#categories bc i think that can stymie creativity although it is good for fans and critics when analyzing work. like i don’t look at my own | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dreamly · 1 year ago

Text

i agree with a lot of music fans and journalists/critics/artists that “lockdown”/“pandemic”/“quarantine” albums usually aren’t great and also don’t do very well, but i do think there is one truly incredible (at least in quality i haven’t looked at numbers and tbh i don’t really care) and maybe not the most obvious exception (well maybe it is obvious but i don’t see this album talked about a lot since like the month it came out and i don’t think i’ve seen it talked about in the conversations about art inspired by covid-19/lockdowns). anyway can we play a little game where you guys guess what album it is (this might help me find more good music or at least music you think i’d like as well as be [hopefully] fun!)

#also i know nobody cares any very few people probably read those tags but another side note to what i discussed there #(since i hit tag limit which btw SHOULD NOT EXIST—at least it shouldn’t when i want to speak)#is that i think the only time something being a breakup album is in itself a negative characteristic/a value judgement #is when that’s all an artist seemingly can or wants to write #and here’s where i have an unpopular opinion which is that i think this is actually something really great about taylor’s career in specific #like her first singles from debut were sad love songs but i wouldn’t consider debut or fearless breakup albums in the same sense as #the examples i mentioned in my previous tags #i they both definitely have breakup songs in them but i think in terms of the energy and theses of both of those albums they aren’t about #breakups in the same way red and even speak now are #like i the thesis statement of debut is a place in this world and for fearless it’s probably love story #which is obviously a love song but isn’t a breakup song at all #but i think it’s great that taylor broke onto the scene with those two albums and then wrote her ‘breakup albums’ and then changed genres #with 1989. which again is mostly ABOUT a breakup but is not energetically or conceptually at the time perceived as or remembered now #as a breakup album #and i don’t think taylor has written/released a breakup album since #although she is probably due for considering both the trajectory of her career and seemingly her personal life although i don’t want to get #into that #i also think the same thing i said about taylor’s career regarding breakup albums is true about olivia’s so far as well #like i was honestly kind of nervous that GUTS would be a breakup album in the way SOUR definitively is #based off the two singles released ahead of guts but instead the album again #has a lot of breakup songs but i don’t IS a breakup album #idk if i have enough tags to finish what i want to say i might have to reblog again but obviously andrew hasn’t called unreal unearth a #breakup album and i honestly think that’s a good thing bc i think it’s better for the art that creatives don’t put their work into #categories bc i think that can stymie creativity although it is good for fans and critics when analyzing work. like i don’t look at my own #writing and say oh this poem is my ode or this is my whatever etc. and i certainly don’t write something with an end goal of something #fitting into a tight category. what i do do sometimes is choose to write through a specific lens or in a certain voice but i feels that’s #different and quite a bit less limiting. (obviously there are many writers—probably mostly genre fiction writers—who find a lot of success #by working within stricter limits. but based on what i’ve heard and read i would say that generally doesn’t apply to poets #and by extension lyricists.)#ok i’m gonna have to reblog again sorry i have so much to SAY)

11 notes · View notes