Reviewing Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department in 10 seconds or less
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2024
- In 10 seconds or less, my review of Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department. If you haven't heard it, check it out for yourself and let me know if you agree with my appraisal.
Listen to the album: • Fortnight
Listen to the song: • Taylor Swift - But Dad...
Grammys still gonna give her AOTY
I feel this in my soul
I HOPE NOT. Please no.
TGAR
You know what they say….the Grammys are racist
@@ruffcriminal HE SAID IT HE SAID THE THING
I feel like not writing "Touch me while your bros play Mario Golf Open for the NES" was a hugely missed opportunity, that would have made it much more relatable for me personally.
People be like “her most intimate” like there’s no way she’s thinking about these lyrics on a daily basis
If she is it would explain why she’s so tortured
I finally got on the Taylor Swift train when I really liked Midnights, and now I will be promptly hopping back off.
Her worst album got you back on the train and a mid album got you off it it
the Taylor swift experience
swiftly*
@@buttermoth5861 you think this is better than midnights? 💀
@@joaquin5929 better than her worst album? Yeah
@@buttermoth5861 Midnights is simply mid. This one is... certainly an experience
damn bro said CTE Kelce was writing behind the scenes
The tortured listeners department
I like the anthology tracks way more than the main album, but overall I’m tired of Taylor seemingly doing this “throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks” approach. It increasingly seems like she doesn’t edit or curate at all and it makes for an album that sounds like a ~very~ rough first draft
I guess it's an unfortunate side effect of her having full creative freedom now, there's no one to tell her she doesn't shit gold
First! (I'm unemployed)
one of my biggest issues with all of taylor’s albums is that (with the exception of 1989) they’re too long and would generally be classics if she cut the tracklist down some. i was initially going to listen to tortured poets out of curiosity more than anything, but when she announced it was a double album, i gave up. it’s a shame because she was one of my gateway points for getting into albums and i still think a lot of her work is solid, but considering how little i care for midnights, i just can’t bring myself to listen to this.
Excluding some of those old classic double albums that have stood the test of time, I never want to hear a 2 hour long album from anyone unless it's Swans
@@c.lvr2602 Taylor Swift needs to get on the post-rock train pronto
Fr the amount of songs intimidates me
Even though I really enjoyed the album, I always love the way you're able to sum up these records. I let out an audible "oooooh damn" at this one 😂😂😂
Shot out to Florence Welch, because she definitely killed it in her collab :v
She’s probably the main reason I like that song tbh
Unanimously agree
Great performance but imo her lyrics weren’t great, overall not enough to save a song called “Florida!!!”
How are you gonna put "poet" in the title and then have it be the most poorly written album in your discography?
I’m a huge swiftie but this album was so disappointing. It’s the worst parts of Midnights stretched out to over an hour
I thought it was disappointing too. I still really love a lot of the songs but I was hoping for more and But Daddy I Love Him is the most mid song I’ve ever listened to.
@@zoefoley6818Daddy I love him is Literally my favorite😭 Opinions have wide range I guess
The best songwriting on this album was Florence Welch’s verse on Florida and it wasn’t even close
For a good chunk of the album I was so bored. I honestly didn’t feel or get anything for most of the songs. Didn’t even notice the weird lyrics until people pointed them out online. Even after a few more listens I can only really think of 5 songs I genuinely enjoy.
Yeah this album is just missing the sauce. It has almost zero memorable hooks, and is not that interesting sonically. they can’t all be winners I guess. It’s not bad per se, it just doesn’t have the spark that’s usually in her music. It might be her most personal, but it’s her least *relatable* album. I guess that’s what happens when you’re the most famous person on earth - when you tell your honest truth, it just seems out of touch.
I found 3 primary issues with this album
1. The length. Obviously, but two bloody hours was far too long to talk about concepts and territory that is not new for her
2. The Music. This had the least sonically interesting work of her albums with Jack Antonoff yet, it is so hard to tell songs apart. They've absolutely exhausted any interesting ideas musically
3. The writing. On the damn "poet" album, the writing ranges from passable to genuine appalling on her least pop-friendly album in a long time. This is what mattered most and its genuinely awful at times.
I actually really like this album but the minute I finished it I knew people would either love it or hate it, no in between
thank yoooou great take
What this album solidified for me is that I never want to hear Jack Antonoff produce ever again. He made some amazing stuff for Taylor back in the 2010s but now his production is so bland and he's become the go-to producer for super famous millionaire female songwriters who want to pretend to be indie, it's boring now.
Also, I'm fed up of her "I'm so innocent and everyone is mean to me, pity me, pick me" persona that she's latched onto ever since the Kanye incident. Blaming everyone except herself for all her relationship failures. She has more exes than Pete Davidson - I looked online and found around 20(!) - and yet says it's always his fault when things go wrong. Considering that most of those men are now happily married or in long-term relationships and, with the exception of Joe Alwyn, almost none of her relationships have lasted longer than a few months, I don't think they were the toxic ones Taylor, maybe you were the problem 🤷♀️.
She really need to experiment more and branch out to producers who aren't Jack Antonoff or Aaron Dessner cuz all it's doing is making forgettable albums. I mean, look how quickly people forgot Midnights existed.
I’ve really enjoyed Antonoff’s production with Lana Del Rey, but it seems like a completely different aesthetic than what he does with Taylor
I think also it's because Lana's style works better with it. Lana is far from a great lyricist and has her fair share of questionable lines, but they're not as egregious as some of Taylor's in my opinion because the music and vocal performances make up for it. I can easily excuse sub-par lyricism in pop music, but the song needs to be enjoyable enough to counteract it, and these songs just aren't
@@ruffcriminalMe with St Vincent except that atrocious cover of Funkytown because that goes in the bin.
The fact that I've heard incredible albums from Jack made this an all the more painful experience, because I'm hearing the guy who made Melodrama and NFR make SUCH a sonically boring album is agony
He's overworking himself and stretching his talents thin. Between Taylor, Bleachers and the countless other wannabe indie pop stars he produces for, he's doing too much. He needs to take a couple years off to recharge and come back strong
the way florida is the only song i liked and seemingly the only song that is sonically different from all the monotonous tones ive heard in the album speaks volumes of how repetitive her songs have gotten.
thought Guilty as Sin was the only truly great song on here
That song started great but the line where she compared herself to Jesus had me floored. Her God complex is getting a little out of hand.
Pretty sure the only Swift album I peeped is Red…never went over her catalog, not opposed to it, but sounds like this aint all that
I will say, Folklore and Evermore are pretty fantastic albums
She’s got some great albums, I’ve always enjoyed a handful of tracks from each (even Reputation), this album is a shock to me because it’s the first in her catalog that I would actually call “bad”
I definitely recommend Red, Folklore, and maybe even 1989 if you wanna get more into her pop stuff and Evermore if you like her more “indie” stuff
If she'd had just written "Touch me while your bros play competitive Pokemon" it would've been a masterpiece
That's the one good thing about this album, so many of the lyrics are just so immensely memeable
Solid take
Her Double Album Epic Fail. Ouch. Department is closed.
On my hour commute to work is when I listen to most new albums. I’m scared to listen to this as I think it will make me fall asleep and crash at 8am…
Hello
“Music bro” music tastemaking (I won’t call it criticism because that’s not really what it is) strikes again - it’s been around for a long time in various forms and it never, ever ages well. The album is a grower and will be reevaluated later like many of her albums - have heard these same criticisms before only for the albums to be seen as “good” years later. Happens especially when she’s “overexposed.” Wash, rinse, repeat - it’s a cliche at this point.
I like all of her albums to some degree, except for this one. I very rarely have this negative of a reaction to albums on a first listen, but when I do I actually feel that way, and reevaluations don’t help. A thing can be bad, I resent the implication that I don’t know my own taste, that’s the only thing I do know
Who the fuck asked for a double LP from Taylor swift
Idk ask the 2.3M units she sold thus far
Okay, but Post Malone and Florence + the Machine did well on their features.
Florence always kills it. Ceremonials and How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful are 2 of my favourite albums ever
@@c.lvr2602 Excellent choices
I still have no ideia why so many people are claiming this record is this bad, like I agree it’s definitely not her best work but worst than MIDnights? reputation? I think the fact that her image is so saturated with the re-recording/nfl/eras tour combination that people are just tired of her and is affecting how we listen to her music
No single human being is gonna convince me that the lyrics on her last album were somehow sharper or more polished
For me, Midnights had less (but still some) cringe-inducing lyrics and they were balanced with better melodies and song structure. This album turns the cringe up to 11, and severely dials down the catchy melodies so there’s nowhere to hide