Taylor Swift - Lover (August 23, 2019) Album • Page 114

Sweet. That will definitely work

 

Ohhhh my gosh this version of Holy Ground.

 

How I imagine Taylor flipping through her song choices from Lover and deciding to do London Boy of all things

 

she was doing a session in London she had to Kayla

or she just wants to keep us guessing on how Daylight and It's Nice To Have A Friend will sound live

 

She wasn’t even in London!!! It was recorded in NYC.

 

I just assumed all the BBC sessions were in England but I forgot Justin Bieber did his at his house haha

 

Yea that Holy Ground is stunning. It’s the all time greatest T Swift song too, no easy task.

 

Taylor give me my stripped down tour!! And also what I've heard of the album so far fuels my belief that she should also give me my 90s alt riot grrl album with some of the cool lil shouts she does

 

Looks like you can only do 5 videos per post, here's the last one

 

Edited the video posts with the official BBC videos

 

She should've just gone all in on London boy and been like 'ello gov'nah

 

She already faked a southern accent for 4 years or was it 6

 

She's clearly trying to come for my Queen's impeccable British accent work

 

It’s all just a... blur?

 

Headcanon: Miss Americana is the older sister of the protagonist of Long Live and the stories take place simultaneously.

 

OK, I have spent a lot of time with this album and am ready for my power rankings. I am sure the bottom half of my list has a lot that people will argue with, but I am pretty set with these three tiers. If I were creating the album, I would cut the bottom tier off into bonus tracks and keep it at a cool and collected 12 tracks. Thank you all, goodnight

Lover
Death By A Thousand Cuts
Cornelia Street
False God
Miss Americana And the Heartbreak Kid
Paper Rings

The Archer
It's Nice To Have A Friend
Afterglow
Cruel Summer
You Need To Calm Down
Daylight

Soon You'll Get Better
The Man
Me!
I Forgot That You Existed
I Think He Knows
London Boy

 

All TS albums should be 13 songs.

 

"You Need to Calm Down" is just a fundamentally bad song, imo. Hearing her do it mostly acoustic on that live session really underlined how flawed I think the entire execution is. That in the middle tier and "Soon You'll Get Better" in the bottom tier makes me mad at you, @irthesteve.

 

Honestly, this breakdown is fairly close to how the album shakes out for me, with the big exception being that I do not distinguish between Tier 1 and Tier 2. For me, there are 13 great songs here and 5 that range from pretty good to bad.

I do adamantly disagree with “Soon You’ll Get Better” being Tier 3, however, and I do not care for “You Need To Calm Down” much at all. That one would absolutely be a bonus track for me if I were breaking it down this way.

13 certainly seems to be the magic number of tracks for me with her albums.

 

Falling pretty hard for this album right now. I had only heard Taylor's singles previously and have always liked how fun they are but I feel like this album has quite a bit of depth beyond that. Are other albums of hers this good?

 

So I finally got out of the addictive repeat cycle of cruel summer and lover to listen to the whole album and I have thoughts

I def think this is her most vulnerable album. It seems like she's done a lot of self reflection and I identified more with this album than past ones. A lot of her past songs are v "you wronged me and all I did was love you too much!!" Which is totally fine and I enjoy those songs, but I enjoyed how she went into her "flaws" and opened up in that way. Feels more vulnerable for me personally when she talks about her defenses and self sabotage.

I didn't enjoy the Man as much as I thought I would based off comments about it. It's fine like it's not love it's not hate it's just indifference but I like the message.

Speaking of message, YNTCD came on the radio when I was driving a 13 year old around and she insisted I blast the song and it did warm my heart. I live in a v conservative rural area so seeing kids getting to sing along to that message felt nice. I don't have much of a place in the lgbtq discussion, but it reminds me a lot of when I discovered feminism from pop music. Like Christina Aguilera introduced me to the concept and yeah she did sing about it in a fairly basic 101 way which wasn't super in depth or intersectional but it's what got my wheels turning and caused me to research more. I hope that's what this song does for her young fans.

Me is still a Choice. Even acknowledging that her lead singles typically suck it rly is a weak point on the album. I'd have loved if Cruel Summer had been a summer single. I get why she typically releases the lead singles she does, but part of me also wishes her lead singles displayed more growth. It's unfair ppl write her off for being immature or childish or whatever, but if I was only going off songs like shake it off and me idk I'd prob think the same. She has such strong songs that could work well as singles but they always seem to cater towards a different direction. Like her lead singles don't rly show her growth for me, even tho all her albums have great gems. It's a formula that's worked well for her so like I get it, but also I hate it lol


Between this and Lana's newest I'm def loving these female pop releases!

 

Yes! I enjoy most all her albums but Red is her magnum opus imo and a lot of ppl enjoy 1989 as well, and both are fairly poppy if that's ur thing. I also love Speak Now and she wrote it all herself so it's super cool to listen to like where her headspace was at 19 or however old she was I'm too lazy to Google rn. Her early albums are great imo but sometimes the ppl who just enjoy newer pop Taylor aren't as into them but they're worth a try imo

 

I think my bottom 6 would be the same but I’d swap most of tier 1 with 2:

Afterglow
Cornelia Street
You Need To Calm Down (this has become one of my favorite TS choruses)
False God
INTHAF
Cruel Summer

Miss Americana (the stupid games line is silly but song’s catchy af)
Paper Rings (I feel like I’ve heard this song 40 times before but it’s so catchy)
Death By A Thousand Cuts (the piano in this is brilliant)
Daylight
Lover
The Archer

IFTYE (song’s good but alas it’s 13th best)
The Man
SYGB (I get the emotions here but it just sounds boring to me)
Me (I think the hate here is excessive but the me-he-HE wears on me & the bridge sucks)
London Boy (really don’t care for the vocal melodies, big gap between Me and this)
I Think He Knows

 

“i think he knows” is amazing y’all come on