Is Taylor Swift a better artist than pop star? Professor Skye reviews "Evermore"
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- Опубликовано: 11 дек 2020
- Taylor Swift could be the best lyricist in music right now and she shows that off on this amazingly good "surprise" album. Production, vocals and words all in harmony in this album which both rhymes with and completely surpasses "Folklore".
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“It doesn’t seem that she is chasing anything. She is leading.” Spot on.
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Hands down the best quote for evermore 😁
I’m like, crying, to hear other people recognize the startling artistic ability, if only people would drop their assumptions and listen for just a couple of minutes.
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Brittany I won't make assumptions about why you left that comment..but I think it's 'cause you're a swiftie... 😉
@@Eric_The_Eccentric I mean obviously! :) But maybe I am being arrogant in my own way by thinking that because I’m a convert, I have a different type of appreciation for the artistic genius of TS than life-long Swifties? Not saying better, just different...
"To shift the culture based on what she's doing, she has the power to do that. Most artists are chasing something. Chasing popularity, chasing a style, chasing relevance. And at this point in her career she doesn't seem like she's chasing anything, she's leading."
I am always in awe with how articulate Professor Skye is. His way with words is truly a gift. Amazing review as always!
I never came across a better definition of this double era! Love this professor!
@@martasorangeberry LOL! She didn't lead anything use had MAx MArtin produce the damn thing and he was (and is still) literally one of the biggests producers in music. She still works with Antonoff that ain't leading anything she is just doing what Lana and Lorde have already done.
@@popoff7808 You did know that Taylor kickstarted Jack's career as a producer when they made 1989 right? Without her Lana and Lorde wouldn't even have collaborated with Jack
I'm glad he didn't say Chasin' Clout.
we need him we love him we are here for him
Most artists chase the trend, Taylor Swift sets the trend.
No body, no crime is a double murder... how can people miss it ? Plus Este doesn’t kill her husband, her husband kills her to be with his mistress and the narrator then kills the husband framing the mistress.
I think what he's seeking is the depth of a song. NBNC is a pretty straightforward story with a twist. That's what I think. For me though, NBNC is amazing. Great storytelling, great ambience and production, but a li'l disappointed that she used HAIM as how she used the Chicks from SYGB. I was expecting a verse with a layer of Tswift's voice like a dialogue with a rhythm.
It's a good jam, it's well structured and well delivered, but for me personally it feels too dark for the album, and it especially feels weird being in the same album with ivy, if ivy wasn't in this album I'd feel less weird about it.
Maybe the uneasiness caused from these two being on the same album was intentional, it certainly intensifies the discomfort I feel listening to both of them.
Happiness is one of the most emotional songs I've ever heard...
It's so ironic
I honestly wish it had been the last song instead of the title track.
Also, Happiness is better than All Too Well. I said it.
@@RyanStorey1231 not a controversial opinion at all, she's so deep into her career that All Too Well is bound to be kicked off at the top of the ranking of her songs.
I think it deserves track 5.I just can't stop listening to happiness.God
I think people are just now realising that Taylor has very expressing voice.... But the thing is that she is doing this from the starting...
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That was true. These people criticizing Taylor so much but in reality, they just starting doing it, after what Lover Era? But I guess that's what it is.
It really hurts when he said that his daughter would be bullied at school when she admits that she likes Taylor's music.😫
didn’t she take it back and said instead that it was Katy Perry? but still :(
lmao the review was fun but i just found it incredibly funny that you had a dream about her writing a rock album because almost her entire fanbase is desperate for the day she makes a rock album, she's given us a few nudges in that direction throughout her career and it seems pretty unavoidable that she'll go there one day
i would love to see her do a rock album too. her voice has rasp and she plays guitar good
Taylor and yeah considering that she had a lot of rock influenced track. State of Grace alone was iconic
Imagine re - recording red as rock (or pop rock or pop punk) album??? ☠️
@@earlisonline State if Grace; that is STILL a top song in the Taylor Swift lexicon. It’s absolutely beautiful.
alt rock my dream!
No Body, No Crime - I agree that the song isn't lyrically on the same level as others on this album, but I'm amazed by how many reviewers have completely missed the fact that two murders occurred in that song. First the friend says she'll confront the husband about his infidelity, then she disappears, the husband moves in his mistress, and the narrator (Taylor) decides to do something about it when the police can't prove he killed his wife. She kills him and frames the mistress, who had taken out a life insurance policy. I find the ending interesting - the police now think the husband killed the wife, the mistress killed the husband, and the mistress thinks the narrator did it, but no one can prove anything. I like it for a couple of reasons - it's cleverly patterned after true crime podcasts Taylor has said she listens to, so she essentially wrote a murder mystery in song. The second reason is because it's a nod to a song from The Chicks called Goodbye Earl. It might be out of place on this album, but I think it's fun that she dabbled in outlaw country and named the victim after Este Haim, who then sang on it with her.
It's been so difficult to choose a favorite song on this album. Right now I love 'Tis the Damn Season and Cowboy Like Me. They're so story based that I find myself thinking of the characters after I finish listening. At this point, I think she might be able to write a novel or a book of poetry, or even script a Netflix series. Definitely the best lyricist putting out music right now. I also love Happiness, Ivy and Evermore in particular, though I really love all of them. I enjoyed hearing your thoughts too - it's hard to find people who dive deep on lyricism.
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@@divelea I agree! I understand what the Professor is saying about it not being the same style of song as the rest of these albums. But I think it was a cleverly written song about murder with a little twist on who committed it. Taylor is a big fan of the tv series Law and Order and that is why she named her first cat after the character Oliva Benson, played by the actress Mariska Hargitay. But regardless of all that, I just think it's a catchy fun song!
And lets not forget Taylors obsessive love of Law & Order! :)
I don't think she says the police think the husband kills the wife?
@@geegeezlouis86 no, the police thought the mistress did it, while the mistress thought Taylor did it, but they can't prove it
You were wondering how Taylor can still be so grounded with her writing while being such a rich and adored superstar. I don't claim to know how she managed to stay like that but I find, from the interviews I see and read and from the stories of common people who get to meet her (I also don't claim to know her but from what I can tell), that she has stayed quite a genuine and humble person. Add to that her emotional intelligence and a mild case of anxious personality (that I relate to) and she can paint the most relatable and heartbreaking experiences in her songs. Things that may seem small but that, for me, show the true colors of a person, like how when she talks to you she always gives you 100% of her attention, always thanking and acknowledging the people who don't usually get that recognition (her dancers, the people who build her stages during tours, the people who ensure security during concerts etc.), always meeting her fans for free after events. I'm not fogetting that she's a millionaire with jets and too much fame to handle but she also didn't forget her humanity. And this is also why her fans (as in more than a casual listener) love her so much and protect her so fervently: they see this genuinely good person that has been labelled a pop commercial product similar to Britney Spears that has received many waves of hate for any and everything she does - the hate was so rabid that it caused her to go into hiding for a couple of years, no activity online, nothing. So sometimes, the fans overcorrect with the defending.
Yup, I will defend her til the say I die
well said
i think it comes back on how her parents raised her. her parents especially her mom is known for her "i'm your mom/best friend" parenting among the fans. so obviously taylor grew up with such mature, yet grounded personality. not to forget the fact her grandma, Marjorie, once said ''Never be so kind, you forget to be clever. Never be so clever, you forget to be kind'' so it sums up perfectly how functional her parents were raising her. like you said, small but shows the true colors of that person. she's lucky enough to have fuctional purely sane parents.
"no body, no foul"
"no harm, no body"
*"no body, no crime!"*
"...no woman, no cry?"
made me chortle 🤣
She’s always been an artist, were people seriously only listening to her singles?
Agreed. She sets such a high standard that everyone takes her artistry for granted. She does it all with such thought and intention and passion; her videos alone are masterpieces of the genre,
Yeah. But to be fair I do that with many people too. From Dustin I’ve only ever heard his big singles, like “sorry” or “love yourself” or even “yummy. Nothing deeper than that.
9:35 "Do you hear those geese? They're going back to their hometown and they're gonna buy a cardigan and fall in love with a guy with a truck" HELPPP LMAOASDKLJAKDLJASLD
Says that with a straight face☠️
I loved this review. I get what you mean by us being hyper-protective of someone we don't know but once you form a parasocial relationship with someone like her and you go through all the stages of life, you protect her kinda like a sister. Especially if you've been with her for a while and have seen how everyone made her out to be someone she's not, you know?
I never understood the obsession with her as megastar Taylor Swift because in my opinion, the artist Taylor Swift is way more interesting and underrated. She creates bodies of work when people are just creating singles to blow up and that alone shows you what she is and has been about.
I don’t think people understand how articulate, expressing, and intellectual Professor Skye is!
“Ironically he is a professor after all” lol.
But like, as a die hard fan of taylor swift, you express and describe the things very well, and I’m sorry some of the fans might be aggressive haha don’t take it too personally, however it shows that you’re a very genuine person who doesn’t mean to aggressively criticize her but only shares his opinions about music cause you simply enjoy good music and appreciate good artists.
I’m so happy to see people like you appreciating taylor’s artistry and seeing her for what she really is, (a professional lyricist and a genius idea-maker)
I love your videos so much cause it elaborates so much! You sir are stupendous! 💛😄
I’m always here to check more of your taylor swift videos ☺️ no matter what you think.
Your classes must be very interesting. As a college student, i would love to have a professor who explain things and teach those things the way you do. Great channel, great words. I'm a fan of Taylor too and it's rewarding see people reconizing her talent. I grew with her (unlike you daughter hahah) she is with me since i was a teenager and i always tought that she was a great lyricist and artist. Thank you for this video.
"Magic Bag of Good Ideas" isn't stupid because she literally has what she calls her "Recording Shoes" which is basically a shoe with led lights she always wear while recording lol
Enjoyed your words but I'm sad that 'Cowboy Like Me' did not resonate for you. I think it's very tender and emotional. Her conflict between a cold life stealing love and the desire for love herself and her awareness of wanting both conflicting things was poignantly displayed. I read the line "I'm never gonna love again" in 2 ways. She realizes she can't commit to love or, that she actually found the love and doesn't need to love again (my wish maybe). My favorite on the album.
Liked this verse:
'Now you hang from my lips
Like the Gardens of Babylon
With your boots beneath my bed
Forever is the sweetest con'
It’s the most under appreciated song on the album. Two morally ambiguous people meet at some fancy party and are surprised to fall in love. Is it real? Are they conning each other or finally finding the real thing? How will they ever know? The song starts with the word “and”! It’s lyrically as good as anything on the album and basically a mini novel. And underneath all of that is the languorous, sexy pace and the slow “I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve” with Marcus Mumford. Like they’re stalking each other musically. It’s so brilliant.
Hi! I just thought I'd mention the Great Gatsby references in Happiness, since you said you like it so much. Taylor said she read a lot of classic literature in lockdown and in Happiness she alludes to the Great Gatsby twice. Once when she says she hopes her ex's new girlfriend will be a 'beautiful fool' - a quote said by Daisy about her daughter in the Great Gatsby - "I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool". The 'green light' of forgiveness she mentions is a reference to the recurring theme of the green light that Gatsby is looking for in Fiitzgerald's novel. :)
You've managed to put into words what we swifties actually feel towards Taylor!
Majorie has her late grandmother singing opera in the background! Her grandmother was an opera singer back in the day.
Not that it changes anything, but "Cowboy Like Me" has Marcus Mumford on it, not Justin Vernon.
Marcus sings the backup vocals while Justin did the drums
omg i just loooved gold rush. i do feel like it’s not that coherent with the album but i think it gives it a little bit of motion and spiciness. and I MEAN, is like entering heaven with a chorus of angels singing to you
You bring another meaning to evermore! I really appreciate this review!
I agree with most of what you said (and I am a swiftie), but I disagree with the fact that she doesn’t shine as a lyricist when she speaks about her own life. Her superpower is that she is capable of writing her life experience and still make us relate to it. She writes complicated feelings using simple words. I get you don’t relate to it bc you are in a different demographic than who it is intended to doesn’t make it any less valuable than her novel storytelling on folklore and evermore. You say her pop star life is irrelevant but understanding it is the key to see the value in her entire discography.
Lastly, a few times through the video you make her sound very shallow ( the stella coat, the champagne problems expectations) but taylor has never been one to be over materialistic or show wealth like other celebs (kardashians, cardi b etc), especially in her lyrics. She focuses on her feelings, she has never written about accomplishing tangible assets.
This is the only review I watched all the way through! I laughed way too much at times (it's 3 am). Thank you so much for this !!
Songs with acceptable and unacceptable emotions help people to see their emotions objectively. It often is the first time their emotions are front and center to deal with them. Maybe if more people could be helped with introspection to their deep or hidden feelings, there would be less abuse and more healing. Just because you may not relate to all the emotions in each song doesn’t mean someone else will not find it helpful. Music is for everyone and not just for a few.
Would love your thoughts now on SPEAK NOW album by Taylor swift..the reason is she wrote the entire album by HERSELF without any co writers(the story is some jerks after her Grammy wins for fearless started whining she can't write so she released an album she wrote by herself)..the deluxe edition too is written by her except for one song(if this was a movie)..that's almost 17 tracks written entirely by a 19-20 year old Taylor...Your thoughts now on that album like sorta revisit review would be amazing
And you've probably heard it but you should really revisit the song THE LAST TIME in RED album by Taylor feat. Gary lightbody from snow patrol...in that song too he takes the lead but my the song is BRILLIANT one of her best duets for me...
Also loved this video and also the review of folklore...the things that you said there was so so true that the people were too coward to say they liked Taylor and now with folklore they're acknowledging it...like it's the record they're comfortable to say they like but Taylor swift was always an amazing songwriter
And lastly it's the dream of every swiftie of having a rock album by Taylor after hearing the WANEGBT rock version in the 1989 tour
"Today Was A Fairytale" wasn't on the deluxe version of Speak Now, and she wrote it without co-writers. You're mixing it up with "If This Was A Movie" which she co-wrote with the guy from Boys Like Girls (she also co-wrote "Two Is Better Than One", Miley's "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home" and 1-2 unreleased songs with him).
@@Lochness19 ohk thankyou...the deluxe tracks always get jumbled up in my mind I remember if this was a movie and ours and Spiderman but I thought that was there too
@@chetanmodi4533 Glad she put Today Was A Fairytale on her version of Fearless
Thanks for the video. I had a great time listening to what you had to say about this amazing album. It's always nice to hear from people who can express their thoughts that well. You really are very articulate.
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I hope your dream come true. A lot of her fans fantasize about a rock album from her, which I am convinced it would be remarkable. She did gave us a taste of it in two wonderful tracks of her third album.
Loved your review, just to point out Justin is in the backing vocals in both Ivy and Marjorie, but in Cowboy like me is Marcus Mumford from Mumford and Sons :)
Hearing you talking about Taylor is so good😍, very great quality video
I loved this review more than the rest.👏🏾 Im in my forties and just started taking her seriously as an artist.
I like your review! Thanks for this!
love your videos so much
Whoooa, first time I’ve seen someone mention this mortal coil in relation to these albums. It came to my mind when Folklore came out and I can see it even more here. Cool to see someone else hear that.
Is it just me who wishes professor Skye is one of their professors in college? I swear I won’t fall asleep.
Very clever songwriter.. The way she intertwines stories and surreptitiously stitches her own life into the songs for us to figure out is incredible... even the music is very well done in the way it helps tell the story...
Great review!!!!!!
The best review! I totally agree.
It's funny how you interpret the lyric "life was a willow and it bent right to your wind" as talking about a man who is a brute force. I was actually thinking about the same lyric and wondering why she didn't use the expression " bent to your will", this is how I was mistakenly singing it in my mind at the beginning. Then I thought that maybe that's the whole point, that she used "wind" rather than "will" in order to suggest that he is strong, maybe charismatic but not excessively forcefull. Similarly, I noticed and appreciated her using "You belong with me" in the eponymous song instead of "You belong to me", so looking for a partnership rather than expressing possessiveness. As she is very attentive to details, most things she puts into her art are thought out carefully. But this is just my opinion so who knows. 😊
“make a parfait for my kids” you know what I need me a professor
First I thought the video was too long, but it was really interesting so I didn’t even notice I was already finishing.
Love your review
yes I’m rewatching this, yes I still stand by what I thought the first time when I thought I need someone in my life who has this man’s brain and this man’s heart for words and literary/lyrical work
Thank you for your review! I really enjoyed it. Its cool to see people differentiate her from her pop persona and see the true artistic ability in her. I believe her “signature” as an artist is that she is able to express and reflect feelings so well with her songwriting, her voice, the way she stares at you while singing and her eyes shining with the emotion of the song. I wasn’t really into her before folklore era but that album made me realise how much of an artistic ability she has unlike the other mainstream singers. She does what she does because she likes music.
"Magic bag of good/great ideas" is a great phrase.
I'm a fan of Taylor swift ! Thanks you for you reaction, it's really interesting 😊
great, great review! (third time watching it, it must be really good)
i came here for the taylor content, but you’re so insanely honest I’ll be subscribing to your channel
thanks for the video, it was super different and entertaining
People can dream, but if I was Taylor, I would not collab with Kanye even if my life depended on it. I don't think it's something people should ask from her. It's too humiliating. You can't work with someone who doesn't respect you.
You are a so good communicator I get why you are professor haha, you kept me engaged with just a speech and I have adhd
Truly some of the most interesting reviews I have come across. I enjoy the approach to albums not as just albums -- things to market and get played on radios and streaming platforms -- but as art, which takes a view that expands beyond just analyzing the music, to look at things like the cultural and emotional impact of the work. Where’s the Reputation review??? Really any reviews of older Taylor Swift albums - I would love to hear Professor Skye's take on them! Maybe Red, where she was basically experimenting with the idea of pop?
Hey professor! I love your POV on the reviews! Could you make a 1989 review? That’s like her most successful pop album and I’m really curious about what you think on it!
Why u sitting outside in the cold😭🥶🥶🥶
Anyways!
It's kinda sad people have ignored her deep cuts so much!
People just listen to popular songs!
And then they form an image about her just listening to those
Hello Professor Skye, I'm Karen from Brazil. I'm new on your channel and as a huge Taylor Swift fan I'm crying over your video. Thank you so much for your words! Subscribe is a must!!
LOVE that analogy with novels! Forgive the pun but that's a very novel idea to me that had never occurred. :) If you haven't heard her pre-pop days I think you'd really enjoy them. I like the pop but I LOOOOOOVE this type of music so much more. The Red album is a fave. I think what you're finding with Taylor is what all the fans love- she has this crazy ability to connect with people's life stories in a way that makes you feel less alone.
WHAT AN INTRODUCTION!
what a good review! Subscribed!
the cheating husband killed his wife, then he got killed too.
(as he should have) 💀😂
love your review 🤍
Your Bon Iver impression killed me 😂. Love this analysis, even if it differs from my own thoughts and feelings on the album. I think “cowboy like me” is a really fantastic track, it feels incredibly mature to me. This is a weird comparison but I do think Sting’s ability to create and write narrative (novel-esque) songs with these interesting characters is a really unique and comparable talent ,to the type of writing that Taylor displays. I think this ability really sets apart what makes someone elevate from a songwriter to an artist.
I like how you reviews this album, you give a different approach comparing to other youtubers, although I agree with your on some tracks, I also have mixed feelings on your opinion on other tracks but at the end I know people have different taste in music sonically and lyrically :)
thank you so much. as a swiftie, i loved this video!
by the way, the guy who does the background vocals on “cowboy like me” is not justin vernon, he’s marcus mumford from mumford and sons
You should do a review of her 2012 album Red! Of her previous work, is the one closest to the lyrical deepness of folklore and evermore. Specially All Too Well!
My interpretation of Coney Island is that's about a daughter after the funeral of her father. He died in an accident.
"Aggressively honky" made me belly laugh. Love your thoughts and this review. You call it like you see it. Her pop stardom does overshadow her immense talent. I doubt people like Dressner would work with her if she wasn't talented. The two of them created beautiful soundscapes. The songs are like movies, they have real narratives, something sorely missing from popular music. Thank you! Please stay safe and healthy! 😊
I look at No Body, No Crime as a script for an episode of Law and Order. A show Taylor has long been a fan of and has probably indulged in a bit of binge-watching during this period of quarantine. Not every song has to speak to every person, this one obviously didn't speak to you. It does not make it a "bad" or "unworthy" song it just makes it one you didn't personally connect with.
I enjoyed your review overall. One thing I would challenge you on and that is Taylor's back catalog. I am older and also a new fan of her music. I not only don't know whom she's dated in the past, but I also don't care. Red is an amazingly strong album lyrically. It is a young person coming of age and dealing with the intensity of their first real relationship. It's not just the heartbreak, which is beautifully expressed, but also the experience of how scary it can be to be so vulnerable and discovering how intense an emotion love is. Red isn't the only album that has some amazing lyrical content on it either. I just think you are doing her a disservice when you dismiss her past albums based solely on them being autobiographical.
wait til he finds out that Taylor wrote Tis The Damn Season while she was drunk in the middle of the night lol
Aaron said they were drinking that night and Taylor left after she was drunk enough, the next morning around 9am Aaron was in the kitchen when Taylor came to him and was like "i need you to listen to this"
“Magic bug of good ideas” sounds amusing!😂😍
So, I love the song Ivy and have listened to it multiple times, but I have to say, when you described it as "beautiful, yet invasive"... just wow. That's exactly what she was going for. I feel somewhat dense for not putting it together in those exact terms myself! Just further goes to show that this woman's lyrical brain is a thing to behold. Can't wait to see where she goes next!
I liked this review a lot and agreed with much of your track by tracks. The HAIM feature was an absolute stinker and I'm a huge fan
I mean she's got to make something to feed the masses. It wasn't meant to be lyrically profound
@@angadsingh9314 I don't think it has to be. The song is just not good to me lyrically or otherwise. I suppose you could say it's well done technically but that's expected at this point
@@mikagames5256 Interesting. Because it is the favourite of MANY Swift fans and is likely going to be a single.
@@angadsingh9314 Then I probably hold an unpopular opinion
I totally agree . No body no crime was my least favorite
She absolutely is!
all of your taylor reviews are always spot on, you should react to Red! i would be interested in hearing your opinion about it
Looking forward to your thoughts on the new Paul McCartney album. And perhaps an episode of your favorite albums of 2020?
listen, i love bon iver, but i CACKLED out loud when you did your bon iver impersonation 😂😂
From my own point of view, I think we are REdiscovering Taylor's true artistic nature. We got to know her as a country artist and I believe she's coming back to those roots. She had to go through all the albums she has yet produced to finally detach herself from the persona the music industry created for her and show lastly her true colours to the world.
Got in your channel because of the Microphones review and now can't stop looking at Taylor Swift reviews. Haha. Taylor Swift's lyrics are fucking genius. Although there is one absolutely astonishing christmas break song!! "River," by Joni Mitchell. Please dooooo listen to that, if you haven't.
Her grandmother was a opera singer and that's her singing background towards the end.Her mother found some old records of her grandmother and put her in the background.
Her creativity clearly stands out.
Criticism can be fair and constructive so I really don’t get fans who cry with what Professor Skye has to say about Taylor
19:38
That's a really good question
I think it's because she reads a lot of books and I mean a looooooootttttt
So much to unpack here… where to start 😂. First it was one of the most interesting reaction/reviews of this album. Like many comments here, (by the way I have never seen so many long thoughtful comments on a video on YT EVER so congratulations for getting viewers to do that.
Second, I am a much older Swiftie. I did not go thru the things she wrote about in her early albums at same time as many of her original Swifties did. I thought she had some good songs but I was so past teenage angst at that point in my life. I started paying attention with Red a little more and became more invested by 1989. I always knew she had a folklore/evermore in her but honestly thought we would never get it- and we got 2!!! I honestly don’t know where she goes from these two because I don’t think anything can top them. But she reinvents constantly so who know… I learned a long time ago to never underestimate her.
If you were more familiar with Taylor and her total discography you would know she has a great sense of humor and has done a lot of songs over the years that are tongue in cheek (Blank Space, Shake It Off, Look What You Made Me Do, I Forgot You Existed, etc.) She writes those songs with a wink and Swifties do appreciate them because she often takes what people say about her and then leans into it & writes a song as that character - most of Reputation is an example of that, as is No Body, No Crime. Taylor loves true crime and just wanted to have fun with that (like many of her songs- who writes about it the way she did, and with some tongue in cheek humor). I don’t think she ever saw it as a serious song.
You mentioned people don’t read novels, well, Tolerate It was completely inspired by book/movie Rebecca. She wrote the song from Rebecca’s view. Knowing her inspiration for some of these songs helps you appreciate them even more. But if there was ever a song to accompany that book/movie, Tolerate It is it.
Many people don’t know Taylor has a photographic memory. So she has so much she is retaining as she reads these books, or sees movies that she can then pull from to write these songs. But I can see where having that attribute if you are as big as Taylor can be a nightmare too.
I am off to watch your other reviews.. can’t wait to see what you say about folklore and especially 10 min version of All Too Well.
I like to think of coney Island as a play off of tolerate it in a similar way to how tis the damn season plays off Dorothia
I love cowboy like me! It's cute
She actually has a Magic bag of good words and expressions for using in her lyrics.
I want him to be my professor!!!
The disrespect on Cowboy Like Me, that's the most beautiful track on the album.
I mean she proved she can be the best pop star and that gave her the fame so i wouldnt say shes better at one or another
09:00 I 100% agree to this.
41:55 my dog when a stranger comes in the house but then realizes it's my friend
😂 The thing is swifties are very protective and proud of Tay ❤️ I don't know about other Swifties, but I felt hurt and offended when people saying something bad about her 😅
I honestly think songs like long story short actually do belong and fit right into Taylor swift’s art and the legacy she’s out to put, like we all feel that way at some point in our lives, not all is about love right? If you follow closely her progress on this matter throughout the albums this song perfectly wraps every single lyric of pain, trust issues and grief that she’s felt ever since shake it off if you must (haters coming at her). Not saying your opinion is bad, but could be rather baseless
Have you heard her older songs?
completely agree with the empathy part. there have actually been studies that prove that reading makes you more empathetic
Damn. I enjoyed Cowboy Like Me.
You would've probably been my favorite teacher in school
As a swifte I completely agree with the point you make at 9:15 ! We definitely as a community need to be more open to valid criticisms of her work as she is also just an artist who’s work can be criticized like any others work. I do think this stems from how much she has in the past been criticized for things outside her work that are uncalled for. because of this I think her fans now want to defend her from anything assuming this is where it stems from.
Also thank you for saying “no body, no crime” does not go in this album. I completely agree and find it interesting most swifties love it so much.
28:59 that's such a teacher thing to say hahaha
ngl I'm a huge swiftie but I also agree, that the cover of folklore messages much better than the cover of evermore - it looks great on a shirt, it looks great on a CD, it really conveys the mood of the whole album and ties it together thematically
on the other hand I kind of wish there was an alternate cover for evermore
the photo is nice and all but I don't really know what it's trying to say to me
Daddy you are so fucking articulate. You are a teacher you said but ghaddamn...
Great review as always and I agree
The way pop was slowly disappearing in 2014 then she released 1989. Not only she single handedly revieved pop music, she also brought back the 80's synth sound.
She does not chase after a trend, she makes the trend. 💗💗💗
I think no body, no crime was put in that album and is in that certain placing because evermore is an emotional album in a more upbeat tune than folklore.. track #5 in every taylor album is the most hurtful.. no body, no crime is a fun mystery crime song that disconnects you for a moment from heavy emotions and encourages you to focus more on the lyrics and the story because if you think it's the typical crime scene, then think again.. This is Taylor Swift we're talking about.. there's always a twist.. in my opinion as well as everyone else's, it's a "double" murder but since there's no body, there is no crime.. In the 1st verse, Este suspected her husband is cheating; in the 2nd verse, Taylor suspected the husband killed Este because she was missing; in the last verse, Taylor described how she (may or may have not) killed Este's husband with Este's sister as her alibi. But in all of these, there's no proof because there is no body found.. 😏