Album Rating: 3.0

shake it off isn't actually bad ._.



only bad songs are bad blood and new york.

and out of the woods

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

Shake it off is literally the worst song of 2014.

"Shake it off is literally the worst song of 2014."
You must not have heard very many songs from 2014

Why keep commenting on an album you don't like? Lol

what's wrong with that

Eh, there's a difference between having fun in a thread, and continuing to beat up on an album with ridiculous comments

commenting on an album you don't like doesn't mean continuing to beat up on an album with ridiculous comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Out of the Woods is one of the best songs here, not one of the worst



And Shake It Off is definitely not the worst song of the year...Taylor Swift could sneeze and it would sound better than some of the shit that's going on out there these days.

I'm obviously not talking about you, tree.

well the first post doesn't make that very obvious

Album Rating: 2.5

I cringe throughout a number of her verses. This album is maddening. Swift's handlers seem to do everything else right:

the orchestration, the production, the structure, the pacing, etc etc. I just wish someone wrote her better lyrics, because

they prevent me from enjoying almost any other aspect of this record.



I dunno, maybe I'm a fucking pleb, but despite enjoying a number of other "pop" records, I can't get an ounce of

enjoyment out of this.

Well,I'm sorry! You know I would never make you feel that way! You're my sugar plumb!

"Welcome to New York" is one of my favorites here
and it became so much easier to enjoy when I realized that the lyrics were 100% tongue-in-cheek, or at least not wholly meant to be sincere

and Skoj I'm not sure what you're looking for in the lyrics?...

Album Rating: 4.5

Taylor Swift lyrics are supposed to change lives, apparently

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

for 12 to 16-year-old girls









and sowing and fromdahood and channing freeman and cyg and conorisnothere and *insert random taylor swift fan who

uses this website here*

Album Rating: 2.5

I don't look for anything. Should I not hold her to the same standard that I hold other artists, though, or does Taylor Swift get a pass for throwing together the same lyrical themes again and again because she's "pop?" The juvenile imagery and rehashed song plots have been done, by her, so many times. I'm sick of hearing Taylor Swift sing about break ups and trite love songs, period.



and this isn't personal against your review, SeaAnemone. I enjoyed your review. I just don't agree with anybody passing her lyrics off as anything but detrimental to an otherwise solid pop record.

lol I didn't write this review
I don't like this that much
and no, by all means hold her to whatever standards you want
I don't understand why people try to judge the lyrics of The National to the same measuring stick that they use for Taylor Swift as both artists are trying to achieve monumentally different things and are apt for different situations
I think considering it in context is much more useful
and to be fair I agree to an extent - I have no problem with the lyrical themes generally, but they don't do anything for me here (the difference is that I am totally okay with this)

Album Rating: 2.5

Oh shit, sorry. Sowing's review, excuse em. He commented right after and my brain didn't do the work there.



And to be clear - I'm not judging her lyrics against anybody elses. Nobody else should lest they find themselves not liking much of any music. But it's tough when the music's production and image are so tied to her voice and what comes out of her mouth to remove that from consideration.



To each his own.

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't think it's her singing about break-ups that annoys people, because so many other artists do the same thing. It's the way it's presented, from the perspective of someone still in high school.



However, I thought she matured measurably on this album and those types of lyrics never bothered me anyway.