Taylor Swift - folklore (July 24, 2020) Album • Page 87

Betty and Exile have become the only two songs I skip ahead. Never been a fan of Bon Iver, and Betty is just... weird/too Bob Dylanish, another artist I just never got into.

 

Living in california, I never really gave a shit what season an album came out in haha

 

couldn't be me

 

especially this year when it’s been all over the place.

 

just occurred to me that everyone in this thread who was surprised by bon iver’s lower register hasn’t listened to hadestown. a shame

 

I read the whole NYT thing. It’s always funny to me when fans/critics of a pop artist get irked when that artist brings in influences to their pop outside of the accepted norm (Hip hop, country, etc.) To me, pop music as a genre, if you believe in those, has always been just the simplest, catchiest version of something else.

No disrespect to pop intended btw. I first got into music thanks for pop punk.

 

I've definitely known to get irritated about artists releasing albums in what is clearly the wrong season, but there are plenty of good summer songs on this.

 

I myself enjoy receiving a fall album in the summertime because it means I can cry to it for the entirety of this year's fall season*

*I live in LA so fall is more of a state of mind

 

I sat on the beach this summer at sunset on a blanket and listened to Pink Moon front to back and it was amazing. Try swapping your seasons sometimes. You’ll find cool things.

 

a late night summer evening is just as good as the early fall

 

I haaaaaave

 

but nothing’s stopping you from listening to an album released in the “wrong season” once the “right season” rolls around

 

I won’t actually try to guess the score but I will say I’ll be quite surprised if this isn’t her first BNM.

 

I remember when Bon Iver, Bon Iver came out, people thought that was a fall or winter record dropped in the summer as well. But I can count on one hand the albums that sound better on a muggy or rainy summer night drive.

 

this album feels like a cusp album to me anyway (obv people can listen to music any time of the year, I just personally enjoy exploring what feelings an album elicits in me and then expressing that through seasons) for summer/fall, it fits beautifully into both and I'm sure will devastate me far beyond fall into the winter and spring

 

I had a short lived feature on this very site dedicated to season-based playlists, stuff like that definitely matters to me haha. But it doesn’t annoy me when an artist releases a record prior to its “respective” season, because:

 

I’ll also say that with this record in particular, it deeeefinitely helps that the vinyl won’t ship til like November or whatever. That’s gonna bring a whole new life to this thing

 

this album feels like 2020, which doesn't have seasons just... different pauses with new nuances. i like that about it.

 

oh I used to make season playlists all the time haha, a lot of my listening is seasonal based but it’s actually kinda fun to revisit albums in different seasons to see how they fit

 

Nahhh “Perth” is literally the sound of spring. (Or alternatively, the sound of recovering from a hangover.)

I definitely did not agree with Bon Iver calling 22AM a summer record (as a way to call i,i a fall record completing the cycle). That is a cold autumn album all day.

 

some albums just transcend season. this is one of them

 

what are seasons

 

“Perth” to me is just a perfect summer night song. Or maybe a late spring night song. I’ve slotted it on playlists next to “Purple Rain” and it works perfectly.

EDIT: But yeah, no way 22AM is summer. That album didn’t click for me until it started snowing.

 

“I need a jacket”
“Okay maybe not”
“Haha fuck jackets”
“Jackets I’m sorry pls come back”

 

"Naylor" is trending because of baseball and for a shining moment I hoped Niall Horan and Taylor Swift were doing a collab

brb I have clown makeup to apply now