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I'd rather she'd just leave the Showgirl era behind and reflect on it as a valuable learning experience and constant reminder of the direction the public never want her to go in again. Onwards and upwards.

The last few general elections in NI have shown an overall Nationalist majority. Sinn Fein (the leading nationalist party) are the biggest party and the first minister is a Nationalist woman.

I wouldn't bet on her beating Ella Langley. That being said, she rarely does anything without it meaning something. Confirming her attendance at the CMAs is (to me at least) a pretty huge statement and as good as solidifies her next musical move being a full return to country.

we need liz rose in the room

If she wanted to play it safe and go for the perfect combination of critical acclaim and swiftie mania, she could just record essentially 10 new All Too Wells and make that the album. Not exactly revolutionary but it would make for a fitting TS13. Passionate grown-up guitar rock disguised as country would be a welcome move in my opinion.

I do generally think her next step into country will be more in line with more traditional country sounds/writing with some experimentation with less conventional chord sequences than the country songs she put out in her first 4 albums. I think sonically we will probably hear more harmonicas and 60s/70s country sounds than the bouncy pop-rock country of her earliest albums. I think a song like Better Man (Taylor's Version), while having a more conventional chord sequence and structure than a song like IKIIKY, is the kind of country she'll veer into on TS13. I for one would love TS13 to be somewhere between the kind of country found on RED and the sounds of the 70s female singer-songwriter acoustic pop (Carole King, Carly Simon, Fleetwood Mac).

There's nothing on TLOAS quite as atrocious as ME! (one or two come close) and folklore came a year later to give her an appreciation from critics she'd never seen the like of.

with a heavy heart I must admit that the true SOTY is Choosin' Texas

I genuinely feel it's one of the album releases this decade that could genuinely be described as unavoidable. She was being dragged from pillar to post and criticised for every reason under the sun (many being valid reasons, others being batshit crazy schizophrenic reasons). If you were online at all, you were hearing about Showgirl.

She deserves her Cowboy Carter moment

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I fully think she is going home to Nashville with the next album and it's going to be singer-songwriter focussed. The Grammys interview and performance was more of a precursor to the next era rather than a cry for awards for the last one (hence why it wasn't mentioned at all). TayCountry is coming to reclaim her crown

her 10 track classic country masterpiece is coming

It's catchier and easier to sing along with. Man I Need has always reminded me of one of those old school soul pop classics that would be played at the end of a 90s romcom. It's been a while since someone committed to that sound.

I've had such a heaviness in my heart that won't let up since the news broke. A world without Dolly is a much sadder place. 💔