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

we all follow the same twitter accounts

sometimes you do goofy shit like kicking 93 yard field goals, punting on first down, intentionally starting every drive at the 1 yard line, etc. "can I stop micromanaging my career, have ridiculous fun and still win anyway?"

It's like what they say during strength workouts, if you're getting too many reps, your weights are not heavy enough.

Oops, thanks for the Miley corrections. I just remembered it was the night she did the big number with Robin Thicke.

I agree with fgti and ivy. One of things that made Folklore and Evermore possible - not the albums specifically but more the sense of discovering a new way to engage with this artist - was that they arrived after a period of about four years during which TS’s position within cultural discourse had been at a low ebb, even if she had released two previous albums during that period. Is it even possible to “rediscover” Taylor in 2024?

Of course it is, you all have to watch the new extended version of the Eras film now or you miss out, you see.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/taylor-swift-eras-tour-concert-film-heading-disney/story?id=107040492

Now even Zach Bryan is covering Bon Iver.

Inside you (America) there are three wolves

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until this thread i have never in my life even once considered that taylor swift is a songwriter, or lyricist, or an artist of anything. other than "entertainments."

this is horribly short shrift, but i will assure her when introduced that there is no valuation attached to this regarding her musical talents. the only song i even identify to her is shake it off?

Have you visited ILM in the past 15 years?

lol not those threads

I've been a fan of her songwriting since "You Belong With Me" tbh, when she's good she's very good

cool, thx, it's not like a matter of pride like said, it's just convenient ignorance on my part. i expect someday i'll be exposed better

Anyway, it's almost here! So enjoy this in the meantime.

"I Want To Say Thank You To The Fans By Telling You A Secret!" -- ILX Pre-Covers The Tortured Poets Department

Hm. You know...I'll give her this: we're just a little over a week out from release and not one note of it has leaked anywhere? And I guess no lead single?

she's still tabbing out our songs to steal them

Terrible

Huh, for some reason I thought it was due this summer. Maybe she's hoping everyone forgot?

She hasn't done a pre-album single since "Me!"

Huh, I thought "Anti Hero" preceded Midnights, guess I remembered wrong!

It'd be funny if this album comes out and it's actually a cake.

"As a special thank you to all my fans, I am transforming all my songs into edible confections that can be purchased in 300 different flavors each priced at $19.89 in honor of my birth year."

omfg i'm so pleasantly surprised by this (it leaked)

she should be banned from writing lyrics after writing the title track but also it made me cry

ilm siren: blue nile “downtown lights” referenced on taylor swift album

sound of this thing is just gorgeous, she’s found the pulsing soft rock region of the midnights sound and is just dwelling in it and the arrangements move and burst and digress into synth fantasias or broken drumbeats and she’s writing bridges again. could’ve been called “swoon”

proof she lurks

yeah this is fucking great

i take back what i said about the title track’s lyrics, reflexively cringed at the dylan thomas and patti smith name drops and that line about charlie puth, but im embracing my cringe, and by extension taylor swift’s, but it also does the “white horse” thing, where they fail to live up to these images they’ve romanticized, they’re just two idiots. i never found love in the city. i just sat in self-pity and cried in the car

Will officially be out in less than 25 hours and counting...

IVY

Why are you doing this to me?

Is there anything on it that sounds like it could have fit on Evermore?

not really, except lyrically she is kinda back in evermore mode

exception: “i can fix him (no i really can)” which is so evermore it’s… fumbling toward ecstasy-y? all of my posts are coming off as wish fulfillment

OMG I was just thinking the other day “imagine if Taylor made her own FTE”.

This idea works in my head especially given Sarah’s preceding album was kinda awkward and ungainly in a lot of the same kinds of ways that Taylor can be.

OMG I was just thinking the other day “imagine if Taylor made her own FTE”.

This idea works in my head especially given Sarah’s preceding album was kinda awkward and ungainly in a lot of the same kinds of ways that Taylor can be.

also for a 16-track hour-long experience this is really well-paced. she finally figured it out

i'm only on the second track but if it keeps this up it's her best? she has absolutely nailed the gorgeous pulsating synthpop ballad sound here

general reaction i am seeing elsewhere is very negative lol?

she loooves her overlapping vocal lines here

i'm getting a bit tired of it being nearly all in this one mode but it is very good at this mode to be fair

it's too long as always but it's genuinely her best music. although absolutely not her best lyrics it is full of clunkers

"the black dog" is way too good to be a bonus track

very funny of her to make an album that seems to be in significant part about her breakup with healy sound like this

general reaction i am seeing elsewhere is very negative lol?

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they’re so wrong

gorgeous pulsating synthpop ballad sound

hmmmmmm this is not what I feel I want from her but I am keeping my mind open

it's like a whole album of the synth version of "love story" from the 1989 tour

My idea of "gorgeous pulsating synthpop" Swiftsound is "Cruel Summer."

"cruel summer" is a good reference point too

i hate that i know anything about taylor swift’s personal life!!! curse every day on earth that i think for one crumb of a second about who she’s dating!!!!! but this album is somehow more about dating matty healy than it even is about her breaking up with that actor man

that context really makes the album much funnier this time

didn't her relationship with Matty last for all of two weeks which is beside the point blah blah but still