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If you give fans what they want, which can be risky, most importantly it must be done in a way that does it justice.

It's valid and does hurt the way she's perceived. Will she be less succesful? No. But will she be remembered differently if she continues this path of sh*tty music? Absolutely.

Beyoncé probably (though, she does get a lot of hate like any big star).

That's what they get for bought awards and dumbly losing prestige.

Crazy In Love is

Track 10 seems like it could be insanely good

Cowboy Carter > Anti > Mayhem The Life of A Showgirl: The Encore

Omg, a 25 from Paste?

Beyoncé (unfortunately) helped popularize Cowboycore/rodeo-glam.

I kinda don't get the PR pov of this deluxe. The Toy Story song was received well, but now she's returned to the bad press she was finally kinda getting rid of post-Showgirl?

Maybe God is actually real

The narrative will shift to Jay-Z supposedly paying her, which is dumb as hell. His haters don't wanna come to terms (for some reason) that this was a MAGA-orchestrated witch hunt. The lawyer Buzbee is highly associated with the Trump administration.

We been knew. Taypropaganda must end!

The way he (and they as in The Carters) will forever have this allegation held against them unfairly is so…

This self-drag when Mayhem's only top 5 single was the Bruno collab.

Irish Times gave a 80/100. They gave the OG version a 100/100. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2026/09/25/taylor-swifts-showgirl-encore-three-superb-new-songs-some-newly-wed-cringe-and-a-colin-farrell-cameo/

Where did I say that she's not able to fill stadiums and not a phenomenal performer?

Mayhem is her first decent album in a decade. What consistency are we speaking of here?

Beyoncé has been consistent I'd say.

Swifties on Twitter are hating it. Did not expect to be liking it a bit more than Twitter Swifties.

She tore

Not blaming only the producers, just that the three of them are not a good team anymore, in my opinion.

It's the best example of why Max Martin/Shellback x Taylor just doesn't work anymore. The biggest issue on the Encore, like the OG, is the production, in my opinion.

Patient Zero and Pink Clouding being better than most of the OG, besides Ophelia and Opalite. I'll ignore Cleveland for the rest of my life.

MTV's about to give her all the VMAs there are for this, even where she's not nominated and non-existing ones!