Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

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

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

in some way this is how pop has operated for a long time what was once radio payola is now bots and streaming factories

i know

Thousands of robot doing lines of free coke off Taylor Swift 12 inch singles

lines of code conning young and impressionable youtubes into weekend "business" trips

in some way this is how pop has operated for a long time what was once radio payola is now bots and streaming factories

yes, I am aware of this as well

glad that's sorted

this would have been preferable as a lead single to the other one for sure

how do I hide all uses of "dead-eyed" on ILX?

dead your eyes

But you would risk missing the discussion of this nugget:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/New_Age_Girl_Deadeye_Dick.jpg

anyway the single is alessia cara's "stay" if produced by sleigh bells, which is more than ok

A couple things: one, I think the ringer article is good and if you really think there's no new precedent being broken in america's relationship to celebrity that we elected Donald fucking trump I think you might not have thought this through

Second, the source of all the "record breaking streaming numbers" is that more and more people are using steaming. Apple's numbers are climbing quickly, more people use YouTube for streaming music now than did even a year ago... have you guys not noticed that what used to seem like "a lot of views" now is fairly easy to get? The records are always breaking as streaming becomes mainstream

I guarantee that if reality television existed 200 years ago we'd have the equivalent of a Donald Trump, given America's propensity to take seriously candidates famous pretty much just for business, or to elect popular war heroes on the basis of them being popular war heroes and find those presidencies either crashing and burning or full of horrific shit even for the era. the idea that pre-2016 was some halcyon time of decorum in politics is complete bullshit and always has been

point about the streaming numbers is 100% correct though

There's a huge swath of discursive space between a fantasy halcyon past of decorum and the argument that nothing has changed, I think it's a frankly obvious observation that things have changed to the point where trump is electable & yes the rise of reality tv as a national phenomenon is a part of that.

Fuck I don't get ILX - these last two singles suck. What you made me do sounds more like a response to her controlling A+R dept. than anything else. She's a pawn

saying anyone's a "pawn" is silly, I'm sure she's making the music and visual statements she wants to make

though I think the sheer amount of debate centered around... almost anything Taylor Swift related other than the actual singles...speaks to their quality