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
lol at "betty" being about being in love with a girl but she makes sure there's one line that makes it clear she's playing a male role to make it straight
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
so none of this is gonna be played on the radio huh
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:16 (three years ago) link
seven is lovely.
― aphoristical, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
"Cardigan" is being promoted to radio.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:19 (three years ago) link
overall this is quite good, probably a few tracks longer than it needed to be but that's my only complaint
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:23 (three years ago) link
Trixie Mattel will cover "Betty" by Monday.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:25 (three years ago) link
That modulation at the end of Betty is just *chef's kiss*.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:31 (three years ago) link
i want a whole album of "august"s
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:35 (three years ago) link
I haven’t listened to Bon Iver since Skinny Love and that EP, does he always sound like this
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:37 (three years ago) link
no, it's rare to hear him in that lower register
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
"what if you just sang it in a normal voice, like a regular singer, Justin?"— Keith Harris (@useful_noise) July 24, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:44 (three years ago) link
well - the other characters have names, why not the narrator ("James")? it doesn't feel forced to me
― Your dream has symbolic content (morrisp), Friday, 24 July 2020 05:47 (three years ago) link
piano on Cardigan is very 'Norman Fucking Rockwell'.
― piscesx, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:50 (three years ago) link
Cardigan is her best single since Blank Space.
― piscesx, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:53 (three years ago) link
it was just funny because when i first heard it i thought she'd written a gay song until the one line where she no homos it by revealing the narrator's name
― ufo, Friday, 24 July 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link