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1 minute ago, rivingtonrebel said:

Do we have any idea of what the album is gonna sound like? I keep seeing tweets about this being pop, but I wouldn't mind if it is a little bit soft-rock/alternative. 

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Posted
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There is no fact here, only delusion

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Oh we are down BAD :ryan3:

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31 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

I mean, for what it's worth she wasn't tooooo far away from getting Karma to #1, she just didn't bother pumping out shitty edm/club/acoustic remixes at the last minute for us to buy for whatever reason

 

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28 minutes ago, Hunter_13 said:

I mean Karma could've went #1 had she bothered the week the remix dropped. It was pretty close if I recall :rip:

dd I still hate that she didn’t at least squeak out the #1 with Karma, which would’ve been the only redeeming thing about that ~interesting~ remix and its release week

 

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26 minutes ago, Burqa said:

she already tried this kind of rollout with 1989TV and it backfired (throwing slvt under the bus)

 

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Yeah, but then again, it’s hard to do that with a rerecording I think. Like, NTWDT could’ve debuted at #1 had she not pushed IION? at all, but then it would’ve been hard to get IION? to #1 in week 2 since it’s just a vault track. With a new song, it would be a lot easier


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13 minutes ago, Magickarp said:

say it LOUDER 

 

Everyone keeps hyping DB, but of all the 20 tracks, it's the most basic one.

How y'all gonna see her craziest tracklist ever, & be excited for the most "Disney channel turned popstar debut single" title.

 

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Like, I’m sawrreh but there’s no way Down Bad would be a more iconic single than My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys. Well, unless it sounds like a surefire hit and MBOBHFT doesn’t, which is possible.

 

I do trust her at the end of the day tho because I think Swifties do way tew much about her lead single choices. Truthfully, Lover is the only time she really fumbled. Do fans have divisive opinions on songs like WANEGBT, LWYMMD, or SIO? Sure, yes, but they were still chosen strategically and were great choices. She’ll probably choose a good song this time.

 

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2 hours ago, Great Username said:

'Would've Could've Should've" literally invented stadium rock, a classic, literally a classic. A triumph, and what we want as the blueprint for TTPD 

 

You're a crisis of my faith

Would've, could've, should've

If I'd only played it safe

 

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This is LITERALLY what I've been thinking since ttpd was announced. 

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42 minutes ago, Holiest Dreams said:

 

dd I still hate that she didn’t at least squeak out the #1 with Karma, which would’ve been the only redeeming thing about that ~interesting~ remix and its release week

 

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See I've really come around on the Karma Remix, it's very unintentionally campy (as the good sis @Great Username just eloquently put it). I will never listen to it, but it was so corny and bad that it's circled around again and become iconic in a deranged way. Karma is the fire in your house indeed :ryan3:

 

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41 minutes ago, Holiest Dreams said:

Like, I’m sawrreh but there’s no way Down Bad would be a more iconic single than My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys. Well, unless it sounds like a surefire hit and MBOBHFT doesn’t, which is possible.

 

I do trust her at the end of the day tho because I think Swifties do way tew much about her lead single choices. Truthfully, Lover is the only time she really fumbled. Do fans have divisive opinions on songs like WANEGBT, LWYMMD, or SIO? Sure, yes, but they were still chosen strategically and were great choices. She’ll probably choose a good song this time.

 

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Unless Down Bad is serving like big pop single energy it's pretty much the last song I want to be the single

 

And as for the trashing of her non ME! leads, it's simply that some Swifties lack clarity on the purpose of those songs. None of them were supposed to be an All Too Well, but We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together is one of the most succinct end-of-situationship hits we've ever seen; Shake It Off (original, unfortunately I cannot say the same for the re-recording) is one of her most finely crafted and intricately produced songs, and is the true graduations, weddings, and funerals song of her career; Look What You Made Me Do, though polarizing at the time, has held up ridiculously well for a literal electroclash song with an I'm Too Sexy sample that sounds like it could've been made by the Black Eyed Peas in 2009, and was inarguably one of the peaks of female celebrity in the 2010s and is the most thorough "killing" of an artist's past self we've ever seen. They were chosen as singles for a reason and they were all immensely successful. 

 

ME! was the only misfire - she was aiming for another Shake It Off and landed with a Roar, but in an alternate reality where people had expectations of quality that Roar couldn't pull off. ME! was a vapid, empty single with weak production and an annoying collaborator, without any of the heft to back it up. 

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57 minutes ago, rivingtonrebel said:

Do we have any idea of what the album is gonna sound like? I keep seeing tweets about this being pop, but I wouldn't mind if it is a little bit soft-rock/alternative. 

Evermore was also labedled pop I think so the description being passed around on twitter isn’t really anything, by the looks of the album it should be a more rocky synth kinda vibe

 

the 2 dessners being on it really got me hyped into thinking that’ll be the sound :alexz:

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and when I'm back in reading, Pennsylvania i feel it :ryan3:

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Not me coming back to The Reported Poets Thread. :khalyan:

 

 

She could easily get multiple #1 singles now by dropping collectible 7" vinyl and CD singles with multiple covers. We're ready to open our purses for anything. It's weird she hasn't bothered doing this since cardigan, probably because of the rule change and needing them produced ahead of time. But she still could've bumped Karma and I Can See You and maybe even Lavender Haze upt to #1 with ease by doing that.

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7 minutes ago, anastaciabby said:

Evermore was also labedled pop I think so the description being passed around on twitter isn’t really anything, by the looks of the album it should be a more rocky synth kinda vibe

 

the 2 dessners being on it really got me hyped into thinking that’ll be the sound :alexz:

The person on Reddit that kept leaking Ariana info said it’s alt-pop with pop rock influences. That would be interesting. 


In general, we really do have zero idea what this album will sound like though.

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NEVER MADE IT HERE NEVER MADE IT RIGHT :gaygacat5:

I’VE BEEN WAITING HERE GOING ON A FORTNIGHT :penguin:

TWO YEARS, TWO THE WEEKS… :gaycatina1:

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11 minutes ago, Kyle-x said:

Not me coming back to The Reported Poets Thread. :khalyan:

 

 

She could easily get multiple #1 singles now by dropping collectible 7" vinyl and CD singles with multiple covers. We're ready to open our purses for anything. It's weird she hasn't bothered doing this since cardigan, probably because of the rule change and needing them produced ahead of time. But she still could've bumped Karma and I Can See You and maybe even Lavender Haze upt to #1 with ease by doing that.

nnnnn it's bad for us 

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nnnn not The Reported Poets Thread :deadbanana2:

 

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I guess you could say we are Down Bad 

 

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i’ve learnt not to hype Taylor songs based on their titles… my most anticipated songs off midnights were “vigilante ****” and “question…?” :skull: and i thought lavender haze was a bland name specially for the opener 

 

down bad being the simplest title is kinda a blessing, we’ll see tho

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49 minutes ago, Kyle-x said:

Not me coming back to The Reported Poets Thread. :khalyan:

 

 

She could easily get multiple #1 singles now by dropping collectible 7" vinyl and CD singles with multiple covers. We're ready to open our purses for anything. It's weird she hasn't bothered doing this since cardigan, probably because of the rule change and needing them produced ahead of time. But she still could've bumped Karma and I Can See You and maybe even Lavender Haze upt to #1 with ease by doing that.

Yeah, Harry sent Late Night Talking up to #3 for one random week because physicals singles for it shipping out that week. She needs to do this for the second single.

 

Actually, on this topic, it’s a want and a NEED for her to sell physical vinyl and CD singles for the lead at her European concerts. It’ll go to #1 in most of the countries she stops at there. Like, even yes, and? debuted at #4 in France thanks to the physicals, even though streaming wasn’t that strong. If she tries this she could probably get her first top 3 single even in France of all places, with it being the first stop post-TTPD and all.

 

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2 hours ago, Burqa said:

were “vigilante ****” and “question…?” :skull: 

Best songs on Midnights

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I just woke up to the best three pages of this thread

 

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who’s the UGLEE that’s reporting our posts? reveal yourself!

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Not someone reporting posts in this thread. :redface:

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The mess in here

 

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We need her to announce another variant or something so you all don't manage to get yourselves banned before the album is even out

 

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Woke up to 5 pages of individual Midnights track reviews and reported poets struggles.

 

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I’d love if the title track was the lead single. Could be an instant signature classic for her, such an iconic title.

 

It named the album, and it’s track 2, which makes me think it’s a really strong track.

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i'm desperate for l**ks lorddd

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We can't choose the lead single without hearing the album, get realspacer.png

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Don't worry, we still have acoustic set surprise songs names announcements :ryan3:

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