Taylor Swift - Lover (August 23, 2019) Album • Page 118

oh buddy you're in for a great time, that area is so sick.

 

Verona showed off today. On its day, it can compete for prettiest city in Italy, easy. We’re already down to Florence for the next couple of days.

I lived over here for three semesters in/after college attending/interning at a study abroad program. My mom never got to come visit, so we finally finished saving up and now we’re doing far too much far quickly because she had A List of Things To See and I can’t say no to my mom

 

I've heard Verona is fair, and there are two households both alike in dignity

 

check out Bologna, it's not that far off from there any more haha

 

it’s a love(ly) story so baby I’ll say yes

 

Taylor and Lizzo *fans self*

 

"Acoustic, the way that I wrote them". I'm workshopping my new album right now and I gotta tell you, my voice notes are NOWHERE NEAR as coherent as hers. More like profanity laced and full of mumbling.

Anyway, I'm allowing this to make me hope she does an acoustic tour, even though it would actually shorten my life expectancy.

 

I actually just got tickets to that concert

 

Had tickets to the Paris show but couldn't get to Paris :(

 

So I figured that the Cautious Clay co-write was actually writing with him, turns out it's because "London Boy" actually interpolates "Cold War" and I never noticed it til right now but listening back to Cold War again it feels so obvious

 

I guess this could be a hot take and might have already been discussed but maybe Taylor and Co. knew that “Old Town Road” was going to dominate the summer and held back “Cruel Summer.” She could still release it as a summer anthem in 2020 to promote her Lover Tour a little more.

 

The Dixie Chicks Return to Country Radio, Prompting Angry Calls

Not a Taylor fan, at all...but what the fuck is wrong with country radio? It’s fucking toxic...the amount of country artists who just bow to these station programmers is insane...

How is country radio the only terrestrial form of radio to still breaks artists via the platform? It’s so archaic...is it because most country fans slew older, white, and possibly in less technologically advanced parts of the country where streaming isn’t part of their lives?

The Dixie Chicks, Kacey, Brandi, and a whole host of other women just keep getting disregarded for the bro-country (Luke Bryan, Kane Brown, Florida Georgia Line, etc) acts which just keep appropriating hip hop to sell records. You goto these bro-country shows and it’s just Becky and Chads in jean shorts and tied up flannel shirts...it’s an embarrassing genre.

 

I have a friend who was raised conservative and grew up on country music. She is liberal now but still sometimes struggles with things she was told as a child and never rly questioned. One of them was the Dixie chicks controversy. She said her dad got in his truck and ran over her cds after it happened. She insisted that they had said something like "un-american" or traitorous or something but didn't remember. When I read it off to her she was like ".....wait that's it???" I feel like that's so sadly common. Adults flipped out and made a huge scene and then their kids just followed suit and now their kids are adults who never rly questioned any of it and keep it going. And I'm sure there are legit still many ppl who know what happened and are still angry which is ridic.

 

Country radio is toxic horseshit and I hate it.

 

Johnny Chiang sounds like a guy I'd like to get a beer with though

 

Nahhh nobody really knew that. Knocking off "ME!" was the first indication that it was going to have THAT kind of legs, and I'm pretty sure "Cruel Summer" could have beat it.

 

Missed the rankings. Here goes:

Tier 1:

1. Cruel Summer
2. Death By a Thousand Cuts
3. Lover
4. Soon You’ll Get Better
5. I Think He Knows
6. False God
7. It’s Nice to Have a Friend
8. Afterglow

Tier 2:

1. Paper Rings
2. The Archer
3. The Man
4. Cornelia Street
5. I Forgot That You Existed
6. Daylight
7. Miss Americana

Tier 3

1. You Need To Calm Down
2. Me!
3. London Boy

 

I too was raised on country and dealt with a very similar response to the DC controversy. It was awful. And I see many people back in my hometown that are acting exactly how their parents acted back in the day and are now passing those same toxic thoughts to their own children. It's maddening. I know people who were T-Swift fans in high school that have forbidden their kids from listening to her "liberal trash" as I heard one call it on Facebook. But song 5000 from Jason Aldean or Florida Georgia Line about a dixie girl getting too drunk to function is totally fine for their kids to sing along to. GTFO.

 

It was only love for the Dixie Chicks (and hate for Bush) in my home and I'm very grateful for that.

 

I think everybody else must have a different version of the album to me

Really scratching my head as to how people think 'Its Nice to Have A Friend' is anything other than a weak, experimental undercooked b-side

 

I went ahead and just deleted "ME!" yesterday, after skipping it for like the 30th time. Re-tagged "You Need to Calm Down" as a b-side and now this thing is solid as a rock.

 

Missed the rankings. Here goes:

Tier 1:

1. Cruel Summer
2. Death By a Thousand Cuts
3. Lover
4. Soon You’ll Get Better
5. I Think He Knows
6. False God
7. It’s Nice to Have a Friend
8. Afterglow

Tier 2:

1. Paper Rings
2. The Archer
3. The Man
4. Cornelia Street
5. I Forgot That You Existed

Tier 3:

1. You Need to Calm Down
2. ME!
3. London Boy

 

1. Cornelia Street
2. Cruel Summer
3. Miss Americana
4. The Man
5. Paper Rings
6. Soon You'll Get Better
7. The Archer
8. Lover
9. False God
10. Death by a Thousand Cuts
11. Daylight
12. I Think He Knows
13. Afterglow
14. I Forgot That You Existed
15. Me!
16. You Need To Calm Down
17. Its Nice to Have A Friend
18. London Boy