Taylor Swift - ‘Life of a Showgirl’

[Teletubby 151,568]

 

[weed 74,569]

LISTENING NOWWW!!! 

my reactions/reviews for each track lol:

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loving TFOO so far, it's a cute song
listen 2: love it! I prefer the verses to the chorus but once it gets to sea, land, sky, love it again. I'd give it like.. 8.7/10 lmao so arbitrary 

Eliz is cute, feels like reputation mixed w Lover
listen 2: like it a little better, feels like smoking a cigarette but at disneyland or something.. almost cunty but not quite there

Opalite, best so far, I love it
listen 2: has circle by post vibes, very fun and chill, summery. Love it. Probably still think it's the best of the first 3

FF, "I can make deals with the devil bc my ****'s bigger" ok queen... know ur power. Song is cute, like it. I love it, love the lyrics so fun. 
listen 2: love itttt, maybe my fave so far.. it's giving me Blank Space but different relationship

Eldest Daughter, it's cute. 
listen 2: Conflicting feelings about it, but generally positive. I like it, feel like it will have a good impact on her fanbase maybe lol.

RTF, cute.
listen 2: very cute, very sweet, very sad omg him dying... I love it. when I moved countries after hs I had some people message me saying always liked u but never told u, etc. pissed me off sooo much difgubdfig wish they never told me at all. 

AR, gaggggged hearing actually romantic actually play out, gaggggg me taylor. It was cute, I liked it but I wasn't obsessed. 
listen 2: love it, chill song, relatable. grew on me more

WL, it's cute, like it. 
listen 2: I like the lyrics more this time, very sweet romantic song. chill

Wood is really cute, I really like it but some parts of the flow or whatever Idk if I like yet... a lil random to me
listen 2: Travis d so good she has a song about it, love that for her. I think it's a fun song, i like the influences, a lil Jackson 5, a lil Look What I Found, lil Sara Bareilles, touch of Cupcakke lmao.

Cancelled is good, I like it. some parts are a lil lol like "it gets quite dark" talking about her little hell underworld or w/e dofgndoifg but i like it
listen 2: grew on me. the music at 2:20 mmm so good, it's a bop! will be a halloweeny bop for me, perf

Honey, love it, very chill, like the lyrics. 
listen 2: far from the first time she's used them but I'm just like wow... trap beats really became so ingrained in all genres of music now, love that for them. fun cute song. 

TLOAS, love it. so cute, so fun, love it. kind of gives me Grigio Girls' relative. distant cousins
listen 2: the step clap, step clap kind of makes me cringe but otherwise incredible song, just need to mentally get over that and get in my hoedown era. 

it reminds me of Mayhem in the sense of reheating their own nachos, finding what they do best and delivering it in a concise, to-the-point package.

I think if she took some influence from Lolegendary Young and added some grittiness, realness, would've improved the album a lot. I get the vision of TLOAS, but it's mostly glossy.

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[retrosexual123 1,027]

listening now too.

the fate of ophelia is very max martin, especially the chorus

elizabeth taylor is classic taylor swift

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First 3 tracks are 10/10. Amazing so far. Opalite is the best till now. 

Edit: Father figure just started playing and it's so good. The ending. 

5th track in and it's equally good. I wouldn't be surprised if all songs end up being 10/10. Paino in first verse to guitar in 2nd version was so seamless.

Ruin the friendship reminds of SN and red. All songs are 10/10. Her voice is really sweet throughout the album. Instrumentals in each song ❤️

Actually romantic - Another 10/10.

Wish List - her singing is so melodious.

Wood: got morning hood with wood. I think everyone expected the album to sound like this. Instrumental shining again. Chorus is so red and 1989 coded. 

Cancelled: Wow wow wow. Wish the entire album was like this. 2nd half is sounding interesting. 

Honey: Sweet but didn't like it as  much until the bridge. 

The life of a showgirl: 10/10. The chorus is heavenly. Damn. 

Overall: Boring sound wise honestly but I did enjoy it a lot. Expected the album to sound more like Wood and cancelled. I can see why people are disappointed but as an album it's a solid piece of work. Just falls short to her earlier work. Instrumentals and production on each song shines for me. It's not exciting though. 

This album is like delicious combination of best aspect from each Taylor album. 

 

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[LadyxGaGa 2,351]

omg listening to it it now 

 

THIS SONG IS AMAZING 

[LadyEnigma 1,290]

I’m on Eldest Daughter and tbh so far the only song not clicking is Opalite I’m gonna go back to it after I listen once

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THE FATE OF OPHELIA 

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CANCELLED IS A BOP

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1 minute ago, LadyEnigma said:

I’m on Eldest Daughter and tbh so far the only song not clicking is Opalite I’m gonna go back to it after I listen once

Opalite is the best one till 6th track at least. I am sure you would like it sooner or later. 

[LadyxGaGa 2,351]

idk how to feel about elizabeth taylor the song structure is cool but the whole “elizabeth taylor” lyric seems too tongue in cheek 

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5 hours ago, PopEmergency said:

Turns out, Jack Antonoff wasn't the problem 

I don’t think he was necessarily a problem, it was just the excessive time working together.

He gave us reputation at the end of the day so 

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it is a bop so far, 3 tracks in

[NotoriousEden 307]

This is so awful omg

[Concertaholic 6,055]

Boy did she trick all of her consumers into thinking this would be a danceable pop album with Max Martin producing. Instead it’s another uninspired, mid-tempo snooze fest.

[Gagaism 12,054]

I love how the leak leak haters always comes first in the day for clocking in at their jobs lmao

anyways, will be listening tomorrow