Regarding concepts; I really should go back to "reputation" as it's not as fresh in my mind as the others, but even though it's not entirely about "being a star", the notion of the public eye in that album is not something to be dismissed either.
yeah uh the album is called Reputation (and I know the title encompasses ever definition).
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
she was discussing a different level of criticism and observation
i think this is social media as much as fame-- or maybe just that i suspect people a little younger than me can relate to the superstar panopticon more than i do
i guess tho that it is undeniably (self-consciously) part of a lineage of "paranoid superstar" albums. i was gonna say "but it's not exactly the wall" but then i was like, unfamous people get repressed by postwar systems of control too
anyway a lot of it is just taylor songs tho of course.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
Reputation still, uh, "slaps" (first & hopefully last time I use that term)
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
yeah no
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
(misused "panopticon" there of course, because the concept failed to prepare us for the reality)
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
"Death by a thousand cuts" is so amazing. It looks like it's just about to fall apart, all the time, but it never does. Instead it keeps growing and growing.
― cpl593H, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
So when does this album come out?
Seriously, though, all I've got are anecdotes, but I think this is the first Swift album whose songs I have yet to encounter in the wild.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
Been to Target lately?
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Friday, 20 September 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
I've heard "Lover" and "The Man" without making an effort
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 September 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
I heard “Me!” today in a BK
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 20 September 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
xpost Yes! I've been to two Targets in the last week, and I didn't notice any Swift.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
Ours has a freestanding display of Lover CDs near the registers.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Friday, 20 September 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
I was driving an in-law's car with XM radio and turned on a pop station and had basically heard every song on the record within two hours
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 September 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
I'll ask my kids, they're usually good gauges. I do know that neither of them have been listening to it, but one of them did put on "Speak Now" the other day.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
Saw it at Target this morning.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 September 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
our target's cd section has withered almost completely away except for the freestanding middle-of-aisle display of four different versions of diary-shaped taylor deluxes. (i got v3.)
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 20 September 2019 17:35 (five years ago) link
I just saw her Capital One commercial again.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 September 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
I do agree that this album cycle feels somewhat less Zeitgeist-y than her last few (but that's probably not a bad thing).
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Friday, 20 September 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
OK, just asked my almost 15-year old (aka target demo) and she said she likes the song "Lover" but not much else, esp. not those singles. She has one friend who is a Swift fan, but that friend doesn't like the new album. So ... who knows.
Oh, I did see a commercial for ... Capital One? Is was before a movie I saw, and it featured Swift as a klutzy waitress and stuff, where kids would recognize her and freak out and she would sort of wink and smile. Seemed like something Michael Jackson would do.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
I finally figured out what "Death..." reminds me of: "No Scrubbs," the chorus.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 September 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
Yeah, totally otm
― cpl593H, Friday, 20 September 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
15 is probably a little young for the target demo tbh (just)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 September 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
I heard the sad Dixie chicks one when I was waiting to pick up hibachi the other day, not sure if it’s getting country airplay or if that was an employee’s playlist
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 21 September 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
now im into 'i think he knows'
its only taylor doing the hi pitched falsetto (prince-ish) beginning chorus part? idk ive heard her there before
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 September 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
this album rules. i only skip ‘London boy’ and ‘me’ now
she shouldve make a whole album that sounds like ‘lover’ tho. i don’t really get how u can write a song like that and not want to squeeze that vibe out for all it’s worth
― flopson, Thursday, 26 September 2019 05:47 (five years ago) link
agree w that, but that album would flop, and she's like an llc, she has an obligation to the army of people who depend on her for a living to make big hit records
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 September 2019 07:15 (five years ago) link
i don't really think the eventual return-to-her-roots singer-songwriter album she's likely going to make at some point is going to flop
― ufo, Thursday, 26 September 2019 07:54 (five years ago) link
Agree but she needs to wait til she's like 45
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 September 2019 11:55 (five years ago) link
Actually, on that note...
― cpl593H, Thursday, 26 September 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
oh my god please
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 September 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
That candid with the black 1975 t-shirt gets more and more iconic with each day.
― cpl593H, Thursday, 26 September 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link
Swift’s albums are best when they’re at their most varied/eclectic, IMO (case in point — Red). I think 15 tracks in the style of “Lover” would probably be kinda boring.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Thursday, 26 September 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
maybe im off-base here ‘lover’ isn’t just a return to her roots though (imo), it’s the most seventies sounding thing ive ever heard by her
― flopson, Thursday, 26 September 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
hi, flopson!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 September 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
;)
― flopson, Thursday, 26 September 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
‘paper rings’ slaps
― flopson, Thursday, 26 September 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
'Paper rings' is now reminding me of "You're the one that I want".
― cpl593H, Friday, 27 September 2019 10:42 (five years ago) link
swift doing a stripped down singer-songwriter album would be great and healy and swift working together would also be great but i don't know if those together would be the best version of either of those things. like i'd think probably the best use of healy's talents on a swift album would be gorgeous synth textures everywhere idk
― ufo, Friday, 27 September 2019 10:57 (five years ago) link
well i wldn't exactly expect him to stick to what he says he wants to do, so
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 27 September 2019 11:17 (five years ago) link
In my imagination, the Swift-Healy team up results in the arena rock album State of Grace hinted at.
― cpl593H, Friday, 27 September 2019 11:22 (five years ago) link
I don't even think Healy believes he'd produce a 'stripped-down' Swift album.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 September 2019 11:33 (five years ago) link
It would be great if they did a Crossroads-like show like the Def Leppard one.
― cpl593H, Friday, 27 September 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
Real nice “False God” on SNL. (Who’s the saxa-ma-phonist; is he “somebody”?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-MILQZKJcI
― Spry at 78 (morrisp), Sunday, 6 October 2019 07:17 (four years ago) link
It's Lenny Pickett, musical director of the SNL band (and formerly of Tower of Power)
― Number None, Sunday, 6 October 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
someone make a mix where "cruel summer" -> studio's "life's a beach!"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
obsessed with walking bassline on lover
― flopson, Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Not that I've watched a ton of these, but this might be the best Tiny Desk Concert i've seen:https://www.npr.org/2019/10/16/770318649/taylor-swift-tiny-desk-concert
― enochroot, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
"the man" and "death by a thousand cuts" really sound so much better acoustic. glad she has good taste in her own work too, declaring "all too well" to be the song she's most proud of
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
Really nice versions (the bridge of "Lover" is still a sore thumb even in the solo piano rendition, though!)
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
LOL that she sees online lists of people ranking her songs... send her ILM polls
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link