Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (October 3, 2025) • Page 50

Is this still not out in high quality??

 

Holy fucking shit those are actually abysmal lol

 

the discourse is gonna great

 

I'm honestly not ready for it

 

Nearing the end!

Track 11 Ranking:
Holy Ground
--
Our Song
cowboy like me
Dancing With Our Hands Tied
This Love
--
invisible string
Forever & Always
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I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
Karma
Innocent
London Boy

Track 12 Ranking:
long story short
Sad Beautiful Tragic
--
Soon You'll Get Better
Sweet Nothing
Dress
loml
--
Haunted
The Best Day
mad woman
I Know Places

TS Track Rankings So Far:
Track 2s
Track 3s
Track 1s
--
Track 6s
Track 9s
Track 11s
Track 10s
Track 5s
--
Track 4s
Track 12s
Track 8s
--
Track 7s


Verdict(s):
11 - I was going through my favorites on this like... wow, is this her best track across the discog? "Holy Ground" is grailed forever; "cowboy like me" sets a mood like nothing else in her discography; "Our Song" and "Dancing With Our Hands Tied" are A-Tier bangers. And then I hit that run of "Karma", "Innocent", and "London Boy" and knew I could never put this track in with the top.

12 - there just ain't much to love at track 12. even the best songs are B-tier Taylor. I think I like both "long story short" and "Sad Beautiful Tragic" more than most people. always admired how cleanly "SBT" scans from a lyrical/rhyming/singing standpoint. "Soon You'll Get Better" is undeniably tearjerking (or should I have said sad, beautiful, tragic?) but I ain't reaching for that one much.

 

And the coke line is kinda gross in itself like, whatever Charli's issues with drug use I think she took herself to task pretty heavily on Brat, nobody else needs to come at her for this?

 

bay bay let da games begin let da games begin let da games begin

 

I think I for sure liked Tortured Poets much more than this, and that’s not saying much

 

Those lyrics are ass.

I’m guessing Taylor took “Sympathy” and Charli’s comments that she felt like she was waving to 5 year olds when she opened for her on tour. But it’s also weird because Charli also defended her when her fans chanted “Taylor Swift is Dead” at her shows.

Anyway, she is really bad at diss tracks and I say that as the lone defender of the “Bad Blood” remix.

 

It is in ten hours shea relax man

 

This is easily her worst album since lover, and it’s about what I expected. I’m team jack/aaron and TTPD grew on me like crazy.

 

Her quality range is reaching Rivers Cuomo’s

 

WOW spoken like someone who didn't listen to the vastly different SZNZS EPs

 

Grant.









Okay.

 

Just lazy songwriting/effort across the whole thing; nothing stands out, nothing really grabs you. Lover at least had some pretty high highs. Folklore/evermore were truly unique and had some beautiful songs. This is just…….bluhhhh

 

Tbf, this is based off the low quality phone recording, so we’ll see if that holds up tomorrow

 

Don’t know why I bought a ticket to the release party tomorrow. We’re all gonna be taking a nap.

 

I am cringed out by this album and I haven’t even heard it yet. But i’ll give it a fair chance and a full listen tomorrow regardless

 

It's always hilarious to see the lyrics for a really WTF song before hearing it. Reminds me of my first reaction to the song "Someday" by The Dangerous Summer.

 

Anyway, 12s!

Sad Beautiful Tragic
Haunted
Dress
Soon You'll Get Better
long story short
I Know Places
loml
Sweet Nothing
mad woman
The Best Day

 

2 of my 5 orders have shipped

 

We’re honestly not that far off from Taylor writing a diss track about that kid who tracks her jet

 

My Taylor fatigue is still more or less at an all time high, but I was looking forward to this after being mostly indifferent/disappointed by both Midnights and TTPD. Those lyrics have tempered my expectations...a lot.

 

I cracked and listened to the shitty rip, lol.

My first take: This is definitely not BAD. It's pleasant enough. But I think they really fucked up on the promotion. The title, the producers, the way she talked about it as this joyful thing, it all seemed to promise this big pop album, and it just isn't that at all.

 

Just got shipping email for the shiny bug edition.