Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

Everything is Kanye. You are Kanye.

woof

isn't this album out yet?

It's currently celebrating its 20th anniversary.

congratulations album

isn't this album out yet?

― akm, Friday, October 20, 2017 12:23 AM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that's the feeling i got, 3 month rollouts feel so weird now. album isn't out until mid-November

new jersey confirmed imo

i think i already said that somewhere upthread but extra-confirmed now

Take away the juvenile/embarrassing lyrics and this is actually pretty good?

when i saw this thread revived, i actually thought "huh, weird, not much discussion of this album, how long has it been out again?"

new jersey WILLENNIUM confirmed imo

― dyl, Friday, October 20, 2017 12:24 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fixed.

haha

sounds like a children's song

Take away the juvenile/embarrassing lyrics and this is actually pretty good?

― skip, vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 5:46 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're basically saying 'take away Taylor Swift from the song and it's actually pretty good'.

She's really aiming for that Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award huh? It's like she's in regression.

"you should take it as a compliment that I'm talking to everyone here but you" is a great line that suggests that exact sensation of fear and lust that instant crushes create, but the rest of the lyrics are embarassingly bad.

synth tones on this are odd, have no idea what they were going for

what the fuck

why does the music sound so cheap!!!!

ready for it sounds that way too, it's baffling

She's singing to herself, obviously.

So whisky on ice or whisky neat?

Enh the song isn't that bad, prefer it to "Wildest Dreams" at any rate

Those are some chintzy synths heh

The weird thing about latter-day Taylor is that the narrative-voice of the song seems to lack any intention or moral code or human thought pattern, from "Blank Space" onward the narrator seems to be chaining together emotional statement after emotional statement with no traceable path and it's very unrelateable

Yeah it's not that bad. Certainly very light, though.

this sounds like it should have been on 1989, i'm not sure at this point if there's a clearly defined direction for the new one

sounds to me like it’s a harassment song, like the voice starts as the harasser of the singer, then slowly shifts so that the voice is the singer’s.

idg why it’s like a kids song, it seems heavy to me, but maybe I’m just hearing it through “our cultural moment”

This song rules, the synths sound great, I don't get the "sounds cheap" thing. It's a very primary colors sound. Idk good third single

Again, the narrator is using typically abusive language, blaming the object of their affection for their actions. I wonder if this is a larger thesis? like an inversion of this language?

fgti that’s what I’m thinking

for fuck's sake

if the colloquialism "I'm so mad that you're hot" is abusive then every single millennial on the planet is abusive

gwen stefani, flagrant harasser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uljUDtv1Kw

ledisi, who totally hates them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMSW1Z2UFZQ

Alpine static otm

Reminds me of "Irreplaceable" - kind of a mid-tempo nothing, but highly pleasant about it. I like it. It's un-abrasive without being bland. Can imagine being happy to hear it in the background of shops for several years.

this is also not good

@ katherine I was thinking of "You should take it as a compliment that I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk / You should think about the consequence of your magnetic field being a little too strong"

And obv I'm not saying "wow Taylor is abusive", I'm wondering if she's inverting the language as part of a larger thesis

And it's not even really my idea: https://www.bustle.com/p/taylor-swifts-look-what-you-made-me-do-is-getting-called-out-by-domestic-violence-survivors-79166

Katherine should not have linked to one of my favorite ballads of the last five years

Ned Raggett at 11:20 19 Oct 17

You are Kanye

aw thank you ned :)

Go in peace.

why does the music sound so cheap!!!!

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 20, 2017 9:43 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME9X8GX_tm8

lol

i can't believe i'm saying this but i like the maroon 5 single that dropped the same day more than ts's

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIft-t-MQuE

Bjork, Robbie Wiliams, Blade Runner, The Host, Tron, etc. etc. etc.

There's some Scott Pilgrim and Ex Machina in there too.

Definitely.

Mister Police, You Could Have Saved Taylor From Ripping Off Prometheus pic.twitter.com/Pimj3EDNjz

— Josh Kurp (@JoshKurp) October 27, 2017

Sounds much more like a hit than the second single.

i hate all these heavily referential but conceptually muddy joseph kahn videos

i do like this song tho

Eh. My problem with all of the singles so far -- musically, leaving lyrics aside -- is that the whole lite-R&B shtick just doesn't play to her strengths as a singer or melodicist. She's always been rhythmically awkward, she can't pull off these verses even as well as Katy Perry.

The whole presentation of this album so far just feels very Trying Too Hard.

Video is self-parody. Singing about her exes, feel like I'm stuck in a time warp.

She should have pulled a Chris Gaines.

I don't get out enough to notice, but have any of these, what, 4 singles gotten much exposure? I know after the first one came out my kids told me they hated it, but they haven't mentioned any of the others, nor have I heard them out and about. Vs. the last album, which was pretty ubiquitous.