Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

Fair enough.

Maximalist EDM pop doesn't feel even close to falling out of favour right now.

enh, you kind of can -- Cheiron circa the late '90s has a very specific sound, in the percussion and backing vocals, for instance.

" I think Swift enter the studio making the best music she can and hoping it sells" generally yes, but with this album I'm not so convinced.

"He writes songs. He's not an artist. He doesn't have the need for expressing his personal thoughts in a song. For him, it's about the melody."

So...lyrics, and specifically personal lyrics, are art, but melodies aren't?

I miss Geir.

xpost Make of that what you will, but that was direct quote from Robyn, who not only knows him but had a hit with one of his songs.

let noone say anything negative about max in the swift thread

I mean this is the same person who signed with a nothing indie record label because RCA wouldn't let her write her own songs and who once released an album of music in which she was the sole credited songwriter on all songs.

enh, you kind of can -- Cheiron circa the late '90s has a very specific sound, in the percussion and backing vocals, for instance.

― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:44 (yesterday) Permalink

Oh totally - I should have specified that more as "since the mid-00s", basically since he and his team have had several successful sub-brands they have had to juggle and a wider variety of successful artists to work with. On the one hand there's a long tail effect - just because pop got over the 2004 guitar rock moment after a couple of years doesn't mean Kelly Clarkson or Pink or Avril Lavigne were going to unceremoniously dump that style, and Max was hardly going to refuse to meet them at least halfway just because he was trying a different style with Britney or Kesha. On the other hand there's a gravitational pull such that the long tails tend to arc towards each other a bit (i.e. "Raise Your Glass" still sounds a bit closer to Kesha than most earlier Pink), though to what extent that's due to specific production techniques, versus the general influence of broader trends, versus perhaps the artists consciously moving their sounds towards a perceived emerging norm, is difficult to say.

robyn had two max martin hits! (she could have had three if she had released "time machine" as a single during the body talk promo cycle imo.)

i asked my 7yo Red/1989-loving neice if she had heard the new Swift and she really doesn't like it lol. said she watched a music video and it was all trying to be dark and zombie and she was unconvinced.

Chart Nerd Talk: https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/11/21/565761702/first-week-sales-of-taylor-swifts-reputation-vary-widely-depending-who-you-ask

Interesting Detail:

Reputation is the year's best-selling album by a landslide. The second-best, Ed Sheeran's ÷, sold 931,000 from its release date in March, through Nov. 16. At least, according to Nielsen.

Depending on how many units Sheeran moves before Xmas, Reputation could very likely be the only album released this year to go Platinum this year.

people talk about Max Martin the way Republicans talk about George Soros.

I thought it was just me who did this

"I Did Something Bad" is enormous and I love it so much already. The chorus into the "ratatatatata" part (which I guess is her voice all doctored up?): super massive. It's my favorite song on the album & easily one of the best things she's ever done.

I think I like this album as much as 1989 and more than Red, which I think puts me out of line with ILM's leanings. Speak Now > 1989 > Reputation >= Fearless > Red > debut fwiw

is this on streaming services yet?

Not on Spotify yet.

It's on Apple Music (where I've gotten it).

ah ok cool i'll listen tonite

now available on ~all the streaming services

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