which i guess automatically makes it her best ldr synthesis
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
when youareyoungtheyassumeyouknownothing
Such an amazing song
― Tim F, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
Also lol @ "the wedding was charming if a little gauche"
― Tim F, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:30 (three years ago) link
wow the bridge in "exile" is great
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
and then it comes back again!
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
So she broke up with Joe, huh?
― triggercut, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
Kinda her mid/late 90s lingering-impact-of-trip-hop album to a degree, isn't it? (This is very much not a complaint.) Also given the recent Hit Parade episode on Lilith Fair I'm feeling a hair of McLachlan from around then too, and similarly not a complaint.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link
Listening to "The Last Great American Dynasty," and it's easy to imagine Matt Berninger singing the chorus.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
"mirrorball" is soooo pretty
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:41 (three years ago) link
"A marvelous time ruining everything" is a great line that hits harder via the repetition and variation.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:42 (three years ago) link
“august” is a cocteau twins song and it made me cry
this is the best taylor swift album and i’m not even done yet
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:47 (three years ago) link
I don't think what the Dessners and co. bring to the table really works for me tbh
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
yeah "august" is so much
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
Per jaymc, great thread re "Last Great American Dynasty"
obsessed with Taylor’s song about Watch Hill House and Rebekah Harkness.....yes queen give us a WASP history lesson, be the John Cheever you want you see in the world!!!!!!— rachel syme (@rachsyme) July 24, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:52 (three years ago) link
It sounds very nice, but it's also hella mellow; seven tracks in, hope it picks up a bit.
(also - I'm hesitant to type this - but in "Mirrorball," when she starts to sing "You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes," it totally sounds like she's about to sing "You'll find me on my toilet...")
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:53 (three years ago) link
"Betty" is the best-sounding thing on here, figures it's the only Dessner-Antonoff-Swift co-production
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
I thought that too.Which makes me wonder if its gonna be a another "lonely starbucks lovers" thing.
― MarkoP, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
mellow is the dominant mood. the songcraft is out of this fucking world though
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:56 (three years ago) link
and i haven't been studying the lyrics intently but... she seems in top form here
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
I'm enjoying the mellowness. She's been on such a maximalist kick for so long. (Not that maximalism is absent here, it's just a gauzier variety.) I've always been a fan of mid-tempo and ballad Taylor.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link
(only halfway through the album but feels likely to be my favorite of hers since Red.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
Damn, she DID write a folk-metal album -- from "Invisible String"
"Cold was the steel of my ax to grind for the boys who broke my heart / Now I send their babies presents"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
every melody is somehow lovelier than the last
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
My biggest objection to her dance-pop stuff is it tends to be too rigid to let her unfurl those long melody lines. Which she's really good at.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
she keeps some of the clipped-pop delivery here but it sure works
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:12 (three years ago) link
lol at "betty" being about being in love with a girl but she makes sure there's one line that makes it clear she's playing a male role to make it straight
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
so none of this is gonna be played on the radio huh
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:16 (three years ago) link
seven is lovely.
― aphoristical, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
"Cardigan" is being promoted to radio.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:19 (three years ago) link
overall this is quite good, probably a few tracks longer than it needed to be but that's my only complaint
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:23 (three years ago) link
Trixie Mattel will cover "Betty" by Monday.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:25 (three years ago) link
That modulation at the end of Betty is just *chef's kiss*.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:31 (three years ago) link
i want a whole album of "august"s
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:35 (three years ago) link
I haven’t listened to Bon Iver since Skinny Love and that EP, does he always sound like this
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:37 (three years ago) link
no, it's rare to hear him in that lower register
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
"what if you just sang it in a normal voice, like a regular singer, Justin?"— Keith Harris (@useful_noise) July 24, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
well - the other characters have names, why not the narrator ("James")? it doesn't feel forced to me
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:47 (three years ago) link
piano on Cardigan is very 'Norman Fucking Rockwell'.
― piscesx, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:50 (three years ago) link
Cardigan is her best single since Blank Space.
― piscesx, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:53 (three years ago) link
it was just funny because when i first heard it i thought she'd written a gay song until the one line where she no homos it by revealing the narrator's name
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
'james' never made anyone less gay
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link
Was Taylor referring to the National when she sang about that indie band in We Are Never etc
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 24 July 2020 06:13 (three years ago) link
Lol if so that would be the ultimate slow burn revenge on Jake Gyllenhaal
― Tim F, Friday, 24 July 2020 06:19 (three years ago) link
On about the 4th time through August I realized the opening reminds me of "Life in a Northern Town." (A good thing.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2020 06:19 (three years ago) link
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:13 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
unfortunately it was best coast
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 06:31 (three years ago) link
cardigan is good but there are several tracks even better here imo! But it's not an album of singles that will take off so whatever.
Definitely some of her best melody lines ever here and they're allowed space to breathe
― abcfsk, Friday, 24 July 2020 06:32 (three years ago) link
Holy shit @ "Illicit Affairs"
― Tim F, Friday, 24 July 2020 06:54 (three years ago) link
I think this is the best Swift album ever and I'm still only at August on my first play
― boxedjoy, Friday, 24 July 2020 06:55 (three years ago) link
still on my first time through and have been knocked for 6 a few times, most recently on "invisible string"
― monotony, Friday, 24 July 2020 06:55 (three years ago) link