#lets hope tortured poets department is a wakeup call to these ppl. but also to quote my friend i hope that album is trying to be the smiths

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ok one more thing about miss swift that i've been thinking about and is maybe a bit meaner and also something that i'm not all that qualified to comment on given how poorly-refined my music taste is but like. i see many swifties say or act like folklore and evermore are her best albums when imo. they're mid. i usually prefer her pop and country. and it really seems like the love for these albums comes from a simple preference towards indie "sad girl" music (a preference i tend to share), rather than an actual evaluation of her strengths as an artist. when i listen to taylor swift's 2020 albums i enjoy some of the music but mostly it just reads as her trying extremely hard to write and be a genre that is just not really for her & one that she doesn't care to engage with meaningfully. and that's the thing, isn't it—to be a swiftie is to project your own interests and tastes and multifaceted self onto this concept of a person that attempts to suggest every idea under the sun but hasn't actually said anything in a long time.