#not a single song is mediocre

[andreainlove]

alex turner's songwriting is such a turn on.

[syn4k]

okay so after listening to what does the fox say for the first time since 2014 i have to say that it still goes HARD AS FUCK

[slutdge]

sorry i gotta be a hater about this. why do dorks on this app want to take a bullet for the dixie chicks so badly just cause they said fuck george bush that one time and had one really mediocre Girl Boss song, that doesnt absolve them of being textbook shitty 2000s gentrification pop-country music lmao

[bestangelofall]

Hmmm maybe the world is not lost, actually, maybe there is something good <- relieved that the new single of her favorite band is not bad.

[killjoy-prince]

That scientist should not be 18 years old are you kidding me???

[sapphic-cecaelia]

gbc had an unfortunately anticlimactic finale, ah well the show was still really damn fun

[notahorseindisguise]

i want to inject frank sinatras vocals

[eddis-not-eeddis]

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[formal-leatherjacket]

heard alleged bop espresso for the first time today and i just don't know anymore...

[h-f-k]

Taylor making cruel summer a single after so many years still makes me laugh

[nearlybanjou]

D-Day Chicago (May 3rd)

[slaapkat]

am I the only one who doesn’t think the new fob single that just came out is any good

[fire-faerie-nineteen]

Excuse me while I brain dump.

For so much of my life, I've considered myself to be a swiftie. Taylor Swift is the reason I started playing guitar. Taylor Swift is the reason I got through many of my interpersonal struggles in middle and high school. Taylor Swift is, in small part, the reason I am the writer and musician and woman I am today.

The first time I stayed up for an album release was Midnights, and it was disappointing. The second time was 1989 TV, and I never liked 1989 to begin with. The third time was last night for TTPD and it was...underwhelming?

Like, everyone online is freaking out about it, swifites are losing their goddamn minds and I just don't understand. She's written better songs instrumentally. She's written better songs lyrically. I think she's become so comfortable in her fame and her fans that she's just stopped trying. Folklore was a hit. Why change the formula?

I don't like her ballads very much. I never have. And this whole album (all both of them) was ballad after ballad after ballad and I simply do not care!!! There is a reason Lover and Speak Now and Fearless are my faves. Why is this woman incapable of being happy? Why is the only upbeat song on the new album about a shitty guy and why does nobody like it????

I think as I've grown and gotten older, I've started listening to people who have better lyrics and instrumentation (The Crane Wives and Madds Buckley come to mind) and Swift just doesn't resonate like she used to. Which is weird since she's gotten older too, and you think her music would reflect that.

This isn't a goodbye to Swift altogether. I will always be excited for a new album even if I suspect I'll be disappointed. I hope the next one comes out five years later and Jack Antonoff has nothing to do with it. I hope it has a new sound. And I hope there's not a single breakup song on it because at 30-whatever, it's lost its charm.

[akajustmerry]

I wanna say from very bottom of my heart that I deeply truly rabidly despise Taylor Swift and the glamorous black hole of immorality, gracelessness and lack of integrity she represents. I truly hate that I have to witness her 2-chord mediocre stream of consciousness high school ballads win the highest accolades in music. I hate how there's not a single discourse - from sports to fucking queer theory - that's free of her. I hate her white feminism, how she's never stood for a single thing that didn't ensure her wealth. I hate how she's credited and praised for things marginalised artists did before her. I hate how she latches onto new artists so they serve HER fame, like remoras to a shark. I hate her phony humble beginnings narrative that people parrot without acknowledging she's a nepo baby. I hate what she did to olivia rodrigo and how no one talks about it. I hate the waste her concerts, lifestyle, and merch create and that a young girl died from heat illness at her concert because the swift team prioritises exclusivity and profit over safety. I hate how she and her fandom popularised the idea that critiquing a woman = misogyny. I hate how she's in her mid 30s and still writes songs like she's a teenager and that songs written by a woman in her 30s acting like a teenager are inescapable. I hate she deliberately re-releases songs and records so other artists can't chart. I hate how she regularly and openly associates with bigoted people but somehow is always given the benefit of the doubt. Most of all I hate how she does and continues to do all of this and so much more and her fans will always have a, "but!" always have an, "anyway!". she's openly and uncritically supporting a presidential candidate who's administration is enacting genocide, but because she made a joke with her cats, we're meant to be like, "yay!" I truly despise Taylor Swift and the black hole of neoliberal white feminist mediocrity she is in popular culture.

[onthehighwaytomel]

Could I please just go ONE day without seeing Taylor Swift's name or picture? Just one? I don't think that's too much to ask.

[misterbaritone]

Y’know running through the islands and collecting the various music tracks from old games has helped me realize how forgettable Sonic Frontier’s ost is.