Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

I can't believe that the old Taylor is completely dead if someone is still making terrible asides in the middle of her songs.

For me, Taylor's feuds and disputes as subject matter have always been the least interesting thing about her. When I jumped on the train during the Fearless days because her songs were so warm and nuanced and amazingly crafted, I never would have expected that part of the recurring themes of her career was going to be "welcome back Taylor Swift - and here's the celebrity she's singing about this time." It's depressing self-parody at this point.

I haven't been listening to enough pop to figure out how well it fits into that zeitgeist. What's good these days? It sounds pretty good for a pop song to my ears. I guess.

What celebrity is she singing about?

Kayne.

Kanye

Dammit. Kanye.

Video teaser up.

Official #LWYMMDvideo world premiere.
Sunday 8/27 at the @vmas pic.twitter.com/tjAxr8qdsY

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 25, 2017

see, I give zero shits about any feuds (although people lapped this up when Britney or Gaga or even _1989_ did it) and find almost all of her old material cloying, suffocatingly regressive, no better crafted than the material women on country radio are writing or getting now to zero fanfare (see: the Liz Rose that just dropped, which stans of Old!Taylor Swift have mostly ignored) and terminally boring.

This is not boring. the references I'm seeing are Peaches, Ladytron, unreleased Britney tracks, "Die Another Day," (this one from me) Jessie Malakouti -- and all of these are good to great! they're also good to great enough to stand alone even if you give zero shits about aforementioned feuds.

also anyone who praised "We Are Never Getting Back Together" is not allowed to complain about songwriting

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together is great!

on some level i "don't care" about her feuds but on the other hand her hit song "i am never ever dating jake gyllenhaal again" was hilarious to me

'we are never' >>>> this

I don't follow celebrity profiles or care about biographical parallels, so whomever she dates hasn't bothered me. I already shut a dude down yesterday who cackled about which guy she's "writing about now."

Wait, Taylor is premiering her video at the VMAs. Ain't Katy Perry hosting this year? pic.twitter.com/tVzDpRIKWg

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) August 25, 2017

ok i was done complaining about taylor swift i felt gross n w/e and then i saw this n absolutely fuck taylor swift pic.twitter.com/ws9LYkmeFu

— darcie (@333333333433333) August 25, 2017

lol no

i'm already so tired

yah that's overreaching it xp

Oooh, that's why she waited an extra year to put out an album, so that Kanye's mom's death would fall on a record-release Friday. Cold, Cruella.

(Imagining Taylor with a wall calendar and various dates important to her enemies marked in blood-red.)

I didn't listen to this song yet but "Look what you made me do" generally being a sentence culturally linked to domestic abusers is an extra layer of *thinking emoji*

lol that the Fairbrass bros actually got credited on this, that is some weird post-"Blurred Lines" lawsuit shit

crut with the "Rob Manzoli actually wrote all Right Said Fred's songs solo" conspiracy theory could really liven up the *thinking emoji*

the new song is like a really boring "piece of me"

the new song is like a really boring "piece of me" about as good as "My Humps."

"I never wanted to lay a hand on you. And look what you made me do. But you know what, Rey? Blessings come in disguise, esse! You see, I realized something last week, homes. My eyes were opened. And I realized what you were doing. And not only you: All of these people. I realized that each and every one of you are living vicariously through me. You were stealing MY passion, MY love, MY energy. You were stealing MY LATINO HEAT!"

swap in the appropriate names for the Rey Mysterio records and "VMA" for "Latino" and ditch the "esse" and "homes" asides and the beatdown reference, and you have much better lyrics. Thanks Eddie Guerrero, RIP

biggest evidence this is kanye-related is how much it sounds like an 808s track, although that might just be too obvious to mention

don't forget kim, who was the one who brought the snake into it in the first place

If her upcoming album were called "Latino Heat" I would be psyched.

I got to the "because she's DEAD!" line and clicked the X as a kneejerk reaction, this is just too real for me

my condolences on your death

whiney otm

I thought it was Calvin Harris fans who started the snake thing

I mean we could do this all day ("kingdom keys" is probably meant to ==> Kim Kardashian)

wow, to think this on the same day Carly Rae Jepsen dropped “Cut To The Feeling (Kid Froopy Remix),” drag her kween

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9ntHhDmAg

the "can't come to the phone right now" line is so weird to hear in 2017...did the Old Taylor not have her own cell # ?

christ this is terrible. Katy Perry must be pissing herself.

this is not good

not sure why people are so hung up on the telephone thing -- it's just a standard pop Thing at this point, from Little Mix's "How Ya Doing" to, uh, "Telephone"

see, I give zero shits about any feuds (although people lapped this up when Britney or Gaga or even _1989_ did it) and find almost all of her old material cloying, suffocatingly regressive, no better crafted than the material women on country radio are writing or getting now to zero fanfare (see: the Liz Rose that just dropped, which stans of Old!Taylor Swift have mostly ignored) and terminally boring.

I have no idea what Britney or Gaga have ever done, in terms of public musical drama. And iirc correctly nobody at all lapped up Bad Blood. I don't know anything about cloying or regressive, but after hearing the first few Swifty records I went on an extensive country binge back in 2011 attempting to find more that I liked. I did find more country artists who I thought were really good, and most of them were women. But overall (as is usually the case for me and you could sub in almost any genre you want here), I came to the realization that I didn't like "country music" as much as I just liked this one artist.

I hadn't even heard about the Liz Rose album, but will make sure to listen to it since she was a key Swift collaborator.

britney: "piece of me" and other _blackout_ tracks directly addressing her tabloid drama, and not really working in any other context ("I'm Mrs. Most Likely to Get on the TV for Stripping on the Street When Getting the Groceries": so #relatable!) which was really pretty restrained as far as tabloid-baiting could have been for her (iirc she or her team specifically did not want to address it, though she did *record* a lot of very pointed material; "Guilty" is a very clear counterpart to "Cry Me a River.") (come to think of it, Justin Timberlake's whole "Cry Me a River"/"What Goes Around" era was this exact same thing, suggesting this is yet another accusation leveled primarily at women)

gaga: uh, everything? at least everything circa "The Fame"

the difference is that the britney tracks were actually compelling songs

and this is the fundamental difference because I just don't see how this is the track that *isn't* compelling, where glurge like "White Horse" or "Fifteen" or "Mine" supposedly are. it isn't even a pop vs. craft thing, either -- "We Are Never Getting Back Together" is awful and gets worse every year

Yeah, I'm sorry. I meant to say that I don't pay enough attention to Britney and Gaga to even know what they would have done along this ilk. But did Gaga really have musical feuds as far back as The Fame?

not feuds, per se, but definitely tabloid-y controversies. until "Paparazzi" most people saw her as having nothing *but* those

Lady Gaga is a bit weird though given that songs like Paparazzi were recorded before she was much of controversial name. Like I remember when that album was released, there was very little fanfare and that it took a while for her to really take off.

I'm kinda wondering if this is gonna be similar to when Shake it Off came out and the reception was mostly negative (see: the 1989 thread on this site) but by the end of the year it's winning 4th place in pazz & jop and getting hailed as a perfect pop song

I can't decide what I think of this one yet but the verses/beat/'telephone' segment are pretty good. If the full albums all sass and anger and electroclash beats I'm down.

Don't get why she doesn't like Kanye's tilted stage though. When I saw him live it was one of the more interesting parts of his surprisingly-not-great show

I'm kinda wondering if this is gonna be similar to when Shake it Off came out and the reception was mostly negative (see: the 1989 thread on this site) but by the end of the year it's winning 4th place in pazz & jop and getting hailed as a perfect pop song

I can't decide what I think of this one yet but the verses/beat/'telephone' segment are pretty good. If the full albums all sass and anger and electroclash beats I'm down.

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, August 25, 2017 11:47 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, again, I still haven't listened to this, but all the "HO HUM NOT COMPELLING" stuff on this thread is probably gonna look very stupid when this thing is Number One for two months

i'm sure it'll be very popular on the radio, all her stuff is - that doesn't mean i have to like it or think it's interesting

Yeah, I certainly don't think it's going to flop or anything.

i have no idea how "shake it off" managed to be that high on p&j, esp since i never noticed anyone who disliked it initially coming around to it