#but i dont wanna be plugged into the swiftosphere anymore

[abandonedtay-ever-lore]

not that this blog was ever all that active anyways but I'm fully abandoning it. a lot of my feelings on why are somewhat summed up in this post, but I feel like the release of ttpd has only frustrated me more.

the way that taylor has been handling her album drops feels like a straight up scam & a money grab. it feels greedy, & I'm over it. not really interested in keeping up w her or anything related to her anymore.

I have some thoughts on the midnights release, & what sparked this is some theorizing I saw about 1989 tv. I've been complaining about it since forever but I haven't seen anyone else talk about it. it might be more talked about here on tumblr but I wouldn't know cause I've been spending too much time on tiktok 😬 im gonna put it all under a read more bc its 1989 tv drop night & i dont wanna be a party pooper. if you don't wanna hear someone be pissy about taylor swift, then just ignore this

it really really frustrates me that there isn't a widely available physical copy of midnights w ALL of the songs on it. not to be harsh, but I would even go as far to say that it feels really scammy how the taylor swift brand spent months advertising the midnights variants to us & then 3 hours after it was officially released, we get told that there are 7 Extra Songs that are not on Any of the variants that millions of ppl prepaid for. that's horrible! it got spun as this really cutesy surprise for all of us but basically what we were told after the midnights release was that 'hey! all that money you spent on all those variants? they aren't even technically the full album! hope you like them!'

maybe it's just not a big deal to other ppl. I really love collecting the physical cds but the way midnights was done is just ridiculous. I'm not going to pay for an album that has 2/3 of the total songs on it. at least from speak now to 1989 era, she released a deluxe album alongside her regular album so you had the choice of getting extra songs. but midnights has nothing of the sort except for a variant sold at the merch stands of one show? (& maybe I'm wrong on this, but I think some ppl said even that didn't have all of the songs on it.) & this choice was just insane. like if you can make the cds to sell at a show, which was famously impossible to get tickets for, why not make the cds widely available to your entire audience?

& the fact that she only has a digital copy of that version in her store but it was never more widely produced. it's just stupid. why would I pay for only part of a full tracklist.

& I've seen some ppl saying maybe the 1989 variants will each have their own different bonus songs or whatever & it gives me a freaking migraine. I don't want that At All. I won't buy a physical copy unless I can have all the songs. I just don't see the point in getting it otherwise. I still havent bought a single copy of midnights bc of it.

I don't want to be rude & I don't like criticizing taylor. tiktok swifties downright refuse to say anything bad about her ever honestly. I still love her music & her abilities 1000%, but this specific thing makes me feel so upset. I tried to make this sound mature & not super angry, but genuinely that whole situation still makes me mad.