Taylor Swift Album Poll

Fearless or Lover

xp I like the duets! I like all her duets. (I do sometimes skip "Sad Beautiful Tragic.")

red has no skips! gary lightbody does his best to suck all life out of "the last time", and the deluge of "this is the last time"s towards the end start to sound like a cruel tease, but taylor just about keeps things on track. love the way she sings 'you wear your best apologies - but i was there to watch you leave'.

also "i almost do" > "we are never" > "stay stay stay" > "the last time" is really good sequencing

evermore
red
folklore
speak now
1989
reputation
lover
fearless
taylor swift

the middle 3 especially could all swap around on any given day

clearly I'm missing something about Evermore, which came across as Folklore-lite to me last time I tried

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

bizarre

this is why we can't have nice things!

I think I'd like "The Last Time" more if it was more meta, and Taylor had never written a song again about an ex turning up and asking to be taken back.

As time passes, 1989 is moving past Fearless to settle itself as the most successful album in Taylor Swift‘s career.

her weakest record outside of the s/t won. interesting

1989 is her best Pop album but idk those results are bizarre. it's great if you cut "welcome to new york" and "bad blood" and maybe "shake it off" depending on how you're feeling and throw in "you are in love" and "new romantics" into the album proper but those duds on the official tracklist are truly dreadful

tbf, “I Know Places” is the only true dud. It’s a good album!

Lover 1
reputation 0

^^^ correct, at least

reputation with 0? this board needs more contrarians

i should've voted for reputation

It's so good, and so much fun

I can't even remember if I voted (lmao), but if I did, I should've voted for reputation

would any 1989 voters like to explain themselves?

I voted for Red, but 1989 is probably my second favorite because sequenced synths inna 80s style.

1989 is still really good except for those few duds though

red's weaker tracks aren't anywhere near as bad but i still hate the sequencing jumping all over the place stylistically, my preferred version cuts the three max martin pop hits (which are all underwritten imo), the duets (which aren't terrible but still relatively weak), and "stay stay stay" which is horrible twee grocery store commercial music. that leaves it at a very tight & perfect 10 tracks.

folk-more combined wins tho

“Stay Stay Stay” is amazing though?

otm

would any 1989 voters like to explain themselves?

― winters (josh),

really amused at the total inability of this board to process that her most overall-popular album won for good reasons. it's also obviously her best, the only one I even momentarily considered voting for instead was Folklore. It also has the largest cultural footprint imo, and it has "Style".

i.e. people who aren't fanatics (like me) find 1989 to be the best

I really like 1989 now - even Welcome to New York!

oh totally, good opener

every time i revisit 1989 i like it less... and the transition from "i wish you would" to "bad blood" still makes me want to shut it off. obv i'm a fanatic though, and have come to think of reputation as the better and more interesting pop record (also profoundly misunderstood, which makes me like it more... beneath the "i live 4 the drama" exterior it's almost all love songs)

1989 also def her best ever set of bonus tracks which is also one of my problems with the album lol

petitioning to be admitted into the alternate universe where "wonderland" was a hit instead of "bad blood"

or 'Clean"!!

how do you write a song like "new romantics" and not put it on your album... top 5 t swift song for me

During the mid '10s I listen to her albums less as statements than collections. I skipped around a lot. In 2014, the strength of "Blank Slate" and "Style" as singles reenergized my fandom after Red weakened it. I was wrong about Red and 1989.

1989 is a great album and I'm not surprised at all it won, and yes, all the bonus tracks are great. I'm more surprised that there are 9 people who think Folklore is her best.

i like that fearless and speak now tied. that’s a good result

1989 is very good, but it’s not like it’s her Purple Rain or something.

Lover was way too low. Not saying it should have placed in the top four, but it should have had much more than 1 lousy vote.

Did anybody say that? She doesn't have a Purple Rain anyway.

Lover might be her Graffiti Bridge tho.

We need to do a proper poll for her, damn it

this is probably kind of a good time for it

Did anybody say that?

That's sort of what I took sleeve to be saying; no biggie, I just wouldn't have thought it would be a clear-cut/default choice.

The question is, is Taylor Swift out of her Berlin-era Bowie period?.

@DamonAlbarn I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this. I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really fucked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW. https://t.co/t6GyXBU2Jd

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) January 24, 2022

I totally agree with you. i had a conversation about songwriting and sadly it was reduced to clickbait. I apologise unreservedly and unconditionally. The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting. I hope you understand. - Damon

— Damon Albarn (@Damonalbarn) January 24, 2022

What part of this was reduced to clickbait? You said her songwriting doesn't count as songwriting and then compared her to another female artist with a completely different style.

Don't gaslight and throw someone else under the bus because you never thought she'd call you out. pic.twitter.com/Vjupk6XSyT

— Alex Goldschmidt (@alexandergold) January 24, 2022

Here is a list of songs where Swift is the only songwriter. All of these I consider among the best songs on each respective album:

The Outside
Our Song
Fifteen
Love Story
Hey Stephen
The Best Day
Jump Then Fall
Dear John
Mean
State of Grace
Red
This Love
Lover
Cornelia Street
My Tears Ricochet

You tell him, Tik Tok guy

And even in his cagey response he can't even praise Eilish without making sure her brother is tossed in because surely not even Billie can't do it herself. Gross.

But also Tik Tok guy looks a Joel McHale that didn't finish rendering all the way.

lol, I just wanted to include the screengrab from the article

He looks like a Nick Kroll character, ha ha

(xp - btw, I generally appreciate both the screengrab and the opportunity to laugh at the conversation-jacker)