Not on Spotify yet.
― how's life, Monday, 27 November 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
It's on Apple Music (where I've gotten it).
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 27 November 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
ah ok cool i'll listen tonite
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 November 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
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.
― dyl, Friday, 1 December 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
"tell me how" immediately came to mind for me
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 1 December 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Friday, 1 December 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
Christ: The Album
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 1 December 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
I suppose "Getaway Car" maybe? But I dunno if "Style" wasn't a massive hit then...
― Tim F, Friday, 1 December 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
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.
― dyl, Saturday, 2 December 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
this shit already bought a condo in Newark boys, it's over
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 2 December 2017 02:11 (six years ago) link
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.
― monotony, Saturday, 2 December 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 December 2017 13:30 (six years ago) link
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
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
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
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
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
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
that’s a good idea, maybe in a few months? Or whenever her stadium tour starts
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 December 2017 00:50 (six years ago) link
Or if she breaks up.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
"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.
― akm, Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
I thought this album was pretty good. Thanks for lowering my expectations everyone!
― President Keyes, Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
you don't get it, taylor swift is this year's Designated Person We Dislike
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
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
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
yeah, I don't understand the backlash, except that fashion moves on. I like this album just about as much as 1989.
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
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.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
I'm going to hope Tucker's staff was trolling him by telling him they got "Mueller" as a guest
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
getting dancing w our hands tied stuck in my head often
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 15 February 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
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.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Sunday, 25 March 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
(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...)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Sunday, 25 March 2018 03:56 (six years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 May 2018 05:03 (five years ago) link
i wish "shake it off" weren't one of her more enduring hits
― dyl, Saturday, 12 May 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
I heard in a public place the other day, and it still sounded pretty darn good (to an degree that surprised me a little).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 12 May 2018 05:14 (five years ago) link
did you get down to that sick beat?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 12 May 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
jk i like it too
I concede that part remains a bit cringey
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 12 May 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
I read the review of the show in the Times, and whatever I think of Swift it seems like such a generic conflation of every big pop diva arena show (which I generally like). A total lack of visual ambition. I mean, I saw Shakira like 10 years ago and even she had a giant snake. Maybe it's the same one.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 12 May 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
I used to kind of want to see her live, until I watched an “intimate” concert she performed for DirecTV or something, a few years back – it really quashed my interest.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 12 May 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
Also, as much as I like the last two albums, I wish she’d re-engage with the “mature, ’80s-tinged pop-rock” approach of (much of) Red... that was such a great direction.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 12 May 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
Saw her in Foxboro last night with my 11 year-old daughter for her first concert. A bunch of songs I kind of wrote off on the CD—King of My Heart in particular—really came to life live. The lady can put on a show.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 28 July 2018 00:37 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that’s probably my least favorite track; interesting that she can put it across.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 28 July 2018 00:53 (five years ago) link
i was there too and thought the same thing
― maura, Saturday, 28 July 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
been hitting "delicate" hard lately
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 28 July 2018 06:11 (five years ago) link
It's been getting radio play here too
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 July 2018 11:17 (five years ago) link
it's the first and so far only song from the album to have gotten widespread airplay without getting dropped like a hot potato immediately after peaking. deserved imo (altho i liked the non-"look what you made me do" radio singles too)
― dyl, Saturday, 28 July 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Credit to Taylor Swift, apparently her (first ever) political instagram post and endorsement led to a surge in voter registration.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiarosenbaum/taylor-swift-voter-registration-spike
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
I'm surprised and pleased by the fairly strong language in that statement
― sleeve, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
new voter registration in my county today is about 5x normal numbers:
https://www.eugeneweekly.com/2018/10/09/taylor-swift-sends-lane-county-voter-registration-rates-soaring/
― sleeve, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
― sleeve, Tuesday, October 9, 2018 1:28 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
impressive
― niels, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 06:15 (five years ago) link
apparently her (first ever) political instagram post and endorsement led to a surge in voter registration.
it's true, Swift is the only person in America campaigning for voter registration, with this one instagram post
― My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 07:10 (five years ago) link