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blusocket's avatar

I am actually seeing more callbacks to reputation than 1989 in how this album is being packaged (same photographers, ruminations on fame, internal life vs external life, new relationship album) *and* there were rumors swirling about a composer and blues session musicians working with her earlier this year https://www.tumblr.com/jessmalia/780733791661670400/httpsxcomspotifyswiftstatus1911451836894023?source=share

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blusocket's avatar

Not making any assumptions about sound yet but I'm excited for the possibilities. Oh and Max Martin specifically asked her to keep the folklore storytelling sensibility and she was like I couldn't give that up if I tried so I don't think we need to worry about the songwriting being light on detail wrt the Red vs 1989 comparison

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BDM's avatar

these are great points… turning my hype dial up

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G. Marie's avatar

OK I know I’m super late to the game here but I need to say this and I am alienating all my friends by trying to talk to them about both GM and TS… I was reading an article about the album and the author was just casually like “and yeah she’s covering George Michael” and like there’s no way??? she’s covering Father Figure??? Like right???? That’s definitely an original…

But now I’m obsessed with the idea of TS having a George Michael era… She wasn’t ready for Last Christmas in 2008 but she’s ready now. Like George, Taylor can commit to the drama of a song regardless of anything else. They bring the song to their level (who would have cared about Last Christmas if it hadn’t been George singing it?). They love the drama and the drama loves them. I want a TS cover of Careless Whisper. That’s all.

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BDM's avatar

I feel like "Freedom!"—the music video—is also very Taylor in its attitude, now that you bring this up…

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Phoebe's avatar

Okay, this is FASCINATING to me because I am old enough that I was obsessed with this video (and supermodels in general) when it was actually airing on MTV -- although I was also queasily precocious, so not AS old as this anecdote might make me sound -- and I had never thought about this extremely true thing before. Thank you for bringing it to my brain's attention for further contemplation.

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BDM's avatar

do we think we're gonna get a pre-release single / video……

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

I love the cover omg…

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BDM's avatar

people on popheads don't like the cover but they didn't like the brat cover either… it's called VISION

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

I like all of them.... black wig is so yay

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BDM's avatar

cover is gorrrgeous I love the photoshoots too… also enjoyed knowing I was one of like a million people googling "opalite" just now. a Max Martin produced song called "CANCELLED" is going to be the spiritual successor to "Bad Blood" however… I can feel that one in my bones

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Julia's avatar

my only prediction so far is that Red:1989 :: TTPD:The Life of a Showgirl (after being critiqued for coming out with a sprawling 'unfocused' album she follows it up with something more 'polished')

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BDM's avatar

oh no it’s another pure Max Martin album she really said fuck BDM specifically 😭

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Julia's avatar

i’m mostly in disbelief it’s going to be a 12-song album i almost specifically said in my comment that i didn’t think that was possible in the streaming economy !!

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Julia's avatar

sorry i manifested it haha 😭

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BDM's avatar

i feel like part of why it took me a long time to come around to 1989 was that it felt like she locked into this glossy impersonal pop sound and wasn't ever going to do anything else. but now after folkmore and ttpd i am more willing to trust her. in retrospect lover was also an album where she was trying a lot of things, but i didn't really notice it at the time.

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BDM's avatar

I can see this but I hated 1989 so much at the time it came out that I only really became reconciled to it recently… I basically checked out of all things Taylor for years. So I hope that I don’t have that reaction again

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Clare's avatar

have you indulged in The Leaks? i have. and i'm happy.

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BDM's avatar

No, I never do, I have more fun if I don’t!

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Clare's avatar

they were true fyi

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BDM's avatar

do you think we're getting a pre-album single / video? I kind of think we won't but I want one ):

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Clare's avatar

idk she seems pretty into this one. lots of costumes and she's into having her butt out. i think it's possible

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Clare's avatar

part 2 of the album/extended version: death of a showgirl

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LemonDrops's avatar

I predict this is her return to country.

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BDM's avatar

🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

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Marissa's avatar

People are hunting for previous times she's used a 'showgirl' aesthetic ("Bejeweled" music video etc) but I notice a distinct lack of anyone bringing up her role in "Cats," because we've all collectively agreed to forget that awful movie. But dancing around on a crescent moon in character shoes & a sparkly choker is VERY showgirl! Feel like there's room here for a contrarian take on how "Cats" is secretly the key to the whole era...

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Clare Coffey's avatar

Cats (TV)

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BDM's avatar

I would like to air a grievance here which is that during Eras it was like a running joke that somebody was going to get stuck with "Macavity" but that is not only NOT a Taylor song it is one of the only songs in Cats I like. Respect "Macavity"!!!

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Clare Coffey's avatar

I think what I want from this is 13 tracks of The Last Great American Dynasty

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BDM's avatar

I feel like I want something a little yee haw, a little vaudeville, a little hit the dancefloor. I also want a song full of terrible jokes about dynamite. Those are the things that are important to me.

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Tim Price's avatar

Gotta save something for Greatest Hits

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Caroline's avatar

people saying she doesn't do podcasts haven't seen this podcast-ass co-interview https://youtu.be/x8zfsf4azLo?si=qW7SZSlRPcyp3OWN

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BDM's avatar

she would have been a total natural for podcasts back when she was still hustling for attention… probably would have liked them more than doing radio spots

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Tim Price's avatar

A lot of Taylor fans tuned in to those Chiefs games, but making them watch a Kelce brothers podcast is a loyalty test not all will pass.

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Tim Price's avatar

Well, I’m watching the podcast……

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BDM's avatar

i'm gonna watch it but if i'm honest it's only because of my faithful tss crowd

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Colin's avatar

funniest fake leak I’ve seen so far was a poorly-photoshopped version of Taylor on a Selena Gomez album cover:

https://x.com/grantydidit/status/1955104217011556499?s=46

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BDM's avatar

she looks like a chipmunk 😭

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Fran Hoepfner's avatar

this is so funny omg

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Colin's avatar

it’s kind of giving Edith Sitwell.

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Colin's avatar

I am a gay millennial / gen-z cusp who did not develop good taste until undergrad, I can recognize When The Sun Comes Down a mile away.

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