FallingFromCloud9 Posted June 24, 2023 Posted June 24, 2023 Fantastic album! Definitely gonna be in my top 5 of the year! 1
Nefertiti0 Posted June 24, 2023 Author Posted June 24, 2023 Run - 246,604 Lost The Breakup - 195,929 The Good Witch - 170,255 Coming Of Age - 156,138 Watch - 148,052 Body Better - 143,031 You’re Just A Boy (And I’m Kinda The Man) - 135,184 Want You Back - 133,094 The Band And I - 128,616 Wendy - 118,637 BSC - 115,265 Two Weeks Ago - 112,833 Therapy - 106,573 There It Goes - 98,042 History Of Man - 96,880 3
coldoutside Posted June 25, 2023 Posted June 25, 2023 On 6/23/2023 at 9:33 PM, LovaticSwiftie said: Which are your favorite tracks from the eps? This Is On You, In My Head, Look At Me Now, Feels Like This and I also really like Wort Of You On 6/24/2023 at 7:08 AM, AvrilMoonlight said: To be fair, on YSUFT and TGW she’s worked with the same songwriters as she has been since Place We Were Made and the EPs!! I guess I just enjoyed her music more when she was more singer/songwriter and less pop.
greento Posted June 25, 2023 Posted June 25, 2023 (edited) This is wayyyyy better than her previous album. A really solid pop project The Good Witch and BSC are my favs of the new songs, especially BSC. Lost the Breakup and Body Better also still bops Also i agree her lyrics are slightly try-hardy and you can really tell she's a swiftie but on this album the writing is an improvement on her previous stuff imo. She makes it work 90% of the time. Edited June 25, 2023 by greento 1
Gladiator Posted June 25, 2023 Posted June 25, 2023 (edited) This album has been on repeat all weekend. I love it. Really disappointing to see in pop forums the threads to discuss this album are so unpopular. Easily one of the best pop releases this year. Edited June 25, 2023 by Gladiator
FallingFromCloud9 Posted June 25, 2023 Posted June 25, 2023 37 minutes ago, Gladiator said: This album has been on repeat all weekend. I love it. Really disappointing to see in pop forums the threads to discuss this album are so unpopular. Easily one of the best pop releases this year. What are you top 5?
Gladiator Posted June 25, 2023 Posted June 25, 2023 2 hours ago, FallingFromCloud9 said: What are you top 5? Really hard for me to pick a top 5. I like every song on the album. No bad songs, no skips! Ranking them now is difficult. I did my best, but this list will probably shuffle around every day this week. Top 5: Want You Back The Band and I There It Goes You're Just a Boy Wendy Great: BSC Lost the Breakup The Good Witch Two Weeks Ago Coming of Age Body Better Good: Therapy History of Man Run Watch 1
Nefertiti0 Posted June 26, 2023 Author Posted June 26, 2023 Maisie on course for first No.1 album in the UK (10,732 sales) 1
BADDEST Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 On 6/25/2023 at 3:11 PM, greento said: Also i agree her lyrics are slightly try-hardy and you can really tell she's a swiftie but on this album the writing is an improvement on her previous stuff imo. She makes it work 90% of the time. as a maisie stan i couldn't have worded it better. this perfectly describes how i feel most of us think about the album lol
BADDEST Posted June 26, 2023 Posted June 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, Nefertiti0 said: Maisie on course for first No.1 album in the UK (10,732 sales) i really hope she gets it, its well deserving and it will open up so many doors for her
Miles. Posted June 27, 2023 Posted June 27, 2023 Okay WOW. I've liked Maisie since I heard Feels Like This on an episode of Love Island 4-5 years ago (lol), but THIS album has cemented her as both a pop star and a songwriter. I enjoyed her EPs and her debut album, but this is on another level. It feels like she went to Swift University (and I say this as a massive compliment, I love Taylor). The songs are both catchy and lyrically stunning, and those BRIDGES. I know Taylor is punching the air that she wasn't the one to write "Baby I am the Iliad, of course you couldn't read me" and "Men start wars yet Troy hates Helen." I MEAN The Good Witch: 8/10: Great opener, very melodic. Coming Of Age: 9/10: Slightly overproduced, the chorus is a little bit messy, but those verses are immaculate. The Iliad line gets me every time. Watch: 11/10: My favorite of the upbeat songs. The catchiest, the funnest, and the best chorus. And perfectly captures a breakup in the social media age, how it's impossible NOT to see how your ex is doing afterwards. Body Better: 8/10: A really interesting take on an insecurity that I'm sure a lot of people deal with - if the relationship was otherwise great, the only reason they could've left was because they found someone hotter. Very well written. Want You Back: 9/10: Whoa. Another brilliant and unique take on feelings after a breakup - knowing that it's pathetic to still want them back, yet being unable to stop that yearning. And some more incredible lyrics: "You left like an assassin maybe that's for the best, cuz if you'd told me what would happen I think I would've begged, so you got to be a coward and I salvaged a little self-respect." Very Taylor. The Band And I: 9/10: One of Taylor's greatest strengths is her specificity, and Maisie uses that throughout the album, but never moreso than on this song. Almost no one can relate to touring with a band and having the best time ever, but basically everyone can relate to the feeling behind that: the nostalgia for the good old days, the sheer joy that comes from being surrounded by friends and far away from home for the first time. You're Just A Boy And I'm Kinda The Man: 9/10: Love an ambitious woman confident in herself and not diminishing her light for a man This is where it becomes clear that the album is telling a story: of the immediate pain after the breakup but also the healing that comes after that. Lost The Breakup: 10/10: Second best banger after Watch. Love that bridge. "Like, stay in touch!" Wendy: 7/10: Solid, but a bit of a snooze compared to all the other superior songs, plus the theme is already covered (better) in YJABAIKTM. Run: 10/10: Hilarious, but also lowkey sad, showing how a person can be scarred for their subsequent relationships after a bad breakup. Two Weeks Ago: 9/10: Beautiful ballad. BSC: 10/10: Oh yes. Oh yes. So fun. Love how she breaks up the ballads with bops; this album is the perfect mix of introspection and fun, something that I feel another Taylor understudy (Olivia) failed to do with Sour. I like that album, but it needed 3-4 more bangers to break up all the slow songs. Therapy: 8/10 There It Goes: 8/10 History Of Man: 13/10: Song of the album, and dare I say pop song of the year so far? This is the most Taylor song yet, with lyrics so sharp they could cut glass. "You burned down Easter Island, as if it wasn't sacred to me." "I've seen it in the poems and the sands, I've pleaded with the powers and their plans." Gorgeous. "She stays up, he's sleeping like a lamb, she begs him, he says he doesn't understand." UGHHH. "So Samson blamed Delilah, but given half the chance I would've made him weaker too." Ahhhh! "He stole her youth and promised heaven, MEN START WARS YET TROY HATES HELEN, women's hearts are lethal weapons, did you hold mine and feel threatened, hear my lyrics, taste my venom, you are still my great obsession." Give her a Grammy, give her a BRIT, give her a 14 week #1 smash , give her HER ******* FLOWERS! I was not expecting her to deliver the pop AOTY but she did that. She ******* did that. 1
Nefertiti0 Posted June 30, 2023 Author Posted June 30, 2023 (edited) #1 in the UK - 20,760 [9,475 CDs, 5,286 vinyl, 1,000 cassettes, 1,138 downloads, 3,861 streaming] Edited June 30, 2023 by Nefertiti0 2
Miles. Posted June 30, 2023 Posted June 30, 2023 So happy she got the #1! She deserves it and I know she really wanted it!
Cherish Posted June 30, 2023 Posted June 30, 2023 Maisie got the #1 and I'm so proud of her also, we might get girls house
AvrilMoonlight Posted June 30, 2023 Posted June 30, 2023 I’m so freaking proud of her!! She and her team worked so hard to make sure it went #1!!! The way she kept restocking the personalized and signed CDs for as long as she could and she reduced the price of physical copies on Amazon. and we finally got Girl’s House after YEARS of waiting!!! AHHHHHHHHH. this is the best era!!
AvrilMoonlight Posted June 30, 2023 Posted June 30, 2023 I will say, however, I’m going to need her team to step it up to make the collectible CDs actually worth it next album cycle. Mine arrived, but it wasn’t the one I ordered, and it’s just a thin paper sleeve with the CD loose inside it. It doesn’t even have an album booklet, and it’s creased from getting sent completely loose. I still haven’t got the personalized or CD bundle with the shirt yet, though, but looking at pictures of other people’s copies, it’s also just a paper sleeve. I need JEWEL CASES next time pls.
Miles. Posted July 17, 2023 Posted July 17, 2023 On 7/16/2023 at 2:21 AM, coldoutside said: History of Man really grew on me! As SOTY should
ATRL Moderator wehavetostan Posted August 3, 2023 ATRL Moderator Posted August 3, 2023 Love this entire album (with the exception of Therapy)
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