51 minutes ago, Kyle-x said:

All the new songs kinda hitting for me now idk... Tayelixir

Hey bestie! I was just thinking about you yesterday!

5 hours ago, Sasori. said:

people wanting taylor to do "experimental" music and play with her art and then can't even handle a slightly unconventional spoken bridge…….

like, let's be serious

@punisher is not wrong. You don't have to attack every criticism, he is not hater or something.

2 hours ago, zuper said:

No, the last time the critics and hate was this loud, we had rep -> lover - > folklore -> evermore in the span of three years. People forgot that the standard version of TLOAS was written in summer 2024, two years ago.

The erasure of the half end of 1989 era being a PR disaster.

now we need someone close to her to say what punisher said to her ears

like ts13 should be a completely new sound for her. going back to root is kinda lame, judging by her recent outputs.

the Patient Zero bridge is definitely clunky and just doesnt sound pleasing to the ears, it is what it is
sometimes less is more
but besides that its great and still a 8/10 song

41 minutes ago, liam13 said:

now we need someone close to her to say what punisher said to her ears

like ts13 should be a completely new sound for her. going back to root is kinda lame, judging by her recent outputs.

Dubstep record here we go!

1 hour ago, Kyle-x said:

All the new songs kinda hitting for me now idk... Tayelixir

yeah maybe i’m on a big taypositivity wave but all songs are hitting

4 hours ago, fridayteenage said:

Apple

2

+2

Taylor Swift - Babylon

My taste. I said from first listen that this is the one.

1 hour ago, Calvin said:

@punisher is not wrong. You don't have to attack every criticism, he is not hater or something.

People are so ******* extra when discussing bridges and Taylor. I can't recall a single other thread on ATRL talking about bridges that was about another artist. I also could not care less about "experimental music". I don't listen to top 40 pop music for that.

2 hours ago, Europe said:

I really don't see what is so wrong with Patient Zero's bridge. It's a spoken word bridge so what? It worked on We are never ever getting back together and shake it off and it clearly works here as well. It is perfectly fine.

Right. I feel that dislike has to be constitutive enough beyond Cleveland point, so that's why people are trying to pin point "bad" things in rather solid songs.

Patient Zero is Taylor Swift hallmark and the very good kind at that.

babylon is the definitely the most earworm out of all 4 songs

but the production and the beat are a bit muted so i dont see it becoming a hit

Aaron could have produced Babylon............

2 minutes ago, mael said:

Aaron could have produced Babylon............

He essentially did. Listen to the Renegade/Babylon mix.

if you had told me when Midnights was released and The Eras Tour became global cultural and historic smasha that we would end up like ME! release week but worse

it's just annoying cause we thought we were out of the woods.mp3 after the traumatising showgirl release, and she just doubled down and reprised that entire week just to put out 4 mid songs. for some weird reason the hate feels so much louder this time.

5 minutes ago, punisher said:

it's just annoying cause we thought we were out of the woods.mp3 after the traumatising showgirl release, and she just doubled down and reprised that entire week just to put out 4 mid songs. for some weird reason the hate feels so much louder this time.

You sound easily influenced by online rhetoric tbh.

Critics still going through mass psychosis huh

Just now, on the line said:

You sound easily influenced by online rhetoric tbh.

This too... like? Why are people letting critics and tiktok losers influence if they should like or dislike something

Midnight Rain, Question and closure aren't the best examples of songs that aren't/weren't hated

Perched for a gaggy update today or a total slaughter!

This hate train seems so odd and forced…

Ophelia is really some of her best work ever. I hope she campaigns hard on it and ignores the rest of the album (until she tours again ofc). It just feels like her best shot at Record of the Year and I'd hate for it to be bogged down by an entire project with such lukewarm, almost panned reception.

1 hour ago, YellowRibbon said:

This too... like? Why are people letting critics and tiktok losers influence if they should like or dislike something

1 hour ago, on the line said:

You sound easily influenced by online rhetoric tbh.

yall were crying on here cause i said the songs were mid and the deluxe was unnecessary… before any online discourse started. and now yall are mad i stuck to my initial opinion? and how am i easily influenced when ive been openly enjoying the standard showgirl album which was just as panned as this?

sorry im not glad that she's a laughing stock once again, and on top of that we got no good music. lord if yall spent half this energy streaming the deluxe you allegedly love

1 hour ago, By the Water said:

Midnight Rain, Question and closure aren't the best examples of songs that aren't/weren't hated

yeah midnight rain the album track with almost a billion streams! and i literally said the bridge is not the part that people hate from question

what is cupcake swifties' obsession with picking and choosing what they want to read