evermore

Depressed and self involved on a loop for evermore.

🤷 It's the Fleet Foxes issue again where it's *too* smooth? It's fine I guess.

Sounds quite good actually

meh, better than i thought as I had never listened to her. But don't get all the hype

In the first summer of the pandemic, Taylor Swift released Folklore. It was an album that no one was expecting, and seemingly a new direction for Swift. After a string of electropop albums that defined her since 2014, Folklore took a softer approach to songwriting and went, well, folk pop. It was a nice departure for Swift and showed that she could flex her songwriting skills in other styles. In the first December of the pandemic, Taylor Swift released Evermore. It was an album that no one was expecting, and seemingly a sister album to Folklore. Continuing her folksy songwriting, Swift brings a cooler tone to Evermore. More than anything, Evermore is the clearing out of cluttered thoughts. Putting down as much as possible and releasing it as a sort of offloading of folk songs. I say this because at 15 tracks and an hour long, it feels like we're committed to a lot. While not a double album, it's as though Swift has built up a lot of songs over the initial pandemic isolation, hence the sister album so soon after Folklore. I'll resist comparing the two and simply say that Evermore feels like a perfectly fine step in Swift's catalogue. She would go on to have more defining albums, though this certainly feels like a product of 2020. Most of Evermore floats along at the same quality, with nothing sticking out as being great, save for the guest features which make things a bit more interesting.

Folk-pop. Muy buena voz. Ni fu ni fa.

Ég fell ekki í neina stafi, en þetta er notaleg plata sem ég renndi tvisvar og gæti alveg rennt aftur.

Snowy Sunday morning vibes

This album sounds like a pop star becoming an angsty teenager. Some good songs, some a bit whiny

It was okay. Not a big T Swift fan anymore. Not my style of music.

What the heck is going on? This is not on the list. There's only one Taylor Swift album on the list, "1989." What got removed off the list so this could be put on? I call shenanigans. Is the list static, or is it fluid? Do we _REALLY_ need two Taylor Swift albums on there? I mean, Limp Bizkit is on here for f**k's sake, and not even the album everyone would know. OK, on to the album itself... I mean, the album itself is not bad. Decent alternative country stuff. Lyrically, it's pretty strong. There's still the autotune of her voice. But that's on every female singer now, so they all pretty much sound the same. But again, what makes this album so special? Special enough to knock something else off?

So here’s another album from the new edition of the book. This came out in 2020 and not only is it not one of the best pop albums of that year it’s not even Taylor Swift’s best album from that year. She released two albums in 2020, with Evermore being the second album and Folklore coming out earlier in the year. I think Folklore is a much better album but this is what we have to work with so… Lyrically this album is pretty good. I mean most of it is your typical pop love song (and lost love song) stuff, but the world will never run out of those and she does do them well. Favorites are “Champagne Problems”, “’This the Damn Season”, and “No Body, No Crime” but there is some filler on here. I don’t think the album is as strong from “Cowboy Like Me” to the end. This is only a 3-star for me.

A lot of the songs just mushed together. Folklore was better

Little too new country sound for me.

О, нифига, альбом 2020 года... мы постепенно возвращаемся в наше время? Вспоминаем всё, что я говорил про Lorde и её похожесть на сию даму. Я тогда и не слушал особо много песен, перед тем как сказать такое, чисто факты из вики. Но как же я был прав, чёрт возьми. В общем песенки под пианинку меня особо и не зацепили по вышеназванной причине, я уже наслушался. Поэтому было интересно услышать что-то другое. Например, в no body, no crime была попытка в кантри. Но оно как-то так напыщенно попсово звучит... Лирика центральное место здесь занимает, но блин, почему она вся как будто про неразделенную любовь... это травма какая-то? Короче я не знаю, я колеблюсь в оценке. С одной стороны, звучит это шикарно, в продакшн здесь вкладывались колоссально. С другой стороны - я испытываю какое-то отвращение к этой музыке из-за вот этой однообразной лирики. Пусть будет 2.5->3/5. Но это почти незаслуженная тройка. Просто меня кажется обвинят в двойной игре, после того, как я восхвалял Лорд и так прошёлся по Тэйлор Свифт.

Liked this significantly more than I thought I would. This is the most thoughtful and least pop-y I've heard her, and it led to a pretty good album. Favorite track: long story short

I'm not someone who pays attention to lyrics, which I think works in this album's favour. The few times I tuned in it seemed to be fairly derivative vapid nonsense. It does sound pleasant though, so I guess it's a 3 stars. At times I even thought it might be a 4, but I think the vocals are a bit weak in places.

I'm surprised this one made the cut over folklore, but both of these albums marked a fantastic turning point for Taylor and really solidified her versatility as a songwriter. There are a couple of weaker songs in the middle which hold this down slightly, but it's still a great record

Taylor's a gifted songwriter, that's not in doubt. She can spin words and craft a meaningful song better than most contemporary artists. But I've always thought this album was missing something that made it 'catch.' It's not boring; I think saying that would be too derisive. It is, however, an album I forget exists, and one that I can't name any songs off of. I feel like there could have been a better mix of lyrics and strong instrumentals. As it stands, the instruments feel really secondary; they don't add a lot, and as a result this just feels like spoken poetry. Warm with feelings of a soft, quiet fall day, this album evokes certain feelings that are important to note. I'm just not sure that it's one of the best albums to come out of 2020. Maybe one of the most popular, I guess, but not the best.

Better than I expected, not for me though

Fast food music

It was an interesting listen. Not sure I would return to it but I appreciate it for what it is. Impressive for someone who has been so pop focused to shift like this. 3.5/5

A couple excellent songs on here that surprised me, “willow”, “champagne problems”, and “no body, no crime” were excellent. The rest I didn’t connect to, despite being very pretty songs. I probably wouldn’t listen to the album again, but saved those three songs.

3.5 - Some nice cuts on here like “Champagne Problems” and “Tolerate It” (I especially like the line about the guy being the blanket that got through her barbed wire). The subdued instrumentals are cozy as a cup of Earl Grey on a chilly winter morning. But, sweet Lord, there are just SO many words! I have a wife already - I certainly don’t need one hour of introspective musings from this woman, too.

its a good the national album? taylor swift has never been on a bus? xmas tree farm bootstrap from the bottom now here? lead singer of nat’l sounds way higher now. a fine album.

Good artist but not to my liking.

taylor swift more like taylor shit

I'm not the biggest fan of modern pop music, but this is the epitome of that genre. It's a nice listen, not too much substance, but very well played, produced, arranged and sung. Of all the tracks, I liked dorothea best, the others were mostly OK as well. I could listen to this again, but don't neccessarily need to. 3/5.

i only listened to about half but have listened to it before. its okay 3/5

Sem graça. Deu sono.

A consistent soothing successor to folklore. As with all her releases, it's incredibly well produced, and Swift has a way of poetically expressing her emotionally-driven lyrics, deserving her title as a folk artist in this record. Her voice carries the record, but the chamber back vocals and acoustics support her well, even if they don't stand out much on their own (with the exception of a few songs). I'm not a fan of ballads, and I think there are too many here. With its slow tempo, it really drags on, not justifying its hour length. But my favorite songs tend to have punchy upbeat instrumentation with catchy choruses, also justifying its role in the pop genre, accessible to both young and mature audiences alike. I do think folklore had more standout tracks on top of being more coherent, showing that this could be stronger. I appreciate her being a bit experimental like "closure" but they never hit the mark. The guest performances are pretty good. Haim guest stars in the country rock "no body no crime" which I actually like, but that might just be because it's nice to get a break into harder instrumental. "coney island" has the strongest instrumentals, are those sleigh bells? Wasn't a fan of Swift's vocals though. Also wasn't a fan of Bon Iver here, but it was an appropriate closer. Favorites: willow, tis the damn season, no body no crime, dorothea, coney island, ivy

I don't listen to Taylor Swift very often. Didn't know she had an album this somber

I like some of Taylor Swifts songs. Maybe its nostalgia maybe not. but i've never been a Swiftie. I actually didnt like this album as much as i thought i would. I think the music is good but it lack with the lyrics for me... some of them i find too on the nose. No Body No Crime was my favourite. loved the story telling and the drama. Champagne Problems was another one i really enjoyed, I love an emotional song.

Meh

Woah champagne problems is amazing!!! Same with happiness!!! The others are good but the sequencing of the album is a bit poor 3/5

My first Taylor Swift album. Nice sound and some good originality. I did get bored, though. Close to a 4, but I’m not quite there.

It was a pleasant album and nice to listen to on a fall day. But it didn't really grip me. All the songs sound similar. I've never been very moved by Swifts lyrics, or metaphors. The only song I really liked was "no body, no crime" because it felt different and had a good hook and melody.

79/100: First Taylor album, let's go! This is a good one, although I had never listened to it all the way through before. Having done that for the first time today, I found myself noticing a lot of things that really detracted from my previous view of this album. For instance, why does every song on this album end so abruptly? It's honestly so blatant that it feels hard to place on just poor production, especially with an artist like Taylor Swift. Maybe it was intentional, maybe there's a deeper meaning behind it, but either way, it's pretty off-putting. "Champagne Problems" is possibly Taylor's best song, though, so this album instantly gets a rating boost for that.

não é ruim mas não muito meu estilo

I know she is a good songwriter and this record is very masterfully done but I really wasn’t moved or excited by anything on this. It’s hard for me to get excited about any music that sounds this polished.

Catchy enough. Is this a Christmas album? I know it's not a traditional Christmas album but it really seems like it was made to be played in the background while mom is making cookies in the kitchen and the snowflakes are melting on the windows. never really been a Swifty but I liked the general vibe

Después del otro disco de Tay Tay que se ganó 5 estrellas este de churro alcanza la tercera. Tiene por ahí dos o tres pequeños pedazos interesantes, en especial una rola que trata de un asesinato, pero el resto es mucho chillar y lamentar.

I mean it was ok but just a bit bland.

6,5/10

Difficult...on one hand, some great lyrics, really great storytelling lyrics...but the delivery is mostly quite dull...a lot of the songs just lack life, with overly multi-tracked vocals that stick in one register...the music is a lot of minor key and meh. Very dull piano playing on a lot of tracks. 'no body, no crime' is a massive exception. It cuts through everything and hits perfect. This is a collaboration with HAIM and think the collaborations are generally stand out.

I’m always a fan of folksier Taylor. Folklore just does it better than this one for me in terms of consistency and story. Willow, Champagne Problems and Gold Rush start the album off strong. Happiness really hits the feels - highlight of the album. Second half of the album drags a bit, but redeems itself with Marjorie.

Only song I had saved from this album previously was Champagne Problems. With TSwift, I'm typically more of a "listen to one song per album on repeat" kinda person, less of a full album fan. Tis the damn season was nice. The songs all kinda blend together for me. I kept checking the album thinking I'd be further through it by now. Honestly, I considered giving this a 2 because I think it's fine listening but majority of the songs themselves were forgettable for me. She has some clever lyrics but the way she sings majority of these songs doesn't call enough attention to the lyrics for me - I would need to read them in order to really hear them.

I really wanted to not like this album. I'd heard that Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon were getting involved, and I couldn't help but roll my eyes. That being said, I actually kind of dug it. Still too early for me to say that it's remarkable or anything, but I definitely didn't hate it. For sure it sounded like a lot of these could have been songs by The National, though. Standouts: champagne problems, gold rush, 'tis the damn season, coney island, long story short, evermore

Taylor has way better stuff than this, pretty boring album. Good stuff on it, don't get me wrong, but when you are here, you get compared to your discography each time. If this just had more different types of songs it would be a 4, but I just felt that they all sounded the same.

This album is a well-worn path. At this point, I think you are either completely okay with walking this path a hundred thousand times or simply acknowledging that so many people have loved the path that it is now a regular road.

I played this in the background just so that I could hear enough to dismiss it. But a number of the melodies caught my attention. So I concluded that the song-writing was good and I liked her signing style, like a cross between Suzanne Vega & Lana del Ray. On second listen with more volume I could better appreciate the production which sounded quite indie for a Grammy-type album. It's interesting that all songs are co-written with he National guy. Overall this album was a pleasant surprise.

Nice mellow early morning wake-up album.

This album sounded amazing on wikipedia, then I listened to it and was an anticlimax. It's just Ok and had interesting lyrics but, I'm not hearing what Taylor Swift's fans are hearing.

She has a great voice and they’re nice songs. Could have given it 4 if it had been shorter.

Far too samey, shame as the tunes are good but it just gets dull

For someone who has not listened to a lot of Taylor Swift this was quite a pleasant surprise.

It was … fine. Music gets 4 stars, lyrics get 2. They just felt a little clunky, a little too over explaining, and not a great match for the music in a lot of cases.

T.S 1989 is the special album name to me chinese!

Break up song queen

Taylor Swift's foray into folk pays off big time. A great album and one of those fantastic examples of what happens when a top tier song writer gets bored and decides to do something different. Highly recommended.

3.75

Cosy. Would listen to again in front of open fire. Found the cover pleasantly evocative

I really like this album, but Folklore is better.

I’ve always preferred folklore more, but this one still had some classics. It starts stronger than it ends.

Quite a soft, delicate album. The songs are all quite nice, but there's very few standout tracks to me, it all kind of sits in the background a bit and feels a bit samey for the most part. No body, no crime is a good track and worth revisiting.

The standouts are: willow, no body, no crime, and champagne problems. The rest blend together too much.

evermore contains a lot of fine melodies, but Swift insisting on repetitions in her lyrics to cater to the lowest denominator really irks me. The intimate production of the instrumentation throughout (as on 'champagne problems') really is something special, and Swift is at her best when she channels her inner Phoebe Bridgers (''tis the damn season') or Lana Del Rey ('cowboy like me'). The collaboration with HAIM on 'no body, no crime' is another highlight.

The first Taylor album I've ever listened to. Major autumnal vibes but nothing groundbreaking. The collab with Haim is probably my favourite.

Wouldn't have chosen to listen to this but a very chilled album.

Quite liked it surprisingly...bit depressing though

I had written this off before I even listened..... But it's completely different to what I expected, not like the Taylor Swift I've heard on the radio. I don't mind it!

Such a sad and sappy album. Gave a middle of road rating because it wasn’t terrible but I wouldn’t add it to my playlist.

Nice pop.

Good stuff 3

Mix of qecent quality writing with poor production choices. Enjoyable.

I like this and am going to list to it again. I like that Swift continues her pop style, but stripped back instrumentally making this feel more folky and subdued, but actually it's just as pop as everything else Swift does. Very warm and likeable, although I can't really buy into her heartbroken lyrics, which is fine since it's just pop and not "lived through soul". Particularly enjoyed the song with Haim about the murdered cheating ex-lover - very Nick Cave! 3.5 because this is quite good, but way too new to be deemed worthy of the 1001.

I always kind of dismissed Taylor, but she's got a quite good voice, while this album wasn't the greatest thing I've ever heard it was enjoyable, and I probably will end up listening to at least a few others.

Pop relajado con toques country de una gran voz. Pausado y relajado

3.4⭐️

A bit of a chameleon, that Taylor. VERY fast at making clothes too, if we're to trust her name.

Very emotionally connected with this album but I’m not overly attached to her style of music

Surpreendeu pela qualidade do pop.

Not a fan of T swift but this was decent

Not bad. It’s funny how even as artists grow and change there can still be elements of their new work that sound just like what they did 10 or 20 years ago.

more enjoyable than i expected? mostly not for me, but i did like "no body no crime". a sordid tale of lust, cunning, and revenge; with nods to hardboiled romance thrillers like double indemnity and gone girl

My least favorite Taylor album

Heard a lot of TSwizzle due to my wife. Don't mind it or love it. Just there

Pretty good overall. The album establishes a nice mood overall. The songs are simple and the instrumentation is very reserved, allowing for Taylor's voice to carry every song.

Beautiful lyrically and musically but feels like this wasn't her best work. Preferred folklore to this album.

Fine album. I like her other stuff more but not bad by any means

I liked it more than I thought I would. Stronger first half and the National and Haim tracks were nice. Favorite: long story short

Folk-pop. Muy buena voz. Ni fu ni fa.

I didn't expect to actually kind of like it.

Solid album, but it’s too goddam sad. I don’t have time for this level of sadness, but it was nice to hear Taylor’s newer music. She has evolved immensely from her debut, and I like the more lowkey direction she’s taking.

probably pretty good but I need to be in the mood

Not bad! I didn't know the first song belonged to this LP.

This and Folklore both are without all the pop production elements. This makes them much more approachable.

There wasn't anything specifically bad about the album. It was easy enough to hear, but not much really grabbed me as particularly exciting...kind of one note for me today, I guess.

Cookie cutter indie pop sound with some country leanings. Not for me but it's an inoffensive listen so 3*s

si je l'avais écouté en décembre devant la cheminée avec un chat sur les genoux j'aurais probablement mis une meilleure note, malheureusement j'étais en fait dans le métro et il faisait 33 degrés

I feel like the weakest part of the album are the instrumentals. They're all pretty, but sometimes they don't match up with Taylor's voice, creating something that just doesn't blend well together. The guests on here all do well, and Taylor's voice and lyrics range from passible to good. My favorite parts are where she dips into her country music roots. Favorite tracks: "No Body, No Crime", "Ivy", "Gold Rush"

Folk music for teenagers. It gives the sense that it's a kind of masterpiece but it's a very lame masterpiece. Almost all songs are similar and with her expressive popish voice I myself, cannot connect with the words she singing. Good but not good enough to be included here.There are much better others artists albums of her kind ,maybe not so known that offer more interesting results

Genre: Folk Pop 3/5 Taylor Swift released her mega-hit Folklore in July 2020, an album that represented a very heavy shift for Taylor in terms of her sound, fully eschewing her usual lush pop arrangements and instead utilizing sparse folk stylings. She then immediately followed it with this, Evermore, a quasi-sequel released less than 5 months apart. This album opts for more mellow and relaxed arrangements, but much like in the movies, the sequel is lackluster in comparison to its predecessor, but it's not altogether terrible. Taylor has always had a very nice voice, and folky, pared back music like this unfortunately doesn't do it too many wonders, but her voice here does a lot of the legwork, effectively saving most of these pieces here from falling into total boreland. No Body, No Crime featuring HAIM, is a perfect example of a rather generic Americana tune totally saved by great vocal performances from all the women involved on this track. The album's outro and title track, a little ambient folk ditty that also features some song-saving guest vocal work, this time from Bon Iver. As for the rest of the album, it all plays out fairly uneventfully, but it's an inoffensive record that sounds great and feels much shorter than its 1 hour runtime. Not bad.

i wish i liked this more!!!!!

I found this album a bit dull. Sorry. There is nothing here that can hold a candle to Shake It Off or Look What You Made Me Do.

Taylor relies on singer-songwriter tropes but doesn’t have the clout to pull it off. Luckily there’s some well-written material amongst the cacophony of easily digestible whiny diatribes.

3.5

taylor

No pop tunes here but not much I would go back for. Though the album is very listenable. Something to play when you're up at the cottage by yourself.

its an okay folk pop album, hollow is interesting but there is not another song that can live up to the same level. Not bad but not outstanding either.

altså det er jo ret godt tbh

Yllättäen pidin tästä. Aika vimmasii tekstejä ja voksut toimii mulle kyl. 3/5

Aina hienoa, kun levy paranee loppu kohti. Ja vokaalit on kyl miellyttäviä, paha sanoa muuta.

better than I expected? I haven't listened to her since hs so it was cool hearing her drop fuck

Non è brutto, ma è un po' noioso. Mi piaceva di più l'altro, 1989.

Pleasant enough to listen to but not much really leapt out. The inversion of the usual trope in the "murder ballad" wasn't quite enough to elevate it (and is it, like, supposed to be some kinda girlpower anthem? Cause it's still wrong to murder someone over infidelity), and the final cut with Bon Iver gave an unflattering focus on just how watered down the rest of the folkified pop was.

Much better than the last Taylor Swift album we had. The music is lovely and the lyrics are nice, if not a little girlie.

It’s fine. I enjoyed the first half more than I expected, but it began to drag after that. Would rather listen to 1984

Mislim da je Taylor dobar tekstopisac i njena pjesma "Style" mi je hitČINA, pa imam neki respekt za nju, žena ima svoj craft. Al me nije nikad privukla njena glazba da postanem fan. Nekako sam ravnodušna prema njenim stvarima, ne izaziva mi puno emocija. Ali lijep mi je ovaj album. Kohezivan je, sviđaju mi se kolaboracije i dosta se čuje utjecaj Aarona Dessnera. Al opet sam ravnodušna koliko god sam htjela da mi se svidi. Vjerojatno je do njene vječno iste i jako prepoznatljive tematike.

Seci kraljice 👑

Igual o último.

Enjoyed this one. Nothing crazy but I could see myself throwing this on from time to time.

In which Taylor does her best Eminem impression. Relative to her image, of course. Ssure, she's not writing in grawlix, but there are enough fucks and shits to invalidate her PG rating. Even more than "At dinner parties I call you out on your contrarian shit" 'Tis the damn season remodels her as a sophisticated dame in a whip-smart middlebrow movie. The plotting could use some work. no body, no crime is a fun genre exercise, but as conventional as they come. And I'm not sure "Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license at sixteen" and "I've cleaned enough houses to know how to clean a scene" checks out class-wise. But now I'm being picky. A lean and muscular workout that is arguably her best album by accident. And she's not just flashing her writerly talents here. She's staking her claim to being the most accomplished vocalist in Pop-Indie. Whatever the hell that is.

Not my favorite Swift honestly. But it isn't exactly the worst.

turns out everyone can relate to being a teenager

Beetje gelikt en soms ook wel wat tam, maar verder best wel tof. Maar respect voor Swift om zo van haar bubblegum imago af te komen.

Ik vond dit boven verwachting goed te doen. Niet van die bubbelgum pop zoals op haar eerdere platen. Goede liedjes!

Ach ja ... irgendetwas mag ich an diesem Ultrahighloss-Verschnitt eines Next-Door-Girls. Ihre Straightness, das gut kalkuliert eingestreute Spiel mit Unsicherheit und Status, und aber auch diese bossy Attitude. Ist mein Deutsch eigentlich gerade so englisch weil sie halt auch so dermaßen All American Girl ist? Ich weiß es nicht, und ehrlich gesagt bringt sie mich auch nicht gerade dazu, das jetzt sonderlich tief zu reflektieren. Schöne Musik zum Geschenke einpacken ist das, mit 2,7 Punkten dafür.

6/10

Doesn't start off amazing, but gets better. Usually not a massive fan of her singing voice, but I enjoy a good deal of these songs. no body, no crime is excellent.

Pretty standard pop. Back half of the album had some memorable songs

Beautiful album, great voicings, good lyrics. Not my jam, but I like her music craft.

Never listed to a TS album before. Will give another go. Some decent collaborators

7/10

Very inoffensive

Nada especial. Lo escuche y no recuerdo ninguna de las canciones.

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.

Not for me.

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

Bleh.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Not in the mood for this. Fine I guess.

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

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

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.

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

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

- 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.

Didn't jive with it

A wash of quiet folksy pop. 4/10

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.

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". :-)

Boring af

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"

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

Couldn't find a good rhythm imo

meh 2/5

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.

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.

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

Interesting listen, but overall a little bland.

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.

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 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

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.

3/10

Fine but not for me

Nah

Sorry Swifties but this just aint for me, kinda boring

Another dull swift album

No entiendo por qué este album está acá. Realmente nada me parece se destaque. Quizás las letras que no entiendo, no se. Pero musicalmente es pop como siempre. En 2020 no estaba innovando. Qué se yo. Básico. Insulso. 3/10

Slick pop

A Covid-era Taylor album, I think is one of her weaker ones Its stripped down arragement that can get a bit samey when working through the fifteen songs in this collection Champagne Problems is a real highlight for me, which takes it to two stars

El disco como tal está bien, hay canciones que ya me sonaban, pero no es mi estilo.

Not really my type of music, nothing wrong with the instrumentation/singing per se, just not the target audience, a little boring to me.

A sad dad album that circles her usual themes of growing up and romantic confusion, Evermore is an exercise in extremely wordy and too-clever navel gazing that overstays its welcome. When this came out in the midst of the pandemic, the story was that Folklore and Evermore were an exciting and brave creative pivot, but it's aged into a overstuffed double album that merely foreshadowed the over-saturation of Taylor we now live with. She’s a talented diarist but a far better at monetizing her brand reinventions.

#889. I said the other day that Beyonce makes music for people that don't like music, and that goes double for Taylor Swift. I honestly have no idea how she became so popular. This music is just nothingness set to some very basic tunes. 2/5: whatever.

Bättre än förväntat. Tjatigt och tröttsamt med breakup-låtar. Coney Island gillade jag men vet inte om det var låten eller gästsångaren. Alla låtar låter typ likadant.

This was a COVID album and in many respects it mirrored my experience of COVID. When I first learned that this would be the album, I was bummed but I decided to give it a shot. I was initially surprised by how much I enjoyed it, finding it warm and cozy. After a while, everything felt the same and blended together. Finally I wondered when it would ever end.

I've never listened much of any of Taylor Swift's music, let alone any whole albums. I don't know where this stands with the rest of her stuff. The music wasn't bad, but it didn't do anything for me.

I mean, like any teenage girl I throughly enjoyed evermore back in 2020. In hindsight it’s not the album for me. I do know most of the lyrics tho…

As a white man, we do not need to have the more recent albums on here be white girl music which is the worst kind of pop music

Boring

Like a Lindt chocolate ad. White chocolate.

She’s better when she’s mad at Matty. This is just sophomore year poetry with some music.

Ladde faktiskt ner syskonskivan till den här (Folklore) som också är producerad av Bon Iver, men det kunde lika gärna varit den här, jag hör ingen skillnad. Det är egentligen aldrig dåligt bara helt ospännande och jag hör inte vad hon sjunger om för röstem vill iingenstans. Kanske finns det bra låtar här men man har så vansinnigt tråkigt att man aldrig får en chans att upptäcka det i så fall. Anledningen till att jag tänker så är Ryan Adams. Han tog ju och gjorde en hel coverskiva på hennes album "1989" för dryga tio år sen och fyllde den med temperament, grus, skavanker, spelglädje och personlighet. På det viset visade han vilka bra låtar det faktiskt var i grunden. Jag hade den skyhögt på årslistan. Det gör ju att jag nånstans vill tro att det finns bra låtar även här, det är bara så utslätat och intetsägande att det inte når fram. Jag inser att jag babblar på om inte specifikt detta album, vilket också är talande. Ta vilket Swifts album som helst och du kan skriva ungefär samma generiska recension till det, det är väl ungefär vad jag håller på med. Det är den svagaste tvåan som nånsin delats ut, men det är aldrig dåligt bara oförargligt och intetsägande, men jag vill verkligen tro på att det finns bra låtar i botten

Jag har försökt ta mig an Taylor Swift tidigare, men jag lyckas inte. Det är genomgående rätt trist. Andra halvan är något bättre från och med coney island. Men det blir aldrig bättre än när The National är som tråkigast. Swift må vara en tekniskt duktig sångerska men hennes röst och sångstil är verkligen anonym. Godkänt tack vara att Hole är färskt i minnet.

It gets three stars, if you include the bonus track Right Where You Left Me.

I'm not the target audience for this

More Taylor Swift. Shoot me now. Plenty of slow piano whining with that whispy voice. Surprisingly I didn't hate the first track and one other I didn't bother to check. But not so much that I'd say I liked it. 2/5

White Toast with No Butter

breathy vocals, simple guitar—rinse and repeat—evermore top tracks: “willow,” “coney island”

Final thoughts: I thought this was okay, but it's way too early to say that this is an album I need to hear before I die, in my humble opinion. Maybe let's give albums at least 5-10 years before saying they are or aren't part of the canon? declaring this LP a "must listen" just one year after its release (2021 edition) does no one any favors; including Taylor Swift. I guess we'll see if this is still included in the 2026 update ******************************************************************************* --willow...pleasant but it's pretty much Target shopping music --champagne problems...more niceties. I like these lyrics more than "willow" --gold rush...a great baroque pop feel to this one --'tis the damn season...I'm a little bored at the lack of dynamics but some great hooks so far --tolerate it...melodrama --no body, no crime...kind of a Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads/Dixie Chicks "Earle" vibe. I like it --happiness...melo is the drama --dorothea...ugh, things are getting tedious --coney island...I appreciate the guest stars but they aren't enough to diversify the vibe this record keeps hammering. This would be a decent closer but we're only slightly over halfway through --ivy...a "g-d" and an f bomb on the same album? tay tay growin' up, y'all --cowboy like me...just. end. it. --long story short...the synths divvy things up a bit. it's good --marjorie...whatever --closure...she's trying something in the background scratchiness here but it's still the same oppressive vibe that permeates the entire LP --evermore...sleepy

YAWN

Not sure which of her boyfriends she broke up with for the inspiration of this album but the dude must have been a real downer. The music was ok but there was a hollowness to some of the vocals that had me wanting to grab her by the shoulders and shake her out of the funk. Then again, maybe that was what she was going for. Or maybe I'm just a 70 year old white guy that doesn't understand kids these days. Either way, I've got just over 100 more albums to go before I die. Please let those that remain be better than this.

I am happy for people who enjoy her stuff because there's so much of it. I've tried so many times but I think it's just not for me. Solid production and arrangements.

2.13

Truly criminal to include evermore, but not Fearless on the list. Not a bad album overall, but kinda meh and longer than it needs to be. There are some decent songs on here, but they struggle to make up for the lackluster tracks that fill the album.

Very close to listenable.

I can hear that super casual billionaire vibe, for sure.

Hmmmm, so this is what norm-core girls are into....

I just have to accept that Taylor isn't for me. I find her melodies very repetitive. To me this album is to overproduced and clean cut to really hit that folk vibe, but it's not fun enough to be addictive as good pop can be. I liked the tracks featuring other artists the only memorable ones, and that says it all.

I came in with an open mind and I didn't hate it. But certainly didn't like it

I liked Coney Island but on checking the track listing I realised that was because I like The National more than I thought I did. Overall .. didn’t hate it, didn’t like it.

I enjoyed Willow specifically and am a fan of the storytelling lyricism miss Tay implores. She slays the harmonies on any track. However - the album does not reach my personal needed level of overstimulation to warrant further listens. Sorry miss Tay.

didn't relisten, just dont love the vibe

Honestly, I listened to this album twice, mainly because I have friends who are huge fans of this body of work and of TS herself. And I've listened to the Deluxe version to gather everything, no songs for forgotten nor anything. It already pained me a bit whenever I saw someone saying Taylor is a great lyricist. And if she is it's symptomatic of how shallow and badly written songs are nowadays. From all of the 16 songs in what's regarded as one of her best albums I "liked" 6 - "Champagne Problems" (I fan favorite) has it's highlight in an interpolation of Blue Suede Shoes, and we can discuss if it is the best use of it in songs, as Lana Del Rey has also used the same sentence in one of her songs. "Happiness" may be a highlight from the album, good storytelling, lyrics that could be used to justify the 'lyrics genius' status. "Cowboy like me" sounded fun but nothing more, and the last three songs - Evermore, Right where you left me and It's time to go - are good songs! Evermore gains a lot from the collab with Bon Iver, It's time to go and Right where you left me are well produced. "Willow", the lead single and biggest song on the album is boring and repetitive, "Gold rush" is forgettable, "No body, no crime" flirts with a song that could've been a disstrack (as far as Taylor Swift disstracks can go) but doesn't go all the way. "'tis the damn season" is also repetitive and childish. "Dorothea" is a cute song, nothing more. "Ivy" and "Coney Island" are forgettable songs, Coney Island having a collab that was wrongly chosen imo. "long story short" is another song where she plays the victim, this time in a song that was written for tiktok before it was even a thing, lines seeking impact but if you're moved by it... "Marjorie" talks about grief in the most literal way I've ever seen - I'm amazed at how she could translate something so complex into simplicity. Not in a good way. "Happiness" has bigger depth than Marjorie when it comes to the confusing sensations we have when we lose someone. Left them for last so I can criticize properly - I've never seen such badly produced song-that-wants-to-try-something-different as "Closure", it's an immediate skip and the feeling I got was: Taylor sat down with her producers and they all went through the "what if we bring a new rhythm into this one?" and that's a hard no - there are so many avantgarde albums, songs and artists that they could've listened to in an attempt to create a song that's unsettling but good. This is a disaster. And finally - "tolerate it" is incredibly shallow, superficial and childish. That's what yoou get when you want to play the victim but you don't have enough arguments to do so.

.

Not my favorite of her album kindof boring. Fav songs willow gold rush no body no crime

wanna preface this by saying that I don’t like taylor swift at all. still went into it with an open mindset but I wasn’t proven wrong… while there were a couple songs I though were pretty okay, the overall project was below my standard (which rlly isn’t high). I don’t like her voice and singing style and found the lyrics to be too literal. the production was the best part of this album, with closure being super interesting and other tracks having nice guitar + harmonies. everyone seems to love her but I still haven’t found out why after listening to this full-length album. -favourite tracks: ‘TIS THE DAMN SEASON and IVY and CONEY ISLAND

36. ok

not good

No ha manera, por más que lo intente, de que la Swift me entre por el oído derecho. Pensé que este álbum de folk, acústico sería otra cosa, pero no. Apenas distingo un tema de otro, su voz y el patrón compositivo de los mismos me resultan anodinos. Esto es todo muy subjetivo, lógicamente, pero es que sigo considerando a esta artista súper-híper-sobrevalorada. Veo mucha autocomplacencia y, sinceramente, no veo qué aporta al panorama musical actual. Solo veo un producto de consumo y fácil que se olvida exactamente un minuto después de escucharlo. Como alternativa a Taylor, apuntad este nombre: Blondshell. Este álbum, aburridísimo.

While I enjoyed Taylor when she first started out, this entire album was depressing and I wish I could take back the decision of listening to this. Not the worst thing in the world, but most of the songs here sounded the same. Not fully a 3 and I'm not rounded up.

Unless you like feeling like a cold wet day I wouldn’t listen.

Sounds a lot like a national album. Which I like. But with all the experimentation and risk removed. All becomes a bit of a bland mush, probably because for some reason they decided it needed to be an hour long. The lyrics and songwriting don’t work for me. But clearly I’m not the target audience. And like all massive pop artists, this is an album made with a target audience very much in mind.

My wife’s favourite band is The National. My daughter’s favourite singer is Taylor Swift. Imagine how pleased I was to pull this on the day we had a long drive. Finally, something we can all get behind and enjoy together as a family. Except we didn’t. This was so damn boring I had to open the windows in December to keep us awake.

The blandest of music. I disliked this one a bit more than the previous one. I wonder who copied who, taylor or lana del rey..

Pleasant enough but can't understand from this how she's the biggest star in the world and ruined the Kansas City Chiefs in the process.

The instrumentals are very good, but the lyrics are just so corny and awful.

TPE => SEA Series: A three album binge on a 11 hour flight (Evermore, Kind Of Blue and Transformer). 3 yuge albums for VERY different crowds A bit of context. I dont hate the Taylor machine, but I find the themes of its songs to be overly repetitive. Im the cliche, I suppose? Beyond what this is sonically, this represents modern insecurity & melancholic nostalgia (dorothea) from the American, small town millennial woman. In that way, I can appreciate this like something that I would marvel at in a museum for a moment. Because this is so long and spread over different backdrops, my brain loses its interest in the lyrics. In that way, this feels like 15 singles and not an album. What I liked: ivy was a good song. Aaron from the national. 2.5 and rounding down because Im cool

Eh

I wanted to like it but was very bored after the hour as they all sounded the same. Diary entries with added music

I never really got Taytay? It's all fine and easy to listen to, but it all feels so...shallow when you read the lyrics. It's been heavily tailored to GCSE English students.

Ok c'était globalement pas ouf du tout, mais je m'attendais à 100 fois pire.

Ended up listening twice and enjoyed it more on the second listening. There are some vocal patterns frequently used (not sure if she can call them a trademark though) that get a bit repetitive and the lyrics dance a line of being too silly and too specific to the time it was written, but sometimes that is it's strength in being memorable. I can't decide where "I'll come back stronger than a 90s trend" sits for example. No body, no crime is catchy, but not one I enjoyed. Same goes for Dorothea. I'll probably still hum along though.

Singer good songwriting but I find her voice irritating.

Yeah it’s a 2 for me for Evermore, I like when she leans into the indie folk with her vocals and really dislike it when she sings pop vocals over these tracks which she can’t seem to resist for long The instrumentals and production is like the worst music by The National, who are one of my favourite bands, so is still strong but I’d rather have this instrumental or with Taylor fully committing rather than half committing.

tegen alle verwachtingen in, begon dit plaatje zeer goed... maar na een tijdje werd het me toch wat te flauw... er mocht wat meer pit in haar stem zitten

Of all the swift albums this is an interesting choice to be on the list. Pretty blah

Acoustic confessional albums are done a lot better by others, lyrically quite poor 2.5*

I genuinely wanted to give this a real go. I’ve never listened to a Taylor Swift song let alone a whole album. I found it to be pretty boring and at time it actually sounded like it was made by AI. To be honest it was nice to have on in the background while playing with playdoh.

Pleasant but utterly forgettable. She phoned it in.

В мене нуль хейту до Тейлор, але й захоплення особливого теж ніколи не було. Це досить непоганий поп-фолк альбом, більше про нього особливо немає що сказати. Що він тут робить - невідомо.

No me pilló en mi mood más girly y no es que sea yo el más swifty. Me había escuchado folklore en su día y me había gustado más que esto. Hay temas como ‘long story short’ que se me hicieron un pelín insufribles la verdad. Diría que los mejores temas son los que tienen los features de The National y de Bon Iver pero suena misógino (me mola mucho cuando armoniza con la voz full grave y Bon Iver es que se la come completamente según entra en el último tema). Me lo escuché en un paseíto de frío otoñal y eso hizo que no entrase del todo mal, pero me sacaban los lyrics ridículos y los temas genéricos de pop camuflado que me impedían conectar del todo y tomarlo en serio. Me lo volveré a escuchar pero no prometo nada.

God her lyrics suck. Pretty instrumentals tho

Pretty mid music from a mid artist

Good first: many of the instrumental parts are very good. “Cowboy Like Me” was a highlight for me. The last four tracks were the most successful by a longshot. If the last four songs were released as an EP, this would have probably been a four star EP. Other than CLM and a couple of others, the lyrics and vocals all seem mismatched to the songs and are very pedestrian. The more the songs lean into the pop end of things (“long story short”), the less this feels like a cheap imitation of Phoebe Bridgers or other indie-ish folk/country. The track featuring The National was particularly bad, with Matt Beringer singing badly-metered, trite lyrics, it really underlines how lacking the vocal parts are throughout. Beringer can deliver vocal lines with the best of them, but this falls flat. Justin Vernon does a good job on his songs and I get the impression that he has a big hand in the composition of the last couple of songs — they sounded much fuller and more natural.

this music plays in dog food stores

I liked a couple songs on here but most of this album was kinda boring. It was surprising seeing as Swift is the biggest pop star on earth. I figured a full album would have some catchy tunes but this was mostly forgettable.

I don't hate this, it just has no soul.

I'm not the target audience.

Meh. Not my bag

I liked this more than her other album I've listened to in this project (1989). However, I still found it fairly boring throughout. I actively disliked the last one, but this album had some slightly more interesting songs. Favorite Songs: no body, no crime

It's so bland and boring. I don't get her popularity. Guess her music just isn't for me and that's okay.

Folklore is much better. Let's get that out of the way. I thought getting this album on a crisp autumn morning was thematic. Too bad it just isn't that good. And I think I've sussed it out. Her voice is too perfect. Like it hits the exact right notes and sustains them for the mathematically precise right time for indie/folky pop. Some chord progressions are interesting, but then the I/IV/iv/V hits in the second or third song and you just think to yourself "nvm it's just over". There's no imperfection or vulnerability in her vocals, most songs are the same tempo, the tracklist is too long, and the songs without features are written fairly weakily. Some people herald Taylor Swift as this generation's Bob Dylan, which is absolutely wild. The music/piano/guitar work is kinda nice throughout though, so it saves it from the lowest score. Come back to me when Swift writes a Desolation Row, Shelter From the Storm, or Mississippi.

The only Swift tune I knew before this album was shake it off. This LP was generic as hell..

Taylor Swift is and always has been the sonic equivalent of boiled chicken and unsalted white rice. More than any pop star, I'm baffled by the scale of her success. I may be biased reviewing this because I think of the billionaire cosplaying as an indie folk artist as almost insulting, in an age when only massively popular acts can get by in the music industry. The paycheck must have been good for Bon Iver and The National to provide their services. Beyond all that, she's just a heavy-handed, mediocre lyricist. "Dirtier than the mud on your car tires"? Ok.. the title track is the only one I found enjoyable, the rest was bland as hell and samey

Speaking to the resident Swift fan in the house, she was baffled by this album’s inclusion given that it was made up of songs that didn’t make the cut for Folklore. I enjoyed Gold Rush and it is clearly a highly polished production, but the songs don’t really connect with me, and it descends into something quite formulaic. The song with Haim was truly terrible so it loses a point for that.

Wasn’t looking forward to this at all but came away from it feeling less than I expected. Broadly, the instrumentation and production is within my wheelhouse - Bryce Dessner and Justin Vernon’s influences are clear; but the subject matter and in particular the vocal stylings seem to continue to use a tried and tested method (vocal doubling, established harmonies) which just doesn’t seem to work well with the support behind it and just becomes bland after a while. It feels like you could remove the vocals, put it on a thumping pop track and it would still fit.

I tried and some songs are good like the opener. But something like "long story short" shows everything that's wrong with Taylor Swift with heir annoying up an down singing and rhyming.

I'm not the target audience, but I am bored. This isn't bad by any metric, but it's extremely dull.

every song sounds the same . boring pop

Songs were kind of samey to me. Not a lot of variety or dynamics within each song or across the album for me.

10/13/25. I do not get the Taylor Swift hype, but with my bias I tried to give this a fair listen and in the end, it's decent. Perfectly innocent music that's accessible to everyone in a gloomier mood. There's some of the country asthetic carried over and she's no doubt a songwriting machine.

Pooing on TS is admittedly very easy to do, but I day this as a big fan of 1989... I find it totally unfathomable that this is considered (by some) the best album by the most successful music artist ever to have lived. The features are the only standout songs, probably because those artists didn't just accept the first thing Swifts songwriters handed them. This whole album is filler, thrown together to support the couple of acceptable singles I expect were hastily rustled up to exploit the fact that everyone had fuck all to do in 2020. To each their own, why you would choose this over literally anything else is beyond me.

A well crafted album, but hard to listen to after a single play-through.

I don't hate taytay. Fine pop. That Bon Iver song sucks on this album. The rest of it just sounds like regular ole Taylor Swift singles I've heard over the years.

This is my first time listening to Taylor Swift and i think she might benefit taking up a new hobby or two to take her mind off her relationships. There are 24 hours in a day and Taylor just used up one which is far too long. I struggled to to hear the "impressionist storytelling" described in the blurb at the top; what I did hear was clumsy cliche similes, ("Hair falling like dominoes", "hang from my lips like the gardens of Babylon"). Taylor's voice is nice but indestinguishable from any other pop/folk singer - sorry but I am not hearing anything remarkable that sets it apart and I gave it a chance. If you want pleasant, safe, slightly boring pop/folk that contributes nothing of any real value to the genre that's great but it's doing nothing for me at all. I give it a 2 because its a little too dull to be a 1.

Boooooring

a sad start to my morning, I frowned when I opened the app and saw that it was T Swift 2

2020 Look, I tried. I managed six tracks before turning it off, not because it's awful, but it's just not engaging, and holds no interest to me. I found it a bit boring and nondescript, but I'm not the target audience, so we'll leave it there. Also, I could have managed quite easily without listening to any of this before I die. 7.9 on Pitchfork, so there's that. Fuck knows why! Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ 40% Revisit ❌️ Remind me why? ★★☆☆☆ (3/10)

At the risk of pissing off Taylor Swift superfans, I think they are the only demographic for a lot of her recent stuff. She can sing well and write songs but that doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily super enjoyable to listen to. I was thoroughly bored though most of this, which was disappointing. (A bright spot that I hadn’t heard before was long story short. That one was kinda fun!)

I'm almost hesitant to write this because so many of the bad reviews on here are nakedly misogynistic and I think she has at least three great albums, which is more than most artists will ever make. However, I don't think this is a great album or even a very good one. Your enjoyment of it depends entirely on whether you think Taylor Swift is a truly great lyricist or not. Her writing is front and center on this album, which makes sense because this and Folklore were both promoted as being written, essentially, in isolation in the woods with some popular indie artists. Unfortunately, knowing what a canny businesswoman she is (not saying that's a bad thing) it always struck me as less "Taylor Swift is evolving as an artist" and more "Lover was a failure the same year that Lana del Rey released Norman Fucking Rockwell and that was a smash hit." I think that everything she does on here has been done by other artists already, and better, but a lot of her fan base doesn't listen to other artists. So one benefit is that maybe this album will make the fans branch out to other, better efforts. Every song on here sounds pretty much the same. We do get a more upbeat murder ballad (waste of the HAIM feature btw) which I just found so silly as to be ridiculous which breaks it up a little, but overall it feels painfully long. Her lyricism was not doing it for me, as she has her favorite awkward metaphors on display here and some very clumsy, forced rhymes (naming an entire song Dorothea just so she can rhyme it with "We all wanna be ya.") This isn't an irredeemably bad album or anything, just a boring one, and it reeks to me of a fake reinvention to start selling albums again, which worked! I feel a little bad for her because everyone ripped Tortured Poets' Department to shreds but that album has all the same problems as this one, which was critically acclaimed. She was probably confused.

Snark

För det mesta fint men inte så spännande.

Breathy and intimate and drenched in reverb - this is the highest production lofi album ever. Simple piano parts and delicate guitar pushed through a small low headroom amp to breakup gently. Master of the generic bizarrely asexual love song and heartbreak song and lovelorn song about ‘you’ and ‘I’. Indie guitar folk rock aesthetic, slow songs and tender sounds (her attempt at a wonderwall? at Tom petty?) complement her vocal style, the hurry up and wait phrasing, melodic sensibility and range. It's very nice and cozy, but kind of boring. The heartland rock sounding cowboy like me and the poppy champagne problems are best.

Taylor Swift is the McDonald’s of music; she’s very good at regularly and efficiently pumping out barely-acceptable slop. Her product has the shape of something with substance, something nourishing, but consuming it leaves you unsatisfied and wanting the real thing. Listening to an entire hour of the same song repeated with small variations felt a bit like how I imagine the super-size me guy felt at the end of the month.

i strongly believe there has never and will never be an album that uses the stylistic choice of all lowercase that is actually good. it seems to be a choice for choices sake and never adds anything, i would love to be proven wrong but this album doesn't do that. lyrically there's some really good stuff here, i have to give taylor swift credit for that. however, musically it all sounds very similar. i would say i've never heard any of the songs on this album before but they're so forgettable i very much could have. kinda liked no body, no crime but it just made me want to listen to No Woman, No Cry. that was until she mentioned taking out a big life insurance policy, that lyric felt pretty bad and out of place and took me out of it which is a shame. are there any taylor songs that are particularly introspective? she has such lyrical talent but she never seems to turn the lens onto herself critically.

More stripped back pop sound, wouldn't say any of the songs are bad, it's an easy listen, but nothing really stood out, not very interesting.

A few songs were enjoyable with a less poppy sound throughout. The lyrics were still a bit painful at times and don't see myself wanting to put it on in the future. 2.5

I just can't do this. I tried. Too poppy for me, but she is a great showman!

Taylor Swift has never been an artist I felt deeply connected to on a personal level, though it would be unfair not to acknowledge the undeniable charisma she carries. She embodies that quintessential American archetype—the red-lipped, blonde, blue-eyed girl next door—while possessing an “X factor” that has allowed her to cultivate one of the most dedicated followings in contemporary music. Evermore landing on this list made me raise an eyebrow. Like… really? If none of Miriam Makeba’s iconic albums are here, then I’m sorry, but Taylor’s forest-fairy moment could’ve easily swapped places with one of hers. Admittedly, I must confess that before encountering this ranking, I had not heard a single track from evermore. Whether this points to my having lived under a rock or to the album’s more muted cultural resonance is idk. Regardless, these are my impressions, offered with respect both to Swift’s artistry and to the broader musical canon.

A chalk outline of a folk record. A strange modern choice for this list to go along with Adele's "25". Is this album only interesting in the context of Taylor Swift? I think my biggest issue with her records is instead of sweetening her music with pop production, it feels like it is dumbed down. I don't like being in league with the people that don't like Taylor Swift. I wish everyone would find more interesting music to obsess over .

One of Taylor Swift's weaker albums. Not sure why it's on this list.

I don't know what the fuss is about. 1 for effort and 1 for writing here own stuff.

A few parts of the album were quite decent, but then sways into mainstream too much. Decent enough mainstream, but not my thing.

did i enjoy this?? maybe more than i expected i would: it surprised me how paired down this album was, seemingly in service to the focus of taylor swifts singing / songwriting. and, of taylor swifts singing / songwriting... it was alright. i found myself more interested in learning about the context behind the songs and this album, as opposed to the sound of the album itself, because again - to me - there wasn't a lot to parse through sonically /beyond/ taylor swifts singing / songwriting (like, i can't imagine i was supposed to be wowed by the tunes and instrumentation here, right?). this was the first taylor swift album i've listened to in its entirety. i don't think i'd listen to this album again, but i am going to listen to other taylor swift albums because my curiosity has been piqued. to all the gaylors out there: there's still time for travis kelce to transition. don't ever give up. highlights - no body, no crime, cowboy like me

Just fluff

I thought this album might help me "get" Taylor swift. It didn't. Nothing at all stood out to me as anything more than perfectly "fine" somewhat generic songs.

2.5

This album is really uninteresting. All songs are insipid. They are not bad, just correct, but that's not something that would make them good. Instead, it makes them commercially successful, which is not something bad but that shows a lack of interest in making something more genuine. However, this album is so bland that I didn't enjoy it in the least.

Unfortunately, I’m still not convinced of her songwriting genius. 2.5/5

I don't care. I just don't care I'm tired of the discourse. I don't like her music but not in some weird incel way but in a it's not for me way. This is boring folk pop, so it doesn't even have the undeniable pop feel the rest of her stuff has. I just don't care. 4/10

2.0 - Weak

There is a thin line between a song being a beautiful track and a dull one. I really don't know how a song goes from one to the other honestly. I guess if the melody from the music or vocals actually catches my attention or is memorable. A lot of this album isn't memorable and it bleeds into one more often than not. This album was written, recorded and released during lockdown so I feel as though the critical acclaim that this apparently got is probably slightly exaggerated although I'm more than willing to told by the Swifties that I'm wrong. I don't know what Taylor Swift album is considered her best. I much prefer the upbeat pop tunes of Taylor Swift than the slow, sombre stuff so this album wasn't really for me. It opens strong with 'willow' which has some nice sounding guitar picking and soft vocals by Swift. I also really enjoyed the one-two punch of 'coney island' and 'ivy'. The former being a really calm tune and the latter being the catchiest track on the album. This isn't me hating pop music either, I love stuff in the charts and I'm don't care about admitting that. But I was struggling to find anything that enjoyable while listening to 'evermore'. Granted I only gave this one listen, which I absolutely know isn't enough to have a "proper" opinion but it's going to have to be a two from me. Apparently the lyrics are fantastic and the music is pretty and nuanced, but honestly after the hour had finished, I was a little bored. I'm looking forward to listening to '1989' though.

Pre Listen: I’m going to listen to this 1 time on Spotify with a private session so it doesn’t ruin my algorithm, and then rate it a 2, just so I don’t see this shit on my profile. Damn you for making this not only be my 100th album, but having it be right after Fleetwood Mac. That’s just not fair. Post Listen: So boring. Overproduced, overrated, tiring. Everything I feared it would be. Next album please.

i cant take this shit