Taylor Swift - Lover (August 23, 2019) Album • Page 111

“Taylor Swift didn’t sell a million in a week; is Taylor Swift over?”

This will be a thinkpiece on at least a dozen sites.

 

It's such a bad faith argument when the fact of the matter is that even if she only sells 800k in pure sales, she's maybe one of 3 artists on planet earth who can even still pull that much in pure sales. It'll be the same as when people tried to paint the Rep tour as a massive failure waiting to happen. It's a shame, because there is an interesting way to frame this without it being a dig at Taylor (i.e. "in a world where even our top artists can only sell so much, how does the industry move forward")...but I don't trust the media and how it chooses to depict anything related to her.

 

Hopefully these pieces at least reckon with how much album sales have continued to tank since 2017.

 

Most artists need tour bundles to sell like any albums. Taylor could've easily had a tour lined up and hit a million with a bundle, but it sounds like she's setting boundaries and taking time for herself instead which is good. I've seen fairly unanimous praise for the album so I think that will help with the "flop" narrative a bit, but anti stans are gonna anti stan.

 

But seriously don't let stan Twitter live rent free in your brain it's not worth it

 

I’ve been walking down Cornelia (Ave) every morning listening to this album and idk how I didn’t connect that until now

 

Anyway this can’t really be considered a flop because it’s clearly exceeding expectations based on how the sales projections have gone up twice since Friday. But it won’t stop the haterz from trying

 

My favorite headline so far was "In First Five Days, Taylor Swift's 'Lover' Has Earned Biggest Week For Any Album Since Her Own 'Reputation' in 2017". HA! Boom.

I never made this connection, but it makes sense because I love that song.

 

I knew it reminded me of something but I couldn’t figure out what song I had in mind. I finally had the “Aha” moment and it all made sense

 

“I Think He Knows” was a grower but now I can’t stop listening.

That second time she says “I whisper in the dark.. where we gonna go?” is soooo good

 

My coworker said this exact thing to me yesterday lol

 

I'm enjoying this album so far. A few songs that I don't care for, but overall it's pretty solid. Cornelia St. might be my favorite Taylor song ever.

 

Death by a thousand cuts is so damn good

 

DBATC could be released to modern country radio as a single if she had any inkling to do so

 

Would that be the first female artist played on country radio

 

It sounds like a Kelsea Ballerini song.

 

THATS WHO

 

Kelsea wishes

 

I seriously checked the co-writes list after I heard that song the first time because I thought she might be on there.

 

"Secondhand Smoke" is the greatest Taylor Swift song not written by Taylor Swift.

 

fine I will listen.

 

wait, I just remembered that I went to a Kelsea show this year, she was pretty enjoyable, I wonder if she played that song

EDIT: she played these, which do you like

Peter Pan
Dibs
Legends
Yeah Boy
Get Over Yourself
I Hate Love Songs
Cowboy Take Me Away / The First Cut Is the Deepest / Oops!... I Did It Again
Love Me Like You Mean It
Miss Me More
This Feeling

 

I know This Feeling is a Chainsmoker collab but that song bops

 

Of those, I'm especially fond of "I Hate Love Songs" and "Dibs." Beyond those, "Secondhand Smoke," "Underage," "High School," "In Between," and "End of the World" are all highlights. I actually really like both her records a lot.

 

I'll listen to your picks because you generally are pretty spot on