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She cares so much about what people think of her it makes her unlikeable and her artistry, in my opinion, phony.

Ms. Thing is so calculated and yet people try to overlook her obvious antics. She knows by doing this the reviewers will be incentivized to be positive for clicks. Other girls would be scalped for this, imagine Beyonce did this, thread would be 100 pages.

Why is she not retweeting the Pitchfork review

6.6 6. huh?

Ended those kiss-assing critics who are afraid to give her fair scores. This album is indeed a 6 at most, there's no way they would make us believe it's a 100 just bc it's by Taylor (looking at you Rolling Stone). She needs a break, switch her sound for a bit, and most of all ditch Jack AntonOFF + Aaron. And also stop adding every single song she recorded for an album on the tracklist for the sake of numbers. It's not even a conceptual thing, she literally gives the album and then the scraps along with a text with beautiful words so the fans think they're getting some high level art piece

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department-the-anthology/

Not the anthology getting the same score as PF2

Now reviewers know to praise it in return they get exposure

Him constantly queer-baiting his leftist audience because he knows his looks are the only reason why people like him

So today this thread will be a lot more lonely with some people choosing to stay in the review thread so they can cackle about a 6.6 review...

And im SAT for more to come

Too high

That's pretty accurate tbh

she heard TTPD and said

So...what exactly prevents one from flipping this question to "does anyone beside the Swifties really like the album?"

48/100 from Sputnik for the standard version, counts for Metacritic https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/88489/Taylor-Swift-The-Tortured-Poets-Department/

Being more acclaimed than Sasha Fierce and Britney Jean is the bar now?

The reason she is being discussed is because the output doesn't match the hype. That doesn't make her any less vanilla.

I thought Normani would be a one hit wonder but she's actually a zero hit wonder

Since 2006, when Taylor Swift first entered the music industry, she's been known to have said certain petty things or shown actions that paint a petty character. To really put this into analysis, I've taken it upon myself to show a detailed timeline into all the actions that can be questioned as petty / vengeful. Let's start! 2006: Taylor's debut album gets released and it features a line titled ''I'll tell mine you are gay.'' This line is in reference to an ex-boyfriend of Taylor's. She has since removed this line from streaming services but this is the first indication of what Taylor will say about you if you dare to cross her. 2008: Taylor and Joe Jonas start an end a relationship this year that ends with an infamous 30 second phone call. Rather than keep this private or reveal it in her lyrics, Taylor goes on The Ellen DeGeneres (and SNL) show to publicize this breakup and paint Joe Jonas as a bad guy. This is the first of many petty moments involving ex-boyfriends. 2010: Taylor debuts a misogynistic lyric about a mysterious woman on Better Than Revenge, despite her making feminism and girl power a massive part of her brand only a few years later. 2012: Taylor takes public shots at her shortlived romance with Harry Styles in her fourth studio album Red where she again, paints a very one sided picture. 2013: Taylor mouths ''shut the **** up'' to her best friend Selena Gomez during a speech of her ex-boyfriend Harry Styles. Later when she is presented the VMA for I Knew You Were Trouble, she takes a public shot at him saying ''this person knows exactly who he is, thank you so much!'' 2014: Taylor debuts the squad this year and has later commented on how this squad was supposed to represent everything she didn't have in high school. Despite taking public shots at Harry in 2012 and 2013, Taylor Swift debuts the song Style on her fifth studio album ''1989'' and highly publicizes their relationship yet again by referring to him in a cryptic manner in interviews about this song. 2015: Taylor highly publicizes her feud with Katy Perry in the song and video for Bad Blood but lies in an interview and says it was about an ex-boyfriend because she felt pressured directing blame at someone else. Taylor also alludes to the fact that she was aware of the negative spotlight she was putting Katy in: ''I just needed to divert the public away from the easiest target'' she says in an interview. Swift publicly feuds with Nicki Minaj after Nicki criticizes the VMAs for having racist policies. Swift thinks the tweets are aimed at her and takes cryptic shots at Nicki. Swift accuses Nicki of pitting women against each other despite Swift using her publicized feud with Katy Perry to gain streams and clicks for her song and video for ''Bad Blood'' 2017: Taylor releases her entire catalogue back to Spotify on the release date of her then arch nemesis Katy Perry's fourth studio album ''Witness'' Taylor releases her sixth studio album ''Reputation'' on the 10-year anniversary of West's mother's death ''Donda'' 2019: Taylor Swift releases her seventh studio album ''Lover'' in which she seemingly portrays emotions of indifference towards her publicized feud with Kanye West. Later during the Lover era she would publicize the feud yet again in an interview with Rolling Stone despite West's wife Kim Kardashian saying there was no bad blood between them anymore. 2020: Swift releases a post on her Instagram Stories to bring attention to the COVID-19 crisis, but before she does this she yet again posts about the feud with Kanye. Saying that the situation put her, and her family, and her fans through ''hell'' 2021: Taylor publicly slams Netflix for a line in a tv show and creates a tweet that states that it doesn't look ''cute'' on Netflix to do this after Miss Americana despite failing to mention that her fans were sending racist death threats to the actress who said this line, Antonia Gentry. Taylor begins a friendship with her protegés Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Gray. This leads to a fallout in which Taylor gets a writing credit for the song ''deja vu'' and later releases her vault song ''Nothing New'' that portrays her feelings about her being replaced in the music industry by a younger artist. Taylor releases her second re-recording album ''Red (Taylor's Version) in which she publicizes her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal and stays silent when her fans send death threats towards him. 2022: Eric Eidelstein reveals Taylor Swift's team would issue fatwa's over major publications declaring them to shut their mouth and not dare to say anything negative about her, or else there would follow blacklists around the industry. Taylor tweets about Halsey's new studio album 'If I Can't Have Hits, I Want Acclaim' on the day/release week of West's studio album as well despite Taylor never tweeting about Halsey before that. 2023: Swift's TIME Person Of The Year profile gets released in which she once again publicizes her feud with West to further promote her future re-recording Reputation (Taylor's Version) and her eleventh studio album ''The Tortured Poets Department'' Swift collaborates with new upcoming rapper Ice Spice after being criticized for dating Matty Healy, who made racist and deragatory comments about Ice Spice and black women in general Swift releases 1989 (Taylor's Version) and celebrates her fans attacking and doxxing people online for spreading leaks, and polices Taylor Nation to search the entire internet and publicly nail and sue everyone who engages in the leaks to the cross. Taylor announces Sabrina Carpenter, who is in a publicized feud with Olivia Rodrigo, to be the opener for several of her Eras Tour dates. Taylor begins a friendship with Sabrina immediately after her fallout with Rodrigo. 2024: Taylor releases her eleventh studio album ''The Tortured Poets Department'' which lyrics contain revelations of infidelity due to her ex-boyfriend's Joe Alwyn's depression, not caring about the opinion of her fans on her dating racist Matty Healy, portraying the relationship with Travis Kelce to be nothing more than her reliving her high school days, and once again, eight years later, releasing yet another song about the West feud, this time aimed towards Kim Kardashian, even going as far as bringing her kid into it. Taylor retweets positive reviews of her album ''TTPD'' directly after Pitchfork gives a mediocre 6.6 score for The Tortured Poets Department Taylor releases the song ''Clara Bow'' which lyrics aim to criticize the music industry's behavior towards newer artists despite her questionable behavior towards newcomer Olivia Rodrigo only 3 years prior.

What else can they say about 15 songs that sound the same?

not her thinking Taylor sings it. forgetful queen

It's signed with invisible ink! You need to pay $39.99 (plus shipping) for the magic glasses that allow you to see the signature

Open the schools

Ok, Taylor. Let's get you to bed.

Her saying "I guess I just need to write better songs" and then writing ME!th in the next scene was PEAK camp

But isn't the music supposed to be about her life? This is the downside of making everything so personal

Taylor doesn't have a flop era so they have to imagine one

Shocker. Do we really care about this man unless he has his shirt off or is bent over showing arse? Sucks but it's the reality of his career.

I'm sorry to break it to you but you don't have an exclusive relationship w this woman

This is all in fun, I always see atrlers making messy threads about my fav so it's only fair.

wrong discovery

She gets one bad review and "the world hates her". Do you guys ever get tired victimizing a billionaire?

No but that thumbnail made me remember this classic

Because when there's a multitude yelling at you that she's the best songwriter of our generation with those lyrics, people are gonna react and smack the lies out of them. Her and her stans' behavior is the cause of any "discourse", not the music. No one's out there saying "this album was too experimental for me"

Clock that tea!

well it's a worse album

when Pitchfork listened This Is Me... Now, they were probably able to differentiate songs from each other and was able to hear various melodies that doesn't sound alike

They actually didn't. The second paragraph is just setting the scene on her celebrity being bigger than ever. No personal details are mentioned in the 10 other paragraphs that follow it.

Obsessed with her commitment to attacking any and every D list gay that praises her.

You shouldn't have to care if you're a fan but it is pretty telling that Pitchfork doesn't bow down to threats from Swifties like RS would. This album has been very poorly received by honest critics and by music fans (not just pop music fans, that's the difference). That does paint a picture about how supposedly ''good'' this album actually is if you take Spotify numbers out of it.

Wow at some Swifties belittling Adele's 3.4M million sales because of iTunes downloads like it was so easy to pull those numbers. It's the all time record for a reason.

calling any album bland to defend this one is kinda ironic

This can't be possible because ATRL told me one hour ago that they would rate it higher than Midnights

I remember them having a whole spat on twitter awhile ago I think Azealia said she tricked MNEK into thinking she wanted to work with him but the only reason she invited him to the studio was because one of her friends wanted MNEK to suck his dick