Achilles.

Top 25 but there are a handful of songs above it that shouldn't be. I mean I don't think it's bad but it never really grabbed me. Only two songs managed more than 20 plays; a Showgirl boatmate in that regard (although Abracadabra doubled Ophelia).

So she does want to play her.

I did the discography sorter last night so: 107 Florida 202 Me 243 Cancelled 250 Cleveland 256 **** Out of 260.

Troye Sivan arriving to the rising stars event:

Safe & Sound!

I did one of those discography sorters last night for the first time since the album came out… its highest entry was outside the top 200.

I don't even consider Navarrette's performance worthy of nomination. She gave a decent performance in an average-at-best film. Big Obsession spoilers

Dolly Parton's classic "Jolene" has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify, becoming the oldest non-holiday song by a solo female artist to hit that mark (only Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is older). It joins Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" as Dolly's second composition to join the Billions Club. Dolly wrote both songs alone, famously doing so in the same day.

Just looked at lastfm and realized I haven't played any of the album tracks on Showgirl since 2025… Even the singles are at 5/5/2… The things supa is asking of me…

The photos all being chops

I wonder if she can name a Taylor Swift song yet.

Yes, the song exposes how insecure she is and makes it pretty clear that she's settling for less because she needed the validation of a ring to prove that someone could actually want her for forever.

2010 Taylor Swift 2012 Taylor Swift 2014 Taylor Swift 2020 Taylor Swift

SAVE: Bizarre OFF: One Step Away

Some people really think they're funny.

Taylor's success is due to white women. The reason Madonna gets treated like an 80s fad by straight people is because she became "too gay" for white women after that.

I don't really think she made a deliberately bad album, but she was very intentional about why she made Showgirl the album it is. I doubt that she anticipated this level of negative reaction. She's talked in the past about how she makes her albums in response to the criticisms people have of the previous work. People complained that TTPD was too long, too boring, too much Antonoff, too wordy. So she pivoted in the complete opposite direction; short, fewer songs, all Max Martin, basic pop bops, minimal lyricism. She gave you exactly what yall asked for. You asked for **** and she gave it to you. She provided a bounty of career highs on Poets and they were not properly appreciated, so she said no more. This is why we can't have nice things.

Fun performance, she looked great.

The way I didn't care for Virgin on my first listen last year but Showgirl was so bad it made me go back and give it a second chance. Sledgehammer and Shapeshifter are so good.

You guys are getting ads?

We've found it. The worst Taylor Swift opinion in ATRL history.

I'm saying it because most of his work across his career sucks and the music hitmakers like Madonna, Tina, George, Whitney, Celine, Janet, Kylie, ABBA, Cher, Prince, etc were producing before he hit the scene was better than what pop music became due to him. Showgirl sucks, but it's not that much worse than any other album he's worked on.

Not really. Fearless, Speak Now, and evermore are underrated here. Midnights should be at least equal to reputation if not higher. Tortured Poets is significantly better than this suggests.

Taylor is to blame because the concept, theme, aesthetic of the era were her bad idea and everything is built upon that rotten foundation. Travis is to blame for being a mediocre muse. Tortured Poets haters are to blame because she has openly talked about how her projects are made in response to the criticisms of the one before. You said too many songs, she made fewer songs. You said too much Antonoff, she dumped Antonoff. You said not enough basic pop bops, she made basic pop bops. You said too wordy, too much songwriting, so she served no songwriting. She kinda forgot to make any music for people who actually like Tortured Poets—you know, her actual fans. Max Martin is to blame for being a mediocre, washed up producer who's been undeservedly overhyped for more than 20 years. He's not largely responsible for Showgirl being such an awful misfire, but he is to blame for worsening the entire genre. Pop music was better before he came along.

The concept of one made up VMA being more prestigious than another when no VMA is prestigious at all.