Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

this, while not great in its conclusions (the piece doesn't quite separate itself from the Mic position that "social justice" topics are synonymous with clickbait, which... would seem to be the entire reason you'd write such a thing, besides the real reason i.e. inter-media feuds) is a pretty good case study

https://theoutline.com/post/2156/mic-com-and-the-cynicism-of-modern-media

I'm taking comfort in the possibility that people are going to move on from these opinions4u so hard the second she releases a googly-eyed love song

It's kinda funny I ran across my vinyl of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and was thinking how crazy Pitchfork, CoS, Noisey et al would have gone about Range Life considering all the digital ink spilled over this or Arcade Fire acting like ding dongs imagine the thinking pieces

"Nature Kids DO Have a Function: Pavement's Problematic Anti Ecological Politics"

CRCR debuted in the bottom half of the billboard 200 albums chart and to this date has not even gone gold

in 1994 no clickbait economy would have wasted bandwidth on a pavement headline with everything else that was going on imo

if they could spare whitespace not already devoted to coverage of social media responses to kurt cobain's suicide there might be a graf or two about whether or not beck was guilty of cultural appropriation for doing a tropicalia album or making "where it's at"

have you seen how much these outlets cover, for example, the various scandals involving Mark Kozelik's behavior, if Pitchfork existed then they would cover Pavement like crazy

plus they were dissing 2 of the biggest bands in the world, i think it's safe to say it would be covered on indie sites

kozelek went after a writer directly, different situation

Yes. Partly a consequence of music-selection based tribalism falling apart in the social media age.

There are aspects of this I don't mind.

Imagining the 2017 Jack Black High Fidelity character judging each customer on their wokeness level[/].

http://z100.iheart.com/featured/fresh-pick-mondays/content/2017-09-02-listen-to-a-clip-of-taylor-swifts-new-song-ready-for-it/

And then D4rcie W1lder makes a disgusting, moronic tweet and then Noisey et al report on it like it's news.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, September 1, 2017 10:05 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what does this mean?

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 1, 2017 11:42 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

speculation that TS picked her release date because it's the 10th anniversary of donda west's death

Imagining the 2017 Jack Black High Fidelity character judging each customer on their wokeness level[

lmao ok holy shit, this is an incredible image

haha ugh

"Do you even know your daughter? There's no way she likes a band of white cishet males"

looooll

It's kinda funny I ran across my vinyl of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and was thinking how crazy Pitchfork, CoS, Noisey et al would have gone about Range Life considering all the digital ink spilled over this or Arcade Fire acting like ding dongs imagine the thinking pieces

"Nature Kids DO Have a Function: Pavement's Problematic Anti Ecological Politics"

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, September 2, 2017 6:56 PM (four hours ago)

lol matt i love you

Song number two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62maKYX9tU

This new Taylor single flew from dubstep to trap to trop house in like a minute and I'm dizzy and drained.

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) September 3, 2017

She had Max Martin and Shellback airlift this campaign out the trenches huh

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) September 3, 2017

much, much better than single 1, but still horrible dead-eyed trash precision-engineered by committee to get the most replays, obv ;)

it's a shame the taylor who could write hooks died

During the tour for this album is she going to do the Mr. Rogers thing where she calls the audience her "friends," lies about recognizing them from Instagram, and brings celebrities onstage so the crowd can meet her other "friends"? Because this is what I witnessed when I was taken to a show on the 1989 tour and it was sort of sweet -- it was clear to me her youngest fans loved it and I was happy for them -- but also creepy. I'm sure there are people out there who have a phobia of Taylor Swift.

There were also video segments where Lena Dunham and Selena Gomez talked about baking cookies at Taylor Swift's apartment. It was like they were trying to convince me she was a normal human being, something I never would have questioned before attending the concert.

I had to explain to my kids the notion of a curated Instagram account.

I'm now under the impression this whole thing is her Chris Gaines album.

Despite it all though, the songs on 1989 are amazing. I really hope the new songs don't portend some moodier, more "2017" sound.

No joke, even my 10-year old girl has been complaining about Taylor Swift going all "dark" and "goth."

I mean, I will have to see the finished product. She might have a vision. But it seems kind of forced right now.

Taylor Swift knows what works better than I do though, obviously.

Taylor take the wheel

imago otm i think

This new song doesn't work at all but Taylor is now failing in interesting ways rather than boring ones, which is an improvement in my book.

Taylor is now failing in interesting ways rather than boring ones

ahh man if there's any justice in this world, this will be on the sticker

New song makes it seem clear the degree to which they actively sought a celebrity gossip nightmare with this album rollout bc this would've made a really good opening single, gotten the "harder-edged" message across, etc while pretty much avoiding all that pandemonium.

This person that literally broke the streaming record last week is failing in interesting ways

This thing just destroyed the internet: http://ew.com/music/2017/08/30/taylor-swift-records-look-what-you-made-me-do/

But, on the other hand, there was also a Noisey article about how she isn't woke enough so maybe she should just shelve the album

I mean who can say

Do you actually like this music or do you just hate the Internet?

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They're not mutually exclusive.

Didn't Drake just put out a record where he repeatedly explains why his last record-breaking record was so shitty? Thinking sales is everything is really missing the point in this age of the popstar as brand.

This person that literally broke the streaming record last week is failing in interesting ways

Man, I get it, but I hate this sort of metric. I'm not sure what breaking the streaming record even means, beyond the literal. It's just some number, like twitter followers or longest fingernails, that translates to next to nothing in the real world.

well nobody cares about longest fingernails, for one

Tell it to Guinness Book and grade school kids.

this sounds like wildest dreams

virtually every digital "record" is so gamed, both by bots and by a comparatively small number of fans refreshing/running their own bots/etc, as to be meaningless, at least outside of huge obvious differences

https://media.tenor.com/images/ca0351d04a0d4861f32d006b7449184d/tenor.gif

Bot: "I made that bitch faaaaamous"

Without these pesky bots we'd know the truth that Taylor Swift is about as popular as Dent May

Do artists and/or labels actually game their numbers with bots? Or is it just renegade fans?

probably both tbh

not saying she's not popular, just that bots and overzealous fans probably act to boost the tallies to "record-breaking" levels

right this is my point from before