Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

Oh you mean these?



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Well well well https://www.vibe.com/news/entertainment/taylor-swift-diddy-fun-prom-date-video-resurfaced-1234936664/

taylor swift ft. ivanka trump when 😍

She should just switch to full AI. I don't think it would make much of a difference in the music. She has enough content to train an AI model on.

Hologram world tour, another billy. Do it taylor. Commit to the bit.

Wow this is really that bad huh

Album Rating: 3.5

A lot's been said but I didn't really think this is that bad. Music is catchy and fun. Very shallow. Occasionally cringey. Nothing shocking about it.

Swaylor Tift

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sowing cmon lol

Album Rating: 3.5

I get the hate for the lyrics and pretty much covered that in my review, but I don't see how anyone could pass on some of these melodies. The songs may be mostly vapid, but they're bops. Subjective in nature for sure, but finding Swift's music catchy isn't really a bold or divergent statement lol.

How lukewarm is the oatmeal this time

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but i don't want passable tv static pops i want more than that i demand more

Album Rating: 1.0

The opener isn't bad, and even the 2 songs afterward aren't completely awful, but the rest is really terrible. Why did she stop trying after those 3 songs?

Album Rating: 2.5

I actually read the discussion here, and I’m a little confused. & really tired from work, so happy to be distracted by this:



I think this album is lyrically less pretentious than her previous one. That said, it’s still at about the literary level of sophomores, with some ood girl innuendos picked up from her little brother, visuals inspired by Scorsese’s Gatsby, and so on...But this is what this country's literacy level can muster.



That said, songs like Ophelia and Opalite are very very catchy. The closing track with Sabrina, surprisingly, isn’t. But it’s hard to say this—or, for that matter, her earlier music—is bad. It’s not. It’s pleasant and popular for good reason.



The “oatmeal” attack is weird. This is mainstream pop music. What do you expect? Experimental noise? 90s garage band midwest emo ripped from that one website we all downloaded from? Come on.



As for the “diary” aspect- I mean, that’s her whole appeal. Her fans want to keep participating in her life this way. That’s the genre, basking in Tay Tay's aura...I don’t give a shit about her 10yo beefs, but young women do, so they get lyrics about them. If they are able to relate, good for them?



And I’m not sure what the photos above are supposed to prove. Taylor’s secretly a Nazi? A Trumpist? Come on.



I think it’s fair to say she doesn’t stand for much. Her success comes from essentializing white American womanhood in a pleasant enough way.



If we want to get really critical, we could talk about “imperial whiteness” or whatever...but who in the mainstream is any different? That’s what American music is, what American centrist politics are, what American cinema is too...



Taylor is the American empire in its best light: a little dem-y, a little girly, a little more pleasant, and a little less scary. Compared to the big boyfriend. With his big wood, and uproar on the field, and whatnot. She's the Kamala singing pop rock soundtrack for her Stephen Miller.



It's the Desperate Housewives, the Gilmore Girls, the whatever HBO show we take. Well crafted, ultimately shallow, pseudo progressive cleavage for centrist/conservative beliefs. And it's hot. And rich, because we like rich people who have our problems and don't care about riches. Critique absent criticism.



It's the 6/10 college girl White Lotus. But does that mean it's *bad*? I guess depending on what you expect...



Ok, enough, going to sleep lol.

Album Rating: 2.5

Edit:



Hmm. Perhaps what has changed is that she's pretending less to stand for anything than before? You grow older and just care less about masking your ultimately conservative desires (money, house, family) under the pseudo-progressive vibe. But now that I'm thinking about it, perhaps there's something to be said that the nostalgic aesthetic is not accidental, and that there's been a tone shift together with that in the society/politics. A little Lana Del Rey than Cozy Girl Autumn...I guess the song "Cancelled" is surprising when contrasted with her public previous persona – I wouldn't have expected it, tbf.

"The “oatmeal” attack is weird. This is mainstream pop music. What do you expect? Experimental noise? 90s garage band midwest emo ripped from that one website we all downloaded from? Come on."

Oh so it's very bland got it

Album Rating: 1.5

It’s not as bland as her last record but it is somehow worse if that makes sense

I would have to listen to either and I'm just not going to do that

Album Rating: 2.5

"It’s not as bland as her last record but it is somehow worse if that makes sense"



I see what you mean, but I think I'd much rather listen to this; she just sounds more natural over pop instrumentation as opposed to whatever was going on for the majority of TTPD, even if the lyrics are somehow worse.

I mean she always been kinda non offensive easy on the ears pop songwriter...so not really that high of a hill to fall. She's just following footsteps of every popstar that ever was. I'm sure she'll drop a random album we will go crazy for.

Album Rating: 1.5

@chris

Ya you get it. This thing is a fucking trainwreck but Tortured Poets is like spending a day at the DMV. Yeah, a trainwreck is undeniably worse, but it’s for sure more exciting than the fucking DMV.



@razeen

That already happened tho, Folklore is by far the best thing she’s ever done and unless she teams up with more talented songwriters she’ll never drop anything that good again.