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yesssss i love me some Evolution of a Snake!!!! I find their takes so interesting and they also give me a lot of the lore from when I wasn't as big of a fan. Swiftologist is obviously great, but I really enjoy Madeline's podcast too (The Lizard Review), she does lyrical analyses on there, very insightful

my final ranking of the standard edition after a week: 1. Guilty As Sin? (Amazing, top 10 song, 13/10) 2. But Daddy I Love Him (just wow, no words, 11/10) 3. Florida!!! (Makes me feral, 10/10) 4. The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived (That bridge deserves a 10/10 alone) 5. Fresh Out The Slammer (A big grower for me, can't get enough of the sound on this track, she needs to do more of this country style 9/10) 6. So Long, London (So beautiful, not my fav track 5 , but I ascend every time I listen 8.8/10) 7. Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me (I can see this going lower later, after the gag wears off it's still a great song, but definitely not the best one. 8.5/10) 8. loml (One of her saddest songs ever, maybe even sadder than hoax. Beautiful song, but I can't see myself going back to it, as it's too sad 8.5/10) 9. Fortnight (I love the emotionless delivery on this one, it really works imo. Makes me feel like a mental hospital patient, 8,3/10) 10. My Boy Only Breaks (A fun bop! The true single of this album, really hopes it gets played on tour 8/10) 11. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (Another lil bop, maybe the production is a bit too much, but I enjoy it! 8/10) 12. I Can Fix Him (Too short, if it was another minute it would be much higher. I love the country saloon vibe, she really has to go this direction for TS12 .7.9/10) 13. Clara Bow (I enioy this, the production is very "You're On Your Own, Kid" but the melody doesn't do it for me. I do like hearing Taylor Swift say Taylor Swift though. 7.5/10 14. TTPD (Hmm. The lyrics on this are a bit iffy, but I find myself coming back to this song. It might rise in my ranking in time. I like the chorus a lot 7.3/10) 15. The Alchemy (This is a puzzling song, I can't tell if I like it or not. The football metaphors are not for me, none of that on TS12 please. I love the production on this though, and the chorus. Just wish it had different lyrics. The lyric I really like is "Who are we to fight the alchemy"', that's cute. 7.2/10) 16. Down Bad (Not feeling this one. Everyone likes it, it seems, but the chorus is too repetitive for me. It feels like something I can put as backround music when I work out, something I don't have to pay too much atttention to. Overall, it's monotonous. I like it when she says fuck tho. 6.9/10) Overall, I'd give it a score of 83-85. Here's how it ranks among the other albums: 1. Evermore 2. 1989 3. Folklore 4. Rep 5. TTPD (Standard) 6. Speak Now 7. Red 8. Midnights 9. Lover 10. Fearless 11. Debut If I combined it with The Anthology though, it would probably be top 3. I actually haven't finished TA yet, I have 6 songs to go. I'll make a full ranking in a few days.

what is happening in the ldr universe one day we're getting random neil pics, then nothing happens, then we're sure she'll announce smth at lanachella, but silence and now we're suddenly deluluing for an AKA rerelease? This is like being a swiftie except nothing ever happens I just want to know if Lasso is actually happening atp, so I can get on w my life

Midnights WISHES it had a hymn like that. Guilty As Sin is a reject from the Holy Bible

My bed sheets are ablaze I've screamed his name Buildin' up like waves crashin' over my grave Without ever touchin' his skin How can I be guilty as sin? Like????? These might be some of my favorite lyrics in her entire discography Guilty As Sin is top 10 Taylor Songs in my book

triple album confirmed

also laughing at this considering I haven't even listened to half of the anthology if she released a third album i'd have to quit my job

no fucking way. people need to understand that yes, taylor is very productive, but she's not a machine that vomits out songs. Listen to the 31 track album she just released, and if you want more good music, stay tuned for the new St. Vincent album coming out Friday.

Ok so I made a different version of the TTPD tracklist, a bit more chronological and easier to listen. 1. TTPD 2. Down Bad 3. Fortnight 4. Florida!!! 5. How Did It End? 6. Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me? 7. I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 8. Guilty As Sin? 9. The Alchemy 10. So Long, London 11. Fresh Out The Slammer 12. But Daddy I Love Him 13. I Can Fix Him 14. My Boy Only Breaks 15. loml 16. The Smallest Man 17.The Black Dog the first 4 tracks are a bit random- but i feel like they work sonically. I love TTPD as an opener, it's kind of a thesis statement for the record. Next we have Down Bad- which is pretty ambiguous as a song, except if you count "like I lost my twin". I'm still deciphering this line, bc on one hand, Joe and Taylor *look* very similar, but Matty and Taylor are similiar, in the sense that they're both good songwriters, that have a large following and a big fanbase. I'll just put Down Bad there bc it's in the same key as the next song, Fortnight,so it sounds cohesive enough. Fortnight & Florida are similar in a way that I feel like they're both fictional- Taylor has never actually been to Florida, like she has for tours, but she definitely hasn't been in the part of Florida she's talking about. Fortnight is interesting- it feels like she's making up a situation where she's married to someone (Matty?) but neighbours with an ex (Joe?) I chose HDIE as Track 5, even though it isn't the best choice it's still extremely sad, and tbh I see it as a Joe track. They're not officially ended, but it's over in her head. SLL is a amazing track 5 but I needed it later so it works chronologically. Tracks 6 and 7 is a little interlude about fame and the eras tour, I feel like they're connected. Track 8 is where it really starts cooking. On Guilty As Sin, she's fantasizing, she wants the rat, she NEEDS him. She wants to break free, and she doesn't care if she's crucified. On The Alchemy, she has possibly hooked up with him, or something else has happened between her and Ratty. She realizes she can't fight it anymore, the universe is telling her that it's meant to be. On SLL she realizes she can't live a double life, she has to let Joe go. The spirit is gone, it's over, and she knows it.  On Fresh Out The Slammer, she's out of Joe's basement, she is a free woman! And now that she's free she can do whatever the fuck she wants. Who will she be calling first? Obviously the rat, and now they don't have to be secret about it. On the next song, But Daddy I Love Him, she's in full delulu mode, head over heels for Matty, and she's trying to convince everyone it's gonna work out, and she doesn't give a shit that the whole world is against this relationship. Truly a modern day Love Story. On the I Can Fix Him, she's still deluluing herself, I can change him, he's gonna be fixed, until the end of the song, where she's like WHOA um- maybe I can't. On My Boy Only Breaks, it's ended. Matty saw a future with Taylor, something longterm, and suddenly realized he didn't want that. I like how the previous song mentions that SHE can fix him, and now on this one, there's a line where she says "Once I fix me, he's gonna miss me". There's a lot of lines that mention they had a history (2014) so this feels like a Matty song On loml, it's truly over. She realized that it's all fake, and that he was truly hiding the awful person that he is. The whole time he was manipulating her with the idea of marrying and having kids someday, and then one day he just left her, burnt the whole relationship down, the curtain dropped and revealed his lies and carelessness. The next song, TSMWEL, is the anger that Taylor is feeling after it's over, asking herself if someone hired Matty to mess her up, truly questioning how someone could do something so awful to someone else. The last song, The Black Dog, is a perfect way to end the record. She's bored on her phone, and she's getting updates about Matty's location, and her seeing that he's at another bar inspires this beautiful track about how even though he'll find someone younger and prettier, she'll never get his references and understand him like Taylor did. And that's the end of my delusions!! I really need to find more hobbies, but this was fun. I enjoy listening to the album this way, it feels a lot more balanced. There's more bops between all the soul crushing songs, and it really tells a story. The only track I removed was Clara Bow, I have nothing against it, I just feel like it makes more sense to end the album with a postbreakup song, since this is clearly a breakup album.

Suburban House- I don't know if people hate it or they just don't know if it exists, but it's just so beautiful, and I love Holly's voice on it tbh. If Lana made a christmas album I would eat that shit up

perhaps the most reductive and disrespectful take i've seen about this album. this album is many things- you could argue that it's "too long" or that it doesn't have "bangers"- while i disagree with these takes, you could definitely argue it. however- to say that it's a "LANA DEL REY RIPOFF"- it's basically saying, tell me you haven't listened to the album without telling me you haven't listened. at first glance- yeah, maybe the cover looks a bit lana del rey "esque", some of the titles/album name, ex: "But Daddy I Love Him", "Guilty As Sin"- but if you ACTUALLY take the time to listen to it? You'll come to realize it's one of the most "Taylor Swift" albums she's ever made. She's not trying to make country hits like "Fearless", she's not making her big pop moment like on "1989", she's not wearing the snake costume like on "Reputation". It's clear that she doesn't give a flaming fuck about how this is received- she could've released the best songs off the 31 song tracklist, and got all the acclaim, but no, she said fuck that and released a messy, and extremely bloated 31 song album. The clear purpose of this album is things she wanted to get off her chest, which kind of makes sense why the production could seem uninteresting at times- she wants you to listen to the lyrics. Here are a few lyrics that imo are quintessential Taylor Swift: - "I love you, it's ruining my life" - a thesis statement on a lot of her discography, if this lyric wasn't true she wouldn't have a career - "And that's the closest I've gotten to my heart exploding" - it's not a perfect line, one could argue it's corny, but it's so Taylor. The lyrics on this song are so unhinged as well, she wasn't faking anything on this song. - "I'm queen of sandcastles he destroys" - Would Lana write this? No. Some of these lyrics I can't explain how it relates to her- but this metaphor is just so Swiftian, very Blank Space coded - But Daddy I Love Him- the entire song. Sure,some of the lyrics are quite wordy but the theme is just so Taylor, it's literally a modern day "Love Story". Us against the world, this whole town hates us , etc. - "You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me" - She is always saying shit like this- and I love her for it! It's so dramatic, over the top, and a bit untrue, but it's hilarious and I love her for it. - "Always drunk on my own tears" - Well... it's true! And there are 11 albums of proof. - "I''ll forget you but I'll never forgive" - That's my grudge holding queen! She doesn't get over things easy, I mean, she's still writing about Kim almost 10 years later! It might be petty, but I enjoy the vindictiveness at times. I'll stop there but there's literally so much that I could bring up. This album is so autentically "Taylor Swift"', that it may be the reason why a lot of people hate it. Some enjoy it when she's pretending to be someone, but when she's being her unfiltered self- it can be a tough pill to swallow. The only way you could compare this to LDR is how she is just as authentic on her records. I've never listened to a Lana Del Rey record and heard a second of inauthenticity- she makes the music SHE wants to make, and she doesn't give a shit if it sounds boring to anyone besides her. Lana's personality shines through all of her music, and similarly I can feel Taylor's personality shining through this record. anyway... I just wrote all that. Literally sanctimoniously performing soliloquies Fantano will never see- but I needed to get it off my chest bc I'm sick of people comparing the two of them.

this is like a palette cleanser after going on twitter for 5 seconds i actually needed to read this, rex huppke you are an icon!

break away from UMG? Just in time for rep tv merch my bank account is not ready

i just read a reddit comment that said this album has no memorable bridges sometimes i wonder if we're all listening to the same record because- "Were you sent by someone who wanted me dead? Did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed? Were you writin' a book? Were you a sleeper cell spy? In fifty years, will all this be declassified? And you'll confess why you did it and I'll say, "Good riddance" 'Cause it wasn't sexy once it wasn't forbidden I would've died for your sins, instead, I just died inside And you deserve prison, but you won't get time You'll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars You crashed my party and your rental car You said normal girls were boring But you were gone by the morning You kicked out the stage lights, but you're still performing" does this scream "unmemorable"? one of the best in her career, and there's literally so many more examples of this. the only criticism that has resonated with me was a tweet that said "me listening to ttpd" and it was captioned with an image with lyrics from Chappell Roan's "Feminomenon" which were "Dude, can you play a song with a fucking beat?" And it's not even really accurate but I thought it was funny as hell.

i WISH i could forget this album- the things i would do to listen to "But Daddy I Love Him" for the first time again