Nope I liked it

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.bro what is your channel name 😭

Easy but a good pun

@@theboi5584stay on topic. The review is garbage

@@theboi5584I’m a woman

Charlie Pooth

who?

Charlie Puth has a track with 1.5 Billion views, he barely could be a bigger artist, what is Taylor smoking?😮

Duh, that line is ironic. Unless ur joking

she's saying the truth. Charlie should at least be able to sell stadiums

Taylor needs to get into trap frfr. Maybe Drake get tap her into the beef against Kendrick or Kanye

she needs to drop a collab album with 21 savage imo

H&V Taylor’s version

@@dutdut2.091what?

@@realtwovo she's already the biggest hip hop artist

And the Taylor-verse was a marketing tactic deliberately cultivated. It goes to show you how the corporate music industry compromises authenticity for marketability.

This is literally where I am as the husband of a day-one Swiftie (although in her defense she's feeling the degradation in musicality too)

I think this is a large part of her appeal. And i think thats why theres such a divide between what her fans think of her and what the rest of us think.

as a swiftie, that hit hard

called me tf out but i agreed lmao

@@PresidentKamalaHarris. Unfortunately it's an adult fantasy on par with Tolkien's works

If there's one 'cartoon' out there that's not aimed at kids and where your diss is not at all applicable it's the one on his profile pic​@@PresidentKamalaHarris.

​@@PresidentKamalaHarris. What the sigma

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.are you a man or a woman?

⁠​⁠​⁠@@PresidentKamalaHarris.​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠his profile picture is guts from berserk. One of the best manga of all time. Your embarrassing yourself

Good one

Yooo dolan

This guy I love this guy. If you put a panda in your next weekly slop I will just die

thanks for slopping by

Not creepy at all

the thing is, she is so up and down. red and 1989 were really good but then she made reputation and lover which did not measure up. folklore and evermore came after those, which is where she peaked creatively imo, both were great but now these last two albums aren’t nearly as good. i mean poets is especially awful and feels even more regressive than midnights

players gonna play play play play and haters gonna hate hate hate hate

@@yue_river I was expecting Folklore and Evermore for TTPD but instead it was a long run on sentence and word vomit.

@@lilyyang6252 i knew not to expect anything like that when i saw the tracklist tbh even the names of the songs were corny to me. what is a song named “down bad”, “loml” or “i can fix him no really i can” doing on an album you named tortured poets department?

Her music in general lacks self-awareness. She doesn't know who she is. She also doesn't know her power, nor does she know her weaknesses. She hasn't actually been tested enough to figure it out. All her music is just her whining without actually fixing her problems🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

It's not that hard to achieve it though. Both are becoming more mediocre than ever, but their fans will massacre you if you tell them so.

@@Rodrigombia1990 Not to mention Kanye West being all anti-Semitic back in late 2022... as well as the Donda Academy shit.

@@crazyluigi6664donda academy will be kanye's diddy-level scandal

As a swiftie, I adore the always sunny reference. Top tier comment

Where did she say Fortnite 💀 too lazy to check

She I also heard she mentioned Sigourney Weaver and Alien. Like bruh

@JorgeGomez-hx5uu first song is called Fortnight close enough 💀💀💀

Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto 6

i would rather get a good album

It's not his fault that was pretty subtle. Only the most tortured poets could have gotten it.

I want to know how much Taylor is getting for namedropping video games.

Let’s not pretend for a second that Anthony hasn’t been touched whilst his bros play gta

Go play your video games= flirting Touch me while your bros play GTA= harassing

Haven't heard the album. Explain to me why that's a bad lyric

It really is the perfect comparison. It's the Eternals of Taylor swift albums.

"If anything I caught myself trying to untangle who the songs are about because they were so dull on their own that i quickly switched to their pop-cultural value instead of their artistic value." Jesus lol that's rough. I'm glad I don't have this relationship with music.

Thanks for being honest.

I agree the songs are way more interesting for pop culture value than actual artistry

hey, if she does grow, hears, and processes what's being said about this album we might get another speak now album which would honestly be a serve

That joke isn’t even based on any truth at all.

​@@PlannedObsolescenceimma keep it real. You sound like a child who is losing a roast battle with this comment

@@jackdisbury1047 For real! Sis really tried the "nuh uh"

@@scottbuck1572 I'm female. And I'm sorry you both feel that way.

@@PlannedObsolescence That explains it lmfao. Imagine getting in your feelings beause not everyone has the same unhealthy obsession with a billionaire that you do

Been asking for a full rock album lmaooo mabye a taylor swift nu metal album would really push boundaries 🤣

@@insertname941 Crunkcore

The tortured rappers department

@@insertname941A Taylor Swift rock album would slap. She’s had some good rock inspired songs over the years.

​@@insertname941 with her vocal range? How?

except he didn't give the album a score, so arguably he feels like he does (or he's trolling us alongside the swifties in the audience)

@@jan_kulawa he said FOREVER. That means 4/10

Having seen Barbs make deepfake p0rn of people, including teenagers as young as 13 who dislike Cardi, Swifties don't scare me. They're not on the higher level of evil that Barbs are.

​@@jan_kulawa it's called a cliff hanger pookums

bro hes trashed taylor swifts albums in the past. stop making stuff up cause they fit your narrative.​@@jan_kulawa

For real

​@@thembashawn Crazy to think he's worked on every Taylor album since 1989

@@icemic-ux2ip 7 albums!!! No wonder I'm starting to get tired of his sound - the fact that I enjoy the anthology more than ttpd speaks volumes (for me personally)

I loved what he did for her on Folklore, reputation, even lover and midnights, but this just fell short. It's the same sound and I don't think that's right for this album. I'm not saying hes a bad producer at all, I just think this album could have sounded more unique and different if it was someone new, The anthology is more liked because it's a breath of fresh air.

I mean Aaron Dressner produced about 10+ songs on the album so you kinda already have that 🤷‍♂️

It's not that serious 💀

Duh...if you take Taylor Swift seriously you're one of the muppets!! 😂

lol the true are is not what they put out but what they inspire others to make in reaction

lmao

Yeah, umm...this is actually true.

Ye and Taylor in the same field. Talk about ironic poetry

Kanye is cloned though

I wanna see him start the intro once, “hello everyone internet’s busiest music nerd Cal here and-“

​@@PresidentKamalaHarris. I do

I care so much! Cal is one of my favorite parts of Fantano’s videos. I’ve been a fan since 2013. ​@@PresidentKamalaHarris.

Really wish he'd get his own show so he could ditch toxic Mr. Foureyes over here

​@@PresidentKamalaHarris.You cared enough to reply lol, and also reply to anyone who dares say anything negative about this album, are you just constantly refreshing the comments here cause you're so butthurt that people don't like the album. I mean you're really taking the whole parasocial thing to another level it could be bordering on psychotic. Maybe instead of caring so much about what literal strangers online think of an album you like, you could maybe I don't know go listen to the actual album that you seem to like so much, instead of sulking that not alot of people seem to be liking the album.

Amy Winehouse is an amazing singer and songwriter. I remember reading somewhere that Anthony wasn’t huge on her though :(

Please don’t compare her even as a songwriter to taylor. It ain’t fair. And as a singer/vocal talent…, like a slow person versus Copernicus trying to do math, dog

​@@sethboooooi23245 Please tell me you're on Amy's side because I can't tell from your comment.

@@L0zza baffling comment to make if they're not on amy's side

Sounds like you all need to get out there and make a hugely successful pop album since Taylor cant

Candice Nuts?

jack an ant off or whatever

Jack Hoff

​@@franklingoodwin Candice Koch

Jack Anton off

So you just rubbed your hands menacingly

​@randomsomeguy156 Yes, but like flies do

@@StopmotionStudios13spoken like a true tortured poet

You mean you sprinkled acid on your phone and then sucked the review through a straw on your face? Ahaha

Birdman?

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.you’re the only one in the comments trying to defend this 😭

@@theboi5584how about you stop acting like a follower. This fantano guy isn’t going to date you

🙏🏻🤣🤣​@@PresidentKamalaHarris.

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.you telling me to stop acting like a follower meanwhile you’re replying to every comment calling the album bad is hilarious

It would have been a 10 if it was actually called “Tortured Poets see Ghosts” 😪

Me neither and i literally look forward to her work. Guess i didn't miss anything tho

I cannot comprehend even staying active at this point in your career. If I released a project even close to 1989 I'd fall off the face of the earth. I've earned all the money both my family and I could ever need, at that point you're only releasing more music to feed your ego.

@@lukechitwood1247 I have never agreed with a response more. 200% nailed it. Pure facts. Any of Taylor's recent endeavors strike me as pure profiteering.

@@lukechitwood1247 i imagine its artistically satisfying lol

​@brickalmonds3531 artistically...? Taylor Swift...? This is pop music for teen girls. It is not "art"

@@nogodsnomanagers honestly, the trainwreck that it inhabits is an art all its' own. i made up better songs on a whim when i was five, you almost have to be deliberate to fuck up this bad.

I learned that many people don't know what figures of speech are. and you belong to that group of people

More like a metaphor for her household-bully troubles being like an asylum?

I snorted

That's the best you could get??? It's a metaphor for the music industry. Like everyone knows how toxic the music industry is💀💀

This is literally the best fucking comment, ever.

Actually, most of the discussion around this album has been about fair criticisms and disappointment from longtime fans. Unless you stay in Twitter hellholes... Look at how the vultures review turned out in comparison

her cultists*

fantano about to unite the most psychopatic-venn diagram crossover of kanye stans and swifties

nah, kanye fans are just as psychotic and he still went out of his way to shit on ye lmao. I think it’s cuz he might be reviewing the second part of the album (plus I don’t really think swifties check out for anthony that much, or at least not the crazy ones)

Was thinking the same thing he lacks the brass to stand on numerical business

no, I think it might be even more annoying what stupid ass takes you people will come up with to criticize taylor

Agree

Or even just do a collab song with him if she wants him to get more exposure lol

Dressner produced and co-wrote more songs than Antonoff on TTPD…..

It was actually Aaron dessner and I like the songs he did

@@Lulu-pi2qp I swear if she just released these as two separate albums at the same time people would have a completely different reaction and would probably be praising both. But even then “Jack’s” album is just as solid as “Dressner’s”. Which makes it even more baffling that people keep saying everything sounds the same because the two halves are nothing alike despite Dressner and Antonoff both contributing a few songs to the other’s portion to mix it up just enough

@@dsmith2420 I think cause they only listen to it once and probably in 1 sitting which is horrible to do. They need to give it another listen The more I listen to it the more I see how different they are. I personally like both , prefer Aaron’s based on folklore and evermore but I thought both were great in this album. My 10/10 are loml , so long London, guilty as sin, smallest man, black dog, how did it end , I hate it here, Chloe or Sam, the prophecy , Peter The rest are still pretty good . Very few that I skip currently. I’m enjoying this album so I don’t really care about the ppl who don’t like it , just curious. I’ve seen reactions where either lyrics just fly over their heads , or they don’t get what Taylor was doing in the song (who’s afraid of little old me etc). I feel like she painted the emotions she wanted to portray perfectly clear in her songs.

@@Lulu-pi2qp I understand the reaction because I had some similar thoughts after one time through. I’ve seen a lot of people say they can’t put their finger on this record and I couldn’t either at first but TTPD is a slow-burn, intentionally I believe. This isn’t meant to captivate you with production-she wants the lyrics to marinate over time to fully appreciate what she’s doing, hence the album title.

Do you wanna be associated with a bad album though? Lol

I doubt anyone maladjusted enough to willingly date this woman would be bothered by that fact.

From what I gather it’s less about the relationship, or him as a person, and more about the controversy

I don't really care about Matty but to be fair she has already written dozens of songs about Joe and being hung up on the guy you were in a situasionship with for two months is the most relatable thing ever

Who's the racist dude?

😂👏🏼

She did once say that there’s a phrase “you stop maturing once you make it” and she admitted that because she made it as a teenager that has definitely affected her view point and her lifestyle.

nothing was high school about this album expect the song so high school

@@lavilacin8579 1. down bad 2. i can fix him no really i can 3. i can do it with a broken heart 3. my boy only breaks his favourite toys 4. but daddy i love him

Dudes def a virgin

Red is one her best albums while I don’t like 1989 and Reputation. Her music is hit or miss, not steadily declining.

@@blackishboi3895 I agree! I actually love 1989 and think it’s a nearly perfect pop album. Folklore and Evermore were a culmination of all the good parts of her previous albums and sounded mature and fresh. I think the quality has been declining ever since with Midnights and TTPD in my opinion.

The declined was since Rep so FO/EV were an anomaly.

Totally agree, metaphor and reference made the success and the failure of her songs. recently. I saw people in some chinese music platforms criticizing her new releases being not catchy at all and fans were enthusiastically defending her that her lyrics required close study for all the reference and meanwhile blaming whoever post that comment illiterate and being poor at English....Oh cmon, you don't even need a degree to love a song like " beat it" because even kids will sing and dance along with the song😢

For most people, those mistakes get culled in the editing phase. But as others have said, this album felt rushed, underedited and underdeveloped.

When I was fifteEen, when it all began, have it ever crossed your mind and maybe you should run. I guess not because there you were standing like a lion ... 😂

@@jazzzebra2159 absolutely! They make or break her songs and definitely didn't help at all in this case. The argument that it's due to people being too dumb enough to get the music is so silly, glad that other's are annoyed with it too :)

@@lordfreerealestate8302 100% agree!

there can’t be any argument for this one it’s awful

Which they cannot.

He did rate it on pt.2

I still wouldn't hold my breath

Sounds like a Drake subliminal

Great comment and wonderful profile picture of "The Velvet Underground & Nico"

Anthony wow 😂😂😂

Yup

For the most part i want to enjoy pop but so many artists are just really boring, and Taylor used to be the artist I could go to that was guaranteed a fun time with great dance inducing choruses, but now that's seriously dwindling

This is interesting to me, because I absolutely love this album. However there are some real real low points on it, sonically it’s not pushing any boundaries, there are some gosh awful lines and clunky metaphors. It’s these songs that I skip, but the songs I have whittled the album down too for me I really love. I think it’s fair for me to both really like the album and also find that there are a lot of criticisms I can levy towards it. That being said I personally cannot fathom how midnigjts was received so much better when in my opinion it’s far inferior, with way more surface level clunky writing , clearly geared towards getting virality ( minus a few songs that are objectively great and most of the 3am edition songs , Paris excluded because wtf was that song)

I'm sorry, why would Taylor need to constantly reinvent her sound when no other major artists do? Plus, she already made country, pop, and indie records and won major awards in all the genres, and yet you people still want more.

*insightful

Yes, this distills my thoughts exactly. It's the actual break up that needs to happen.

Especially compared to the second disc, where she collaborated with Dessner mainly, and not Jack.

Yes but also the other way around where she apparantly hasn't once said "maybe midnights' 15 tracks of identical production were enough"

nah jack just sucks now

Yes this!! Said the same thing!!

omg this is so true

maybe she has been taking the quackzine. she has lost some hormone or something.

come on!! only a few songs are like that! there are gems in the album too you know..

OMG I wrote about Chat GPT before reading your comment. It's so true though!! What a cringe-worthy mess of an album

The “while your bros play GTA” like reminds me of video games by Lana if it was genuinely re-written by ai

No. She always is the victim

Back to December, anti hero

She has yes many times , she needs new ideas to sing about rn honestly

@@shreyasingh3006 does thinking everyone is a sexy baby and you’re a monster on the hill count as genuine self-reflection to you?! The whole set of lyrics read as though she’s actually being sarcastic and not self-reflective… ‘Did you hear my covert narcissism I describe as altruism’ Another line where the problem is people taking jabs at her or lying about her and not actually anything she does…

Back to December, Afterglow, This Is Me Trying, Peace, Hoax, Champagne Problems, We Were Happy, Anti-hero, Midnight Rain, The Great War. She covers a lot of topics, not just blaming others or breakups. (TTPD is a BIG disappointment though...)

😐

Not really! She couldn’t hold a candle to K Dot! Because Kendrick Lamar wouldn’t hold back

@@andresciahooten9598i bet you’re exciting at all the parties.

@@andresciahooten9598Kendrick don’t want the smoke with T Swizzle and her cult fans

@@atomicpunk2360he also just worked with her on the bad blood re-recording in oct 2023

average youtube replies not understanding a joke

Then again, maybe a singer who CAN'T SING shouldn't be popular and successful.

Or adrianne lenker

I mean, I think their songwriting does very different things. I didn’t like this album either, but I think both folklore and evermore are both 9s and albums like lover are just full of extremely well written pop tunes

she cunningly got her catalogue back on tiktok in time for this when others on the label remain banished

​@@satelliteimagerymusicyeah Anthony giving evermore a light 7 is still a tragedy. It deserved a higher score. Her other albums are more rightfully criticized, but the folklore/evermore series is just solid folk/indie pop, where her lyrics are more clever than dumbed down direct references to things.

This is sadly true. I felt Midnights itself was pretty mid and have seen some people argue that that album winning AOTY at the grammys would lead to more subpar artistry from her….and this album shows that that was pretty much true. But yeah, no one dares to say otherwise for fear of the wrath of her fanbase

​​@@MrTentaclesHasAllTheTalent "No one dares to say otherwise for fear of the wrath of her fanbase" it's just not true... Many people HATED this album and they've been very vocal about it, reviews are mixed and she's getting less love and a lot more criticism than she did on midnights...

@@diarysawan that’s actually good to know that people are more critical. I guess I haven’t been seeing much of the critical reviews of late apart from this video

its a 9/11 for music

I think Taylor Swift fans are actually much more understanding than others, but they def do have a high perception of her. My english teacher is a huge swiftie and I was talking to her about it and telling her about how i didn't love it, but she said she listened to it all weekend and have been replaying every song. It's so strange how subjective music can be.

But then she would be criticized for recycling old sounds? People don’t have to like TTPD but it literally is a compilation of different styles from her prior albums which is also the biggest criticism?

The most sane Swiftie

@@franklingoodwin WE EXIST I PROMISE!!! Just overshadowed by the insane fans lol

@@CoolScratcherthis !! I hate the fact that saying I’m a swiftie means people immediately think I don’t like other music, I’ll die on the hill for her. I really like this album, but I hated midnigjts, and I also think there are a handful of objectively bad songs and examples of terrible writing on this album. There are some real highs but there are a lot of lows. All this to say critically minded swifties do exist , it’s just hard to find them

​@@amydougies3852 I think that maybe part of your image problem is that you refer to yourselves as "Swifties". It gives unhinged obsession right out of the gate.

@@padawansound6423 if I’m a swiftie( as in a more than casual listener of Taylor swift, know the lore etc), I feel like it’s the only appropriate label ya know

Money making machine

I agree. Slow it down. I liked the fortnight song, but the others seemed a bit trite and melodramatic. And she’s happy now with Travis but these songs are about past guys. Kinda weird

​@@JulieKnose78loml (loss of my life), guilty as sin, Who's Afraid of little old me, So long London & Clara Bow were amazing songs with amazing lyrics... Some of her best lyricism was showing cases in those songs with religious & death imageries... She always had a knack in painting a picture in her songs.

I got to track 3 and gave up!

I blame Drake

this has never been taylor’s mo though, so this doesnt come as a surprise. she has always prioritized sonic cohesion over a narrative arc in her albums, especially after red was criticized for being so sonically chaotic. i would argue that despite ttpd’s production pitfalls, of which there are many and some you mention, it is sonically cohesive. but every song of her’s is self contained with their own introduction, plot, conclusion. the only time she breaks this is on folklore. so i dont think this is a byproduct of the streaming era, i think its just taylor. some people dig it, some dont.

Why would you listen to it in full tho??? it's supposed to be a double album regardless of how it is released. Listen to the first part, carry on with your life, listen to the second part, and go live. Even as a fan, I will not sit down and listen to a 31-track album.

@@hannahx5821 sorry, i probably miscommunicated that. it deffo doesn't need to have a narrative arc, i was just listing things she could have done to make the double album feel like a listenable project instead of 31 streaming opportunities. i'm talking specifically about the full double album here, not the original edition. for the og, i'd agree - it isn't great, but it is sonically cohesive. my issue is that the 'double album' thing just feels like there was no mind to making it a fully listenable project, and that it was rather just 'i've written and completed all these songs, may as well release all of them since people will listen'. i looooove a double album, or just long albums in general, so i felt like it was quite a disservice to the format tbh, and at worst felt like a chart maximising tactic. all of that said, i have historically been a massive taylor fan for over 13 years now, so i am only getting this riled up because i believe in her abilities and want so badly to enjoy her output - any other pop artist, i'd probably just sigh

@@hannahx5821 i'd also agree that it has absolutely never been her mo to do interludes and whatnot, she has always focused more on the individual songs than the overall project (notable exceptions being 1989 and folklore, which are two of her best albums). i guess i just don't think that approach works when applied to a double album format, so to me it comes across as less of an artistic decision to work on and release a double album project, and more of a streaming grab

😂😂😂

Nah because Taylor stans are not familiar with his game. They'll be like: he didn't like it, so he must've given it a 7 or 8 in his head. They probably wouldn't get it.

@@tolautwhat that doesn’t make sense a 7 is already a great score

@@josh44026 Thats the point ahaha. Anything below a 10 would be devastating for them.

That’s why he didn’t give it a score.

With how successful her Eras tour has been so far and the success of all the albums she put out before that, despite the criticism on her personal life (private jet, Healy, and the NFL guy relationships), you'd think she'd pivot this album to a more fun one where her success in life would bleed through.

ttpd daughter isnt a nazi at the very least

Child neglect

vultures daughter

abortion

fantano route - getting a vasectomy

i think all of speak now is a good parallel to the criticisms of the album. its a way more mature album and that's even including better than revenge. theoretically better than revenge should have the cringe flair of "who's afraid of little old me" but it just works for some reason and lines like "now go stand in the corner and think about what you did" and "she should keep in mind there's nothing i do better than revenge" are fun and playful regardless. the production is great with some really cool instrumentals like on the song haunted whereas jack antonoff just creates such a boring environment on ttpd. the choruses feel earned and grand and the songs are written very well like with back to december (NOT TO MENTION ITS A SONG WHERE SHE ADMITS SHE'S FLAWED AND THAT SHE MESSED UP which is very anti-modern swift given the narcissism in her recent projects). i think it really just comes down to the fact that speak now is a genuine album with engaging production, more mature lyrics and good songwriting and ttpd is an artificial self indulgent attempt at being edgy with boring overdone production, really cringe lyrics and generic songwriting at best.

But who cares it’s Kim k If it was someone that wasn’t her I think it would matter 😂 that Ho is horrible Who likes the kartrashians

Oh god No , that’s her worst album imo I like Aaron dessner better

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.how many comments are you going to respond to lmao

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.Okee dokee artichokee

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.is this your first time in a fantano comment section??

As the tortured melon poet of his generation, Anthony's opinion on this album holds much value.

@@PresidentKamalaHarris. i'd report you but there's no option for "blatant attention seeking"

Why should she develop as an artist if 99% of swifties gobble up everything she shits on the plate?

What? Its literally her BEST ALBUM

@@sadeqsaudi9433if that’s your opinion, fine! Enjoy it 😊

for the sake of time i suggest only listening to: so long london, so high school, clara bow, peter, i can do it with a broken heart, how did it end

taylor needs to hide away in a cabin in the mountains alone for like a year, that's how we could truly see some musical genius and artistic evolution breed

Literally I suspected I’d like the Aaron songs more and I was right. That being sad black dog I adore and that’s an antanoff production. When he cooks he cooks, I just feel like he’s phoning it in a lot

@@amydougies3852That’s Jack? Didn’t realize that. That is the best song in the anthology IMHO. Absolutely exquisite. And I agree

@@carriefingsolomon righttt !! I can’t tell you how surprised I was to find that jack produced that song. I am a Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus being the best in the anthology person, but the black dog is a close second and such a highlight for Jack

@@amydougies3852 That’s an incredible song too!! Did he do Chloe as well or was that Aaron? I guess I could just Google this😂

Lmao 😭😭

Facts

I like it it’s supposed to be melodramatic and silly

Oh my god, yeah. I wanted to rip my hair out, guys.

My favorite line of the whole album. People be bitching and moaning.

One of the most common critiques of her among even her fans (at least those with the capacity to see that she CAN do wrong) is that she has glaring quality control issues. It's like she doesn't know what's good or bad. She'll write some incredible poetry and then hilariously awful lines all within the same song (most popular example being Willow and the godforsaken 90s trend line).

​@@FPSBuzzNo offense but I think she might have let the popularity gotten into her head, thinking that she can release any song and it doesn't matter if the quality's bad because she's too big to fail. Not that I think she should be taken off her pedestal a notch or two but it might be worth for her to actually sit and take her time making good quality songs that deserve the fame she gets.

​@@vtheory7531 You seem to be under the impression that she would even consider this as bad material, which is wholly inconsistent with how she portrays herself and the world around her.

Im not a huge fan but my significant other is. I like the simple stuff. Her music doesnt need to be super deep for me, in fact i just want fun shit i can bop to. After listening to this album i only really saw 3 "bops" out of 31 songs and a lot of potential bops that just get ruined by her being oddly immature and...i think i actually lost it at the one high school whatever song, i legit started cackling. Sounded exactly like the tik tok ai songs people were meming about her writing when she first got with kelce. Anyways that charlie puth lyric was the worst thing ive heard in a long time

I think the second album with aaron is better, the writing on it is so good compared to the first. She could've had better track choices and come out with only one

At least Cal is getting an education 🎉🎉🎉

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.how many comments u gonna reply to?

Bro so much of this sounds like it was written by ai. The fact that it’s breaking all time sales records is maddening. Her cult of personality is real

@@dr.shivago2404I can reply to them all. I’m the fastest typewriter at my job. You don’t have a job

@@chiarosuburekeni9325no it’s not and you are wrong

Now i can show my significant other this cuz she really didnt like me or believe me saying it was "lana core" cuz i shouldn't be comparing women or something 🤨

Please stop comparing women

my friend and i literally predicted she was gonna try to emulate lana even more here 😭

@@mustafamehdi1663Then SHE should stop trying to compare herself to her

Theyre comparing artists 🙄 ​@@mustafamehdi1663

Yeah I'm getting little hints of Lana, Phoebe and even some Fiona Apple. Unfortunately there's no emotional depth behind it. It just falls flat and feels like another costume she's putting on.

Except Lana is an anti-masker who doesn't believe in science and is so out of touch she thinks we're on third wave feminism when we're actually on fourth verging on fifth. No one wants to be that dumbass. She may want some of her musical inspo, but no one wants to actually be that dumb.

It’s crazy how huge of an artist she is but can’t produce the song talents that these “lesser than” artist under her can produce

That’s cuz Taylor has the emotional depth of a puddle

@@alyssamichaela "Authenticity" is what people want nowadays. Large corporations like record labels are catching on, so they put their energy into faking authenticity.

Really? OMG!!!!! :(( I'm sorry. :|

Welp if anything I think you're gonna be material for her next album at least

that song is so good and it’s literally talking about how people romanticize the past forgetting all the horrible shit that happened back then, you all just love to read some hate post and talk shit out of nothing

@@burton7767😭

As someone who's lived in West Virginia, Montana, Indiana and Wyoming I'm going to have to ask a dumb question: wtf does 'red flannel was inevitable' mean? Flannel is just an everyday fabric where I've lived. It's like if you said 'blue cotton was incoming'. What does that mean? I'm not a Swiftie, this is not a defense of her, I'm just so lost.

@@morganqorishchi8181 Fantano uses a red flannel shirt when reviewing a project that he strongly disliked. Likewise the yellow flannel comes out when he's reviewing one that he enjoyed a lot.

Omg cry more about it​@@burton7767, no one fucking cares lmao

God yes, that is the perfect observation lol

St anger was better than this

Fran Tic tic tic tic tic tic tock

Too bad it doesn't have that trash can snare on her album.

@@daishoryujin95Metallica were ahead of their time.

LMAOOOOOOOOO

mf doom ass lyrics

To be fair, I think it is pretty tongue in cheek. Not to say all of her goofy lines are but I think that one is.

@@darien9119 hard disagree

@@darien9119 I don't love this album either, but I also think a lot more of it than people think is tongue-in-cheek or said ironically, especially the title of the album, and it's flying over a lot of people's heads or they are being purposefully disingenuous because it makes it easier to dunk on her.

I think I’ve seen that band as an opener recently? Maybe it’s a sign of her next album being a metal album

Poets of the fall, btw

todd’s poem exceeds everything taylor has put out

There's this Finnish mystery novel The Rabbit Back Literature Society, that I got stuck halfway reading, for several reasons. I should finish it. But one way or another, I can positively say: The Rabbit Back Literature Society >>> The Tortured Poets Department

Dead poets society is a great band

Yk the whole point of the song was her slowly realizing she couldn’t fix him?? 😭

@@kingvampstan yea but I mean, does that make the lyric any better? It’s still corny asf. Also she says that lyrics like 3-4 times and doesn’t “realize” she can’t fix him until the very last bar. “Woah on the very last bar she says she can’t actually fix him, that automatically makes the rest of the song good”

@@kingvampstancarti fan defending a corny taylor swift lyric before gta 6 😭🙏

​​​@@kingvampstan But she slowly realizes nothing of actual note. The song doesn't really address why that mentality is problematic at its core, it just fumbles around her particular experience and proudly comes to a "realization" any sane adult would without having to go through all this BS, just like every other song of hers does. Her lack of self-awareness and incapacity to see what the common denominator of all her so-called problems actually is just comes across, to someone not invested in her narrative, as less mature than Olivia Rodrigo's writing, who's basically a child. Swift's writing makes Ariana's look like Bauman and Carly's look like Kant.

@@kingvampstan Still cringe af

The dislikes are already ratiod UKposts is hiding it though

If you pay attention to the skit at the end it's à 3 out of 10 "Okay I'm going Okay I'm going Okay I'm going " EDIT I WAS RIGHT

We declared @TheKingShyGuy should be a bigger artist

Better poet than Taylor Swift

@@Dinosaur12349 nope

Let them live through that mediocrity. 😂😂😂

@@Unsweetened8618as a fleetwood mac , the who, pink Floyd and swift fan, I would like heavily to be excluded from the mediocrity narrative. I think it’s wholly unfair to boil down a swiftie to just this insufferable person that has no taste in music whatsoever. I’m not going to fight for Taylor , she has some bad truly god awful songs, but this record also isn’t as objectively horrific as all the critics are panning it to be .

​@@amydougies3852I agree completely. What's the purpose of music in the first place???

Which artists did she copied?

You wouldn't've survived Beatle Mania. The complaints about this are only starting to rear their head because the music kinda sucks.

That’s on him

​@@PresidentKamalaHarris.You said Vultures was "fire" - you know people can click on your name to see your recent comments?

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.What?! 😂😂😂

He just needs some security. That’s all 😂😂😂

Hes right tho ​@No1TypeC

I think a comparison could also be drawn between Swifties and Disney Adults

like a bull 😂

that’s weird, why

@@daved6536bc other critics blindly praise taylor and never acknowledge her obvious shortcomings

@@alara4006 I think most critics are pretty fair tbh

​@daved6536 Rolling Stone gave her a 10 💀 ain't no way this shit equals Regina Spektor, Joni Mitchell, Sheryl Crow, Liz Phair, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Carly Simon, PJ Harvey or literally any other female singer-songwriter 💀

Yeah, I wish it was just sometimes. Like on 1989 there were 2 Jack-produced songs and they are both good and provide some nice variety to the Martin/Shellback tracks. 6 on Reputation. Folklore he's got plenty, but still less than half. Then just 1 on Evermore. But then Midnights and this he's completely taken over, and so instead of providing a contrast it just becomes this monotonous mass of Jack. I vote 4 songs an album maximum.

taylor should stop working with taylor

@@camipcothat’s a fine opinion but not sure it’s true (I personally love Midnights). But on her last 4 albums the production credits have been: TTPD: Antonoff 14, Dressner 15, both 2 Midnights: JA 17, AD 3, both 1 folklore: JA 2, AD 9, plus Joe on 6 lol evermore: JA 1, AD 14 That’s 41 for Dressner to 34 for Jack with 3 both credited; similar with writing credits: 36 Dressner, 30 Jack, 2 both. Whatever criticism is being leveled about it all sounding the same (which I thought initially but on re-listen there’s plenty of variety) would actually be leveled at Dressner cuz there’s no way someone can hear TTPD and think it sounds like Midnights. I don’t see anybody suggesting her working with Dressner is a mistake. Not being her best album is very different from it being a bad album.

@@dsmith2420 You're right, although as Fantano says, TTPD not-anthology is Antonoff heavier while the anthology half is Dressner heavier and better for it. And I significantly prefer Evermore to Midnights and Folklore for this reason. I also want to say, this criticism at least from me is compared to what I think she's capable of. Every Taylor album is great, and I think Antonoff is a very good producer. I like TTPD significantly more than Fantano seems to. I just think it would be even better with more varied and dynamic production. I will say while I prefer Dressner to Antonoff, their production is similar enough that it doesn't help much. And of course, every single one of these tracks has the same name on production - Swift. We know one of the reasons she likes working with both of these men is they defer to her and aren't bossing her around which of course I totally get why she doesn't want to be working with the plethora of male producers who would not show her due respect. As other folks have said, there's definitely some sexism in assigning all credit/blame for production to these two men (to be clear, I'm not calling you out, I was doing it too), when Swift herself has production credit for a reason. And Swift is and has always been an incredibly skilled mimic. The reason she was able to conquer country is she figured out the sound and how to capture it so perfectly. Then she did the same for pop and then the same for indy. I'm not saying that's all she does, but it's always been a big part of her music and her commercial success. Much of the time, she gives the audience something familiar they already like. I don't mean that as an insult, it is a serious skill. And at this point in her career, she's out of worlds to conquer and is mimicking herself. I just wish we'd see her try more.

@@camipco there’s a lot of truth there. I wasn’t trying to discredit you at all either. You’re 100% spot on about how TTPD was arranged-it’s essentially two albums. One produced with Jack and one with Aaron (with a little crossover on each). I wouldn’t even disagree with anyone suggesting she should consider bringing in a new ear. Dressner is great but basically 3 full albums with him is probably just right. Like I said, Midnights is my favorite album so I don’t hate Antonoff’s sound (I’m also biased towards anybody who was part of creating Some Nights haha) but she’s typically switched it up every few records. That’s what’s so impressive. Other than Nashville Taylor, none of her albums are similar unless you wanna count folklore/evermore as separate which I don’t. But yes, I believe she’s received writing and producing credits on every single track since Reputation (and it was most of those too). Hell she even set Joe up for life from folklore royalties haha TTPD sounded repetitive to me on first listen but I’d say that’s true for all music. I didn’t like Fortnight the first time but that’s a great song. There’s not as much monotony as people are suggesting but ironically the most diverse portion is Antonoff’s half. Lover is my least favorite album by far (though it’s growing on me) but that’s fine. There’s bound to be something not everybody likes when you’re putting out as many records as she has especially when they’re all different. The suggestion some people are making that TTPD proves she’s not that talented is laughable. But videos like this are so disingenuous. Shitting on her for not being original while simultaneously claiming Fortnight or Florida are bad songs is insane. Her and Florence are great together. But when someone sells 700k vinyls in 3 days in 2024 im gonna go out on a limb and suggest the album probably isn’t actually bad. Her worst album if you consider TTPD is that would be 99% of artists best work by a mile. That’s how high her bar is.

31 songs even for a deluxe is diabolical ngl

@@JaMorantBiggerArm LITERALLYYYY I wasn’t even halfway through and I found out she added 15 more songs and I wanted to crawl in a hole and never come out.

Personally, the only songs I liked came from the side b, they even felt more cohesive with the poets narrative...

@@hoesmad8207 Absolutely! Even then it wasn’t anything special to me but it was definitely a more collective work than the first album.

@@JaMorantBiggerArm31 songs even for a double album is crazy

swifties making a scene over a 70/100 when the album is actually a 30/100

Some magazine called paste got death threats cause they scored the album 3.4/10

there were plenty of mediocre to bad reviews?

I interpreted the tone differently than he did on a handful of songs (I thought who’s afraid of a little old me was satirical & sarcastic rather than narcissistic) and I thought the alchemy was a love song about Travis (it’s filled with football word plays), but I don’t think it’s an intelligence thing, I think we just have different interpretations! I do sometimes think people are less kind to female artists bc they’re unintentionally skewed my sexist stereotypes to think a woman is being narcissistic before she’s being sarcastic & making a joke, so I think there is some valid frustration from people in regards to that.

@@haleynicole5940this!! i think some young swifties do everyone a disservice by acting taylor is too genius for others. but at the same time there’s no way people really think taylor is being serious in most of the lyrics they critique. the title itself is mocking herself and her ex partner, the grand theft auto line is supposed to funny not sexy, and who’s afraid is clearly satire. i don’t understand why people think it’s more likely that she’s being dead serious when saying something obviously out of pocket than that she’s making fun of herself? she literally sounds on the verge of laughter in the gta line. this reminds me of when she put out blank space and people who didn’t like her were like she finally understands she’s crazy!! like.. how could u be more clear

its true

@@haleynicole5940stuff can be two things. And I think you’re right: people are harder on Swift because she’s making music predominately for other women. We have a history of not taking any female artists seriously that don’t play to the male gaze. With all that said: I don’t really buy into the “actually it’s satire” angle because if that’s the case-then it’s not compelling satire. There really isn’t much here that says anything that Swift hasn’t already said in her bother, arguably better, albums. Sure I think there are people who are dumping on this album because it’s Taylor Swift, but I think even people who are casually into her (like I am) are starting to get weary. Basically there’s a problem when you have to rely on “it’s bad on purpose” as a way to gain any meaning from this album.

They're like Trump supporters now.

😭