celeb news Taylor's songwriting skills are questioned in massive viral tweet

[georgechxng]

This tweet has generated a lot of discourse on twitter. Are you surprised to see such take?

[PoisonedIvy]

HER DOWNFALL IS IMMINENT!!! JUST YOU WAIT GUYS!! ANY DAY NOW!!! THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS WAKING UP!!! HISTORY WILL NOT REMEMBER HER!!!! HER WRITING IS MEDIOCRE, SHE CAN'T DANCE OR SING AND HER FANS ARE SHEEP!!! I MUST MAKE THIS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR BY SHOUTING IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS LOUDLY AND FREQUENTLY!!!

Edited June 18 by PoisonedIvy

[Brooklyn Baby]

We should increase viral thresholds for Taylor threads to 500k likes or something cause she goes "viral" every day.

 

See when you cause this much discussion 

[BryceG]

Fake as **** viral post though. 

[Draper.]

This is all promo for Reputation TV!1!1!1!

[niiall]

Screaming at "lacking minimalism"  what does that even mean?

[byzantium]

She has been around for 18 years now.  Some of you need to learn to move on.  

[WildAmerican]

if anything, her recent output shows that she knows she doesn't have to try that hard anymore lol she could say anything and smash so hard, so there's no incentive to try that hard...

Edited June 18 by WildAmerican

[PoisonedIvy]

Anyway, to contribute sensibly:

 

Taylor is not "the greatest" songwriter of any period of time. No one is. Art is subjective, but her writing undoubtedly connects with a multitude of people across many different countries, nationalities, genres, sexual/racial/age demographics. She is one of the most prolific songwriters of our time for that reason alone. Anyone trying to downplay that is arguing in bad faith and, more often than not, is unfamiliar with the parts of her catalogue that are actually respectable and above the average skill level of other songwriters (with notable exceptions being the literal poets of our generation like Lana, Lorde, Caroline, and the likes of which most other pop and country songwriters don't even hold a candle to.)

[mercurialworld]

2 minutes ago, PoisonedIvy said:

HER DOWNFALL IS IMMINENT!!! JUST YOU WAIT GUYS!! ANY DAY NOW!!! THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS WAKING UP!!! HISTORY WILL NOT REMEMBER HER!!!! HER WRITING IS MEDIOCRE, SHE CAN'T DANCE OR SING AND HER FANS ARE SHEEP!!! I MUST MAKE THIS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR BY SHOUTING IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS LOUDLY AND FREQUENTLY!!!

https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/xanax-purpose-dosage-side-effects/

[CandleGuy]

Criticizing anyone's songwriting when their tweet sounds like they wrote it with four thesaurus tabs open 

 

Edited June 18 by CandleGuy

[Trent W]

The mods need to ban Taylor threads tbh

 

The discussion should be just held in her base for a while 

[50thStateofMind]

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lacks cohesion & minimalism

what kind of elementary-school assessment of songwriting  

[CandleGuy]

That's a ChatGPT ass "insult Taylor Swift but make it sound smart" ass tweet

[PoisonedIvy]

2 minutes ago, mercurialworld said:

https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/xanax-purpose-dosage-side-effects/

Actually I'm much more partial to psychedelics, thank you. Haven't touched Xanax in over a decade at this point. Lana's wonderful discography is a natural depressant for me and helps me obtain optimal levels of melatonin <3 

[dman4life]

Y'all ain't TIRED!? 

[Bosque]

"She's prolific, but her songwriting is rudimentary and lacks cohesion & minimalism. She fails to convey meaning because she's pretentious & superfluous."

 

That literally doesn't mean anything, it's gibberish

[Lagerfeld]

4 minutes ago, Trent W said:

The mods need to ban Taylor threads tbh

 

The discussion should be just held in her base for a while 

Why? This is a mega-viral tweet. I thought the limit was 100K?

[YellowRibbon]

An echo chamber of 300-400K stans on Twitter is just that, nothing more, nothing less. These aren't her listeners anyway so I wonder... Does it feel tiring when you scream constantly about how much you dislike something, just for it to not change the situation that's triggering you so much at all? 

[Vixen Eyes]

I see zero lies. 

[Trainwreck]

8 minutes ago, Trent W said:

The mods need to ban Taylor threads tbh

 

The discussion should be just held in her base for a while 

They can't afford themselves that, Taylor is the ONLY reason this pisshole is still running

[Peak Now]

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rudimentary and lacks cohesion & minimalism. It fails to convey meaning because it's pretentious & superfluous.

The self-own 

[YellowRibbon]

Also, yeah, we know she's not the best poet or songwriter out there from an "academic" pov, BUT, to be the "Songwriter of a Generation" you don't necessarily need to be the best at it in a technical way. 

 

Taylor's entire character & marketing is centered around writing these very mundane feelings with a diaristic approach in song format, she has mass-appel, something that "academically" better songwriters usually lack. 

 

Nobody in their right mind will come here and say stuff like "Taylor is a better songwriter than Kate Bush or Fiona Apple", but from a global perspective, most people outside very specific music niches don't know anything about these "better" songwriters so they pick the most recognizable that made it into the mainstream sphere and has maintained a 17 years long career in the mainstream sphere. 

Edited June 18 by YellowRibbon

[réveuse]

It's funny how some people think she's the greatest songwriter of our generation.

[Windy Day]

9 minutes ago, YellowRibbon said:

An echo chamber of 300-400K stans on Twitter is just that, nothing more, nothing less. These aren't her listeners anyway so I wonder... Does it feel tiring when you scream constantly about how much you dislike something, just for it to not change the situation that's triggering you so much at all? 

i don't think yall know how twitter works in 2024 lmao those tweets are constantly on my friends' timeline and they aren't on stan twitter. this tweet in particular has almost 20M views