lose your independence.
She won't be allowed more time because of this same reason.
I think a lot of this is probably not even up to her. If music corpos are known for one thing it's their insatiable greed, and maybe she's greedy too, but a lot of these superstars have very little agency when it comes to their music, especially the business side of things. They're sock puppets that provide a voice and a body and a personality people can worship, but how much of the real them is actually really there? I believe not much.
- Dołączono
- 13 Lut 2024
I also think the quote about becoming the mask is true, or what you hear about villain actors being nice and nice actors being horrible - if being nice becomes your job, you don't want to be nice on your own time. And her job is basically being heartbroken and caring so much about these guys, I don't think she really forms proper attachments to them or probably anyone very deeply at all, her formative attachments were her parents who got her involved in this shit from a very young age to begin with. Apparently they called her Taylor because it was gender neutral in the first place, like JK using JK as a penname but decided for her from day one. I think she draws people in by mimicking them and that's why she produced deep stuff with Joe and now incredibly juvenile basic shit with Travis. She's kind of like induced BPD.
I do like most of her albums up until the last couple, and tbh I think she liked Matty because on the surface he was emotionally immature, like her, and didn't ask for any real emotional closeness. What she imo failed to realise because of her immaturity is that he actually wanted a fuss made of him but to never have to admit that he wanted that, and the goth mommy dommy types like Gabbriette do understand that dynamic.