fan base Taylor Swift

[Peroxide]

In terms of vault tracks…

 

Red

1989

Speak Now

Fearless

 

In terms of re-recordings

 

Speak Now

Red

Fearless

1989

[Mandalore]

Merry Swiftmas. You can catch the whole Swift family on CBS at the Chiefs game in 15 minutes lol 

Edited December 25, 2023 by Mandalore

[1989]

1989 vault = Speak Now vault > Fearless vault > Red vault 

[State of Grace.]

58 minutes ago, on the line said:

Nah. It was a bad, disjointed album with hilariously ridiculous costumes and her fake persona. Black lipstick? Lmao, okay Taylor Swift.

This is honestly such a surface-level and borderline OTH'd take. If you think reputation is all about her "fake persona" then that's on you.

 

Rep is essentially a love album about someone loving her despite her shitty reputation around that period. I still believe that it's one of her best and most interesting takes on love and I'll die on that hill. Delicate, Call It What You Want, Don't Blame Me, Getaway Car, New Year's Day, Ready For It?, End Game, King of My Hearts, Dancing With Our Hands Tied, So It Goes, Gorgeous, and Dress all fall under the umbrella of "love songs". That is 80% of the album.

 

Taylor herself has said that it is essentially an album about finding love:

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“I think there was a bit of a bait-and-switch that happened with this album when we put out ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ and we’re like, ‘Guys, this album is gonna be one thing.’ And when the album came out, it’s legitimately an album about finding love throughout all the noise,”

 

 “It starts with the noise and how that makes all you feel, and how it makes you feel when people are saying things about you that you feel, like, aren’t true and living your life sort of in defiance of that.”

 

“And then, sort of, in the middle of the album you kind of realize ‘how much do I really value that?’ “ she added. “If you can find something real in spite of a bad reputation, then isn’t that what matters the most to you. And doesn’t it matter the most to you that you know who your real friends are now?”

 

https://people.com/music/taylor-swift-reputation-finding-love-throughout-noise/

As a reputation #apologist and #truther, I am open to admitting that the concept, aesthetic & marketing campaign for the album were confusing/shaky/full of poor choices that made it seem like the album was only about Kimye/her being angry and revengeful.

 

Even her recent "goth-punk moment of female rage" quote was obviously just her being overdramatic and setting up the narrative for the re-recording. (combined with her mentioning Kim K, the recent Joe drama, the deuxmoi mess, etc).

 

But it sounds like you already made up your mind that it's "THE WORST TAYLOR ALBUM EVER!!!!! SHES NOT A BAD GAL!!! SHE CANT SERVE POP GIRL REALNESS!!!!" and it's pointless to try and change that.

Edited December 25, 2023 by State of Grace.

[foundwonderland]

20 hours ago, selena_lavigne said:

How can you say that it's delusional to prefer an album that tells a cohesive story front to back has immaculate production, has incredible visuals, has a whole narrative that shaped the future of your career, to an album album that opens with I Forgot That You Existed, and proceeds to include Paper Rings, The Man, Me!, London Boy etc. 

You have it the other way around.  

Just because Cruel Summer went #1, doesn't mean we are going to start pretending that Lover isn't full of filler and panders to soccer moms and kindergarteners. 

LOL! Lover was always my favorite album since 2019, way before Cruel Summer became a hit and back when people **** on the poor choice of singles and the era etc etc. 

 

Reputation does have a consistent theme/story and great production, but swifties are purposely being dense by ignoring Lover’s immaculate themes of love and anxiety within a long term relationship. Afterglow, The Archer, False God, Cruel Summer will always be the best songs in Taylor’s entire career, mainly because of their lyrical depth.  Only pop stans who don’t care for actual themes or understand the intricacies of actual love and who are used to an endless stream of situationships overhype Reputation which is the ultimate honeymoon phase album. Meanwhile Lover actually deals with long term relationships and the bumps and roads that can come with them.  It’s no surprise to me that this is the reason Swifties unironically believe Lover (song) is a miss. LOL! 
 

the only bad songs on Lover are LoNdon Boy, MEth and YNTCD. 
 

 

[LastKiss]

My boyfriend gave me the 1989 TV vinyl for Christmas 

 

[on the line]

34 minutes ago, State of Grace. said:

This is honestly such a surface-level and borderline OTH'd take. If you think reputation is all about her "fake persona" then that's on you.

 

Rep is essentially a love album about someone loving her despite her shitty reputation around that period. I still believe that it's one of her best and most interesting takes on love and I'll die on that hill. Delicate, Call It What You Want, Don't Blame Me, Getaway Car, New Year's Day, Ready For It?, End Game, King of My Hearts, Dancing With Our Hands Tied, So It Goes, Gorgeous, and Dress all fall under the umbrella of "love songs". That is 80% of the album.

 

Taylor herself has said that it is essentially an album about finding love:

As a reputation #apologist and #truther, I am open to admitting that the concept, aesthetic & marketing campaign for the album were confusing/shaky/full of poor choices that made it seem like the album was only about Kimye/her being angry and revengeful.

 

Even her recent "goth-punk moment of female rage" quote was obviously just her being overdramatic and setting up the narrative for the re-recording. (combined with her mentioning Kim K, the recent Joe drama, the deuxmoi mess, etc).

 

But it sounds like you already made up your mind that it's "THE WORST TAYLOR ALBUM EVER!!!!! SHES NOT A BAD GAL!!! SHE CANT SERVE POP GIRL REALNESS!!!!" and it's pointless to try and change that.

Well, I can surmise that you’re a sucker for her marketing tricks. 

[every1blinks]

39 minutes ago, State of Grace. said:

This is honestly such a surface-level and borderline OTH'd take. If you think reputation is all about her "fake persona" then that's on you.

 

Rep is essentially a love album about someone loving her despite her shitty reputation around that period. I still believe that it's one of her best and most interesting takes on love and I'll die on that hill. Delicate, Call It What You Want, Don't Blame Me, Getaway Car, New Year's Day, Ready For It?, End Game, King of My Hearts, Dancing With Our Hands Tied, So It Goes, Gorgeous, and Dress all fall under the umbrella of "love songs". That is 80% of the album.

 

Taylor herself has said that it is essentially an album about finding love:

As a reputation #apologist and #truther, I am open to admitting that the concept, aesthetic & marketing campaign for the album were confusing/shaky/full of poor choices that made it seem like the album was only about Kimye/her being angry and revengeful.

 

Even her recent "goth-punk moment of female rage" quote was obviously just her being overdramatic and setting up the narrative for the re-recording. (combined with her mentioning Kim K, the recent Joe drama, the deuxmoi mess, etc).

 

But it sounds like you already made up your mind that it's "THE WORST TAYLOR ALBUM EVER!!!!! SHES NOT A BAD GAL!!! SHE CANT SERVE POP GIRL REALNESS!!!!" and it's pointless to try and change that.

I want this entire post tattooed on my back 

 

it has always been interesting (and slightly frustrating to me) how misunderstood Reputation is even among her core stanbase

[BloodLuster]

Merry Swiftmas everyone EXCEPT rep haters

 

 

[on the line]

11 minutes ago, every1blinks said:

I want this entire post tattooed on my back 

 

it has always been interesting (and slightly frustrating to me) how misunderstood Reputation is even among her core stanbase

It’s not misunderstood. It’s the music that is bad, not whatever theories and narrative she or fans want to create over it. It’s just bad music overall. There are some gems, but mostly duds. I don’t think I listened to more than Delicate and KOMH for maybe 5 years? I lol when I listened before my tour date so I’d know them. Spoiler, I got a rep surprise song and thought it was a debut song. How embarrassing for her.

[Cleanromantic]

why is vigilante **** suddenly growing on me? It's actually good!!! I'm shocked 

[fridayteenage]

at least it's starting to make some waves i suppose.

 

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[State of Grace.]

[wehavetostan]

One day she’s going to create a great Christmas song

[Cruel Summer]

19 hours ago, Michael196 said:

Artists with the most weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 in HISTORY

 

#1 The Beatles - 382 (=)

#2 Taylor Swift - 357 (+3)

#3 Rolling Stones - 308 (=)

#4 Barbra Streisand - 277 (=)

#5 Mariah Carey - 232 (+1)

I am so ready for her to take this one soon, finally the first notable Beatles record to fall 

[4Real]

I don't think reputation is misunderstood either. Some people are just not into the trendchasing overproduced electropop vibes it goes for  and that's alright.

[Klein]

The way Reputation is second to last in my album ranking and yet I find some of y'all to be way too harsh. 

 

It sure has its fair share of duds, but there's also quite a few excellent songs in there (notably DBM, DWOHT, GC, CIWYW, SIG). 

 

Anyway, Merry Christmas Swifties. May 2024 be as amazing as 2023. 

[TaggedGalaxy]

 

Let's say something nice about reputation on Jesus birthday, it gave us this bop. Amen

 

[wastedpotential]

24 minutes ago, TaggedGalaxy said:

 

Let's say something nice about reputation on Jesus birthday, it gave us this bop. Amen

 

Not you trying to argue "oh, it's not all bad because it had some good songs" with I Made Something Bad, the most dated and fourth worst song on the album 

 

I certainly like to get my kii's in at Reputation's expense, but the album that gave us Look What Hymn God Made Me Sing, Gospel Car, Praying With Our Hands Clasped, Vestments, and Christ Is What You Want has several gems on the tracklist and no, @Klein, So It Blows is not one of them 

[Bosque]

End Game is a great song

[wastedpotential]

12 minutes ago, Dephira said:

End Game is a great song

Her verse is one of the best moments on the album, but as someone who's been up her ass since mid-2007 (and thus couldn't reasonably be considered a success stan), my opinion of the song is pretty tainted by the amount of damage it wreaked across her pop radio momentum 

 

LWYMMD soaring up the charts and then immediately collapsing and RFI getting ignored outside of its release week made perfect sense to me because they just didn't sound like anything else that was popular at the time, but End Game (End Fame, if you will) was so perfectly Winter/Spring 2018, considering the Future feature and the Ed feature and the sonic influences and the beat, and yet... 

 

It's grown on me significantly with time (in a way that ME! probably never will), but I'll always resent it 

Edited December 25, 2023 by wastedpotential

[Lemon]

Gorgeous is gorgeous. 

[TaggedGalaxy]

28 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

Not you trying to argue "oh, it's not all bad because it had some good songs" with I Made Something Bad, the most dated and fourth worst song on the album 

 

I certainly like to get my kii's in at Reputation's expense, but the album that gave us Look What Hymn God Made Me Sing, Gospel Car, Praying With Our Hands Clasped, Vestments, and Christ Is What You Want has several gems on the tracklist and no, @Klein, So It Blows is not one of them 

Not you listing some of the worst songs of her career, I'll give you Gospel Car and maybe Praying With Our Hands Clasped if I'm being generous on this holy day

 

[foundwonderland]

32 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

Not you trying to argue "oh, it's not all bad because it had some good songs" with I Made Something Bad, the most dated and fourth worst song on the album 

 

I certainly like to get my kii's in at Reputation's expense, but the album that gave us Look What Hymn God Made Me Sing, Gospel Car, Praying With Our Hands Clasped, Vestments, and Christ Is What You Want has several gems on the tracklist and no, @Klein, So It Blows is not one of them 

I have to agree that I Did Something Bad is horribly dated and aged like milk at this point. I remember being OBSESSED with that track the first few months that Reputation was out. Listening it to now I can’t help but think, why the obnoxious RATARATARTA sound??? I hope to god she makes the re-recording more bearable.  

[Peak Now]

Not yall arguing about Reputation and Lover again on ******* Christmas do you not get tired 

 

At least argue about good albums like Speak Now versus Red