Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024) Album • Page 146

I've always wanted more of the pop rock stuff she was doing on Speak Now/Red, she was so good at it.

 

i always hear a lot of stupid discourse about her pop-centric music feeling too "stale" or "unseasoned" compared to other pop artists, and i think the complaints would be more subdued if she was mainly still making country or rock-adjacent music (or even if she kept doing the singer/songwriter stuff from folklore/evermore/TTPD). if she's competing in the pop sphere, it's always going to be commercially because i don't think she's interested in sounding like other pop artists

 

Get Dan Nigro on board and I'm in.

 

I have been out here demanding a pop rock record since speak now. I remember after Red when people were speculating what sound she'd go for I guessed pop/rock. And then we got 1989 which is like her straight up poppiest record haha.

Thankfully Olivia Rodrigo has filled the pop/rock void I hoped Taylor would lean into someday. I still wouldn't complain if Taylor went that route but I at least no longer have a pop/rock shaped void in my heart!

If she'd been with Matty longer than two seconds I wonder what influence he would've had on her sound, if at all. We know she's an emo kid at heart. She just needs to lean in!

 

I am hoping for a return to singer-songwriter style, with guitars. The less synths the better. It’s time for a reset.