Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled (2/5)
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Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl review – dull razzle-dazzle from a star who seems frazzled (2/5)
Posted by FlyGloomy1
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i listened to it because i’m an informed hater
im whelmed and her lyricism is atrocious, i’m so sorry
george michael died for this
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It is truly a baffling album. The first few songs and the title track are decent and the rest is just very, very bad. The production is great. Sonically it could have been one of her best ever, but the songs are ruined because this is the weakest her lyrics have ever been.
I listened to some of it and to me it felt like the album Trump would’ve made had he stayed in showbusiness. Incoherent, “scandalous”, and truly, auditorily assaulting.
She’s too concerned about quantity over quality.
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It will be interesting to see how popular it will be. I am sure massively popular among swifties but will the general public like it?
If she’d retired for awhile, right after the Eras tour, she could have gone out with a bang, settled into trad-wifery, and made a glorious comeback in her divorce era, in about 7 years.
I would say this album was trash but that would be an insult to trash.
>*There are some spiky lines here and there – “you made a deal with this devil / turns out my dick’s bigger” snaps Father Figure – but they don’t really click. Perhaps that’s because Cancelled! and Father Figure revisit very well-trodden ground, while eviscerating a rival when you’re the world’s most successful pop star is, by default, punching down, even if she did apparently call you “boring Barbie” behind your back.*
I’m a fan of hers but this was just bad. I can usually pick some songs that I love, or at least like, but this time if I never listen to the album again, I’d be fine.
You love to see it!
taylor releases another rushed, mid album that her fans will pretend is a masterpiece and obsess over until it becomes everyone else’s problem 😭
I fear the negative reviews will only make her more annoying.
Swifties are calling it album of the year 🤣
I’m very excited for the scathing Pitchfork review to drop
This album is worse than TTPTSD somehow… the lyrics are corny, too wordy and Max Martin and Shellback’s production wasn’t able to save it. Jack Antonoff is not the problem here after all. The first half of the album is half-decent and the rest feel like filler tracks to me
What a waste of the showgirl aesthetic
This album was like listening to a deflating balloon, and this is coming from a “hey kids, spelling is fun!” apologist
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Not mine ^(^) but Taylor just rising to the cultural moment with a song about loving her MAGA friends is a billionaires choice
I don’t see it winning awards or being lauded as her best work. But sometimes you just wanna turn your brain off and have beats you can bop to while stuck in traffic. That’s what this is. It’s like a fizzy wine spritzer you drink and then forgot you drank right after you finished. I enjoyed it while I was drinking it, but it’s not gonna change my life or anything.
the narrative I’m reading on twitter is it’s supposed to sound good, but the poor lyrics are just intentional as a justaposition. Like, go ahead and buy those variants then, I guess.
I’m almost done with the album, and yeah…This album has no hits. Looks like *Golden* will be displaced for a week on the Hot 100 and be right back to ruling the charts. What a waste of Max Martin.
when this was first announced I was really hoping it would be a concept album, like folklore/evermore, her characters and stories, every track a melancholy look into the lonely life of a showgirl. I’m disappointed.
I don’t mean this in the way of hating something simply because it’s popular, though I genuinely *genuinely* do not understand the crying, hyperventilating hype around TS. Some of her songs are fun to dance to on a night out with da gorls ..but the whole English teacher/poet notion baffles me. I know we all have different tastes, though I find her music both vapid and extraordinarily ordinary.
Me reading every scathing review knowing how great the Swifty reaction is going to be
Hands down her worst album. Her other albums at least have a mix of good and bad, this one is all bad. Not a single profound lyric.
Jack Antonoff is somewhere celebrating 🥂 I’m so sorry Jack for ever thinking you were the problem!
Genuine question: were her lyrics always this bad and juvenile? I’ve never been a big fan but remember thinking 15ish years ago that she was a talented song writer. But reading the lyrics to So High School and now Wood my reaction is
