Taylor Swift - folklore - Album Review
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2020
- For this new album review, Taylor Swift goes indie pop and folk and wins critical adoration on her most well-written album to date, although not without lingering hangups and question of identity.
Best: ‘the last great american dynasty’, ‘exile’ ft Bon Iver, ‘august’, ‘this is me trying’, ‘illicit affairs’, ‘mad woman’
Worst: 'invisible string'
7/10
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Taylor Swift - folklore - Spectrum Pulse Album Review (indie folk / indie pop / singer-songwriter)
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CRUEL SUMMER COULD HAVE BEEN A PERFECT LEAD SINGLE
The fact that it was never a major hit proves we are living in the worst timeline
@@UnorthodoxIndividual Especially in 2020, no less. Could have been the soundtrack hit we all needed.
My radio station actually put it in their rotation anyways during May and June. Without any promotion. I’m so upset that it wasn’t a single. $20 says that if it was the lead single instead of Me, Lover would’ve had much more longevity
Mike Rivera apparently it was supposed to be a single. But after the protests and such, she decided to cancel it. I don’t know if that’s true or not though.
@@justezek8596 "Why won't Taylor Swift speak on this important political topics?"
[If she released Cruel Summer right now]
"Yet another white woman taking attention away from black voices."
I love when see other people appreciate how brilliant Speak Now is ❤️ however I just say, I am absolutely obsessed with Folklore
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasic
I don’t think there was a single album of Taylor’s that I didn’t like but Folklore is on another level. The complexity and subtlety of it is quite something.
I loveeeeeee speak now sparks fly mean story of us enchanted dear john haunted last kiss long live
In my opinion, this is Taylor Swift's best record-blew me away. I love it.
Cardigan is her best lead single in years, if ever. It’s so damn great
yeah i honestly did not expect it will be that good lol. first taylor swift album that i enjoyed from beginning to the end
@@erikdaniels0n Betty would have been much better
Listened to Exile today and I agree this song is fantastic.
One of her best albums for sure, what a big surprise for 2020.
As a Taylor fan for over 11 years, I never thought she’d be able to top Speak Now, and yet, she actually did it. folklore is an absolute masterpiece, imo. I’d give it a 10/10, and that’s not just because I’m a fan of her. It’s just a really special album, and the fact that it’s likely going to get an album bomb in a few weeks makes me beyond happy
I can’t really say I’ve been a fan of Taylor Swift’s music, but I am more than happy to say its a 10/10 for me too. It’s just that good.
funny how you said it's a tough sell for streams ... and i'm looking at the stream numbers and while you make sense... numbers don't lie.. maybe TS knows her audience better.. just like the rep tour was gonna be a flop.. 7/10 is slighly lower than i would give.. I'd give it a solid 8/10
Yup , she has the deepest and the most genuine connection with her fans compared to any other popstar as massive as her .
For me, Taylor Swift has long been that artist who I knew had potential, had shown on occasion that she could get there, but had multiple records in a row of her squandering it. Red, 1989, and Reputation, to me, were a downhill slide in quality that bother me a great deal. I didn’t hate any of those albums, and there are quite a few good songs to be found on them, but it was hard to enjoy them when the thought was in my head of “aren’t you going to do more than this?”
Lover gave me some hope, as the songs past those first couple of singles (which I found awful), seemed like a return to form. So my hopes returned, though with only cautious optimism.
But Folklore delivered on everything I ever hoped and had started to think would never happen, is better than I ever expected even at my most hopeful, and I think is one of the best albums released this year, in a year packed with great music. If Fiona Apple hadn’t dropped a future classic, I’m not sure how anyone would have released a better album this year. I just hoped Taylor Swift would release something I could comfortably give an 8, or maybe even a 9. But this is a 10/10 in my book, and a strong one at that.
By the way: Invisible String is either being misunderstood or slept on, because that song is actually brilliant when you consider what she’s saying in the context of her own past and that she is embodying characters on this album that may or may not be connected to her own viewpoints. Not to mention that soaring melody with a beautifully dramatic key change at the end.
rep, red and folklore are my fave albums of her. everybody hates rep due to misrepresentation of its single choices but swear there were more than just the singles. The reason you hate those albums aka red, 1989 and rep are due to high production or maybe Shellback and Max Martin diesn't appeal to your taste🥲
I binged her discography!
It's good!
I personally love this album. The album showcases her songwriting in the best way possible with her storytelling about fictional love and sadness in a elevated and mature way which I love since it shows her deep skill and depth as a songwriter. I also love the composition of the album since it carries a minimal and dark atmosphere with the spare percussions, guitar, strings, and piano and it truly speaks for itself, it goes with the overall lyrical meaning of the album and it represents indie and folk ballads very well. In my opinion, I also think that this album is at her best vocally since it conveys a lot of emotion and I feel like the vocals are just as good as how it is lyrically and by it’s composition and production. As for this review, I really like it because instead of being straight up generous or straight up critical of the album, you were trying to nitpick and balance out both the negatives and positives of the album. However, I felt like it was a little too all over the place and too detailed so I barely was able to understand what you were trying to say and come across, but that is just me.
I'm surprised you didn't mention "Cardigan". IMO it's the best song on the album.
Also, apparently this album is breaking all sorts of records on streaming platforms, so hopefully we see that opening for more great music to get more attention that you mentioned.
I'm pretty sure he will discuss that on Billboard breakdown.
The Swifties might cancel you for giving this any less than a strong 8/10 (full disclosure, it's my favorite album so far this year), but I really enjoyed this review, Mark, and you make a lot of great points. I fully agree that Hoax, even if I think it's a great song on its own, is a truly bizarre closer, especially when Peace would've been such a great way to cap off the album. Loved the connection you made between "Last Great American Dynasty" and the arc of reputation, as well. What I think is so captivating about this album is how it sees Taylor making more of an active statement on how we mythologize through art, especially since she's built her entire career on self-mythologizing through her music. Anyway, tangent over, great stuff!
It broke streaming records I think.
Yes, but no. It broke the female streaming record. Came nowhere close to Scorpion.
mariokarter13 scorpion had 24 songs pls the average track streams are way lower than Taylor’s
@@mariokarter13 Scorpion had a playlist exposure of 250M on Spotify. Folklore had less than half of that (117M). She also sold 400K in pure sales in the US alone in 3 days, something Scorpion hasn't done in its entire run. With Scorpion's playlist exposure she could've done as many as 200M first day streams. Let's also not forget that this is an indie folk album while Scorpion was a trap/r&b/pop album, the most commercial you can get nowadays, and that Scorpion was announced 6 months before release and Folklore was announced 16 hours before release. Have a nice day.
@@someoneelse4579 Wow... That's pretty underwhelming for Taylor Swift. Streams are unusually high because surprise albums aren't typically in stores on day one, but 400K sales is an embarrassment when you've already sold a million albums. First week. Four fucking times.
@@mariokarter13 Did you forget that we are in a pandemic right now?
I did enjoy this short lived pivet tbh. Although the album is still too long and a bit samey, it still has the amazing song writing, great vocals, and soothing production that is indicitive in a time that seems so dire and high-stakes. It's a break into no man's land that a lot of people can appreciate.
Which means its a cohesive body of work that people always wanted. But you know its a different opinion for everyone..if she had a pop kinda song in the album it would feel a bit....off..so it wont be cohesive
I really liked this album. It's a bit bloated and can fall on a background, but I generally liked its sound and Taylor's vocals and writing are pretty great (at some points- absolutely amazing). That's only 2nd Taylor album I heard (first for me was Lover, which I thought was pretty good overall with some big dips in quality) but I definitely want to check some of her other stuff (maybe Speak Now, a lot of people seem to say it's amazing). I give this one an 8/10
Speak Now is such an iconic, underrated album, not to mention she wrote the entire thing by herself with no co-writers.
I think this is her best album to date, if only because this type of songwriting is something mainstream artists are usually incapable of doing!
7 weeks at no. 1. That's more than Lover and Reputation combined. Some hard sell it was.
doesn't have the highs of the best tracks of speak now or lover imo, but EASILY her most consistent work to date, especially when you consider how long an album it is
If there is one thing I have seen that I want to highlight about "Speak Now" (not "Lover") is that its length was at least praised with the feeling that Taylor Swift knew when to use that time to tell a story or ring out emotion especially on cuts like "Dear John". All that being said, I tend to go back to "Fearless" on pop crossover hits with at least stronger hooks intertwined with average songwriting. It's a little ironic the length is getting criticized with almost all of her albums when "Speak Now" is, iirc, still is her longest album to date.
@Ryan Schilling I somewhat disagree, yeah, the majority of the songs on Folklore are placed among her best, but she has really great songs on her back catalogue.
thank you for this review! you brought up really great critiques here and you have great understanding of her mythos and the history of her artistry which is very cool to see.
i actually like that fiction and reality is blurred in this album. even in her trilogy of teenage love triangle the songs still echo her own life referenced in other songs/past albums. personally i don't think it lessens the impact of the themes at all, in fact i think it strengthens the themes. it's exactly like what she touched upon in the liner notes about the title "folklore" itself referencing stories that have unclear origins that combine fiction and reality.
i personally also liked that the album ended on a sad note with "hoax". it's possible that "peace" and "hoax" are about different relationships, but putting that aside, her albums have always ended on a hopeful if not happy note so i find this is a refreshing (even though a little depressing) change. it felt real to me.
i have to agree with you that this may be just a detour and she'll go back to pop in the next projects but honestly? i'd be fine if lover was her last pop album. i mean, folklore is already doing really well commercially and breaking records. she was doing well commercially as well when she did country. i just hope this encourages her to keep experimenting.
Didn’t expect Mark to give Burzum a solo review.
This is exciting stuff
Hi! great review! very interesting takes on the album. I would love to get some recommendations on other pieces that have that dreamy/indie-rock vibe. I'm a huge fan of dreampop (cocteau twins, beach house etc) so that aspect of folklore appealed to me a lot, however, you metioned that the album doesn't go as deep into the folk/electronic/dreamy genre as it could. I'm not really familiarized with that, but taylor's album actually opened my eyes to this amazing branch of music, and I am very curious to dive into and discover how rich it can be :)
So i mostly agree with you, but I think the entire album lives up to tracks you called out. There isnt a song less then great on the project imo.
Cruel Summer! Yes!!
Taylor is so smart at marketing herself and she knows what she wants out of a career arc. She really embraces what she needs to do to be a capital letter Pop Star.
Voltorb has been missed.
(hmm..."Taylor Swift - voltorb - Album Review" is an alternate universe I'd like to peek into.)
Hit the nail on the head and you articulated opinions about this album that I shared but couldn't quite peg. Well stated review.
I'm not a big Taylor Swift fan, but I love this album. To me it feels like a fall album. I can see myself listening to this while sipping on cider.
As a swiftie, I’m glad you enjoyed the album! It is one of her best lyrically! I hope she continues the sound.
I've heard a couple of people talk about the production. Some absolutely love it; others feel the way you do. I wonder if some of your production concerns would have been solved if she had chosen to have only one of two (Antanoff or Dessner) produce with her. Personally, I like the production because it does bring me back to her Speak Now or even Fearless days.
I do, however, agree, with you on the order of the tracks. I think she gets too caught up in how much her easter eggs flow and loses sight of the flow of the tracks. On the other hand, I don't agree that the teenage love triangle is the best example of tracks that need to be grouped together. Those three songs were from three different people's perspectives at different times. I don't think those are the only three songs narrated by those characters though. In conclusion, by grouping cardigan, august, and betty you may be telling one story, but losing out or at least breaking up a larger one.
Don't worry Mark people have streamed this album and I think the exile is actually one of the songs that might be popular
Exile being one of the likeliest hits is really surprising given its lowkey and somber nature, but I’m so glad because it’s one of the best off the album
@Ryan Schilling At the same time, I would be shocked this gets an album bomb next week on Billboard Breakdown. Even with that huge following, Taylor Swift albums are not the type of work to gravitate to on major streaming platform and I don't see it happening with this, especially how her latest label "republic" does not know how to manage an indie project from a bankable and huge star, we seen it with "Lover"
It just got announced as a second single, It's going to triple A radio in August
@@deontekelly5714 Source?
Shouldn't her team try for pop radio? Seem like the easy sell. Not crowd her in a indie set that will probably not accept her anyways given that "reputation"
@@justezek8596 Chartdata and it's on the Triple A radio formats future releases website, Cardigan is playing on Pop radio immediately since the album dropped. Republic is pulling a messy "I AM..Sasha Fierce" rn
For me, this is the best Taylor Swift album by a significant margin, and I say this as a long-time fan. Mark's absolutely right that it runs a little long, but the details are so precise and vivid. I've always loved The National's elegant production and Swift's clever writing, and this is the best of both worlds. But anyway, I've always loved how Mark digs deeper than so many other critics, and it's great to hear him explain his thoughts so eloquently.
I'm surprised you gave this the same score as Lover, because I think this was far more consistent. In fact I think this by far her most consistent and tight album so I'm surprised you criticised that more than anything else.
Especially considering I don't really agree with which songs you picked out, I mean you put Illicit Affairs in favourite tracks but if I absolutely had to choose a least favourite it would probably be that. And on the contrary, your least favourite was Invisible String which I (and most others seemingly) thought was gorgeous. It may have been dresses up as critic bait, but as a fan I genuinely believe that it deserves the recognition that it's getting because it genuinely is her best. At least a 9/10 in my book.
I loved this album (as a swiftie for 10+ years it's my favourite from her) and I love you enjoyed it too. ♡
Cant wait for the Dua Lipa-Mitski collab album.
But in all seriousness, great review as always. I honestly do think folklore can go toe-to-toe with Fiona Apple, Phoebe Bridgers, and other great singer-songwriter albums that came out this year.
Why Dua Lipa-Mitski??
And yes, this is one of the best female albums of the year ✊
@@elyy0345 Dua was the first white pop star that came to mind while Mitski was the first singer songwriter that I thought of that's also critical darling
Speak Now is still my favorite Taylor Swift album but Folklore is brilliant from start to finish for me. Amazing album for sure.
Thanks Mark!! Xx
Curious what you'll think of evermore since it's coming out tomorrow.
I wonder if Taylor is going to go either country or folk on her next album
We might see Taylor on a rock airplay chart in 2020.
Because rock radio plays alternative as well
@Ryan Schilling There is also some folk-rock influences on this project too.
Firstlore
having speak now as my favorite album of her, i wholeheartedly agree
Nice review as always Mark! :)
Here are my ratings of each track...
#1: The 1 (7/10)
#2: Cardigan (8/10)
#3: The Last Great American Dynasty (9/10)
#4: Exile [ft Bon Iver] (10/10)
#5: My Tears Ricochet (8/10)
#6: Mirrorball (9/10)
#7: Seven (9/10)
#8: August (8/10)
#9: This Is Me Trying (6/10)
#10: Illicit Affairs (8/10)
#11: Invisible String (9/10)
#12: Mad Woman (7/10)
#13: Epiphany (7/10)
#14: Betty (7/10)
#15: Peace (5/10)
#16: Hoax (6/10)
TOTAL: 125/160 (78.1%)
Sure, I like how she finally made a full indie-folk album, but this is the most impressive song-writing I've heard from her to date, and that's what's winning so many critics over on this!
Like you said, 'Exile' & 'The Last Great American Dynasty' are among some of the year's best songs so far, and while 'Folklore' as a whole isn't "amazing" due to it losing a bit of steam in the second half, but it's still really good and the potential for Taylor Swift now more than ever is astounding.
A part of me still wishes that 'Cruel Summer' was released as a single (absolutely baffled it wasn't pushed to pop radio, would've been huge there!), but hey, it's worth it if we've got a surprise LP from her less than 12 months later!
Yeah, for me, Taylor saved 2020. ❤️
Oh, betty deserved bettar🤭
@@lover5019 It's growing on me though! :)
This album is incredible glad you liked it
Republic: cruel summer isn’t the lead single
Public 4 years later: how ‘bout i do anyway
Great review.
I love this album. Mature and deep. Keep up the good work, Taylor 😘
I think this album was ordered weirdly so that it wasn’t so obvious as to how many song connections there are. It’s kind of like an exciting puzzle to figure out. As for the closing track, it also felt weird to me, but there’s a bonus track called “the lakes” that you have to get on a cd or vinyl, and I think that will be the true conclusion to the album. I agree that this is not her best album, probably still Red and Speak Now for me. But this project is great in its own right and I think there’s still plenty of connections and stories to figure out in the album.
Exactly. Aaron Dessner confirmed that The Lakes is meant to be the true ending for the album, but Taylor didn't want to feature it here to avoid her trope of closing the album with an uplifting ballad like she's done since Red.
Someone Else exactly plus I think she wants more album sales lmao
@@peterfabietti2803 what's wrong with that. She's a marketing genius for doing that.
Tay Swift oh yeah I never said there was anything wrong with it. It caused her sales to remain stable by releasing the song late, so it was a great move
Yep
OH SHIT HE'S GOT THE SUIT ON AND A SMILE IN THE THUMBNAIL GOOD REVIEW INCOMING
Prediction, the next album will be more like this one except more refined and more of almost a mixture of this and lover.album 10 will start to have some country elements returning to the fold album 11 will be what I'm calling a return to form album
And your prediction was right
While nothing here quite reaches the absolute best of Lover, it's definitely more consistent and solid across the board. Glad to see pretty much everyone at least sort of likes this one.
I was so excited for Old Flowers and even The Balladeer but than folklore dropped and it stole all my attention, but I enjoyed all 3 albums. I can’t wait for On the Pulse!
Also the way Taylor prepared to release this album was by...not telling her record label that it was ready to go or indeed that it even existed until shortly before she made the announcement, according to Aaron Dessner. Idk what kind of contract she is on or of he was being serious (I assume he was) but looool. Dessner was getting other musicians to help with aspects of the production and he could not tell them what project it was for. She has a whole raft of employees who work just for her so I believe she could this off. The fact there is no real obvious radio single and that she ditched her trademark extended album roll-out is very interesting to me.
Taylors actually pretty independent from her label. Her label didn't even know folklore existed until the day she dropped it. I think she runs her own show much more than you think.
Clicked as soon as I saw the notification holy shit.
I feel like Folklore is her best album to date even can go toe to toe with Speak Now & Lover I enjoy Taylor’s indie pivot 😊😊
I’m still shocked that this album only won ONE Grammy....
Which I feel like Evermore is going win to make up for??
@@exquisitewilliams9912 not sure but wish one or two.
For me this is a light 7. The stretch from cardigan to august was incredible, but every thing else was just decent.
Those tracks definitely stand out, outside of that Betty stands out
This album is at least an 8. Because that's how many times Taylor Swift expects her fans to buy it for all of the alternate covers.
As a swiftie this is easily her best lyrically done album an easy 8/10 for me. But 1989 is still my favourite with a 9/10 and Lover is 2nd with the same score with 8/10. But Lover does better more times than Folklore with a few duds in Lover.
I really love this album. I do agree it's long, but in a "too much of a good thing" type of way. It hurts the album as whole even if I love every song individually. I would have bumped two songs to the deluxe version to keep it tighter and stronger.
omg i did not expect the trad wife joke lmaoo
no Chromatica review?
(edit: i haven’t really vibed with folklore but i’m not really a taylor stan but i thought Lover went hard)
He covered Chromatica on his series On The Pulse
I kind of think this whole album is about that teenage love triangle with Taylor Swift adding a little bit of her own life to the story in each of the songs. I think Betty is Rebekah Harkness. Rebekah Harkness went by Betty.
7:40 what is he talking about
Listen to his Nostradamus ass talking about the Cruel Summer alternate timeline at 1:28! Wild, as it’s just hitting 2 Billion Spotify streams
Here before the flood of controversy that will inevitably follow:
In my opinion, this is the best review for Taylor Swift's "folklore" I've seen so far tied to my consistent fear of Taylor Swift's appropriate aesthetics and sounds but don't know how they properly work or even try to create a unique sound for herself in order to create great music. It's the easy critic-bait after a really messy era and it will allow her to win those Grammys she hardly deserves (which is strange cause didn't Bon Iver won a Grammy recently, not gonna Google for this, hell she may end up working with Billie Eilish or her brother Finneas for the yas bitch tea spilling bop, that wins all the Grammys and goes to #1 for weeks at a time)
It's a consistent issue going back to "Red" (unfortunately tainted by your review of "1989" to truly understand) in that her mainstream pivot is trying to ensure that she's an above-average writer trying to fit in the modern paradigm with pop songs that fit her personality copied wholesale by other better acts. When, if I'm being honest, she had a unique personality in the pop sphere during her early work slowly morphed into this "pop icon" status that doesn't seem to go far with her natural skillset. If anything, this project is the same underlying issue with "1989" in that, despite being a personal change for the artist, only seems like a cash grab to find sounds not "popular by the mainstream" to give them pop airplay. Really, I'm left thinking why Taylor Swift doesn't comment on her position of pop music in this vein in any of her songs outside of fragments, cause a song like this on any of her albums would be appreciated. Or not, Taylor Swift going back to the country wouldn't be bad and she's got the real charisma and fandom that will gay faint all over it, as long as there is an individual sound or quality.
Hell the obvious influences on many of her indie pivots, I'm inclined to call Taylor Swift a Lady Gaga clone, cause it's the same problems Lady Gaga has in her career. long with inviting the engineer and main producer of NFR, she isn't helping matters inviting those comparisons/criticisms either. I bet the second I listen to any of these albums/discographies of these comparisons, the album truly will suffer (Not like this album will start a resurgence of indie acts for crossover potential or a new trend of indie-folk star crossover)
Still, 'm actually excited for listening to this new Taylor album with fresh ears and see if all my worries are just "silly thoughts". After all the hype around this album cannot be ignored. Sure hope Taylor moves in this singer-songwriter direction, she might make an album I genuinely love.
Quick Question: @Spectrum Pulse, seeing your positive reception towards "Speak Now" what's the rating for this album in retrospect (light 8, solid 8?) Also why are you on Tumblr?
But did you like it?
She was so ahead of the curve it was a sphere....(duh)
Taylor Swift fight for release of folklore: Hey Republic Records, I have an album, and we're releasing it next week, good?
Republic Records: Ok
I'm still not over the fact the Cruel Summer wasn't a hit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not my favorite but it's high on my ranking of her albums
Taylor can release whatever she wants and would sell
This album is going to massacre the Hot 100
He gave this more than NFR. Just let that sink in guys.
The funny thing is that this album is already significantly outperforming Lover and is much more stable. Plus, Cardigan (which you didn't even mention once) is already looking like it'll be a smash hit on adult contemporary radio and she has Exile planned to be released as a single on 3 August, and it's already pulling huge numbers on streaming. You'll realise how well it is doing on Billboard Breakdown next week, where it is expected to land as many as 12 songs in the top 40, and 3 in the top ten alone.
Update: Betty will be sent as a single to country radio on 17 August. The contenders for the fourth single are The 1, Invisible String and August. Seems like she wants to get full mileage out of this one.
Well numbers don't lie 🤷 as always Taylor knows better
I like this album.
I like this.
It’s unbelievable. I hated Taylor Swift for years and I like this!
What I don’t like is the monopoly it’s creating in the pop industry, overshadowing much more promising figures like Ava Max, Rina Sawayama and Dua Lipa. And the fans always bragging about how she’s The Best Queen Ever No Room For Others.
I'm gonna call the salon... 😋😋😋
No joke I had a dream you gave this album a 4/10.
So Logic also dropped an album, yeah that's gonna be On The Pulse I can tell.
Surprised that one is not a solo review. I predicted "folklore" given the points on Mark's Twitter, but what about Logic? Well, part of the reason is pretentious and nothing at all to say. Logic "retiring" from rap seems nonsense, especially in comparison to Nicki's Retirement plans as well, you do know it's called indefinite hiatus, right.
@@justezek8596 the Logic album is good
@@usernameof5 Okay? I didn't say if the album is good or not
Oh god... not the Trad Wife tumblr discord...
The internet is weird bro.
Ezekwesili Okonkwo very
Folklore's more cohesive than speak now.
Literally the most cohesive AOTY winner since.... I can't remember the last one.
You couldn't even get the names of all of her songs right. You mention her great moments fleetingly like they were a given and spend the rest of the time ripping it apart which seems disproportionate, while at the same time low key bragging you knew this would happen like you deserve credit? So odd.
twitch stream rare replay
We're living in a world where Taylor Swift put out a better album than Kanye West.
I can make a controversial statement that she always did.
@Ezekwesili Okonkwo Eh, she’ll never make an album as good as College Dropout, MBDTF, or Graduation, But I will say that I like Speak Now and 1989 more than any of his post-MBDTF albums
we’ve always been in that world
We've been living in that world for over a decade now
@Lauren Well that’s factually wrong since MBDTF came out a decade ago
FIRSTTTTTTT
Am I the only one who thinks he looks like Christopher Nolan 😂
omg
Cardigan is a great track but honestly I feel like most of the tracks on the album are too samey-samey in their tempos and production choices. I feel it lacks variety 🤷
No, Taylor Swift didn't intentionally drop Reputation on the anniversary of Kanye's Mom's death, why would you even think that? So anyway, here's this surprise Taylor Swift album that dropped the same day Kanye was supposed to drop an album named after his mother.
Are we talking about the same man who manipulated a situation and was in on leaking a partially recorded conversation that misled the public to turning on and bullying Taylor excessively online after he humiliated her on an award show, after he lied and created a nude sculpture of her in a video to humiliate her, after he had his fans chanting "f**k Taylor Swift", after he called her out of her name, took credit for her fame, and said she owed him sex? Maybe that is a low move, but Kanye gets no sympathy from me. He did her dirty a million times over. She owes him nothing. Period.
this man has a lot of complaints to every songs. i understand that's ur opinion, but c'mon, ur opinion to something is not their flaws. just say u don't like it, period.
why u always gotta hate on lana? haha
Spectrum fart haha
Low 4/10 not as good as Haken - Virus just my opinion her slowness and lyrical work is poor.
Cringe
This guy really likes to listen to his own thoughts and views, now doesn't he? Music is all about taste and everybody has a different one. It's very funny when a supposedly serious music critics spend so much time reviewing pop fluff like this.
Personally, I can't relate to Swift, I'm not a young girl, so...
But she is one of the best music androids on the planet!