Holiest Dreams Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 20 minutes ago, Lemon said: Midnights is so cleverly written. Just listening to mere Glitch ( one of my favorites actually ) demonstrates how she expanded her Blank Space capacity ( considering that one is one of hers pop gems ) to incorporate nuanced view of the topic at hand. The album’s sound isn’t that much bombastic, but this airy production actually lets her show strong atributes. It really is. Doesn’t make sense at all to see a lot of longtime fans lashing the songwriting on it when it’s lyrically the most reminiscent album of classic Taylor in a long time. 1989/Rep/Lover were very commercial pop and more melody/production focused and then folkmore were her 70s folk songstress era. Midnights is totally in line with her first 4 albums lyrically, it meshes completely autobiographical lyrics with clever deliveries of certain phrasings. It’s not flowery like folkmore but it serves its purpose perfectly. 1
Holiest Dreams Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 Just now, Taylor Swift said: I love this idea Are they still on good terms? Thankfully yes. He attended the Eras tour with his family (she gave them free tickets) and still praises her randomly once every few months. He really likes and respects her I assume the only reason they haven’t shown any signs of working together again is because he doesn’t co-direct, with zero exceptions - even for her. But with that said, Blake directed IBYTAM all on her own so Tay is clearly still willing to occasionally hand her videos off to someone else. I hope she does that in this case. 1
Steve Johnson Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 7 minutes ago, Holiest Dreams said: It really is. Doesn’t make sense at all to see a lot of longtime fans lashing the songwriting on it when it’s lyrically the most reminiscent album of classic Taylor in a long time. 1989/Rep/Lover were very commercial pop and more melody/production focused and then folkmore were her 70s folk songstress era. Midnights is totally in line with her first 4 albums lyrically, it meshes completely autobiographical lyrics with clever deliveries of certain phrasings. It’s not flowery like folkmore but it serves its purpose perfectly. Midnights is an excellent pop album and critics agree. GP love it too. 1
Holiest Dreams Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 1 hour ago, Taylor Swift said: I still can't believe Blake gave us the better video She’s a great director ngl. IBYTAM might be in my top 10 Tay videos. Love it so much, and the outfits I’m not one to hate her solo-directs though, I think only two of them (The Man and Lavender Haze) are arguably bad. But I’m so excited to see her improvements as she continues directing and gaining more experience. I think her self-directed MVs will improve a lot in the coming years.
Steve Johnson Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 (edited) Just now, Holiest Dreams said: She’s a great director ngl. IBYTAM might be in my top 10 Tay videos. Love it so much, and the outfits I’m not one to hate her solo-directs though, I think only two of them (The Man and Lavender Haze) are arguably bad. But I’m so excited to see her improvements as she continues directing and gaining more experience. I think her self-directed MVs will improve a lot in the coming years. Cardigan music video was stunning. It's all downhill after that because of silly easter eggs. Edited June 26, 2023 by Steve Johnson
Holiest Dreams Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 1 hour ago, Steve Johnson said: Midnights is an excellent pop album and critics agree. GP love it too. Yeah, I’ve noticed it’s mostly a stan twitter/stan spaces (and snobby music circles) that have a hate boner for Midnights. It’s especially obvious, and extremely hilarious, when you go to AOTY and see it’s tagged as yet another Must Hear album for her with an 80+ critic score and yet the user score is like a 60 and even lower than Lover If not a single thing was changed about the album except: 1. Jack’s name being replaced on the credits with someone else (like Aaron or anyone else really) but without the sounds changing at all, and 2. It being half as commercially successful — it wouldn’t have snobby, terminally online people foaming at the mouth over it. The hate for it is so forced and transparent. This is why I adore seeing GP reactions because it’s definitely one of her most instantly beloved records for critics and GP.
Michael196 Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 The way I was too mesmerized by her, that it took three replays to hit me that TV was playing
Steve Johnson Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 5 minutes ago, Holiest Dreams said: The hate for it is so forced and transparent. This is why I adore seeing GP reactions because it’s definitely one of her most instantly beloved records for critics and GP. Exactly. The hate is so forced. Midnights has literally zero skips imo, it's so cohesive and easy to listen to in full.
Steve Johnson Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, Michael196 said: The way I was too mesmerized by her, that it took three replays to hit me that TV was playing Vinyl look gorgeous
LiamVillain Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 (edited) 1.2M streams from #1 Edited June 26, 2023 by LiamVillain
Arrows Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 2 minutes ago, PopA911 said: absolutely insane It outstreamed Flowers and is the biggest English song on Spotify rn!
Dear Reader Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 1 minute ago, Arrows said: It outstreamed Flowers and is the biggest English song on Spotify rn! it will 100% be #3/4 tomorrow
FolkLover1989 Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 2 minutes ago, LiamVillain said: 4M this friday This Friday is Vampire day
Badgalbriel Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 7 minutes ago, PopA911 said: absolutely insane Did it go top 5 today?
Dear Reader Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 1 minute ago, Badgalbriel said: Did it go top 5 today? yes, top 5 WW
LiamVillain Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 Cruel Summer really becomes a hit without streaming parties, trending,.... we used to pray for times like this
Michael196 Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 (edited) 1 = MIGUEL Sure Thing 16217 -34 2 = REMA & SELENA GOMEZ Calm Down 15705 -9 3 = TAYLOR SWIFT Karma 15031 +119 gap to #1: 1186 (-153) gap to #2: 674 (-128) Pop: #3. Karma [=] *Peak — Spins: 15031 [+119] — Audience: 45.123M [+0.236] HAC: #5. Karma [=] *Peak — Spins: 4213 [+39] — Audience: 16.044M [+0.110] AC Radio: #19. Karma [=] *Peak — Spins: 90 [-3] — Audience: 0.400M [-0.011] ******************************************* Pop 21. Cruel Summer (+3) *New Peak* Spins: 3673 (+322) Audience: 14.699M (+1.041M) HAC 29. Cruel Summer (+2) *New Peak* Spins: 527 (+71) Audience: 3.987M (+0.36M) Cruel Summer (US) Spotify: #3 (=) Amazon: #4 (=) iTunes: #8 (+1) AM: #32 (+5) *#13 excluding album bombs of this & last week* Radio: #52 (+7) Shazam: #96 (+6) *WW AM: #7 (+4) *#5 without friday releases* WW: #5 — (+2) [+3,357,262] *repeak in position from release day* US: #3 — (=) [+926,972] PH: #3 — (=) [+406,275] UK: #7 — (+2) [+213,805] US Radio Overall 6.(-1) Karma - 65.66M (+0.39M) 12.(-1) Anti-Hero - 48.24M (-0.03M) 52.(+7) Cruel Summer - 19.11M (+1.47M) Edited June 26, 2023 by Michael196
enchanted0 Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 21 minutes ago, LiamVillain said: Cruel Summer really becomes a hit without streaming parties, trending,.... we used to pray for times like this our chart girlies really should CHERISH and enjoy every single moment of this, she did it so effortlessly but this kind of thing doesn't happen so often
Michael196 Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 53 minutes ago, Steve Johnson said: Vinyl look gorgeous It does and the darker one looks even better
ugo Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 (edited) I'm curious of how she will play out SNTV with Cruel summer smashing. Will she even push a single for SNTV and it seems like this week is perfect to release a video but she should avoid it because of Olivia otherwise she's gonna get labelled all kind of things. Edited June 26, 2023 by ugo
Cloröx Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 She's filming Cruel Summer music video as we speak right now
Badgalbriel Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 2 minutes ago, Cloröx said: She's filming Cruel Summer music video as we speak right now is this a guess or did something leak?
Cloröx Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 8 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said: is this a guess or did something leak? My wishful thinking
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