Ok I can't resist rankings. Closers: Clean Long Live Evermore New Years Day Begin Again Daylight Our Song Hoax Change Openers: State of Grace Fearless The 1 Mine Ready for It Willow Welcome to New York Tim McGraw I Forgot That You Existed (Guess I like Ready for It ALOT more than more people on here)
openers: State of Grace The 1 Fearless Tim McGraw Mine Willow Ready For It I Forgot That You Existed Welcome to New York closers: Clean Our Song New Years Day Evermore Long Live Begin Again Hoax Daylight Change
Fine, I’ll bite, but just a top 3 of each... Openers: “State of Grace” “Fearless” “the 1” Closers: “Begin Again” “Clean” “New Year’s Day” 5th Tracks (since that’s apparently A Thing™): “All Too Well” “The Archer” “Delicate” Bonus Tracks: “You are in Love” “New Romantics” “I’m Only Me When I’m With You”
Closers Long Live New Years Day Daylight Clean Evermore Begin Again Our Song Change Hoax Openers State of Grace Welcome to New York Mine Willow The 1 Ready For It Tim McGraw Fearless I Forgot That You Existed
It’s weird because I don’t like Welcome to NY at all but as an opener it’s great especially for that album.
yeah you can put WTNY at the bottom of 1000 lists but it's still one of the best opening tracks literally ever
I felt a little disappointed with this album on first listen but it has gotten better all weekend. Song writing on this thing is incredible
The rate at which this thing has already grown on me is immense, haha. I was never disappointed but my first thought was, “nowhere near as good as folklore.” But...it’s closer than I first thought! The awesome bridges and “special moments” are a little less flashy but it’s becoming more and more obvious that they’re certainly there.
I do think the second half of folklore is inferior to the first, but I do really love two of the last three tracks.
TOLERATE IT is incredible! First of all, it has a 5/4 time signature, which i find super interesting (specially for a pop star), second is super emotional, the lyrics are top notch, and the "A doll's house" by Ibsen trope has never been used better. This is currently my favourite i think (followed by marjorie and evermore)
After listening to this album a ton this weekend, and writing about it, I’m pretty confident it’s my favorite Taylor Swift record since Red.
Okay so I’ve been thinking some scattered thoughts abt these two albums as companion pieces, and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to say which I like “better.” Folklore was what I needed a few months into quarantine- a fun, shiny, new distraction. The songs hit hard and fast and it was so exciting to have something to puzzle over and be enamored with. Evermore feels much more like the album I need almost a year into this bullshit; settled and sad in a way, but comforting. Overall, I think that her lyrical and experimental swings are heavier on Evermore, and I love to see that. I hope that this period of artistic expansion and reflection has made her realize she really and truly can do WHATEVER she wants and that she continues to capitalize on it with a myriad of collaborators. She’s still my favorite heroine though, so I do hope she continues to have personal songs alongside the storytelling songs.