you misunderstood me there. no one is pitching women against each other. we are pitting them against each other. please don't make me have to explain my jokes again. in other news, this is me trying is my favorite album track of 2020. it even trumps The Kill. the cadence of vulnerability in at least i'm trryyiiin' and the oomph in i was so AHEAD OF THE CURVE, the CRUVE BECAME A SPHERE does things to my poor, poor hymen.
Taylor is massive, I think female artist that can sell out STADIUMS over here like Wembley Stadium is 'massive' - both in her chart success now and culturally. Might not be at the level of the US, but yes Adele and Gaga have been beyond massive if you ask me and not really comparable.
Oh so “Betty” isn’t a lesbian song, she’s singing from the perpective of a man. Disappointing (I’m sure this was buried in page 3 or something and is news to nobody)
Betty is a nice song, but I struggle to get past how mind-blowingly rude the central conceit of turning up uninvited to somebody's party in an attempt to fix a fight is.
So there's Betty and her once-errant bloke all over each other like a rash in one corner while VoR discusses the "optics" of his approach in the other. On-brand.
Although I can’t shake the fact that it sounds near identical to ‘Should’ve Known Better’ by Sufjan Stevens.
the lakes is now on streaming I like this more than at least 5-6 songs on the main album! it's not an album closer but I'll be using it
1. the 1 2. august 3. the lakes 4. cardigan 5. exile 6. invisible string 7. seven 8. this is me trying 9. my tears ricochet 10. mirrorball 11. mad woman 12. the last great american dynasty 98 folklore: the joanne claims this to be ray of light of the velvet rope's gen z little sister chapter
here's my top 10 from this album - the rest I've kind of stopped listening to but that's ok cos I always cherry pick with our Tay Tay 01 the last great american dynasty 02 the 1 03 exile 04 peace 05 cardigan 06 epiphany 07 my tears ricochet 08 the lakes 09 betty 10 mad woman
Jark cancelled for skipping "this is me trying". What I've found is that the sequence from "this is me trying" through to the end works an absolute treat (although I'd be tempted to swap "epiphany" and "peace"). It's a few of the tracks in the first half that are a bit too generic (like "mirrorball").
For me it's all about that middle section. Seven -> This Is Me Trying is an amazing trio of songs. Fairly certain August is my favourite of the whole albam. It peters off towards the end I find, but it's all still brilliant.
Still loving this album and listening to it regularly. Definitely my favourite of hers though it has led me to (re-)discover LOVER, REPUTATION and 1989. Let it be known that 2020 is the year I became a Taylor Swift fan proper (i.e. stan).
NME (!) has ranked all of her songs from worst to best... https://www.nme.com/features/every-...GDIqfwQm8Sq-eOyE7Ggoobld2_wz6zPwLsULAscP5j63s
the top ten is pretty on point and includes all the absolute essentials - Woods, All Too Well, State of Grace, dynasty, Cruel Summer taste!
The point they make about it being the lead single really hits home for me. I can’t believe it never was a single at all, but it would have been the perfect lead.
Personal ranking: TAYLOR SWIFT: 1. Our Song 2. Cold As You 3. Mary's Song (Oh My My My) 4. Teardrops On My Guitar 4. Stay Beautiful 5. Tim McGraw 6. I'm Only Me When I'm With You 6. Tied Together With a Smile 7. The Outside 8. Invisible 9. Picture to Burn 10. Should've Said No 11. A Place in This World 12. A Perfectly Good Heart
FEARLESS: 1. White Horse 2. Fearless 3. Love Stort 4. Jump Then Fall 5. Forever and Always 6. You Belong With Me 7. Forever and Always (acoustic) 8. Come In With the Rain 9. Tell Me Why 10. Breathe 11. Hey Stephen 12. Change 13. Untouchable 14. The Best Day 15. The Way I Loved You 16. Fifteen 17. The Other Side of the Door 18. Superstar
SPEAK NOW: 1. Back to December 2. Mine 3. Ours 4. Long Live 5. The Story of Us 6. Last Kiss 7. Sparks Fly 8. Speak Now 9. Mean 10. Enchanted 11. Dear John 12. Back to December (acoustic) 13. Haunted 14. Better Than Revenge 15. Never Grow Up 16. Haunted (acoustic) 17. Superman 18. If This Was a Movie 19. Innocent
SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR - LIVE 1. Back to December 2. Dear John 3. Ours 4. Sparks Fly 5. Long Live 6. Bette Davis Eyes 7. Enchanted 8. Last Kiss 9. Mine 10. The Story of Us 11. Drops of Jupiter 12. Mean 13. Speak Now 14. I Want You Back 15. Haunted 16. Better Than Revenge
Absolutely. It's just SO GOOD and we could have had digital/limited physical maxi singles with PROPER remixes
Cardigan is really crying out for some poppers o'clock gay remixes - I'm thinking Purple Disco Machine, Tensnake, SG Lewis omg it has to happen!
Ooh "The Lakes" is my latest revelation. Updated Folklore Top 10: 1. Seven 2. Cardigan 3. This is Me Trying 4. The Lakes 5. Mirrorball 6. August 7. Epiphany 8. Exile 9. Hoax 10. The Last Great American Dynasty
Tonight's TS song of choice is I Almost Do I bet you think I either moved on or hate you, Cause each time you reach out there's no reply. I bet it never, ever occurred to you That I can't say hello to you And risk another goodbye.
Folklore becomes the first album to sell 1 million copies (pure sales) in America in 2020. Here is a breakdown of sales for each album: Taylor Swift (2006, 5.75 million sold to date), The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection (2007, 1.08 million) Fearless (2008; 7.21 million) Speak Now (2010, 4.71 million) Red (2012, 4.49 million) 1989 (2014, 6.25 million) Reputation (2017, 2.28 million) Lover (2019, 1.22 million) Folklore (2020, 1.04 million) Quite sexy sales
what are those figures @POP!? the Lover and Folklore numbers seem to be pure sales but the others (Rep, 1989) are SPS or pure sales a well?
I believe they are all hard/pure sales only per Soundscan. 1989 was reported as selling 6.2m by the end of 2019 and made #3 on decade's top sellers. Its SPS (streaming, album equivalent sales etc) is at over 9 million apparently.
