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

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

we did this dance with 1989 and harry styles

thank you, next

the title track is somehow both one of her very best songs and her very worst lyrics

you left my typewriter at my apartment
straight from the tortured poets department
i think some things i never say
like who uses typewriters anyway?

is so good

is this on soulseek or something? I'm not seeing yet at NAR.

very low quality on slsk, would almost recommend waiting

I'll wait if this thread shuts off until 12:01 a.m.

the leak is 128 kbps mp3s but it's listenable enough

I think the imagined lyrics for an album titled like this inevitably will outshine the real ones

the lyrics regularly live up to how goofy the track titles are, both for good and bad

brings me no pleasure to say my favorite songs are called (sigh) "but daddy, i love him" "guilty as sin?" and "i can fix him (no really, i can)"

"but daddy, i love him" is like country taylor trying very hard to return despite being immersed in the sparkling haze the rest of the album is in, euphoric

"but daddy i love him" is so good

Is this 2005? Wait for the release date.

"the smallest man who ever lived" sounds like evermore too

i think the lyrics on this are largely good, which is why the silly stuff jumps out

chorus of “i can do it with a broken heart” feels like one of the more psychologically-accurate portraits of taylor swift’s mental health which is at least somewhat down to the fact that it’s childish and sing-songy

i'm only on the second track but if it keeps this up it's her best?

lol

I wasn't gonna bother but my son was like "Want me to download the Taylor Swift album?" So now I'm listening but will withhold comment until midnight.

FURTHER CONSPIRACIES

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/could-taylor-swift-release-two-albums-this-week

you left my typewriter at my apartment
straight from the tortured poets department

Not having heard it yet, I’m humming this to “Mariner’s Apartment Complex.”

One meaning of this error is associated with a bad disc or cassette, with a suggestion to insert a new cassette or turn the disc over. Hmm, like a double album? Is this a glitch, much like the title of the song on (you guessed it) Reputation?

What song on Reputation?

Vanity Fair's resident Swiftie makes the case for why Reputation (Taylor's Version) could come alongside The Tortured Poets Department on Friday.

Clearly not a real Swiftie if she doesn't know that "Glitch" is a Midnights song.

You know what? the second album leaked too--six and a half years ago

I was gonna say – it would be wild for one album to leak in its entirety, but not even the existence of the second album…

Seems like she'd be leaving money on the table by missing out on a long run-up to sell four different variants ahead of time... but I'm sure she'll sell loads either way.

God, I didn't realize she was even selling three different versions of the *CD* for this one (with a diff bonus track on each)

Sorry, four (4) versions

Yup.

I don't think I can recall a single instance when speculation of a surprise second album hot on the heals of a new release actually came true.

I also think releasing two at the same time would surely drag the streaming numbers for the "new" one, you'd think she'd want to make sure to juice those as much as possible for the first weekend. I could see her announcing the future release date for it at midnight or something though.

Are we sure it was the actual album that leaked and not the ILX Pre-Covers version?

OK I'm still not commenting personally but here's my Taylor-skeptic son's take (which I don't necessarily share): "It sounds like she's going for local-coffee-house but it's giving Starbucks."

my 13 yr old niece pronounced taylor "mid" at easter so maybe the backlash has begun with the youngsters

Either that or she's, you know, thirteen. (I think I started to really differentiate my tastes some around then!)