fan base Taylor Swift

[venuss]

I'm not ready for the collapse that will be 1989 TV 

 

[Tusk]

3 hours ago, Yellowfever said:

did Taylor invent this concept? srsly asking

No 

 

Stevie Nicks has had an unofficial one for many years.

[Tusk]

15 minutes ago, venuss said:

I'm not ready for the collapse that will be 1989 TV 

 

That Saturday will be crazy waiting for the 1 million prediction.

[Goaty]

25 minutes ago, venuss said:

I'm not ready for the collapse that will be 1989 TV 

 

My expectations for the vault content are nothing short of unreasonable.  

[1989]

Imagine calling Midnights a bad album when it gave us Maroon and High Infidelity, two of her best songs. 

[fridayteenage]

hmm, i have heard people say they're in a good girl gone bad era, but not any of rih's other albums. it's just an immediately evocative title. 

[mael]

G*** sitting at 91 while it took Taylor a decade to receive an ounce of acclaim. This just makes the  scores for Her recent albums and re-records feel less legitimate. IDC if this gets reported I’m just venting 

Edited September 12, 2023 by mael

[LiamVillain]

will she attend VMAs?

[Steve Johnson]

11 minutes ago, mael said:

G*** sitting at 91 while it took Taylor a decade to receive an ounce of acclaim. This just makes the  scores for Her recent albums and re-records feel less legitimate. IDC if this gets reported I’m just venting 

Gutter is not good. It's barely listenable. It deserves 61-71, not 91. 

[greento]

7 hours ago, Dephira said:

Not gonna say this in a different thread, but Taylor definitely did a lot to popularize the whole "eras" concept. Other artists have definitely done retrospectives of their career or showed off different iconic outfits during a performance, but Taylor was the first time I've ever heard people in real life literally talk about an artist's different "eras", or say stuff like "I'm in my folklore/Red/reputation era right now

This 100%.
 

the whole “im in my _____ era” thing that people have started saying, started because of the Eras tour/Taylor’s Eras. OTHs aren’t gonna like it, but it’s literally a fact. And it’s become a very well known thing.

[ugo]

36 minutes ago, LiamVillain said:

will she attend VMAs?

Yeah I think she's winning some awards

[Holiest Dreams]

1 hour ago, mael said:

G*** sitting at 91 while it took Taylor a decade to receive an ounce of acclaim. This just makes the  scores for Her recent albums and re-records feel less legitimate. IDC if this gets reported I’m just venting 

You have to put things into context though. Back when Taylor was starting out, women in mainstream pop (or country) music were still not taken seriously by critics, sans a very few examples. It was especially bad for young women, and her making music that was aimed at young women who could relate to her life phases was another layer added to discount her work. Her earlier albums always landing in the upper 70s was actually a very rare occurrence back then, not to mention the retrospective acclaim lots of her projects have seen. It’s hard to judge what critic scores even mean anymore when almost anyone can score 85+, so those 76-77 scores back in the day were comparable. Basically you have to adjust for inflation    
 

With that said, I definitely agree though with the sentiment. For example, 1989 is absolutely the biggest reason for the wave of Poptimism, yet it didn’t get to reap the benefits from it (at least initially)  

And I’ll never get over the 8.0 and 7.9 for folkmore from P4K. They’re obviously good scores still, but when many other subpar albums received the same or higher than that it just feels insulting.

[fridayteenage]

eh, critics top 10 lists are better than initial metascores.

 

https://www.metacritic.com/feature/critics-pick-top-10-albums-of-2014

#6.

 

i'm sure she'd much rather have that and, say, her aoty win than if the album had an 80 on metacritic.

[Peak Now]

24 minutes ago, Holiest Dreams said:

You have to put things into context though. Back when Taylor was starting out, women in mainstream pop (or country) music were still not taken seriously by critics, sans a very few examples. It was especially bad for young women, and her making music that was aimed at young women who could relate to her life phases was another layer added to discount her work. Her earlier albums always landing in the upper 70s was actually a very rare occurrence back then, not to mention the retrospective acclaim lots of her projects have seen. It’s hard to judge what critic scores even mean anymore when almost anyone can score 85+, so those 76-77 scores back in the day were comparable. Basically you have to adjust for inflation    
 

With that said, I definitely agree though with the sentiment. For example, 1989 is absolutely the biggest reason for the wave of Poptimism, yet it didn’t get to reap the benefits from it (at least initially)  

And I’ll never get over the 8.0 and 7.9 for folkmore from P4K. They’re obviously good scores still, but when many other subpar albums received the same or higher than that it just feels insulting.

Time to mention yet again that Pitchfork reviewed Ryan Adams' cover of 1989 but not the actual album when it came out 

 

And yes, I think nowadays critics are reluctant to go all in on young and/or female artists like Olivia, which of course is a good thing but it also inadvertently leads to grade inflation. Pitchfork is probably the one place with the least inflation in comparison with your conventional media outlets, tbh.

[Dear Reader]

1 hour ago, Taylor Swift said:

It’s been awhile since we praised The Great War and Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve, huh? 

I still remember listening to the Midnights l word and then being WHIPLASHED when she released the 3am tracks and the intro to The Great War penetrated my soul 

[queenoftheclouds]

15 hours ago, fridayteenage said:

she won for 

album 2

album 5 (+3)

album 8 (+3)

 

released in 2008

2014 (+6)

2020 (+6)

 

maybe she'll win for her 2026 album.

What If the Grammys have This as a Secret rule and Taylor knows that.

[FolkLover1989]

Guys

 

Don't engage with Better Than Revenge account 

It's a setup/dupe account by an OTH most probably a Britney and Beyonce stan

 

Best to do is ignore atp

[SpeakNowTv]

 

[LiamVillain]

 

HELP- again???

Edited September 12, 2023 by LiamVillain

[Steve Johnson]

8 hours ago, mael said:

G*** sitting at 91 while it took Taylor a decade to receive an ounce of acclaim. This just makes the  scores for Her recent albums and re-records feel less legitimate. IDC if this gets reported I’m just venting 

 

7 hours ago, Steve Johnson said:

Gutter is not good. It's barely listenable. It deserves 61-71, not 91. 

Who tf reported these? It's Taylor base and we can discuss whatever we want here. 

[Steve Johnson]

9 minutes ago, LiamVillain said:

 

HELP- again???

Hypocrite 

[FolkLover1989]

Can't believe now we have to deal daily with what Olivia team publishes about Taylor on daily basis

 

 

Like if you hate her so much why even talk about it

[PaloSanto]

She's gonna sweep at the VMAs but will she be attending tho

[venuss]

I think a good option is just stop giving that girl attention (if you're not into her music), because she clearly benefits from it. 

[Brycee]

do we think she's attending tonight?