Album Rating: 4.5
it's just really strained symbolism imo
another awful lyric that i forgot to quote in the review: "i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere"
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Album Rating: 4.5
eh, she's had way worse lines IMO but I get it lol
not exactly living, breathing poetry
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Album Rating: 4.5
"the earliest hint was the lyric "some indie record that's much cooler than mine" ;)"
touche lmao
"i agree with most of your ranking, would push "august" to the top and lower "illicit affairs""
august rules so I'm in favor of any ranking as long as it's in the top 5
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Album Rating: 4.5
she has sort of just done it all at this point with relationship-centric lyrics. there's nothing left but forced cleverness and strain with a lot of these songs.
and this is coming from someone who genuinely thinks she has written some all-time great love/breakup songs
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im going to release bad music so that when i release okay music one day people will call it good music
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Lazy review
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Album Rating: 5.0
1 august
2 mirrorball
3 cardigan
4 betty
5 the 1
6 this is me trying
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Album Rating: 3.0
“Cardigan” is SO Lana
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My biggest issue with this album is that it feels like the vocals are distant from the production, in the sense that you could rip the vocal tracks out and put them over her older country/pop style of music and never know the difference. I think Seven and Betty are the best tracks on here because they buck that trend. Listening to a song like August gives me a weird sense of dissonance because you have this swelling, lush background but the vocal phrasing is generic Swift pop anthem. Or you get boring songs like This Is Me Trying (which wins ironic song title of the album) or Epiphany, which should have been cut in the editing process.
I guess best way to explain it is that it feels like Swift and her producers created this project separately and put the pieces together, rather than creating a cohesive whole that could have been greater than the sum of its parts.
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Album Rating: 4.5
That's actually exactly what happened. It was recorded during covid so she'd send Antonoff or Dessner a vocal melody and then they'd build around it, or vice versa.
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I get that, but it's not an excuse for the album's sound to reflect that so transparently. I'm not knocking the process, because I'm sure there are successful examples (pretty sure Great Grandpa's latest release was at least partially written and recorded this way, and Charli's release from this year definitely doesn't have that vibe). I like that Dressner will get some exposure, but I think this is a case where the whole is less than the sum of its parts.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah I'm not saying it excuses anything, just that the process occurred that way in case you weren't aware. I love it and think it sounds great for being essentially a contract-less recording, but to each their own.
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Album Rating: 4.0
peace and mirrorball are probably my favorites here, goofy lyrics notwithstanding.
Overall, it's definitely too long but I really enjoyed this. I thought it was cool for her to really hammer home a particular aesthetic this time around rather the shotgun approach of Lover and Reputation (though I enjoyed those). I welcome this more focused Taylor
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Album Rating: 4.0
"Listening to a song like August gives me a weird sense of dissonance because you have this swelling, lush background but the vocal phrasing is generic Swift pop anthem."
My favorite theme on the album is the loss of youthful hope to the cynicism of adulthood, and August captures that so well precisely because of what you described. Notice how she undercuts the lush instrumentation with the phrase "back when I was living for the hope of it all": it's a memory, not a present experience. There's a bittersweet intent to the production choices across the record, despite being borne from conditions of quarantine.
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Album Rating: 2.5
best new music
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
what actually is a mirror ball?
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Album Rating: 4.0
You know, I've never been able to get into Taylor, until this album. I can't deny this atmospheric dream pop country thing. With headphones, it's quite beautiful, even enchanting. The song Seven followed by August is when I realized that I was actually enjoying it. Solid album, definitely my favorite from her.
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Album Rating: 4.0
gonna have to ban you cole sorry
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Album Rating: 4.5
A mirrorball is apparently another word for a disco ball
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taylor swift goes black metal? cannot imagine swifts vocals over an album with this cover. like ''check out my album cover, it's nature oriented, kind of grim, you know whats really the worst thing in the world!? getting dumped! wahh wahh wahhh *whining for whole album*''
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