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PolarBlare liked cryates's post in the thread Company Apple.

Tetris DX using Delta on a road trip. Someone pinch me.

PolarBlare liked Craig Manning's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

I love hearing where artists pulled their inspiration from. It sucks so hard that we're creating an ecosystem that says "Don't share any of that stuff, you might get sued!"

PolarBlare liked Craig Manning's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

Oh yeah, I can't gripe with the "1 Step Forward..." credit. It directly lifts the piano line from "New Year's Day." Well-deserved songwriting credit for Taylor there. "Deja Vu" got added later, because the bridge sounds...maybe a little like the bridge of "Cruel Summer"? I've heard both songs dozens of times and I my bullshit detector still rings out on that one. I just don't hear enough similarity to justify anything resembling a songwriting credit.

PolarBlare liked Craig Manning's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

The interesting thing about her meteoric rise over the pandemic is that a lot of artists during that time were delaying albums and tentative about how to approach it. I remember thinking that was a wild choice, because it seemed so obvious that people needed things to comfort them and that the music released during 2020, especially, was going to be something a lot of people bonded with in a really unique way. Taylor read the moment and delivered not one but two albums that people tag with the “got me through COVID” thing, and it earned her so, so much good will. It really wasn’t just those two albums, though. It was also going into battle against Scooter Braun and her old label. The TV albums have maybe gotten a little annoying as more of them have come out, but the first two were really novel and smart narrative work, and positioned her (somehow) as an underdog again. The Red re-release is actually probably the moment that she re-claimed the crown — in part because Red just has a special place in her catalog, in part because the vault ruled, and in part because it was fun to just make memes of the Jake Gyllenhaal drama for a few days and pretend like it was 2012 again. “All Too Well 10,” despite my distaste for it, didn’t hurt. (It also probably didn’t hurt that the artist who had always outsold Taylor, Adele, dropped an album around the same time that mostly whiffed.) All of that primed the engine for the Eras Tour, which is obviously when the “Is this the biggest any artist has ever been?” conversation starts. All to say, a lot of artists did not navigate the pandemic years well, but Taylor used them to reclaim all the ground she’d lost and then some. You can say that she wouldn’t be as big if she’d gone Lover-Midnights-this, but I don’t think she’d be as big had it not been for COVID, regardless of what order the albums had gone in.

PolarBlare liked Halitosis Jones's post in the thread TV Show Star Trek.

I am on Discovery 2x10 and here lays the problem with DIS in a nutshell. They have this interesting looking background character for a season and a half that gets almost no lines and they give no backstory to, the one episode where they get maybe 60 seconds of backstory is the same episode they die in the end, and then the next episode the characters spend more time eulogizing that character than the series spent telling who the hell they even were or what their deal was.

PolarBlare liked Craig Manning's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

If Taylor got a songwriting credit on "Deja Vu," Olivia should absolutely be getting royalties on "imgonnagetyouback."

PolarBlare liked Craig Manning's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

Have I not brought this up before?! Haha, yeah, Billy Walsh is my cousin on my mom’s side. His dad, also Billy Walsh, is a folk-rock singer/songwriter who had a decent regional following in Boston back in the 1990s/2000s, and used to bring his guitar to family reunions and lead these big family singalongs. Their family is definitely a big part of the reason I fell in love with music in the first place. Anyway, this is him: https://www.umusicpub.com/us/Artists/B/Billy-Walsh.aspx https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/style/billy-walsh-sneakers-songwriting-rihanna-post-malone.html

PolarBlare liked Garrett's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

This is an absurd factoid considering how massive those three hits are.

PolarBlare liked Craig Manning's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

My cousin is tight with him and co-wrote a bunch of the big hits (“Better Now,” “Sunflower,” “Circles”) so I’ve always been interested in him and respected the craft of his songs for that reason. But beyond the family connection, he’s typically filed under “good at what he does, but not really for me.” Maybe it’s time to check back in.

PolarBlare liked the rural juror's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

He’s more of a singles guy than a full album guy but there’s a lot of raw talent there

PolarBlare liked irthesteve's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

I feel the same way, not especially after his feature with Noah Kahn, I heard this and was like.... Whoa is he always this good??? [MEDIA]

PolarBlare liked Craig Manning's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

This album should be called I Just Wanted to Fuck Matty Healy In Peace.

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PolarBlare liked Aaron Mook's post in the thread Movie Trap (M. Night Shyamalan, August 9, 2024).

Planning on rewatching The Village tonight

PolarBlare liked Garrett's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

I think when all the dust settles and the discourse and initial reactions have run its course, this will settle into the lower third of her discography. However, this may be the most personal record she’s ever written (with the exception of Red), and on that front, I find it pretty fascinating. I think any creator of art, any medium, understands that moment where the only way to process everything going on is to craft through it. I wrote an entire poetry collection trying to just process 2020/2021 in a way that let my brain expel feelings. This activity is on full display here with Taylor and some distance will allow us to actually see Taylor the person. We joke about “capitalist queen” and “billionaire” because she is those things, but at the end of the day, neither of those things made her happy. Her songs say it blatantly, but do we know if she’s learned it yet? The songs about Travis (The Alchemy, So High School) feel like an entirely different person than the other 29 songs at times. Those two and Clara Bow really do seem like the Taylor the lyricist we may see going forward. But Daddy, I Love Him is probably going to be the main one from this album that sticks in the fandom at large. The chorus has been stuck in my head for days. It’s got the grandiosity of Getaway Car with a smidge more personality. Personality is a big factor with the songs I’ve started to latch onto with this project. The ones that have little flares over calculated presentations really do stand out to me. (Including ICDIWABH and WAOLOM? as personality choices.) Just some rambling thoughts I’ve had thinking about the album this morning over coffee.

PolarBlare liked sophos34's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

I quite frankly can’t stand the ten minute all too well and think the original is her best song and everyone gassing up a far inferior version has done horrible things to her as a writer

PolarBlare liked Halitosis Jones's post in the thread TV Show Star Trek.

And when DS9 did do filler episodes they were some of the best episodes in star trek history. Far Beyond The Stars, Past Tense, Trials and Tribble-ations

PolarBlare liked cricketandclover's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

Again, I don’t care about the lyrics but this made me laugh [MEDIA]

PolarBlare liked Garrett's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

Theory: with 31 songs + normal chart boosts of past releases/already charting songs, this will obliterate any of those monster Morgan Wallen initial streaming weeks/records from his last two albums with 30 and 36 songs respectively.

PolarBlare liked earthlight's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

More “So High School” vibes please

PolarBlare liked Craig Manning's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

I think folklore is the gold standard in her catalog for that. Everything in its right place, IMO.