yeah no
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
(misused "panopticon" there of course, because the concept failed to prepare us for the reality)
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 19 September 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
"Death by a thousand cuts" is so amazing. It looks like it's just about to fall apart, all the time, but it never does. Instead it keeps growing and growing.
― cpl593H, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
So when does this album come out?
Seriously, though, all I've got are anecdotes, but I think this is the first Swift album whose songs I have yet to encounter in the wild.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:24 (four years ago) link
Been to Target lately?
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Friday, 20 September 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
I've heard "Lover" and "The Man" without making an effort
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 September 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
I heard “Me!” today in a BK
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 20 September 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
xpost Yes! I've been to two Targets in the last week, and I didn't notice any Swift.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Ours has a freestanding display of Lover CDs near the registers.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Friday, 20 September 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
I was driving an in-law's car with XM radio and turned on a pop station and had basically heard every song on the record within two hours
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 20 September 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
I'll ask my kids, they're usually good gauges. I do know that neither of them have been listening to it, but one of them did put on "Speak Now" the other day.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Saw it at Target this morning.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 September 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
our target's cd section has withered almost completely away except for the freestanding middle-of-aisle display of four different versions of diary-shaped taylor deluxes. (i got v3.)
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 20 September 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
I just saw her Capital One commercial again.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 September 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
I do agree that this album cycle feels somewhat less Zeitgeist-y than her last few (but that's probably not a bad thing).
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Friday, 20 September 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
OK, just asked my almost 15-year old (aka target demo) and she said she likes the song "Lover" but not much else, esp. not those singles. She has one friend who is a Swift fan, but that friend doesn't like the new album. So ... who knows.
Oh, I did see a commercial for ... Capital One? Is was before a movie I saw, and it featured Swift as a klutzy waitress and stuff, where kids would recognize her and freak out and she would sort of wink and smile. Seemed like something Michael Jackson would do.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 September 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
I finally figured out what "Death..." reminds me of: "No Scrubbs," the chorus.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 September 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
Yeah, totally otm
― cpl593H, Friday, 20 September 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
15 is probably a little young for the target demo tbh (just)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 September 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
I heard the sad Dixie chicks one when I was waiting to pick up hibachi the other day, not sure if it’s getting country airplay or if that was an employee’s playlist
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Saturday, 21 September 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
now im into 'i think he knows'
its only taylor doing the hi pitched falsetto (prince-ish) beginning chorus part? idk ive heard her there before
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 22 September 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
this album rules. i only skip ‘London boy’ and ‘me’ now
she shouldve make a whole album that sounds like ‘lover’ tho. i don’t really get how u can write a song like that and not want to squeeze that vibe out for all it’s worth
― flopson, Thursday, 26 September 2019 05:47 (four years ago) link
agree w that, but that album would flop, and she's like an llc, she has an obligation to the army of people who depend on her for a living to make big hit records
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 September 2019 07:15 (four years ago) link
i don't really think the eventual return-to-her-roots singer-songwriter album she's likely going to make at some point is going to flop
― ufo, Thursday, 26 September 2019 07:54 (four years ago) link
Agree but she needs to wait til she's like 45
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 September 2019 11:55 (four years ago) link
Actually, on that note...
― cpl593H, Thursday, 26 September 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
oh my god please
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 September 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
That candid with the black 1975 t-shirt gets more and more iconic with each day.
― cpl593H, Thursday, 26 September 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
Swift’s albums are best when they’re at their most varied/eclectic, IMO (case in point — Red). I think 15 tracks in the style of “Lover” would probably be kinda boring.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Thursday, 26 September 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
maybe im off-base here ‘lover’ isn’t just a return to her roots though (imo), it’s the most seventies sounding thing ive ever heard by her
― flopson, Thursday, 26 September 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
hi, flopson!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 September 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
;)
― flopson, Thursday, 26 September 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
‘paper rings’ slaps
― flopson, Thursday, 26 September 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
'Paper rings' is now reminding me of "You're the one that I want".
― cpl593H, Friday, 27 September 2019 10:42 (four years ago) link
swift doing a stripped down singer-songwriter album would be great and healy and swift working together would also be great but i don't know if those together would be the best version of either of those things. like i'd think probably the best use of healy's talents on a swift album would be gorgeous synth textures everywhere idk
― ufo, Friday, 27 September 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
well i wldn't exactly expect him to stick to what he says he wants to do, so
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 27 September 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
In my imagination, the Swift-Healy team up results in the arena rock album State of Grace hinted at.
― cpl593H, Friday, 27 September 2019 11:22 (four years ago) link
I don't even think Healy believes he'd produce a 'stripped-down' Swift album.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 September 2019 11:33 (four years ago) link
It would be great if they did a Crossroads-like show like the Def Leppard one.
― cpl593H, Friday, 27 September 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
Real nice “False God” on SNL. (Who’s the saxa-ma-phonist; is he “somebody”?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-MILQZKJcI
― Spry at 78 (morrisp), Sunday, 6 October 2019 07:17 (four years ago) link
It's Lenny Pickett, musical director of the SNL band (and formerly of Tower of Power)
― Number None, Sunday, 6 October 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
someone make a mix where "cruel summer" -> studio's "life's a beach!"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
obsessed with walking bassline on lover
― flopson, Thursday, 10 October 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Not that I've watched a ton of these, but this might be the best Tiny Desk Concert i've seen:https://www.npr.org/2019/10/16/770318649/taylor-swift-tiny-desk-concert
― enochroot, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
"the man" and "death by a thousand cuts" really sound so much better acoustic. glad she has good taste in her own work too, declaring "all too well" to be the song she's most proud of
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
Really nice versions (the bridge of "Lover" is still a sore thumb even in the solo piano rendition, though!)
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
LOL that she sees online lists of people ranking her songs... send her ILM polls
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
we should do a taylor poll? maybe it's too early. plenty of songs though
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
Almost every song in this album save the singles has been my favorite at some point. Right now it’s “Cruel Summer”, with her singing almost screaming at several moments. It sounds like another iteration of “Out of the Woods” (after “Getaway Car”) but each iteration offers something different (i.e. I’m not ranking them).
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
solo piano 'lover' is breathtaking
― flopson, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link