Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

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i gave it one listen and can't say i'm particularly eager to give it more. "delicate" and "new year's day" are really nice but i might just end up cherrypicking those two and a couple others. like i mocked "gorgeous" when it came out but it is honestly a stronger cut than much of what is on here lol.

Yeah I listened to the album the first time last night and had a pretty similar reaction though I'll give it another try.

"New Year's Day" is interesting to me (as well as great) because it doesn't really sound like a throwback Taylor song - it sounds like Paramore's "Tell Me How" more than any prior Taylor for me actually. It's like it takes some of the disconnected choppiness that is a collateral component of her pop move and applies it to more confessional balladry territory so you get this song that feels really... impressionistic?

I can imagine Taylor, if she crawls out of her current hole, moving more into this territory rather than necessarily back to the rigorous craft of her earlier work.

"tell me how" immediately came to mind for me

Christ the album isn't even Top 10 as of tonight in the UK, only 3 weeks after release. I guess a single that they can take off the album becoming a massive hit is the only thing to save it.

Christ: The Album

I suppose "Getaway Car" maybe? But I dunno if "Style" wasn't a massive hit then...

on this side of the pond "...ready for it?" is close to fizzling out and "end game" is starting to take off. i think "delicate" could also do well but who knows, wishful thinking on my part certainly.

this shit already bought a condo in Newark boys, it's over

If "End Game" isn't hammered by radio incessantly over the next few months i'd be...very surprised! I'd also bet on "Don't Blame Me" becoming a single given its Ragin Binman aesthetics.

I'm basically at the point with this where I've made a playlist of Dancing With Our Hands Tied - Delicate - Getaway Car - Dress - Call It What You Want - New Year's Day and am pretending the album is an EP.

Predictably pro forma at a radio station thing last night (not really her fault, tbf). But I was briefly standing by Taylor's mom, and wow, it was nuts to see her fans react to her like she was a superstar herself. Taking selfies, making tearful confessions, waving signs. Pretty adorable.

shocker: the whole "taylor swift is an alt-right goddess" thing was in fact trolling after all https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_us_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2?m3a

whoever could have predicted this shocking twist, except everyone in the world, and especially dave gahan since he's the last guy they tried it on

ah yes, the number one hit "be aggressive, be, be aggressive, b-e, a-g-g, r-e-s-s-i-v-e"

― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, November 21, 2017 1:22 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

t-swift shocks the world with her ribald faith no more cover

I feel like this would be a very fun album to poll since people's perceptions of it are so mixed and there's not a clear obvious winner. but i guess it's too soon for that

that’s a good idea, maybe in a few months? Or whenever her stadium tour starts

Or if she breaks up.

"Christ the album isn't even Top 10 as of tonight in the UK, only 3 weeks after release" my guess is this is the new normal.

I thought this album was pretty good. Thanks for lowering my expectations everyone!

you don't get it, taylor swift is this year's Designated Person We Dislike

this may seem like a lot of whiplash after years of bland music being praised to the stratosphere because she was the Designated Person We Like, but so it goes

yeah, I don't understand the backlash, except that fashion moves on. I like this album just about as much as 1989.

Looking forward to a Carlson diss track from Tay-Tay

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tucker-carlson-taylor-swift-134158410.html

tl;dr Tucker Carlson is gross.

I'm going to hope Tucker's staff was trolling him by telling him they got "Mueller" as a guest

getting dancing w our hands tied stuck in my head often

I listened to this a lot around the time it came out; let it rest a few months; and just came back to it this week. Wasn't sure how it would hit me, thought its appeal may have faded... but it sounded great! The beats, the production style (all those layered background vocalizations), the tunes... it was all fresh & exciting as when I first got into it. Even the weak lyrics in spots (the weakest I've heard from her, and this album's Achilles heel IMO) didn't bother me so much (at least in this first re-visit). Not sure how it will age over more time, but any doubts I had about this album being made to sound good in "late 2017 only" are def. gone.

(It also maybe helps to be a few months removed from the semiotic pileup surrounding a new T. Swift release; for those who had a hard time bracketing all that stuff – and I don’t blame you – you can now just enjoy the album for what it is. Notwithstanding, of course, that the “drama” is baked into half the the lyrics...)

Bring on the snake.

Here’s a photo of Taylor Swift, Camila Cabello, Charli XCX, a giant snake and 55,000 people singing “Shake It Off.” #RepuationStadiumTour pic.twitter.com/Kyyqoi7hS6

— Aidin Vaziri (@MusicSF) May 12, 2018

i wish "shake it off" weren't one of her more enduring hits

I heard in a public place the other day, and it still sounded pretty darn good (to an degree that surprised me a little).

did you get down to that sick beat?

jk i like it too

I concede that part remains a bit cringey

I read the review of the show in the Times, and whatever I think of Swift it seems like such a generic conflation of every big pop diva arena show (which I generally like). A total lack of visual ambition. I mean, I saw Shakira like 10 years ago and even she had a giant snake. Maybe it's the same one.

I used to kind of want to see her live, until I watched an “intimate” concert she performed for DirecTV or something, a few years back – it really quashed my interest.

Also, as much as I like the last two albums, I wish she’d re-engage with the “mature, ’80s-tinged pop-rock” approach of (much of) Red... that was such a great direction.

Saw her in Foxboro last night with my 11 year-old daughter for her first concert. A bunch of songs I kind of wrote off on the CD—King of My Heart in particular—really came to life live. The lady can put on a show.

Yeah, that’s probably my least favorite track; interesting that she can put it across.

i was there too and thought the same thing

been hitting "delicate" hard lately

It's been getting radio play here too

it's the first and so far only song from the album to have gotten widespread airplay without getting dropped like a hot potato immediately after peaking. deserved imo (altho i liked the non-"look what you made me do" radio singles too)

Credit to Taylor Swift, apparently her (first ever) political instagram post and endorsement led to a surge in voter registration.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiarosenbaum/taylor-swift-voter-registration-spike

I'm surprised and pleased by the fairly strong language in that statement

new voter registration in my county today is about 5x normal numbers:

https://www.eugeneweekly.com/2018/10/09/taylor-swift-sends-lane-county-voter-registration-rates-soaring/

I'm surprised and pleased by the fairly strong language in that statement

― sleeve, Tuesday, October 9, 2018 1:28 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

impressive

apparently her (first ever) political instagram post and endorsement led to a surge in voter registration.

it's true, Swift is the only person in America campaigning for voter registration, with this one instagram post

I saw her Sydney show a few nights ago, and she seemed way more relaxed and engaged than her 1989 tour where she seemed stiff, self-conscious and like she was performing to the cameras rather than the audience (may have just been because that particular show was being filmed for her tour documentary). Really good show. My girlfriend has bumped reputation non-stop for the last year, and I've grown to appreciate it a lot more through all the repeated listens. I understand why LWYMMD and Ready for It were the lead singles, but they're also pretty much the worst things about the album, and I think it killed most people's enthusiasm for it. But I think she's ended this album cycle on a high note - her tour was great, the album has aged well, Kanye now looks like a far bigger moron than she ever did, and she took the political stand that a lot of people had been waiting for.

that's a nice development

what are the good Reputation tracks?

re the snake found this article somewhat interesting: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/instagram-concert-design-social-media-719042/