Are you telling me she doesn't write it all herself smh

Album Rating: 1.5

At this point I truly believe she does write most of her own music.

Album Rating: 1.5

Honestly something tells me this woman’s ego is too big to allow too many outside voices to make some adjustments.

Personally I wouldn't like my trademark being too tainted by other people's contribution. I'll be patrolling hard over their work making sure it matches with my style. I think that's something solo artists do understand

Make sense for the likes of Beyoncé and Ariana to have multiple contributing artists as they prefer to have 30 different sounds and layers upon layers in a single song. Relying on others is probably easier to keep your albums distinct from one another.

Album Rating: 2.5

It could be a combination of ego (judging by the mere oversaturation of content that is, for the most part, repetitive and lacking in new ideas - as to imply that whatever she comes up with holds immediate artistic merit, regardless of whether or not it requires editing), of the fact that she is one of the biggest living artists of our times (were you a producer or songwriter, how would you be able to say "no" to her) but also of her need to preserve her foundation as a songwriter that doesn't let *her* voice get diluted by *outside* voices, like @razeen said.



I applaud her for still being the captain in the ship lyrics-wise even if I may not personally enjoy the directions she takes her pen to. The magic she usually spawns with her words is still here in a few spots (most prominent in 'The Fate Of Ophelia' and 'Ruin The Friendship'), but I really think she has exhausted herself in the pop lane and needs a long break from it, while mapping out some fresh direction for the future.

Album Rating: 1.0

Taylor has never and will never be a down to earth person. She’s a corporate mascot who pumps out lowest common denominator pop slop for white women. Her music is bland, flavourless drivel. Her fans are mentally unstable

Album Rating: 3.5

She def has some mentally unstable fans and also some mentally unstable haters

Album Rating: 2.0

Opalite is definitive Kohls Cash-core

Album Rating: 3.5

That oh oh oh is definitely borderline too cutesy even for Taylor

Album Rating: 1.0

Corporate mascot sounds about right. That’s « algorithm » music, and we’ve had enough of that for several lifetimes.

Album Rating: 2.5

"But more than anything, I just feel tired."



Same dude. Rampant capitalism and mid music will do that.

hanging out in ophelia's castle

Album Rating: 1.0

I actually really love her 1989 / Reputation / Lover era of albums but her last few have been terrible. I tried listening to this and I turned it off midway through the third song. It's chalked.

Fantastic, thorough, semantically critical review.

Chances are I'm not gonna bother with this, just not my kind of pop/non-metal stuff, but yeah, the shelf life of narratives about current "first Taylor Swift world problems" is doomed to expire sooner than later.

It's as if she currently has zero time and chances of absorbing and narrating anything outside her increasingly inflated ecosystem.

are u implying taylor swift is avengers for white women???!?!??!?!!!??!?!

Album Rating: 2.5

"It's as if she currently has zero time and chances of absorbing and narrating anything outside her increasingly inflated ecosystem."



I mean, it has always been this way - that's why Folklore and Evermore are so well-received, because they were a break from her usual diaristic writing and exhaustion with her self-image and we got a consistently great showcase of her pen. These albums, now, seem more like a pause and an anomaly in her otherwise self-centered discography rather than a sign of things to come.



If you were to block out her writing, though, the album is definitely catchy and has some of her best hooks in a while.

Album Rating: 1.5

Somebody said on instagram (so it must be true) that she wrote this while on tour as an excuse for why it’s so bad… you could just not make an album? Idk maybe waiting until you’re home and have actual material might benefit. Dropping this so quickly after Tortured Poets immediately told me what kind of record we were in for.



A “striking while the irons hot, rich white girl feminism has a limited shelf life” kind of record. It’s the musical equivalent of sending all of those women to space only for Katy Perry to turn it into a press junket for her dogshit new album. It’s the actual sonic embodiment of that moment.



US culture is either gonna shift further “woke” or go regressive and this album will be forgotten about.

isn't she married to a maga guy

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