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[GraceRandolph]

Will she finally move on from Jack Antonoff?

[FENTY.]

1 minute ago, FolkLover1989 said:

 

 

Are we supposed to believe sputnik score

Lol

Well tbh Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone is a big swiftie. I couldn't help but wonder should we also ignore "professional" reviews from fans? 
 

 

[Park Jinyoung]

Sputnik

[Rotunda]

2 minutes ago, Moloko Plus said:

Quote me where I said I personally was "actually quite impressed by the work of her collaborators"

I never said you said that, I was making a kind of sarcastic inference based on your refusal to give a straight response to my question. 
 

1) I noted that people who complain about the quality of Bey's albums and say that Bey doesn't contribute never actually say anyone who actually worked on the album did a bad job, which doesn't make sense if they're the ones doing all the work. 

 

2) You said you never said they did a bad job. 

 

3) So I said, okay so how can the art/quality be bad if you're "quite impressed by them, which is me jokingly asking "ok so if you're not saying they did a bad job…what are you saying?" 

[Gourgeist]

"Taylor stuns in yellow"

 

[Kassi]

I mean… I'm reading a lot of posts trying to take in both sides. But… I don't know what to say, it's just not a good album… and that's almost by definition. 
 

Are there good songs? Absolutely.

 

But what 31 track full length 2 hour album wouldn't fall under its own weight? Drake couldn't pull it off, Chris Brown couldn't pull it off, not even any of the main pop girls could pull it off. It's almost impossible. Even on Cowboy Carter, at least 7 out of the 27 tracks are interludes.
 

Taylor set herself up for failure. It's like she tried to combine two album concepts into one and crossed her fingers that her personal life would act as the thread tying everything together.

[Beyle Street]

1 minute ago, Burn said:

Funnily enough I've noticed that a lot of the people initiating the Swifty/Hive fights are actually Little Monsters.

The nerve  they don't even have a puppy in this fight, especially not with critical receptions of any album. 

[Kristie Kuwa]

1 minute ago, Kassi said:

I mean… I'm reading a lot of posts trying to take in both sides. But… I don't know what to say, it's just not a good album… and that's almost by definition. 
 

Are there good songs? Absolutely.

 

But what 31 track full length 2 hour album wouldn't fall under its own weight? Drake couldn't pull it off, Chris Brown couldn't pull it off, not even any of the main pop girls could pull it off. It's almost impossible. Even on Cowboy Carter, at least 7 out of the 27 tracks are interludes.
 

Taylor set herself up for failure. It's like she tried to combine two album concepts into one and crossed her fingers that her personal life would act as the thread tying everything together.

I dont know why, but u comparing her to Drake and Chris Brown in terms of quality makes me smile

 

[Feanor]

1 minute ago, Jay07 said:

Because you can't compare different industries, different award ceremonies and different voting bodies with different criteria. You can only compare the recipients of the same award of which Taylor has 4, more than all the women of color combined in the history of the ceremony. And that's what the people who work in the music industry think.

What the people who work in the music industry think is that the Taylor deserved to win all 4 of her AOTYs… because that's literally what they voted for. You personally may disagree with that result, but it's the outcome the members of the Recording Academy themselves decided. 

And this is the kind of respect Taylor commands from her musical peers that the producers behind the MCU flicks can't command from their respective film industry peers.

[smgupdated]

Why are there 3 Sputnik reviews, and are they serious with that 1/10? That's so ridiculous 

Edited April 22 by smgupdated

[Rafael]

I tried listening to the album but god daaaam... what a bore and one dimensional the whole thing is. It's like you're in a loop.

For a 4-time AOTY winner this is unnaceptable. She's just a pure by-the-number lazy artist at this point.

[If U Seek Amy]

Where are the people who said she buys good reviews?

[Jude]

Well, at least this confirms she does not pay the critics.

[Brikenbur]

Not the actual reviews coming in now

 

[DLW]

5 minutes ago, Jude said:

Well, at least this confirms she does not pay the critics.

 

I beg to differ 

[DLW]

Consequence of Sound - 58/100

 

https://consequence.net/2024/04/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-review/

Another yellow on her bag 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gossip_Boy]

Critics on both sides are doing entirely too much. On one hand, certain publications are going a bit overboard with the harshness of the criticism. But on the other hand, reviews like the RS one showcase exactly what's wrong with today's music journalism.

[TheHanyo]

[tomo]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[shookspeare]

what's so confusing to me is that Midnights is the album that deserved this lukewarm response  anyway I've forced myself to like most of the album but hopefully this is what gets her to pick up where she left off on folkmore 

[Wondy Lust]

This should've happened to Midnights, because I bet that album being acclaimed gave Taylor the preconceived notion that anything she touches will be treated like gold and removed any incentive for her to improve her craft like she did with Folklore. 

 

[Kimi]

1 hour ago, DLW said:

Consequence of Sound - 58/100

 

https://consequence.net/2024/04/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-review/

Another yellow on her bag 

 

 

 

 

 

 

she gets yellow but you got red, what happened 

[Bussea]

1 hour ago, DLW said:

Consequence of Sound - 58/100

 

https://consequence.net/2024/04/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-review/

Another yellow on her bag 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banned

Worried about the wrong colour bookie x 

 

[John Slayne]

Chromatica out-acclaimed 

[jjmed59]

2 minutes ago, Wondy Lust said:

This should've happened to Midnights, because I bet that album being acclaimed gave Taylor the preconceived notion that anything she touches will be treated like gold and removed any incentive for her to improve her craft like she did with Folklore. 

 

exactly exactly, which is a shame bc this is above midnights as far as my ranking of her albums go.