They mostly found it disappointing, but are scared of receiving death threats from her fans. In a way, they were bullied into publishing positive reviews.
A lot of these reviewers are Swifties. Like I'm sure one of em wrote a book about Swift. They probably shouldn't review the albums of they're superfans imo.
Who’s torturing who here? Sorry, sorry. That isn’t the freshest zinger to zing in the direction of this sprawling new Taylor Swift double album, but please know that after funneling 19 of its 31 tracks through my headphones on Friday morning, my phone died, as if by its own volition. Same for any hope I had that the overall mood might improve in the third act of this two-hour hostage situation, a despair made manifest once I located my charger and heard the lyric, “My friends used to play a game where we would pick a decade we wished we could live in … I’d say the 1830s, but without all the racists
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Taylor Swift's new double album is “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.” (Republic Records/AP) That said, is this the album that finally grants us societal permission to say that Swift is not a great lyricist? She can be, sometimes, but greatness isn’t a part-time job, and the thinning thinness of her words can make big emotions feel hollow. Plus, the objects of affection that populate these midtempo reminiscences all sound like real creeps. “At dinner, you take my ring off my middle finger and put it on the one people put wedding rings on,” sings the most celebrated songwriter of her generation on her album’s title track, “and that’s the closest I’ve come to my heart exploding.” Oh man. In “The Manuscript,” she sings in the third person, describing a flame who once “said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation was, soon they’d be pushing strollers.” During “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” she gloms onto some imaginary bad boy, describing how “his hand, so calloused from his pistol, softly traces hearts on my
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I know art is subjective but I can't imagine anyone praising this. The lyrics were terrible, the production was meh, and the whole thing was just one boring mess. She must be paying them.
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Obviously no critic can be completely objective BUT having a huge Swiftie review the album seems not the greatest idea imo
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that's fucked, smh
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Florida is the only banger imo and I credit it to my love of Florence lol.
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Who’s torturing who here? Sorry, sorry. That isn’t the freshest zinger to zing in the direction of this sprawling new Taylor Swift double album, but please know that after funneling 19 of its 31 tracks through my headphones on Friday morning, my phone died, as if by its own volition. Same for any hope I had that the overall mood might improve in the third act of this two-hour hostage situation, a despair made manifest once I located my charger and heard the lyric, “My friends used to play a game where we would pick a decade we wished we could live in … I’d say the 1830s, but without all the racists ( ... )
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The lyrics were terrible, the production was meh, and the whole thing was just one boring mess. She must be paying them.
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