https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDkLfpyqbm0
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 July 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
Wow, this fan-soaking is so Garth-level I'm expecting her to roll out SwifTunes in 2021. https://t.co/34b6x1hlWq— Keith Harris (@useful_noise) July 23, 2020
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 July 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
fan-soaking
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVftr8XUEAEIcnT?format=jpg&name=medium
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 July 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
Wow, this fan-soaking is so Garth-level I'm expecting her to roll out SwifTunes in 2021.
What?
― peace, man, Thursday, 23 July 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
welcome back, Aja
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
Keith was Ajakitty??
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Taylor was.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0798/9273/products/vs_louise_front_2048x2048.png?v=1437941174
― Tim F, Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
that Dessner note makes me even more excited about this, and i was already pretty excited.
― alpine static, Friday, 24 July 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link
the 8 different vinyl covers and 8 different CD covers is ridiculous, though. i feel bad for obsessives who feel like they have to buy them all.
i mean they can spend their money however they want, but still
― alpine static, Friday, 24 July 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
now THAT'S how you rig the Billboard 200 chart, LOL (paging Dyl)
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
are they shipping immediately? they have to if it's to game the charts with the recent rule changes
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
the lps won't be shipping for 16 weeks
cds go out in a month iirc
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
There were 4 Deluxe Editions of Lover; each one had a different set of er.. diary entries.
― piscesx, Friday, 24 July 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
it's not really like taylor needs to game the charts anyway i guess
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
I was in a Target last night, and they still had a ton of Deluxe copies of Lover.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 24 July 2020 00:23 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I’m just kidding around (this topic was discussed in the rolling pop thread recently)
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
That album art is very Midsommar
― enochroot, Friday, 24 July 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
currently imagining the alternate universe where Taylor sticks it to the big streaming services she's tangled with in the past and made the album a Bandcamp exclusive for a week
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-a8s8OLBSE
oh my god OH MY GOD
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:05 (three years ago) link
starting this. you can sure hear the Dessnerness of it all right away.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
completely fucking blown away by "the 1"
this is it!!!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:11 (three years ago) link
"cardigan" is an exact Swift/LDR synthesis (the vocal phrasing!) and I like it
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
my brain went straight to tori
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
which i guess automatically makes it her best ldr synthesis
when youareyoungtheyassumeyouknownothing
Such an amazing song
― Tim F, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
Also lol @ "the wedding was charming if a little gauche"
― Tim F, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:30 (three years ago) link
wow the bridge in "exile" is great
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
and then it comes back again!
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
So she broke up with Joe, huh?
― triggercut, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
Kinda her mid/late 90s lingering-impact-of-trip-hop album to a degree, isn't it? (This is very much not a complaint.) Also given the recent Hit Parade episode on Lilith Fair I'm feeling a hair of McLachlan from around then too, and similarly not a complaint.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link
Listening to "The Last Great American Dynasty," and it's easy to imagine Matt Berninger singing the chorus.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
"mirrorball" is soooo pretty
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:41 (three years ago) link
"A marvelous time ruining everything" is a great line that hits harder via the repetition and variation.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:42 (three years ago) link
“august” is a cocteau twins song and it made me cry
this is the best taylor swift album and i’m not even done yet
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:47 (three years ago) link
I don't think what the Dessners and co. bring to the table really works for me tbh
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
yeah "august" is so much
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:50 (three years ago) link
Per jaymc, great thread re "Last Great American Dynasty"
obsessed with Taylor’s song about Watch Hill House and Rebekah Harkness.....yes queen give us a WASP history lesson, be the John Cheever you want you see in the world!!!!!!— rachel syme (@rachsyme) July 24, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:52 (three years ago) link
It sounds very nice, but it's also hella mellow; seven tracks in, hope it picks up a bit.
(also - I'm hesitant to type this - but in "Mirrorball," when she starts to sing "You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes," it totally sounds like she's about to sing "You'll find me on my toilet...")
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:53 (three years ago) link
"Betty" is the best-sounding thing on here, figures it's the only Dessner-Antonoff-Swift co-production
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
I thought that too.Which makes me wonder if its gonna be a another "lonely starbucks lovers" thing.
― MarkoP, Friday, 24 July 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
mellow is the dominant mood. the songcraft is out of this fucking world though
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:56 (three years ago) link
and i haven't been studying the lyrics intently but... she seems in top form here
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
I'm enjoying the mellowness. She's been on such a maximalist kick for so long. (Not that maximalism is absent here, it's just a gauzier variety.) I've always been a fan of mid-tempo and ballad Taylor.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link
(only halfway through the album but feels likely to be my favorite of hers since Red.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
Damn, she DID write a folk-metal album -- from "Invisible String"
"Cold was the steel of my ax to grind for the boys who broke my heart / Now I send their babies presents"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
every melody is somehow lovelier than the last
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
My biggest objection to her dance-pop stuff is it tends to be too rigid to let her unfurl those long melody lines. Which she's really good at.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
she keeps some of the clipped-pop delivery here but it sure works
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:12 (three years ago) link
I've never really listened to much Taylor Swift on purpose (for starters, in this house I don't have a choice), but whenever I hear stuff from "Folklore" it clicks that this is the album I've always wanted Taylor to make. Really lovely songs, strong lyrics, really confident in its commitment to a mood minus a lot of the try-hard vibes that sometimes turn me off.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 June 2023 15:45 (ten months ago) link