Let us go then, you and I/When the evening is spread out against the sky/Like a tight end playing in the Super Bowl -- The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift, April 19

I did worry that is what it was at first

“reputation, but even more embarrassing”

seriously can’t wait

absolute value of om

lotta ppl learning about the original it girl tonight

https://i.ibb.co/zS1NSnn/Screenshot-20240205-201252-Chrome.jpg

I feel like she's truly jumped the shark, last night felt like a heel turn, but I guess we'll see...

(all I know is - I live in a very Taylor-unfriendly household, and I couldn't muster up the gumption to rep for her even feebly right now)

Oh do not ask, “What is it?’

"My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys"
"But Daddy, I Love Him"
"The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"
"Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?"

are you fucking kidding me

How you could list those but not "Fresh Out the Slammer"...

because that one didn't have some reference to being smol

"Fresh Out the Slammer" sounds like early Paramore title.

...or Sublime.

the song titles are a headfake to make people miss the evil messages of violence that each song will contain

Amnesty International Presents

SIDE A:

Fortnight (ft. Post Malone)
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys
Down Bad

SIDE B:

So Long, London
But Daddy, I Love Him
Fresh Out The Slammer
Florida!!! (ft. Florence + the Machine)

SIDE C:

Guilty as Sin?
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
loml

SIDE D:

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
The Alchemy
Clara Bow
Bonus Track: The Manuscript

― Tim F, Monday, February 5, 2024 7:54 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I 100% unironically believed this entire list was inspired parody

April Fools

Are we sure this isn't coming out on April 1st.

hoping The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived is a Dr Demento-esque novelty track

"Iommi" is the Black Sabbath tribute Swifties had no idea they deserved.

What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn 'round quick and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Hell, yeah!

Some people say my love can it be true
Happiness is your eyes when I'm kissing you

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lmao

i don't know what she's going for but i'm glad she's going for something at least

But Daddy I Love Him is now trending on Twitter

The Smallest Hands Who Ever Lived

deluxe version comes with a pop-up book featuring Travis Kelce

super deluxe same but uncensored pop-up

Clara Bowling Alley

When you hear an Iommi song
I hope you spill your favorite bong

hoping The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived is a Dr Demento-esque novelty track

It'll be a parody of Weezer's The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived.

At least there are no football metaphors, like "Blocked Kick" or "Touchback" or something.

is it just a coincidence that she’s dropping her album on Bicycle Day?

If I could successfully seed this theory on the Swiftie forums Taylor could make Timothy Leary a footnote in history.

Swifties on acid is exactly what 2024 needs, stat.

You belong with LSD

If the Chiefs win the Super Bowl maybe she can call in some favors and do a new version of the "Super Bowl Shuffle," then add it as a bonus track to the special Target-only LP that has a different color cover.

So the suggestion has been made to do a precover of this…

With guests Chief Keef and Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah.

(xp — although if someone wants to recruit them for the precovers, that would be cool too)

I think Taylor likes to give herself impossible challenges, like to write a song with the title “I Can Fix Him (Really I Can)” that isn’t terrible

Is the song called "Bonus Track:The Manuscript" or is it just an indication that "The Manuscript" is a bonus track? Becuz I really wish it is the former

"Fuck is this 'Bonus Track:The Manuscript'? Turn it up!"

"Three Minutes of Silence and then a Hidden Track" (Taylor's Version)

How you could list those but not "Fresh Out the Slammer"...

― Tim F, Monday, February 5, 2024 8:41 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is where I audibly said "Oh come on!" to my cat

And what did your cat say in response?

"Things done changed on this side."

"fresh out the slammer" is something they say in pog tournaments iirc. "fresh out" means "polish."

So it's a Polish joke?

I wish Taylor would have included her Jason Aldean diss "Try That in a Ball Gown"

ILM pre-covers when

Chat gpt write me a song called “so long, london” in the style of taylor swift

(Verse 1)
In a city of echoes, where dreams collide,
Beneath the city lights, our love did hide.
Cobbled streets whisper tales untold,
So long, London, the story unfolds.

(Pre-Chorus)
Big Ben chimed, but our time ran out,
Heartbreak's symphony, I can't silence the doubt.
Red buses passing, taking pieces of us,
Fading in the rain, like an old love fuss.

(Chorus)
So long, London, where love once gleamed,
A double-decker ride through our shattered dream.
Your rain can't wash away the memories we've spun,
In this goodbye symphony, the love's undone.

(Verse 2)
Blooms of Hyde Park, witnessed our embrace,
Now they wither, lost in love's grace.
From the Thames to the West End stage,
Our love story ends, turning another page.

(Pre-Chorus)
Towers of London stand so tall,
Yet our love crumbled like the ancient wall.
The Eye keeps turning, but we stood still,
In this goodbye story, we find our will.

(Chorus)
So long, London, where love once gleamed,
A double-decker ride through our shattered dream.
Your rain can't wash away the memories we've spun,
In this goodbye symphony, the love's undone.

(Bridge)
Notting Hill's romance turned to dust,
Our fairy tale, now just wanderlust.
Regent's Park witnessed the tears we shed,
Farewell, my London love, our colors bled.

(Verse 3)
Past the Royal Palaces, where our love was crowned,
Now it's lost, in the silence profound.
St. Paul's Cathedral echoes our goodbye,
So long, London, beneath the tear-streaked sky.

(Chorus)
So long, London, where love once gleamed,
A double-decker ride through our shattered dream.
Your rain can't wash away the memories we've spun,
In this goodbye symphony, the love's undone.

(Outro)
As the Thames flows, so does time,
In the city's heartbeat, a broken rhyme.
So long, London, to the love we swore,
A chapter closes on the Thames' tranquil shore.

Not bad!

She’ll have this performance thing down by 2050

Cool, I can totally imagine me at 81 paying half my remaining life savings to go see 61-year-old Taylor Swift. I didn't have any life goals for if I make it to 2050, now I do.

(If it happens, I'll find this thread and report back.)

Twenty Six Years Pass

Paramore being better at it than both didn't take them 40 years

Because Paramore rules, is why.

The time I saw them was at Bonnaroo, and it was the day that news broke about Anthony Bourdain's death. At one point during a breather between two songs, Hayley Williams sat down on the edge of the stage and talked about it and how much she loved Bourdain and how hard mental illness is and gave a sort of pep talk to anyone suffering (pretty sure she included the suicide hotline number). It was really affecting, the whole field of people got quiet and paid attention, and it was just striking the ability she had to talk directly and pull people in just sitting there talking. And then they went back to rocking.

If Taylor doesn't write a song called "The Bechtel Test" where she has a coffee with Gabriette and they don't refer to Healy once, she will have let me down, she will have let the community down, and most importantly she will have let herself down.

forever mad that this album coincided with the inevitable even longed-for second or third wave of taylor swift backlash bc it is so awesome :(

Yeah but that backlash as such is kinda...contextual? It's still the number one album in the country and has been since release, whereas a lot of immediate reviews seemed to be thinking 'bleah, nobody will care after first listen.' Not exactly the case!

There's a fair amount of backlash to the maneuvers to keep it at #1 (over Billie Eilish and Charli XCX)

love how her pro's fastidiousness about extending her metaphors gradually turns "down bad" into an entire straightfaced song about fucking an alien

she works so goddamn hard goddammit. why i'm still like miss me with that please.

I am vaguely disappointed that I didn’t get even a slow clap for the above joke

We are simple people.

lol I just now saw it, so consider it clapped.

I'm going to put this album on right now I think. I haven't circled back to it since the first go-round but I heard "Fortnight" on the radio the other day and it sounded good.

love how her pro's fastidiousness about extending her metaphors gradually turns "down bad" into an entire straightfaced song about fucking an alien

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 3 July 2024 17:04 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

My favourite thing about her TBH. If she could chill out for even a moment she would make a great meme page administrator..

So my revisiting of this album yesterday was quite pleasant, although as per usual I got bored and turned it off during "Smallest Man in the World" and didn't get to the bonus disc. It's a good record, though.

I rather liked this piece, YMMV:

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/taylor-swift-eras-tour-impact-1236089525/

Separately, this was good as well, from a different angle:

https://johnpstrohm.substack.com/p/you-better-believe-im-a-swiftie

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/08/07/taylor-swift-cancels-vienna-shows-terrorist-attack/74472897007/

0_O

must be someone who found her music unmemorable

aww bollocks -- unmemorable music merits an unmemorable response, hence my posting here. don't like the music? go bowling, no bombing fer cryin out loud!

but for real they're saying it had ties to isis. like, the extremist terrorist organization, not the metal band.

big sigh. correct response to the whole on her+her team's part, but still... what a world, big sigh.

It already happen at an Ariana Grande concert after all

I guess she’s unmemorable as well

Gonna be interesting how she navigates her high profile NFL boyfriend bring “honored” Trump is coming to watch him play. Backlash is already stirring…

Trump will probably demand to award the trophy and he'll talk about how happy or sad Taylor Swift must be (depending on the outcome) and make some jokes about how "she doesn't like me"

I re-engaged with this beast, and made a pleasantly robust playlist of faves/keepers:

1. TTPD
2. Down Bad
3. But Daddy
4. Fresh Out da Slammer
5. Guilty as Sin
6. loml
7. Clara Bow
8. The Black Dog
9. Chloe or Sam…
10. How Did It End?*
11. Cassandra
12. The Bolter
13. Robin
14. The Manuscript

*this is a great song, don’t know why it didn’t grab me before…