Who would that be? I want to sound like I know what I'm talking about with my wife lol
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Taylor Swift announces new album The Tortured Poets Department out April 19
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Matty Healy, a guy she dated briefly very shortly after breaking up with her longtime (six years) boyfriend Joe Alwyn. All the track names alluded to it being about Joe. I'm very curious to see the reaction overall too lol. To be fair though some tracks definitely seem to allude to Joe.
First impressions from the album is that it has a few stellar tracks on it but overall I've got mixed feelings.
I really liked Fortnight, Fresh Out The Slammer, loml, Down Bad, I can Do it With a Broken Heart, and Clara Bow. I think Fortnight is my favorite, just hits everything right for what I love from her. Especially that outro.
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I have emerged from my first time Evermore and Folklore listening.
Both are really good. No outright bad or boring songs on either of them. Folklore is my favourite of the two.
Here are the standout songs for me so far after the initial listen.
Folklore:
1. the 1
2. cardigan
4. exile
5. my tears ricochet
7. seven
8. august
9. this is me trying
12. mad woman
14. betty
17. the lakes
Evermore:
2. champagne problems
3. gold rush
4. 'tis the damn season
6. no body no crime
9. coney island
12. long story short
15. evermore
16. right where you left me
Both are really good. No outright bad or boring songs on either of them. Folklore is my favourite of the two.
Here are the standout songs for me so far after the initial listen.
Folklore:
1. the 1
2. cardigan
4. exile
5. my tears ricochet
7. seven
8. august
9. this is me trying
12. mad woman
14. betty
17. the lakes
Evermore:
2. champagne problems
3. gold rush
4. 'tis the damn season
6. no body no crime
9. coney island
12. long story short
15. evermore
16. right where you left me
The problem is not Jack lol. Her best work comes from him. Lana's best work comes from him. Lordes opus came from him.
Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
I can do it with a broken heart.
Clara Bow
loml
The Smallest Man who ever lived.
The Black Dog
These are some of the standouts. The first two in particular (little old me / broken heart) are the ones I keep going back to listening on repeat. (TTPD)
I can do it with a broken heart.
Clara Bow
loml
The Smallest Man who ever lived.
The Black Dog
These are some of the standouts. The first two in particular (little old me / broken heart) are the ones I keep going back to listening on repeat. (TTPD)
All of them are up for me.Some of the songs are weirdly already showing up on Apple Music
Not for me, how weird! Ah SO CLOSE!!!!Some of the songs are weirdly already showing up on Apple Music
Album out now
New
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It's here:
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/C57c1DWMkf_/
View: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Mo4aZ8pdj6L1jx8zSwJnt
Pitchfork has the full credits:
pitchfork.com
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/C57c1DWMkf_/
View: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Mo4aZ8pdj6L1jx8zSwJnt
Pitchfork has the full credits:
Taylor Swift Releases New Album The Tortured Poets Department
The follow-up to Midnights has contributions from Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner, Post Malone, Florence Welch, and others
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Reviews are also going up:
www.theguardian.com
variety.com
www.rollingstone.com
www.theatlantic.com
www.theguardian.com
www.newyorker.com
pitchfork.com
www.theguardian.com
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review – fame, fans and former flames in the firing line
Subtly detailed album splits the difference between 1989’s glossy pop-rock and Midnights’ understatement – and lets her ex Matty Healy have it in no uncertain terms
www.theguardian.com
Taylor Swift Renews Her Vows With Heartbreak in Audacious, Transfixing ‘Tortured Poets Department’: Album Review
Taylor Swift's new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is a boldly candid breakup album, with some of her most quotable lyrics ever.
variety.com
Come For the Torture, Stay For the Poetry: This Might Be Taylor Swift's Most Personal Album Yet
Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department' Review
www.rollingstone.com
Taylor Swift Is Having Quality-Control Issues
“The Tortured Poets Department” excavates her private life more deeply than ever—but somehow, it’s a story we’ve heard before.
www.theatlantic.com
Breakups, fantasies and her most cutting lyrics: inside Taylor’s Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department
What are the big takeaways from Swift’s new album? She’s refining her sound, confronting elements of her fanbase and done with romantic idealisation
www.theguardian.com
The Tortured Poetry of Taylor Swift’s New Album
“The Tortured Poets Department” has moments of tenderness. But it suffers from being too long and too familiar.
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department / The Anthology
Read Olivia Horn’s review of the album.
Taylor Swift’s new album is about a reckless kind of freedom. If only it sounded as uninhibited | Laura Snapes
The Tortured Poets Department depicts a spell of post-breakup mania against the perfect backdrop of the Eras tour – a thrillingly immature reality undermined by safe music
www.theguardian.com
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Ok albums out so I'll post my impressions. In spoilers for those still listening
Honestly entire album to me feels like midnights leftovers. I think this might be her second worst just ahead of debut. Idk what I'm expecting but I think she is stuck in this synth pop sound with jack. It's weird cause my favorite songs on this album are the ones done WITHOUT jack. Idk what happened to antinoff , but personally I think he's fallen off a cliff since lover.
Also this album imo holds some of her worst lyrics to date. Tortured poet department (song not the album) is full of these examples. Some songs she strikes brilliance (but daddy I love him) but a lot of these songs are making me roll my eyes.
She's at the point where she is "too big to fail" so I know everyone will eat this up, but I hope she goes back to a folklore type sound after this… honestly disappointed
Also this album imo holds some of her worst lyrics to date. Tortured poet department (song not the album) is full of these examples. Some songs she strikes brilliance (but daddy I love him) but a lot of these songs are making me roll my eyes.
She's at the point where she is "too big to fail" so I know everyone will eat this up, but I hope she goes back to a folklore type sound after this… honestly disappointed
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So far this is incredibly... Boring? It really meanders and sounds sonically like Midnights but the songwriting is a clear step down. Hopefully things pick up.
Before jumping into the new album, here is the official definitive ranking, as decided by me:
1. reputation
2. Midnights
3. evermore
4. 1989
5. folklore
6. Red
7. Speak Now
8. Fearless
9. Lover
10. Taylor Swift
Also…
After Midnights and this, I really feel like she could use a year or two off from working on new music to just recoup, take stock, find some new collaborators and live a little more between her insane touring schedule.
Taylor's been an institution for over a decade now but her music still had a distinct humility, earnestness and charm pre-Midnights. These two records honestly feel like they're written by a writer whose pen is starting to slip and a producer who's fresh out of new tricks. I mean, shit, I'm a massive Bleachers fan and love his new record so I'm not a Jack detractor but his work with Taylor is so dull, anemic and repetitive.
I don't necessarily need folk Taylor back any time soon but I definitely need a creatively refreshed Taylor on the next record because she's really losing me between the unenthusiastic half-cocked re-recordings and two insanely weak new albums in a row. She just needs to let her brain rest for a bit and come back swinging like she did with folklore after Lover.
Taylor's been an institution for over a decade now but her music still had a distinct humility, earnestness and charm pre-Midnights. These two records honestly feel like they're written by a writer whose pen is starting to slip and a producer who's fresh out of new tricks. I mean, shit, I'm a massive Bleachers fan and love his new record so I'm not a Jack detractor but his work with Taylor is so dull, anemic and repetitive.
I don't necessarily need folk Taylor back any time soon but I definitely need a creatively refreshed Taylor on the next record because she's really losing me between the unenthusiastic half-cocked re-recordings and two insanely weak new albums in a row. She just needs to let her brain rest for a bit and come back swinging like she did with folklore after Lover.
Album is ok so far. I am repulsed by Matty Healy so hearing that a few of the songs are about him kinda taints it for me. I feel like there isn't a STANDOUT catchy song like Midnights had. I know it's cliche to wish for an artist to "go back to an old sound" but man she KILLED it on folklore. Some of these lyrics man.............
So far the songs that I liked the most:
So Long London
loml
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
Fortnight (thankful Post Malone isn't all over this)
Florida!!!
So far the songs that I liked the most:
So Long London
loml
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
Fortnight (thankful Post Malone isn't all over this)
Florida!!!
Not feeling the album so far, not a fan of the production and sound on it. It feels a bit like a Midnights retread sonically.
I feel her 2 post pandemic albums have been subpar compared to the heights of Folklore and Evermore.
Maybe it'll grow on me.
I feel her 2 post pandemic albums have been subpar compared to the heights of Folklore and Evermore.
Maybe it'll grow on me.
