Run Away With Me *IS* the best pop song of all time, even when it isn't.
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Taylor Swift announces new album The Tortured Poets Department out April 19
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Run Away With Me *IS* the best pop song of all time, even when it isn't.
Every attempt I've made at listening to Taylor Swift has left me feeling the same. The same old chord progressions, little in the way of interesting and exciting harmony, utterly unremarkable lyric writing, and this vague sense that she fucking loves the smell of her own farts. Even Folklore sounded like that to me, and that was supposed to be the one that was really good or something? I dunno. Stream Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion, besties.
You do you, but this is very much just you.
Taylor Swift Named Songwriter-Artist of the Decade by NSAI: Read Her Speech
She accepted the designation from the Nashville Songwriters Association International’s honor at the historic Ryman Auditorium
Saw this on Reddit and it made me chuckle.
They do apparently hate to see a girlboss winning, after all?
Saw this on Reddit and it made me chuckle.
Too right.
Also Taylor's gonna win the Noble Prize for Literature at some point in her life.
Haters be big mad.Saw this on Reddit and it made me chuckle.
As is tradition. 😤
So far I'm enjoying more the later stuff (which is kinda weirder) than the earlier lol
Well. Two songs to go, but the second half has been very much: "Here's safe and boring sounding Swift for anyone put off by the main album". There's some nice tracks on there, but I vastly prefer the first batch to this lot by a country mile.
I don't think they're likely to give it to another songwriter any time soon. They got a lot of criticism at the time for giving it to Bob Dyllan, even at the end of his career when his music had gotten particularly experimental and literary. I'm also not sure Taylor Swift's songs are necessarily politically conscientious enough to arouse the interest of the Nobel committee. It could still certainly happen and perhaps she deserves it for her lyricism, but I imagine it would be years after her prime - similar to Bob Dyllan.
You do you, but this is very much just you.
Taylor Swift Named Songwriter-Artist of the Decade by NSAI: Read Her Speech
She accepted the designation from the Nashville Songwriters Association International’s honor at the historic Ryman Auditoriumpitchfork.com
Their 2023 winner was Morgan Wallen lol
How they gave it to Taylor Swift is weird when on their own website Ashley Gorley has won Song Writer of the year SEVEN times in the last 10 years.
Something ain't adding up with that establishment.
NSAI Songwriters of the Year
2023 Ashley Gorley 2022 Ashley Gorley 2021 Ethan Hulse 2020 Ashley Gorley 2019 Josh Osborne 2018 Ashley Gorley 2017 Ashley Gorley 2016 Ashley Gorley 2015 Rodney Clawson 2014 Ashley Gorley 2013 Rodney Clawson 2012 Dallas Davidson 2011 Chris DuBois 2010 Chris DuBois 2000-2009 CRAIG WISEMAN -...
Like, that is a huge snub to this Ashley person.
That "put narcotics into all of my songs" line makes me think more that she's had to keep some of her expression limited to what would more likely be hit songs. I feel like there's a good few songs on this album that are unhinged in the best way. She just lets loose.
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‘Tortured Poets Department’ Breaks Record for Weekly Vinyl Sales in Just Three Days, as Taylor Swift Sells 700,000 LPs Over a Weekend
Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' didn't need seven days to set a record for most vinyl sales in a week; it did it in three, with 700,000.
variety.com
It feels potentially unlucky to talk about "breaking records" when the subject is actual LPs, but there's no way around combining these terms when we're talking Taylor Swift, the modern queen of vinyl. She has broken her own record for the most sales of a vinyl album in a week, and did it in just three days, with 700,000 LP copies sold of "The Tortured Poets Department" over the weekend.
The previous weekly record belonged to Swift's release from last October, "1989 (Taylor's Version)," which sold 693,000 copies in a seven-day period.
Who held the record before "1989" surpassed it last year? You guessed it — also Swift. "Midnights" set a weekly vinyl sales record when it came out in October 2022, with what then seemed like an astronomical 570,000 copies in the LP format.
It should be noted, as these records keep getting toppled, that they are all for what is often referred to as "the modern era" — that is, for the period since 1991, when SoundScan began keeping well-researched tallies of sales numbers for albums in vinyl, CD, cassette, download and all other forms. It's possible that there were albums that sold more than 700,000 vinyl copies in a week back in the '60s, '70s or early '80s, when LPs were the dominant format for consumption of music, but that data wasn't being collected then. In any case, there's no one else who has come even close to Swift's opening LP numbers over the last 33 years.
I tried with this double album, and I just can't. Took me a few days to finish it. Some decent songs here and there, but otherwise boring and a bit of a slog. No desire to attempt to listen to it in full again. For reference, my favorite albums of hers are Folklore, Lover, Reputation.
It certainly doesn't hurt, but there's ultimately nothing stopping other artists from releasing several different physical versions of an album. Taylor simply has a fanbase that actively wants physical copies of her music. Which is particularly amazing because no form of entertainment has been as impacted by streaming and digital releases as music.
I hope they actually release it on vinyl offically along with Midnights 3AM edition.
yeah, it's a pop-industry problem and it really impacts the vinyl production for indie bands/labels (that are more dependent on record/merch revenue). Billie Eilish brought it up in a recent interview and expressed concern over it while her next record is getting tons of physical variants too lol
Any ideas if any of these songs will get some radio time?
I actually have been using the radio in my car more because i'm too lazy to connect to my phone/don't have Sirius XM, and on release date iheartradio was doing the whole TTPD (hosted by Taylor) so I heard just a few songs on the way to work.
But I don't know if any of these will be like consistent radio replays like Cruel Summer etc.
I actually have been using the radio in my car more because i'm too lazy to connect to my phone/don't have Sirius XM, and on release date iheartradio was doing the whole TTPD (hosted by Taylor) so I heard just a few songs on the way to work.
But I don't know if any of these will be like consistent radio replays like Cruel Summer etc.
They should be broadcasting Guilty as Sin? If every radio station in the world played it for a day we'd literally have world peace. I'm only half joking.
I have to believe.
Jumping into this thread after listening to the album. Listened to disc 1 on the on the first day it was released and then disc 2 over the last couple of days.
I should start by stating that I do not particularly enjoy pop music and so much of Taylor's music fits into that category. I listened to the album because my 11y/o daughter loves Taylor's music and I do my best to listen to everything that my daughter is going to listen to at least once. This lets me feel confident that she is listening to music that is appropriate and allows me to be engaged with daughter in something she enjoys.
The first disc is a banger. I immediately wanted to listen to it again. There were moments that gave me goosebumps. Taylor's lyrics were never a problem for me, it was always the pop wrapper that they were presented in. The first album strips away the types of sound that I personally identify as synthetic and leaves a personal diary full of pain, naivety, and confidence.
It is an album that will be added to my rotation. It is certainly early and I will have to listen many more times, but this album is my current best of the year.
I should start by stating that I do not particularly enjoy pop music and so much of Taylor's music fits into that category. I listened to the album because my 11y/o daughter loves Taylor's music and I do my best to listen to everything that my daughter is going to listen to at least once. This lets me feel confident that she is listening to music that is appropriate and allows me to be engaged with daughter in something she enjoys.
The first disc is a banger. I immediately wanted to listen to it again. There were moments that gave me goosebumps. Taylor's lyrics were never a problem for me, it was always the pop wrapper that they were presented in. The first album strips away the types of sound that I personally identify as synthetic and leaves a personal diary full of pain, naivety, and confidence.
It is an album that will be added to my rotation. It is certainly early and I will have to listen many more times, but this album is my current best of the year.
I can do it with a broken heart is still my favorite of the bunch, in fact it's probably one of my favorite songs of Swift's entire oeuvre, but it's funny how it's even better if you listen to loml before it. So you can journey from being depressed to getting properly unhinged.
Good lord, the award would be even more meaningless than it is now. It's an award for serious literary fiction. It's basically like giving it to preterf JK Rowling. Just because something is popular doesn't mean it It's artistically significant enough for such a distinction. Disposable pop music doesn't belong there, Dylan was a hard enough sell and the man was arguably the voice of his generation, and has far more literary credibility.
But by all means let's put the one uttering, "don't put me in the basement when I want the penthouse of your heart", or "you so dope, don't overdose", among other vapid lyrics in the same category as Saul Bellow or Octavio Paz.
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Bob Dylan is the only person on the Earth that deserved that honor, and even that is a stretch. I love Taylor but let's not disrespect literature, Bob please.
Relistening to the album slowly — the first 4 songs are really great.
Who knew it could be so easy? Idk why people sell out stadiums for Taylor. /s
Who knew it could be so easy? Idk why people sell out stadiums for Taylor. /s
I was gonna say Bob who? but thankfully Timmy is doing a movie on him so he'll be more known when that comes out.
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It still is. Some might say all kinds of crazy shit. Turning the award into a popularity contest is a race to the bottom, but by all means slay queen or whatever. No accounting for taste.
There actually is something stopping other artists - pressing plant availability.
It is near impossible to get time at a pressing plant for ONE version of your album without a crazy lead time because of Taylor and Adele (the two biggest offenders) paying their way in to print their 20 different versions.
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No one mentioned anything about a popularity contest though.
There is no helping you if you think she deserves consideration based on her lyricism.
Yeah Swift has definitely written strong lyrics throughout her career (not so much on this new record though) and it is refreshing to see a mega star write (most) of her own music still, but I could name at least 200 stronger current lyricists. It's a very sheltered take to think she's at that level, and I'm not even sure Taylor would think she's at that level
Fuck it would be suuuuch a good record 😩 she better not deny us
If they can release 4 discs of Red (TV) they can release the full version of TTPD and Midnights.
Fucking preach. Get those vinyl plants going again, their work isn't finished yet.
Literallyyyyy
Oh I agree it's not going to be any time soon, but if she's still writing lyrics at this level and making music in her 60s then I'm thinking it's possible. I've no issue with song writers getting more recognition in literature circles, though yeah Bob Dylan's award was controversial, which was a shame cause he deserved it just fine.
I can understand not having them at launch to prevent leaks but after it's been out for a while it would be nice to offer the complete album.