taylor swift - rePOLLtation

(I thought I was mishearing "Fourth of July" - why would a Brit sing that? - but Genius sez it refers to Swift's big summer bash with "famous friends," lol)

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1. new year's day
2. delicate
3. end game
4. dancing with our hands tied
5. don't blame me
6. call it what you want
7. dress
8. i did something bad
9. king of my heart
10. getaway car
11. ready for it?

(i stop liking this album)

12. gorgeous
13. so it goes...
14. this is why we can't have nice things
15. look what you made me do

"new year's day" feels like a cop out pick since it stands aside the album sonically but whatever. canon classic taylor song to me. "delicate" is the one that feels like she actually wrote a pop song that sounds like modern pop instead of pop from 6 years ago, but i fuck heavily with everything thru about no. 9 on my list and the other two i def mostly like.

this album was not as bad as the initial songs made it seem, and i think i rate it above 1989 so at least there's that. she is still an incredible songwriter but i really really really hope she moves on from her normie into "dubstep" phase with her next album.

I love all the little background vocal interjections — the “Oh!”s and “Ah!”s and “Hmm”s — on “Gorgeous” and throughout much of the album (or at least the Max M. tracks)?

It's a toss up between "New Year's Day", "Dress", "Getaway Car" and "Delicate". "Call It What You Want" would be at #5. Most of the rest I've not listened to voluntarily since the album was released.

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...Ready For It? 0

this is a travesty

^agreed (plus, I was the only one who voted for “Endgame”? Lol)

I like “Getaway Car,” tho I feel it maybe pushes its central metaphor one or two clicks too far... and the bridge sticks out in a way I don’t love. It’s very “songwriter”-y to me — impressive in a craft-appreciation way, but you can see the work in every line.

“I knew it from the first Old Fashioned, we were cursed” is a Good Line

Delicate is nice

"Getaway Car" and "Gorgeous" are the only ones that stuck for me from this, I have never found myself wanting to go back to it tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09xzV_r3Mco

...Ready For It? 0

this is a travesty

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, November 26, 2018 9:40 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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