Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

She should date Bannon, dump him, then write a mean song about him to win people back.

i
don't
want your mushroom kingdom keys

look what you made me WA-HOOOO!

And now I'm lying on the cold hard ground - *waluigi comes in* - WAAAAAAAAH

This thread is making me want to buy a copy of Super Mario Galaxy even though I don't intend on buying a Switch.

https://www.stereogum.com/1970857/taylor-swifts-new-album-might-have-song-with-future-ed-sheeran/news/

track list!

we have to stop Future Ed Sheeran

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ri7ZQZIz9k/VIC4hhFtaNI/AAAAAAAAyMw/s6qNlj33fo0/s1600/Terminator%2BGenisys%2BFull%2BTrailer%2BPremiere.jpg

i need your jacket, your sunglasses and your catchiest trop hook

Hoping track #12 is a Peej cover.

well i was let down by the tesla thing so

for established artists first-week sales, esp preorders, are reflective of how well the previous album cycle went. (it's like the difference between born this way and artpop.) i'm sure this album will sell wonderfully (at first) but i wouldn't be so sure about the next one.

new jersey beckons

I already feel as if this album's been out since February.

maybe she gets a bad score but who cares this will fly off Wal Mart shelves on Black Friday this is dropping right in time for Xmas shopping season. the bad press and controversy is part of the album cycle. imo here she pulls this kind of meta narrative thing off far more compelling than most these days (see Arcade Fire).

such a lamer

sorry, the aclu thing pisses me off

that second week drop off will be quite a thing

I'm not totally on top of what are considered to be the essential and non-essential components of a New Jersey album, but one possibly part-distinguishing feature of this album cycle is that if the album does crash and burn then both the stylistic/thematic/lyrical changes and the surrounding news context will provide a readymade narrative for a subsequent attempt at "course correction"* - if Taylor ultimately wants, she can seek to reframe this album as having been her Erotica.**

* perhaps depressingly, the most likely course correction would simply be an attempt to make 1990 rather than, oh, say, an album of confessional rockers spiked with self-loathing.

** obv there is no prospect of this album being as good as Erotica. I wondered whether the better point of comparison was Jewel's 0304, but that seems a bit off given 0304 was more like a hail mary pass from an artist already well and truly on the downward slope, having already gotten her New Jersey out of the way two albums prior.

That's the trick with New Jersey albums, Tim: they don't crash and burn. They sell well, often very well.

i don't think there will be a big drop-off from 1989 at all

sales wise

xxpost don't they tend only to sell well initially and then drop off - at least compared to the artist's prior performance?

I think TS and/or her team would consider anything more than a 30% drop relative to 1989 sales to be pretty troubling - though I think it would be the scale of the miss (together with surrounding public treatment) that would then determine what the reaction to that would be.

Of course for an Erotica level underperformance it'd be something in the order of a 60% drop, which I think is unlikely.

The 60s: Albums must fit on a 40-minute vinyl record

The 90s: Albums must fit on an 80-minute CD

2017: Albums must fit on Taylor Swift's face pic.twitter.com/aJapkyXzxX

— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) November 8, 2017

"Jack challenged me to write song titles a fan would tattoo to her face"

i don't think there will be a big drop-off from 1989 at all

― flappy bird, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 5:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sales wise

― flappy bird, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 5:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes because the youngsters who buy taylor swift albums aren't overly concerned with the discourse or whether this album is a new jersey

nah, there'll be a perhaps-insubstantial-but-still-notable sales dropoff if only because streaming has a bigger foothold especially among youth. i talk to a lot of young people who cock an eyebrow at paying for anything.

Streaming is incorporated into sales though, right?

yeah but hasn't she said she's keeping it off streaming services?

Oh right, I thought she put her old stuff back up though. Does that not apply to the new album?

school of thought i've heard is she'll go to #1 in week one, see how week two goes and then go back to #1 on week three when she puts it on streaming if it makes sense

in other words, we're dealing with an egomaniac, not an artist

false binary, whatever. she's evil

bc she's gaming billboard? who the fuck cares?

I can't defend this cogently but she gives me the vibe of a cult leader

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d3/da/f5/d3daf5fe5c5900e06b0931eeb84d9416.jpg

threatening that blogger recently is the worst thing that I know of in terms of stuff she's actually done

yeah no contest

the reaction to the initial singles has been tepid enough that people will listen to whatever else.

(it's a lot harder to go platinum on streams alone)

an egomaniac, not an artist

interesting distinction

oh my god is one of the songs really going to be called "this is why we can't have nice things" .............. -__________-

i lmao'd pretty hard at "12. dress"

bonus tracks

16. i hope you're pleased with yourself
17. this is the thanks i get?

oh my god is one of the songs really going to be called "this is why we can't have nice things"

assuming that's a cover of the Andrew Bird-penned Kelly Hogan tune

oh man I gotta hear that if true

Hadn't 1989 leaked by now?

in other words, we're dealing with an egomaniac, not an artist

― imago, Wednesday, November 8, 2017

have you listened to music?

I swear every time I see this thread I think it says "Republican."

well she's an egomaniac see

Vox has the first long read of undoubtedly many more to come about why her change of persona isn't working this time around.