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idk about all that, I just don't think her music's all that good

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Jokes aside, I do kinda agree with you nightbringer, and I ain't even a fan. But Sput in the past definitely has their preconceived opinions on certain artists that can be hard to shake when the ratings come out.

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Yeah, everything I said is compatible with her music sucking, and there being non-cynical people who see the suckiness clearly.



But I maintain that lots of people on Sput are so cynical about Taylor that their judgement is affected by a negativity filter. They would see suckiness whether or not the music really sucked so badly.

The Life of Sucking

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Used to happen all the time w/ certain emo and scene bands lol at least I remember from when I first started. Seemed like certain bands would attract 1's en masse by default.

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Yeah, and I can think of plenty of examples of myself succumbing to such biases. I was very cynical of the hype given to the Arctic Monkeys by my normie indie-lite friends back in the mid-2000s and as a result I absolutely trashed their debut in ways that now seem unwarranted to me. Same thing happened with me and MCR when they came out lol.

the averages for MCR's albums on here are still a fucking travesty.

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@JerseyJimmy - that's one of the bands I had in mind lol I remember at one point The Black Parade being like a 3.3 or 3.4



Even now it pains me to see all the low ratings that are there permanently.

I'm curious what the ratings would average out to if you discounted everything from before they broke up. feel like Black Parade and Three Cheers would be 4s, or at least close.

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When I'm next at my desktop, I'll take a full-screenshot of the ratings and ask chatgpt to average the ratings past the breakup date.

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You're probably not far off. The Three Cheers remaster is at a 4.3 (granted it's a small sample size)

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Plus another Sput-hated album I'm willing to die on a hill for.



Yes, I know Black Veil Brides is cringe. I do agree that their debut isn't great. But ain't no way in hell that Set The World on Fire deserves as many 1's and as low an avg as it does lmao

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@Nightbrigher —

I think Red, 1989, Folklore, Evermore, and parts of Reputation — plus plenty of scattered gems across her catalog — are all stellar.



My comments apply solely to the trash heap before us in The Life of a Showgirl.



As for why this particular trash heap is soft-MAGA, it’s clearest in Wi$h Li$t, which is quietly vile start to finish — though the rot seeps through the entire record. Taylor deliberately glorifies domestic submission and, maybe unintentionally but unmistakably, reframes acquiescence to patriarchal, right-wing expectations as a glamorous choice.



When conservatives rip away no-fault divorce and reproductive autonomy, Taylor will be fine — she’ll retreat to her mansion cushioned by billions. But many of the women and girls inspired by the trad-wife fantasy she is actively now promoting will find themselves trapped.



If you don’t see this as a calculated brand reinvention for the second Trump presidency, then, frankly, you’re not seeing much at all.

and you have to remember that we're talking about an honest-to-god billionaire here. that's an asterisk that has to come before any discussion of this nature.

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I find that a wild, borderline conspiratorial take. Can you provide specific lyrics that support your reading?

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Ignoring it politically, it's really off-putting to be a billionaire and make a song about how its so crazy and foolish that everyone wants to be rich and award-winning but oh, Taylor Swift (a person with 1 billion awards and 1 billion dollars) just wants a nice middle class house with a driveway and to be left alone

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Whats even more irksome is I like a little megalomaniac/insane Taylor Swift but nothing at all sounds good sonically, and all the braggadocio feels like its in the wrong places. The love songs feel loveless and the digs feel like the most passionate thing about it. There are a couple Swift albums I really like (I think she peaks at Speak Now), and even on her lesser records there's good stuff (I admit to liking a good handful of the 30-track beast that is TTPD). Here there's just...nothing. Opalite sounds nice. That's it for me

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I have no dog in the political theories regarding her lyrics or messaging, but I will at least say she's been more than happy to associate herself with prominent figures on the right lately.



That said, it would be unfair to use that as ammunition to speculate. I have friends that don't see eye-to-eye with me politically either, but we're still friends.

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To be clear, I understand having qualms about how closely Taylor's music links happiness with having a man, and melancholy with losing one. But this is hardly some new, MAGA-sensitive pandering. She's always been obsessed with romance to an arguably unfeminist degree. Honestly, I think Father Figure would be a poor fit on an album designed to be MAGA-pleasing, given how easily its criticism of a certain kind of male power figure can apply to Trump.



Unless you think dating, now marrying, Kelce is itself a cynical brand move, the reason for the album's happy, romantically insular tone is simple: she's mostly a romantically insular songwriter and this time she's genuinely happy. Marriage isn't something owned by the right, it's just very ordinary human stuff

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@nightbringer - pretty solid point tbh it's not like her fawning over a man is anything new.