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Best Album/Era?

  • Taylor Swift (Self Titled Debut Album)

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Fearless

    Votes: 9 11.1%

  • Speak Now

    Votes: 6 7.4%

  • Red

    Votes: 8 9.9%

  • 1989

    Votes: 22 27.2%

  • Reputation

    Votes: 4 4.9%

  • Lover

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Folklore & Evermore

    Votes: 12 14.8%

  • Midnights

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • We're living in it as we speak.

    Votes: 12 14.8%
  • Total voters
    81
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It is like a prostitute buying back the used condoms from her johns.
 
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Took me a while, but I was able to get the text from her letter. Here it is:
"Hi,

I'm trying to gather my thoughts into something coherent, but right now my mind is just a slideshow. A flurry of memories of all the times I fantasized about, wished for, and prayed for a chance to get to tell you this news. All the times I second-guessed myself, wondering if it was ever going to be possible. I almost stopped thinking it could ever happen. After 20 years of hoping, the carrot dangled and then yanked away. But that's all in the past now. I've been bursting into tears of joy at random intervals ever since I found out that this is really happening. I really get to say these words:

All of the music I’ve ever made... now belongs to me.

And all my music videos.

All the short films.

The album art and photography.

The unreleased songs.

The memories. The magic. The madness.

Every single era.

My entire life’s work.

To say this is the greatest dream come true is actually being pretty reserved about it. To my fans, you know how important this has been to me — so much so that I meticulously re-recorded and released 6 of my albums, calling them Taylor’s Version. The passionate support you showed for those albums and the success of The Eras Tour is why I was able to buy back my music. I can’t thank you enough for helping me reunite with this art that I have dedicated my life to, but have never owned — until now.

All I’ve ever wanted was the opportunity to work hard enough to be able to one day purchase my music outright, with no strings attached, no partnership, full autonomy. I will be forever grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to offer that to me. Every interaction we had was honest, fair, and respectful. This was a business deal to them, but to me, it’s the most precious thing I’ve ever been a part of. My memories and the music I made, every laugh and every tear — they now belong to me. My team just got a little bigger with a new shamrock by our side.

I know, I know. What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven’t even started recording it. The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept it in the vault because I wanted to be over it before I re-recorded it. All that drama, the heartbreak, the rage, the mischaracterization. I kept putting it off because I thought it couldn’t be improved upon by re-doing the music or visuals. So I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you're waiting on the vault tracks from that album too — watch this space). I’ve already completely re-recorded and finalized Debut and TTPD. Those two albums can still have their moments. When the time is right, if that’s something you guys would be excited about, we’ll see. But it won’t come from a place of sadness or longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.

I’m extremely heartened by the conversations this saga has ignited within the industry among artists and fans. Every time a new artist tells me they signed their contract knowing they’ll own their masters — it’s because of this fight. I’m thankful to you for all of this to happen. Thank you for being curious about something that used to be thought of as too “industry-centric” to even discuss. You’ll never know how much it means to me that you cared. Every single bit of it counted and carried us here.

Thanks to you and your goodwill, teamwork, and encouragement, the best things that have ever been mine... finally are.

Elated and amazed,

Taylor."
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new album announced 'the life of a showgirl' and shes going on travis kelce and his brothers podcast wednesday 7pmET to properly reveal it. looking like a concept album from leaks
 
Backyard8405 said:
new album announced 'the life of a showgirl' and shes going on travis kelce and his brothers podcast wednesday 7pmET to properly reveal it. looking like a concept album from leaks
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All tracks seemingly produced/co-written by Max Martin & Shellback, hinted at by the promotional playlist along side the announcement. Also a lot of symbolism with 22, but I'm not sure what the deal there is apart from just being quirky.

There's also a leak from earlier of the booklet, which I believe to be genuine for the reason of lining up with that information & the album title track. Not sure if it's allowed or in interest to repost here.
 
If you search "Taylor Swift" in Google, the landing page for search results comes up with purple confetti and custom emojis floating around. Like this:

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I am not a Swiftie but I saw this on Reddit and had to try it myself. Jfc.
 
The instrumental of her diss track "Actually Romantic" is really similar to Where Is My Mind. So similar that I'm actually convinced that it's not a coincidence and that she just strummed the same tune on her guitar because she couldn't come up with anything else.
 
So I listened to snippets of this album out of genuine curiosity. I love a good train wreck.

It seems to me that this is an album that so badly wants to convince everyone that she's happy. Apparently, she thinks this is what happy sounds like, and to everyone else, it doesn't. I felt vaguely disgusted in places, as if I'd been insulted by someone lying to my face and thinking they could get away with it.

In a lot of places, it also seems like she's trying to fit non-lyrical lyrics into places that need lyrics, as if there's no meter, there are only just phrases she wanted and didn't want to bother making them more musical. A better artist could get away with that. She isn't that.

I always thought she was a hack and the claims she was some sort of genius songwriter were dubious, and this to me is the proof I was right, because this is what she sounds like when she's left with no one to rein in her worst instincts as a musician.
 
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