Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

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.

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

This has been my read of Taylor's entire MO since at least Red, if not earlier.

I don't get out enough to notice, but have any of these, what, 4 singles gotten much exposure?

I was checking the status of a package from UPS the other day and their site is covered in Taylor Swift stuff. Only promo I've seen.

"Look What You Made Me Do" was being used as cutaway music during the one NFL broadcast I skipped through this year. I also noticed it in another sport but can't remember what it was.

LWYMMD is currently #10 on Billboard Hto 100 fwiw, Ready For It at #52

"Ready For It" (just the instrumental) was used as NBA interstitial music in at least one thing I saw

Huh, so youtube streams account for at least part of chart placement now? Anyway, looks like "Gorgeous" did/is doing/is going to debut well. That was the third song?

"Ready For It" went to radio a couple weeks ago even though it was supposed to be a promotional single (or maybe it was always supposed to be a single, who the fuck knows anymore)

Vs. the last album, which was pretty ubiquitous.

maybe you're just not ordering as much pizza lately?

"Look What You Made Me Do" was being used as cutaway music during the one NFL broadcast I skipped through this year. I also noticed it in another sport but can't remember what it was.

ABC was using it in ads/bumpers to promote the fall premieres of the Shondra shows.

"ready for it" feels much more sports broadcast cutaway music, like it was made for that purpose honestly.

it should be noted that "look what you made me do" is undergoing a decline of historic proportions at radio -- its current #10 hot 100 ranking was down from #4 the week it was topping the mainstream pop format's airplay chart, and with things continuing at the rate they have been (both sales and streams had long cooled off already) it will probably sink beneath the hot 100's top 20 next week.

more detail:

As "Look" drops from No. 1 to No. 7 on Pop Songs, marking the steepest fall from the top in the chart's 25-year history, it concurrently plunges from No. 5 (its peak) to No. 20 on Radio Songs, where it's likewise the biggest fall from the top five since the chart began in 1990; it passes the 5-16 descent of Kanye West's "Gold Digger," featuring Jamie Foxx (Dec. 24, 2005).

(the song it stole the pop songs record from was shaggy's "angel", which had been #1 for 8 weeks on the format before it started getting dropped -- like "gold digger", it was a legit radio smash before radio started burning out on it. by contrast, "look what you made me do" jumped very suddenly to #1 on pop radio then started dropping like an anchor basically immediately after.)

"Ready For It" (just the instrumental) was used as NBA interstitial music in at least one thing I saw

I'm amazed you were able to recognize it. Not one of these songs that I've heard has been even the slightest bit memorable, and without the vocals I would expect the forgettability factor to jump by 1000%.

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.

my cynical but honest interpretation of the musical direction we've so far seen from this project is that taylor and her team have noticed that since the 1989 cycle ended, white, adult contemporary-friendly music (which, sorry, 1989 was) no longer draws the feverish levels of consumption they seem to be aiming for anymore, especially with streaming services being as influential as they are. (the numbers do bear this out: songs that are basically only big at black and crossover radio are now routinely topping the charts, buoyed by streams, while many of the biggest hits leaning toward the white/ac side of things are routinely missing the top 10 even as they top the pop airplay charts.)

it's somewhat telling imo that the first format with an announced impact date for "ready for it" was rhythmic, which is the crossover format that currently spins the hell out of cardi b and post malone but also gives quite decent play to e.g. lecrae, nf, and j balvin. basically, in today's climate it may have seemed wise to aim for an r&b-lite sound that could rake in heavy streams and find a home on the formats of radio that are likely to become even more influential as the pendulum continues to swing. but so far rhythmic radio is not biting (and unsurprisingly, despite the strong past support, ac is largely ignoring her this go-around) and the streaming numbers outside of impact-week and youtube have been pretty lackluster.

but at least "gorgeous" is out there now so they can see whether the ship can be righted :)