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The Albatross chorus is like the best melody I've ever heard... divine

 

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every time I step away from this album from a while and come back to it, it somehow sounds like 100x better :gaycat6: it's like I'm hearing it all over again every single time

 

HOW does she do this?!

 

Midnights never did this to me. Not on this level. Maybe a few songs like Lavender Haze and Maroon got better and better over time but...this is next level. This is her magnum opus. :psyduck:

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17 minutes ago, Post Malone said:

What are you on - ChapelHooker

 

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Fresh Out the Slammer fighting to be in my top 10 Taylor songs of all time :jonny5:

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Loml deserves track 5

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3 minutes ago, Post Malone said:

The Albatross chorus is like the best melody I've ever heard... divine

 

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Katy did that

 

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Just now, TSwiftie said:

Katy did that

 

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the way it literally sounds like Wide Awake in parts

 

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Down Bad

I Can Do It with a Broken Heart

Guilty as Sin?

But Daddy I Love Him

 

These are the potential singles. ICDIWABH must be a single to pick up the pace, it screams Bad Blood slayage. Down Bad could be a Delicate, but could also be a Midnight Rain, a gem of a track that is successful in its own right.

 

But Daddy I Love Him is the perfect re-introduction to Rep TV but it's just too long so may not work on radio at all. But it screams Rep TV. So could be a final single.

 

Guilty as Sin? is so good too, not sure where to put it but maybe third single if Down Bad won't be chosen.

 

I wish she can choose from The Anthology, because I really think So High School and ingonnagetyouback have so much potential. The Albatross too, if willow did decent during its run, now with Taylor's good graces with radio, The Albatross could throw in a good run.

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if she does an alien abduction music video to Down Bad I will lose my MIND

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2 minutes ago, pinkbowvintage said:

the way it literally sounds like Wide Awake in parts

 

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Wait where

 

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ngl I find the "31 songs is too many" argument a bit tiring, although I agree that the Anthology could use some better pacing. But double albums aren't her invention and I always loved the chance for a deep dive into the mind of an artist and especially with this album I feel like The Anthology almost acts as a therapy session of sorts?

 

Like the first album is her telling the "entire torrid affair", everything that happened and almost drove her to the brink, and then with the Black Dog the songs start digging deeper and less about what happened but more about her inner thoughts and processing of this manic phase, if it makes sense. I hate it here, People's windows and How did it end? To me all three sound like songs where she had to find refuge in herself, out of the public eye, to face her pain and let it mean something. Then you have Peter and Robin, to me they sound like the kind of thoughts you start having when you start getting therapy and are forced to reflect on your youth, and childhood, trying to patch what was broken for your inner child. And the Manuscript of course has that melancholic serenity of letting go and accepting the pain as part of the journey I think...

 

Probably a reach but!

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come one, come all, it's happening again :jonny:

 

How Did It End? is so underrated :jonny:

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Just now, Post Malone said:

Wait where

 

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Cross your thoughtless heart

Only liquor anoints you

She's the albatross 

he is here to destroy you

 

same melody in parts as:

 

Thunder rumbling

Castles crumbling

I am trying to hold on

God knows that I tried

Seeing the bright side

I'm not blind anymore I'm wide awake

 

 

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Thr urge to skip fortnight when the repetitive middle part comes coz you're actually listening and not as background music 

 

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1 minute ago, pinkbowvintage said:

Cross your thoughtless heart

Only liquor anoints you

She's the albatross 

he is here to destroy you

 

same melody in parts as:

 

Thunder rumbling

Castles crumbling

I am trying to hold on

God knows that I tried

Seeing the bright side

I'm not blind anymore I'm wide awake

 

 

Wait

 

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Tay sis Max Martin is one cheque away sweetie

 

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Clara Bow being the tortured younger sister of You're On Your Own, Kid :clap3:

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Just now, pinkbowvintage said:

Clara Bow being the tortured younger sister of You're On Your Own, Kid :clap3:

Wait I hear it

 

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4 minutes ago, BODERLINE said:

come one, come all, it's happening again :jonny:

 

How Did It End? is so underrated :jonny:

So so good 

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Starlight evolving to Clara Bow! :heart:

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25 minutes ago, chiliam said:
Why no one talk about the prologue? It made the album make sense more.
And only a few pop girls can write a poem as a prologue like this, the talent
 
In Summation: Summary Poem by Taylor Swift
At this hearing
I stand before my fellow members of the Tortured Poets Department
With a summary of my findings
A debrief, a detailed rewinding
For the purpose of warning
For the sake of reminding
As you might all unfortunately recall
I had been struck with a case of a restricted humanity
Which explains my plea here today of temporary insanity
You see, the pendulum swings
Oh, the chaos it brings
Leads the caged beast to do the most curious things
Lovers spend years denying what's ill fated
Resentment rotting away galaxies we created
Stars placed and glued meticulously by hand next to the ceiling fan
Tried wishing on comets
Tried dimming the shine
Tried to orbit his planet
Some stars never align
And in one conversation, I tore down the whole sky
Spring sprung forth with dazzling freedom hues
Then a crash from the skylight
Bursting through
Something old, someone hallowed, who told me he could be brand new
And so I was out of the oven
And into the microwave
Out of the slammer and into a tidal wave
How gallant to save the empress from her gilded tower
Swinging a sword he could barely lift
But loneliness struck at that fateful hour
Low hanging fruit on his wine stained lips
He never even scratched the surface of me
None of them did
"In summation, it was not a love affair!"
I screamed while bringing my fists to my coffee ringed desk
It was a mutual manic phase
It was self harm
It was house and then cardiac arrest
A smirk creeps onto this poet's face
Because it's the worst men that I write best
And so I enter into evidence
My tarnished coat of arms
My muses, acquired like bruises
My talismans and charms
The tick, tick, tick of love bombs
My veins of pitch black ink
All's fair in love and poetry
Sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Department

This is so beautifully written oh wow and damn she really went in on ratty:jonnycat:

where are the losers acting like this was some love album

 

 

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5 minutes ago, pinkbowvintage said:

Cross your thoughtless heart

Only liquor anoints you

She's the albatross 

he is here to destroy you

 

same melody in parts as:

 

Thunder rumbling

Castles crumbling

I am trying to hold on

God knows that I tried

Seeing the bright side

I'm not blind anymore I'm wide awake

 

 

You must be a katykat

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Anyway, excited to know what song will be the fixation of the day. I have a feeling Down Bad is gonna eviscerate me :gaycat6:

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Just now, Starchild said:

This is so beautifully written oh wow and damn she really went in on ratty:jonnycat:

where are the losers acting like this was some love album

 

 

I mean, it is in part. She definitely wrote a lot of it while with him, but the conclusion with "The Smallest Man" (and "The Black Dog") cements it as a chaotic break-up album (at least that piece).

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3 minutes ago, pinkbowvintage said:

I mean, it is in part. She definitely wrote a lot of it while with him, but the conclusion with "The Smallest Man" (and "The Black Dog") cements it as a chaotic break-up album (at least that piece).

Wait what? I thought they weren't together anymore, those Matty songs they worked on were for midnights and the relationship lasted like a month, she'd have time to write it right after 

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Tiktok is saying But Daddy I Love Him is the modern Love Story and loml is White Horse's sister. 

 

 

It's almost like she did it on purpose. Guess what? Love Story was rumoured to be about Martin Johnson who was also a drug addict so her team/parents forced him to stay away from her for her image. History repeating 

 

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