evermore

I tried. I really tried. My daughter loves it. My wife tells me the lyrics are incredible. But I cannot get over the blandness and samey-ness of the music. It's like eating dry couscous with no sauce. I recognise it must be great because so many people love it but it's just not for me.

Artisanal delivery system for white American hetero normative twaddle.

Wanted like more

Mad respect for The T but this is not my favorite album of hers. Even still it has some good ones (not a lot of songs out there like 'willow').

dont listen to this when youre already sleepy and at work. started ok but by song 3 i was ready to be done

Nooo..

No.

Meh. Boring.

this is probably easily her best album that i’ve heard, the production was of a good standard and lyrics stood well too, just sounded well made on her end

Parte bene ma poi è tutto uguale. Noioso

I don’t know where this album stands among Swifties, but I didn’t mind it too much. Pop is definitely not my preference, but this is ok. Just ok.

Primera vez que escucho un álbum completo de Taylor en mi vida, soy un Swiftie ahora? Si puedo decir que tiene mucho talento, su composición es bastante potente porque no para de sacar álbumes y creo que en su mayoría con letras coherentes Este álbum hace un shift importante a lo que solía producir en conjunto con folklore que también es un empuje hacia otra dirección Este lleva bastante folk, y country, y colaboradores muy buenos en al menos 3 canciones, le doy un 3 genuino

Taylor Swift is such a polarising figure for some reason. I like a lot of her songs, but this particular album is really boring to me. The melodies are so flat, and the sparse arrangements don't really do anything for me. Willow is the only song on this album I particularly like, but even on that track the line about coming back like a 90s trend is sort of cringy in a way that throws the whole vibe of the song off. They can't all be 1989 I guess

Fairly decent, I’ve never listened to ant Taylor Swift before, but we’ll it was really ok tbh

Ugh. High School level poetry and the most bland possible background music. Why is she so popular again? Plus it's an hour long? Fuck off.

OK, everyone calm down. We realize that it’s hard to be objective when it comes to Taylor Swift. But let’s recognize that there’s a reason SO MANY new fans were added to her already enormous fanbase when “folklore” dropped into the middle of Our Pandemic Year. That album was one of THE albums of 2020, and “evermore” is its kid sister. These sister releases showcased a whole new side of Taylor Swift. These albums were indie gems, driven by songwriting and storytelling, a whole new way of inhabiting her music. They were so impactful to longtime fans, new fans, and critics alike that they paved the way for Swift’s remarkable re-records and the epic Eras Tour. The years 2020-2024 will always be remembered as her magisterial period. Her output and the response was stunning. 
Of course that level of success is what makes objectivity difficult no matter where you fall on the Swiftie Spectrum. The thing is though, these two albums were really, really good. “Folklore” is better imo. The 1001 List either overthought something or underthought it by choosing the kid sister album… kind of like waiting to give the Academy Award to the final film in a trilogy. Nevertheless, that’s not the album’s fault. Both “folklore” and “evermore” are beautiful, filled with tremendous songwriting, and deserve attention. 5/5 because, as I said, it’s hard to be objective when it comes to Taylor Swift.

Nothing bad can be said about Miss Swift. Her music is more for my kids' generation than mine. But it is inoffensive and undeniably loved.

Really like the first few tracks, but then it’s a bit too slow.

What’s not to like about Taylor Swift: Pleasant singing voice, nice clean sound.

I feel like the idea behind this album COULD work, and it has a lot of ideas in it that ALMOST sound good, and this album's exact sound HAS been done well by other artists like Bon Iver (For Emma, Forever Ago) and The Crane Wives (Coyote Stories), but the problem is that this is a Taylor Swift album. Leave it to her to make a concept like "whimsical folk record about escapism during a global lockdown" sound so disinteresting. Again, there are some genuinely decent songs on this album. Tolerate It is even the first Taylor Swift song to use an odd time signature, so I can at least give it props for that, but as an album it feels like it could've gone so much further than it actually ended up going.

Nothing really bad about this record, but i just don’t connect with it at all. She seems like a decent singer and songwriter but nothing really grabbed me

For some reason God took Dolly Parton from us and left us with this crappola. 0.5/5.0: Unlistenable

this isnt the normal taylor swift pop i was expecting. unfortunately this brand of trying too hard to be indie folk pop might legitimately be my least favorite genre. i was tolerating it but the collaboration with the national soured what little goodwill this had with me and the collaboration with bon iver at the end sealed the deal.

I'm having a listen to a couple of tracks, but it's not for me really is it?

When you're a pop music superstar, the only crime is being boring. You can get away with almost anything, as long as you're not bland. Swift commits this most egregious of crimes on Evermore. For someone with classics like Blank Space, Love Story, Shake It Off, Bad Blood and Cruel Summer in her catalogue, it's hard to understand this record's existence, let alone its inclusion on this list.

Maybe I'm being a little harsh but it's all the same and all just teetering on boring. Some are alright, others are not.

Musically, I really like Taylor. I rate this higher than its sister album, folklore. There's less on here I would skip. In fact, I don't really think I'd skip any. Plus, marjorie is one of the greatest mourning an older relative song ever written. I will sob every time

Still don’t really get why that guy on twitter leaked the ending of endgame over her but I still think she’s talented. If you told me that Taylor would be doing murder folk lite I would’ve been dreading it but no body no crime is a stand out for me

Perhaps this album was much needed during 2020, but 6 years on and it doesn't seem particularly relevant? I work in retail and I haven't heard a single one of these songs before, which can't be good. Plus, it sounds the same as all the other songs she's churned out in recent years. It's clearly just not my thing

Fiiiiiiine. I liked it. Okay?? There. I said it. I did laugh because I’m a HAIM fan and wondered if they’d ever collabed with Taylor and the stand out song, No Body, No Crime was done with them.

This is the first Taylor Swift album I've ever listened to and I think I now understand Swifties. I did not expect to like this album as much as I did. TS is a talented musician and lyricist and I have no issue giving this the 5 it deserves. Willow, Coney Island, Marjorie and Evermore were my favorites.

8/15/2026 Favorite Track: gold rush

A little mellower than what I listen to. Pleasant enough. By the end, though, the songs all sound a little too similar.

A warm easy flowing morning coffee listen - evermore blends, gentle melodies and steady confident singing into a calm, inviting groove. I really haven't invested much into Taylor but this album was pleasant.

4/5

Wanted to like this more than I did. Even the tracks with guest artists I love I didn't really connect all that much with this. It's a high 3-star, but it's a 3-star.

Why is this even on the list..... 0 stars

Coffee shop background music.

i def don't like her records, but respect her hits

I'm sorry, I really wanted to force myself to listen to this. But two songs in I just couldn't do it. I think she's over-hated, but it's just not my bag "I come back harder than a 90's trend" is terrible tho

sorpresa buen álbum

Cuando era artista de verdad. un 10

Muy tranquilito y lindo

Not the biggest Taytay fan as I kinda think she's a phony. But this is a pretty good record.

ну это как будто не хуже 1989, балдеж

Never listened to a Taylor Swift album but this is pleasant music. Not really my favorite style of music, a bit too mellow but well crafted songs that are catchy. Every song feels well written and none of them feel like filler. Decent album if not for me. I can definitely see why people like her so much, definitely better than I thought it would be.

Consistent to a fault.

Malo

Not the biggest fan but there's definitely some good stuff on here. It does however peak very early with Champagne Problems.

Pleasant. Maybe I am too old to see what this fuss is about

Really not for me.

I really do love this album. While it isn’t her best one, it is up there in the top 5.

I’ll never be a Swiftie and I will never get the hype, but this was definitely a good album.

I'm very familiar with Taylor's big pop hits from the 2010's, but I never listen to an album of her, neither this intimate sounding side. This is a nice album that is basically a compilation of ballads, with acoustic guitar, piano and voice being the major protagonists and then there are some other elements like strings or synths to fill the background and create a comfy atmosphere. The aspect I liked the most about the record is its stellar production, as the music sounds incredibly soft and nice to the ear. I also liked Taylor's performances, being very sentimental and sensitive while also creating some catchy and memorable melodies. When it comes to what I don't like, I don't find anything to be very emotional or impacting, and I don't really appreciate the monotony of every song being this calm sadness vibe, and I preferred if they added a bit more variety. So despite being cozy album, it is also a bit stale, but still a decent experience.

this shouldn’t be surprising for the biggest artist in the world, but this is produced so amazingly, everything is very well placed and it sounds so lush. Taylor’s writing and singing also is a good here, probably the last of her albums where songs are like written super well

I'm not a huge Taylor Swift fan. Not because I think her music is bad, its just that when she became big I was deep in to other genres so I really never listened to her apart from the big hits that were played on the radio. As I get older more of her songs pop up from time to time and while not everyone of them are my favorite I have also never really disliked any of them either. Going in to this album I expected more of the pop music I was used to but what I got was more of a folk/indie album. It was really easy just leaning back, closing my eyes and enjoying this from start to finish. I definitely added some songs to playlists and will look in to a few more of the albums with songs I don't recognize from the radio. A very pleasant surprise.

Len Houmous wrote 99% of Taylor’s tracks. There I said it, the secrets out. He did it by changing one note in each song and switching lyrics occasionally 1.4 6/15 No body, no crime

Pretentious, dull and over rated snger songrwriters team up to make predictably dull and over rated music. Some people like it. Some people get off by being beaten and humiliated. Im neither of those people

no grax todavia no

Kinda hate her rn. But I like Gold Rush and Coney Island

Overall really good, great vocals and great song writing for sure. I'm not a TS fan at all but this was surprisingly good, but I doubt I'll come back to it.

This was surprisingly enjoyable folk-pop (or pop-folk?). Not necessarily something I'd reach for, but it's definitely well-crafted. The biggest blemish on here for me was the singer from The National. 4 stars

3/5. “Aaron Dessner of the National co-produced and co-wrote Taylor Swift albums” is still such a strange thing to have happened in music. Though the funnier half of this partnership was Taylor Swift appearing on a the National album. I hold the music-snob opinion that this album and its predecessor (also released in 2020) “Folklore” are Swifts two best records, though Evermore is the weaker of the two. She fits over the folkier soundscape quite well, and it sees her at her strongest as a storyteller. Which is why it’s a shame that she abandoned everything that made these albums work and has gone on to make several albums like “The Tortured Poets Department” and “The Life of a Showgirl” where there is no appeal outside of the Mythos of Taylor Swift as a person. But at least this album is a solid time, if a slightly mixed bag.

Give it 0

Love the Dessner/The National influence, but it feels like she is just cosplaying in their sonic universe.As such, just doesn't connect for me.

Not as good as Folklore but still quite good.

So this is my first time listening to a taylor swift record, and the first one it gave me was her covid record I guess. Absolutely nothing about this surprised me, it sounded exactly how I expected it to sound before listening to it (which I mean I already knew what she sounded like given her permanence in the top 40 for like nearly 20 years now). What about her has such a fucking stronghold on white women? I don't get it. This music is not made for me, and that's ok. Anyway way I could have hated this a lot more. It sucks really bad but I will not remember a single moment of this record so I guess it gets a point for not making me want to die. It's just really, really boring.

Nice sounding album but not spectacular

Very wintery album with cold, soft and folk guitars, pianos and a variety of other instruments and sound effects, mellow drums and i like taylor's voice.

This felt like listening to someone I don't like yap for an hour and I don't want to experience it again

this music is embarrassing. it isn’t even good. cringe from top to bottom. she has all the writing chops of the best 7th grader in her English class. I liked her early work. why did she commit so hard to bland slop

could not finish. You will get better music from walking around in a Target. I feel in the pop scene there are much better options.

this album deserves to be on here, and i am glad to have listened to it for the same reason werner herzog proudly watches honey boo boo on TLC: “a poet must not avert his gaze.” its important to be informed on whatever is going on in the cultural zeitgeist (granted this thing is like 6 years old at this point, but pandemic time doesnt fucking count and if anything swift is even more in the zeitgeist). i have always been suspicious in a lot of the inherent misogyny in taylor swift criticism. it is often uninformed, reactionary, dismissing it not for what it is but for who it is for. i can confidently say this album is not vapid, it is not *solely* a corporate product. there are choices made of passion, this is a holistic work that builds towards an aesthetic. i just think that aesthetic sucks! sucks far too much for me to ever want to dig into what all of this astronomical success means for our culture. musically, this thing is white room torture. in isolation, each track is just fine. the lyrics are cheesy, the melodies competent but sometimes grating, the production is decent and atmospheric (possibly the only unique thing i think this has going on as a 2020s pop album), but combined into an hour-long onslaught it dulls the senses and turns to mush.

Although I’m sure I’ve heard Taylor Swift on the radio, I can’t name a single one of her songs. After listening to Evermore, I have nothing positive to say, I found the music bland and lifeless.

Sorry, Swifties, this is extremely not my shit

2 - this was awful. She’s, uh, not very good.

Enjoyment: 2/10 Replayability: 1/10 Cohesion: 2/10 Flow/Pacing: 1/10 Artistic Merit: 1/10 Weighted Average: 1.5/10 Review: I am a known Taylor Swift hater, but I promise I did my best to keep that in check while listening to this album and truly be as impartial as possible. So I challenged myself to answer some of the following questions with each new track. Why does this album deserve to be on this list? How does it push the envelope to earn the recognition as one of the greatest of all time? Are there any golden nuggets in here that will help distinguish this album from its counterparts 50 years from now? Is Tay-Tay truly the best at resonating the struggles of love through music? (I mean that's the majority of her discography's content, so she must be excellent at it by now.) And all of these questions lead me to a single answer: no. Her "stylized", lowercase letter titles are the extent of her creativity, which leaves behind the actual music as an untouched mass of concentrated, gentrified, pop-slop. I did not like nor dislike any of her songs because I genuinely could not tell them apart. I do not even remember what I listened to because they left no impression at all. So this album gets a low score from me not because I'm a hater, but because it's addition to this list tarnishes the reputation of the thousand others. Liked Song(s): (None) Disliked Song(s): (None) Recommend? No Heard Before? No

obviously incredible album by Taylor. This blew my mind when I first listened because of just how different it is. I love the storytelling on No Body No Crime. Love the Bon Iver feature on Evermore. I love tolerate it. Love Dorothea and Marjorie. Just such an excellent and unique product

Don’t think this generic trash pop is an album that anyone needs to hear

Wonderful album. Taylor doesn't miss

This sounds like an album that never gets out of second gear. The songs are stuck in the key of shit.

Las letras hermosas, las melodías un embole. Todo suena igual, es como si fuera una canción larga este álbum.

Interesting as phenomena but this album lost me after handful of tracks

#441 / 1089 Heard before? ❌ Revisit? ❌ Miss Swift's music has never held any interest for me, I neither dislike nor care for it in any way. Her music is a combined effort of hundreds of producers and songwriters making most generic trend-based music with the most popular aurally crafted soundscapes and studio tools at the time of making. It feels like a fad factory making variations on a theme forever, until the next big thing comes along and the cycle repeats. Before playing the record, I would've given it an indifferent 1/5. After listening to it, I'll give it 2/5 - her voice is pretty, the music is still indifferent. I have to say, I do not understand why this album is in the 1001 Albums list. It is an utterly uninteresting piece of musical history.

Sounds like Ai.

I think a lot of Taylor Swift fans believe evermore and folklore (the covid albums) to be her best albums (to that point). In my opinion, this was the start of her descent into... whatever she's doing now. The songs feel so boring, like she's using flowery language to sound impressive, and writing from a perspective that's intentionally confusing. It was fine as an album, but it was so lackluster to me that I don't really care if I ever listen to it again.

My understanding of the criteria for inclusion on this project is to be influential of what follows, but maybe I am way off base. Given my understanding, I have no idea why this would ever be included. This is the exact opposite of influencing what follows. In fact, it is the ultimate end product of being influenced by others. On this album, she has taken all of the trends of late 2000s and 2010s indie and folk rock and appropriated them into this sterilized garbage. I am starting to think she has not had any original ideas but is the master of taking the trends started by other far more original artists and distilling them in a palatable way for suburban white folk. This doesn’t even deserve consideration for this project, let alone one star.

Not a huge Taylor Swift fan, though this album was much more tolerable. The lyrics of the songs have a lot to say and the singing was more folk than it was pop and I enjoyed it more.

In a nutshell: "I haven't met the new me yet" Taylor Swift is the best example of the 21st century pop star- as their success grows, they become less of themselves and more of a product. Artists like Lana Del Rey, Delta Goodrem and perhaps Miley Cyrus have done a variation of what Taylor is presenting. The stripped back folk pop does suit her though. It's just a pity the synth beats and layered vocals are still kicking in the background. Overall: 2/10

Oh. So. I have had this already. I have multiple projects going. AND my nephew made me listen to it. The whole thing. This is now THREE times I have listened to the entire album. The deluxe version. Which is eight minutes longer. The thing is, I can’t really tell you a song off this album. I mean I can, but I couldn’t hum it. It DOESN’T STICK. I am now listening to Billy Joel. Also the second time for The Stranger. Now, to be honest, those songs were around me as a kid, not because of my parents or anything, just because I was a human living in The USA. But after two listens, I could probably sing you just about any song off that album. Even the final track, which is probably the only one that isn’t a recognizable hit (minus the reprise of The Stranger at its end- so clever Billy.) But still. I COULD SING any track. Not so with Taylor. No. How is that? Even her lyrics. I know she uses the word “evermore” across multiple songs. But even that. It’s just… 2 Boolean: False. Sorry. I have now come to the conclusion that this isn’t actually music

On a positive she has perfected the sing-along album. Still massively overproduced.

Me es tan difícil calificar los álbumes de Taylor. Saber que la persona que querías tanto ya no es lo que era es doloroso hasta cierto punto. Me atrevo a decir que este es el mejor album de Taylor, sobre todo si lo pensas como una antología junto a Folklore. Tiene algunas canciones flojas, pero tiene otras con un nivel lírico y musical que me impactaron como ninguna otra canción lo hizo. Todavía no sé si ponerle 4 o 5, realmente me cuesta mucho decidir esto ahhhhh. Ya fue un 5 por los buenos momentos que me hizo pasar y por lo que significó para mí en algún momento.

This is the most middle-aged-white-man coded Taylor Swift album and therefore of course it's produced by The National and of course it's on this list and of course it's my favorite of her albums. Basically just sounds like a National album but with stupid lyrics? So funny to hear Matt Berninger's voice and then suddenly "we were like the mall before the Internet" and "Sorry for not winning you an arcade ring". All her songs sound like they're the plot of an episode of Degrassi and every line sounds like a quote from a Buzzfeed article. Did I have an unpleasant relationship with a Swiftie that may be coloring my opinion? Yes - but hasn't everyone? So I don't consider it a personal bias.

It was ok

Much preferred this to the ‘usual’ TS fare. The stripped back nature of these songs was nice to hear and was quite good in places. Certainly better than a lot of the dross we’ve had on here.

Haunting in places and plain dull in others.

OK, so that wasn’t as off putting as expected. Maybe the more folksy stripped back version of Taylor is better than the more popped up version. The production was nice and she is quite poetic. And then comes the ‘but’, it’s obvs way too long an album and the subject matter gets more tedious as it goes on. But I am so far removed from the target audience, what can you do. Scrapes a 3*.

Not bad, just a little too vapid for me. I feel like Lana Del Ray does all this type of stuff but way better.

There’s reasons to like this, and I think for the right audience, it’s an amazing album that hits home at themes of loss, love, and hardships in life. Unfortunately, I’m not the right audience for this. With the exception of maybe one or two songs, I don’t think I’ll have much desire to return to this

I prefer Folklore to Evermore, personally. Either way, these are the two albums that made me take Taylor Swift seriously as an artist. I was very surprised to see her work with Aaron Dessner and write an album that does not rely on hooks and lyrics that feed the needs of 14–25 year olds single women who just absolutely hate men. Every part of Taylor Swift is about marketing her songs and creating excitement around her album releases, so it is a bit surprising she would release two albums quickly and without fanfare. This is serious music and the type of album (along with Folklore) that can take an artist who has firmly put themselves in the pop realm and give him/her some credibility. These are well-written songs. I am not a "Swiftie" but Folklore and Evermore turned my opinion of Taylor Swift around. I would say if you don't like her music, then Evermore is for you. It's a little long, as a few songs being cut to get the album down to 12 songs would not have been the worst idea. Coney Island is so The National-coded it isn't a surprise the band is featured on the song. "The mischief, the gift-wrapped suburban dreams Sorry for not winning you an arcade ring," "And when I got into the accident The sight that flashed before me was your face But when I walked up to the podium I think that I forgot to say your name." It's not a surprise the song started out instrumentally as a song by The National and it makes me wish there were more collabs between Swift and the band. My favorite songs: Willow Champagne Problems 'Tis the Damn Season Tolerate It No Body, No Crime Coney Island Ivy Long Story Short Evemore

It's very well produced. Songs are alright. But it's very repetitive. I wouldn't be able to tell you one song off the album that stood out besides the last one which was really lovely - evermore

How any Taylor Swift albums have ended up on this list is just something I'll never understand, but at least with this they did pick one of the better ones. It's still mostly pretty bland, but the more heartfelt folky vibe she goes for is actually pretty decent. I think she actually really suits this kind of very simple and stripped back folk music, it's a shame she never really did anything else with it after this album. I genuinely really like her soft vocals and even the guitar work is actually quite nice. The songwriting in typical Taylor Swift fashion is super generic and predictable, but it's pretty easy to look past if you aren't focusing on it too much. I do actually much prefer Folklore, if any Taylor Swift album was going to make it onto this list it really should have been that one, but I can still settle for this even if it is just a slightly worse version of the album before it.

hell nah

You can say a lot about Taylor Swift but she is definetly a good somgwriter. It’s a nice and mellow record and I enjoyed listwning to it. Favourites: willow, champagne problems and evermore

First ever listen to Taylor Swift. Wow it’s bland. Very very slow, quite repetitive and unsurprisingly formulaic.

I don't consider myself a Swiftie, but I generally enjoy Taylor's music. I really liked the Lover album, and I like Life of a Showgirl. But this is her taking herself a bit too seriously. It's way too long an album to be almost exclusively sad white girl mid tier poetry set to boring music. It just isn't interesting with the exception of "No Body, No Crime" which at least has a good story to it reminiscent of the revenge murder sungenre of country music (think The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, Goodbye Earl, Papa Loved Mama, etc). It isn't as good or memorable as any of those, but it's a saving grace to this otherwise banal album.

Nevermore

Not an album I would listen to everyday but it was decent for what it is

Actually wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, better than most of the shit I’ve had to listen to on here

Hace tiempo que no escuchaba este álbum de inicio a fin, y me terminó gustando más ahora que cuando lo hice en su momento; prestar mayor atención a la lírica hizo que disfrute de algunas canciones que anteriormente me daban completamente igual por no ser lo suficientemente interesantes instrumentalmente. Sí es una lástima que uno de los mejores temas del álbum sea un bonus track, aspecto que noto como recurrente en los distintos discos de Taylor. No soy la mayor fanática del folk estadounidense, pero desearía que vuelva en algún momento a escribir este tipo de música (que a pesar de haber aparecido flashes de esta en TTPD, fue imposible de apreciar entre tantas canciones que parecieron haber sido agrupadas sin criterio alguno). De los trabajos más destacables dentro de su discografía. ↑: champagne problems; gold rush; tolerate it; no body, no crime; ivy; marjorie; right where you left me ↓: –

Not for me.

I actually quite liked 3 of the songs. The rest were not for me at all.

Everyone hates on Taylor unjustly, including me. I hate pop but can always be objective when it comes to songwriting and a musician that does the whole job. She is talented and a very good songwriter, she can play guitar as well and she can sing. Im not her target but I cam only admire her and say this is an amazing album full of awesome songs that show me she is mature well beyond her age. Great apbum from a great artist I dont really like

это намного лучше 1989, но не настолько чтобы это можно было слушать

It sounds very beige. I don't fully understand why this album should make it to the "1001 albums that you have to listen to before you die" list, other than miss Swift being one of the most popular artists of this time.

Nice songs, but I kept thinking that I was listening to a watered-down version of Phoebe Bridgers or Lizzy McAlpine.

Well, shit. That was not the experience I expected to have. Never intentionally listened to a song much less an album, mostly snobbery on my part. I thought it was music for tween girls. If it is, I need to spend a lot more time with tween girls. Wait, that didn't come out right. Some beautiful songs, well crafted and sung with feeling. Me gusta.

High 3, but just a little bland despite the general coziness. Like a handful of the songs individually but it blends smooth too easily.

Bleh.

I used to listen to Taylor’s albums more - this being about where I fell off. I actually like this album and especially the sneak The National feature. This is a pretty good one, but not Taylor at her absolute best. She’s never been a strong lyricist, but at least has the ambience down. Light 4

very surprised that this came up as it's a pretty new album. while i am not a big fan of taylor swift as a person, i think i genuinely enjoy some of her music.

I’ll put my T swift bias aside, but even still this is such a middle of the road album, some cool’s guests tho.

I've heard a lot of these songs already in the wild, not on purpose. Some of them I actively don't like and the rest are fine but on the boring side. Her singing voice is nice enough and the instrumentals are pretty basic, but not bad. I think the lyrics are where she loses me - they just don't resonate with me and some of them are a bit cringey imo. Also there's something about the combo of the pop-style singing with folky instrumentals that I really don't enjoy. From Taylor Swift's catalogue, I genuinely like the music from her earliest 2-3 albums when she was still in the country realm. Love Story, Our Song, Fearless, etc. Nostalgia is probably part of the reason for that. There are also a handful of her singles from more recent albums that I like, such as Lover. That's the proof that I'm not being a pretentious TSwift hater lol, I'm just not really a fan of her music post-2010. Pop is my least-enjoyed genre in general, so this isn't unique to Taylor Swift.

I know one person in our household that was screaming with excitement for this album. It wasn’t Callie or I. However, Callie definitely enjoyed dancing to it too. So I assume she’s heard Taylor Swift a fair bit. As much as Taylor gets criticized for being popular. You know she knows how to entertain. She is a showgirl after all.

God I hate this album and I haven't even finished it, Usually I like some Taylor Swift but damn this is just nothing its just a cash grab. Each song is just so repetitive and has no feeling or soul put into it. All the lyrics so forgettable and all she plays on is that it maybe catchy. Thats it, no nuance. Horrible what happened to her music man?

It was relatively easy to get through. And it was very harmless. But, it was definitely boring to me.

I was honestly kind of waiting for some Tswift to pop up on here. I have been very curious to see how or why she has so many damn fans and every girl and gay goes crazy for the lady. I walked away pleasantly surprised as to how much I enjoyed it. Thats not to say this was anything to write home about in my opinion, very one note across the album, but I guess I see a little bit clearer as to why she is so popular. I think her lyrics are well written, and clever, she's got a great voice, and I can see the lyrics being very relatable to a lot of people. But at the end of the day the music is still like white rice and chicken with salt and pepper. Tswift is like the white bread of music. Its not bad, but also not great. Highly palatable, and very much attainable. I don't think my opinion has changed much on swifties after this, as I don't even think this is one of her popular albums lol... I still kinda lowkey judge people whos only favorite artist is Taylor Swift, or those who only listen to artists similar to Taylor. Like broaden your palette a little bit, there is so much good music out there. Favorite song was Gold Rush, very catchy. The male features caught me so off guard, but were a welcomed change of pace within the sea of sameness amongst all of the songs. Album cover evoked a certain feeling that I found matched the album vibe, which was like cozy, nice, autumn cabin getaway for the girls. I was gonna say she could be more creative with it, but now that I think about it, I actually kinda dig it! Even though its just the back of her head lmfao. 6.8/10

Ei minusta varsinainen Swiftie tullut, mutta osaa hän laulaa ja tämä musiikki on erittäin kova tasoista, hyvin tuotettua

blaaaaaaaaahnd

A very good album. Swift is a very talented songwriter and arranger. Nice voice, too. The target audience is tweens and YA, not me. But these are interesting pop songs, so credit where credit is due. A 4.

Much slower and quieter than most of her work.

Not quite a three for me but I’ll give her three.

This album really only had 2 or 3 good songs and that is only because they sounded like old Country Taylor Swift stuff. I'll give it a 3.5 because I can see myself going back to those songs.

Notable Textzeile: No crowd of friends applauded Your hometown skeptics called it Champagne problems I get the appeal of hearing the most harmless pop but feeling part of a big movement and of experiencing something allegedly extraordinary. Aber am Ende ist es einfach nicht mehr als gut gemachter Pop. Das ist ja auch nicht nix, aber auch nicht so einzigartig wie es oft dargestellt wird. Auf die Dauer wurde mir das etwas eintönig und der Zwang in jedem Song irgendwie so ne Geschichte erzählen zu wollen nervt auch etwas. Weil 1 und 2 schon reserviert ist für ärgerliche oder sehr schlechte Sachen 2,5 zu 3.

Taylor Swift ist ein Millenial, mag Bon Iver und the National, schreibt smarte Songs über Alltagsthemen und suggeriert so sie hätte ein alltägliches Leben. Nicht scheiße, aber irgendwie uncanny valley weird.

Verstehe den Hype aber bin nicht die Zielgruppe

I’m not going to out myself as a Swiftie; I mean, I imagined it would be worse, but it’s just not my cup of tea.

Avant même d'écouter : La pochette est moche L'album est long J'ai mal a la tête Après l'écoute : J'ai moins mal à la tête J'ai pas spécialement aimé La pochette est toujours moche Et le fait que les titres de chansons soient en minuscule est un peu dommage je trouve C'est pas exceptionnel mais c'est un bon résumé de ce que fait Taylor

C’est pas mauvais, c’est pas bon non plus. C’est comme un plat qui paraît vraiment bon, mais sans sel, du coup la dégustation est d’un ennui mortel. Playlist pick : no body, no crime

One of her last “good albums” before she dropped her quality post midnights. This sorta sound fits her voice quite well. This is my 9th album of hers I’ve listened to, and I much prefer the other one on the list over this. I don’t think I can ever get used to Taylor swearing however

Never again

It was OK but no magic.

Better than I expected and thankfully not much country. She plays it safe and stays inside the margins of popular acceptability.

it's fine, but it didn't seem like anything special? Maybe I'm not Swift enough to get it.

I'm torn between a 2 or 3 rating here. I went into this not expecting much, but always with an open mind. Taylor does what she does well, I have to give her that. It's just the songs all started to sound very samey in terms of the subject matter and the style. I didn't expect the super mellow, sort of stripped back nature that she shows here so that was a surprise, and it was sort of enjoyable in its own way because of this. I would definitely choose this over some of the popular "hits" I've heard from her. Would I listen to it again? I'm not sure - but I feel like it's something you could stick on if the vibe is right. I'll give it a 3.

This started off nice with "willow", "champagne problems", and "gold rush", but it got real bumpy after that. It slowly descended from calming folk with whimsical lyrics to repetition and cringe. Just take "no body, no crime", for example. The title lyrics had to be repeated several times per chorus, and the excitement of the song hinged on the plot twist of a fictional crime story. Then we get to "coney island". Holy. Lord. The male vocalist did an absolutely terrible job. I wanted earplugs for that one. Finally, near the end, I perked up a little with "long story short", but all of that vanished with the atrocious time signature and drum beats of "closure". What a way to drain the life out of an album. Overall it was much too long and used up all of its good songs right at the beginning. There are good songs, just not very many.

I'll say this every time a Taylor Swift record comes up on this project. I am consistently amazed with the amount of quality material she, as a songwriter, has been able to can churn out. This album (along with folklore) in particular are prime examples of that. Of course we were all stuck at home around this time, which gave her even more time to craft this. Is it my favorite? Not especially. It's a good listen, though. As a Swiftie Dad, Taylor Swift has got my heart.

i met Talyor Swift as a cardboard cutout. she didn't sa anything. I guess she didn't like me. But I'm also not a fan of her background radio music

Further proof that Taylor Swift deserves her extreme fame, even if Folklore and Midnights are more interesting than this outing.

Seriously? Again? lol. I'm getting back to back on these Tswift albums. Regardless the definition of milquetoast pop for me although it is elevated with all the indie producers/features.

I know this record. Taylor Swift is actually just a normal girl. The hype surrounding her isn't good for her as a person—only for her bank account and the people making money off her! After Folklore, Evermore is the album of hers that resonates with me the most. It features sparse instrumentation; it’s contemplative and, at times, magical. You can hear the potential that was simply squandered on her overproduced albums—both before and after this one. I listened to the deluxe edition. 4 stars

Not in the mood for this. Fine I guess.

This was good, a little more low key output than some of the other work but mellow and enjoyable

champagne problems and no body no crime definitely the stands out here everything else was a slog

The contrast between the subtly complex depth of the unplugged melodies coupled with some of the shallowest and cringiest lyrics you'll ever hear make for an incredibly frustrating if also enjoyable listen. If an instrumental version of the album exists, listen to that instead. Or you can tune out the lyrics to still hear Swift's very excellent singing. Also starts to drag with samey filler tracks towards the midpoint. Top tracks: Wllow; No Body, No Crime; Closure

Taylor Swift is a pop machine with an army of writers and producers. The songs are musically simple and there is nothing special about her voice. I couldn't listen to this straight through and needed breaks with real music in between.

I’m a Taylor swift believer, she has her cringe and she has her terrible, terrible songs, but she’s got some gems in there. I know this is pre kelce but so hard to hear these songs about love and be like ah yes, she settled with Travis. Maybe not a controversial take but this is the last swift album I can do all the way through. Everything after this, especially showgirl, is such a decline. Folklore before this is arguably stronger than this one but oh well. I don’t want to detract from the hard and admirable work Taylor puts into all of these albums, but the main charm of this is Aaron Dessner/the National and Bon Iver whenever he decides to appear. You really can tell when a song isn’t produced by Aaron almost immediately, and I like most of what Jack Antonoff makes, it just really is night and day and I like one way more. Idk, the last good swift album so far gets a 4 from me today.

I guess this is some well executed pop, but it first really do anything for me.

I was initially hesitant because this on the surface seemed like the B-sides to Folklore, but it was actually a pretty solid piece of well-composed singer-songwriter music. In the first 1/3, I was even wondering if it'd be a 5 due to some interesting and experimental (for a pop artist) flows, lyrics and time signatures. Unfortunately the album waaaaaaaaay overstayed its welcome, and would have been much better trimmed to 40 minutes. But as it stands I'm pretty impressed and it made me want to check out more of her catalog. 3.7/5 -> 4/5

I’ve been spoiled! Remain in Light, Heaven or Las Vegas, Blue, and now evermore within one week. Like many, I have at times been irritated by the Taylor Swift brand/culture. She has a few albums I don’t care for, a few that I like quite a bit, two that I absolutely love, and one that is among my favorite records of all time. This one falls into the “absolutely love” category. One of the things I love about this project is how it affects my listening patterns and how it juxtaposes certain artists. Spending time with Taylor the day after spending time with Joni has been really interesting!

I get the concept, but in the end I found it a bit boring. There are tracks here that are breathtakingly beautiful, but over the course of the album the songs meld with each other and the lack of musical variety really becomes jarring. Still, this is better than a lot of other Swift music which I found to be generic modern pop. 3.5/5

First Swift LP. Had to set my bias aside for this one as this is not something I am predisposed to like. That being said I did enjoy this quite a bit at times. I generally preferred the later tracks, but perhaps that was me getting more accustomed to what I was listening to. Ivy was a highlight. I’m going to land on a 3/5. Pretty good

Felt like an album of B-sides to me, maybe my expectations let me down. What am I missing? I do tend to listen to the music more than lyrics, so that is some of the disconnect, these were more stripped back than the big hits that I know. Favorite track was the title track with Bon Iver. Another issue I have with more modern pop songs is there are too many lyrics packed in with no space to breathe.. Overall 2.25/5

#396/1001. I tried to avoid listening to it. Finally I gave it a chance and wasn't disappointed - my initial fears were right. This is overproduced, overrated, underwhelming, uninteresting, overhyped, boring, too long, too safe, music. I have no idea why this would be the best music or artist or album in the world. I don't get it. I don't get her, and it is not the same as "not getting her music" since there is not really much to get.

One of the two pandemic albums by T swift. I think I like folklore better in this iteration/ “Era” but this is still a great album and very listenable.

Sad white girl music but I do not like the voice. I did not enjoy this

At first I wasn’t sure if I liked it, but the album got better and better as it progressed. Very good, some sweet songs.

Not the obvious choice of Taylor Swift album for a list like this. I really like Folklore - I definitely know it better than this. This seemed a bit dull and boring. It might bear fruit with repeated listening but today, nothing sticks.

dici che sono critico e poi mi proponi taylor swift?

For a Taylor Swift album it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I'll admit I had preconceptions going in but by the end they were somewhat dispelled. I've said to myself that I wouldn't come back to this one but I kept comparing the album's sound and vibe to phoebe bridgers who I do regularly listen to so maybe there's some bias stuff going on there

I tried to come into this with an open mind after the last album of hers I listened to being Life of a Showgirl (and that was really a hate-listen). Still, I'm coming away disappointed. This album feels like everything wrong with the latter half of Swift's catalogue. Looking at you Antonoff. My general complaints can boil down to the musicality being boring and the lyrics aren't good enough to have such a major focus. It's music to sway to. Not that there aren't good songs. Though I would debate how good those ones are as nothing really stood out that I would listen to it again. long story short was fun, albeit a bit naff on the lyrics side. gold rush is more of a standout fun song but it's still not where I would call it a great song. It's a sleek production, but in the process they sanded all the edges away. no body was nice break, it's a fun ballad! Even coney island was not bad but that might be the duet breaking up the monotony of the album. There's a bonus song, right where you left me, that is better than most of this album. What happened there? Is it illegal to change the backing band during a song? It feels like every song has a tape going in the back. Which is a shame because that would've actually worked well for a lockdown album! There is a guitar solo in cowboy like me that sticks out the cause it's one of the few times an instrument is allowed to have the focus even if it's a forgettable solo. Highlight: no body, no crime

I love Taylor Swift. She’s built an amazing career and brought her fans together with a message of hope and positivity. She’s charitable, and comes off as personable and funny in interviews. Oh, the album? Meh. I don’t like pop music, and this is no exception.

Nou, het eerste TayTay album, ben best benieuwd hiernaar. Tuurlijk ken ik de hits. Je bent een leugenaar als je niet een keer down bent gegaan On this. Sick. Beat. Des te interessanter dus dat hier eigenlijk geen hits op staan, of tenminste niets wat ik herken. Dat heeft natuurlijk te maken met mijn beperkte kennis van haar discografie, maar het is toch bijzonder. Ook na een check met mn resident swifty hoor ik eigenlijk dat dit een meer folky album is, in plaats van de popkoningin die we kennen. Folk muziek... Het is gewoon niet zo mijn ding, dus ik ben dan wel benieuwd of ik het misschien wat beter trek met een pop invalshoek? Ehhh... Het is niet echt mijn ding. Dit is een best lang album, en eigenlijk heb ik voor een vrij groot deel van het album totaal mn aandacht er niet bij. Instrumentaal is het typisch folky, dus vrij minimaal en met sterke focus op de lyrics. Maar ik vind de lyrics niet zooo sterk? Het geeft me een hoog r/im14andthisisdeep gehalte? Dat nummer No body, no crime, ja ik vind het nogal makkelijk. Heb het idee dat ditzelfde idee al meerdere keren beter is uitgewerkt. Haar zang is prima hoor, dat wel, maar voor mij persoonlijk is dit album te lang, te monotoon en te matig. FAVO: willow, evermore

Faves: Willow No Body No Crime Cowboy Like Me

Boring monotone pop songs. Have a bunch of friends who love this album, but I just don’t get it.

I can taste the gasoline of Taylor swifts private jet I just helped to fuel listening to this album. I don't like this taste.

Please put an end to this suffering. I came here to discover new music but instead I got 2020s taylor swift?? ALL songs were downright horrible. People say they are mid but they have obviously bad music taste. I couldn't even get past three songs even though I am comfortably able to FUCKING LISTEN TO EARRAPE FOR AN HOUR but not this shit. I don't know why swifties even exist. They are fucking NPCs like this music. 0/5 stars. never going to listen to ts again in my life. I swear if I get another taylor swift album I'm leaving this website

Spent a long car ride listening to this (the deluxe version, of course) and other Taylor offerings with my nephew not too long ago. Got schooled in Taylor’s working relationship with Aaron Dessner. Which- respect. Much became clear on that car ride. Like why Taylor had appeared on a National album. Why my nephew had willingly gone to a National show with his dad and I. Why Taylor had features with The National and Bon Iver. Why I felt like Alice through the looking glass. Thanks Aaron, always wondered if you were the evil twin. This album is exactly an hour. Um… ocd anyone? Um… I listened to it AGAIN. I did. I will share my lastFm stats with anyone who doesn’t believe me. I HAVE NO MEMORY of this album. It’s crazy. I keep listening to it and it just doesn’t affect me. It doesn’t penetrate. Which is a feat in itself. True elevator music. 3 Boolean True?

Calm, smooth, a lil boring but still poppy

It's the most nothing album on this list. Nothing worth noting at all, just blah

What's with the echo on her voice for the whole album?

- Ugh, this Zionist (and climate criminal) - and with a song featuring HAIM - HUGE Zios. - The album is okay, but I find it bland, and I just really don't care about her love stories. The lyrics feel forced quite often, too. - The album is mainly the same tempo, rhythms, and whispery vocals the whole time. I guess it feels like someone depressed talking about an ex so much that it becomes really boring, and you wish they could just get over it. - The songs all blend together, and there isn't really a melody that stands out to me, which is disappointing, especially considering how long the album is. I definitely prefer her straight-up pop era. - The features seem gratuitous to me, too. This album just screams "CASH GRAB" because we all know Swifties will buy anything from her.

I may not be a Taylor Swift fan but this album was pretty decent. Not sure how it would classify as a two star or one star as there are vast amount of albums that deserve that rating but not this one

Shoulda been Folklore

This should have been Folklore. There's no reasonable argument for including evermore on the list instead of Folklore. Folklore felt like this fun, weird, unexpected experiment. It was clearly a Taylor album but there was something more there. It was exciting to see a popular artist both kind of go back to their roots and also try something so removed from the recent big hits. evermore doesn't have any of that. It's polished and confident in a way that Folklore wasn't, and that's not a positive quality. It feels like another Taylor album. A good one, sure, and there are some great songs on evermore, and it's far better than most of what we got on Midnights or (god forbid) Tortured Poets Department, but Folklore was something special. Out of all the things that irritate me about this list I think this one might irritate me the most.

Good, one of her better ones.

Second and final Taylor Swift album. My review of 1989 is one of my better offerings, dare I say. Anyways, I'm pretty sure this album marked the period when Taylor Swift really began to hog the limelight throughout the early 2020s. I'm far from an authority on contemporary pop and I'm not at all plugged into celebrity culture, though things appear to have cooled down for Swift throughout the mid-2020s. After her eras tour became the highest-grossing tour ever I haven't really heard much from her and the critical response to her albums appears to have slumped - at least in comparison to where they were at in the early 2020s. Of course, the critical reactions didn't stop her most recent record (which I hadn't even heard of until now) from topping the charts just about everywhere, so perhaps it's just business as usual. I can imagine a lot of people on this site are hostile to this album for the simple reason that it's girly pop. For some inexplicable reason, teen girls and young women enjoying things has always provoked an inconsolable rage from the grown ass man side of the population. I doubt that I will like this album given that I have a big floppy todger in my pants that eviscerates the uterus of every womb that it conquers, though I'd like to preface my review with the fact that I'm a cool male feminist who has a handsome man bun, drinks chai lattes and likes talking about my feelings. I have no prejudice against this album, and this period of Taylor Swift's career was pretty noteworthy regardless of how you slice it. Anyways, I have nothing else to say so I might as well get into this one. Yeah, this was solid. I'm surprised that I had a good time listening to this album when I'm neither a fan of 1989 nor indie folk. Above all else, I commend the songwriting and vocal melodies of this album. While they're admittedly a little samey, the mileage that this album is able squeeze from the rolling vocal hooks of this album is quite impressive. There's nary a performance which fails to hold my attention, though I do admit that the early stretches of this album are generally the more competent and engaging offerings. The instrumentals are also difficult to fault. The soft, well-rounded sound of this album is quite likeable - notably the plucky guitar strings, delicate piano chords and the reverb/ambient synths which fully realise the sound of this album. There was also some variation in the guitars which I found to be interesting. The guitars alternate between your standard folk affair, a more alternative sound and, most interestingly, a soft rockabilly sound. I can't say I've heard that latter sound in my music before. Overall, this was an adept and soothing listen. I tragically don't have a scan of the 2021 book, so I can't consult the entry for this album. Straight to Wikipedia I go. The album was shadow dropped and is a companion release to "Folklore" - her previous album. Expands on the themes of Folklore, notably Swift's isolation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Taylor collaborated with three indie acts, notably The National and Bon Iver. The album's three singles were released to different radio stations. It was the best-selling alternative album of 2021. Critics were very receptive to this album, though it appears to be slightly less acclaimed than Folklore. It won two awards and was nominated for a few more - notably a Grammy for album of the year. The release of this album in conjunction with Folklore made Taylor Swift the highest-paid solo musician of the year and the highest-paid US musician of 2020. The album has a surprising number of instrumentalists and collaborators for a poppy, indie folk release and was a smash on the charts. The pandemic and close release window appears to have dampened its success a little, though it still topped the charts in ten countries in addition to making the top ten in eleven more. The album has also lingered on the year-end charts for the past six years in a handful of countries, notably the US and UK. I knew that I had a big write-up on my hands for the research section of this review, and that was exactly what I got. Going off of what I can gleam, it seems that Folklore is the bigger release on both a commercial and critical level, whereas Evermore is the more experimental and challenging album. Given that Taylor Swift is known first and foremost for being a record-breaking pop act, I think it stands to reason that Folklore has more of a reason to be on this list than Evermore. For that reason, we're swapping this one out. I switcharoo this inclusion.

god damn god damn god damn god damn

This was an interesting pick considering all the albums she has put out. Very representative of her more recent albums. I'm more surprised they didn't have more of her stuff on here given how popular she is, especially her early stuff. Great production value, and masterfully mixed. I'm not her target market, but I can appreciate her music.

Bottom Third of the Eras and little sister to a top third Folklore. But even that, it is still Taylor.

I'm a fan of Aaron Dessner and enjoyed the production, arrangement and playing here. i have nothing against Swifts vocals, they are light and inoffensive. i didnt chime with the themes or lyrics as im not a teenage white girl.

evermore is one of Taylor Swift's folkier projects, and it feels like a conscious effort to achieve a more "mature" sound. I think she's generally successful in this endeavor as well. Songs like willow, gold rush, ivy, and cowboy like me very tastefully transplant Taylor Swift's sound into a more low-key, bespoke sound while maintaining her personality and her writing (for better or worse on some songs, but we'll talk about that in a sec). I also think the songs on here with features are really good. When on her own, there are moments here where Taylor Swift's celebrity and personality and (in my opinion) slightly clunky writing keep me from being fully immersed in this album. But no body, no crime, coney island, and evermore (respectively featuring HAIM, The National, and Bon Iver) provide a counterpoint to Taylor Swift and result in very immersive, pretty, and enjoyable experiences, and are the best songs on the album for it. I'd say some moments I struggle with here are songs like long story short and closure, where the writing feels clunkiest, and where Taylor Swift fatigue sets in the most. But she can definitely write a hell of a pop song, and the aesthetic on evermore makes the album (along with folklore) feel unique in her discography. This was really solid, read my score as a high 3.

Nah

Didn't jive with it

This is fine, but I certainly can't say that I love it. While Taylor Swift's music is often catchy, the lyrics just leave a lot to be desired. There are some really tortured metaphors here, "coney island" stuck out to me especially in this sense. Ultimately, this album reminds me of working in a nursing home during the pandemic, which... was not the best time of my life. Favorite track: probably "willow"

A wash of quiet folksy pop. 4/10

I’ve never listened to this album. I already like track one. What I typically love about Taylor Swift is the arrangements of the songs. I’m really enjoying the arrangement of the first song. I have heard the title champagne problems but would have always said I’ve never heard the song. Then I heard the piano intro and knew the song instantly. So I guess I do know the song. Just not the title.

Not familiar with the artist. Found it pretty cool and engaging

Favorite Track: no body, no crime Least Favorite Track: tolerate it

Here’s an in-depth review of Taylor Swift’s *evermore* (2020), the folkmore sister to *folklore*, focusing on its lyrics, music, production, themes, influence, and a balanced pros/cons analysis. --- ## Overview Released just five months after *folklore*, *evermore* was framed by Swift as not a sequel but an extension — a “sister album” born from the same woodsy, indie-folk creative burst. Where *folklore* felt like a wistful, rainy autumn retreat, *evermore* leans into winter’s starkness: richer in storytelling risks, darker in emotional hues, and more experimental in structure. --- ## Lyrics **Strengths:** - **Complex narrative voices.** Swift abandons the “confessional diarist” persona almost entirely. She writes from the perspectives of a vengeful widow (“no body, no crime”), a depressed woman in a failing marriage (“tolerate it”), a heartbroken narrator committing social suicide (“cowboy like me”), and even a ghost (“ivy”). - **Heightened ambiguity.** Lines like *“Your heart was glass, I dropped it”* (from “champagne problems”) leave space for multiple interpretations — is she the dropper or the dropped? - **Dense imagery.** *“Crestfallen on the landing / With your chin in your hand”* (“champagne problems”) feels like a Cheever short story in a couplet. *“Clover blooms in the fields / Spring breaks loose, the time is near”* (“ivy”) marries nature and forbidden desire. - **Easter egg restraint.** Unlike earlier albums, the lyrics serve the story first; any autobiographical echoes (e.g., “long story short” referencing her 2016 downfall) are secondary. **Weaknesses:** - **Occasional over-narration.** “no body, no crime” is a fun country-murder ballad but lacks the poetic density of the rest — lines like *“She was with me, dude”* feel jarringly literal. - **Convoluted metaphors.** In “closure,” the marble/roller coaster imagery works but feels overly engineered compared to *folklore’s* “the lakes.” --- ## Music & Production **Production Credits** Aaron Dessner (The National) handled most tracks; Jack Antonoff contributed three; Swift co-produced all. Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) appears on two songs. **Key characteristics:** - **Piano-led melancholy.** “champagne problems” and “evermore” are stark, deliberate piano ballads that build to cathartic bridges. - **Folk textures with experimental edges.** “dorothea” uses a 12-string guitar and layered harmonies reminiscent of 1970s Laurel Canyon. “closure” deliberately deploys clattering, asymmetrical time signatures (5/4) and industrial drum loops — a jarring but effective choice. - **Ambient & organic blending.** On “ivy,” Dessner’s fingerpicked guitar and string arrangement mimic creeping vines. “cowboy like me” uses a pedal steel guitar to evoke a dusty, cynical Americana. - **Dynamic range.** The album shifts from the urgent, percussive “long story short” to the haunting, reverbed-out “marjorie” (featuring Swift’s late grandmother’s operatic vocals). **Weaknesses:** - **Homogeneity in mid-section.** From “willow” through “gold rush,” the tempo and mood are uniformly mid-paced, risking listener fatigue. - **Over-reliance on Dessner’s sonic palette.** Some tracks (“happiness,” “coney island”) could be swapped with *folklore* B-sides without noticeable change. --- ## Themes 1. **Unreliable endings** — Not just romantic endings, but life chapters, family ties, and even sanity. “tolerate it” describes a marriage that survives without love; “happiness” redefines forgiveness after betrayal. 2. **Female rage & agency** — “no body, no crime” literalizes revenge; “mad woman” (*folklore*) gets a thematic cousin in “long story short” (*I survived*). 3. **Grief as a permanent guest** — “marjorie” directly addresses her grandmother’s death, but existential loss echoes through “evermore” (a depression spiral) and “coney island” (accumulated relationship regrets). 4. **Fictionalized autobiography** — She hides real scars in fictional plots. The failed proposal in “champagne problems” is not her story, but the self-loathing *“what a shame she’s fucked in the head”* draws from public gaslighting she endured. --- ## Influence - **Critical & commercial** — Debuted at #1 on Billboard 200, earned Grammy nomination for Album of the Year (losing to *folklore*). - **On Taylor Swift’s career** — Completed her transformation from pop-maximalist to indie-folk architect, proving the *folklore* sound wasn’t a pandemic fluke but a genuine artistic lane. - **On the industry** — Accelerated the trend of surprise albums and “album pairs” (Halsey, Ed Sheeran later attempted similar dual releases). - **On songwriting culture** — Normalized literary ambiguity and character-driven songs in mainstream pop, influencing acts like Gracie Abrams, Maisie Peters, and Olivia Rodrigo’s *Guts* (which employs similar narrative devices). --- ## Pros & Cons **Pros** - Lyrically richer and riskier than *folklore* — more characters, more ambiguous morals, fewer direct confessions. - Innovative production choices (“closure,” “marjorie”’s operatic sample) keep the folk sound fresh. - No skips — even the weaker tracks (“dorothea,” “no body, no crime”) are thematically cohesive. - “champagne problems” and “ivy” rank among her very best songs — melodically indelible, lyrically devastating. **Cons** - Lacks *folklore*’s immediate melodic hooks; requires more listens to unlock. - Some experiments fall flat (“closure”’s time signature feels clever rather than emotional). - Pacing issues — the slower, piano-driven second half drags slightly. - Overlong (15 tracks, 60 min) — cutting “dorothea” and “closure” would tighten it without losing narrative threads. --- ## Final Verdict **Rating: 9.2/10** *Evermore* is the ambitious, slightly uneven, yet ultimately richer companion to *folklore*. Where *folklore* found Swift retreating into a cottage and writing pristine short stories, *evermore* finds her setting fire to the cottage and dancing in the ashes. It rewards deep listening, forgives no easy tears, and stands as her most intellectually daring album — even if it doesn’t always wear its heart on its flannel sleeve.

Zal ik eens wat zeggen? Ik had helemaal geen beeld van wie die Taylor Swift was of hoe ze klonk. Behalve Shake it off dat ik ken van de Top-2000. Dus ik maakte me op voor een boel Britney Spears-achtig gedoe. Wat kun je anders verwachten van iemand met de voornaam 'Kleermaker'? Maar dit album bestaat uit een collectie zoetgevooisde, rustige liedjes waar je kalmpjes voor kunt gaan zitten, ook al is het bij vlagen toch nog zuurstokkerige wijvenmuziek. Probleem is: raken doet het me ook niet. Het kabbelt voorbij. Dus door naar de volgende plaat, sorry.

Met een Swiftie als luistermaatje al alle 11 albums van deze dame doorgewerkt. Dit album en het bijbehorende voorgaande album scoorden het laagst. Niet dat het geen kwaliteit biedt. Maar omdat ik deze albums tergend saai vond. Toch nog maar eens geluisterd. Wellicht was het toen gewoon teveel van dezelfde zangeres. Maar nee, ik val wederom in slaap.

Over Taylor Swift heb ik al eens een profielwerkstuk gemaakt en dat komt nu mooi van pas. Dit album is bijna een soort dubbelaar met folklore, dat hieraan voorafging. Daarover heb ik opgeschreven: Hele mooie ingetogen indie liedjes. Taylor wordt vnl begeleid door piano en de overproductie is weg. Het zou me niks verbazen als van deze nummers nog wel een bombastische zuurstokpop variant komt ooit. Want het zit er wel achter nog. Het is wat traag soms, maar wel heel sfeervol. En vervolgens over evermore: Vervolg op Folklore en zit qua sfeer daarmee vrijwel gelijk. Het is iets meer gitaar dan piano dit keer en iets meer country, maar het blijft soms ook mooi dromerig. Ik hoor hier minder de potentie en de ingetogen neiging tot bombastische zuurstokpop. Folklore was verrassender in die zin, al is dit misschien wel oprechter of puurder. Wat mij betreft horen deze twee albums tot het beste dat Taylor (ik mag Taylor zeggen) te bieden heeft en vind ik dit dus een prima keuze in de snoblijst.

Review - an interesting choice for the list. This album isn't bad. It's very of its era. You can get a lot of flack for saying this, but this is a great example of Taylor Swift being similar to David Bowie. Both have had long careers by looking at what was popular (both commercially and critically) in current music, and incorporating that into their sound. This album is her incorporating that Phoebe Bridgers type of sound, a little folksy, a little indie, but still with her own sound in it. She is not a particularly good lyricist, but I actually find that quite funny - she manages to be the biggest pop star in the world while writing absolute clunkers like "come back stronger than a '90s trend" - gotta respect the hustle. Score - 6.5/10 Need to listen? YES

я не понимаю всеобщего обожания тейлор свифт музыка скучная и предсказуемая вокал тоже достаточно обычный нет ничего интересного я знаю, что ее фанаты, очень ценят ее текста и называю ее шекспиром нашего времени (прости господи) но в таком случае все равно вопрос зачем эта музыка? типо если у нее классные обороты речи какие-то, то достаточно сборник стихов выпустить, ведь в музыке тут нет ценности конечно это все нужно для лучшего продвижения, так как книжки не зарабатывают так много, как музыка но я говорю именно о ценности песен как самостоятельного произведения (чем песни тейлор свифт назвать не могу) по сути это просто непо бейби, которая захотела стать певицей и ей все оплатили а люди, которым плевать что слушать схавали опять таки тексты может и хорошие, но судить я их не буду, потому что при такой бездарной музыке даже вслушиваться нет желания ну короче да давно я уже не люблю эту исполнительницу

No hate for Taytay here at all - clearly one of the most influential artists of recent times but not sure this is worthy of "the list". Probably around a 3.5 with The National & Bon Iver helping pull it up from the merely OK

What!? This should be removed from the list, without a doubt. I instantly heard the influence of Lana del Ray from some 10 years previous. Why isn't that album on the list? Bland, uninteresting, and I'm no way influential.

Pleasant to listen to, but the melody work was not great. Lacking standouts, 7/10

This is a tough one. She's obviously talented, and it's impeccably produced (as one would expect with that amount of moolah going behind this). And as far as I understand it this is a transitional album from the country stuff to the more pop stuff. Cool cool. But it's so fucking... calculated. Empty. She knows her history. There's obvious nods to Joni, Tori, Jewel, the Chicks, etc etc, but it's almost like TS and her writers sat down and thought "how can we blend all of this together and commodify the fuck out of it?". Also: "how can I proclaim to the world that I'm really a serious artist?". After I brought up the comparison to Jewel (can't remember the song), my wife proclaimed "this woman owes Jewel a yacht". :-)

Aangenaam en rustig

Boring af

Unless you care about some random white girl's teenage years, this album is extremely boring and way too long

On first listen it was a 3/5 but as I had to break up my listening to this and ended up repeating some of the tracks a few times it slowly elevated itself. While easy to dismiss it does have some tracks that have some good hooks and melodies that really do put in some ear worms.

No

Very mellow but over all not a bad album

I do not care for this artist due to their capitalistic exploits of their music, and suppression of other artists. Gross. Music would be a nice instrumental, however the lyrics focused on nostalgic romanticized self-focused narriative of lost love. Expectations of interpersonal relationships like they're side characters to her wants and there to fulfill personal narriatives; repetitive lyrics that provide little depth.

before the swifties come at me: i'm not one of those people who will automatically hate a taylor swift album solely because it's a taylor swift album. i'm not one of those hyper misogynistic men who are obsessed with hating swift because she's a woman. i'm not a right-wing trumper who hates her because of her "leftist"(err, it's sorta right-wing) political views. while there is no way i'm giving a five-star rating to a billionaire(even billionaires who come off as "personable"), i've enjoyed some of her other albums. this album, however, is more bland than a prom night in 2020. while there is, at least, a wintry vibe here, and i understand "off the grid" was what she was going for, it's just too bland, especially for an album that's over an hour long. maybe it made more sense towards the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, and the winding down of the(first) orange turd presidency, but there is no way im listening to this album again, even if she re-records it under "her" version. favorite track: "evermore"

I now choose myself #selflove #wine #friday

2 - not horrible just extremely bland

This is the first album i've ever heard of Taytay's, and I have to admit......... I couldn't get through it, I really tried. The experience is very similar to a Drake album, where the worst part of a Drake album is Drake, if you take him away, it's pretty good. The instrumentation and production is clearly top notch, the Dressners and Antonoff are in the top of their game, specially for the vibe this is going for, I'm just completely unintrested in her storytelling and her sound. Just listened to an Emmylou Harris album, that was wonderful, this isn't.

First Listen; 2; I tried to come in to this with an open mind, and was actually hopeful that I would find something that I liked. Unfortunately, I found this album really bland. It seemed like most of the songs went through a four chord progression with arpeggiated notes over top. While I can certainly appreciate the simplicity of instrumentation in general, when it seems to run through similar song structures over and over, it ends up sounding boring. At the same time, certainly not terrible and is pleasant, but there wasn't anything that grabbed me or stuck with me, or anything that I really found interesting. Favorite Track: Long Story Short

Other than the songs all sort of sounding alike, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. She's a really good story teller and it kept me interested!

Highlights: Evermore, No Body No Crime, Coney Island and Champagne Problems. 3.8

Much better than expected

A beautiful, mellow, atmospheric album with evocative lyrics. Great for sitting and actually listening.

Not bad, but not my style. 3/5

Ms. Swift is a skilled artist, and I'm as close to a fan of her work as I am a fan of any artist's work. But, the selection of this album out of her entire body of work—baring the Christmas album—is a surprise. I like the album. I love a few of the songs on it. I like that this, like Folklore before it, is very stripped down and showcases her abilities to write and to sing over her and her collaborator's abilities to create programmed and studio-polished music. It's a nice reminder that, “Hey, for all you grumpy old haters that complain that no one makes 'music' any longer—try complaining about this! If a solo vocalist at a piano doesn't count as 'music’ then I don't much care for your opinions.” I'm ranking this album a four because I've drink the Cool-Aid from the start, and I think her work continues to be better than average. But, I don't understand why it's on this list.

There's a lot to like on here. It's beautiful in both sound and word, and well-executed throughout. You can tell the people that made this album are well-practiced in making clean music that is broadly appealing. The songs are all individually good, but as a whole on a single album they get too similar to get a collective 5--I was tired of it by the end even though I'd probably enjoy each track if sprinkled into a mix of Taylor Swift songs. I wonder if this will end up being the last great Taylor Swift album. The three since evermore have been...fine, but missing the hooks that made her a star. 4.3

Beautiful. Sad. Hopeful? Stripped down.

evermore was quite a fair bit better than i was expecting. The music had a very similar vibe to that one Fleet Foxes album that i listened to quite a while back. I think that the main thing that is the biggest part i have to talk about is the lyrics because oh boy, do i have opinions on those. There were a lot of points where the lyrics could be incredibly heartfelt but there were several times that for every bit of good lyrics, there were bits of not so good lyrics as well. The vocals are all still very good so that's one thing in this album's favor. I was initially getting quite a few reasons to give this album 4 stars but due to the lyric issues i mentioned above, it got locked to 3. It is still quite a good album and i can see why all the Swifties would want the haters to listen to this album. Best Song: closure Worst Song: cowboy like me Side note: I think its funny that in the song coney island, The featured vocalist (Matt Berninger of The National) sounded like a country singer in that song yet his band does not make country music

Couldn't find a good rhythm imo

I know that rich people have feelings too but I find Taylor's woes to be so hard to see parallels with. I don't find her voice to be terrible but the way she uses it like a slide whistle just doesn't fit the instrumentals at all. Speaking of, I found the instrumentals to be boring and safe. As many risks as Kermit on the log. Just something here that does nothing for me. I don't even see the nuggets that make her career as colossal as it is. Just not for me and that's ok. Favorite Songs: Gold Rush, Coney Island

I forgot to rate this but I fucking hated this album. To start, it was simply boring to listen to. For me, that is unforgivable for a musical project. The sound that she was going for isn’t a good one and isn’t compelling. The lyrics were also atrocious. She’s known as a wordsmith by her fans, but if that’s the case then call me Shakespeare. The most streamed song on the album is “Willow,” but it is among the worst tracks on the record. Taylor swift makes love seem exhausting and being straight sound awful. If that’s what she’s going for then brava. I get that she’s mourning a relationship ending, but it doesn’t feel genuine, it feels pandering. I fear the target audience for this is either kinda illiterate or too smart for their own good and socially stunted. Or maybe I’m overthinking and they’re just lames. Either way, I am not with it. There is one saving grace on this project, though: “No Body, No crime.” This song sounds nothing like the rest of the project and has a fun little story to tell. It’s catchy, so if I’m gonna listen to Taylor faking emotions I’d rather do it through something I at least enjoy hearing. I don’t know what happened to her but I think success is terrible for art. Early Taylor was so fire but everything she’s put out has been so ass for so long now. I hope she figures it back out and also stops using her jet. Fav song: No Body No Crime

Bad album. Boring album. Mid as fuck. Dull lyrics. Dull instrumentals. Uninspiring.

Oddly, I liked this album. Is it "Cat Power" good? Hell, no. But is it atrociously unlistenable? Also, No. I will listen to this in the future. For sure. 4 solid pop-rock diamonds. (FYI, I am not going to any of her concerts nor am I going to be a certified Swifty...ha! But honestly, Folklore was better....)

Loved this album a couple years ago, didn’t hit the same now

meh 2/5

I'm a Folklore/Evermore girly, but still this is not a 5 stasr album. I'm so very happy it exists though.

Seriously out of all the great pop albums released in the last decade, this is what we get on the list? It’s boring, uninventive, low energy slop pop Fav song: No Body, No Crime because she shouted out Olive Garden and I took my beautiful girlfriend there once and the lasagna was pretty good

'Wreck my plans, that's my man.' Talented & era-defining, yet nondescript & wanting of palpable energy, Swift is not this age's songwriter, she's its v gifted narcissist, its honed employer of the 'lyrical I,' the spokesperson for no one but herself. Rhyming 'brought it' w/ 'applauded' & 'called it' evinces Costello-like skill, & she obviously has a knack for pop melodies, but for an hour I didn't care much for what she had to say next. 'In our history, across our great divide / There is a glorious sunrise.' No doubt, the country & the blues traditions teach you to sing w/ personal intent. W/ those deep & clear country roots, Swift gives you the personal w/o the personality. She is no Patsy, Tammy, Dolly, or Loretta, & yeah, she's no Olivia Rodrigo. All blank.

rather kill myself

Really slow and mellow compared to other albums of hers. As usually cool story telling and quite a few get stuck in my head afterward. A few do start to sound like each other but I like the vibe so it didn’t bother me too much

5/9 Really? I'd honestly rather listen to the Brittany Spears album that was chosen for me the other day. At least that album gave me nostalgia for the late 90s. This album is just more sappy woe is me BS from Taylor.

(64/100)

Anything I try to put into words ends up sounding trite. It's default music, impossible to say anything good or bad about really. Millions of people love it.

folklore and evermore hit me in an unexpected way when they came out. I liked a couple Taylor Swift songs before them but I never really gave any album a full listen, but considering the 2020 of it all it felt like I may as well, and they ended up being pretty good. This one is highlighted by willow and no body, no crime, but a lot of the tracks didn't really stand the test of time and became pretty forgettable.

My rating 3.2. I liked Folklore more but to put out 2 double length albums in such a short time is impressive.

Usually, there is at least one TS song that I start to nod my head along to (regardless of lyrics). This album did not do it for me. She's perfected the genre for her demographic: straight, white women.

every time she used a curse word it felt So Forced

songs for people whose notions of eroticism were primarily informed by fingering scenes in "spicy" dark fantasy. genuinely unpleasant listening experience. fav: long story short (i guess)

Seriously out of all the great pop albums released in the last decade, this is what we get on the list? It’s boring, uninventive, low energy slop pop Fav song: No Body, No Crime because she shouted out Olive Garden and I took my beautiful girlfriend there once and the lasagna was pretty good

Even the hardcore Swifties don't consider this to be an essential album. I had hoped the collabs would kick things up a notch. No such luck. This is supposed to be Swift's sort of return to Country or Folk or Americana or whatever isn't Pop. The result defies any genre and just ends up as what should have been a demo tape.

I know I'm likely in a minority considering her billionaire status - but I cannot get a handle on why people listen to Swift. Her songwriting is boring, at best, and repetitive at normal. Add to it the wannabe-normal-person whining about COVID lockdowns, while knowing she was still living it up in her mansion without any *real* care in the world, it's just so tone-deaf that she should be ashamed to have released this, and anyone listening to it without the 'oh, woe-is-me Taylor, I'm so sorry you had to suffer while the rest of us were watching the world be destroyed. Glad you got a good jersey out of the alignment with MAGA, bitch' is pathetic and worthless too.

Her indie effort …hear why she’s a super star!

Damn, this thing's got some pretty pretty songs - even at its gloomiest. Faves: willow, gold rush, no body, no crime, happiness, right where you left me

I'm not a Swiftie, but I know this much: it's not Taylor's best record (even though "Champagne Problems" is a beast of a track). But I guess it's the one old white men would choose if they had to pick one of her albums and say, "Evermore was produced by Aaron Dessner and features Matt Berninger and Bon Iver."

Interesting listen, but overall a little bland.

7/10

Do I even need to say anything? One of my absolute favorites. It's atmospheric, thought-provoking, poetic writing at its finest.

Not sure why this was so critically acclaimed when it came out. It touches on the stylistic influence of bon iver/Sufjan etc but never quite reaches their emotional peaks and comes off as a generic top 40 attempt at something more authentic. Norman fucking Rockwell was much better for this style that ended up more unique and interesting

I refuse to listen to this

brack mack - I promise to properly review this properly at some point, but for now, suffice to say: The storytelling on this record is where the magic happens. As a certified Swiftie since 2006, I have spent hundreds - possibly thousands - of hours consuming every single thing Taylor Swift has made and evermore is certainly no exception. Stand out tracks: willow, champagne problems, tolerate it, ivy, marjorie

Familiar with the pop stuff (eras?) never listened to her mellow stuff. It's alright, sets a decent mood, makes me want to check out the national and bon iver. Find her lyrics to get old, but I suppose that would require prior knowledge

Monothematic, repetitive, bland. Awful.

5 de 5 Folkpop bien ejecutado y producido, cargado de una atmósfera melancólica que hizo de buen fondo musical a la situación que se viva en el mundo en ese momento. Una intérprete y compositora madura, introspectiva y a la vez, totalmente natural, se destaca la perfecta sincronía con los artistas que colaboran, adaptando su sonido y el sonido de los invitados, dando un disco emocional y muy pesado líricamente.

I seem to remember saying I liked the previous Taylor Swift album more than I expected, this one did not do that for me. She has an excellent voice, but the album as a whole is just not very exciting to me. I’ll round up to 2 stars but that’s a bit of a stretch.

It's probably a 2.5 overall for me. Another reminder that I'm really not the target audience for Taylor's music. Nothing was actively offensive or made me cringe, but nothing on the album really spoke to me either.

I know that I am not the target demographic for TSwift’s music and it show I’m just how long I was able to listen to the album. I got really bored after the first 3-4 songs and I moved on with my day.

Using one of my few vetos on Taylor Swift: an artist I am simply never going to like.

Do you know what? Once you get past the annoying ubiquity of Taylor Swift, this isn't a bad album.

just doesn’t do anything for me. i quite liked the song with bon iver but i feel like i really wasn’t missing out having not listened to this before today

boygenius is the worst thing to happen to music

I think this might be her strongest front-to-back album..... she is far from one of my favorite artists but I think the songwriting and production and performance is here and it's more varied than I remembered it being. Maybe in like 20 years when we're (hopefully) not still over-saturated with her it'll be easier to listen .

It's very pretty, but its missing some bite. The songs have that pop sheen that takes away from it for me

Vad kan man säga – det är Taylor. Kanske inte på toppen av sin förmåga, men hon har en verkligt hög lägstanivå. En fyra.

Better than I was prepared to give it credit for, Taylor's voice is pretty good and I think great when she sings lower register. I liked tis the damn season, happiness, ivy. Willow was still stuck in my head after the whole album but don't know I love it. I may be Swiftin'

I have such a complex relationship with this album lmao, but I've heard it probably a hundred times even before this instance. As far as Taylor goes, it's one of the much more palatable ones for me but it does get a little dull as it goes on. Feels like better background music than close-listening music at that a certain point in my opinion. That said, I'll still get a lot of these songs stuck in my head and find myself vibing to them. No Body, No Crime is also just a total bop. So is Tis the Damn Season.

Really liked the first part of the album but by that switched at the HAIM song. Ended up being bored for the rest except for one or two tracks. Also, album was too long. Overall, 3.5 stars

She could write music like this but wants to write music like The Last Showgirl.... :(

Willow 3 Champagne Problems 2.4 Gold Rush 2.6 Tis the Dream Season 2.8 Tolerate It 2.4 No Body, No Crime 3.1 Happiness 2.7 Dorothea 3 Coney Island 2.4 Ivy 2.3 Cowboy Like Me 2 Long Story Short 2.6 Marjorie 2.6 Closure 2.8 Evermore 3 Score: 2.646666667

This album that proves TS is a proper song writer. Written in the middle of lockdown and collaborating with the national and Bon Iver is incredibly brave for an artist fames for accessibility, Melodys and pop hits. That said, TS again proved her inability to edit herself in both obsession that everyone is against her and in picking out the best 12 tracks that would make a far superior album.

Lol? Folklore better, but what swiftee put this here?

insincere, bland, formulaic

2.75 I’m rounding to a VERY generous 3 because I think the second half of the album is generally much stronger than the first. I’m no Swift hater, I mean, I don’t get down with the cult of personality but I’m also not gonna pretend that 1989 isn’t one of the greatest pop albums of our lifetimes. But i don’t really do deep dives on her discography, so I had never heard this one, since it doesn’t really have any big hits off of it. It’s one of her “serious” works. Mostly what that amounts to is telling she mainlined Lana Del Rey before recording this album. It’s missing a lot of what makes Taylor, well, Taylor. Those absolutely irresistible earworm choruses. There’s a lot of tuneless songs here with especially cringy lyrics. Again, I think the second half of the album (from about “Dorethea” on) locks in and gets a lot better. The National duet is strong and the album ends on its best note - The genuinely lovely titular “evermore” with Bon Iver. I’m all for giving Tay Swift another entry on this list that’s not 1989, but why not Folklore? Or Red? Or even Midnights? This one feels like an odd choice.

Best part of this album is when it ended.

I never really heard Taylor Swift before this, sure prob in the background of a store or something but I couldn't tell you. I don't listen to pop or top 40 or whatever, just alt rock stations. So this was just generic pop mainly to me, and didn't like the ones with country twinge especially.

Частенько слишком неприятно завывает, прям искусственно, но иногда вполне обычная, ненапряжная музыка

2.6 I'm trying to like Taylor Swift. I think when I was younger, I used to hate any act that was too mainstream, typically "I'm different" teenage wankery. Missed out on many good acts and artists because of this. I'm now at the stage where I actively tell myself to not write things off and give artists/bands a chance. Onto Taylor. I, probably like everyone, know people who are complete obsessed with her. Like way over the top. So she must be pretty good, must speak to people on a deeper level. However, no matter how many times I try, I still dont really get it. This album, summarised into a one-word review, is Boring. Completely dull. I don't really care about her background so I'm not too fussed about reading the lyrics. So based purely on the music, the vibes and the lyrics, it's boring AF. There is only one moment where it sounds like it's getting going, in Long Story Short. And then the spark goes out straight away. Still searching for the answer.

Je pense qu'une des choses à laquelle on voit que Robert Dimery est un peu paumé, c'est que plus tu avances dans le temps, plus tu sens que la seule mesure de l'importance d'un album sur laquelle il arrive à se baser, c'est le nombre de ventes. Combien d'artistes féminins ayant sorti un album en 2020 sont passées à la trappe pour qu'on place... Taylor Swift ? C'est un gros morceau, Taylor Swift. Je pourrais en parler des heures alors que fondamentalement, la seule fois où j'ai écouté sa musique, c'est aujourd'hui, pour les besoins de cette liste. Mais j'en ai entendu parler. Plein de fois. Et rarement en bien. Essentiellement, Taylor Swift est une milliardaire (ce qui est déjà très louche en soi) qui doit le succès de sa carrière musicale à ses privilèges et à l'investissement de ses parents (nuance importante : ça ne veut pas forcément dire que ce qu'elle fait est mauvais, mais c'est un fait). Et pendant ce temps, d'autres artistes de milieux moins favorisés ou de pays moins exposés ne pourront jamais espérer figurer dans le livre de Robert Dimery (ça doit leur manquer beaucoup, à n'en pas douter). Je ne vais pas m'étaler sur ses bords politiques douteux, sur ses pratiques mercantiles parfois abusées (alors qu'elle n'a pas besoin de ça pour vivre, contrairement à des petits artistes). Ses fréquentations sont louches, ses silences très parlants (se taire quand on a un tel impact culturel, ça n'est pas neutre, loin de là, surtout quand on est milliardaire et qu'on peut se permettre de froisser certaines personnes). Si on part dans ce terrier de lapin, on n'en sortira pas. Je blablate, je blablate, mais la musique, alors ? Oui, je parle de tout ça parce que selon moi, ce contexte éclaire largement la façon dont on peut envisager cet album et pourquoi j'en pense ce que j'en pense. Cet album est passable. Très passable. Ce n'est pas nul, c'est très pro, très propre et coup de bol, si j'en crois les avis en ligne, c'est probablement son meilleur album. Mais voilà, c'est très plat. Il y a souvent de très belles mélodies, Taylor Swift est tout sauf une mauvaise chanteuse (encore qu'elle n'est guère démonstrative sur cet album qui est somme toute assez posé), mais c'est à peu près tout. Cet album, c'est de la musique sans surprise, sans rien de particulier, pas hyper mémorable. Si je me souviens bien, il n'y a que 4 albums des années 2020 dans la liste. Et c'est tout ce que Robert Dimery a trouvé ? Charli XCX ? clipping. ? Ulcerate ? Kaatayra ? Non, vraiment, tout ça c'est moins inspiré que Taylor Swift ? Alors oui, je mets deux parce que je ne vois pas pourquoi Taylor Swift, sauf si on considère que les 1001 albums à écouter avant de mourir doivent représenter les artistes les plus populaires, indépendamment de leur intérêt artistique, de leur capacité à innover (j'exclus volontairement l'influence, ça ne se juge qu'avec beaucoup de recul et la dernière version du livre est sortie en 2021). Et dire que c'est pour Taylor Swift que j'écris mon avis le plus long ! J'espère bien que c'est son seul album dans la liste.

I really wanted this to be a 4, but it wasn't. I know I've heard a few songs from this. I recognized willow. Taylor has a nice voice with a lot more potential than she uses. I appreciate the actual instrumentals. With that said, the songs all seemed about the same. A couple were in a minor key and they were able different topics, but I could hardly tell when one song ended and the next began. Musically, everything was performed well, but the writing was done of the cheesiest I've heard in a long time. This is my favorite T Swizzle album that I've heard, but that is a low bar to clear. Also, it's diabolical to title a sappy breakup song "happiness". And I don't get the trend of not using capital letters in song titles.

Taylor Swift isn't exactly known for having the best lyrics. Diehard swifties think she can do no wrong (except for The Life of a Showgirl apparently). This was definitely a high point in her career though. I think both fans and critics can agree on that. Maybe it's because it's a fairly safe album. I think it's because she has always been at the very least a pretty good artist. This is one of the VERY few albums I heard before starting the list. I had already listened to all Taylor Swift albums before and this was one of my favorites. It doesn't get annoying like some of her albums can especially later in her career that came just before and after this era. It's definitely long. You feel every minute of that hour, but not in a bad way necessarily. Willow I think suffers from some not top tier lyrics, but is honestly one of my favorite songs in the pop genre. I think ivy and no body no crime are also some really good pop songs. There isn't a bad song on this album. I think most people prefer folklore to this album, but I have always liked evermore more as a full album, but I think the songs on folklore have aged better. Overall, I get why people might not like Taylor Swift, but I for one can't deny that I genuinely like this album. I have heard enough soulless, boring, overproduced junk for a lack of a better term to know when a pop album is something more than that. I think this is a great pop album and a very solid album in general. I think I prefer her albums from her self-titled to 1989 more, but this is not far behind.

The best thing to come out of a global pandemic.

Nope. Won't listen to the eternally overrated Taylor Swift.

5 - AVERAGE

Kind of immemorable.

close to torture

Yeah this did nothing for me. I think outside of No Body No Crime, I just did not care about a single song on this album. When I got to the bonus songs I went "no I'm done" and shut it off. It's not bad, I know it's fine, I even like quite a few of Taylor's songs, but none of them are on this album.

Meh. First time listening to one of her albums and there was just nothing to get excited about. No bad songs but no standout songs either.

3/10

Not sure why she is so popular.