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"I respectfully disagree with the below comment. Taylor Swift has often had high profile collaborators and producers (Max Martin; Jack Antonoff etc.). Taylor's records tend to sound both like Taylor and her collaborators. I see it as a strength rather than a weakness, which has enabled Taylor to c...""I respectfully disagree with the below comment. Taylor Swift has often had high profile collaborators and producers (Max Martin; Jack Antonoff etc.). Taylor's records tend to sound both like Taylor and her collaborators. I see it as a strength rather than a weakness, which has enabled Taylor to capitalise on the potential of collaboration to help the longevity of her career and move in different directions.
Of'course, Swift wrote or co-wrote every track on this album so she is certainly not being propped up by others. This record sounds a lot like Taylor and the National as well. That said, it is very much a Taylor Swift record-the kind of melodies and and lyrics being already familiar to Swift fans, even as the music moves in a different direction. "[+]Reply
"I think how much you're fascinated with everything Taylor Swift- particularly both the icon and what people perceive her as out of the limelight- will go a long way into how you value this album. Because purely taken as a piece of music, it rarely gels into anything substantial. In hindsight, I w...""I think how much you're fascinated with everything Taylor Swift- particularly both the icon and what people perceive her as out of the limelight- will go a long way into how you value this album. Because purely taken as a piece of music, it rarely gels into anything substantial. In hindsight, I was harder on Folklore & Evermore on the time which mostly seemed to be about the ballyhooed "I can't believe Taylor INVENTED indie folk music!" overpraise, but it actually felt like a positive exercise to move away (at least for the most part) from all the first-person taylor drama and actually rejigger her interest in character-based songwriting which has always been a much more engaging style than her attempts at meta self-reflection. And again the Songwriting is key, because these often aren't even really full songs, just coasting on the modern snippet-based music trend that a 30-second mood stretched out to the brim is a full idea on it's own right. A lot of it is ressurecting already-dated trends (the endless vocoder use, purring baselines, moody Odd Future and 808 cast-off riffs) as well as some of her own old sounds (particularly the steely synths of 1989, though intentionally fragmented here to emphermal results), which doesn't help that most of the songs still are all Taylor, all the time- a whole lot of humble brags about how personal fallouts and media scrutiny made her the better person, and more record-industry drama BS (which leads to the most tedious attempt at a noirish revenge song anyone could imagine). I donno, there are some highlights, the end couple of songs are pretty solid vintage Taylor with some modern trimmings and "You're On Your Own Kid" is a lyrically strong, more outward look on how the earnest romantic teenage longing of her earliest work has fractured as time passes and pleasing enough I'll completly forgive it rips off the sound of Melodrama's masterpiece "Hard Feelings" (and no blaming Antonoff here, I doubt he was even in the studio here considering the complete auto-pilot production job). Obviously an album that would look more towards the growth of her now adult fanbase and how her music has affected them rather than herself would've been a more interesting prospect, instead we get an album that coasts on what we've heard all Before, both from Taylor and much of the styles that were popular in her heyday. It's not terrible by any means, but perhaps the worst thing Taylor could do is make a terminally uninteresting album that even when spinning you can forget you're even listening to it and realize there's better things to do with your time."[+]Reply
"Hot take, but this is the better album between this and Folklore. Dessner's production and writing grounds the album, lots of fantastic collaborators, and just more fulfilling. The final track, Evermore, is Swift at her all-time best."Reply
"As I was preparing to write a BEA review for this album, I read the Paste review and realized that there was really no point in attempting to clarify and quantify my opinion at this time. Maybe in a decade-plus it will be possible to return to this and give it a proper critical analysis, but anyo...""As I was preparing to write a BEA review for this album, I read the Paste review and realized that there was really no point in attempting to clarify and quantify my opinion at this time. Maybe in a decade-plus it will be possible to return to this and give it a proper critical analysis, but anyone attempting to do so now risks getting caught up in the tidal wave of overwhelming cultural discourse. If you don't pick a side, don't worry: You will be ASSIGNED one by whoever. You will be assigned the "hater" or "Swiftie" title even if you, like me, initially recognize the album as merely an okay collection of pop songs with a couple of good ones and a couple of bad ones (one with a particularly offensive reference to the quality of Charlie Puth's musicianship/songwriting...I almost turned the album off in disgust when I heard that).
Anyway, I'm not going to even bother. I'm too scared that even after writing something HERE, a relative safe space, I'll get caught up in the discourse in an unhealthy way the second I attempt to put any sort of "pen to paper" about this collection of 16 songs (31 if you're truly patient). There are already a couple of reviews below mine and I agree with them both on some level, but any sort of rational discussion on the internet outside of this little bubble isn't really worth the time and anguish at the moment.
You wouldn't go outside during a hurricane, would you? Sorry if this review isn't "helpful.""[+]Reply