pfft “soon you’ll get better” is wonderful
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 23 August 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
People comparing her Twitter to Hillary Clinton! Wow!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 23 August 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
"cruel summer", "i think he knows", "paper rings", "soon you'll get better" and "death by a thousand cuts" are all quite good which is enough to put this above reputation for me
― ufo, Friday, 23 August 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link
"false god" doesn't quite lean enough into its sophisti vibes to work for me, the production lets it down
― ufo, Friday, 23 August 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
I need to clear my head with the new Raphael Saadiq.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 August 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
I'm far more interested in hearing about the Big Machine/Scooter Braun merger than her new album.
https://www.bigmachinelabelgroup.com/news/so-its-time-some-truth
I really want to read more about what Big Machine was offering Taylor to stay, and why she decided to leave. It is weird that Borchetta would be highly disclosive about so many little aspects of closing this merger, but not specific about what Big Machine was offering Taylor to stay. Like, he's posting a screenshot from the negotiation, but he's not getting specific about what Taylor turned down?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 23 August 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
wtf is "London Boy"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 23 August 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
It's no "American Boy"
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 August 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
Did someone give her the encyclopedia entry for London and say "write a love song about this" or something
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 23 August 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
"You said you wanted a banger."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 August 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
"And yet you gave me mash."
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 23 August 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
it's like raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain on your coronation day
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
Did Annie Clark really co-write "Cruel Summer" or is it just one of those preventative credits that artists have to give now to prevent lawsuits? I ask cause the way Taylor sings "cruel" is a tiny bit similar to how Annie sings it in her own "Cruel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqWLuAUQes
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
Imagine a alternate timeline where Taylor Swift produces Sleater-Kinney.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:22 (five years ago) link
It's too early to use my imagination.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
I think this is a nice album, though could probably have been pared by a few tracks.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
Say, for example, all of them
(I have not heard the album but I cannot resist the easy joke)
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I expected someone to reply: "pared by to a few tracks."
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
I'm only up to "Death by a Thousand Cuts" and I already feel like I've been listening to this album for several hours.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 August 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
That said, none of these songs are unpleasant (though "London Boy" is indeed clunky bit of lyric writing).
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 August 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
I dislike how songs written w/Antoff often repeat elements / ideas... "Cruel Summer" could be "Getaway Car Pt. II"
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
AntONoff.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
That pre-chorus melody that runs throughout "The Archer" is another example
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 21:41 (five years ago) link
and the bridge of "Paper Rings" (which is otherwise one of the better songs here)
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
"It's Nice to Have a Friend" is the most interesting track, IMO. How would you describe that musical setting? It's evoking or imitating, what, a certain style of Chinese music?
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRqZ9pAcwHo
this version of "the archer" >>>> the album version
― ufo, Saturday, 24 August 2019 11:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n0GIzp5uoU
why is the version of "you need to calm down" on this *m*zon ad better than the actual track
― dyl, Saturday, 24 August 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
that version of the archer is not better than the album version but is very pretty
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 24 August 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
I was in Target earlier, and bought this CD after passing the display. #normcore
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Saturday, 24 August 2019 19:51 (five years ago) link
are we at the point yet where target will sell no cd's other than event releases like this (+ a few gospel and ccm releases on one barely visible shelf in the back)
― dyl, Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
We're at the point where Target will probably soon stop selling cds altogether
― bunny slopes, Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
I bought this year's Ariana Grande album at Target.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
Target also sells vinyl.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
Every time I listen to this it immediately sends me down a youtube rabbithole of other, better tracks called 'Lover', which frankly, I'm loving, well done TS!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 24 August 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
^I’ve grown to like the track a lot (except, sadly, the bridge). Reminds me of a Neko Case song.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Saturday, 24 August 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
i'm not going to listen to the album because i don't like her music but i liked this interview:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/24/taylor-swift-pop-music-hunger-games-gladiators
― Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 24 August 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
finally listened to the title track since everyone was comparing it to mazzy star, am now convinced I've been listening to an entirely different mazzy star
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
i don’t understand the comparison. “sad beautiful tragic” however
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
lol
― Vape Store (crüt), Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
Maybe they were thinking of the Cowboy Junkies (it sounds nothing like Mazzy Star)
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
melodically it reminds me a lot of “crazy” by aerosmith
― maura, Sunday, 25 August 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
well, that's a ringing endorsement.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 August 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
“False God” is a standout... it reminds me a little of something from the first Eleanor Friedberger album.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Sunday, 25 August 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
This comparison is probably a stretch but the pitch-shifted vocal sample that plays throughout False God kind of reminds me of the Junior Boys or Caribou circa-Our Love
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 26 August 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
“crazy” is a great song!
― maura, Monday, 26 August 2019 01:17 (five years ago) link
The Mazzy Star thing is pretty much exclusively in her delivery of the first line of each of the two verses, and the guitar too I guess though I agree the guitar is closer to cowboy junkies
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 26 August 2019 02:49 (five years ago) link
I’m slowly coming around to the album. I forgot how great it feels to fall in love with a Taylor Swift song.
― winters (josh), Monday, 26 August 2019 06:37 (five years ago) link
I'm finding there's a lot more to this album than "London Boy".
― cpl593H, Monday, 26 August 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
it's a very good record imo. i kinda missed the extreme dynamics of reputation but i'm adjusting to this as a refinement of both that record and 1989 (a lot of tracks here melodically feel like sequels to "king of my heart" and i'm not complaining). taylor in ldr mode never works for me ("so it goes" >>>> "wildest dreams" > "miss americana and the heartbreak prince") but the rest of it is good-to-great outside of "me!" (my worst take is that "you need to calm down" is good as hell). but the material i live for is the between-worlds stuff like "cornelia street," "the archer," "paper rings," "lover" etc. these all remind me of the songwriter who wrote red. "soon you'll get better" is so "the old taylor is back from the dead" that i should feel pandered to but it feels so natural. weirdly my favorite song is probably "death by a thousand cuts" which doesn't sound like any previous taylor swift song, the phasing piano line is a really wonderful touch
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 26 August 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
yeah I have deleted "Me!" but think the rest is very good and I look forward to getting lost in it and coming out its, well, lover.
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 26 August 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link