Taylor Swift - folklore (July 24, 2020) Album • Page 19

For Lover I went to bed around 9 and set my alarm for midnight, listened to the album once and went back to sleep lol

 

Lover very politely leaked at like 8am on a day I was off work so it fit my routine nicely haha

 

Wow, I can't believe I spent three years with the ability to hear "Dancing With Our Hands Tied," but just decided not to.

 

That song is so damn good.

 

If you try to cut “Red” you’re going to lose a hand my friend!

 

Like “Red” isn’t a top ten Taylor song smdh

 

We're either going to drink wine in the living room when it's out or drive around town

 

you can’t drive around LA and listen to an album called folklore.

 

yeah yeah feelings are colors i get it. next time rhyme "blue" with "knew" instead of "know"

 

Everyone always talks about trimming down Red, but I think the length/emotional sprawl of that record is pretty key to what it accomplishes. Even the songs I didn't like much at first I love now. Some of the songs that never seem to get called out at highlights, like "Sad, Beautiful, Tragic" or "Starlight," serve pretty crucial functions in the arc from love to heartbreak to recovery to love again. I think you could trim 2-3 tracks from Speak Now, Lover, and Reputation without losing much, but I think you'd lose the essence of what makes Red special if you cut even the weaker songs from the record.

 

getting so excited for tonight - this thread is gonna be so much fun!

 

just you try and stop us

 

Sprawl can be an endearing quality in and of itself. Ask Sign O the Times or London Calling or The Beatles or...you get the point

 

I mainly just dislike "Starlight" tbh

 

This is my Top 5. It’s unimpeachable. These are the 5 would take to a desert island. After this there is just too much great stuff to sort through. But these are the 5 that I would die for.

1. Holy Ground
2. Cruel Summer
3. Delicate
4. Blank Space
5. All Too Well

 

It's pretty interesting that the album she wrote entirely herself has the most songs in the 4.5-6+ minute range. More than half the songs on Speak Now are over four and a half minutes long... that's more in one collection than the rest of 4.5min songs in her discography combined!

I'd imagine working with Max for Red gave her a lot of appreciation for the craft of perfect pop songs; wonder if Dessner & Co adding instrumentation and flavor will affect that.

 

There are some times where I marvel we’ve ever agreed on anything ever and this is one of them. Haha

 

hell yeah, gonna tap into the bota box at 11 here, I don’t work fridays thank god

 

I also appreciate "Love Story" but would never turn it on... I tend to dislike her fairy tale songs. Hopefully that won't change how I feel about her folklore ones haha.

 

my girlfriend pointed out that it sounds like that one 3oh!3 song and it’s all I hear now

 

4 hours.

man we’ve (not us, Taylor, we’ve just sat here) generated a lot of hype for a record just announced today. I really hope it doesn’t suck (it won’t)

 

You can't tell me that a 9pm drive along the coast isn't conducive to a first listen of a (hopefully) lush, sprawling record.

 

"starlight" is a bop

 

oh wow I was just looking through her discography and only the young came out THIS YEAR???

 

“Starlight” is a good song that I feel like I never see discussed.