Ah cool, here I was wondering if she could stay on the sidelines while BTS dominates, and the answer is, as always, “no”.
Elizabeth Taylor is probably my actual least favorite. Just the way she says the name "Elizabeth Taylor" is so grating to me
Doesn’t really make sense why she chose that as her single in the spring. Feels a little too slow and sullen for this time of year.
I'm just curious if she's going to pick a week she wants to go #1 and set a bunch of variants to release that day or not
feels linked to her dropping that 7" of the song for RSD. release it as a single now, and maybe that gets folks to pick it up on RSD. regardless of the intent, it's stupid.
Anthology fucking SUCKS aside from like 3 tracks, it's a bunch of b sides that focus far too much on being wordy without crafting it into anything musically interesting. I'm very over the Taylor/Dessner collabs
I like more of Anthology than Steve, but it absolutely does feel like a b-sides album. Except for “The Black Dog” which just should have swapped in for “I Can Fix Him” or “The Alchemy” on TTPD proper.
The fall from grace angle is interesting because like it is kind of true, but also has really only been 1 egregiously poor album. Imo Midnights rules as a mostly successful attempt to marry the pandemic albums’ sound with the 1989/Rep pop sound and belongs as the last album in the good streak rather than first out of it. Tortured Poets is pretty mediocre, but would I think that if it had come before Midnights? Maybe not - it suffers more from having already wrung all the juice from the Antonoff/Dessner collabs than being actually bad. Showgirl is legit junk and yeah that hurts worse on the heels of the first “did we really need this?” Taylor release in TTPD. But again, it’s really her first truly poor record in my opinion and if the next is good it’ll read as a blip in context in a few years rather than the culmination of a multi album downward spiral.