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I'm very glad she's doing this. She needs fanbase engagement asap (and a sign of gratitude for all the people who bought 20 variants). I think it would cause severe career damage if she just left the era dead in its ditch after the #1 peak. I'm not sure why people have been so checked out after Flowers, even though she's dropped some of her best music but she should keep pushing regardless. The new album isn't as good as SB, but Different Religion, Redlights and Orbit deserve to reach more ears, somehow.

The backlash over these specific 4 songs is not valid because they're mostly fine. Their 'badness' is being exaggerated because of an accumulated Taylor fatigue, which is extremely valid because she's a below-mediocre artist who's been releasing bad music in huge quantities for too long. I blame The Tortured Vinyl Factories. No one needed 35 new Taylor songs in 24 hours.

She should have done the VMAs, for fanbase feeding purposes if not for anything else. If she couldn't bother learning the BP choreo, she could have done Let's Get Married or whatever

This isn't even a flop. This is non-existence. The album has, clearly, only been played by her (small) fanbase and a minority of pop fans. She needs to get out there and perform. There's no reason not to be performing her lead at the VMAs and maybe hit up a few talk shows and perform Redlights, the only song holding up on streams.

I think Taylor Swift's main issue is that there is way too much Taylor Swift music out there already and, unless she figures out how to turn back time, there's nothing she can do about that. 3/4 of these panned deluxe songs are actually solid, harmless songs but she's made so many similar ones that people are just exhausted and vomit out the new ones. Whatever she makes next, even if it's with a new co-writer and producer like her fans beg her, it's bound to sound like one of the 300+ songs she's already churned out. And that's more songs than we have (or need) even from artists that are actually talented and interesting, let alone her.

The fact that even the one song people point to as a saving grace includes the line "Twenty watches in the safe 'cause your time is money"

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Well, slow midtempo? It's not a dance song

A VMA's performance of Bass Persuades (with Different Religion thrown in for a few seconds) would kind of give this album a lifeline I think She's... not gonna be there, right?

The album sounds like it needed several extra months of work, not 2 weeks. So, no.

This is by far my favorite song on the album, but the visual is NOT it. Why is she dancing this hard for an r&b ballad? This ain't "Freakum Dress". I feel kind of bad for Chloe and other similarly talented girls because she is a BEAST but the r&b music that's currently viable is slow and moody. I feel that ever since Treat Me flopped, she's been trying to normalize her sound and go for basic, commercial r&b, but if she's still performing and visualizing like this, it won't work. She might as well stick to releasing "Body Do" and ignore the haters calling it Empire music.

143 will never be safe. It was her second comeback attempt after years of building up goodwill and she ran back to the highly problematic hitmaker of her prime in the promise of success, planning a long and extensive rollout with multiple singles each with a glossy high budget video, a VMAs medley, the whole thing. What makes 143 such a pathetic disaster is how she was so aggressively aiming for a re-peak only to sink to the absolute bottom of the pop barrell. Miley bombed but with significantly less desperation and effort. Her 143 would be if she put on a Bangerz wig and released a Mike Will Made It lead single with a video of her sucking on a doorknob or something.

Hmmm, on first spin, this doesn't appeal to me as much as the previous album, which was my favorite from her. I liked 'Estranged', 'Write me a Letter' and 'Radio' (and out of the singles I really liked Memories), but... even those didn't really leave an impression. I'll revisit at some point to see if it grows, which is likely.

Girl OMG I had completely forgotten about the Tainy/Balvin song (like everyone else). That had a TWO HUNDRED FORTY (240) MILLION playlist reach. Literally twice as much as Bass Persuades and they put it on every sub-genre and every mood playlist, all for a #66 peak The nerve of you to say she had 1/10th of Miley's playlist promo. Can't Get Enough (with J Balvin/Tainy): 239 million Call Me When You Break Up (with Gracie Abrams): 146 million Ojos Tristes (with the Marias): 140 million Sunset Blvd: 60 million Bluest Flame: 35 million = 620 MILLION -- -- -- QUADRUPLE BARRIER -- -- -- Bass Persuades: 121 million Let's Get Married: 46 million = 167 MILLION