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.

 

The TTPD slander continues to sadden me.

Guilty As Sin and So High School are top tier and rest is all good to great

 

Those aren't even the two best! There's a really solid album's worth of songs

 

what are the two best for you, Steve? i can't imagine anything ranking higher than Guilty as Sin?, lol

 

Guilty as Sin, I Can Do It With a Broken Heart, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived and Clara Bow are all top tier to me. First half is mostly good, don’t care much for the second half

 

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart is #1 with a bullet

 

A+
So Long London
But Daddy I Love Him
Who's Afraid of Little Old Me
I Can Do It With A Broken Heart
Clara Bow
The Black Dog
So High School

A
The Tortured Poets Department
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Down Bad
Guilty As Sin
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B
Fresh Out The Slammer
Florida
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The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
Thank you Aimee

C
I Can Fix Him
The Albatross
I Hate It Here
Peter
The Bolter
Robin

D or lower
Fortnight
The Alchemy
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
How Did It End
I Look In People's Windows
The Prophecy
Cassandra
The Manuscript

 

Still struggled to get into it due to the number of songs. Just seems like such a slog - even looking at that ranking and seeing how many are D and lower tires me out. If she’d given a bit of time between releasing The Anthology I might have had more time to digest it.

 

For the most part I just think of it as the album and the bonus tracks, I listen to the album alone usually

 

A+
loml
The Black Dog
But Daddy I Love Him
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
So Long London
I Can Do It With A Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
Guilty As Sin?
The Tortured Poets Department
Down Bad
Fortnight
So High School

A
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How Did It End?
Florida!!!
I Look In People's Windows

B
Fresh Out The Slammer
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
I Hate It Here
Peter
The Prophecy
Clara Bow
Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
The Albatross

C
Robin
The Manuscript
thanK you aIMee
The Bolter

D or lower
I Can Fix Him (No Really, I Can)
Cassandra
The Alchemy

 

controversially, i really do like Fortnight. not because i think it's a good single (especially since there aren't really any good "singles" on the album) or because of Post Malone, but because it reminds me a lot of what David Bazan was doing on his last two solo albums (Blanco is one of my favorite albums of all time) and with Headphones. just that pulsing synth building into something grander is really nice to me.

 

“Thank You Aimee” is the worst song on that album, and one of her worst songs ever. Just massive levels of “get the fuck over it, you already won.”

TTPD is definitely not a bad album, but I think it’s the album where a lot of people got “Taylor fatigue.” A combination of cultural over-saturation, the way she released it (from the announcement at the Grammys to the tactics she used to keep it number 1 for months), and the fact that most of it feels like more of the same. Lots of good songs, but it’s the first album of her career where I really felt like she was treading water rather than moving forward in some way.

 

Also people think this may be Taylor

 

seems likely. commence orange era

 

My girlfriend is a huge swiftie and made me sit down over the weekend to listen to the full anthology and I'm happy to say it clicked. Although admittedly I found myself liking the Anthology songs a bit more.

 

I spend too much time online because isn’t orange the rumored karma era that got cancelled for Rep?

 

Insert the Michael Scott "Oh my god it's happening" GIF.

 

Album announcement on New Heights on Wednesday is my assumption. Sabrina is tagged on the Taylor Nation post so maybe she is on the album.

 

Wednesday is the 13th.

 

the (university of) tennessee album

 

her wedding adventure here really got her into the heart of what’s good in the world