Taylor Swift - Folklore ALBUM REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2020
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Taylor Swift continues her upward artistic trajectory on Folklore.
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FAV TRACKS: THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN DYNASTY, EXILE, MY TEARS RICOCHET, THIS IS ME TRYING, ILLICIT AFFAIRS, EPIPHANY, BETTY, PEACE
LEAST FAV TRACK: CARDIGAN
TAYLOR SWIFT - FOLKLORE / 2020 / REPUBLIC / FOLK POP
7/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
Disliking Cardigan because you don't wear cardigans is not a valid reason anthony
Lol
100 gecs: sounds kinda sus
100 gecs: sounds kinda sus
@@chinmayachincholi6845 tu tony kakar ka music sunta hai na?
Lol what a dork
I am sick and tired of Melon’s anti-cardigan, pro-flannel agenda.
RayatoTV Amen! Flannelo’s slept on their hit single “Love Fool” for far too long now!
@@gyroblokkchampions9078 It really be like this.
Their album "Long Gone Before Daylight" is easily a strong 9 to a 10 and he better recognize it as such.
he needs to spend more time with Marc Rebillet. I demand more robes.
I love all the ‘Lana worship’ tracks
He didn't like Cardigan by Don Toliver neither >:(
She achieved peak "and indie record that's much cooler than mine" status
Underrated comment
She's *never ever ever getting back together* with Pop.
Her true *lover* is Folk.
😭😭
Except red is again a very COOL album. Imo as good as folklore.
@@aaravos4371 yeah
I’m always confused wether this guy hates or loves Lana Del Rey.
He liked her last album, but he isn't a fan of her older work.
he has love/hate relationship.
He used to not like her, but changed his mind after nfr.
@@rosaliamartinezlopez7533 he doesn’t hate everyone lol
@@rosaliamartinezlopez7533 you've not watched many reviews if you think he hates everyone
Bon Iver 2010: Collab with Kanye
Bon Iver 2020: Collab with Taylor
he's playing both sides so he always comes out on top
Real friends, how many of us?
If Justin is on Donda I will be eternally happy. It will probably never happen though
You don’t have be completely on one side.
Working with them doesn’t mean they are close friends
@Aryan Bhargava One day Taylor will make a music video where she either punches or hugs Kanye when they're both in a cake costume to synth rock where she talks about the injustices towards androids, whom will be commonplace in the future.
I disagree, I love the production on mirrorball and august, two of the best songs
Agreed it fits the album so well
FACTS.
Agree! My favorites
John Kibler Yes!! Those two are are of my favorite 3. Her songwriting and production is amazing
Mirrorball is the only skip for me
omg he doesn't like cardigan, seven and august...
August is like my second favorite song on the record. Weird.
who is him i dont know why youtube suggested me this
@@nataliatc1 a (famous) music reviewer
Tf right
I think Seven was amazing. I literally got chills when I heard her sing "I was high in the sky, with Pennsylvania under me". I wish you'd reviewed it as a song and not written it off, I would've liked to hear your opinion
Yeah, it's one of my favorites from this album. He was really going hard with that Lana del Rey comparison. I wish he did more in depth, specific song reviews or analysis.
the pleaaaaaaaaase is literally like muah
literally the best song on the album and sounds nothing like lana seeing that was so annoying
The lyrics on that song are so, so beautiful
I didn't think Logic would retire his rap career to pursue music reviews
TS: “Y’all need to calm down.”
I *did* think Logic would retire his career with the same score as Taylor Swift's most recent album, but not on this end of the scale.
It's honest work for him
Logic really does look like a skinny, apparently biracial version of Anthony
I- YO- 💀
Least favorite: cardigan oh because it's not a song about flannel, ok
Hey, ik I sound annoying af, but I'm 15 from India and I make music sometimes, and I would really appreciate some feedback and tips on how to get better 😄
Dent Boy I make some good music too
and when i felt like i was an old flannel under someone's head
Female singer: drops into lower register
Music analysts: this person would not have been BORN were it not for lana del rey
I feel you
Fr. It's honestly very annoying at this point. Lana did not invent singing in a lower register
@@abbeyo89 damn right she stole it from Billie holiday and nina simone
True but to be fair Taylor has said she has gotten inspiration from Lana Del Rey too
Aldous Harding sings in lower register and sounds nothing like Lana. Cardigan is a lana del rey song.
This album is actually really good tbh
Shut up t swift is amazing
not gonna lie tho probably one of the best releases this year
@RBS big loser energy lol
@RBS folklore outsold
@@lusop1 omg same display name hi bestie
my biggest issue with this review is your assumption that exile is going to play at "white girl" weddings the next 5 years... idk what sort of weddings you've been to lol
And why does he think white girls are so unintelligent when it comes to music that they wouldn’t realise exile is a break up song? 🤔 if anything, August is more likely to be played at a wedding. Yes it’s a break up song, but it sounds sparkly, glowy and warm...unlike exile, which sounds like pure heartbreak, even/especially to white girls, considering the songwriter is a white girl?¿?¿? Make yourself make sense, Anthony 😅😅
Who will play that song on weeding 😂😂😂 i mean its not even love song
Folklore is great album by far taylor best lyrically
Fr. What I don't understand is he is himself white then why is he mentioning white girls like it's a cringey thing, I'm not even white but I still felt bad because he mentioned girls. I would never understand these mentality of all righteous men
Well it's kinda a trend among the edgelords on the Internet to stereotype women, always has been, and Fantano's always pandered to his audience of straight dudes. He's a really average white dude but he has to get his trendy points by bringing white girls down. Eventhough, he himself, is white. His reviews are also insanely stale.
@@GLamoRousCooKie his reviews are stale because you don't agree with them
this was the most predictable 7 ever
Ikr, as soon as I saw he didn't have a yellow flannel I was like "yeah it's a 7"
We all know which one was the most unpredictable...
I thought it would’ve been a 6/10 but that melon fooled me by 1
I actually was expecting an 8, but being reallistic this is some stuff that Fantano would put a 7
Didn't even start the video. Knew it was a 7 as soon as I finished listening.
As someone who has NEVER heard a Taylor Swift song seriously let alone a PROJECT, this album instantly made me a fan of her. I was expecting an easy 8 or 9 from Fantano on this one but damn he really let me down here man..
how is it possible that you have never heard a Taylor Swift song?
@@brendavazquez4105 im guessing that bc they said "heard seriously" they mean that they'd never sat down to listen to one of her tracks. there's just no way they'd never heard her stuff, shake it off was impossible to escape lol
never heard a taylor swift song?
Same.
maybe because he didn't really like taylor swift. He never gave taylor more then 7,5
And when I felt like an old cardigan under someone’s bed, melon put me on and gave me a light 7
LMAO.
😂👏
I’m very surprised that you didn’t like cardigan. I thought the songwriting was super clever and set up most of the references for the rest of the song.
Ditto. Especially after he then praised Betty so much. Like, I'm not even sure how one likes Betty a lot and doesn't, at the very least, grow to love Cardigan.
Daniel Gillespie yeah that makes sense to me. I thought cardigan was decent on the first listen, but much better after I listened to Betty. Betty is, of course, the best song on the album.
Idk I thought the lyrics were shallow, basic, unsuprising and pretty teeny-bop, but that's just me.
Same and I don’t see as many similarities to Lanas music style. Idk
Sometimes Taylor’s writing gets a little corny and it shows in cardigan. Worse song on the album imo
I wonder what a black metal Taylor swift album would sound like
It would be songs about her ex boyfriend but from a nihilistic/suicidal/extremely dark side
1. Church Burning On Our Wedding Day
We'll know soon enough. For better or for worse.
It would probably be a dsbm album😂
Satanic goat meme screams
*female artist sings with lower register*
critics: LAAAAANAAAA DEEEL REEEEEYETEYEYEYEYYEYEYEY
But she said she was inspired but her so...
@TheNidoqueer it's not necessarily just her vocals, but the production, the lyrics, the aesthetic. she has literally called lana the most influential artist of our generation (her words, not mine although i agree lol) and taylor is not exempt from being inspired by lana.
Χαχα ωραίος
Sings heavy falsetto
Critics: BON IVERRRR!!!!
True. The vocals from epiphany was inspired from Bon Iver's Vocals
@TheNidoqueer It's not really a maybe lol she's literally said she's inspired by her....
About cardigan being a “Lana song” ... what *is* a Lana song? Lana herself doesn’t own breathy vocals, moans or female-alternative aesthetic. It’s just funny how it’s “disappointing” for Taylor Swift to draw inspiration from Lana, but when Billie Eilish, Lorde and Carly Rae Jepsen do it, it’s “original”... 🤷♂️
why are you comparing cardigan to billie eilish and lorde? so different lmao. i don't think you could slap a lorde song into a lana album and not notice tbh.
kok hoe teh exactly my point. They may draw inspiration from the same sources but they’re each their own woman and are not interchangeable 🤦🏻♂️
Go back to bed Daniel it's late
People forgot that alternative is a style and there's a lot of singers singing alternative not just lana
Daniel Gonzalez but Taylor's channeling of Lana has evidently gone way more than just singing style. (Wildest Dreams sounds and visuals as a major example) And it's she did way too overtly.
The cover art is actually very black metal tho 😂
Nah, it’s pop lore.
Pictures too clear
Thought it was a new agalloch album
It looks the way Deafhaven sounds
Looks like Agalloch
As someone who has been a Taylor Swift fan for a decade, you have no idea how happy it made me to hear her playing to her songwriting and storytelling strengths again.
sorry, i broke the 13 likes. my bad for the disrespect. :(
After releasing songs like “ME!” I’m SO glad in folklore she went back to her lyrical roots
I'm secretly wishing she never goes back to pop 😬🤫 but I mean, I love everything she does.
@rose gold dancing with our hands tied is my favourite song off reputation
rose gold I mean you’re right but that was kinda mitigated by stuff like Me! I wanted a return to the whole storytelling vibe of Speak Now, and that’s what she came through with.
I respect you melon but as a very long time fan of both Lana and Taylor, nah, there's no Lana in this album. And it bugs me so much that people will compare literally anything a female artist does to Lana if she has breathy vocals/piano/uses vintage imagery or writes sad songs. I've seen the comparisons with Billie, Ariana, *relentlessly* with Halsey, Lorde, Mitski, Taylor, etc etc. Those artists sound almost nothing alike, yet somehow they're also all ripping off Lana? How does that make sense? Taylor has been a storyteller for her entire career, she's always used Americana imagery especially in her country days, if anything she's ripping herself off with some of these songs (Betty could easily be from any of her first 3 albums, the whole album is using the same aesthetic she did years ago for Safe and Sound). Not to mention that everything Lana does is inspired by other artists before her, she's very transparent about that. And sure she was the first to combine certain aesthetics and get mainstream recognition, but she didn't invent vintage Americana, breathy vocals, female indie, melancholic lyrics etc. She doesn't own the entirety of female alt pop. The *only* time I'd personally argue Taylor ripped off Lana was with Wildest Dreams. Also I thought we all agreed that in that statement Lana made, it was ridiculous when she tried to claim she's the founder of all this stuff? So why are we validating her now??
also, taylor swift has been working with antonoff for years, and it really made him a popular choice for other artists to work with. lana’s most recent album wouldn’t have had that sound if taylor had not braved working with jack in the first place. and i love lana’s music, absolutely not discrediting her, but i’m tired of melon being embarrassed to admit he enjoys songs by taylor, and downplaying her talent
Lana never said she’s the founder of this stuff?? She said other female alt singers bash her for singing about domestic violence while she has always been into that narrative. Lana would never say something like that. she’s surprisingly very humble for an artist at that top tier level.
I've been a Swiftie for longer than I've been a Lana fan; I love them both so much. Wildest Dreams (who's not co-written nor produced by Jack) and Cardigan sound hella a lot Taylor overtly channeling Lana. Denying sound (especially the visual cues sepcifically with WD) similarities is just being consciously deaf/blind.
Channeling another artists is common but had been too obvious in some songs.
@@cheesecakelasagna The only Lana part in Wildest Dreams is the "Ahaaaa-haaaa" and in cardigan "Ahahahai." Literally that's just it. I can spot Lana's melodies and I tell you this - your claims are wrong.
Are You Ready For It Please listen to Lana's song "Without You" off of her Born To Die album. Many people had sparked discussions comparing the two songs for a reason. Specifically the chorus.
Also, the visuals for the WD musi video is undeniably inspired (which I actually don't mind, people use reference for video treatments all the time)
I mean Anthony gave 'Melodrama' a 7..so I am not really surprised.
This makes sense given he hated the Jack Antonoff tracks on Folklore. Boo
I haven't trusted him since he gave Golden Hour a low score
@@harrypotteravenclaw same but when he gave Fine Line a low score, that was the last straw for me
Sophia Borderon i give your comment a strong 4
7 is a really really good score.....
First off who’s gonna play “exile” at their wedding? Ain’t that a breakup song?
h
Invisible string is the wedding song imo
plus it's the worst song on the album by far
I thought he was talking about the teardrops track?
@@candletabletop154 to you
Whenever I watch Anthony Fantano, I like to imagine he’s that friendly but weird guy at a supermarket that won’t get my social cues to leave the conversation he started.
Holy shit, and the editing makes it even better, as if time is passing by and he keeps going on...
this is so accurate
Ironically, this guy wrote an album called supermarket!!!
I would agree, but Anthony is definitely more introverted when it comes to conversation. This is evident from his interviews. He lets the other person speak their full, and almost never interrupts them. I would imagine it's the same in real life.
A J that’s some hard evidence right there my guy :/ I better go delete my comment now
Cardigan sounds NOTHING like an Ultraviolence song, if you were to compare it to Lanas discography it sounds more like NFR
and lust for life
folklore reminds me of uv tho
Ehh lana pioneered breathy vocals and slow paced weird shit. Yh.. I agree w melon on this one.
@@lanadeltaco1022 you're kidding?
cardigan sounds like something off aka mixed with nfr imo
I love Lana, and I listen to all her albums on the regular. But I'm failing to see how folklore is "derivative" of her. The only remotely similar song was Cardigan-which in my opinion was done really well. The initial first 30ish seconds sounded Lana influenced (mainly bc of the delivery of the lyrics and the instrumental) but as the song progresses it clear to any veteran swiftie this is very much a Taylor song, especially when the bridge comes on. It was a perfect mix of outside influence and her own style. As for the other songs, I don't see it at all. Even on Stan Twitter-which is known for being kinda toxic-almost all Lana Stan pages are just noting Cardigan sounds like a Lana song and they are congratulating Taylor.
I don't think he said the entire album sounded like Lana, tbh it's just the song Cardigan (which I've listened to when I repeated the album several times, and tbh yes it really fucking screamed of Lana del Rey stylization, not that it's a bad thing but it was pretty derivative. She didn't invent that style, one can argue, but it's a prominent thing in her music and people denying it are just overlooking the song Cardigan's flaws tbh).
LNLonelyness
He states in 2:26 to 3:37 that in a couple songs Taylor was “living in her (lana’s) shadow” and continues to point at the fact that she she was “biting into ones contemporary”. It’s this ppl have a problem with bc he’s overstating Lanas influence in the album and then also framing Taylor as doing a bad thing.
@@rndmusrnm2763 it's because a song being derivative is a negative thing in of itself, Taylor wearing her influences too much in her sleeve with the mentioned songs is gonna leave a sour taste to most music fans really, and Cardigan just feels like the worst offender of that.
@@lnlonelyness6021
I personally don't think it was derivative. Like I explained in my OP, there were certainly some similar stylistic choices in Cardigan but it still feels like Taylor Swift song.
@@rndmusrnm2763 we can just agree to disagree on this tbh, I just personally don't find Cardigan to be that interesting either even if it wasn't a Lana worship type of song, the similar stle is just too close for comfort for me.
Would've given it a 10 if track 2 was titled "flannel"
*Taylor has matured so much as an artist.* Like seriously I mean that with no irony.
Well it's been 14 years, it's about time.
Yes, I am very happy to see her growth
Shake it off is lit
I think we already saw some of that maturity on Speak Now and Red
@@rensje Her only subpar albums are rep and lover tbh which is coz her success with 1989 was a fluke😂😂
lana didn't invent breathy vocals. y'all just blind to other women in the alternative genre.
It's been recently repopularized by Lana though and her resounding success surely was an inspiration for Taylor on some of these songs, that's undeniable.
YES
facts
The most recent pillar that I think others have leaned on since is Hope Sandoval.
No one says that
I feel like Anthony was a little dismissive in this review
Yeah, wasn't sure why he would talk positively about "Exile" then say "oh it can be played at a white girl wedding." I've only seen people say "white girl music" in a somewhat dismissive way
Neil Davis Exactly. Plus I don’t think people would play that at a wedding.
He seems like he's embarrassed to have really liked it.
Ridma Hoq Yeah thats the vibe I got too. Like buddy it’s okay to like a Taylor Swift album you don’t need to fill your statements with caveats.
@@legofarm13 yeah as if she's nobody and not a good songwriter. Weird.
I give this album a 9 and I never cared for her
Same here.
Damn! I was looking for a comment like this. A real true comment. Look like i have to listen. I am interested after reading this Mini sentence review. And not even because of Anthony ! Lol
I am surprised by his 7. Yes, I am a fan so I may be biased but come on, it is an above 7 score album.
@@HarryPotter-qd4ut 7 from lemon is actually a good score. Dunno why y'all complainin'
@@rathinsinha5646 This way his 9 or 10 must be a rare case? Like he must have given that score to only 1 or no album in his life cause those standards dont exist
Mirrorball is a complete banger
Seven is one of my fav tracks! I dont think it sounds anything like LDR. I actually got 'Plans' Death Cab vibes from that song with the acoustic strums and piano
I also loved Mirrorball and August precisely for the 'washed out' production!
I agree! Seven doesn’t sound ANYTHING like her at all, but oh well 😔
@@madelinekorbut395 he calls it washes out. We call it Chamber Pop
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 I certainly dont think Fantano cares about the popularity and mainstream aspect of an artist and has proven over the years it doesn't taint his reviews (perfect examples of this are Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Ariana Grande, etc). If he sees talent, he acknowledges it. Also, this review isnt even bad (I would personally give it a light to moderate 8) but I just disagree that some of the songs are "derivative" of Lana Del Rey.
Been following Fantano since 2012 and appreciate his opinions which are far less politically driven and biased in contrast to Pitchfork
if anything it reminded me of Aldous Harding. Great track!
I think that Mirrorball was the best one on this album
Yay agree
Same!
When I die I want fantano to meet me at the pearly gates to give my life a review and run through all my sins and mishaps and give me a score.
light 2.
NOT GOOD/10
STRONG 10
it’s NOT GOOD, and then your body explodes as your soul is sent to hell instead
NOT GOOD - Light 4: you go to hell
Strong 5 - Light 9: you go to heaven
10: you are God now
Screaming "Kanye's better" for 12 minutes is not a review Anthony
It would've been epic if that was the case
But he speaking facts for 12 minutes tho
True, if he did that it would be a total lie
sad boy Kanye is better tho
@@reportedworm4314 lol funny joke
First time I listened to August: ew
Second time: this isn’t that bad actually
Third time: *BACK WHEN WE WERE STILL CHANGING FOR THE BETTER, WANTING WAS ENOUGH. FOR ME IT WAS ENOUGH*
SAYING US CAUSE YOU AREN'T MINE TO LOSEEEEEEEE
😂😂 exactly
Wait I'm in love with august since the first listen 🤭
@@syihansiregar6318 youre just ahead of the curve 😌
@@kk8490 why would u think it’s bad at first listen???
this is a 7 because Anthony can’t bring himself to give anyone in Bon Iver or the National an 8
Listen, I love all those guys too but at some point ya just gotta let go of 2007
@@DixyRae go away
@@ljhb48 damn son, where'd ya find this? A sad episode of House M. D.?
Hey, ik I sound annoying af, but I'm 15 from India and I make music sometimes, and I would really appreciate some feedback and tips on how to get better 😄
@@DixyRae lmao
I don't have an issue with a 7 - it's a decent score, especially for him. What I do have a bit of an issue with is how dismissive he sounded all throughout the review. From completely dismissing some great songs because they were "derivative" to once again shitting on white girls and their music taste... this was the most negative sounding 7 review I've seen of him. Almost like he knew objectively he had to give it at least a 7, but he really didn't want to.
Yep 👏👏 so sick of him constantly dismissing the growth and maturity of any female pop artist. Dismissive about the lyrics, dismissive about the production, and dismissive about their overall sound or concept by labelling it “derivative”. They never seem to get a fair shake. When it comes to these albums, his bias is pretty much always showing 🙄
@@georgialilley4316 but it's just not as good as Sufjan Stevens, who she does bite from quite a bit.
@Jin #ESCN certainly, but it's worth viewing music in terms of the whole musical canon, isn't it? Schoolboy Q's 2010s record would have been great had it been released in 1993 - unfortunately, it was released when the ideas and execution in his music was a little dated. The execution was good, but it's not like he was doing anything that nobody else was.
It's like how film buffs like the weirdest or slowest movies. They like the most deliberate, no holds barred movies. It's because everything in between has already been done.
@@georgialilley4316 What about Superorganism's record, Carly Rae Jepsen's Emotions and Rina Sawayama's two records? Like he totally loved those two records. And in the later portion of this review, he had a ton of praise for this record and her growth.
Being "enchanted" by vocal harmonies is not something that he says a lot. It's high praise.
@@georgialilley4316 but I mean... it IS pretty damn derivative
“mature melancholy that older millennials EaT uP”
I have been personally attacked
Lol old
Maiva La well yeah everyone has their own biases. At least he’s acknowledging that it’s a good album, even if he does hate her or whatever you’re getting on about. It would be easy for him to just say “I don’t like this artist/genre so this album is bad” like so many people do.
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 calm down, stan.
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 is somebody hurt their fave didn't get a 10?
Maiva La you do know this is the guy who gave Kid Kudi both a 0 and a 10/10 right?
Listening to "the last great american dynasty" the first time gave me chills and made me realize why I became a Swiftie in the first place. And why Red is still my favourite album of hers. Her storytelling skill just hits you.
Most of the songs are not even about her. They are all connected and they are all from different points of view, she's said it herself
Yeah I’m pretty sure only My Tears Ricochet (best song on the album btw) is the only one that’s about her personal life.
As someone who really loves Taylor, this album is a solid 9 for me or at least 8 for your standard melon. I love every song but my top 5 probably: exile, cardigan, august, mirrorball, and this is my trying. P.S. Lana does not invent the 'whispery-sad girl tone' BTW.
Lana did invent the whispery-sad girl tone. Well you can say Cat Power and/or Portishead invented it but she made it iconic. All the other sad girls since then have been modeled after her.
Fantano: "Cardigan was wholly derivative of Lana Del Rey"
Me Being a guy who's never listened to her before: "Well seeing as I loved the track, I should probably go buy some Lana Del Rey"
EDIT: Well goddamn, I never realized how beloved an artist Lana Del Rey was lol. I appreciate all the suggestions and I'll be sure to check out the full Lana catalog someday soon. Thanks everybody.
I'd suggest starting off with ultraviolence 👌🏻
Same dude holy shit
Can't wait for you to listen to NFR! It her best work. Great album sonically.
@@ms.bigbooty Will do.
@@CJ-wz7wz I'll be adding that to the list. 👍🏾
For someone that used to drag LDRs music since when did you become such a gatekeeper of her sound? Also since when did LDR own said sound? She referenced it too remember.
It's like they forget about carole king's and joni mitchell's existence
@@estevezalexa c'mon, obviously that Lana nowdays has much more influence on contemporary music than those two.
@@widM_ I mean, that’s obvious but Taylor is a huge fan of them and has cited them as influences
@@estevezalexa could be, but I think she also cited Lana as an influence for this album, that's why everyone mentioning her
@@widM_ she didn’t mention Lana influenced the album but I don’t doubt it, she’s a huge fan as well. My reply was to the original comment saying that Lana too was influenced by the ones before her and she doesn’t own said sound.
I see so many commenters here saying "taylor has grown a lot, the lyrics are great" or "i wasn't expecting to like a TS album" and as someone who also came late to the TS party (2016) i have to say people just don't know she's always written deep and clever lyrics. For example, "dear john" fuuuuuck is so clever i was listening to it today and was blown away once again. And of course, her magnum opus "all too well" (that for some huge fans has been dethroned by folklore/evermore tracks haha) I have become a huge fan and i cannot believe the media has painted her as shallow. Even her song blank space (one of my faves) has been so overplayed people don't appreciate how great it is, not just storytelling wise, but as a pop song! Such a great funny pop song in which taylor laughs at the way the media paint her. Idk. If you liked folklore you should check out more taylor because she's always been a master lyricist and a great artist. Just because she's mainstream doesn't mean she's bad.
I always appreciated her discography and her the way she shape-shifted herself with her phase. Similar to Bowie and McCartney, her album flow is so constantly good and different. Not a fan tbh, but I see her as an icon.
I’m on the fence with this comment. Folklore and evermore were the albums that made a Taylor Swift fan. Maybe not a fan perse, but I was/am interested in what she’ll do next and intrigued by her storytelling and creative ideas featured on both albums. I listened to her earlier work (Lover, reputation, Red, etc.) and her recent work before folklore didn’t captivate me as it sounded more like generic pop with a narcissistic and petty attitude like on songs Look What You Made Me Do and Bad Blood. Her master lyricism truly comes out on her 2020 albums as she dives into other characters instead of herself.
@@_PuppetMaster86 Yeah, I agree with you. I personally like all her albums pre-rep. Idek how she released an album as bad as Reputation and Lover was alright. I hope she doesn’t go back to making pop music. It is not her lane
Just because it’s mainstream doesn’t mean its bad is something a lot of the “I listen to real music” people need to understand.
The amount of eye rolls I gave every single time Anthony claimed a certain song was the result of Taylor being derivative by copying Lana Del Rey is baffling. Lana did not create the indie-folk genre and there a lot of other musicians that came before her that were doing this style - and frankly, way better.
You also have to factor in that Taylor and Lana share the same collaborator, Jack Antonoff, who has continuously worked with Taylor years before Lana came into the picture.
I'm not sure about seven, but cardigan is actually pretty much like a Lana song and is not even produced by Jack. From the production to the lines to the way that the song evolves, this could be in NFR. I really enjoied the track though.
She's a fan and it shows. But as a huge Lana and Taylo fan, I can say they're pretty different. Carding and Mad Woman don't sound like Lana songs at all. Wildest Dreams is the only one for me that does. On this album, maybe ilicit affairs a bit? But still, different. Taylor has a pretty unique songwriting style, as Lana also does.
How can this guy make a living out off of reviewing albums and not know music?
Wildest Dreams was literally a knockoff of Lana's song Without You.
@@agnusredel3709 you mean Lana's Without You? :)
Anthony repeat after me: Lana del Rey didn't invent the indie/alternative genre!
Bc with that narrative every indie artists sounds like Lana, there were other people before her, she is not the only one.
Fr
she did popularise it to the thing it is now and that melancholic breathy vocal aesthetic is pretty much her brand at this point.
Never once thought of Lana Del Rey throughout the whole album, and I like Lana. Cardigan is not Lana. Felt like I was the only one who missed out on this inspiration.
Agnus Redel true, melancholic breathy vocals are her stitch, but then again, Lana did not invent singing in lower register. So the moment she stops the breathy vocals, should we then accuse her of now copying the times Taylor sang normally in Folklore?
@@1Lordbuddy Just listen to the lyrics man, it sounds like a Born To Die side B. It's the vocals PLUS the songwriting plus the lyrics and the instrumentation that makes it sound like Lana (even though individually those things don't necessarily point to Lana).
Still can’t believe Anthony dislikes Seven. Easily the best song on the album in my opinion
Umm you sure about that
@@Culereterno1899 umm yeah. The lyrics are fantastic and I love the chorus. Taylor’s singing is also particularly great
@@123rockfan Have you heard the bonus track (The Lakes)
Honestly at this point I feel like if her lyrics were in a metal song everyone would say it’s a phenomenal album. How the hell can you dismiss an artist that writes songs with lyrics like
“I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere”
“You were my temple, my mural, my sky, now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life”
“I stare directly at the sun but never on the mirror”
“You kept me like a secret, I kept you like an oath”
“When I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone’s bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite”
-Sincerely,
A metal fan
WE ALL JUST LOOKED AT THE SCORE AND COMMENTED
Facts
LITERALLY
Like I said, it’s been such a weird year for 7s. Logic and Juice WRLD finally got their highest score with one and now Taylor.
No
Yup
This is really my AOTY
And AOTY for grammy now :)
At first I wasn't sure about the album, I nearly fell asleep while listening the first time. BUT that's definitely an album which grows on you. Now I am constantly having lyrics from different songs in my head and I truly love this album deeply. I love the atmosphere, the silence, the LYRICS! Some of her best ones so far. "Try to change the ending, peter losing wendy" is stuck in my head and heart forver and I am always close to tears when I begin to think about the meaning.
Love Taylor for ever and ever ♡
I can’t believe how dismissive he was of the lyrics. But then again, I can because he’s always like this with female pop artists 🙄 at this point I’m not sure he’d know a good lyric if it smacked him on the butt. I’m no Taylor fan - I’ve actually loathed her music since she started - but I have been recently listening to her last couple of albums, and I’ve had to admit that I got it totally wrong when I wrote her off all these years, because she is a brilliant storyteller and lyricist. Possibly one of the best in the business.
@@georgialilley4316 Yes!! I think that even though taylor swift is really famous and mainstream and important in the industry, I feel like she's also underrated as an artist. Being mainstream is a double edged sword
Of course he hates every song I like on the album as usual 😂
least fav cardigan??? r u serious?
He didn’t like it cuz it was derivative.
I’m a huge Taylor fan and I didn’t like cardigan. At least compare to the other songs on the album.
The melody reminded me of early Lana too, but I don’t automatically hate anything that sounds like early Lana like Anthony does.
Lana Del Rey -Young And Beautiful!
I don’t really see the Lana comparisons but
why can't artists be inspired from one another, i really enjoyed cardigan
bc something is more groundbreaking if it's more original. if a random man today did what einstein did, he'd be congratulated for being talented but not engraved in history like einstein was. simple
I'm a big taylor and lana fan, cardigan doesnt sound like LDR. Like yes, maybe the same melancholical mood, but that's about it lol
@@Anna13Tonks eh alright
kmi Lana did not invent melancholic genre byee
@@hansolo8560 first off, tf is with the "byee?" y'all swifties crazy. second, cardigan sounds like LDR.
I listen to Lana all the time and Cardigan did not sound wholly derivative of Lana. Just sounds like you're hating lol.
Right? I listen to both Lana and Taylor, the "AAaah"s and "slow-singing" are similar, just like in "Wildest Dreams" and "Dress", it sounds like Lana for ppl who don't rlly listen to Lana often. You can easily make the difference between their lyricism and music-style which are both great. They're comparing them since 2014, it's tiring at this point.
YES. I am a Taylor and Lana stan, it sounds nothing like Lana. Only if you're just surface-listening
@@Anna13Tonks Exactly the right word is "surface-listening"
Yeah... it sounds nothing like Lana. That seems like something someone with a very narrow frame of reference would say, tbh. If anything, cardigan reminds me of Tori Amos' later work, but in a way that it's still very different.
sounds like you guys have different opinions. oh my!
I honestly thought you would talk more about the album as opposed to impersonating Kanye West from the 2009 Grammys just to piss off Taylor.
Hey, ik I sound annoying af, but I'm 15 from India and I make music sometimes, and I would really appreciate some feedback and tips on how to get better 😄
Interesting how Betty is the only one that really reminds me of an old, country Taylor song and is a favorite for a lot of people. I like it because of the nostalgic feeling, feels like I'm listening to a lost track of Fearless or Speak Now, but with a more refined songwriting. And funny to notice that the tracks you didn't like the production were by Antonoff, I can see the hate coming in the comments 🤐 The whole album for me is amazing, been listening non stop since the release, I would give a legit 8.5
I would give it a 9.5 out of 10.
Yelling “Tay Tay make me gay gay” for 12 minutes is not a review Anthony...
duuuuude, SEVEN is a phenomenal track :'( what are you saaaaying!
Maiva La yes.... he’s a taylor hater. he gave this album a 7 but he’s a taylor hater i guess...
Max Dienes you can be a Taylor hater but be objective. You can not like them personally or not like their musical stuff but appreciate an ok album
Mirrorball also.. this sexist know sh*t
Music is subjective. Always. Even for critics.
To me Seven is the best song on the album, and to say it was practically a copy off Lana is pretty off base.. Taylor's been putting out similar sounding songs about childhood since the beginning. Notably Best Day from her Fearless album.
love the review but i don’t feel like the “enough pumpkin spice to be played in a starbucks” or “will be played at every white girl wedding” was really necessary to review it, seems a little dismissive.
😂
kinda agree lmao
m he was expecting most people still hate her and tried to get their likes. 🙄
Ok but were is he wrong
He just loves to be dismissive in his reviews of female artist’s albums lol. Sorry your wife doesn’t sleep with you fantano but don’t take that anger out on Taylor swift
i love the production on mirrorball and august, i think they perfectly capture the nostalgic vibe she was going for. also i guess i notice the lana inspiration a bit but i don’t think it’s a) that overbearing or b) a bad thing
this!!!
Also Jack Antonoff produced both along with this is me trying which all three Anthony had an issue with the production! Dessner did most of the rest
August, Mirrorball, and This is Me Trying are my top faves, mostly because of the production. I love that sound. 😘
Angry Commenter just bc the drums are quiet doesn’t mean it’s tacky ? like what about drums being quiet is bad production lol
I'm a fan of Lana and Tay, but the overbearing part is thinking Lana made the aesthetic/breathy/lowtones and any artists can't do that without even mentioning her name, like we get it she's awesome (we know that already lol) but I don't think it's fair that we need to label slow breathy music as lana
I genuinely cannot hear any of the Lana influence he's talking about on this album? Is it just because it's alternative? I've heard all Lana's albums and she leans way more into hiphop and rock sounds with a very different vocal style, the comparison to me was just...strangely bitter?...IMO the only Taylor song that sounds anything like a Lana song is Wildest Dreams ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sue me
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 Everybody is biased. You are biased. I am biased. Sit down, be humble and don't get salty about people's opinion on the internet.
My exact thoughts.
The Lana influences are there due to the National & Bon Iver production references on this album spread. Its these artist that lay the groundwork for Taylor's sound in this album. Weird how you say Hip-Hop & Rock when most Lana tracks i heard are mostly cinematic styled Americana 1960's sound.
@@Kyle-xk5nc bias is different from deep hatred tho, he low-key hated Taylor like he gave her last albums a 4, 5,6 even the critically acclaimed ones like Red
Cardigan literally gives off such Lana Del Ray vibes. Swift's vocal inflection and the melodic phrasing of the chorus is super similar to Lana's style. I totally agree with him on this point, and I don’t get how people don’t see it.
I mean, even with the rest of the album, of course it's not on every song, and even on the songs that he pointed out, it's not a 1:1 copy, but Taylor very noticeably emulates her a couple of times.
I guess I can see where Fantano is coming from, but i sort of take objection to the idea that Taylor was making tracks derivative of Lana Del Rey when they are instrumentally more informed by Carrie& Lowell era Sufjan Stevens (in my opinion anyways). I just don’t see where he hears a banjo and is like “yes that’s Lana alright” i just don’t know if he would say the same if Taylor was a man
2020 scores:
0/10: 1
- [ Green Day - Father of All ]
1/10: 1
- [ Sam Hunt - Southside ]
2/10: 0
3/10: 6
4/10: 11
5/10: 24
6/10: 12
7/10: 28
8/10: 31
9/10: 4
- Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter
- Black Dresses - Peaceful as Hell
- Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
- Blu & Exile - Miles
10/10: 0
[NOT GOOD/10]: 6
- [ Justin Bieber - Changes ]
- [ Lil Baby - My Turn]
- [ Joyner Lucas - ADHD ]
- [ Danzig Sings Elvis ]
- [ Nav's Good Intentions & Brown Boy 2 ]
- [ G-Eazy's Everything's Strange Here ]
IT'S GOOD/10 (from fantano channel): 5
- [ Disclosure - Ecstasy ]
- [ Haru Nemuri - Lovetheism ]
- [ Dirty Projectors - Windows Open Ep ]
- [ Dirty Projectors - Flight Tower ]
- [ Jockstrap - Wicked City ]
EP review: 2
- [ Little Simz - Drop 6 ]
- [ RMR - Drug Dealing Is a Lost Art ]
Classics: 5
- [ Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope ]
- [ Talk Talk - Laughing Stock ]
- [ Converge - Jane Doe ]
- [ My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade ]
- [ Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury ]
Custom scores: 1
- [ Gunna - Wunna ] -Ω/10
Second take: 1
- [ Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ] - 6/10
"Controversial": 16
- [ Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By ] ============> 5/10
- [ Tame Impala - The Slow Rush ] =================>6/10
- [ Grimes - Miss Anthropocene ] ==================>4/10
- [ Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake ] ====================>4/10
- [ Machine Girl - U-Void Synthesizer] ==============> 5/10
- [ Childish Gambino - 3.15.20 ]====================>4/10
- [ Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud ] ====================>4/10
- [ Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters ] =============>7/10
- [ Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris ] =================>6/10
- [ Dance Gavin Dances Afterburner] ================>4/10
- [ Future - High Off Life ] =========================>3/10
- [ Yung Lean - Starz ] ============================> 5/10
- [ Khruangbin - Mordechai ] =======================>3/10
- [ Hum - Inlet ] =================================> 5/10
- [ MIKE - Weight of the World ] =====================>4/10
- [ Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald ] =====================>3/10
Cal cameos: 24
- Green Day - Father of All
- Drake - Dark Lane Demo Tapes
- Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open
- Umbra Vitae - Shadow of Life
- Nav's Good Intentions & Brown Boy 2
- Ka - Descendants of Cain
- Future - High Off Life
- Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now
- Gunna - Wunna
- The 1975 - Notes on a Conditional Form
- Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B
- KSI - Dissimulation
- Jeff Rosenstock - NO DREAM
- Lady Gaga - Chromatica
- Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists
- Run the Jewels - RTJ4
- Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
- Lil Yachty - Lil Boat 3
- Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour
- Baauer - Planet's Mad
- HAIM - Women in Music Pt. III
- Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
- G-Eazy's Everything's Strange Here
- Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
- Logic - No Pressure
This is the 139th review of 2020
Thanks white male
Who are you the Thalia of Anthony's channel?
Thank you
Have we figured out an exact score on Alfredo? I know he did the Dead End Hip Hop thing on it, but I missed not having a proper Needle Drop review.
@@dannygillespie6614 It was in the description of the video it was an 8
hi anthony
hi
Hi
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hi græy or gray
Hey
This is her best album, this is the Taylor Swift that I THOROUGHLY enjoyed listening to, and It is very re-listenable.
It sounds like an audiobook.
Her best is RED
you are certainly right there buddy. i never thought reputation is her best yet in my opinion, but folklore stole the spotlight.
I will say Red and Speak Now we’re also pretty good, just not AS good in my opinion.
@@blizzmuzic they were waaaaay more immature compared to this. Folklore is basically what I would have expected her to sound in 10 years if I listened to her pre-1989 stuff
I think that august was supposed to sound more hazy and washed out because it’s about a relationship becoming hazy and harder to hold onto with time
Okay Sir, you’re mistaken. Cardigan is phenomenal. And Seven is my favorite song off the album. Lanas big writer on NFR, Jack Antinof, worked with Taylor on this album. Thats why you’re hearing so much Lana influences. And Taylor is growing. She’s 30 years old. We’re going to see her sounds change. And Lana is VERY mature lyrically, so I’m not surprised Taylor would emulate that style. It’s not a steal. It’s Taylors version of darkness and depth. It’s amazing. The whole album hit me like a ton of bricks and it’s quickly becoming my favorite album ever. The sounds are INTENTIONAL. It’s meant to sound nostalgic.
agreed it sounds like the production stuff is just personal preference but on tracks like "august" it sounds perfect to me, this clean and nostalgic summer beach town sound
So he can't have opinions? Nice
She just decided to do a low key album with antonoff and release it during the quarantine to reflect everyone's vibe.... nothing to do with her not being in her 20s anymore lmao
@@yup13131 and we can disagree with his opinions right??
@@shreyamathur824 Yeah, but you shouldn't be attacking someone for disagreeing with your opinions
Taylor got a 7/10?
DAMN
the score would be higher if the album was shorter - this is Taylor's main problem
Dibil Idiot I don’t see a problem with the album having a lot of tracks tbh
So original
Christian Santiago maybe for some people, but an entirely chill, melancholy album like this is a dream for me. I do agree sometimes she overcompensates with fillers, but I felt every song in folklore was integral to the larger storytelling that was at play, I wouldn’t want any of them to go away. And that’s saying a lot with the knowledge that I’m waiting impatiently for the bonus track coming out with the physical CD, making it 17 songs! Lol
How can Melon actually know so much about Lana and still be dead wrong about this album.
The songs cardigan, mad woman and this is me trying kinda grew on me and now are my favourites along with mentioned. So its a no skip album for me.
I liked this is me trying but mad woman... I just can't get over the corniness of the lyrics
@@AbdullahMQureshi yeah kinda true but the lyric" wanting me dead has really brought you two together" is savage and corny at the same time. I still like it
This album was literally a 10/10. Amazing.
Listen to more music
Ikr
@@youareasock9752 no
It's a nine at most.
The best way I can describe this album is warm. This is a warm, homey album. The kind of soft and comfy sound that works well right now.
The “I’m not like other Taylor albums” Taylor album
It's like red except the singles
Taylor Asuncion
How? There was some experimental sounds for sure but this album is a mix of all her previous work. I get mad 1989 syrupy production vibes in some songs, then the gut-wrenching ballads from Red & Speak Now and the plucky string vibes from her self-titled album and fearless. I swear she gets shit on as being basic if she's doing full-mainstream pop, but if she diverts to another musical lane then she's trying too hard to be different.
I feel like that was just Reputation.
That was definitely reputation
I would rate this a solid 8, myself. But that's mostly because I'm not as opposed to the early Lana worship as Melon. Probably my favorite TS album in a long time, even as the last three have had bright spots.
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 ...he gave her a 7, lol
@Greyfoot Yodel it's honestly a breath of fresh air in the mainstream music, Radio has been filled with beatdrops and what production screams the loudest
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 giving albums bad reviews doesn't make you a hater... lmao. influence is influence
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 I'm a fan of both, but it's no surprise is Taylor indeed took inspiration from Lana as Taylor is a Lana fan herself. though I agree folklore should be seen as different, because it is different
I feel like he’s trying so hard to relate Taylor and Lana when they both have such different techniques and song styles. It’s sad really because folklore is such a beautiful album and throughout the whole video it just feels as if your shitting on the album because you think it sounds like a Lana album instead of immersing yourself in the intricate details of Folklore.
Screaming "This is better than MBDTF" for 12 minutes was a really weird way to review this album Anthony
taylor stans about to have their DAMN.
to the fucking score lmao
T swift fan and fantano fan here! Very happy and grateful, RELIEVED for a 7!
Nah, swifties aren't that triggered
She never got a 10 tho
@@MyBihLuhCoco He meant lots of people think DAMN wasn't high enough and is saying the same thing will happen for this album. And yh I kinda think she deserved an 8 but I'm a fan so
Why is Lana the only one that can own breathy melancholy? So every female that does it is copying her???
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 he gave reputation a 4 which means he's a hater? lmfao you clearly don't know this dude but go off i guess
It's not what they're doing
It's how they're doing
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 Reputation was trash
Swifties should not face reality and stay in their bubblegum princess world Lmao
@@TheWSYNkatevy153 he gave ultraviolence a fucking 2 what do you expect from guy like him?
Simmering it down to just "breathy melancholy" is a bit of a slippery euphemism pal...
I just listened to it, and I'd put it up there as one of the best albums of the year. It gets a solid A from me. Pretty much every song is great to perfect, except mad woman which I only think is just good. It makes me want to do a retrospective of Taylor Swift's entire career.
I agree, but replace "Mad Woman" with "Mirrorball" for me. Very good song, but weakest on the album.
Broke: Kanye vs Taylor Swift
Woke: Lil Pump vs Kendrick Lamar vs Fiona Apple vs Taylor Swift
Vs Lorde as well
i just imagined a clash between kendrick lamar and fiona apple
Add vs Lady Gaga vs The Weeknd vs Oranssi Pazuzu
I think they are right scores expect for the Taylor and lorde's Albums
Vs Dua Lipa
anthony: finds cardigan and seven unflattering and disappointing
me: fav songs are cardigan and seven 👁👄👁
Nobody stopping you from enjoying what u want?
Yeah seven is literally a 10/10 for me
Same lmaoo
Honestly, never been a fan of hers, but this album is so nice and just gets better the more I visit it. I went into this album expecting a train wreck, having listened to nothing related beforehand. I was blown away. A lot of catchy, cutesy tracks with a ton of personality. I dug this album a lot when I first heard it, and each time I listen now, I find something else to like about it. Really nice surprise, totally worth listening to.
Not really sure how you heard any Lana influences in this album. Anytime a female artist dives into a more bedroom pop sound everyone declares it to be “Lana influenced”. Cardigan is just Taylor’s new sound.
It’s too late Anthony I’ve already decided I’m voting for Kanye West
nice political views. light to decent six.
Ty Huff 愛 so the MBDTF of views. I’ll take it
Then m not sorry.. Tht u r doomed
Ankit Abraham that’s a bit mean. Much like Taylor Swift
@@judahtheodor how is Taylor mean?? Iol
Just opened this review and yo Anthony I'm real happy for and imma let you finish, but Taylor dropped one of the best albums of all time
Yes
They had us in the first half not going to lie. They had us we weren't defeated but they had us. But it took guts and attitude
In terms of themes and storytelling for Taylor. Melon didn’t mention once about the overarching story these songs tell over the record. From three different perspectives at that! She’s not talking about herself for some of these.
Lmao imagine the amount of "trve metal" elitists that would be salty if Taylor Swift actually made Black Metal album though 🤣
I mean she did great at Pop- Rock for some of her speak now songs
Taylor loves making people mad so I hope so
Look What You Made Me Do is way better as a death metal song! Case in point: that one girl's audition for The Voice.
Oh god...
I love when a Popstar does a genre change, it is very exciting
You know she started from country right? This is the second time she did a genre change
TL d Let’s see her do a true genre jump and I’ll be impressed. All her albums are adjacent musically
@@DefenestrateYourself if you think Lover and Folklore are musically adjacent I'm 100 percent sure you haven't heard either of them
@@tld7359 "Reputation and folklore are very similar" is what I got from that comment.
@@DefenestrateYourself watdafuc are you talking about? Musical adjacent? So your telling me that reputation is musically interconnected with folkore? Ya'll sick, hate her but atleast find a better lie to cover it up...
He said melon.
nice
Nice
Nice
Nice
In hindsight he should have given this album a 9/10 it has aged very well
When you´re only able to reference Lana Del Rey for this dream-pop style as if she invented it, how much do you really know about music?
Give Mazzy Star the credit they deserve!
Also, there is a whole lyrically genius three-point perspective thing going on with cardigan, august, and betty. Just FYI ;)
Right like?? I hear Mazzy Star directly in Lover (the song) as well as The Cranberries in mirrorball, like these are things Taylor and Lana both prob grew up on
@@jessicam3707 Exactly! :)
Mazzy star!!
He really doesnt know music but his stans will attack you
@@Anna13Tonksoohhh girly is hurt
Seven and August are literally best on the album
For u
This album should at the VERY least get an 8. I would give a 9 to this.
MBDTF: Metacritic - 94, Melon - 6
Folklore: Metacritic - 89, Melon - 7
Melon, Imma let you finish...
Dropped to 89 after the first day
@@flilcha Ohh thanks for the correction
flilcha due to a biased review by New York Times
Folklore used to peak at 96 but there were 2 mixed reviews with biased statements
Anthony: Writes the names of songs in Capital Letters in description even though they are released in small letter format.
Swifties: *Not Good*