Folklore 1989 The Tortured Poets Department Red Evermore The Life of a Showgirl Lover Reputation Midnights Fearless Speak Now Taylor Swift Pretty accurate outside the 5-8 tier which is a day-to-day thing. I wanna put Red higher but I stop myself. more to the conversation, I like her wordier writing style but where it irked me is a) the clunky lines mentioned earlier, intentional or not, really grind my gears, and b) on recent albums, esp midnights and on a lot of TTPD, it feels like she sometimes just keeps the same cadence going and tries to see how many words/phrases she can rhyme in a row, which has always been a pet peeve of mine.
I wonder if she has too many yes men. Tbh the fact that we have Wood tells me she does. She needs to let someone edit her.
she apparently only let 5 people hear the album before she released it and they were probably like… her family and Travis lol
I think "Wood" is indicative of the problem a lot of people have with this album, which is that it's about 60 percent of the way to being an all-time great Taylor Swift song. Great hook, fun production, a sonic sandbox she hasn't really played in before. And the superstition concept is generally a good one. But when I listen, I feel like I'm hearing what she said about it on Jimmy Fallon ("It started innocently...I don't know what happened"). It's like she kept the innocent half of the song she wrote and then just stapled some dick jokes to it and called it good. It's the same issue I have with "Eldest Daughter," where I just don't think she took a second pass to make sure the first half and second half of the song jelled together properly. "Wood" should either be even filthier and be all double entendre from the start, or it should be the superstition theme; I don't think both work in the song she actually wrote, because the superstition angle just seems to be there to set up the dick jokes. It's just way sloppier songwriting than she ever would have let herself get away with a decade ago. And like, to what end? There's a better, more timeless song there that joins "Shake It Off" on the eternal wedding dancefloor playlist. Instead, she got 3-5 days of very intense internet reactions, and now all she has is a novelty song that will forever be known as "the one about Travis Kelce's penis."
I don't have that issue with the song at all. The whole thing is about how his love has made her feel more carefree and secure, not worrying about things like superstition. The titular wood is just emblematic of that love and the way the puns and euphemisms slowly infect the song is very funny to me. Its never really felt disjointed at all to me. It makes for a fun parallel with The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.
Using the name of your boyfriend’s podcast to brag about his dick has gotta be some of the lamest lyrics ever put to tape
"The whole thing is about how his love has made her feel more carefree and secure, not worrying about things like superstition" But it's not It's a lot of unrelated dick jokes
Idk I feel like it very clearly is and maybe the song just went over your head? It's comparing how she feels in this relationship to past ones.