Taylor Swift - folklore [New Album]

lolly said:
Just listened to it for the first time. I found it utterly compelling and beguiling pretty much from start to finish. Perhaps it's my hormones, but I shed a tear three individual times at the loveliness of it all, and didn't want it to end. That alone is quite something for an album of 16 tracks which is over an hour long.
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I know what you mean. I actually woke up this morning with 'Seven' in my head and felt quite emotional. :shy:
 
Jark said:
she's such a capitalist monster :D
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It still hasn't clicked with me, I'm not gonna lie, though I've only listened to half of it.

Those two notes in her lower register are not strong enough to sustain an album. :(
 
It's a long record with similar production throughout, so I can get why it's not clicking with some people. It certainly didn't with me for a few days.
 
I've gone completely off mirrorball and seven. they totally kill the pace and aren't strong enough songs to justify their place here. I think I'll remove them and possibly betty, and then the album is super tight start to end.
 
Jark said:
I've gone completely off mirrorball and seven. they totally kill the pace and aren't strong enough songs to justify their place here. I think I'll remove them and possibly betty, and then the album is super tight start to end.
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Say whaaaat? "seven" is impossibly gorgeous...and the lyrics are so beautiful too.

I'm not a fan of deleting songs from albums anyway. I get the logic behind it of course, but it just seems wrong to me. I'm ANAL I guess...but I also know that songs can grow on me, days or even weeks later, so if I just delete them I'd never know.
 
imagine deleting seven.

and i've been meaning to tell you
i think your house is haunted
your dad is always mad and that must be why
and i think you should come live with me
and we can be pirates and you wont have to cry
or hide in the closet, and just like a folk song
our love will be passed on

:sad:


 
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joanne said:
imagine deleting seven.

and i've been meaning to tell you
i think your house is haunted
your dad is always mad and that must be why
and i think you should come live with me
and we can be pirates and you wont have to cry
or hide in the closet, and just like a folksong
our love will be passed on

:sad:
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It’s truly DEVASTATING. :cry:
 
Listened to this twice. Admittedly fell asleep on the second outing. It’s all very nice at the minute but it definitely needs time and attention. I haven’t been emotionally devastated yet, which I was kind of hoping for as I’m feeling a bit DEAD INSIDE.
 
Lucille said:
Listened to this twice. Admittedly fell asleep on the second outing. It’s all very nice at the minute but it definitely needs time and attention. I haven’t been emotionally devastated yet, which I was kind of hoping for as I’m feeling a bit DEAD INSIDE.
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Went for a long walk in the forest today and listened to it and recreated the artwork and cried and also shook a little in the corner to be quite frank (quietly, not violently, though).
 
Jark said:
I've gone completely off mirrorball and seven. they totally kill the pace and aren't strong enough songs to justify their place here. I think I'll remove them and possibly betty, and then the album is super tight start to end.
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How does one delete a song from Spotify?
 
a delete is a philosophical act. it's not a statement as much, as just a move of passion.
 
now looking at 725-750K in the US, including 500-525K pure sales - which is also 7 albums straight with 500k+ in pure sales week one.

exile and the 1 have the 2nd and 3rd best streams on the album (25m and 24m), then it's dynasty and ricochet with about 19m each. I'm glad these songs are actually connecting - they're all better than Cardigan for me.
 
early Hot 100 projections

#2 cardigan
#3 the 1
#5 exile
#11 the last great american dynasty
#15 my tears ricochet
#16 august

some of those will fall but wow
 
Hey. :) I feel like doing a little TS top 10

1. all too well
2. out of the woods
3. state of grace
4. this is the last time
5. welcome to new york
6. 22
7. you belong with me
8. I knew you were trouble
9. this is me trying
10. getaway car

Bubbling under: begin again, the 1, new year's day, style, dress, fearless, everything has changed

And I'll no doubtedly have forgotten some.

I love folklore, but it definitely needs some bedding in time.
 
6 top 20 debuts! just how many records is she breaking this week? and with an indie record that's much cooler than our faves'!

she is embodying i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. i can't stand her.
 
hey. i feel like doing a little tay top fiftay.

1. the 1
2. exile
3. delicate
4. this is me trying
5. lover
6. call it what you want
7. seven
8. all too well
9. false god
10. the archer
11. dancing with our hands tied
12. ...ready for it?
13. style
14. state of grace
15. hoax
16. i did something bad
17. blank space
18. welcome to new york
19. love story
20. holy ground
21. cardigan
22. out of the woods
23. mine
24. you belong with me
25. begin again
26. dress
27. wildest dreams
28. the last time
29. mean
30. back to december
31. clean
32. my tears ricochet
33. red
34. you need to calm down
35. i know places
36. so it goes
37. safe and sound
38. sad beautiful tragic
39. peace
40. i forgot you existed
41. mad woman
42. look what you made me do
43. don't blame me
44. all you had to do was stay
45. i knew you were trouble
46. i think he knows
47. white horse
48. we are never getting back together
49. shake it off
50. august

eviscerate my pussy, queen of pop, country, and indie.
 
"peace" is REALLY clicking with me today, those bits in her lower range are absolutely sublime. "And it's just around the corner, darling..."

I'm liking too that I haven't immediately remembered each song (see Chromatica) so I find myself going back and being like, oh, that's how that one goes!

It's really a slow burn and thank God for it.
 
According to Talk of The Charts' new prediction (the most credible Billboard Hot 100 predictor), the entire album is debuting in the top 60.

1. cardigan
4. the 1
5. exile
11. the last american dynasty
14. my tears ricochet
15. august
21. mirrorball
25. seven
27. this is me trying
30. invisible strings
37. illicit affairs
43. betty
47. mad woman
52. epiphany
54. peace
57. hoax

the slayage was tasteful, if a little loud. the doctor told the other girls to settle down.
 
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