taylor swift iridescent smoke bombs thread 2019 - lover

I love “paper rings”

Lover is uneven but also her last “fun” record. She should make another one.

I will never, ever get enough of "Cruel Summer," my theme song for the long COVID summer of '20.

bad:
you need to calm down
me!

embarrassing but ultimately hilarious:
london boy
the man

i don’t like this song but ppl have made the case for it to me and im like “ok fine”:
miss americana

mediocre but they work in album sequence:
i forgot that you existed
it’s nice to have a friend

the rest:
great, some of her best work

lover is definitely an album that seems better in retrospect to me given that she actually articulates a vision for pop music production that goes beyond largely anonymous synth pop. i wouldn’t say it’s exactly a coherent vision, or even necessarily an exciting vision, but at least there are some *ideas* here about what taylor swift pop music could sound like

one does have to wonder if she deeply disliked the process of recording like a normal pop star — trying out diff producers — bcuz she has clearly opted out of that dynamic ever since. or maybe the pandemic just thrust her into this little insular creative bubble