Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (October 3, 2025) • Page 96

Red, Ruin the Friendship

 

Folklore, ruin the friendship

 

Red (obviously) and a dead heat between "Ruin the Friendship" and "Opalite."

 

reputation, father figure

 

Re: the sales number, that 4 million will always have an asterisk, but from the reporting I've read about one-week sales numbers over the year, it seems like so many of the albums that hit the 1 million and up record do. No Strings Attached and a lot of those other late '90s/early 2000s million sellers always had the "peak of CD bloat/pre-Napster era hubris" asterisk, 25 and all those earlier Taylor albums had the "weren't on streaming" asterisk, Born This Way had the "half of these were discounted to 99 cents on Amazon" asterisk, etc. End of the day, it's a capitalistic achievement that encourages capitalistic maneuvering.

What I'll be interested to see it whether it can notch a second million-units week, let alone a third. I highly, highly doubt it, which means there's one superlative Adele has that Taylor will still be chasing.

 

Folklore, Ruin the Friendship

 

My favorite albums of hers are Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and evermore.

My favorite song on this is the sound of silence as I remove this album from my library, deciding I’ve finally satiated my curiosity with this artist-redefining disaster.

 

folklore and “Opalite”

 

Folklore. Honey.