Taylor Swift - ‘Life of a Showgirl’

[Ladle Ghoulash 27,032]

Taylor is addicted to misusing tropes and characters from Shakespeare lmao. Like what’s the point of making yourself Ophelia if you’re going to reduce Hamlet to a “bag full of scorpions?”

Edited Friday at 01:04 PM by Ladle Ghoulash

[TheFrenchGuy 255]

15 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Taylor is addicted to misusing tropes and characters from Shakespeare lmao. Like what’s the point of making yourself Ophelia if you’re going to reduce Hamlet to a “bag full of scorpions?”

If Travis is the man who saved her from Hamlet, who's Hamlet ? 

 

Found this quote on Genius :

Didn’t really need to reread it [Hamlet]. I wanted to sprinkle some references in the bridge, so like the the bridge references kind of some paraphrasing of some lines from Hamlet, so I did like do a little brush up. But I just love the idea that like, ‘You you saved me from love driving me mad,’ right? ‘Cause that’s what happened to Ophelia. Spoiler alert.

Edited Friday at 01:17 PM by TheFrenchGuy

[Ladle Ghoulash 27,032]

1 minute ago, TheFrenchGuy said:

If Travis is the man who saved her from Hamlet, who's Hamlet ? 

 

Found this quote on Genius :

Didn’t really need to reread it [Hamlet]. I wanted to sprinkle some references in the bridge, so like the the bridge references kind of some paraphrasing of some lines from Hamlet, so I did like do a little brush up. But I just love the idea that like, ‘You you saved me from love driving me mad,’ right? ‘Cause that’s what happened to Ophelia. Spoiler alert.

I mean…that’s also only kind of what happened to Ophelia. Sounds like she needed a more of a refresher after all lmao. 

[Holocene 51]

Some of the melodies feel way too familiar. Like, The Life of a Showgirl basically sounds like the Jonas Brothers’ Cool, and CANCELLED! is giving major Lorde Yellow Flicker Beat vibes.

[Mbc95 1]

On 10/1/2025 at 2:45 PM, Anderson123 said:

She's better at unveiling vinyl variants.

 

[calmar 22,322]

1 hour ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Taylor is addicted to misusing tropes and characters from Shakespeare lmao. Like what’s the point of making yourself Ophelia if you’re going to reduce Hamlet to a “bag full of scorpions?”

Looks like Taylor, too, was convinced when Hamlet pretended to go mad. Maybe if her mind was full of scorpions like MacBeth then she might feel a little bad for releasing such a tepid album.

[Ilia Malinin 1,733]

22 hours ago, bpmMonkey said:

Don't worry, I'm not loco - my name ain't Bella. 

need this on a shirt

[bpmMonkey 6,187]

2 minutes ago, Ilia Malinin said:

need this on a shirt

Now I wanna see the AI version of Gaga singing this 😭

[Vimo 1,169]

36 minutes ago, Holocene said:

Some of the melodies feel way too familiar. Like, The Life of a Showgirl basically sounds like the Jonas Brothers’ Cool, and CANCELLED! is giving major Lorde Yellow Flicker Beat vibes.

Never heard Cool before. I automatically heard Cruel Summer chorus too. Actually, The life of a showgirl sounds like No air by Chris Brown and Jordin Sparks. 

Edited Friday at 02:31 PM by Vimo

[MountainMonster 904]

So… it’s not good. The only song I’d tolerate revisiting is The Life of Ophelia, and I’m not eager to hear it again. Was hoping for a return to bolder, poppier and more fun. Instead it’s still mostly mid tempo and melancholic. 

[MountainMonster 904]

Also, in what way could Applause have possibly served any sort of inspiration for this album like people were speculating? 

[kimeow 467]

yall.. i had high hopes for this album. i'm not a taylor fan now but i used to be back in the day. when she booted jack antonoff i thought finally, she's gonna take a risk and do something different. and its literally the same slop she'd been doing the past 4 years with maybe a little less synthpop. very disappointing and a waste of cool aesthetics/concept.

[TheFrenchGuy 255]

That album made me appreciate Gaga's production even more. I didn't think music could sound that bland 

 

[LadyxGaGa 2,380]

3 hours ago, Teletubby said:

WOAH IS THIS REAL?? are we already getting the deluxe 

[atemybrain 2,079]

22 hours ago, andy232000 said:

So this is basically an album full of How Bad Do You Want Me’s?

Nowhere near that good tbh. I am really disappointed in this album because I have always enjoyed her music. I am genuinely shocked at how much I did not like it.