album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[Taylor fanboy]

4 hours ago, Enrique523 said:

What? HARD disagree there, COSOSOM is way more eye catching as a title 

Yeah my eyebrow was raised for sure.

[Taylor fanboy]

3 hours ago, Bartender said:

Guilty as Sin? kinda the greatest song about cheating ever

Uhm, well no! Best contenders start with G too so you're close!

 

 

[Dear Reader]

My signed CD has just arrived 

[Goaty]

GAS > ivy > illicit affairs 

 

this may change once I finally burn myself out of GAS but we're going on 4 months straight with no burnout in sight dddd 

[Brooklyn Baby]

ivy > GAS > illicit affairs

 

[Goaty]

but let's not miss the forest for the trees here girls, all 3 sings are 10/10 

[Klein]

7 minutes ago, Goaty said:

but let's not miss the forest for the trees here girls, all 3 sings are 10/10 

True but still ivy > illicit affairs > GAS? 

 

[Enrique523]

I'll be blunt about it: GAS is overrated. It's a very good song but not the absolute masterpiece people say it is. ivy and illicit affairs are easily superior >>>>>

[Kyle-x]

ivy > GAS? > illicit for moi but all three are melancholic horny serves 

[liam13]

bleu ivy >>> illegal affair

[Dear Reader]

 

omg 

[AshleyLovescats887]

'my tears ricochet' becoming another viral hit is genuinely so satisfying to see. 'folklore' gave birth to so many hits

[Klein]

18 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

 

omg 

Not it increasing throughout the weekend omg. folklore truly is the gift that keeps on giving. 

[wastedpotential]

58 minutes ago, Dear Reader said:

 

omg 

Oh girls lets get to farming 

 

I've got my tractor tank full and my playlists made 

Edited August 12 by wastedpotential

[wastedpotential]

I'm going to need y'all to confirm that you're also streaming the superior version 

 

 

[wastedpotential]

42 minutes ago, Klein said:

Not it increasing throughout the weekend omg. folklore truly is the gift that keeps on giving. 

1M incoming tomorrow with ease 

[Taylor fanboy]

Gorgeous > Ivy > Getaway Car > GaS? > Illicit Affairs

 

[Taylor fanboy]

Quote

Despite earning Swift a handful of middling reviews from critics, her April album The Tortured Poets Department still drew effusive praise from many outlets (this one included) – regardless of the stagnancy of its sound, the overheated metaphors of its lyrics, and the indulgence of its 31-track length. It's no real surprise that conversations around the record quickly became about Swift's capitalist supremacy than the work itself – this is an album with very little to say and a chronic inability to say the interesting stuff succinctly.

Swift has chugged along in the spotlight without breaks for years now, and it feels pointed that her finest material in the last decade was produced while she was literally unable to do anything other than make music – the gorgeous 2020 two-hander Folklore and Evermore were products of Covid-era quarantine. 
 

Tortured Poets, meanwhile, was released amid peak Swiftageddon – the Eras tour, the Eras tour film, the endless re-records of her past albums – and sounds unsurprisingly exhausted. Swift picks over old tropes (witches again?), old feuds (Kim again?) and old melodies (Jack Antonoff again?). It's the sound of an artist so powerful and successful that no one dares challenge her or suggest she rest or regroup for a while.

- AW (Commentary), Independent UK

Critics need to make up their minds if she should be done already with the Taylor's Versions or take a break.

Also, everybody saw the critic reviews, no publication is "afraid".

 

Lastly, how is folkmore brilliant but not the Anthology? Nostalgia is real.

 

Tree should manage these narratives against Taylor.

 

[Great Username]

 

Every tragic mashup we got - and there's been many - was worth it for this

[Great Username]

if I could dance with you again

id kiss you as the lights went out

swaying as the room BURNED DOWNN

id hold you as the water rushes in

and when that sky rains fire on you

And youre persona non grata

Id tell you how I've been there too

And that none of it matters

 

[Klein]

12 minutes ago, Taylor fanboy said:

- AW (Commentary), Independent UK

Critics need to make up their minds if she should be done already with the Taylor's Versions or take a break.

Also, everybody saw the critic reviews, no publication is "afraid".

 

Lastly, how is folkmore brilliant but not the Anthology? Nostalgia is real.

 

Tree should manage these narratives against Taylor.

Honestly, the discourse around Taylor won't go back to normal in any way as long as she stays on top, she's been too big for too long for people to be indifferent/unbiased (positively or negatively). I wouldn't look too much into it, especially since it wouldn't be the first time history has favored her and she received retrospective acclaim. 

 

Critics made some point regarding the album. Mainly that it is bloated, with some songs that really distract from the original message of the album, or that she overwrote for this album (even though for me this is a null point because that's part of the concept, but I understand why it would not be seen favorably by stoopid people ). But overall, the critical reception to this album is much more a representation of the general current opinion on Taylor herself than on the album. 

 

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I really wonder if she still doesn't care about her overexposure or not. It was clear through 2023 that she didn't care at all. But since February she's been a lot more lowkey. Only releasing her album and continuing the tour, but without the 150 candids and apparitions like last year. It will be interesting to see if she'll go to the VMAs and/or NFL matches like last year. 

[piotrert]

 

[wastedpotential]

2 hours ago, piotrert said:

 

Can someone here call up 13 Megladons and get them to cut the check for the RIAA to update these all please and thanks 

 

Also, Lover and Midnights really are racing for Diamond 

[YourFavoriteWeapon]

That loud banging noise in the chorus of Florida!!! scratches an itch in my brain

 

ITS ONE HELLLL OF A DRUGGGGGGGGG

[MardinBeksloy]

We need the it ends with us controversy to blow up even bigger, more streams for miss Taylor