I’ve set the old Taylor DDD to be unlisted, but I left a link in the description if you want to watch. For all intents and purposes though, this one replaces it in every way. Thanks everyone!
Pls redo the DDD for Bjork and for future DDDs I recommend Stevie Wonder Fiona Apple Neil Young PJ Harvey Thom Waits D'angelo Nas Tim Hecker Scarface Jay-Z Lingua Ignota Swans Miles Davis Navy Blue Flying Lotus MJ (for dem swee-hee views baby!)
Hey! Great video! Wonderfully made! As a guy who has not really been able to get into her music before, you really explained her side of the story really well! I grew up in a time where Taylor’s music was seen as girly, and thanks to this video, I can firmly say that I see the appeal. Also P.S, if ever in the future you decide to do a remake of a DDD, please please do Daft Punk! It’s the only DDD by yours beside Taylor swift that i feel should have/ could have been made better, especially now that you have the style down great!
I’m gonna be honest here. I’ve never liked it. Something about the storytelling in its lyrics seems really contrived and artificial, and I have a hard time taking the chorus seriously. Dunno why.
Everyone has beef with reputation but I personally love how it turns from an edgy album to an album about finding someone who loves you despite your reputation. The journey from Ready for It to New Year's Day is what makes it so enjoyable for me :)
I always say folklore has a better overall feeling to listen as an experience, but I go back to Evermore to listen to specific songs, which are some of my favorites of her entire discography (no mention of Champagne Problems?!)
@Boobz Yeah I have same feeling as you. Evermore and Folklore have songs that I really enjoy but as a whole listening experience, they just feel off and boring compared to her country pop days. I don't know if it's because Red and 1989 are the first Taylor album's that I listen to. But I just had so many times where I felt like "wait, I think I've heard this melody too many times before“ when listening to folklore and evermore.
*"The fact that 'Cruel Summer' wasn't the first single, is a crime against humanity."* THE WAY I COULDN'T AGREE MORE... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@sonvu7576 i think he meant that Cruel Summer is a really good song, and had it been made into the frist single, the album would have been much better received
At least this was finally rectified a little bit as Cruel Summer was finally released as a single as it saw its resurgence in popularity during the Eras Tour.
i kinda disagree with a lot of takes about reputation on youtube. the album was only marketed as edgy and very reputation based, when it had like so much more than that. the album starts out with big production moments and starts to strip that as it goes along. it's about finding love with all the noise around you!
Big agree. I think it, like Lover, was hurt by its singles because it really IS more its deep cuts. I love Taylor but I don't think she's done a great job at picking singles that represent the feel of her albums, and reputation is the album possibly most hurt by this. I don't think the album is really meant to be edgy in the same way "Blank Space" isn't meant to be Taylor seriously discussing how she's a crazy serial dater - she's just taking on and playing with popular perception of her image at the time (in this case, a liar, a bad person, a snake, etc). Just my two cents.
i've always seen rep as being about finding someone who loves you despite your reputation and what people see about you, and the big, "edgy" front half (ready for it, i did something bad, lwymmd etc) eventually gives way to the back half as a metaphor for being vulnerable and showing someone the real you, not just people's perception of you
Reputation basically is a songs collection about love. Literally the album is full with songs about her relationship about Joe. She sings the start of the relationship since they met to when they fall in love very deep, specially Taylor. Basically is a letter of love to Joe. The only songs about her problems with beefs and reputation were LAYMD, IDSB and nice things, that are for Kanye, Kim and Calvin. The other 12 songs are letters of love to Joe. In conclusion is an album of love to her boyfriend and it hasn't anything of the "bad girl with revenge" that taylor tried to portrait. It was always the same romantic taylor of always.... with the only difference that was a new image of taylor more revealing outfits with body suits and sure the production more rude for taylor's standars courtesy of Max Martin and his team. At final taylor always is and she will the good romantic girl forever...even when she tried to be a "bad girl" for a few seconds. The press and many public doesn't understand the album coz the tittle doesn't compare with the content. Maybe another tittle and another image to this era matched better to the "love Joe" lyric content that is the album.
That’s a big part of what’s wrong with it, though. It’s the audial equivalent of clickbait, and furthermore, if that’s supposed to be the point of the album, why is Delicate so early in the album (track 5) but TIWWCHNT the third to last track? Reputation doesn’t even follow through with its own concept, and furthermore like he said in the video, the production has aged horribly, and lyrically it’s Taylor’s worst album by a pretty significant margin, too.
@@mirroredheart7292 she chose Delicate for Track 5 because it's one of the most vulnerable song in the album, all of her Track 5 songs are her most vulnerable, sad songs. It's the recurring theme of Track 5. Yeah, reputation is not that strong lyrically but sonically it sounds so good in my opinion. This is proven by how amazing king of my heart sounds, although it have very simple lyrics .Although there's also a few outlier like delicate, getaway car, new year's day, that sounds good but with also great lyrics. Sorry if my comment doesn't make any sense.
"Champagne Problems" from Evermore is probably my favorite Taylor Swift song ever. It's not particularly flashy, but the melancholy regret it manages to convey, along with the incredible peer pressure of being in a romantic relationship, just HITS.
All Too Well is definitely the best Taylor swift song. The build and energy, the storytelling, the metaphors, and the emotion all lead to a masterful song.
Not my own personal favourite but I think every single person in this world, including me would agree that ATW >>> it really is her best song as well as champagne Problems
I know some people don't care about being seen as villains but being called a snake at the worldwide level must not be a great feeling regardless of how much money you make. Specially if you prize yourself by the good relationship you have with your fans. Millionaires are people too. Except Jeff Benzos and Ellon Musk, the jury is still on that.
And not just being called a snake, but also her credibility and integrity was questioned all the time, and it still is to this day. Taylor’s career hasn’t recovered to this day after what happened. People hear her name and they go “ah yeah, she’s a liar and writes about exes”, even this dude glossed over Reputation because he thought it was just petty drama he didn’t care about, when reputation is really a good album and it tells a story, it’s not just edgy, it’s about Taylor recovering from that dark moment, and correct me if I’m wrong, but recovering from such a bad place is something a lot of people can relate to, and it’s not an experience that only Taylor can relate to.
@@alorockss Yeah, I stopped watching the video when he wrote off reputation and said End Game was weird, it's one of her best tracks in my opinion as an avid R&B listener too. That alone invalidated his entire deep dive. Most of the songs aren't even about the total conveyance of edginess, but a feeling of secrecy and finding the light traveling through a tunnel. All of the songs meld together very well to create a storyline about finding a source of calm and compassion in a volatile period of your life.
And how she probably thought she would not be able to "sell" as she used to from that moment on... when she had just reached the star. As much as I kinda dislike LWYMMD, it was the perfect song to start off that era. It was key to reclaiming the narrative. Had she released something like Lover after 1989, it would not be good for her career.
Disagree about Taylor not being a technical singer. She definitely had a long way to go at first, but by 1989 she was really nailing her vocals and a lot of her songs now are difficult for many singers in terms of range / breath control etc. (examples being cruel summer, death by a thousand cuts) If you want to see Taylor slaying vocals, watch out of the woods live from the 1989 tour
@Anne Day as a Swiftie, I do agree. People think you need to be a Mariah Carey 2.0 to be called a singer but that’s not true. She is a singer-songwriter and artist, not a vocalist.
@Anne Day THANK YOU this reminds me of seeing every swiftie post ever that is like "show this to someone who says Taylor can't sing" and it's basically footage of her hitting a long note. I am a huge swiftie but I think anyone with a very basic understanding of singing can hear what one means by "she can't sing", which is that she is not a vocalist. She doesn't have the voice for it. It's not her fault, and it doesn't make her less of a singer or an artist. She just has a limited range she can sing, but her fans love her voice because it's her unique voice!
what made me love taylor swift even more this past year was the fact that she made alt and folk songs when I was getting really tired of pop, so I think folklore and evermore might be my favorite ones by taylor!
I dismissed her because “pop music sux” for so long. However, “Love Story” always got stuck in my head since it played excessively in the grocery store where I worked at the time. I found myself really liking “Blank Space.” It wasn’t until Folklore where I listened to an entire album and was incredibly impressed. I am going back through her discography now and enjoying a good deal of it.
but why do people hate pop music so much. LOL im genuinely curious, its a genre just like any other and the song quality and lyrical content is entirely dependent on the artist.
I don't agree. There's a reason she put ME! As the single. Cruel Summer has rather dark undertones, Taylor clearly said she wanted to move away from the whole reputation aesthetic and vibe and switch to something bright. If she puts out the best songs as the singles you guys would be disappointed to hear the album tracks. Miss Swift knows exactly what she's doing. Don't judge.
Great video but I keep hearing the "reputation is not relatable" criticism. It definitely dives deep into her personal struggles, but isn't that the point of art? I personally found it immersive. I was able to experience emotions and feelings and a story I wouldn't have understood otherwise. There's a lot of storytelling and emotions demanding to be heard. It doesn't require a lot of digging to understand some of the basic context of the songs (public cancellation and going from toxic relationships to finding the one) and once you do, the songs make so much sense and don't sound like trying to be edgy or pure anger. They sound like hitting rock bottom and recovering. I think a lot of us can empathize if not relate to that.
PFT; it might be about a fight with Kin and Kanye but the line "I burry hatchets but I keep maps of where I put'em" is relatable as hell. The whole thing is, it's just .... also about her.
Plus like, rep was literally responding to not just trauma but a specific type of trauma where it feels like you're losing everything. I've never been in a serious relationship but call it what you want always reminds me of my best friend who loved me and supported me when i was going through some of the hardest moments in my life. Red tv right now is helping me get through losing a different best friend. You don't have to go through the exact same thing as Taylor to find meaning in her songs.
An important point to clarify in the whole Taylor/Kanye tape drama is that Kim Kardashian posted a heavily edited version of the video. The ACTUAL version mysteriously leaked as soon as Kimye was finished riding the Taylor-hate gravy train, but if you take the time to listen to it you will find that Taylor told the truth. Her beef was always that she didn't appreciate being called a bitch and ESPECIALLY Kanye taking credit for her success, a line of the song that he conveniently didn't play for her. She also complained about the mv which she has described as revenge porn. I know that not a lot of people care about this and especially in 2021 it feels very trivial, but people still largely believe that Taylor was "caught in 4K" as you said and that actually isn't true, and the aftermath of that video sent her into a deep depression that altered the trajectory of her entire life. So yeah, they're all millionaires and it's stupid that we had to hear about their drama in the first place. But that doesn't change the fact that the whole situation was based on a big fat lie, and it deeply hurt her, and that's not okay no matter how rich she is.
Which is exactly why she didn't break her silence at all that year. It was not just a deep depression, it was a DEEP DEPRESSION and if her only way to survive is silence then someone else can tell the neo-nazies to stfu The drama is annoying if you just see it as pointless squabbling, but it wasn't pointless to her.
i also feel like people who "don't care for the drama, whatever" also don't really like.... GET-get reputation, or enjoy it as much as the people who watch it all happened very closely. it's probably easy now to look back on the kimye-drama and be like "well didn't hurt her career in the end, she's still rockin'" but that really, really, REALLY wasn't something that one could foresee back when she was cancelled in 2016. it felt like the whole world turned on her
Yes!! I was just about to say this! Absolutely perfectly put!! I’m really glad he redid her deep dive and it’s totally okay if he doesn’t care about the drama, but if anyone is going to bring it up they should really do all their research before saying things like “she was caught” without acknowledging that the video was edited and the full length version proves that she was being honest. If anyone was caught lying it was Kimye.
thank you!!! i am always so disappointed when people recap what had happened and leave out the fact that the actual audio is now out there and shows pretty obviously that Taylor never lied. of course it's trivial compared to many of the struggles people in the world go through, but if we can relate to the pain of heartbreak even when a super famous millionaire goes through it, it's not that ridiculous to be able to relate to the pain of feeling like everyone hates you, or the pain of not being believed when you are telling the truth.
Wow thanks everyone, I was kind of expecting some pushback for this comment and instead I totally agree with what you guys have added...wanted to reply to all of you but I'll just leave this here for you to read instead.😅 Yeah it really irks me that people hand-wave away this situation because a) casual passersby still largely believe that Taylor was lying and got caught (a "perfect crime" on the part of Kimye, as Taylor puts it) and b) while yes, she's still an extremely popular megastar, what they did *did* permanently damage her career in a way that she has never fully recovered from. The 1989 era was the absolute height of her popularity, and it didn't have to be. I also hate to hear people bag on Reputation because once you listen to the songs with the full context of the situation, you realize that Reputation is an absolutely GORGEOUS album and one of the best she's ever made. It starts off brittle and angry, with heavy electronic sounds and dark themes, and then the album slowly melts away as she meets Joe and starts to come out of her anger and depression, until we're left with New Year's Day as a closer, a song that's about as stripped down and raw as you will ever find in her discography. I was guilty of writing off Look What You Made Me Do as "petty" and sonically uninteresting, but given the full context even that song (which I do still admit is one of her weaker tracks) kind of gives me goosebumps thinking of how she was wronged and how she really did take the fall for a situation based on a lie. To summarize, Kim and Kanye suck, Reputation deserved a Grammy, thank you and goodnight. 😂
Since we brought up the Kanye thing here, I just want to bring up something that I never hear mentioned and I don't think a lot of people know who weren't actually watching the 2009 VMAs live. Beyonce did win an award that night, and all she said was "Thank you. I remember my first time on this stage, and what a moment that was for me as a young woman and artist. I would like for Taylor to have her moment. Taylor?" And she brought Taylor up on stage to give her speech uninterrupted. The kindness and class of Beyonce that night literally makes me tear up.
Respectfully disagree on reputation-it’s probably my favorite of her 3 pop albums. However, I do understand why it might not land for everyone who isn’t a massively invested fan. I love it because of the larger story it tells, and those louder sounding songs grew on me more when I looked at them as character pieces (a la blank space) or as a representation of the “noise” surrounding her reputation. That being said, if you’re NOT a super invested fan, I can see why these songs could come off as grating. Of all her albums, I think it’s the one that exists most within its own context. It’s hard to divorce it from the story it’s telling. Whether you view that as a knock or an enhancement of its quality I think completely depends on perspective! (And as a huge fan, for me it’s an enhancement!) That being said, I loved this DDD (Mic the Snare’s Version). Here for the no body, no crime, and cruel summer appreciation especially!
I am a fully invested fan but it’s still always at the bottom for me whenever I rank her albums. I don’t hate it, I love reputation, but I love her other albums even more and that just shows how good she is at her job. Most of rep is too, idk, trap? Electronic? For my taste. I love the songwriting, it’s just the sonic element of rep I don’t freak with minus a few bops. But if I had to make a top 20 list a lot of cuts from rep would be on it, you know?
@@random-zz8ut totally fair! It definitely comes down to personal preference. I’m such a lyric nerd with Taylor so it does frustrate me too when it feels like the production is overpowering the songwriting, and there are definitely some examples of this on rep. The album overall really works for me, but there are several songs where I WAY prefer various acoustic versions she’s done to the album versions (eg king of my heart, dancing with our hands tied, so it goes)
@@hannahj8990 acoustic taylor is just love tbh. I've been kinda obsessed with ciwyw lately for some reason. I think it's the fact that i associate it with one of my main OTPs from a tv show and i mean come on, Taylor telling us to call her relationship with her lover whatever we want because it doesn't affect her, is such a beautiful boss moment for her
Better Than Revenge may have aged about as well as spoiled milk, but it will always be one of my guilty pleasure songs because it was one of the first songs of hers I fell in love with again when I started listening to her again in 2019 after spending the previous 8 years as a rock fan. (Also betty is my favorite song of all time)
To me, songs like "better than revenge" and the aforementioned "misery business" are not even guilty pleasures, they're just pleasures, because I feel like it's been long enough since they were released for them to be viewed as what they are: teenage girls being frustrated about things that are a big deal to them, with the added bonus of a solid damn hook, and then grown ass adults nit-picking their integrity as artists years later based on a song they penned at 17
@@sivawrightlike you can tell he clearly didn’t want to do this but fans were probably asking I disagree with his take about rep it’s a good album but not great.
12:03 - "If there's anything I would knock Red for, it's the run time. Red is over an hour long and it really doesn't need to be." *laughs in Red (Taylor's Version) 2 hours and 10 minutes run time*
I had always wondered if you were ever gonna come back to these old DDDs, and it's very nice to see that come to life. Can't wait to see what the other revised DDDs will look like.
I was in highschool when Fearless came out and I remember liking it in passing but not paying much attention to Taylor's music or career over the years, besides the big singles that everyone heard. Recently I watched her documentary on Netflix and totally fell for her. I went back and listened to everything up until Fearless (her really country stuff is still probably my least favourite), but I am currently OBSESSED with folklore, I think I know the lyrics to every single song. I sob everytime I play exile and my tears ricochet. I have been playing nothing but Taylor Swift for the past couple of months and I'm obsessed. 1989 is literally the perfect pop album and I disagree, there is not ONE skip. Every single song is amazing. Out of the Woods might be one of the best songs ever. Red has All Too Well and Treacherous, which reduce me to tears everytime. Reputation is so friggin good, Delicate, Getaway Car and Dancing with Our Hands Tied are all perfectly written pop songs that get stuck in your head forever. Add Gorgeous to that list aswell, so goddamn catchy. I could go on forever, point is, her music makes me happy. It's helped pull me out of a dark place. I can't believe it took me so long to really get her. I blame the singles, honestly the singles she picks don't do her music justice. The real magic is on her album cuts. She's legendary and I'm proud to call myself a Swiftie now.
Taylor Swift has become an even more exciting artist in the last years. She tries different things and sounds each album even if not hardcore. I expect her to release a rock album after she is done with rerecords. I think she should release 1989 tv before the 80s trend faze pans out.
I’m dying for her to do something rock. She’s had some rock aspects in the past (very minor, but still there) with the electric guitar. Main examples I can think of would be The Last Time, The Story of Us, and Haunted; and I feel that she has the voice for it. She doesn’t have the raspiness of a rocker, but she has the powerful voice of one. I need to see it happen because I know she would kill it.
@@bigcheese2128 B.O.B. is a notorious proponent of flat-earth conspiracy theories. (Don't feel dumb, I didn't get the joke the first time either -- my comment was both an orbital mechanics joke and a statement of truth.)
The fact that you referenced my favorite ever video of that girl joking about all the guests in the 1989 tour... another hit from my favorite youtuber. Also to share an opinion I think you may appreciate, I also think False God is one of the best Lover songs, but I have always thought it would be a PERFECT song for Carly Rae Jepsen.
IMO 'Tolerate It' is her best song from both Folklore and Everymore. Who else (Other than Radiohead) could make a piano song feel regular, but have it actually be in 10/4?
Mic i’m really sad you can’t emotionally resonant with The Best Day off of Fearless, even though i’m not a teenage girl, the writing on that song still hits me hard lol
I honestly love Lover. It shows what Taylor can do and how her finding someone who loves her and sticks by her side helps her music. It's such a happy album, and it's the first album I listened to in it's entirety.
I did see people feeling disappointed that her new recording of her old albums is the exact replica of the old ones but like, that's exactly what she's trying to do.
Hearing Mike cite All Too Well as Taylors best track before her rerelease of Red just cements that All Too Well was incredible before the ten minute version came out.
I love Taylor so here's my fave song and fave lyric from said song from each album 1. Debut "I'm Only Me When I'm with You" "sometimes we don't say a thing, just listen to the crickets sing" 2. Fearless "The Way I Loved You" "he can't see the smile I'm faking, and my hearts not breaking cause I'm not feeling Anything at all" 3. Speak Now "Enchanted" "the lingering question keeps me up, 2am who do you love" 4. Holy Ground "I left a note on the door with a joke we'd made, and that was the first day" 5. 1989 "You Are In Love" "one night he wakes, strange look on his face. Pauses then says 'your my best friend' and you knew what it was, he is in love" 6. Reputation "King Of My Heart" "im perfectly fine, I live on my own I've made up my mind im better off being alone" 7. Cornelia Street "hope I never loose you, hope it never ends, I'd never walk Cornelia Street again" 8. folklore "Betty" "will you kiss me on the porch in front of all your stupid friends" 9. evermore "Dorothea" "you got shiny friends since you left town" P.s. Pls don't crucify me for not having All Too Well as my number 1 on red haha
totally stealing this. Swiftie4life. 1. Tim McGraw "when you think Tim McGraw, I hope you think of me 2. Love Story "Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone. I love you and that's all I really know" 3. Long Live(my fave song x.x) "I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you" 4. All Too Well "and you call me up again just to break me like a promise" 5. Style "I said I been there too a few times..." 6. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things *insert Taylor's snorting laugh at the end* 7. Lover "can i go where you go?" 8. peace "The devil's in the details but you got a friend in me" 9. evermore "I had a feeling so peculiar this pain wouldn't be for evermore" Lowkey don't blame you for not having All Too Well lmao. It only JUST grew on me. Holy Ground was my #1 before that lol.
Lemme steal *Taylor Swift* Cold As You - “And you come away with a great little story, of a mess of a dreamer, with the nerve to adore you” *Fearless* The Way I Loved You - “He can’t see the smile I’m fakin’, and my heart’s not breakin’, ‘cause I’m not feeling anything at all” *Speak Now* Sparks Fly - “You’re the kind of reckless that should send me runnin’, but I kind of hope that I won’t get far” *Red* All Too Well - “You call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of bein’ honest” *1989* Out Of The Woods - “Remember when you hit the brakes too soon? Twenty stitches in a hospital room…” *Reputation* Delicate - “Dark jeans and your Nikes, look at you, oh damn, never seen that color blue” *Lover* Cruel Summer - “I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you” *folklore* illicit affairs - “And that’s the thing about illicit affairs, and clandestine meetings, and stolen stares, they show their truth one single time, but they lie, and they lie, and they lie, a million little times” *evermore* evermore - “And I was catchin’ my breath, barefoot in the wildest winter, catchin’ my death”
I honestly wasn't into her music until the folklore/evermore era. Those albums completely opened me up to looking back at her discography and I found it's her eye for detail in the songs she wrote that had me coming back and listening to more and more songs. The earlier singles weren't my cup of tea but MAN the Taylor hate train definitely had internalized mysoginy in me avoiding her even more. I'm glad I grew up and got pulled into her discography. I think seeing her eras and growth is exceptionally cool.
Honestly I feel the same way about evermore. Would really love to see her go in the sort of folk-country direction on her next album - "no body, no crime", "dorothea", "coney island", "ivy", and "cowboy like me" were some big highlights for me from that album. I think you summed it up well - folklore proved she could play in this space, evermore proved she could own it, and I'm really excited to see what happens after she gets her masters back!
As a die hard swiftie, I am pleasantly surprised by this DDD! For someone who is not a hardcore TS fan, I appreciate the amount of research and dedication you’ve put into this. Especially your deep cut picks, very awesome! My only qualm (music wise) is why do you not like “I Wish You Would”? I love that one! It’s some excellent Jack Antonoff production and I blast it every time it comes on. As for the phone call drama, I understand the impulse to say “idgaf about these millionaires”, but in doing so you ignore a lot of context. Like the fact that it’s well established at this point that Taylor was telling the truth about Kim editing the footage. If you watch the whole thing, you can see how Kanye talks Taylor in circles to eventually get the answer he wants. So when the whole snake thing happened, it’s understandable how the whole thing broke her brain
They were. Reputation despite being one of my least fave of her's, was needed got her to simply move on. And i think lover was just a fun celebration of her moving on and freedom witn Joe.
I hated LWYMMD until seeing it live at the eras tour. The energy of the reputation set was incredible and really gave me a better appreciation for the album.
Ironically, reputation is the album that got me to into Taylor's music. Call it what you want, the so called "pettiness" is what made me love her. All the tracks that you listed as the "worst" especially lwymmd, was the best in my opinion.
A friend of mine has recently become a fan because she realized the reason she disliked Taylor and her music was because of internalized misogyny and outright hatred of being “too girly.” Now we just rock out to whatever song we’re loving at the moment.
the dubstep drop in I Knew You Were Trouble is such an instant tell that it's from 2012 Great video as always ! Very cathartic for someone who grew up when the misogynistic criticism of taylor swift was the mainstream, and was having trouble reconciling her own internalized misogyny with how much her songs were bops
I'm a huge fan of Taylor since I'm 14, i'm 23 now! I grow up with her and it's just *so* good seeing her evolution for real. My favorite songs of her (each from one album LOL) are -TS - Picture to burn -Fearless - Forever and Always (taylor's version is Mr Perfectly Fine) - Speak Now - Sparks Fly / Mean - Red - State of Grace / All too Well (it's a crime they didn't let her made this one a single) - 1989 - I know Places / New Romantics - Reputation - Getaway Car - Lover - It's nice to have a Friend / Cruel Summer / False God - Folklore - The love triangle trylogy (Cardigan, august and betty) / Mirroball and My Tears Ricochet - Evermore - No Body no Crime and Champagne problems I get what you said about Reputation being a bit conservative but... The thing with Reputation is that IT ACTUALLY IS a conceptual album. You GOTTA know the TS drama of those years to fully appreciate it. The 1989 era actually DROPPED a HUGE depression on TS and an ACTUAL eating dissorder, and if you add the KymYe (manufactured by them) drama, you see that Taylow WAS ACTUALLY very VERY broken: She might sound conservative because she *needed* to be to get back to herself, she might have wrote her lyrics *like a snake* because that's what she needed to do to get back and to rebrand herself because if she didn't she would have stayed an hypocrite for life and that would have ended her career and her mental health. She had EVERY RIGHT to feel and be petty about everything because they actually BROKE HER and KNOWING the whole drama makes one appreciate that album on a whole different level. It wasn't entirely a "LOOK AT THE DRAMA" album but an "I need healing" album, dropping all her actual feelings and being petty because *she needed too and she had every right too*. It's a conceptual album because it tells us HER STORY on THAT EXACT MOMENT, she tells us HER FEELINGS on that exact moment. Reputation tells us how she felt in that year (ah, also, Reputation was written in less time than any other of her albums which also explains why they sound so similar to each other, she got less time to it) and it's a "I'm trying to get back", making the whole drama a storytelling for HERSELF more than to others, it's a view from her own lenses about the whole thing, how she went from heaven to hell in less than MONTHS thanks to the drama with that man, and how she retell that story to rebuild herself and her career, and how she found REAL LOVE while she was broken. And that's why we have also so many pure love songs like Gorgeous and Dress and New Years' Eve, because while healing herself from that "stupid" drama (that actually fucked her mental health and made her almost drop evverything), she found *someone* who actually didn't cared about the whole drama and actually tried to meet her. Since then she hasn't actually given real interviews like she used to do, she now is way more secretive of her life, because being so much in the public eye afected her considerably enough to make her just... *want to actually just dissapear unless it's for her career and her fans*. It's sad how people disgain Reputation, it's actually a HEALING album and if you see it through her lenses, see it through the actual drama, you actually can see how it *actually* healed her hahahaha it's actually quite fascinating! Sorry if I have mistakes, english isn't my first lanugage but I try hard ^^
For me (it's too hard to pick just one from each album so I picked two): TAYLOR SWIFT 1. Our Song 2. Should've Said No FEARLESS 1. Love Story 2. You Belong With Me SPEAK NOW 1. Back to December 2. Never Grow Up RED 1. Begin Again 2. Ronan 1989 1. Wildest Dreams 2. Blank Space REPUTATION 1. Don't Blame Me 2. Look What You Made Me Do LOVER 1. Lover 2. Cruel Summer FOLKLORE 1. Cardigan 2. Betty EVERMORE 1. Willow 2. Champagne Problems FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) 1. Love Story (Taylor's Version) 2. Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) 1. All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) 2. Begin Again (Taylor's Version) MIDNIGHTS 1. Would've, Could've, Should've 2. Anti-Hero
I think a lot of the hate for Taylor comes from the fact that it’s oversaturated in the marketplace. I do not despise her music by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t like how much it’s been overplayed to the point where it’s difficult to escape it, so I understand why people hate it, not that I agree with it because she is very talented. Like, I’ll freely admit that she has a ton of bops. Even as a scene kid!
I loved Reputation. I don't know who advertised it as "edgy", but I never expected her to stray so much from what she usually did and that was to write songs about love and relationships from her point of view. And she did precisely that with this album but by exploring the concept of her reputation as well. Perhaps the "edgy" or "dangerous" sound and the current modern production was meant to convey her turbulent emotions and her situation in that moment in time in 2016, in which plenty of her songs were about the kanye/kim drama and going into a new relationship despite her outward reputation in the media. Also I'm not sure why you included criticisms about why she didn't speak out about the white supremacists calling her their "princess" when like you said she had a media blackout. I'm assuming you didn't watch Miss America where she talks about being nervous about speaking out about politics and other social issues due to her coming from a country background and always being told not to be outspoken or like the "Dixie Chicks". Obviously her team denouncing the white supremacists at the time would have been great, but including that bit of criticism in your video when evaluating the Reputation album didn't quite fit. Yes there were lots of more important issues happening at that time but you can't really expect Taylor to address everything. She also had a sexual assault lawsuit going on that she didn't talk about in her album either. I think it should also be noted that the kanye/kim recordings were eventually revealed to be edited and faked, and not much was talked about that. I understand the time has past and no one really cares anymore, but people were literally sending Taylor tweets that she was cancelled and other malicious things that took a toll on her mental health, leading HER to stay away as though she was the villain. Kanye's mv with the wax figures was also blatant revenge porn to Taylor, like there was nothing she could say or do, he was just going to portray her naked body anyway. The Reputation album for Taylor was probably more about healing and trying to move on by addressing her emotions at that time, and everything was just playing over and over again.
She literally went black and shady for that album. That was an enough motive to think that it would be a dark and dangerous album. Unfortunately, she didn't really infuse the idea to the production, or at least didn't optimally. Her songwriting was also not her best. She usually made up the disjointed production with stories or mood that is shared between two songs, but it wasn't really shown in the album. Sure, there are good songs, but an album should be more than good songs packed together, shouldn't it?
@Anne Day Why should she speak out when it seemed like the world wanted her to die? She literally got a mural with someone wishing death upon her? I swear people really don't put this much scrutiny on yt men.
@Day she left the public eye for a year (was she in that suitcase?) for a reason it was getting bad out there and yes the hate eventually died down and people moved onto the next thing
This definitely helped me appreciate her artistry more. I'm trying to get into her stuff coming from a listening background of experimental hiphop, artpop, and avant garde music. Keep up the great work!
So glad that you did a more in depth version for Taylor! I was 13 when red came out, and I will have just turned 22 when it’s re recording is out, so she’s a pretty special and influential artist to me!! This video made me so nostalgic, and I remembered so many parts of my teenage years that Taylor’s music accompanied💗
I have a similar experience as well. I remember listening to Red in high school, vibing to All too well. I didn’t consider all the emotion packed into that album. I didn’t know yet what it meant to remember someone all too well. And then I was 22 and reeling from a breakup and I *FELT* All too well in my soul.
I'm not exactly a Taylor Swift fan as I only heard the "popular songs", but I gotta admit that I once found "State of Grace" and it became my favorite Taylor Swift song ever. You've convinced me now to listen to Folklore and Evermore. Let's see how that goes :)
Being a popular song listener I just stumbled across her inner album tracks and then pandemic happened and I listened to folklore And now I have it as my profile picture Lol
cowboy like me is probably my favorite song from her, I can’t describe it but it’s just so good. However I think cardigan is probably one of the best songs in her discography. and Last Kiss is one of her best bridges
Reputation is NOT supposed to be an edgy album. It’s supposed appear that way (have the reputation of being an edgy album), but actually be a story about finding love amongst the chaos. I seriously don’t get how anyone who actually listened to the songs on the album don’t realize that literally only like 2 of them are about drama and her venting while the rest are about love.
Exactly. Anytime people say Rep is supposed to be edgy I just assume they only listened to Look What You Made Me Do, I Did Something Bad, and This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things.
Also, in defense of Reputation, I believe it gave Taylor her much-needed catharsis. Of course, it's not reflected well with the tracks but the "edgy" sound and the angry title track felt like an overnight screaming that slowly dies down as you reach the last tracks.
I agree with you about Cruel Summer. What was she thinking??? Lover was a good album but having a song like that and NOT releasing it as the first single (or a single at all) is INSANE. It would have come out in the summer too and would have been the song of that summer. My favorite album of hers is either 1989 (it's just perfect) or Folklore (maybe even more perfect). I guess it's a tie. She's the real deal and I can't wait to see where she takes us next.
My favorite song by Taylor has to be closure. I learned it on the piano after 6 excruciating hours of struggling to understand the tempo but when it clicked I cried
I'm here for the closure appreciation! You're maybe the first person I saw saying something nice about closure. I love that song it perfectly captures the feeling.
I don't know how I'm just discovering this series now!! The algorithms have truly been failing me. Dude, you are so even-handed in these videos and so up-front about any bias that does sneak through, it's like going back in time to when music journalism existed and wasn't just another form of promo or extension of pop culture tribalism. I adore your videos, thanks for everything you do.
YESSS thank u for this!! since everyone's doing it here's my top songs for each album: 1. self-titled: "Mary's song (oh my my my)". this song is criminally underrated 2. fearless: I couldn't pick between ybwm or "Love Story" so I'm picking "White Horse," the beginning of THE track 5 saga 3. speak now: "Dear John." just...everything about this song. literally my top 3 favorites of her. 4. red: "State of Grace." One of her best songs PERIOD 5. 1989: "Blank Space." Is it a basic choice? yes. is it also one of the best songs she's ever released? also yes. 6. rep: "Getaway Car." heart-wrenching AND an absolute bop? I think yes 7. lover: hard to pick tbh. I love lover (no pun intended), sygb, death by a thousand cuts, and of course cruel summer. I feel like that one's the objectively right answer. 8. folklore: "August." cause you weren't MINEEEEE TO LOSEEE. 9. evermore: either champagne problems or Dorothea. a beautiful album but I must admit folklore is my favorite. Taylor is such a prominent artist in the media and in pop culture that I think it overshadows how solid her discography is and how well it's gonna age in the long run. Thank you Taylor, and thank you Mic. not your real name but thank u.
She won me over. My pop tastes were 80’s/90’s - I’m in my late 40’s. Then I went off the deep end with eclectic tastes: experimental/extreme/jazzy/whatever... Then I came into contact with the monolith that was “1989”. I was astounded at its success, then I came to respect it’s craft. I agree Style might be the best track. Then I also realized Red was a borderline masterpiece! I still need to get around to Lover. I find Folklore, etc very interesting. And now, Midnights manages to have a late-night edge that seems more genuine.
1989 really was the first Taylor album I just…sat down and LISTENED to, and for that reason, it’s my favorite if only for nostalgia’s sake. I really love Folklore/Evermore, but 1989 is pure joy for me.
Love Story was the first Taylor Swift song I heard, I enjoyed a lot of her singles from then on, but the first album I actually listened to all the way through was Reputation. Have done so with every one of her albums since then.
My daughters are kinda obsessed with her, so thank you. I told them in passing, Shania Twain first hit charts in 1996 ("Any Man Of Mine") when TS was age seven. "Seven" is a TS song. She names Shania Twain as a prime influence. Entirely possible that that's when TS really began her adventure.
I have always loved her music, Speak now is one of my favorite albums of all time, it's the most honest one and I like it musically the most. Haunted with the orchestra just is so good. 1989 and Evermore are also excellent records.
Watching this in Dec 2022 is kinda crazy. So much has changed since this video was made. Kanye has had the biggest public downfall in history while at the exact same time Taylor has had her biggest musical success (Midnights). It's just interesting to see a real life battle of good vs evil and even though it took a couple years, most people are finally willing to admit that Kanye's an asshole. It's a great time to be a swiftie
'Cowboy like me' will forever live in my broken heart, like a lonely kid tossing the pieces on the floor with his little feet. Yep. Evermore is the absolute best. And that song is a true gem.
I’m voting Death Cab For Cutie this time. They’re one of my favorite bands, yet they’ve sadly become a one-hit wonder over the years with I Will Follow You Into The Dark. They’re so much more than that song and their music is so much more varied and interesting, and a DDD on them would introduce a lot of people to their other work.
Oi bruv it’s me, the guy from the song psyche comment section asking for album recommendations. I just finished the green album and since then I’ve listened to the blue album and Pinkerton and that’s all I’ve been listening to for the past few weeks. Thanks fo the recommendations!
@@thedogfromraditude5449 I've only listened to Passenger Seat and I Dreamt We Spoke Again besides I Will Follow You, I enjoyed both, could you recommend the best place for me to start, dog?
@@montymcgee7087 Not OP but Transatlanticism is their best full album in my opinion, however you can’t go wrong starting with Plans or The Photo Album either. Kintsugi is another one of my favorites but it’s a little different than what I’d define dcfc’s sound as if that makes sense
@@montymcgee7087 +1 on Transatlanticism! That album's so good as a whole that when I go to listen to the title track (my favorite), I have to listen to them all.
I cheered when I got the notification for this video! I think Fearless was the first CD I ever owned (that wasn't a comedy album), so it holds a special place in my heart. The opening to "The Best Day" is like a Manchurian Candidate-style code that will still make me ugly cry.
I was always a big fan but never had my album until folklore and evermore came out. There wasn’t one song that I was like “meh” on. You got “my tears ricochet” and “tolerate it” pinching you In The gut. “Peace” and “happiness” being under appreciated master pieces.
Taylor Swift releases have this duality in them. As made evident by Folklore and Evermore. We're all kind of aware Folklore is of summer and Evermore is of winter. In addition, Reputation and Lover can be listened back to back and have this artistic scenery of nightime fade into daytime.
"I can't wait to see how Taylor pursues acting. *Cats 2019 ominously appears in the background* Meanwhile, Lorax 2012 is over in the corner, being ignored. *AS IT SHOULD BE.*
good ddd.Agree with everything except the reputation part here are the reasons: 1.I dont think reputation was meant to be dangerous and edgy , it was meant to be her comeback album to turn the public narrative which was against her at that time . I think writing songs from the snake persona was pretty smart , but I will say that the best songs are still the songs in which she doesnt write with that persona. 2.I dont expect her to dont write songs about this...'incident' since it was traumatic but healable.I dont think we are meant to relate to those songs.Also I think the album is basically the story of years 2016-2017 pre LWYMMD.From songs ready for it to so it goes, this was her 'lashing out as a wounded animal'as she put it in her documentary.Delicate was there at track 5 because between all that bad reputation she was in a relationship with a delicate chance of success .Hence she didn't write songs about that relationship in track 6 or 7 .Then the relationship started working out as shown from gorgeous to dress.TIWWCHNT was there to tell us that while she was having this bad reputation , she now has everyone -her real friends , her family and her boyfriend .Then in call it what you want , It was basically her telling us that with the help of her boyfriend she could deal with all of that scrutiny . Slowly but surely she was healing from that traumatic event . then I will expect new year's day to be written post LWYMMD and pre Reputation since between that period everything was kind of normal now to say the least.This track gives a sense of finality of that drama.So there is no need of bashing the track order
I'm genuinely pretty upset that you didn't talk about the fact that in 2019/2020, it had come out that Kim Kardashian had heavily edited the phone call between Kanye and Taylor, and had only released snippets of it that made it SOUND like she was "agreeing." She had purposefully released it to cast her as the "villain." And, of course, years later everyone was over the drama and she was dragged through the mud for nothing. By then, people didn't care about the fact that she was innocent the whole time. But you know if it had been the other way around, the media would've jumped at the chance to slander her. She usually, if not always, has good intentions with people. I know you said you didn't care, and I recognize that it may seem like "petty drama" but it really wasn't. I replied to another comment talking about its significance in her career path, and how the "there are more important things going on" excuse is one that's a bit too overused. Like obviously there were bad things going on socially/politically, etc, but this was a very significant moment for her and altered her career path for good. She was literally shamed into isolation by the general public ganging up on her - it had been building along with the general hate she'd received from the media for years. That is truly significant.
The last few times you've released a DDD I've thought about asking if you'd ever revisit this one so very happy that you did! I listened to Taylor casually since 1989 but Folklore made me a big fan and I kind of did my own DDD back in 2020 to listen to a lot of her back catalog for the first time. My recommendation for a Taylor thing to check out is the King of My Heart sequence on the Reputation Tour movie (try to watch the full thing on Netflix, the RUclips clips aren't as good imo), the production, staging, dancing, drumming, etc on that song are amazing.
We have very similar swiftie origin stories!! I was a casual listener since fearless/speak now and then folklore and evermore really caught my attention. I’ve since dived into her entire back catalog and found A TON of incredible songs I’d never bothered to listen to before!! I was missing out on so much but I’m glad I’m here now
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I’ve set the old Taylor DDD to be unlisted, but I left a link in the description if you want to watch. For all intents and purposes though, this one replaces it in every way. Thanks everyone!
Pls redo the DDD for Bjork and for future DDDs I recommend
Stevie Wonder
Fiona Apple
Neil Young
PJ Harvey
Thom Waits
D'angelo
Nas
Tim Hecker
Scarface
Jay-Z
Lingua Ignota
Swans
Miles Davis
Navy Blue
Flying Lotus
MJ (for dem swee-hee views baby!)
hello michael.
Hey! Great video! Wonderfully made! As a guy who has not really been able to get into her music before, you really explained her side of the story really well! I grew up in a time where Taylor’s music was seen as girly, and thanks to this video, I can firmly say that I see the appeal.
Also P.S, if ever in the future you decide to do a remake of a DDD, please please do Daft Punk! It’s the only DDD by yours beside Taylor swift that i feel should have/ could have been made better, especially now that you have the style down great!
love watching these omg If you ever redo one I’d love to see an oasis and blur one, but for future ddd’s id love to see one on Squeeze or XTC :-)
Damn you Michåel Sñaré! My holding company just bought the rights to that video!
"Style is just kinda.... perfect" couldn't agree more. it's just the perfect pop song. that's it, can't see anything wrong with it, it's just great.
literal pop perfection
It is the song that got me into Taylor and to this day, there's nothing like it for me.
Same with Blank Space
i was the 666th like lol
I’m gonna be honest here. I’ve never liked it. Something about the storytelling in its lyrics seems really contrived and artificial, and I have a hard time taking the chorus seriously. Dunno why.
Everyone has beef with reputation but I personally love how it turns from an edgy album to an album about finding someone who loves you despite your reputation. The journey from Ready for It to New Year's Day is what makes it so enjoyable for me :)
It’s still top 3 Taylor Swift albums for me even after Folklore and Evermore
yesssss!!!
yes yes yes yes
It's one of my favorite albums from her. The only album I can't connect with is Lover. I forget it exists. I don't know why : (
@@VagrantASMR Same, Lover always felt kind of… meh to me. Not horrible, but just not anything amazing either besides a few great deep cuts.
I always say folklore has a better overall feeling to listen as an experience, but I go back to Evermore to listen to specific songs, which are some of my favorites of her entire discography (no mention of Champagne Problems?!)
imo ivy is one of her best songs ever
I couldn't agree more. Evermore has better songs, but folklore is a better and more polished album as a whole.
Am I the only one who can't choose between folklore and evermore?
@@luckieluckielu yup!!
@Boobz Yeah I have same feeling as you. Evermore and Folklore have songs that I really enjoy but as a whole listening experience, they just feel off and boring compared to her country pop days. I don't know if it's because Red and 1989 are the first Taylor album's that I listen to. But I just had so many times where I felt like "wait, I think I've heard this melody too many times before“ when listening to folklore and evermore.
*"The fact that 'Cruel Summer' wasn't the first single, is a crime against humanity."*
THE WAY I COULDN'T AGREE MORE... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry I can't understand why he said that, can you explain to me ? thank u
@@sonvu7576 i think he meant that Cruel Summer is a really good song, and had it been made into the frist single, the album would have been
much better received
The way we the fan base will never shut up about this
At least this was finally rectified a little bit as Cruel Summer was finally released as a single as it saw its resurgence in popularity during the Eras Tour.
coming back to this comment after it was promoted as a single in december 2023 and actually spent a few weeks at the top of the charts is interesting
i kinda disagree with a lot of takes about reputation on youtube. the album was only marketed as edgy and very reputation based, when it had like so much more than that. the album starts out with big production moments and starts to strip that as it goes along. it's about finding love with all the noise around you!
Big agree. I think it, like Lover, was hurt by its singles because it really IS more its deep cuts. I love Taylor but I don't think she's done a great job at picking singles that represent the feel of her albums, and reputation is the album possibly most hurt by this. I don't think the album is really meant to be edgy in the same way "Blank Space" isn't meant to be Taylor seriously discussing how she's a crazy serial dater - she's just taking on and playing with popular perception of her image at the time (in this case, a liar, a bad person, a snake, etc). Just my two cents.
i've always seen rep as being about finding someone who loves you despite your reputation and what people see about you, and the big, "edgy" front half (ready for it, i did something bad, lwymmd etc) eventually gives way to the back half as a metaphor for being vulnerable and showing someone the real you, not just people's perception of you
Reputation basically is a songs collection about love. Literally the album is full with songs about her relationship about Joe. She sings the start of the relationship since they met to when they fall in love very deep, specially Taylor. Basically is a letter of love to Joe. The only songs about her problems with beefs and reputation were LAYMD, IDSB and nice things, that are for Kanye, Kim and Calvin. The other 12 songs are letters of love to Joe. In conclusion is an album of love to her boyfriend and it hasn't anything of the "bad girl with revenge" that taylor tried to portrait. It was always the same romantic taylor of always.... with the only difference that was a new image of taylor more revealing outfits with body suits and sure the production more rude for taylor's standars courtesy of Max Martin and his team. At final taylor always is and she will the good romantic girl forever...even when she tried to be a "bad girl" for a few seconds. The press and many public doesn't understand the album coz the tittle doesn't compare with the content. Maybe another tittle and another image to this era matched better to the "love Joe" lyric content that is the album.
That’s a big part of what’s wrong with it, though. It’s the audial equivalent of clickbait, and furthermore, if that’s supposed to be the point of the album, why is Delicate so early in the album (track 5) but TIWWCHNT the third to last track? Reputation doesn’t even follow through with its own concept, and furthermore like he said in the video, the production has aged horribly, and lyrically it’s Taylor’s worst album by a pretty significant margin, too.
@@mirroredheart7292 she chose Delicate for Track 5 because it's one of the most vulnerable song in the album, all of her Track 5 songs are her most vulnerable, sad songs. It's the recurring theme of Track 5.
Yeah, reputation is not that strong lyrically but sonically it sounds so good in my opinion. This is proven by how amazing king of my heart sounds, although it have very simple lyrics .Although there's also a few outlier like delicate, getaway car, new year's day, that sounds good but with also great lyrics. Sorry if my comment doesn't make any sense.
"Champagne Problems" from Evermore is probably my favorite Taylor Swift song ever. It's not particularly flashy, but the melancholy regret it manages to convey, along with the incredible peer pressure of being in a romantic relationship, just HITS.
Same! I don't listen to much of her music but I love that track. The storytelling really hits.
All Too Well is definitely the best Taylor swift song. The build and energy, the storytelling, the metaphors, and the emotion all lead to a masterful song.
Not my own personal favourite but I think every single person in this world, including me would agree that ATW >>> it really is her best song as well as champagne Problems
@@random-zz8ut what's your personal fav Taylor song
@@hassanmansour9857 the story of us
@@random-zz8ut good pick. The story of us is definitely one of the best
@@random-zz8ut one of the first sogs that got me into taylor swift
I know some people don't care about being seen as villains but being called a snake at the worldwide level must not be a great feeling regardless of how much money you make. Specially if you prize yourself by the good relationship you have with your fans. Millionaires are people too. Except Jeff Benzos and Ellon Musk, the jury is still on that.
And not just being called a snake, but also her credibility and integrity was questioned all the time, and it still is to this day. Taylor’s career hasn’t recovered to this day after what happened. People hear her name and they go “ah yeah, she’s a liar and writes about exes”, even this dude glossed over Reputation because he thought it was just petty drama he didn’t care about, when reputation is really a good album and it tells a story, it’s not just edgy, it’s about Taylor recovering from that dark moment, and correct me if I’m wrong, but recovering from such a bad place is something a lot of people can relate to, and it’s not an experience that only Taylor can relate to.
@@alorockss yesss, I relate to reputation alot
@@alorockss Agree 100%
@@alorockss Yeah, I stopped watching the video when he wrote off reputation and said End Game was weird, it's one of her best tracks in my opinion as an avid R&B listener too. That alone invalidated his entire deep dive. Most of the songs aren't even about the total conveyance of edginess, but a feeling of secrecy and finding the light traveling through a tunnel. All of the songs meld together very well to create a storyline about finding a source of calm and compassion in a volatile period of your life.
And how she probably thought she would not be able to "sell" as she used to from that moment on... when she had just reached the star.
As much as I kinda dislike LWYMMD, it was the perfect song to start off that era. It was key to reclaiming the narrative. Had she released something like Lover after 1989, it would not be good for her career.
I love this decision to go back and revise a classic DDD with new albums and more info. I’d love to see the same for Björk or The Strokes!
Don’t forget Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds!
Totally agree, but until then i´ll keep voting for a Death Cab For Cutie's DDD
especially Björk imo
yeah please the Strokes! That is one of the only DDD artists I have heard almost everything of
This but the National
Disagree about Taylor not being a technical singer. She definitely had a long way to go at first, but by 1989 she was really nailing her vocals and a lot of her songs now are difficult for many singers in terms of range / breath control etc. (examples being cruel summer, death by a thousand cuts)
If you want to see Taylor slaying vocals, watch out of the woods live from the 1989 tour
Yeah. Before red she was off key in almost any performance. Now she stays on key and is not having a lot of pitchy notes
yes I've loved seeing her improve over the years. don't blame me is another good one
Have you heard Eyes Open? Both the live and studio version just prove that she has a very good vocal control
@Anne Day as a Swiftie, I do agree. People think you need to be a Mariah Carey 2.0 to be called a singer but that’s not true. She is a singer-songwriter and artist, not a vocalist.
@Anne Day THANK YOU this reminds me of seeing every swiftie post ever that is like "show this to someone who says Taylor can't sing" and it's basically footage of her hitting a long note. I am a huge swiftie but I think anyone with a very basic understanding of singing can hear what one means by "she can't sing", which is that she is not a vocalist. She doesn't have the voice for it. It's not her fault, and it doesn't make her less of a singer or an artist. She just has a limited range she can sing, but her fans love her voice because it's her unique voice!
what made me love taylor swift even more this past year was the fact that she made alt and folk songs when I was getting really tired of pop, so I think folklore and evermore might be my favorite ones by taylor!
I dismissed her because “pop music sux” for so long. However, “Love Story” always got stuck in my head since it played excessively in the grocery store where I worked at the time. I found myself really liking “Blank Space.” It wasn’t until Folklore where I listened to an entire album and was incredibly impressed. I am going back through her discography now and enjoying a good deal of it.
but why do people hate pop music so much. LOL im genuinely curious, its a genre just like any other and the song quality and lyrical content is entirely dependent on the artist.
@@farahwork2552 popular thing bad, usually
@@gr8cescale thats an insane stereotype, things get popular for a reason
I'd been hoping you'd redo this one! I love how literally everyone knows and agrees that Cruel Summer deserved to be Lover's lead single.
right??
It should have been the song of the summer!
UGH fr we couldve had it all
And Daylight to be the second 😐
I don't agree. There's a reason she put ME! As the single. Cruel Summer has rather dark undertones, Taylor clearly said she wanted to move away from the whole reputation aesthetic and vibe and switch to something bright. If she puts out the best songs as the singles you guys would be disappointed to hear the album tracks. Miss Swift knows exactly what she's doing. Don't judge.
Great video but I keep hearing the "reputation is not relatable" criticism. It definitely dives deep into her personal struggles, but isn't that the point of art?
I personally found it immersive. I was able to experience emotions and feelings and a story I wouldn't have understood otherwise. There's a lot of storytelling and emotions demanding to be heard. It doesn't require a lot of digging to understand some of the basic context of the songs (public cancellation and going from toxic relationships to finding the one) and once you do, the songs make so much sense and don't sound like trying to be edgy or pure anger. They sound like hitting rock bottom and recovering. I think a lot of us can empathize if not relate to that.
1000% agree.
PFT; it might be about a fight with Kin and Kanye but the line "I burry hatchets but I keep maps of where I put'em" is relatable as hell.
The whole thing is, it's just .... also about her.
THIS
Plus like, rep was literally responding to not just trauma but a specific type of trauma where it feels like you're losing everything. I've never been in a serious relationship but call it what you want always reminds me of my best friend who loved me and supported me when i was going through some of the hardest moments in my life. Red tv right now is helping me get through losing a different best friend. You don't have to go through the exact same thing as Taylor to find meaning in her songs.
An important point to clarify in the whole Taylor/Kanye tape drama is that Kim Kardashian posted a heavily edited version of the video. The ACTUAL version mysteriously leaked as soon as Kimye was finished riding the Taylor-hate gravy train, but if you take the time to listen to it you will find that Taylor told the truth. Her beef was always that she didn't appreciate being called a bitch and ESPECIALLY Kanye taking credit for her success, a line of the song that he conveniently didn't play for her. She also complained about the mv which she has described as revenge porn. I know that not a lot of people care about this and especially in 2021 it feels very trivial, but people still largely believe that Taylor was "caught in 4K" as you said and that actually isn't true, and the aftermath of that video sent her into a deep depression that altered the trajectory of her entire life. So yeah, they're all millionaires and it's stupid that we had to hear about their drama in the first place. But that doesn't change the fact that the whole situation was based on a big fat lie, and it deeply hurt her, and that's not okay no matter how rich she is.
Which is exactly why she didn't break her silence at all that year. It was not just a deep depression, it was a DEEP DEPRESSION and if her only way to survive is silence then someone else can tell the neo-nazies to stfu
The drama is annoying if you just see it as pointless squabbling, but it wasn't pointless to her.
i also feel like people who "don't care for the drama, whatever" also don't really like.... GET-get reputation, or enjoy it as much as the people who watch it all happened very closely. it's probably easy now to look back on the kimye-drama and be like "well didn't hurt her career in the end, she's still rockin'" but that really, really, REALLY wasn't something that one could foresee back when she was cancelled in 2016. it felt like the whole world turned on her
Yes!! I was just about to say this! Absolutely perfectly put!! I’m really glad he redid her deep dive and it’s totally okay if he doesn’t care about the drama, but if anyone is going to bring it up they should really do all their research before saying things like “she was caught” without acknowledging that the video was edited and the full length version proves that she was being honest. If anyone was caught lying it was Kimye.
thank you!!! i am always so disappointed when people recap what had happened and leave out the fact that the actual audio is now out there and shows pretty obviously that Taylor never lied. of course it's trivial compared to many of the struggles people in the world go through, but if we can relate to the pain of heartbreak even when a super famous millionaire goes through it, it's not that ridiculous to be able to relate to the pain of feeling like everyone hates you, or the pain of not being believed when you are telling the truth.
Wow thanks everyone, I was kind of expecting some pushback for this comment and instead I totally agree with what you guys have added...wanted to reply to all of you but I'll just leave this here for you to read instead.😅
Yeah it really irks me that people hand-wave away this situation because a) casual passersby still largely believe that Taylor was lying and got caught (a "perfect crime" on the part of Kimye, as Taylor puts it) and b) while yes, she's still an extremely popular megastar, what they did *did* permanently damage her career in a way that she has never fully recovered from. The 1989 era was the absolute height of her popularity, and it didn't have to be. I also hate to hear people bag on Reputation because once you listen to the songs with the full context of the situation, you realize that Reputation is an absolutely GORGEOUS album and one of the best she's ever made. It starts off brittle and angry, with heavy electronic sounds and dark themes, and then the album slowly melts away as she meets Joe and starts to come out of her anger and depression, until we're left with New Year's Day as a closer, a song that's about as stripped down and raw as you will ever find in her discography. I was guilty of writing off Look What You Made Me Do as "petty" and sonically uninteresting, but given the full context even that song (which I do still admit is one of her weaker tracks) kind of gives me goosebumps thinking of how she was wronged and how she really did take the fall for a situation based on a lie. To summarize, Kim and Kanye suck, Reputation deserved a Grammy, thank you and goodnight. 😂
Taylor is one of the rare artists nowadays that is versatile. Each albums doesn't sound the same but her songwriting skills remained
Since we brought up the Kanye thing here, I just want to bring up something that I never hear mentioned and I don't think a lot of people know who weren't actually watching the 2009 VMAs live. Beyonce did win an award that night, and all she said was "Thank you. I remember my first time on this stage, and what a moment that was for me as a young woman and artist. I would like for Taylor to have her moment. Taylor?" And she brought Taylor up on stage to give her speech uninterrupted. The kindness and class of Beyonce that night literally makes me tear up.
From the Mic who gave us the Taylor Swift Deep Discog Dive…..it’s the Taylor Swift Deeper Discog Dive
the fans finally got Taylor Swift Deep Discog Dive (Mic's Version)
I will NOT stand for you "I Wish You Would" slander, but otherwise great video. I love watching your longer deep dives.
SAME
Same! It’s my second favorite on 1989, after Clean.
@@katelynm.9510 Its my fave
Right!??
Nah honestly one of my faves on the album
This dude is like the Scott the Woz of music reviews. Glad to see him finally get to T Swifty in her current form.
this is a perfect description
Yeah you just hit the nail on the head there
Omg yaaaasss, 👍🥇🏆!!
Honestly, I got the the Scott the Woz feel when his house burned down too
exactly what i thought also
Respectfully disagree on reputation-it’s probably my favorite of her 3 pop albums. However, I do understand why it might not land for everyone who isn’t a massively invested fan. I love it because of the larger story it tells, and those louder sounding songs grew on me more when I looked at them as character pieces (a la blank space) or as a representation of the “noise” surrounding her reputation. That being said, if you’re NOT a super invested fan, I can see why these songs could come off as grating. Of all her albums, I think it’s the one that exists most within its own context. It’s hard to divorce it from the story it’s telling. Whether you view that as a knock or an enhancement of its quality I think completely depends on perspective! (And as a huge fan, for me it’s an enhancement!)
That being said, I loved this DDD (Mic the Snare’s Version). Here for the no body, no crime, and cruel summer appreciation especially!
I am a fully invested fan but it’s still always at the bottom for me whenever I rank her albums. I don’t hate it, I love reputation, but I love her other albums even more and that just shows how good she is at her job. Most of rep is too, idk, trap? Electronic? For my taste. I love the songwriting, it’s just the sonic element of rep I don’t freak with minus a few bops. But if I had to make a top 20 list a lot of cuts from rep would be on it, you know?
That Mic The Snare in brackets! I love this comment
@@random-zz8ut totally fair! It definitely comes down to personal preference. I’m such a lyric nerd with Taylor so it does frustrate me too when it feels like the production is overpowering the songwriting, and there are definitely some examples of this on rep. The album overall really works for me, but there are several songs where I WAY prefer various acoustic versions she’s done to the album versions (eg king of my heart, dancing with our hands tied, so it goes)
@@hannahj8990 acoustic taylor is just love tbh. I've been kinda obsessed with ciwyw lately for some reason. I think it's the fact that i associate it with one of my main OTPs from a tv show and i mean come on, Taylor telling us to call her relationship with her lover whatever we want because it doesn't affect her, is such a beautiful boss moment for her
Also look what you made me do is a masterpiece
Better Than Revenge may have aged about as well as spoiled milk, but it will always be one of my guilty pleasure songs because it was one of the first songs of hers I fell in love with again when I started listening to her again in 2019 after spending the previous 8 years as a rock fan. (Also betty is my favorite song of all time)
To me, songs like "better than revenge" and the aforementioned "misery business" are not even guilty pleasures, they're just pleasures, because I feel like it's been long enough since they were released for them to be viewed as what they are: teenage girls being frustrated about things that are a big deal to them, with the added bonus of a solid damn hook, and then grown ass adults nit-picking their integrity as artists years later based on a song they penned at 17
Respect for admitting that he was dismissive about Taylor Swift. Its rare.
Uhm what part was he dismissive about Taylor?
@@bashsusulan2109 In previous ddd about taylor swift
For real. SO many people, especially guys, are sadly dismissive of Taylor’s music.
the video feels like he still is actually...maybe not dismissive but there is this flippant attitutde he has
@@sivawrightlike you can tell he clearly didn’t want to do this but fans were probably asking I disagree with his take about rep it’s a good album but not great.
I love that you called evermore what it is, a folk album. the storytelling packed into that project is seriously some of her best
12:03 - "If there's anything I would knock Red for, it's the run time. Red is over an hour long and it really doesn't need to be."
*laughs in Red (Taylor's Version) 2 hours and 10 minutes run time*
I had always wondered if you were ever gonna come back to these old DDDs, and it's very nice to see that come to life. Can't wait to see what the other revised DDDs will look like.
I was in highschool when Fearless came out and I remember liking it in passing but not paying much attention to Taylor's music or career over the years, besides the big singles that everyone heard. Recently I watched her documentary on Netflix and totally fell for her.
I went back and listened to everything up until Fearless (her really country stuff is still probably my least favourite), but I am currently OBSESSED with folklore, I think I know the lyrics to every single song. I sob everytime I play exile and my tears ricochet. I have been playing nothing but Taylor Swift for the past couple of months and I'm obsessed.
1989 is literally the perfect pop album and I disagree, there is not ONE skip. Every single song is amazing. Out of the Woods might be one of the best songs ever.
Red has All Too Well and Treacherous, which reduce me to tears everytime. Reputation is so friggin good, Delicate, Getaway Car and Dancing with Our Hands Tied are all perfectly written pop songs that get stuck in your head forever. Add Gorgeous to that list aswell, so goddamn catchy.
I could go on forever, point is, her music makes me happy. It's helped pull me out of a dark place. I can't believe it took me so long to really get her. I blame the singles, honestly the singles she picks don't do her music justice. The real magic is on her album cuts. She's legendary and I'm proud to call myself a Swiftie now.
I love this 🥰
Taylor Swift has become an even more exciting artist in the last years. She tries different things and sounds each album even if not hardcore. I expect her to release a rock album after she is done with rerecords. I think she should release 1989 tv before the 80s trend faze pans out.
I’m dying for her to do something rock. She’s had some rock aspects in the past (very minor, but still there) with the electric guitar. Main examples I can think of would be The Last Time, The Story of Us, and Haunted; and I feel that she has the voice for it. She doesn’t have the raspiness of a rocker, but she has the powerful voice of one. I need to see it happen because I know she would kill it.
@@changingmind2522 I really want her to channel that State of Grace arena rock in the future
Sugarland's collaboration with Taylor is so overlooked IMHO.
Can't wait for the bit on Reputation. A man could make a channel based on the chord progressions on that one
I almost cried when you called Style "perfect". Thank you.
Style is criminally underrated!
Baby I'm perfect for you
ok?
@@kaypress2093 It is one of her best charting songs though, so it's not really underrated. Really good song, but it got the attention it deserved.
"pulled into B.o.B.'s sphere of influence if you will"
GODDAMMIT THAT WAS GOOD
She was briefly in his orbit.
The joke went right over my head the first time around, but came back about 90 minutes later.
@@Tesseract_King hang on I’m kinda stupid but what is the joke
@@bigcheese2128 B.O.B. is a notorious proponent of flat-earth conspiracy theories. (Don't feel dumb, I didn't get the joke the first time either -- my comment was both an orbital mechanics joke and a statement of truth.)
I’m not a bob fan lol what is this supposed to mean
I mean, Andrew Lloyd-Webber did say that the only enjoyable thing about cats was writing 'Beautiful Ghosts' with Taylor so maybe... Cats.
but furthermore, cats.
The fact that you referenced my favorite ever video of that girl joking about all the guests in the 1989 tour... another hit from my favorite youtuber. Also to share an opinion I think you may appreciate, I also think False God is one of the best Lover songs, but I have always thought it would be a PERFECT song for Carly Rae Jepsen.
as a swiftie and also a crj stan i strongly agree!!!
holy shit YES
i am HERE. FOR. IT.
"Red is the definitive Taylor Swift album" YES MAN, louder for the people in the back (in that grammy room)
IMO 'Tolerate It' is her best song from both Folklore and Everymore. Who else (Other than Radiohead) could make a piano song feel regular, but have it actually be in 10/4?
@Anne Day seriously, 'begging for footnotes in the story of your life' was just ouch
Him: Make Red shorter and I will call it a classic.
Taylor: oh? Here's all 30 songs
Mic i’m really sad you can’t emotionally resonant with The Best Day off of Fearless, even though i’m not a teenage girl, the writing on that song still hits me hard lol
as someone raised by a single mother, that song never fails to make me cry. it's not the most complex but it hits so hard.
Cant listen to it without crying
I honestly love Lover. It shows what Taylor can do and how her finding someone who loves her and sticks by her side helps her music. It's such a happy album, and it's the first album I listened to in it's entirety.
Same. Lover made me a Swiftie 😍
Man I was so harshly anti-Taylor Swift in high school, yet hearing clips from those big hits still brings me back (in a good way).
“Dear John is the longest song” when you realize that this was before Red TV
I did see people feeling disappointed that her new recording of her old albums is the exact replica of the old ones but like, that's exactly what she's trying to do.
True. That's exactly the point of re-recordings and she's not the first one to do it
Hearing Mike cite All Too Well as Taylors best track before her rerelease of Red just cements that All Too Well was incredible before the ten minute version came out.
I love Taylor so here's my fave song and fave lyric from said song from each album
1. Debut
"I'm Only Me When I'm with You"
"sometimes we don't say a thing, just listen to the crickets sing"
2. Fearless
"The Way I Loved You"
"he can't see the smile I'm faking, and my hearts not breaking cause I'm not feeling Anything at all"
3. Speak Now
"Enchanted"
"the lingering question keeps me up, 2am who do you love"
4. Holy Ground
"I left a note on the door with a joke we'd made, and that was the first day"
5. 1989
"You Are In Love"
"one night he wakes, strange look on his face. Pauses then says 'your my best friend' and you knew what it was, he is in love"
6. Reputation
"King Of My Heart"
"im perfectly fine, I live on my own I've made up my mind im better off being alone"
7. Cornelia Street
"hope I never loose you, hope it never ends, I'd never walk Cornelia Street again"
8. folklore
"Betty"
"will you kiss me on the porch in front of all your stupid friends"
9. evermore
"Dorothea"
"you got shiny friends since you left town"
P.s. Pls don't crucify me for not having All Too Well as my number 1 on red haha
totally stealing this. Swiftie4life.
1.
Tim McGraw
"when you think Tim McGraw, I hope you think of me
2.
Love Story
"Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone. I love you and that's all I really know"
3.
Long Live(my fave song x.x)
"I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you"
4.
All Too Well
"and you call me up again just to break me like a promise"
5.
Style
"I said I been there too a few times..."
6.
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
*insert Taylor's snorting laugh at the end*
7.
Lover
"can i go where you go?"
8.
peace
"The devil's in the details but you got a friend in me"
9.
evermore
"I had a feeling so peculiar this pain wouldn't be for evermore"
Lowkey don't blame you for not having All Too Well lmao. It only JUST grew on me. Holy Ground was my #1 before that lol.
@@mimmikyute awesome list swiftie :) queen Taylor would approve 😍👑❤️
Holy Ground is sooooo good
Lemme steal
*Taylor Swift*
Cold As You - “And you come away with a great little story, of a mess of a dreamer, with the nerve to adore you”
*Fearless*
The Way I Loved You - “He can’t see the smile I’m fakin’, and my heart’s not breakin’, ‘cause I’m not feeling anything at all”
*Speak Now*
Sparks Fly - “You’re the kind of reckless that should send me runnin’, but I kind of hope that I won’t get far”
*Red*
All Too Well - “You call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of bein’ honest”
*1989*
Out Of The Woods - “Remember when you hit the brakes too soon? Twenty stitches in a hospital room…”
*Reputation*
Delicate - “Dark jeans and your Nikes, look at you, oh damn, never seen that color blue”
*Lover*
Cruel Summer - “I don’t wanna keep secrets just to keep you”
*folklore*
illicit affairs - “And that’s the thing about illicit affairs, and clandestine meetings, and stolen stares, they show their truth one single time, but they lie, and they lie, and they lie, a million little times”
*evermore*
evermore - “And I was catchin’ my breath, barefoot in the wildest winter, catchin’ my death”
super solid list! & don't worry state of grace is my number one on red lol
I honestly wasn't into her music until the folklore/evermore era. Those albums completely opened me up to looking back at her discography and I found it's her eye for detail in the songs she wrote that had me coming back and listening to more and more songs. The earlier singles weren't my cup of tea but MAN the Taylor hate train definitely had internalized mysoginy in me avoiding her even more. I'm glad I grew up and got pulled into her discography. I think seeing her eras and growth is exceptionally cool.
Honestly I feel the same way about evermore. Would really love to see her go in the sort of folk-country direction on her next album - "no body, no crime", "dorothea", "coney island", "ivy", and "cowboy like me" were some big highlights for me from that album. I think you summed it up well - folklore proved she could play in this space, evermore proved she could own it, and I'm really excited to see what happens after she gets her masters back!
As a die hard swiftie, I am pleasantly surprised by this DDD! For someone who is not a hardcore TS fan, I appreciate the amount of research and dedication you’ve put into this. Especially your deep cut picks, very awesome! My only qualm (music wise) is why do you not like “I Wish You Would”? I love that one! It’s some excellent Jack Antonoff production and I blast it every time it comes on.
As for the phone call drama, I understand the impulse to say “idgaf about these millionaires”, but in doing so you ignore a lot of context. Like the fact that it’s well established at this point that Taylor was telling the truth about Kim editing the footage. If you watch the whole thing, you can see how Kanye talks Taylor in circles to eventually get the answer he wants. So when the whole snake thing happened, it’s understandable how the whole thing broke her brain
What does DDD means?
I love I Wish You Would. I go back and listen to that one from time to time.
@@yin3599 Deep Discog Dive
I would say if Reputation and Lover were necessary for her to make Folklore I'm totally fine with it
They were. Reputation despite being one of my least fave of her's, was needed got her to simply move on. And i think lover was just a fun celebration of her moving on and freedom witn Joe.
I hated LWYMMD until seeing it live at the eras tour. The energy of the reputation set was incredible and really gave me a better appreciation for the album.
Ironically, reputation is the album that got me to into Taylor's music. Call it what you want, the so called "pettiness" is what made me love her. All the tracks that you listed as the "worst" especially lwymmd, was the best in my opinion.
Same here!
Same
Samee gurl
Same
Couldn't agree more. This leads us to say that not every opinion of a RUclipsr's gonna be a fact for everyone. So go guys love what you want
A friend of mine has recently become a fan because she realized the reason she disliked Taylor and her music was because of internalized misogyny and outright hatred of being “too girly.” Now we just rock out to whatever song we’re loving at the moment.
the dubstep drop in I Knew You Were Trouble is such an instant tell that it's from 2012
Great video as always ! Very cathartic for someone who grew up when the misogynistic criticism of taylor swift was the mainstream, and was having trouble reconciling her own internalized misogyny with how much her songs were bops
I'm a huge fan of Taylor since I'm 14, i'm 23 now! I grow up with her and it's just *so* good seeing her evolution for real. My favorite songs of her (each from one album LOL) are
-TS - Picture to burn
-Fearless - Forever and Always (taylor's version is Mr Perfectly Fine)
- Speak Now - Sparks Fly / Mean
- Red - State of Grace / All too Well (it's a crime they didn't let her made this one a single)
- 1989 - I know Places / New Romantics
- Reputation - Getaway Car
- Lover - It's nice to have a Friend / Cruel Summer / False God
- Folklore - The love triangle trylogy (Cardigan, august and betty) / Mirroball and My Tears Ricochet
- Evermore - No Body no Crime and Champagne problems
I get what you said about Reputation being a bit conservative but... The thing with Reputation is that IT ACTUALLY IS a conceptual album. You GOTTA know the TS drama of those years to fully appreciate it.
The 1989 era actually DROPPED a HUGE depression on TS and an ACTUAL eating dissorder, and if you add the KymYe (manufactured by them) drama, you see that Taylow WAS ACTUALLY very VERY broken: She might sound conservative because she *needed* to be to get back to herself, she might have wrote her lyrics *like a snake* because that's what she needed to do to get back and to rebrand herself because if she didn't she would have stayed an hypocrite for life and that would have ended her career and her mental health. She had EVERY RIGHT to feel and be petty about everything because they actually BROKE HER and KNOWING the whole drama makes one appreciate that album on a whole different level.
It wasn't entirely a "LOOK AT THE DRAMA" album but an "I need healing" album, dropping all her actual feelings and being petty because *she needed too and she had every right too*. It's a conceptual album because it tells us HER STORY on THAT EXACT MOMENT, she tells us HER FEELINGS on that exact moment. Reputation tells us how she felt in that year (ah, also, Reputation was written in less time than any other of her albums which also explains why they sound so similar to each other, she got less time to it) and it's a "I'm trying to get back", making the whole drama a storytelling for HERSELF more than to others, it's a view from her own lenses about the whole thing, how she went from heaven to hell in less than MONTHS thanks to the drama with that man, and how she retell that story to rebuild herself and her career, and how she found REAL LOVE while she was broken. And that's why we have also so many pure love songs like Gorgeous and Dress and New Years' Eve, because while healing herself from that "stupid" drama (that actually fucked her mental health and made her almost drop evverything), she found *someone* who actually didn't cared about the whole drama and actually tried to meet her. Since then she hasn't actually given real interviews like she used to do, she now is way more secretive of her life, because being so much in the public eye afected her considerably enough to make her just... *want to actually just dissapear unless it's for her career and her fans*.
It's sad how people disgain Reputation, it's actually a HEALING album and if you see it through her lenses, see it through the actual drama, you actually can see how it *actually* healed her hahahaha it's actually quite fascinating!
Sorry if I have mistakes, english isn't my first lanugage but I try hard ^^
For me (it's too hard to pick just one from each album so I picked two):
TAYLOR SWIFT
1. Our Song
2. Should've Said No
FEARLESS
1. Love Story
2. You Belong With Me
SPEAK NOW
1. Back to December
2. Never Grow Up
RED
1. Begin Again
2. Ronan
1989
1. Wildest Dreams
2. Blank Space
REPUTATION
1. Don't Blame Me
2. Look What You Made Me Do
LOVER
1. Lover
2. Cruel Summer
FOLKLORE
1. Cardigan
2. Betty
EVERMORE
1. Willow
2. Champagne Problems
FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION)
1. Love Story (Taylor's Version)
2. Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)
RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION)
1. All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)
2. Begin Again (Taylor's Version)
MIDNIGHTS
1. Would've, Could've, Should've
2. Anti-Hero
I’m a huge Swiftie and I’ve been having a horrible day, thank you for this video
I think a lot of the hate for Taylor comes from the fact that it’s oversaturated in the marketplace. I do not despise her music by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t like how much it’s been overplayed to the point where it’s difficult to escape it, so I understand why people hate it, not that I agree with it because she is very talented.
Like, I’ll freely admit that she has a ton of bops. Even as a scene kid!
I loved Reputation. I don't know who advertised it as "edgy", but I never expected her to stray so much from what she usually did and that was to write songs about love and relationships from her point of view. And she did precisely that with this album but by exploring the concept of her reputation as well. Perhaps the "edgy" or "dangerous" sound and the current modern production was meant to convey her turbulent emotions and her situation in that moment in time in 2016, in which plenty of her songs were about the kanye/kim drama and going into a new relationship despite her outward reputation in the media.
Also I'm not sure why you included criticisms about why she didn't speak out about the white supremacists calling her their "princess" when like you said she had a media blackout. I'm assuming you didn't watch Miss America where she talks about being nervous about speaking out about politics and other social issues due to her coming from a country background and always being told not to be outspoken or like the "Dixie Chicks". Obviously her team denouncing the white supremacists at the time would have been great, but including that bit of criticism in your video when evaluating the Reputation album didn't quite fit. Yes there were lots of more important issues happening at that time but you can't really expect Taylor to address everything. She also had a sexual assault lawsuit going on that she didn't talk about in her album either.
I think it should also be noted that the kanye/kim recordings were eventually revealed to be edited and faked, and not much was talked about that. I understand the time has past and no one really cares anymore, but people were literally sending Taylor tweets that she was cancelled and other malicious things that took a toll on her mental health, leading HER to stay away as though she was the villain. Kanye's mv with the wax figures was also blatant revenge porn to Taylor, like there was nothing she could say or do, he was just going to portray her naked body anyway. The Reputation album for Taylor was probably more about healing and trying to move on by addressing her emotions at that time, and everything was just playing over and over again.
She literally went black and shady for that album. That was an enough motive to think that it would be a dark and dangerous album. Unfortunately, she didn't really infuse the idea to the production, or at least didn't optimally. Her songwriting was also not her best. She usually made up the disjointed production with stories or mood that is shared between two songs, but it wasn't really shown in the album. Sure, there are good songs, but an album should be more than good songs packed together, shouldn't it?
I don't remember anyone advertising it as edgy. Don't know what he was refering to
It was mostly the public and people on Twitter labeling it as edgy
@Anne Day Why should she speak out when it seemed like the world wanted her to die? She literally got a mural with someone wishing death upon her? I swear people really don't put this much scrutiny on yt men.
@Day she left the public eye for a year (was she in that suitcase?) for a reason it was getting bad out there and yes the hate eventually died down and people moved onto the next thing
Didnt expect this, but man im so glad to see you talk about her music again!
This definitely helped me appreciate her artistry more. I'm trying to get into her stuff coming from a listening background of experimental hiphop, artpop, and avant garde music. Keep up the great work!
So glad that you did a more in depth version for Taylor! I was 13 when red came out, and I will have just turned 22 when it’s re recording is out, so she’s a pretty special and influential artist to me!! This video made me so nostalgic, and I remembered so many parts of my teenage years that Taylor’s music accompanied💗
I have a similar experience as well. I remember listening to Red in high school, vibing to All too well. I didn’t consider all the emotion packed into that album. I didn’t know yet what it meant to remember someone all too well. And then I was 22 and reeling from a breakup and I *FELT* All too well in my soul.
I'm not exactly a Taylor Swift fan as I only heard the "popular songs", but I gotta admit that I once found "State of Grace" and it became my favorite Taylor Swift song ever. You've convinced me now to listen to Folklore and Evermore. Let's see how that goes :)
Being a popular song listener I just stumbled across her inner album tracks and then pandemic happened and I listened to folklore
And now I have it as my profile picture
Lol
so how it goes?
@@nicoaguirre2187 I've been loving Folklore! Haven't listened to Evermore yet tho
All too well will make me cry every single time. What a perfect song.
cowboy like me is probably my favorite song from her, I can’t describe it but it’s just so good. However I think cardigan is probably one of the best songs in her discography. and Last Kiss is one of her best bridges
YES. THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE NEEDED!!! Thanks Mic!
Reputation is NOT supposed to be an edgy album. It’s supposed appear that way (have the reputation of being an edgy album), but actually be a story about finding love amongst the chaos. I seriously don’t get how anyone who actually listened to the songs on the album don’t realize that literally only like 2 of them are about drama and her venting while the rest are about love.
Exactly. Anytime people say Rep is supposed to be edgy I just assume they only listened to Look What You Made Me Do, I Did Something Bad, and This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things.
“I’d recommend starting out with” *lists half her discography*
Oh Mr Mic, never change
Also, in defense of Reputation, I believe it gave Taylor her much-needed catharsis. Of course, it's not reflected well with the tracks but the "edgy" sound and the angry title track felt like an overnight screaming that slowly dies down as you reach the last tracks.
Please, now, redo the strokes' DDD, it's your duty mister thesnare.
Also do xiu xiu please please please
didn't expected to see you in there, love your videos!
Xiu Xiu is the one i'm hoping for one day
oh putain cest feldupppp
Qu'est-ce que tu fais là frr?
I agree with you about Cruel Summer. What was she thinking??? Lover was a good album but having a song like that and NOT releasing it as the first single (or a single at all) is INSANE. It would have come out in the summer too and would have been the song of that summer. My favorite album of hers is either 1989 (it's just perfect) or Folklore (maybe even more perfect). I guess it's a tie. She's the real deal and I can't wait to see where she takes us next.
My favorite song by Taylor has to be closure. I learned it on the piano after 6 excruciating hours of struggling to understand the tempo but when it clicked I cried
I'm here for the closure appreciation! You're maybe the first person I saw saying something nice about closure. I love that song it perfectly captures the feeling.
I don't know how I'm just discovering this series now!! The algorithms have truly been failing me. Dude, you are so even-handed in these videos and so up-front about any bias that does sneak through, it's like going back in time to when music journalism existed and wasn't just another form of promo or extension of pop culture tribalism. I adore your videos, thanks for everything you do.
YESSS thank u for this!! since everyone's doing it here's my top songs for each album:
1. self-titled: "Mary's song (oh my my my)". this song is criminally underrated
2. fearless: I couldn't pick between ybwm or "Love Story" so I'm picking "White Horse," the beginning of THE track 5 saga
3. speak now: "Dear John." just...everything about this song. literally my top 3 favorites of her.
4. red: "State of Grace." One of her best songs PERIOD
5. 1989: "Blank Space." Is it a basic choice? yes. is it also one of the best songs she's ever released? also yes.
6. rep: "Getaway Car." heart-wrenching AND an absolute bop? I think yes
7. lover: hard to pick tbh. I love lover (no pun intended), sygb, death by a thousand cuts, and of course cruel summer. I feel like that one's the objectively right answer.
8. folklore: "August." cause you weren't MINEEEEE TO LOSEEE.
9. evermore: either champagne problems or Dorothea. a beautiful album but I must admit folklore is my favorite.
Taylor is such a prominent artist in the media and in pop culture that I think it overshadows how solid her discography is and how well it's gonna age in the long run. Thank you Taylor, and thank you Mic. not your real name but thank u.
She won me over. My pop tastes were 80’s/90’s - I’m in my late 40’s. Then I went off the deep end with eclectic tastes: experimental/extreme/jazzy/whatever...
Then I came into contact with the monolith that was “1989”. I was astounded at its success, then I came to respect it’s craft. I agree Style might be the best track. Then I also realized Red was a borderline masterpiece!
I still need to get around to Lover. I find Folklore, etc very interesting. And now, Midnights manages to have a late-night edge that seems more genuine.
Could you do a dive on The Cure? I’d love to see you talk about their musical evolution
Yes! They have changed their sound so much over the years
1989 really was the first Taylor album I just…sat down and LISTENED to, and for that reason, it’s my favorite if only for nostalgia’s sake. I really love Folklore/Evermore, but 1989 is pure joy for me.
Love Story was the first Taylor Swift song I heard, I enjoyed a lot of her singles from then on, but the first album I actually listened to all the way through was Reputation. Have done so with every one of her albums since then.
My daughters are kinda obsessed with her, so thank you. I told them in passing, Shania Twain first hit charts in 1996 ("Any Man Of Mine") when TS was age seven. "Seven" is a TS song. She names Shania Twain as a prime influence. Entirely possible that that's when TS really began her adventure.
I have always loved her music, Speak now is one of my favorite albums of all time, it's the most honest one and I like it musically the most. Haunted with the orchestra just is so good. 1989 and Evermore are also excellent records.
Watching this in Dec 2022 is kinda crazy. So much has changed since this video was made. Kanye has had the biggest public downfall in history while at the exact same time Taylor has had her biggest musical success (Midnights). It's just interesting to see a real life battle of good vs evil and even though it took a couple years, most people are finally willing to admit that Kanye's an asshole. It's a great time to be a swiftie
“Look What You Made Me Do” and “ME!” might not be the best singles but it’s a very necessary ones.
'Cowboy like me' will forever live in my broken heart, like a lonely kid tossing the pieces on the floor with his little feet. Yep. Evermore is the absolute best. And that song is a true gem.
"no man drew has ever looked at me and lived to tell the tale" angry that i laughed out loud
1989. I LOVED that album. It stayed in my Cars CD player all winter long. Fun driving music. Good comfort music. Just fun
as a taylor stan, this analysis is amazing and funny 😭😭 thank you for this
I think Taylor has improved tremendously vocally. She puts real emotion into every line and her vocal range is great.
Dang, going straight from Weezer to Taylor, you’re speaking my language Mic!
Oh my god, I don’t know what to say, this was such an amazing video essay about my favorite artist, great funny moments too, thank you!
I’m voting Death Cab For Cutie this time. They’re one of my favorite bands, yet they’ve sadly become a one-hit wonder over the years with I Will Follow You Into The Dark. They’re so much more than that song and their music is so much more varied and interesting, and a DDD on them would introduce a lot of people to their other work.
Oi bruv it’s me, the guy from the song psyche comment section asking for album recommendations. I just finished the green album and since then I’ve listened to the blue album and Pinkerton and that’s all I’ve been listening to for the past few weeks. Thanks fo the recommendations!
@@mfbruh5269 no problem, man! I’m glad you enjoy Weezer. I’m happy to recommend music any time.
@@thedogfromraditude5449 I've only listened to Passenger Seat and I Dreamt We Spoke Again besides I Will Follow You, I enjoyed both, could you recommend the best place for me to start, dog?
@@montymcgee7087 Not OP but Transatlanticism is their best full album in my opinion, however you can’t go wrong starting with Plans or The Photo Album either. Kintsugi is another one of my favorites but it’s a little different than what I’d define dcfc’s sound as if that makes sense
@@montymcgee7087 +1 on Transatlanticism! That album's so good as a whole that when I go to listen to the title track (my favorite), I have to listen to them all.
Oct 16, this video release date, was my birthday and I couldn’t ask for more amazing gift! I’m a big fan of Taylor, thank you for doing this!
I cheered when I got the notification for this video! I think Fearless was the first CD I ever owned (that wasn't a comedy album), so it holds a special place in my heart. The opening to "The Best Day" is like a Manchurian Candidate-style code that will still make me ugly cry.
I'm just happy Mic acknowledge The Civil Wars existence
I’m glad someone can appreciate bridges as much as I do. A bridge can make or break a song for me and Taylor does them well.
I was always a big fan but never had my album until folklore and evermore came out. There wasn’t one song that I was like “meh” on. You got “my tears ricochet” and “tolerate it” pinching you In The gut. “Peace” and “happiness” being under appreciated master pieces.
Taylor Swift releases have this duality in them. As made evident by Folklore and Evermore.
We're all kind of aware Folklore is of summer and Evermore is of winter.
In addition, Reputation and Lover can be listened back to back and have this artistic scenery of nightime fade into daytime.
Love this perspective, thank you
I had no idea Mean was a Taylor swift song 😭😭😭😭I heard it on glee once and fell in love with it and never even thought to search for the original
"I can't wait to see how Taylor pursues acting.
*Cats 2019 ominously appears in the background*
Meanwhile, Lorax 2012 is over in the corner, being ignored. *AS IT SHOULD BE.*
The giver movie in an even deeper corner
@@patax144 Considering I'd completely forgotten about that movie until you mentioned it, you couldn't be more right!
@@patax144 Valentine’s Day behind like three more
@WD Vinco Nobody liked anything about Lorax 2012.
*Kicks emo teen onceler back down into the basement where he belongs.*
I can't pick one song but what I can say is that folklore might be my favorite album in the world. Also the lakes.
Love this! and loved when you said "I love The National. They're my dad's - and my best friends." Really made me chuckle
good ddd.Agree with everything except the reputation part here are the reasons:
1.I dont think reputation was meant to be dangerous and edgy , it was meant to be her comeback album to turn the public narrative which was against her at that time . I think writing songs from the snake persona
was pretty smart , but I will say that the best songs are still the songs in which she doesnt write with that persona.
2.I dont expect her to dont write songs about this...'incident' since it was traumatic but healable.I dont think we are meant to relate to those songs.Also I think the album is basically the story of years 2016-2017 pre LWYMMD.From songs ready for it to so it goes, this was her 'lashing out as a wounded animal'as she put it in her documentary.Delicate was there at track 5 because between all that bad reputation she was in a relationship with a delicate chance of success .Hence she didn't write songs about that relationship in track 6 or 7 .Then the relationship started working out as shown from gorgeous to dress.TIWWCHNT was there to tell us that while she was having this bad reputation , she now has everyone -her real friends , her family and her boyfriend .Then in call it what you want , It was basically her telling us that with the help of her boyfriend she could deal with all of that scrutiny . Slowly but surely she was healing from that traumatic event . then I will expect new year's day to be written post LWYMMD and pre Reputation since between that period everything was kind of normal now to say the least.This track gives a sense of finality of that drama.So there is no need of bashing the track order
I'm genuinely pretty upset that you didn't talk about the fact that in 2019/2020, it had come out that Kim Kardashian had heavily edited the phone call between Kanye and Taylor, and had only released snippets of it that made it SOUND like she was "agreeing." She had purposefully released it to cast her as the "villain." And, of course, years later everyone was over the drama and she was dragged through the mud for nothing. By then, people didn't care about the fact that she was innocent the whole time. But you know if it had been the other way around, the media would've jumped at the chance to slander her. She usually, if not always, has good intentions with people. I know you said you didn't care, and I recognize that it may seem like "petty drama" but it really wasn't. I replied to another comment talking about its significance in her career path, and how the "there are more important things going on" excuse is one that's a bit too overused. Like obviously there were bad things going on socially/politically, etc, but this was a very significant moment for her and altered her career path for good. She was literally shamed into isolation by the general public ganging up on her - it had been building along with the general hate she'd received from the media for years. That is truly significant.
The last few times you've released a DDD I've thought about asking if you'd ever revisit this one so very happy that you did! I listened to Taylor casually since 1989 but Folklore made me a big fan and I kind of did my own DDD back in 2020 to listen to a lot of her back catalog for the first time.
My recommendation for a Taylor thing to check out is the King of My Heart sequence on the Reputation Tour movie (try to watch the full thing on Netflix, the RUclips clips aren't as good imo), the production, staging, dancing, drumming, etc on that song are amazing.
We have very similar swiftie origin stories!! I was a casual listener since fearless/speak now and then folklore and evermore really caught my attention. I’ve since dived into her entire back catalog and found A TON of incredible songs I’d never bothered to listen to before!! I was missing out on so much but I’m glad I’m here now
@@hannahj8990 I definitely think I appreciate some of her older stuff more now with context and knowing where she was headed, artistically.