I had to stop midway through the first chorus of “Paper Rings”
― josh winters (josh), Friday, 23 August 2019 06:55 (four years ago) link
"I Think He Knows" and "False God" are both really good
― monotony, Thursday, August 22, 2019 10:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Definitely the closest things to good songs on this
― josh winters (josh), Friday, 23 August 2019 07:47 (four years ago) link
pfft “soon you’ll get better” is wonderful
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 23 August 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
People comparing her Twitter to Hillary Clinton! Wow!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 23 August 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
"cruel summer", "i think he knows", "paper rings", "soon you'll get better" and "death by a thousand cuts" are all quite good which is enough to put this above reputation for me
― ufo, Friday, 23 August 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
"false god" doesn't quite lean enough into its sophisti vibes to work for me, the production lets it down
― ufo, Friday, 23 August 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
I need to clear my head with the new Raphael Saadiq.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 August 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
I'm far more interested in hearing about the Big Machine/Scooter Braun merger than her new album.
https://www.bigmachinelabelgroup.com/news/so-its-time-some-truth
I really want to read more about what Big Machine was offering Taylor to stay, and why she decided to leave. It is weird that Borchetta would be highly disclosive about so many little aspects of closing this merger, but not specific about what Big Machine was offering Taylor to stay. Like, he's posting a screenshot from the negotiation, but he's not getting specific about what Taylor turned down?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 23 August 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
wtf is "London Boy"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 23 August 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
It's no "American Boy"
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 August 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Did someone give her the encyclopedia entry for London and say "write a love song about this" or something
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 23 August 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
"You said you wanted a banger."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 August 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
"And yet you gave me mash."
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 23 August 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
it's like raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain on your coronation day
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
Did Annie Clark really co-write "Cruel Summer" or is it just one of those preventative credits that artists have to give now to prevent lawsuits? I ask cause the way Taylor sings "cruel" is a tiny bit similar to how Annie sings it in her own "Cruel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqWLuAUQes
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
Imagine a alternate timeline where Taylor Swift produces Sleater-Kinney.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
It's too early to use my imagination.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
I think this is a nice album, though could probably have been pared by a few tracks.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
Say, for example, all of them
(I have not heard the album but I cannot resist the easy joke)
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I expected someone to reply: "pared by to a few tracks."
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
I'm only up to "Death by a Thousand Cuts" and I already feel like I've been listening to this album for several hours.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 August 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
That said, none of these songs are unpleasant (though "London Boy" is indeed clunky bit of lyric writing).
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 August 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
I dislike how songs written w/Antoff often repeat elements / ideas... "Cruel Summer" could be "Getaway Car Pt. II"
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
AntONoff.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
That pre-chorus melody that runs throughout "The Archer" is another example
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
and the bridge of "Paper Rings" (which is otherwise one of the better songs here)
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
"It's Nice to Have a Friend" is the most interesting track, IMO. How would you describe that musical setting? It's evoking or imitating, what, a certain style of Chinese music?
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Friday, 23 August 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRqZ9pAcwHo
this version of "the archer" >>>> the album version
― ufo, Saturday, 24 August 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n0GIzp5uoU
why is the version of "you need to calm down" on this *m*zon ad better than the actual track
― dyl, Saturday, 24 August 2019 12:29 (four years ago) link
that version of the archer is not better than the album version but is very pretty
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 24 August 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
I was in Target earlier, and bought this CD after passing the display. #normcore
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Saturday, 24 August 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
are we at the point yet where target will sell no cd's other than event releases like this (+ a few gospel and ccm releases on one barely visible shelf in the back)
― dyl, Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
We're at the point where Target will probably soon stop selling cds altogether
― bunny slopes, Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
I bought this year's Ariana Grande album at Target.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
Target also sells vinyl.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
Every time I listen to this it immediately sends me down a youtube rabbithole of other, better tracks called 'Lover', which frankly, I'm loving, well done TS!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 24 August 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
^I’ve grown to like the track a lot (except, sadly, the bridge). Reminds me of a Neko Case song.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Saturday, 24 August 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
i'm not going to listen to the album because i don't like her music but i liked this interview:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/24/taylor-swift-pop-music-hunger-games-gladiators
― Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 24 August 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
finally listened to the title track since everyone was comparing it to mazzy star, am now convinced I've been listening to an entirely different mazzy star
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
i don’t understand the comparison. “sad beautiful tragic” however
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
lol
― Vape Store (crüt), Sunday, 25 August 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
Maybe they were thinking of the Cowboy Junkies (it sounds nothing like Mazzy Star)
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
melodically it reminds me a lot of “crazy” by aerosmith
― maura, Sunday, 25 August 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
well, that's a ringing endorsement.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 August 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
“False God” is a standout... it reminds me a little of something from the first Eleanor Friedberger album.
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Sunday, 25 August 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
This comparison is probably a stretch but the pitch-shifted vocal sample that plays throughout False God kind of reminds me of the Junior Boys or Caribou circa-Our Love
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 26 August 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
“crazy” is a great song!
― maura, Monday, 26 August 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
The Mazzy Star thing is pretty much exclusively in her delivery of the first line of each of the two verses, and the guitar too I guess though I agree the guitar is closer to cowboy junkies
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 26 August 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
I’m slowly coming around to the album. I forgot how great it feels to fall in love with a Taylor Swift song.
― winters (josh), Monday, 26 August 2019 06:37 (four years ago) link
I'm finding there's a lot more to this album than "London Boy".
― cpl593H, Monday, 26 August 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link