Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

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

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— 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

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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.

Appears Twitter accounts are getting suspended left, right and centre at the moment for so much as hinting they're going to leak the album.

Not sure what purpose the suspensions serve given that it'll inevitably be all over the internet at some point today/tomorrow for those that want to download it illegally.

The real question is, has the Master of Puppets boxed set leaked yet?

Vox has the first long read

-> 'tryhard swift'

it’s also true that to the best of my knowledge, Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars aren't seeding hints about who their songs are about throughout their liner notes and then sending their fans off on a scavenger hunt.

this is interesting because I seem to remember a certain incident of doing just that with "Don't" and Ellie Goulding

Has Skrillex written a song about his Ellie Goulding breakup?

at last

every time i hear the "baby let THE games BEgin" bridge in "ready for it" i think about fgti's posts about the awkward syllabic contortions in "wildest dreams"

"end game": ....🙅

there were bound to be a few songs i really loved on this, the first so far is "delicate"

the way she says "sad" really bugs me in "gorgeous"

"gorgeous" is easily my fav of the pre-release singles

oh hell yeah @ "getaway car"

i wish the whole album were like this :\

^^hm on second listen i think i just admitted that i want to hear a taylor album where she's just singing over bleachers songs

gotta be true to yourself

Maybe I came into this with very low expectations but it wasn't as bad as expected. "Look what you made me do" is way more bearable in the context of the album than as a single. And again, many of the "deep cuts" (??) are way better than the singles.

But she really needs to leave this "biggest pop star in the world" rat race she's in and go back to country ASAP. It's become a sort of trap that does not play to her strengths as singer/songwriter.