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9 minutes ago, pinkbowvintage said:

the way the title track just gets better and better with each listen. a sparkling '80s SMASH!! :clap3:

Title track is becoming one of my favorites. Such a great song!

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Album keeps growing on me constantly, she did THAT and the stability on streaming kinda proves it:hippo:

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3 minutes ago, Buffy said:

The Anthology gives me more Vanessa Carlton vibes rather than country 🫠 

 

I see a lot of Swifties asking for a rock album since 1989. The demand is there. Taylor goes against the current of what's popular anyways. She does what she wants. She can resurrect a dying genre.

I'm pretty sure 80% of swifties have not idea what rock music actually sounds like, tbh. I mostly see the gays online claiming they want that. 

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She's not going country. Pop radio would drop her so fast. International audiences would drop her so fast. Country radio will not play her. Country listeners will not support her. She's a liberal. Not happening. 

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5 minutes ago, Badgalbriel said:

I'm pretty sure 80% of swifties have not idea what rock music actually sounds like, tbh. I mostly see the gays online claiming they want that. 

:laugh: I think this is the sound they want. More pop/rock and more grunting? Lol

 

 

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I want her to go full dream pop/ alt pop/ shoegaze / grunge rock 

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Just now, 19SLAYty9 said:

I want her to go full dream pop/ alt pop/ shoegaze / grunge rock 

Ooo. Dream pop like Beach House and Hatchie? I'd love that too…..

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The Prophecy top 10 in her discography

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5 minutes ago, Buffy said:

:laugh: I think this is the sound they want. More pop/rock and more grunting? Lol

 

 

Exactly, and as we can see with Olivia Rodrigo, people are just not her for pop-rock. It's too juvenile, she needs to mature her sound. 

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I think when people say they want "rock" they just mean  they want the bops and upbeat songs to have more strings and live instruments. At least that's what I hope they mean, because the "pop-rock" sound she already did for Speak Now and some of Red. 

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The tortured poets department, yeah

The tortured poets department, yeah

The tortured poets department, yeah

The tortured poets department, yeah

Would've taken this over the 2nd verse & bridge:suburban:

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Just now, Magickarp said:

The tortured poets department, yeah

The tortured poets department, yeah

The tortured poets department, yeah

The tortured poets department, yeah

Would've taken this over the 2nd verse & bridge:suburban:

I actually like those, truly showcase how delusional and manic that situationship really was. The desperation after six years of waiting gone down the drain. We don't deserve her vulnerability for real :weeps:

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14 minutes ago, Buffy said:

Ooo. Dream pop like Beach House and Hatchie? I'd love that too…..

Precisely. It would be a new sound but still somewhat familiar. She could work with Kevin Parker too. She could also keep Jack and Aaron around… but for much less tracks. Patrik Berger randomly being a co writer on ILIPW makes me think she could work with him again In the future. I really don't want more than 4 Jack co productions. I don't mind Aaron as a songwriter though 

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I'm gonna say something controversial about my hopes for future collaborators for Taylor but she knows what's up:

 

Spoiler

r/TheShins - Azealia Banks Pushing For Taylor Swift to Date James Mercer Next

 

:dies:

 

I need her to hit up James Mercer for real.

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25 minutes ago, Buffy said:

Ooo. Dream pop like Beach House and Hatchie? I'd love that too…..

TS12 :alexz:

 

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When I say rock I mean this + SHS/HitsDiff/SOG/EyesOpen/ElectricTouch scattered about.

Guess I'm not a midnights success stan, that puts what Radio & TikTok would think over what I would think :alexz3: Thank God that wasn't her mindset after Over either.

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8 minutes ago, Mandalore said:

I need her to hit up James Mercer for real.

No no but it's true. Simple Song :smitten:

 

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6 minutes ago, usedtothis said:

TS12 :alexz:

 

 


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I think TS12 will be a blend of Soft Rock and R&B :jonnycat:

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I have to say, i'm EXTREMELY happy that the album is doing so well, i was pretty nervous when it received mixed reviews from critics, i wasn't expecting it. I was 100% certain a more indie-sounding album released at the peak of her career would be pure candy for critics but instead they decided to turn on her for such stupid vapid reasons :toofunny3:

 

At least the commercial success really shows that critics don't matter at the end and haters are, as usual, a small, very loud bubble. It's a top tier album in her discography and people will have to deal :giraffe:

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2 hours ago, IBeMe said:

the moment I knew he was being inauthentic with his reaction was when he was pre emptively mouthing certain lyrics he had CLEARLY already memorized by having heard the album before. I know he has the lyrics pulled up on the screen but I caught him a few times mouthing things without looking on his screen and stuff. He heard this record before he reacted and he also searched reactions to it and reviews which tainted his view on the record. He anticipated certain parts to mock them or to celebrate them. I hate inauthentic reactions. I actually can watch a SCATHING reaction if it's genuinely done on the spot and the person is just disappointed with how it sounds from a genuine first impression type of space but when you see someone who has STUDIED the work and formed an opinion prior to recording it just turns me off lol

This how I know y'all's hatred for him is clouding your rationality, he reacted to the album like 10 hours after it was released. He would not have had time to "watch or study other people's reactions" or "memorize lyrics" and form a preemptive opinion. :rip: He's a musician and music is just auditory repetition and patterns. It's easy to learn melodies after one verse and chorus and apply that to future lyrics, Ajay does the same thing. She sings along by reading the lyrics and learning segments of the song that repeat.

 

He also enjoyed the back half of TTPD more than the front, and truly enjoyed the Anthology (which isn't on YouTube yet.) it's ok for people to not be head over heels for catalog without it making them fake. I genuinely feel like he's one of the most authentic reactors out there because he doesn't diminish or degrade her like Fantano nor does he overhype and worship her like Chats & Reacts.


He sits in a perfectly neutral position that gives me insight into the average listeners perceptions of Taylor's music (albeit his elevated knowledge of writers, producers, and musicians influencing his appreciation for many different artists.)

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Oh baby imagine sitting through a reaction of this album. I could never. 
I sat through all 31 songs once out of loyalty. 

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6 hours ago, Badgalbriel said:

And in a much more mature way, let's give them the credit. 

There's literally NOTHING mature on Chromatica :deadbanana4:

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50 minutes ago, Magickarp said:

When I say rock I mean this + SHS/HitsDiff/SOG/EyesOpen/ElectricTouch scattered about.

Guess I'm not a midnights success stan, that puts what Radio & TikTok would think over what I would think :alexz3: Thank God that wasn't her mindset after Over either.

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No no but it's true. Simple Song :smitten:

 

The problem is that you just know she won't serve those. She'll serve Olivia Rodrigo but produced by Jack Antonoff

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1 hour ago, selena_lavigne said:

Oh baby imagine sitting through a reaction of this album. I could never. 
I sat through all 31 songs once out of loyalty. 

How many times are you gonna repeat the same thing? It's ok, we get it, the album doesn't have enough basic bops for you :toofunny3:

 

 

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Claudio Giunta, one of the bigger experts of italian literature (he's a full professor of italian literature at university of Trento) and an expert of Dante Alighieri wrote a piece about Who's afraid of Little old me on this important cultural magazine, calling it a great piece of literature :rip: and comparing It to the writing of zadie Smith and Updike. 

 

Makes basically a verse to verse analysis. I post It but of course the article is in italian.

 

 

https://www.rivistailmulino.it/a/who-s-afraid-of-little-old-me-di-taylor-swift-una-canzone-bellissima

 

 

 

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