Taylor Swift - Folklore

If her purpose is to make her old recordings valueless, it would make sense that she's going for as close to the original as possible. If she plays around with new arrangements, her fans will buy the new recordings, but they won't stop streaming the old ones.

Obviously will never stop streaming the old ones. Def Leppard tried this, but finally kind of surrendered to letting people stream the old ones instead, even if the new recordings were very close to the originals (but no cigar).

Oh, and I love "Folklore". I have found earlier Swift releases quite nice in a way, but this is brilliant.

*blinks*

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/74e5a132a35ede8e1c2b8d3af3313518e2b84e70/0_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f963c8e27a3deb0419f299702db89ffc

The worlds realign

lmao new album tonight - Evermore

wow

omfg

oh damn!!!!

i'm glad december surprise albums are back

tracklist:
willow
champagne problems
gold rush
'tis the damn season
tolerate it
no body, no crime (feat. Haim)
happiness
dorothea
coney island (feat. The National)
ivy
cowboy like me
long story short
marjorie
closure (feat. Bon Iver)

bonus tracks:
right where you left me
it's time to go

tis the damn season!!!!!!!

I wanna think Taylor is a combination of Lohan yelling ‘I’m bored I’m so bored’ and Lisa Simpson with her perpetual motion machine

excited for the piano magic cover

taylor in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

side note but has anyone ever done an album where the first song is called "tracklist:"? that would be a good bit

surely that's the next phoebe bridgers album

The problem with champagne = too sweet, gives you mad hangovers

That’s why you drink a dry champagne

or prosecco

or nothing

Poor tactical choice from Taylor adding a vote splitter to the ILX awards.

ILX Pre-Cover before sundown!

Also, what better way to leave your old masters behind (in both senses of the word).

holy shit!

more dessner / antonoff stuff, do we think?

For Alfred:

And the track list... Champagne problems?!!!! Yes!!! I have those.

— Adam Rippon (@AdamRippon) December 10, 2020

She's calling it a sister record to Folklore and looks like it's the same collaborators xp

xp yes

"And I loved creating these songs with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, WB, and Justin Vernon. We’ve also welcomed some new (and longtime) friends to our musical kitchen table this time around..."

last part probably refers to the new featurings, Haim and the National proper

IF she wrote "Campari Conundrum," I'd sympathize.

Negroni Negging

Now she can be nominated for Album of the Year again next year.

'tis the damn season

keeping it edgy I see

actually v considerate of her to votesplit herself before our EOYs tbh

"excited for the piano magic cover" haha had to scrutinize the tracklist to get this joke.

That’s wild news... Respect.

it's time to go

OTM

lmao @ 'Respect'

hoping "dorothea" is Taylor's musical book report on Middlemarch

if you see "Daniel Deronda," you know she's been busy.

pissed this isn't titled folkmore

she finally admitted in an interview that she'd been inspired by jane eyre, which we all suspected listening to 'invisible string', so now all bets are off, george eliot could be in there, maybe a touch of fanny burney

it is obvious that she is a he!

She said "Hey babe...."

well damn!

It’s a very WASP-y Hanukkah!

This Long Pond Studio Sessions works nice with an edible.

This commercial came on tv and cracked me up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf61VOwW-Ck

This is pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnz5LPIMYYo

I dig the new ("original") version of "The Lakes" that she released - the track is nice this way, with the strings running throughout. (The lyrics are v good, too; I hadn't registered them but looked them up.)

one of the best albums of all time

I think it hits the skids at "Mirrorball"; regains its footing with "Invisible String, "before immediately losing it again; and then has a few pretty good tracks before its shoulda-been closer, "Peace" (why she then stuck "Hoax" at the end, I'll never understand!)

(As a rough draft for "Evermore," it's an OK effort...)

Lol, "Seven" and "August" are probably my two favourite songs here.

Probably the only tracks I'd describe as clearly second tier are "Mad Woman" and "Hoax" (and "The Lakes" if it counts).

Yeah, I agree those are objectively the weakest tracks. My dislike for (say) “August” and “Mirrorball” is probably more personal to myself; I just really don’t care for those melodies.