“The Marvel of Pop Music” is such an amazingly accurate description.

Finally some actual honest reviews... sick and tired of fellow Swifties and critics acting like this is her best work yet.

Folklore/Evermore was PEAK Taylor Swift for me.

When constructive criticism is misread as insults, there’s no room for growth. That’s the issue with Swift, Drake, and a half dozen acclaimed artists who aren’t challenged (or challenging themselves) at all.

I don’t understand why Taylor doesn’t want to take a break. Girl go on vacation or something.

Taylor used gay rights as her new aesthetic in the Lover era and even made a ✨stunning and brave✨doc about her coming out as a Democrat and then acts all mad when people are surprised that she associated herself with a controversial guy? I don't care who she dates and I think it's embarassing how some of her fans wrote her a letter telling her to break up with him, that's an insanely unhealthy level of parasocial relationship. However, she doesn't get to be shocked if people are disappointed to see her date a guy like Matty Healy, it makes it seem like she just used gay people to promote her music. It's so dumb how her hardcore fans are acting like she "ate up all the haters" when the only person she embarassed is herself and exposed how she really only cares about social justice issues when it benefits her.

I think she's scared to take risks, especially big ones. She doesn't want to fall from the massive fame she's at right now.

it feels like an extremely long and watered down version of midnights with lyrics trying to be as poetic and complicated as possible

I saw one reviewer said she’s the level of fame now that Oprah was in the ‘90’s, given her influence in the music scene, helping to save movie theatres with her concert documentary, and even helping sell NFL merch for that football player she’s dating. And well… I can see it.

I did not like her mentioning Kim's kids . Im not a kim fan at all she annoys me but bringing up kids in an adult beef that ended years ago is foul

the album is so bloated. Woman get a damn editor!

I'm seeing why normally artists wait 2-3 years between albums. It's cool to not make fans wait so long between releases but I'd rather she put the effort into a good 15 song album than a mediocre double album that sounds identical to the last album. It's impressive how much effort she's putting into recording however I feel like people are so blinded by the work ethic she's displaying they're not viewing the quality of the work itself objectively

(Saying this as a long-time massive fan) I feel like this album feels different because for the first time, her writing is aware of her god-like status. It feels incredibly parasocial, self-conscious, and yet cocky somehow. You said that it feels like she's trying to prove something, but to me it almost feels like she thought her pen was inevitably made of gold? I can only attribute the cringier lines to that kind of blindness, and I'm not saying this in a hateful way. I don't think the writing's bad; I think it's inconsistent and there's a reason why. You need to have a strong (and kind of misguided) sense of self-importance to think that lyrics such as “Tattooed Golden Retriever” are worth even jotting down. It's just interesting as a psychological phenomenon because she's always written from the perspective of trying to prove her writing to the critics, but now she clearly knows that the industry is wrapped around her finger. I understand that her writing style will continue to change for as long as she lives, I just need her new influences to settle and mix to match with her style. I won't be talking about the production bc I know we must all agree

Was this album bad? No But was this album good, especially considering Taylor's other albums? Not at all, this feels like Midnights watered down, but it has some great gems

If this wins over Country Carter at the Grammys next year, the internet will be in shambles

Welp, knowing that she’s crying about missing her racist ex boyfriend makes that album even less interesting. Knowing that he was watching videos of BW being violated wasn’t a turn off for her.

SAY IT LOUDER. I'm a swiftie and I don't like the past two albums, definitely no quality control.

The diss track about Kim Kardashian isn't the serve Taylor and her fans think that it is. That fiasco was almost 10 years ago and Kim hasn't even talked about Taylor since then. The song just seems petty and childish at Taylor's big age. I think Taylor's critics might be on to something when they say she's stuck in a teenage mindset

I agree I think she likes making money and likes being on top, but also wants to be taken seriously as an artist. And I think those wants are okay, but she’s churning out work like clockwork so I’m not surprised. I’m not a fan of hers but I respect her business decisions for the most part but this is just ???? Part of making great art is that it imitates life which means you have to live it. Obviously the average Joe who does art as a hobby cannot afford to stop working. But artists especially as big as her, can. She’s been in our faces nonstop since 2020/2021? When she released folklore. She in the last 3-4 years has released 4 original albums, I think like 5 re-recordings, had one of if not the biggest world tour, and one of her highest profile relationships which is very public and is profiting off of it. She is way too overexposed. She hasn’t “clocked out “ of work for four years. She needs to sit back and live life so she can create new ideas that are interesting and show growth. Be like dua lipa and go on vacation or something

The fact that she could've easily changed the 1800's lyrics to maybe a Bridgerton reference with all the dresses and ballgowns and romance but she chose to word the actual lyrics in such an awkward way and everyone heard this line and thought it was fine to release💀

I find her early music more entertaining. It’s felt frivolous and immature, but fun. As she grows, the narratives are tired. It’s no longer fun. It’s all self indulgent blaming everyone else or an introspective look that’s indulgent. And it’s worrying that’s the message to young people from her. There’s a total lack of ownership, but laden with blame, seen as empowering or reclaiming, and it just isn’t.

She’s deathly afraid of becoming irrelevant and “nothing new”. Self-fulfilling prophecy.

Also can I just add that the inspirations from Lana del Rey are so on the nose? The opening line for the title track is , diction wise, the exact same for mariners apartment complex “You left my typewriter at my apartment, straight from the tortured poets department” “You took my sadness out of context, at the mariners apartment complex” Not to mention other blatant inspirations - almost perfect copying of Lana such as the mention of Chelsea hotel, “daddy” usage, the themes of the fatalist lover, the themes of melancholy and dispair and poetry. It feels like she’s trying to become a more commercially successful version of Lana del Rey. I’m not saying that Lana OWNS any of those styles but the similarities are uncanny

The idea of her creating a song about his depression leaves me conflicted. Living with someone who has endured mental illness, I get that it's a tough journey. My own experiences with my mother have left their mark on me. I recognize that for an artist, music is a form of expression, a necessary release. Yet, there's something about it that just doesn't sit right with me.

I dont think she cares enough, she mentions Kim's daughter on one of her songs. I like that Joe isn't a part of the narrative anymore, everyone talks about her giving him her youth, but she wasn't the only one who wasted a part of her life, and its worse when the other person referred as the time you both had together as being on prison, and also exposing how you had depression and that is stopping you from giving your everything to a relationship.

Big fan of her music but this album was clearly not for me. She is kinda in a state where she can do anything now and she won't lose fans, kind of like Drake. I think she's reached her ceiling with Jack too, very obvious here. The Dessner produced tracks were much better too in this album too. I'm not sure if comfort or if its just her in a state where she just does wants what she wants and that's how I feel really listening it. I don't have any desire or urge to relisten her songs on this album outside of several songs.

the swifties in the comments fighting for their lives 😭

the title of this video is so real.... as a taylor music enjoyer I'm starting to feel like that too

This is so strange, because she has always been popular in Europe, but I never thought that I would hear about her EVERYWHERE. Literally, I can't break free. Everything I know about her and her music is against my will. I wonder if people who say that her albums are "masterpieces" really think so, or has the level of good pop music dropped that much? I have nothing against her fans, let everyone listen to what they want, but it annoys me that she is everywhere and people react strangely to the fact that I don't listen to her. I get second-hand embarrassment when I see her lyrics.

Jack tries so hard to make her lana 2.0, I also didn't understood what the "I was a functioning alcoholic til nobody noticed my new aesthetic" line meant, the toxic swifties called me stupid and never explained it to me

Praying for you honest, here’s hoping you don’t get torn apart 😂

I have been a swiftie for a very long time, and yet even I am tired of other swifties constantly telling people "you don't like this album because you just don't get it"...🤡

''I can Fix Him(No really I can)'' GIRL💀

Taylor's new albums are just not for me I feel like ever since midnights she has been releasing mid music and I feel like she is aware that her large fan base will buy and stream it anyway 💀😭

I feel like her team is trying to make her surpass Beyonce and they will always fail and the reason for that is because Beyonce actually takes her time to do her albums whereas Taylor drops an album every year working with the same producer and writer and after all you are right it’s becoming like Marvel in the beginning the movies were great then over time loses its luster.. it’s like wash rinse repeat

I stopped being her fan when i came to the realisation that in every relationship, she's the one who is wronged. 😅 I'm now old enough to not fall that shit

"Everything is starting to feel disenchanted, conveyor belt oriented in a remix of the same formula. " " Some songs should stay in a vault, the album almost just feels like a straight-to-the-point diary entry." This is on point! It is not a terrible album, It's just juvenile.

I grew up with Taylor's music and was a fan since 2008. But she's 34 now and still writes songs the exact same way as she did when she was 17. Compare her to other artists like Adele, who is literally just a year older than her but writes songs that are mature and appropriate for an adult in her 30s. At this rate, I can totally see Taylor writing the same kind of songs from her dairy at 50. It's kind of cringe.

Finally an honest review. Swifties act like this is some amazing art.

if she was a video game she’d be Call of Duty, yearly releases with the same safe formulas and barely anything new

it’s just inauthentic. like with the album title name and the tracklist of and lyricism, she’s trying very hard to be lana del rey or phoebe bridgers. i can understand that it’s inspiration, but at what cost? an artist makes songs that are overtly influenced by their inspiration, and that’s fine, but the main thing is, is the song/album good though? can you be more cohesive ? if not, then i’ll just dismiss it as a wannabe 🤷🏾‍♀️ also this album is the definition of victim complex, narcissism and selfishness. a swiftlyneutral reddit post about it said it the best, i can’t cause it’s too long lol

This album is way too long and boring. Taylor is a brilliant artist but this was not it.

i dont doubt that taylor is talented and knows how to play the game, but she's not that creative and should take a break from releasing music. 31 tracks and none of them stand out. like, she's in such a sweet spot in her career, which is so rare to get when you're in your mid 30's. anything she does will do well, so she might as well experiment and try to be more original and creative, but she's still doing generic shit with pretentious lyrics. folklore was what made me really interested in her work, but everything after that sounds bad (except the rerecordings). we all love a breakup song, but god, give it a rest.

Maybe the swifties need to realize that people put on these sorts of pedestals also get more scrutiny than just anyone else. You cannot have it both ways, and also - labeling all of the push back against the album as toxic and of the like is disgusting (at best). But whatever, fanboyism is the same no matter where you find it, and you can find it almost anywhere in high supply.

The thing about every Taylor Swift album is that my first impression is never my lasting opinion. She has so many albums that I didn’t love that much at first, and now I really enjoy them.

I would’ve been hesitant to marry her if I were Joe too. She clearly wanted Ratty for years (she admitted in a song that past tracks on folklore/evermore were actually about him). Joe knew. He asked if they were just friends. Between depression and knowing that she’s pining for some other dude, why would he propose?

I got chewed up by Taylor fans because I asked if Taylors entire concerts are just her strutting the stage and then holding a pose. Apparently it is and they were mad at me for it.

TTPD sounds like a bunch of songs that were rejected from Midnights *edit: I feel like Joe's depression meshed with Taylor when they first got together because she was also at her lowest and wanted to hide away with someone who understood her sadness. But once her reputation rebounded and she was on top of the world again and happy, his depression got too difficult to deal with.

She’s the Mcdonals of music industry.

The conflict between production, melody, and wordiness is really interesting to me because it reminds me of Bob Dylan, who's her polar opposite in terms of culture and counterculture. Taylor's writing is beginning to be mythicized just the same, tho. You don't necessarily hear people critiquing the lack of musicality in Dylan's later records-they just say it's not for everyone and that it's the lyrics that matter. For Taylor, though, I wonder how she'll reconcile that with her mainstream-pop-artist status. I feel like her writing will eventually be studied widely in academia (in fact we've seen that happen in recent years) just like Dylan's, and as such, she will be judged in harsher, more rigorous ways. As in, nobody denies Dylan's writing skills, but critics, scholars, and fans do agree that there are bad Dylan albums. I believe that's what's in store for Taylor; eventually her pop-titan status will be traded for a quieter, more objective devotion from a more niche audience. Just like purists and Dylanists, only old Swifties and new Swiftists will stay. It really is fascinating to witness her transition from a celebrity to a myth real-time.

As a Swiftie, I'll say that this album was a huge disappointment. I mean, it's not bad but she tried to sell it as her best work ever, the title is way too much for what the lyrics are saying, and no, I don't think they "don't make any sense", cause they do, and they are universal as usual, making it easily relatable to a lot of people, but even with that, the poetry is not that great in here, I think Midnights had better lyrics, Maroon, The Great War and Snow On The Beach easily beat mostbof the lyrics in Poets. About the production, this was the first time an album from her made me go "again?", it's like Midnights but soulless, with only a few exceptions like The Alchemy, Florida!!!, The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived or Who's Afraid Of Little Old Me. I think that the second part of the album is more poetic, but evermore and folklore would win a fight against it. I've been trying to like it more, but I don't think I'll love it that much in the future.

Exposing her ex's depression like that to her RABID DOGS of a fanbase, knowing that they will attack him mercilessly, and not even trying to tell her fans to stop, IS DESPICABLE! He most likely despises her now and i wouldn't blame her. He trusted her with that and in her pettiness broke the trust

taylor is feeling so poetic that some words and lyrics are forced to be in a melody which is not good to hear and sounds awkward

this album seems like it is meant only to appeal to ardent swifties, people who know all the "lore" about her life and fawn and obsess over it. I don't see how anyone outside her cult would enjoy these songs because they simply don't appeal outside from her spilling specific "tea" about her life in the lyrics. her songwriting is incredibly rote on midnights and TTPD, it seems like she is on auto-pilot, which is disappointing as a casual listener who really came to respect her songwriting with folklore-evermore. it's nice for her fans that she keeps feeding them, but I think she needs to take some time to really craft some new ideas for her music. I don't expect her to really get experimental or try something new because that's never been the kind of artist she is. but I just get frustrated when her fans try to argue she is the best artist/songwriter working right now, when she simply is not

I've felt this way about Taylor Swift's songs for a while. She has had some good songs in the past, but the hype around her right now is not justified at all.

I just don't buy her act anymore. Some artists really milk depression and mental illness, when really they just want the attention. She's always the unlucky one in love, but looks so happy when the cameras are out, hugging on an NFL player. 🙄🙄 some folks are just addicted to being relevant...

ngl i think her new album is really really bad. i hope we were getting another folklore or evermore(or something similar) but we got this long mess of a project. this better not win album of the year at the grammys also i hate the charlie puth line, his music is so basic and boring and you could’ve shouted out a better artist than him, like idk, charli xcx? someone who pushes the boundaries and experiments?

She's literally a billionaire trying to be relatable so bad. I don't know why people give so much attention to this serial dater. She's the most surface level "deep person" I've ever heard. She's like the girl in middleschool who pretends to be emo just to fit in to the "depressed and misunderstood" crowd

the annoying part is how her biggest stans insist that everyone who doesn’t like her lyrics simply “don’t understand”. Like when people criticize the 1800s lyric, but they bombarded you with “no, no, no, the next line literally says nostalgia makes you overlook the bad” Like MA’AM, we know, we’re wondering who tf other than white or uneducated people would be nostalgic for 1800s because i immediately think typhoid and colonialism. Even as an English major, all the written works of the 19th century are just complaining about society. Like idc if you like pride and prejudice, life was butt

i wouldn’t go as far as calling the album bad, but it definitely was not good. especially by taylor’s standards . it was bland, and the production was repetitive. it also did not take any risks at all, which i can at least give midnights credit for doing. the reviews that ttpd have been fairly accurate and i’m glad that people are finally starting to take off the rose colored lenses for taylor with this album.

Me personally I love the album BUT I understand not liking it and it definitely should not get album of the year. Also, it’s another album for the fans/people who know the lore about her.

Imagine being in a relationship but writing a whole album about your ex

Taylor's becoming that annoying aunt who wont stop bringing you things which are her albums 😅😅😅😅

She copies Lana del rey's voice a lot on the album

i also think that the reason she doesn't have anything else to talk about on her songs is because she just doesn't do anything interesting or new, she dates guys. that's it. and she doesn't think too hard, and is not interested in using her power and status to do actual good as other artists do. and it's just disappointing and so sad. i think she caught the fact that people love her relationship/guys/dates drama and she's not trying to do anything else it's really upsetting.

I was expecting something like Folklore & Evermore but this album is much weaker lyrically.

She’s gotten so big that she does not seem to care about the actual music

the name of the album is accurate cause after I forced myself to listen to those 31 songs I really felt tortured.

As a Swiftie, I have to agree. I think she needs a break and get some fresh creative juices flowing. Do I think the new album was terrible? No. Do I think it was great? No. It’s really a mixed bag. When people say it needs some editing, I have to agree. It got too wordy when it was unnecessary. I do think that some people and critics were unnecessarily harsh in what they had to say and it bordered on criticism on her personal life rather than the music.

I liked the album way more than midnights lol, the production is way way better and the lyrics on the second side is folkmore level, I don't understand how people say it's not good.

The bullying line was so unnecessary for me lmao

as someone who loves and resonates with "i hate it here" (the song w/ the 1830s line), i feel like she seems to romanticize it because it was a time she was not a part of. she would choose to be anywhere rather than the present, and on second thought , she realizes nostalgia for a seemingly idyllic time is bs. personally (as an afro-latina lol), i understand what she is trying to say. i almost feel like i'd want to go back to that time too because books and movies display a time that seemed much more peaceful. clearly, this isn't the case, and i think that is what taylor is trying to get at.

As someone who likes her music, I 100% agree. This album was so disappointing and I honestly couldn't tell some of the songs apart from others. I just want the rest of the re-recordings

Midnights was a stronger body of work. TTPD is also too long.

My sister became a fan of Taylor Swift when Love Story came out, and when You Belong With Me came out, I decided to listen to Fearless and found that it was a solid album, as were Speak Now, Red, and 1989 when they came out. Reputation left a bad taste in both my and my sister’s mouths, Taylor had clearly become a sour person and let the album be a bunch of sour grapes, a friend of mine who worked at Walmart at the time told me that the album was having trouble selling at his store, that they were overstocked. Lover didn’t hit the same after Reputation had left such a stain. Listening to evermore and folklore felt like a Renaissance for her, but Midnights and this current album just feel disillusioned. Hopefully, newer artists like Olivia Rodrigo can learn from Taylor’s mistakes.

jack and taylor are both great artist but i feel they both hold eachother back. They have found what theyre comfortable with and stuck with it. Both of them have shown they can achieve newer sounds when they explore new producers/artist

I was actually going to listen the day it dropped (around late afternoon while I was cleaning), but I saw it was a DOUBLE album with over 30 songs... That just mentally drained me and I opted to wait until later to listen. I still haven't yet haha It's wild because aside from the Kim K diss and the 1830s lyric; I haven't heard many people talking about the album 😬

Her worst album yet And the lyrics are cringe

Title EATS💯

I just cannot listen to an album riddled with matty healy references because every time, that clip of him laughing about j*cking off to “gh*tto gaggers” and his ex’s disgusted reaction to a “black woman being absolutely brutalized” (his words) will come back to haunt me every time… as does the shocked and confused realization that she literally kept dating him for MONTHS after that interview first circulated. That was so much more disturbing to me than the ice spice comments and I was equally disturbed that featuring ice spice was all it took for the world to just pretend that part of the interview never happened.

exactly "She isn't exempt from Criticism", people saying that she could've done better on the albums, doesn't make them taylor's hater.

I would be scared to become Taylor Swift's boyfriend.

I said the exact same thing initially "some songs should stay in the vault" and how it feels like a direct diary entry. HOWEVER a lot of the songs did really grow on me after a while which i was surprised by. I think releasing the double album was a mistake it was too overwhelming mightve been better to drop the anthology a week or two later, from a listeners perspective

Glad to see someone else didn't enjoy it as much as some of her other work. See, this is me coming off as a normal fan not a diehard Swiftie. If I like something, I'll give it props. However, if someone doesn't live up to the hype or isn't her best work; I'll let ya know! Despite being 30+ songs...I didn't enjoy enough of this double album to justify the 2 hrs spent listening to it. I mean could this be Swift fatigue in the same vain as superhero fatigue from Marvel? Could be, but I don't think that's it. There's been a massive over saturation of Swift over the past couple of years. For good reason I suppose and this isn't me hating on her success. It just seems that a lot of music is coming out from her and quickly. Of course, most of her releases are re-recordings of her original albums. So, when she finally puts out some new work you'd think it would be great! Midnights and Lover were shorter albums, but there were more songs from them that I loved compared to The Tortured Poets Department. Considering I never really followed any of the media around her relationship with that one guy that was bringing her bad press; all of those songs about that didn't matter to me at all.

ugh you never read the lyrics and took a really deep dive you took it literally...

She’s a one trick pony. All she writes about is how she’s victimized by somebody.

7:36 Personally if someone made a revenge porn music video of me after lying and editing a phone call to try and ruin my career, and their wife went to the set and laughed at the naked mannequin that is supposed to resemble my body, I would be pretty upset too.

The black and white of ttpd got me soooo excited to hear another album like folklore… but was sorely disappointed

Yay FINNALY someone who doesn’t say “i hate Taylor swift, she sucks” instead of giving an actual review!!

The depression line by Taylor Swift is a direct criticism of how failing mental illness has become a trend or worst, a personality trait for the mentally ill to gain public sympathy. I agree with her on that: someone mentally ill is too messy for anybody else to handle and not chronically online, sharing and documenting their manic episodes.

Does Taylor have a single song about her relationships where she is singing about the dissolution being her fault? Basically “I had a good man but effed things up” message or “I demanded too much of you and didn’t give you enough of Me” message, or a “If I could do things over I would do things differently” message. That would actually be refreshing This woman is in her mid thirties, has had like 20 exes, had a lot of struggles keeping but not getting a man and no one wanted to marry this chick??? She’s the lowest common denominator in all of these failed relationships/situationships and it can’t never be her fault but that’s how all her songs about relationships are framed. It’s BORING.

Who’s the DC of Pop Music? As in an equally popular artist who’s record label is actively ruining their career and their image?

I am not a fan of her's because i think all of her music sounds the same. Especially this album it is not for me. We know what we are going to get her talking about her exes and her sounding like a teenager. I just can't. ANd if people say they are not a fan of her or her music we are "hating".

I don’t know why people are surprised. She’s still doing the eras tour so it makes sense to stick with a similar style as her other work to wrap up everything that’s been happening in her life til now. She’ll break out of this genre & do something new when it’s over. There’s still a lot of great songs on the album

I enjoyed this album so much. Everyone can have their opinions but songs like Guilty as Sin, the Black Dog, loml are so good and I can't get enough. I hope people will give it more than one listen!

i disagree. i think this album is pretty experimental as a whole (not sonically perhaps, but lyrically and conceptually). she feels more honest than ever, and i like that she's open about her dark side (flaws) instead of worrying about her image like she usually does. if anything, it makes a point that she's not as great as people make her out to be which i think she was uncomfortable with (seeing Dear Reader).

As someone who loves Taylors Music in general I agree SO MUCH. You do not need to put out anything you make, her best albums are the ones who are clear and concise, like 1989 or folklore.

I graduated high school and chose to not pursue college for a reason… I hate homework, and all of Taylor Swifts music (especially on ttpd) seems like one large assignment that I don’t want to do.

Not enough people are talking about how damaging it is to consider herself a “tortured poet”. The running narrative about the “tortured poet” is to PREVENT people from thinking that they need to be tortured to make good artistry as the “tortured poet” Schlick is known to be harmful - celebrating mental illness and romanticizing trauma. Yet she, a privileged white woman who come from relatively wealthy parents, not only feed into the tortured poet Schlick but also plays into it so shallowly. What exactly makes her “TORTURED”??? It’s insane

The way people are talking about taylor reminds me of how sports fans complained about tom brady and the superbowl or now the Kansas city chiefs (ironic)