Don’t get me wrong because I genuinely think Taylor Swift is a talented lyricist but she really has not artistic growth… She has written the same exact songs four hundred times but now she just puts a random words generator. Like, some of those lyrics sound AI generated. And she’s 34 years old but her albums still speak on the same things. There’s zero evolution. Some of those lyrics feel targeted to a 19 years old that is in her “indie aesthetically bad boys that get high and I think I can fix phase” which is basically the same as her old material but way more cringey for some reason. And I’m not trying to compare but Beyoncé at that age was making Lemonade. It’s hard to think this is the biggest pop star the world has to offer us. This is white mediocrity. The songs are fun to edit over fictional characters but when you put into perspective her whole work is so lackluster. So utterly boring and predictable. Maybe she needs to take a break (?). And somehow, people and white music critics will pretend this album is comparable to the likes of Cowboy Carter.
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Like, yeahh Jack can be versatile (after all, he has produced OOTW, LWYMMD, Illicit Affairs, and Gold Rush, and these songs are quite different from each other sonically), but I don't think him and Taylor are really pushing each other anymore. After all, a good chunk of TTPD could've gone on Midnights (Fortnight, TTPD, ICDIWABH, MBOBHF, Down Bad) and Midnights itself sounds like a mix of 1989's and Rep's productions. And idk when his work with another artist (Sabrina's Please 3x) sounds like it could've gone on one of Taylor's latest releases (Midnights or the 1989 TV vault), it's a little concerning...
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Musical success is a scale where you want to be highly talented, recognized, and compensated, but not so much that it turns you into a crazy person who can only make music about how talented, recognized, and compensated you are
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Sitting in the dark
Staring at the wall
You’re with someone else
You tell me it’s my fault
That I deserve it all
Every time you say you’re gonna change
It sounds so familiar
But every time, it happens once again
Well, I’m tired of your bullshit
You took my heart and ate it
But I won’t be your victim
Can't take it anymore
I guess I wasn’t perfect
But you were further from it
You’re nothing but a monster
And I was your prey, carnivore
And I was your prey, carnivore
Sneaking in the door
You think that I don’t know
Try to shrug it off
I caught you in the act
Don’t you even try
To tell me that this time you’re gonna change
It sounds so pathetic
‘Cause every time, it happens once again
Well, I’m tired of your bullshit
You took my heart and ate it
But I won’t be your victim
Can’t take it anymore
I guess I wasn’t perfect
But you were further from it
You’re nothing but a monster
And I was your prey, carnivore
After all is said and done
(You’re just a carnivore)
I let you in to drink my blood
(You’re just a carnivore)
But you never had enough
(You’re just a carnivore)
‘Cause after all is said and done
You’re just a carnivore
You’re just a carnivore
You’re just a carnivore
I’m tired of your bullshit
You took my heart and ate it
But I won’t be your victim
Can’t take it anymore
I guess I wasn’t perfect
But you were further from it
You’re nothing but a monster
And I was your prey, carnivore
And I was your prey, carnivore
And I was your prey, carnivore
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I'm gonna say something controversial and I don't care what y'all think of me after because a) I'm right and b) it's called a difference of opinion
twenty one pilots first 2 albums (self titled and vessel) were genuinely beautiful works of art and it was honestly really fucking weird that everyone decided they were Problematique because they "made music to profit off mentally ill people" as if they couldn't just be mentally ill people making art for themselves and the people like them. also there's no way you can listen to oh miss believer and not be moved
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Hello! I have a suggestion about a line from your Cherry Hunt translation; I've recently been informed that the term "three in a bed" is likely from darts, where it means to land three darts in the same number. I thought I'd let you know in case you decide to revise the translation of the line "私の心へthree in a bed." Thank you for all the translation work you've done through the years!
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Yes, that is very helpful information, thank you. I've done a quick revision of that segment. I'd never heard that before (granted, I don't play darts).
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between the asylum jokes and the psych ward jokes and the hospital band bracelets and everything else....the post-ttpd release time has not been fun I feel like I'm having to swat at flies to the point where I just don't feel like engaging with a lot of taylor-related things anymore
Same, it's not fun coming on here and seeing people having to explain for the 101035689th time why making asylum jokes is offensive and why you should apply these songs to your life and move on from Taylor's exes (like a few jokes are fine, but when you're keeping tabs on what they're up to just so you can mock them... you might as well make a fan blog for them).
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