Pitchfork: 5.9 - The life of a showgirl

[Addison Rae 18,093]

i like taylor but yeah this album is very milquetoast, like how do you get max and shellback on board and market the album with glittery pop visuals and the album ends up being coffee shop background music 

[Anderson123 42,673]

7 hours ago, atemybrain said:

All joking aside, I really hope this makes her take a step back and find some new artistic inspiration. This girl is capable of making some great pop music, and I am very disappointed with the product she has been creating the last two albums. It's just so frustrating because I was actually very excited for this album, especially knowing Max Martin was involved. 

I really think she’s going to take her time with the next one which is #13, a very important number for her. Like I can see her making that country or some type of “back to her roots” nostalgia to the type of music she used to make like Fearless/Speak Now/Red and will be very Grammy bait and possibly outsell Life of a Showgirl. She’s really gonna try to make one for Album of the Year win. 

[Lord Mayhem 3,425]

I still have yet to listen to this album...based on what people have said...its just one long song and nothing really stands out 

Is this true? Did she finally flop?

[Wolf Boy 3,581]

The Life of a Flopgirl. 

[nATAH 56,917]

54 minutes ago, Lord Mayhem said:

Is this true? Did she finally flop?

even worse: she's about to break adele's record of first week sales

it's about time billboard starts splitting sales between variants so we can end this madness for good

[Lord Mayhem 3,425]

11 minutes ago, nATAH said:

even worse: she's about to break adele's record of first week sales

it's about time billboard starts splitting sales between variants so we can end this madness for good

Its quite obvious that's her only way of making sales is by artifically inflating the numbers based on dumb variants...

[TheARTPOPball 1,631]

10 hours ago, calpky said:

I'm not a swiftie, just a casual listener, but the dogpiling/tribalism everyone is showing is so gross. The same sh*t you see in high school, work places, etc.. always wanting to see the "top dog" fail because everyone is secretly jealous and miserable.

Anyway, I enjoyed the album, Fate of Ophelia is an incredibly catchy song, one of her best leads imo. 

Or we just don’t like the album 😭

[Lucas 31,108]

18 hours ago, elsamars said:

Oh no I wanted it get lower than 143

 

That paid Rolling Stone review is really saving this album’s Metacritic score because of weight system. She spent her money right.

 

 

 

Oh she's once again reposting the good reviews hoping that those reviewers will give good reviews to have a retweet from her

[Sepsami 20,953]

19 hours ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

If it wasn't for this downwards pointed red arrow I would have never known the severity of her decline, thanks! Now I know I can be justified in my fight against the swifties on stan twattr! 

[Bling 31,680]

3 hours ago, Lord Mayhem said:

I still have yet to listen to this album...based on what people have said...its just one long song and nothing really stands out 

Is this true? Did she finally flop?

I'm definitely not a Taylor fan or even casual listener, but instead of being judgemental and having no basis for criticism I always listen to her projects to see what the fuss is about.

Imo at least it was more entertaining than TTPD. That album was a boreee and draggg. This one is at least upbeat but some very odd lyric choices and songs don't really go anywhere. Mid, nothing memorable, no new territory, no artistic growth.

And sorry but she is 1 year younger than me and still writing like and talking about high school, and she's about to get married?  Tbh I would be fine if she never made music ever again, but if she does can she at least go away for a while?

Edited October 7, 2025 by Bling

[GagaUnderYou 5,018]

The Life of an ARTPOP Girl

[SlaeUrAnus 16,111]

[LadyxGaGa 3,220]

20 hours ago, Anderson123 said:

I really think she’s going to take her time with the next one which is #13, a very important number for her. Like I can see her making that country or some type of “back to her roots” nostalgia to the type of music she used to make like Fearless/Speak Now/Red and will be very Grammy bait and possibly outsell Life of a Showgirl. She’s really gonna try to make one for Album of the Year win. 

omg pls is she stripped everything back and made a debutesque album 

[salty like sodium 2,259]

On 10/7/2025 at 5:18 AM, Anderson123 said:

I really think she’s going to take her time with the next one which is #13, a very important number for her. Like I can see her making that country or some type of “back to her roots” nostalgia to the type of music she used to make like Fearless/Speak Now/Red and will be very Grammy bait and possibly outsell Life of a Showgirl. She’s really gonna try to make one for Album of the Year win. 

please, enough, she has 4 already... 

[Hadrian 2,630]

I keep going back and forth with this album lmao. 5.9 seems fair to me.

Like... it's not an amazing dinner for me, but I think it's a tasty peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

 

edit: I added some of the more upbeat songs from TTPD on my iTunes and now it's a PBnJ sandwich with a glass of milk.

Edited October 12, 2025 by Hadrian