album Taylor Swift - 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT'

[vale9001]

Just now, Faniquita said:

Her engagement on instagram is dead as well, so…

 

where? the post about singapore show got 6.5M likes one month ago, which it's her last year average excluding of course most prominet posts (the one with beyoncè, the album announcement)

[saintjude]

she kept changing her profile picture on twitter HEREBY her stats got low i did not even saw her tweet on my timeline 

[cruelhprince]

7 minutes ago, saintjude said:

so the lyrics are from fresh out the slammer

it's edited OP is just trolling

[1989]

Just realized I never did this yesterday (nnn ironic )

 

Spoiler

1989:

1. Clean

2. Out Of The Woods

3. This Love 
4. You Are In Love 

5. All You Had To Do Was Stay 

6. How You Get The Girl 

7. Style 

8. Is It Over Now? 

9. I Wish You Would 

10. I Know Places 

11. Now That We Don't Talk 

12. New Romantics 

13. Say Don't Go 

14. Wildest Dreams 

15. Welcome To New York 

16. Shake It Off 

17. Blank Space 

18. Sl*t! 

19. Suburban Legends 

20. Wonderland

21. Bad Blood 

And getting this out of the way:

 

Spoiler

Rep:

1. Don't Blame Me 

2. So It Goes 

3. Delicate 

4. Call It What You Want 

5. Dancing With Our Hands Tied 

6. Look What You Made Me Do 

7. Getaway Car 

8. Dress 

9. …Ready For It? 

10. New Year's Day 

11. End Game 

12. King Of My Heart 

13. I Did Something Bad 

14. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things 

15. Gorgeous 

 

 

[wastedpotential]

Okay I caved and I'm listening to resurreputation and while there's not a lot to say about ...Return of Christ, I will admit that Eternal God... she was blessed by spirits of singers past when she was in the studio that day. Whatever ghostly hand was guiding her pen as she wrote that third verse... I hope it belongs to someone enjoying their time in the afterlife. Future's voice is grating and Ed's verse is bad but her hooks and runs and verse, yeah she devoured. 

 

Flashback to when the girls on Twitter and I thought that Katy Perry was in the music video AND that Taylor was hard launching a boob job on that same ******* boat. Fun times...

 

Edited April 14 by wastedpotential

[vale9001]

When you open a tweet you don't see anymore normal users but only the users the platform wants you to see. It's clear in the last couple of months more than ever they changed the algorithm and there are user are easily to appear than others 

 

 

 

 

[Magickarp]

Time for a grass touching session y'all

 

[wastedpotential]

Next... I Did Something B- [GUNSHOT]

 

 

Don't Blaspheme Me has crack in those hums. The production here is just as dated as the rest of the darkness-core on this album (sorry to the girls into that) but she really did what had to be done. I'm glad the GeePee has recognized this as what it should've been. Not many of the billion streams on Spotify came from me, but I'm glad y'all like this song like that. Also, that bridge note... she ended Whitney's career with that one. I vividly remember frantically scrolling twitter every night of the Reputation Stadium Pilgrimage trying to find a clip of her doing the note to make sure she didn't **** it up 

 

 

Edited April 14 by wastedpotential

[Kern]

I'll just say it and then log off because I know I'm getting bullied for that

 

"This is why we can't have nice things" was a song that I randomly played and got me into Reputation and then into Taylor Swift

 

now onto touching grass nnn

[liam13]

3 minutes ago, stupidjock said:

I'll just say it and then log off because I know I'm getting bullied for that

 

"This is why we can't have nice things" was a song that I randomly played and got me into Reputation and then into Taylor Swift

 

now onto touching grass nnn

username checks out 

[burninredhot]

25 minutes ago, Faniquita said:

Her engagement on instagram is dead as well, so…

she's literally doing better than ever on insta girl... ??

[Peak Now]

12 minutes ago, vale9001 said:

When you open a tweet you don't see anymore normal users but only the users the platform wants you to see. It's clear in the last couple of months more than ever they changed the algorithm and there are user are easily to appear than others 

 

 

 

 

but ATRL told me her fans were white republicans 

[Magickarp]

7 minutes ago, stupidjock said:

I'll just say it and then log off because I know I'm getting bullied for that

 

"This is why we can't have nice things" was a song that I randomly played and got me into Reputation and then into Taylor Swift

 

now onto touching grass nnn

It was my most streamed & fave song on release weekbut of the 10% of Hack songs i like, 80% of them age like milk

 

I knew it would age from day 1 though, that annoying clicky Jack sample he always spams is looped throughout that entire song too.

That same exact sound is the only thing i hate about Karma  why does he spam it everywhere

[Peak Now]

6 minutes ago, stupidjock said:

I'll just say it and then log off because I know I'm getting bullied for that

 

"This is why we can't have nice things" was a song that I randomly played and got me into Reputation and then into Taylor Swift

 

now onto touching grass nnn

wait speak your truth... some of y'all do way too much on TIWWCHNT

[vale9001]

4 minutes ago, AndThenTheCocaine said:

but ATRL told me her fans were white republicans 

The famous White republicans living in Cambodia.

[wastedpotential]

Dalaicate singlehandedly kept me (and several other people) from acting recklessly in the summer of 2018. When pop music was dying and it seemed like every single song in existence was Drake feat. X or X feat. Drake, Delicate was one of like six pop songs that really cut through and held firm. It rescued resurreputation from being an era without a radio hit (and no, the record setting rise and collapse of Look was not a radio hit). Did she go a little crazy with the vocoder after first discovering it? Yes. Are the verses a tiny bit too close to annoying tropical house for my taste? Yes. Is the bridge lyrically weak and wimpy? Yes. Is the first half of the chorus underpowered? Yes. Was it my literal lifeline anyway? Yes. I probably have more lifetime plays of this song than anything else, ever (before my LastFM broke it was somewhere around like 11,000 for this song alone), because I was reeeeeeeeally trying to help it become a hit and left it playing literally 24/7 on a loop on my phone with the headphones plugged overnight for basically an entire year nnn. That's the origin of the streaming farm in my house I fear! It really was the little hit that could, and I had such joy watching it climb its way up the charts, even if it didn't go all the way. If only it had made the top 10, because then Taylor's years with a top 10 streak would be unbroken from 2008 all the way through to 2024. Alas, I digress 

 

Look What God Commanded Me To Do and I have had a COMPLETE 360º relationship. When this song first came out I was obsessed and thought it was the greatest thing ever (the music video is still divine and top 3 in her catalogue), but as 2017 turned into 2018 and it appeared that this had been the death blow to her positive relationship with the GeePee (y'all remember the backlash to the birthday post?) I grew resentful. I blamed a lot of where we were as a fanbase and as a society on this song, and I was harshly critical for more than a few years. I thought it was over, and I thought that was the fault of this song. However, after the release of the subsequent lead single, I had a bit of re-evaluating to do here. Clearly... it could get a lot worse, and at least Look had made it to #1 (nnnn back to the days when I thought she'd top out with 5 #1 hits, if only I had a time machine to go let my younger self know that it would be okay) and had a good video. With time and patience, I re-learned how to love this song, and I re-discovered what made it special. The haunting intro, the Black Eyed Peas inspired electroclash verses, the GODSENT pre-chorus with the single best build in her entire career (well actually... Innocent might have that title), the spare and haunting chorus itself (if I could go back in time and force a few electric guitars under the mix of the second and third choruses, I would), the iconic bridge. This song also really had the last laugh, as no one in the KKK (Kim, Kanye, Katy, not Kern/Killer Kern) appeared to be seriously effected at the time, but now they're all has-beens or deranged right wing lunatics, so I think we won in the end. I feared at the time it had killed the old Taylor, and I guess to some degree it really did, but it was not an entirely destructive force. A lot was learned with this song, and a lot grew out of it. I think I could argue that (at least until next week) the week this released was the peak of Taylor's fame in the US. EVERYBODY was talking about it, usually critically, but hey, all press is good press. 

[Ms. Togekiss]

Y'all are so annoying  not now people suddenly hating midnights trying to make it look like it's as bad as puta  and people are also now complaining about Twitter and IG engagement??? The absolute entitlement of it all I lowkey hope she bombs so we can get rid of all these success Stans

[wastedpotential]

So It Bl- [GUNSHOT]

 

Gospelgeous... she's hideous next to some of the girls on this album and in Taylor's discography, but she's fun and campy and happy and there will always be a market for that. It's the same reason why I love Bejeweled a lot more than it artistically warrants. It's just a good time. "Lyrics that cut glass" is one of my favorite Swiftie-isms ever too nnnn

 

As for Gospelsfrom Christ, let me just insert my deranged essay from the tracklist rankings (it feels so long since that was a thing lol):

 

Spoiler

 

GrammyWin Song is a perfect song, in every measure of those very strong words. I enter this into evidence as proof 1A that Taylor and Jack can make magic together, and that OJH are just blinded by their hatred of like three songs on Midnights that they slander his name without reason. This is the superior version of Cruel Summer, and I will not hear any comments to the contrary. The narrative of this song is so ******* vivid and has such clarity of purpose that is truly insane. I can't believe this is one of the very few mentions Calvin gets across all of Taylor's discography, but the story of Calvin -> Tom -> Joe wassuch a wild ride to live through, and this song is such an excellent representation of it. Using basically a criminal, Bonnie and Clyde framework to tell a REBOUND story was brilliant, because it set the record straight about who was metaphorically driving the relationships, and played up the shamefulness/criminal framing while giving it this... cops and robbers aesthetic, in which Calvin and the media play the cops. I'm just babbling here but it's genius and I think you know that. Every lyric just... paints an additional detail into the story of how the summer of 2016 all went down for her, relationally. This is one of the few songs in Taylor's discography where literally every single lyric is the best version of itself, and every single line without fail would be a standout lyric on another song. The verses and pre-chorus are packed with insane couplets: "best of times/worst of crimes", "struck a match/blew your mind", "ties were black/lies were white/shades of gray/in candlelight" (referencing that match strike), "we never had a shotgun's shot in the dark/it hit you like a shotgun shot to the heart", "great escape/prison break/light of freedom on my face", "go go go/sideshow" (also, that "GO GO GO" was such an abrupt thing to hear when I first listened to the song that needs to be commended for really grounding the listener in the story), "and a circus ain't a love story/and now we're both sorry" and on and on and on. The chorus is pop PERFECTION, from a melody so catchy that I think I might need to be vaccinated against it for personal protection to the insane ******* lyrics ("there were sirens in the beat of your heart" is diabolical, by the way) and the pulses and slams of the production. The way she kinda grunts to a tune before the last "nothing good starts in a getaway car" of each chorus is probably her best sonic filler moment to date (oooh-oh-oh-woah-oh-oh in CS could only DREAM of being this good). Her enunciation of "git-uh-way" scratches my brain deeeeeeply. The bridge is the stuff of legends, I don't think I have to say anything about it because you already know how amazing it is. I will say that this song seems to be at least a partial admission from Taylor that her relationship with alcohol at the time wasn't the healthiest. As Taylor's second song to have a full step-up key change in the bridge (after Love Story and before Betty), that's such a rare element across her discography that she wields as a weapon here, using it to convey that she and Tom were temporary and that she was moving on. The key change was a main character in the arc of the song, and it really tells as much of the story as the lyrics do. Oh and the OUTRO literally ended careers, I'm sorry. The way it went from "I was riding in a getaway car" to "I was crying in a getaway car" to "I was dying in a getaway car" to "said goodbye in a getaway car", and then did it again with even more intensity... yeah, that was a classic. Unlike my other "why wasn't this a single!!" picks below, I think this was the one that the fans desperately wanted to follow up Delicate (which, given how much this has obliterated IDSB in the intervening years, means that our side of that war was right lol), and the fact that it was a single... in Australia... was EVIL. We all thought it was coming worldwide with an insane visual sometime that September, and that just never happened. Hopefully that one fan who asked her for the video outside of the NRJ building in Paris while she was promoting ME! there will kick her ass into gear to live up to that ******* Jimmy Kimmel (or was it Fallon?) clip of "I know which songs the fans want videos for"... I want a video for this song, and I would sacrifice my first born child to make that happen. Of all the track 9s, I think this is the one I'm still listening to the most on a daily basis in 2024 (which is to say, I listen every single day). I have such high expectations for the re-recorded version of this, but I know Lord has been tinkering on Reputation (Christina's Version) for years now and she has Jack chained to a wall in the studio, so I know it's going to turn out just as perfect as the original did. 

Go to page 496 if you want the rest of my deranged thoughts on the other track 9s nnn 

 

[Rence]

Well 

[Magickarp]

1 minute ago, Ms. Togekiss said:

Y'all are so annoying  not now people suddenly hating midnights trying to make it look like it's as bad as puta  and people are also now complaining about Twitter and IG engagement??? The absolute entitlement of it all I lowkey hope she bombs so we can get rid of all these success Stans

TECHNICALLY, stanning Midnights is the success stan thing to do

[Peak Now]

3 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

the Black Eyed Peas inspired electroclash verses

Not this being presented as a positive 

 

OT: Really good writeup, Delicate was really a silver lining amidst all the... lackluster single performances from the era and the absolute sludge pop radio played in 2018 (save for No Tears Left To Cry I really can't think of anything that hasn't aged like milk or wasn't good in the first place).

 

Look What You Made Me Do is probably the closest we've got to a mainstream single being post-good. I can't find the quote for the life of me but I distinctly remember Jack saying that he deliberately made LWYMMD sound weird. Now if only it were good... anyhow it did what it was meant to do (get people hooked and talking); certain other lead singles (especially one beginning with an M) can't relate.

[wastedpotential]

2 minutes ago, AndThenTheCocaine said:

Not this being presented as a positive 

 

OT: Really good writeup, Delicate was really a silver lining amidst all the... lackluster single performances from the era and the absolute sludge pop radio played in 2018 (save for No Tears Left To Cry I really can't think of anything that hasn't aged like milk or wasn't good in the first place).

 

Look What You Made Me Do is probably the closest we've got to a mainstream single being post-good. I can't find the quote for the life of me but I distinctly remember Jack saying that he deliberately made LWYMMD sound weird. Now if only it were good... anyhow it did what it was meant to do (get people hooked and talking); certain other lead singles (especially one beginning with an M) can't relate.

nnnnn well I didn't think it was positive for a very long time but I've deluded myself into enjoying it for what it is 

 

And yeah, Look was very clearly designed from the beginning to get the people talking, and in that task it was incredibly successful. There's really nothing that's come since that's even come close to sounding like it, and the only historic sonic peer that I think has ever made sense has been My Humps, which kinda assists my mental picture that Look is at least 1/2 a campy joke that most people didn't seem to get 

[wastedpotential]

thoughts will resume later with King of my Church, there's only so much of resurreputation I can handle in one sitting 

[vale9001]

I never told you the biggest radio station here put LWYMMD on their playlist after It broke the vevo record (Just 7 years ago that was the thing! How times changes fast now) and they never played Taylor before expect for i don't wanna live Forever. Well  they retired the song after just 3 days and one of the speakers said live after playing It "

This is one of the worst Song i ever heard"

 

 

 

they never played Taylor after that until Is It over now peaked #3 on their weekly most played songs chart. 

they added It 3 days after the Time cover and this time they liked  the material finally. 

 

I bet fortnight will be added from day one and very played 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 14 by vale9001

[folkloreking]