midnight snacks
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
Is it “70s singer-songwriter” sounding?
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
xp - yeah, I'm surprised that there still hasn't been a single yet. I mean, I guess when you reach this kind of superstar level and you've already got x100000 pre-saves and pre-orders, you don't have to worry about the hype but still feels odd.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
she wants us to experience this all at once, in order, at midnightprobably
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
Joke's on her - that'll be 9pm PDT
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
evermore aside she has shown, to an almost political degree imo, a loyalty to the old school idea of putting out a big dumb pop single to lead a record and promoting it like your life depends on it. showing up at the NFL draft to make sure middle america streamed "me!" and such like. even "cardigan" she flogged in a really unnecessary and inescapable capitol one commercial. my bet would be on her still running that playbook once the album drops w/ whatever single they've chosen for this
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 19 October 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
the single being "anti-hero"
On Thursday (October 20), a teaser trailer will be shown in the third quarter of Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video, while a “special very chaotic surprise” is also set to take place at 3am EST (8am BST) on Friday. Lyric videos will then follow later that evening.
this is simply what she does
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 19 October 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
hahahaalso there were these peeks at some LYRICShttps://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-spotify-lyric-reveal-billboard-1234611644/
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
usually, the single comes out before the album release though
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
it didn't with the last two albums
looks like the whole thing has leaked now
― ufo, Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
in pretty bad quality lol
― ufo, Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
It already turned back into a pumpkin!
(happy to preemptively make that joke)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
she really baited everyone with the 70s stuff lol
― ufo, Thursday, 20 October 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
So it doesn't sound like a Cardigans album?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 20 October 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
it's just pop taylor but without the sort of baffling decisions that have been a regular presence on her pop albums
― ufo, Thursday, 20 October 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
it's pretty easily her most consistent pop album but idk if there's going to be any big hits from this, it's a bit moodier and she's not really trying to force a big single
― ufo, Thursday, 20 October 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
Taylor Swift - At Her Very Best
― MarkoP, Thursday, 20 October 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
well there's still one in "vigilante shit" but that's pretty minor
― ufo, Thursday, 20 October 2022 03:22 (one year ago) link
;_;
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 October 2022 05:49 (one year ago) link
"sometimes i feel like everybody is a sexy baby and i’m a monster on a hill" holy fucking shit
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 October 2022 05:51 (one year ago) link
"you're on your own kid" is taylor swift finally writing a rilo kiley song
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 October 2022 06:00 (one year ago) link
i have to lol at lana getting a feature just for backing vocals
― ufo, Thursday, 20 October 2022 06:01 (one year ago) link
reading tea leaves here but getting “false god”: thealbum from the cover― flamenco drop (BradNelson)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson)
i mean it's not quite the sophisti-taylor album we dreamed of but this was pretty close
― ufo, Thursday, 20 October 2022 06:07 (one year ago) link
def not listening to a shoddy leak days before release. cmon people
― abcfsk, Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:44 (one year ago) link
it's out tomorrow and even with a shoddy leak i think it's possibly her best, at minimum top 2
reactions elsewhere seem to be all over the place though lol
― ufo, Thursday, 20 October 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
it's mehii'm the problem, it's me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
Would love if this opened with some “Reelin’ in the Years”-type riff.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
Seems fitting that both Taylor and Liz Truss had to bring forward their release dates.
― Tim F, Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
IDGI
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
Blonde zillionaire libertarians who'll shoot you without blinking?
― imago, Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
How did Taylor “bring forward her release date”?
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
(I’d ask why you think she’s a libertarian, but don’t really care to know…)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, October 20, 2022 8:01 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
know nothing about this but if this is a lyric from the new album i wonder if it's a response to that last billie eilish song
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/article/taylor-swift-midnights-into-it.html
^^^ I really like this piece, it takes seriously Taylor's work as craft rather than just as a reflection of her inner self (even if the overall frame is "who is Taylor really?"). Powers' suggestion that Carole King (or at least 'Tapestry') provides the better point of comparison for Taylor's work than Joni Mitchell seems pretty canny to me, though less because Taylor is more like King than Mitchell and more because the popular understanding of Mitchell-circa-Blue itself gets a lot of stuff wrong.
― Tim F, Thursday, 20 October 2022 23:33 (one year ago) link
Laura Dern is credited in her video teaser…
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Friday, 21 October 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
Video to be released in a few hours. Listening now but won't get through more than a few songs tonight.
― Bee OK, Friday, 21 October 2022 04:10 (one year ago) link
Damn, love how spare this is.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 21 October 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
It’s basically “1989 pt. 2” so far, in terms of sonics…
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Friday, 21 October 2022 04:21 (one year ago) link
it's distinctively moodier & doesn't have duds like "welcome to new york" and "bad blood" or anything as corny as "shake it off"
― ufo, Friday, 21 October 2022 04:41 (one year ago) link
I wish there was at least one track like that to shake off the same-y tempos. I’m also hearing various melodic bits that sound recycled from other songs of hers. Overall, a little underwhelmed by the aesthetic retreat, and nothing super catches my ear, but maybe it’ll grow on me
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Friday, 21 October 2022 04:48 (one year ago) link
sonically it's closest to the good half of lover but the production is richer
― ufo, Friday, 21 October 2022 04:52 (one year ago) link
That is how I feel about the new 1975 album.
Xpost
― Bee OK, Friday, 21 October 2022 04:54 (one year ago) link
I think the production on Lover was more distinctive, fwiw… going back now and listening to a track like “I Think He Knows” feels like a breath of fresh air.
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Friday, 21 October 2022 05:08 (one year ago) link
(I mention that song specifically, because you can hear its chorus in “Lavender Haze,” and its bridge in “Question…”)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Friday, 21 October 2022 05:13 (one year ago) link
Man, if you don't like the way Taylor Swift writes a melody, you're just never going to like Taylor Swift I guess. Why? Because she keeps revisiting the same few tricks again and again and again for close to 20 years.
*you = me
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 21 October 2022 05:16 (one year ago) link
She does that thing a lot where she quickly raises the pitch of a vocal lineTo abuse a trendy phase – this kind of sounds like if you asked an AI to make a Taylor Swift pop album. (I do like “Anti-Hero”…)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Friday, 21 October 2022 05:29 (one year ago) link
Anti-Hero and Vigilante Shit are highlights for me so far.
― The Ghost Club, Friday, 21 October 2022 05:33 (one year ago) link
lover was more upbeat but the production was a bit chintzy, i just much prefer how all the synth textures sound here
― ufo, Friday, 21 October 2022 05:39 (one year ago) link
I'm not a theory nerd so I don't know how to describe each of her melodic crutches, but she does that thing a lot where, yes, she curves the ends of words up. Or takes the lyric down into a warmer chord you don't expect (except it's Taylor, and she's done it the same way 80 other times, so you DO expect it). Or that thing where she'll chop the cadence up very staccato. I don't think I'd mind so much if her accompaniment was ever more than an afterthought, but it seems purposely bland in order to place focus on her melodies and, y'all, them melodies are TIRED.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 21 October 2022 05:40 (one year ago) link
Still working my way through a first listen, but it feels like a deliberate grower album - the sort where what seems like "this is the best song" will change a lot for me over the course of say six months.
The dream sequence in "Anti-Hero" is great.
And stuff like that hints at how this is like revisiting a lot of the explicit motifs (sonic and otherwise) of the 1989 through Lover era, but holding onto the storytelling emphases and flourishes of Folklore and (even more so) Evermore - "Vigilante Shit" is basically "What if "Bad Blood" but "No Body, No Crime"?" ("Well he was doing lines and crossing all of mine" is hilarious and corny and I love it).
― Tim F, Friday, 21 October 2022 05:52 (one year ago) link