For those curious, or without IG access, here's what her story said:
"Hey guys - I want to thank my fans for making me aware that my former record label is putting out an "album" of live performances of mine tonight. This recording is from a 2008 radio show performance I did when I was 18. Big Machine has listed the date as a 2017 release but they're actually releasing it tonight at midnight.I'm always honest with you guys about this stuff so I just wanted to tell you that this release is not approved by me. It looks like Scooter Braun and his financial backers, 23 Capital, Alex Soros and the Soros family and The Carlyle Group have seen the latest Balance sheets and realized that paying $330 MILLION for my music wasn't exactly a wise choice and they need money (crying smiley emoji)In my opinion...Just another case of shameless greed in the time of Coronavirus. So tasteless, but very important."
I'm always honest with you guys about this stuff so I just wanted to tell you that this release is not approved by me. It looks like Scooter Braun and his financial backers, 23 Capital, Alex Soros and the Soros family and The Carlyle Group have seen the latest Balance sheets and realized that paying $330 MILLION for my music wasn't exactly a wise choice and they need money (crying smiley emoji)
In my opinion...Just another case of shameless greed in the time of Coronavirus. So tasteless, but very important."
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
She also mentioned Soros in a Dec. 2019 statement about private equity firms getting involved in music deals: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/taylor-swift-calls-out-soros-family-in-fight-with-private-equity
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
Missed that one, guess this has been a thing for her a bit now.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
Apparently this is the new release she’s referring to.
― I eat fast foods (morrisp), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
the fucking carlyle group
― maura, Friday, 24 April 2020 01:57 (four years ago) link
She just posted a B&W mosaic of herself in the woods, hmm
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
new album at midnight ET
Surprise 🤗 Tonight at midnight I’ll be releasing my 8th studio album, folklore; an entire brand new album of songs I’ve poured all of my whims, dreams, fears, and musings into. Pre-order at https://t.co/zSHpnhUlLb pic.twitter.com/4ZVGy4l23b— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 23, 2020
― maura, Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
Holy shit
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 23 July 2020 12:05 (four years ago) link
that list of collaborators not exciting me much.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 July 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
Woman of the Woods
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
wow
I've heard the National, should I?
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
also have never heard Bon Iver
RIP
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 23 July 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxK_FMDzHo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 July 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
(new thread needs to be titled "whims, dreams, fears and musings" btw)
Freeform is heavily promoting a new series called Cruel Summer - so that song has been running thru my head all week.
― best time to call is friday and saturday afternoons! (morrisp), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
‘1989’ the next re-do?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
lol if she re-records/releases this album before she even tours it
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
she's not doing this one, it wasn't under big machine
― ufo, Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
nm just remembered that this wasn't on Big Machine mods delete post
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 19 June 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
xp jinx
“Cruel Summer” was recently released as a single.
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Monday, 3 July 2023 04:09 (one year ago) link
ngl it sounds better to me now than it did at the time
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 July 2023 06:50 (one year ago) link
loved it at the time, was mystified as to how it wasn't a single then, better late than never I guess?
― Murgatroid, Monday, 3 July 2023 07:02 (one year ago) link
i didn't know the song until now b/c i avoided listening to this album (thanks "me!"). it's good but i couldn't help but think of parts of other, better songs of hers? like idk i couldn't help but think of the bridge from "out of the woods" for instance. but yeah i guess it's been a fan fav for a while, i had heard mentions of it here n there for years
― dyl, Friday, 7 July 2023 04:17 (one year ago) link
was mystified as to how it wasn't a single then
You mean a planned 'song of the summer' single for 2020 not happening? Hm, wonder why.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 July 2023 04:24 (one year ago) link
I’ve never connected with a TS songIs it too late?
― calstars, Friday, 7 July 2023 04:35 (one year ago) link
xp Eh, it was released in Aug. 2019 (and actually charted, in the Top 40, as an album track).
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Friday, 7 July 2023 04:36 (one year ago) link
i think i’ve had the opposite reaction to dyl insofar as i hear “cruel summer” on the radio alongside “anti hero” and “karma” and think, so nice of them to show us what it would be like if those songs were good
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 July 2023 04:41 (one year ago) link
oh and i guess this is the song whose writers were added to the olivia rodrigo "deja vu" credits due to a vague similarity in one line
― dyl, Friday, 7 July 2023 05:01 (one year ago) link
"Cruel Summer," one her best singles, finally hits #1.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2023 20:42 (eleven months ago) link
The bananarama cover?
― calstars, Monday, 23 October 2023 20:45 (eleven months ago) link
Otm
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 October 2023 20:48 (eleven months ago) link
nah, that's "Robert De Niro's Waiting"
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 23 October 2023 20:57 (eleven months ago) link
The stylistic variety of this album is very refreshing... in that respect, it's rivaled maybe only by Red in her catalog(?)
I think the album has also improved with time, or at least feels like less of a "mixed bag" than it did originally. If you take out "Me!" and maybe one or two other tracks of your choice ("The Man," "London Boys," "Calm Down" – depending on taste), it's actually quite strong. The remaining tracks may not have the highs of other albums (although "False God" comes close), and some of the production touches may be questionable, but the whole thing has a lightness and sense of "fun" that makes it stand out for me.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Friday, 26 April 2024 23:10 (five months ago) link
It's hilarious to me that she premiered the "Me!" video at the '19 NFL Draft.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 April 2024 23:21 (five months ago) link
bad:you need to calm downme!
embarrassing but ultimately hilarious: london boy the man
i don’t like this song but ppl have made the case for it to me and im like “ok fine”:miss americana
mediocre but they work in album sequence:i forgot that you existedit’s nice to have a friend
the rest:great, some of her best work
― ivy., Saturday, 27 April 2024 02:44 (five months ago) link
the day this leaked was one of the happiest days of my life. i was on a week-long beach vacation and trying to sneak away from my friends to listen to this file-by-file on dropbox or something
― ivy., Saturday, 27 April 2024 02:47 (five months ago) link
the sequencing sucks and is insane but that goes without saying
― ivy., Saturday, 27 April 2024 02:50 (five months ago) link
(my worst take is that "you need to calm down" is good as hell)
literally my worst take! song SUCKS
― ivy., Saturday, 27 April 2024 03:00 (five months ago) link
I like “London Boys” but I couldn’t rationally “defend it” to a hater.
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Saturday, 27 April 2024 03:26 (five months ago) link
When i hear london boy all i can think is “i love a london boy, he’s a goy…”
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 27 April 2024 04:29 (five months ago) link
the opening line of “you need to calm down” is hilariousI also really like “me” and twee Taylor in general (shrugs)
― brimstead, Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:20 (five months ago) link
I love “paper rings”
― brimstead, Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:21 (five months ago) link
Lover is uneven but also her last “fun” record. She should make another one.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:25 (five months ago) link
I will never, ever get enough of "Cruel Summer," my theme song for the long COVID summer of '20.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:30 (five months ago) link
bad:you need to calm downme!embarrassing but ultimately hilarious: london boy the mani don’t like this song but ppl have made the case for it to me and im like “ok fine”:miss americanamediocre but they work in album sequence:i forgot that you existedit’s nice to have a friend the rest:great, some of her best work
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 April 2024 18:11 (five months ago) link
lover is definitely an album that seems better in retrospect to me given that she actually articulates a vision for pop music production that goes beyond largely anonymous synth pop. i wouldn’t say it’s exactly a coherent vision, or even necessarily an exciting vision, but at least there are some *ideas* here about what taylor swift pop music could sound like
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 April 2024 18:14 (five months ago) link
one does have to wonder if she deeply disliked the process of recording like a normal pop star — trying out diff producers — bcuz she has clearly opted out of that dynamic ever since. or maybe the pandemic just thrust her into this little insular creative bubble
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 April 2024 18:18 (five months ago) link