evermore

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

close to torture

She cured me 5 stars in memory

bruh its all the same song i swear

no bueno

Her ninth album. Pop. Totally inauthentic. For the real thing see Carole King, Joni Mitchell Stevie Nicks, Tracy Chqpman, Amy Winehouse even Alanis Morissette. All authentic at the very least. There are plenty of amazing female artists, not this algorithm driven mustard shit !

Dislike: willow, gold rush, 'tis the damn season, tolerate it, no body, no crime, happiness, coney island, closure、evermore

Absolutely not, I refuse to listen to this woman. Worst thing to ever happen to music.

I knew I didn’t like Taylor Swifts music but after listening to this album, I’m sure I don’t like her music. It felt so repetitive.

this a joke?

I don’t hate Taylor Swift but I certainly hate the Boob Dylan version of her

So, as I was listening to "tolerate it," I scrolled down on Spotify to check out the lyrics -- mostly to see if they really were as banal as it seemed like they were. That's when I see this analysis from TIME MAGAZINE: "tolerate it holds the fifth track position...a spot Swift often reserves for her most emotionally vulnerable songs. This tradition began unintentionally but became a conscious choice after fans noticed the pattern." In other words... 1. Taylor Swift pumps out mindless garbage 2. Swifties hunt for and fabricate meaning wherever they can 3. Taylor Swift leans into the bullshit 4. Swifties take this as having found the new messiah In my humble opinion, Taylor Swift is everything wrong with modern music. So basic and predictable, it feels like getting spoon-fed in a high chair; so unimaginative, it encourages everyone else to chase a hit instead of true art. And don't get me started on this woman's carbon footprint. Indie folk/pop is certainly nice, and it probably was groundbreaking in the 90s. Why exactly are we getting excited when Taylor is the last one to the party? And she doesn't even do it well? The nail in the coffin here are those damn lower case letters. fuuuuuuuuuuck you.

My least favourite TS album. I like the alt version of willow but not from this album 1/15 liked

Not for me…

Fuck no. I will not listen to the billionaire white woman sing.

The description would have us believe that this is a radical departure from her other work - indie alternative with a folkie sound. Or something like that. And it is more stripped down, to a degree. But the reality is that it’s still a Taylor Swift pop album and the lyrics are still dreck. Instrumentally it is marginally better than the Swift album I had to listen to last week, but it still sounds like I’m listening to the poetry of a tween girl’s diary. Which is why I assume she’s so popular; her fan base easily relates to not only the sentiment of her lyrics but the way they’re written. So, good for them. But can the rest of us please not have to listen to this drivel again?

This entire album could pass for an album generated on Suno. Seems everything HAS TO RHYME.

Not for me. 1/5

Wow. I am monumentally disappointed. At best its a series of almost good songs but not quite. Each song has such a similar boring progression that this really just becomes a test of patience. I expected better from the most popular pop star of today. Awful

Calculated cringe for commerce

not a swifty

Most overrated trash ever

no

DNF

There are moments in this where I almost get it. I can almost understand why people like Taylor Swift. It’s kind of pleasant sounding and moves along nicely. But if I give it even half a thought, then that goes away. It almost instantly becomes grating. The lyrics sound like they come from a high school girl’s diary. The music truly is bland and gives you nothing. I had to skip most songs after like 30 seconds because I just couldn’t do it

Honestly hate when people think this chick is the best songwriter of this generation, she is trash and this a trash album

No

It's not awful, but it's just so bland. It actually made me feel bad because it was inspiring nothing, ironically. Pop doesn't have to be so rote, but that's what this is.

1001 albuns you must die before you hear

Taylor Swift, 2 eme album =>1/5 Pop générique sans aucun intérêt, album looooong et ennuyeux.

I tried my best to give this a fair shot, but I just find her music so bland. I'm not sayings it's bad, it's just not my thing.

be real

I just find it so boring

👎🏻

Get the fuck out of here. I would give this shit zero if I could.

No, never, never, ever, ever. Why is there no way to give negative stars?

Sound is very boring, from production, instrumentation to the vocal performance. I think the lyrics are very generic singer-songwriter, and lacking in subtlety.

2/10 This was the musical equivalent of milk. Everything about this album was so bland, album cover, the fully lowercase titles, the boring acoustic and piano. Not my cup of tea :)

Dogshit

C'mon, do I have to?

eh

so bland and over produced

not listening. I will not give her the time of day

This album feels like yesterday when I ate too much rocky road now I feel ill!!!

This has to be one of the worst albums I’ve ever heard. I don’t get the obsession with her

I had a horrible day at work, and this genuinely made it so much worse. Unbelievably boring and it don’t really help it was made by a god-awful person…

This is my first time listening to Taylor Swift. This is some ultra-processed garbage. The faux-earnestness, the affectation of it all. It all just seems so soulless. Inoffensive. Beige, bland, and ready for mass consumption. no body, no crime is one of the worst songs I've ever heard. I don't buy any of this. Poor little billionaire. This is just so artificial.

Childish writing, bad metaphors, and an irritatingly smug delivery. Or maybe I’m just reading into the music with her backstory in mind because she’s made a career out of insisting that we do so. She usually has a couple of catchy tunes on each album. I liked 'Long Story Short'. Compared to other Tay-Tay albums, this is probably somewhere in the middle. Even at its worst, this isn’t as bad as Reputation or Showgirl. However, she's an idiot and I can't stand her. Probably two stars but rounding down to one.

I wince while listening to TS, like a face I'd make while tweezing a splinter out. Her lyrics are stupid and the way she phrases things is cheesy and obnoxious. She says shit like "I come back stronger than a 90's trend" like she's got bars. She swears she's clever, but she's corny. And she's so fucking white like all the time. The music is bland, soulless, overproduced. It all sounds like Disney music. The last track with Bon Iver is particularly awful. Holy shit. It's like an itchy rash or getting bit by mosquitoes or some other awful situation of all-encompassing irritation. Fuck no. Fuuuuuuck no.

You know I have to give it props. This album fully resembles the feeling of sitting in a car with sweatpants on when you get an itch on the cheek of your butt, but you have to drive straight so you are practically leaning out the window trying to scratch the itch on your right buttox, but no matter how hard you try it won't go away so you end up sitting back down in the seat and try to mind-over-matter the most annoying possible feeling in the entire world. There are potentially 10,001 albums that are better than this one, not just 1001. 0/10

I'm noping the nope out. Hard. Freaking. No. GFY, Taylor.

be fr this shouldnt be here, even for TS standards this is bad

Shite

No.

I'm not one to bash on what others enjoy, but she's the embodiment of just about every problem the modern music industry has, the upper class it benefits while other hardworking artists struggle to ever be heard. Just go listen to Bon Iver or The National, it'll blow your mind.

Good lord that was hard work. I feel as if I’ve been made to watch every single episode of Dawson’s Creek back to back without so much as a toilet break. I had to get ChatGPT to help me out on this one: This isn’t art — it’s lifestyle curation. The production gleams, the marketing purrs, and the result is music as self-care ritual: perfectly pleasant, perfectly empty. Evermore isn’t an album — it’s a product demo for emotional branding.

I don’t understand what does a 2020 album does in this list.

Well, call me a Taylor Swift hater. Not even The National and Bon Iver convinced me this was good, I just felt bad for them. “closure” made me physically cringe with “I-wanna-be-videotape” broken compass but BAD.

I'm joining the war on Taylor Swift on the side of Charli XCX

No thanks.

Very dreary, first couple of tracks ok but then each track sounds much the same

No

willow: “Came back harder than a 90’s trend” 😭 Ugh. champagne problems: sad girl music. But not emo. It’s like sad white girl vanilla music. It’s still quite folky. Surprising for her 9th album in 2020… Can't even finish it. It fucking sucks.

не понимаю феномена тейлор свифт - хоть обоссыте меня

taylor swift sucks

I will not be listening to this

Inoffensive but oh, so boring. 1.5/5

Elevator music.

Melodically and instrumentally surface level interesting at times (even if derivative), but lyrically and thematically absolutely abysmal. Honestly, while listening to this album I grew afraid of paying attention to what was being sung, because it made me roll my eyes so hard I feared I might lose them inside my head. Also, somehow, Swift's generic singing sounds the same throughout almost the entire album, leading to a feeling of monotony and/or being stuck in an endless, bland loop. 'tolerate it' and 'happiness' stand out, but they may just as well be considerably worse boygenius songs. There is no real emotion, only the petty grievances of an emotional 15 year old, and harmonizing with oneself is infinitely less interesting than doing so with others (at least in the way she does it). Just because Taylor Swift tried to make a pretentious concept album that wasn't strident pop for once, doesn't mean that it belongs in the 1001 best of all time - not even with a guest appearance by The National. Didn't hate it as much as I had expected to, though. As production is great overall it makes the album tolerable, I guess, just as long as you're not paying much attention.

I really gave this a go with an open mind but fuck, I really hated it. I think she’ll be fine though.

Absolutely not, no no no no no

You know, I thought I would enjoy this. I do have a weakness for "basic bitch pop music", despite it being poisonous hollow slop, but unfortunately this is just not doing it for me. Just incredibly dreary - where's the energy? Production is ass too, there's something up with the guitars and the vocals that just makes this genuinely unlistenable.

They’re not sending Taylor’s best! Honestly this album sucked. The most anodyne composition I’ve heard yet on this list. The lyrics are just fine but the singing is uninspiring. I definitely like the pop songs more than this

TSwizzle, forever searching for the answer to the age old question: how many men can one girl fall in love with? I’ve never listened to a full album of hers before, and expected the songs to not be to my liking, but well made. After listening, I don’t know man. Lyrically weak. Conceptually weak. Instrumentally okay, I guess? I understand it wasn’t written for me, I just can’t decipher what the appeal is. I wanted to not give this a 1, I really did. But god is it painfully disinteresting.

i think "no body no crime" might genuinely be one of the worst songs i've ever heard

Fuck this woman and fuck her fans and fuck everything she's ever made.

Not my cuppa

Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but this is not one of the 1,001 albums you must hear before you die.

Absolutely wank

No good reviews for billionaires.

This is what I imagine AI would generate it I asked it for an album that is the least offensive to the most people. It's easy to listen to but incredibly bland and lacking any stand-out features. It's hard to even tell the songs apart. It's not dog-shit bad so I was considering giving it 2 stars but I can't honestly rate something this mind-numbing any higher than 1.

I just can't. There are so many examples of good music (including pop) representing strong feminity that doesn't involve a team of ghost writers and producers... It feels fake. I'll stick with Phoebe Bridgers, Remi Wolf and Jay Som instead.

I’m sorry I can’t. Last song (title track w Bon Iver) was not bad but.. too little too late I’m afraid. I thought it was funny when she said “peculior” to rhyme with evermore

Niet mn ding, maar blij dat ik heb doorgezet

more like nevermore, am I right??? boo 0 stars

I thought this list ended before 2020. I am horrified that this is on here, but I suppose one of the biggest grossing artists ever, should appear on this trudge through hell (emphasis on gross!!! Got er’ already). While financial success does not mean you are listenable (hello U2), it probably does mean you turned some heads. I wonder if the person on the cover will turn their head, and it’ll be a skull having the last of its flesh pulled away by birds. I miss metal. Anyway. Taylor Swift ladies and gentlemen. Never thought I’d see the day. Let us begin. May god have mercy on my soul. All the song titles are lower case and it’s fall on the cover so this puppy is about to get “stripped back.” EXTRA EXTRA TAYLOR AT HER MOST INTIMATE, NOW ON SALE TO HIGHEST BIDDER. TRACK 1’S DEEP SENTIMENT BROUGHT TO YOU BY CHEVROLET. Jesus Christ. This sucks. Repetitive and overblown pop disguised as a folk song I guess? I hear quiet pop. Sensory inclusive radio pap. Have to give credit for use of the word “crestfallen.” Too sad for the radio, but of course this will be playing during the worst depressive episode of your life in a dentist’s waiting room. Yeah this vocal line sucks. Also, the “one for the money” riff made me want to die. Next. I don’t have the vocabulary or musical knowledge to describe how much I hate this. I can try by saying it sounds like a country tinged theme for an off-brand children’s movie. Whoa guys. DAMN???? In the song title? Man if I was a 16 year old daughter of a modern day plantation owner, this would go so incredibly hard. Crying in front of the marble pillars. I’ll see the world one day. You’ll see. Seeing as that is not me, I’m not enjoying this one. Don’t worry Becksleigh. It gets better. Report your father by the way. Errrm, my best colours?? Not beating the racism charges just yet. I don’t know if she’s racist. She just looks it. Anyway. Ugh. This is all so sappy. I could almost see enjoying the buzzy little close to this, if it wasn’t preceded by a People’s Jewelry commercial. I can’t. This is a great time to mention that country music in the modern age is the worst music to ever exist. It oozes light beer, commercialism, and sunburnt dopes prancing around in denim and cowboy hats, pretending to be Western/Southern. I do love the idea of cheaters getting murdered, but that’s where this ends. What is happening. This is spoken word. Not good spoken word. Nothing happening. The little videos that play during the songs are insufferable. She’s bowing in a millennial trenchcoat? Why? What have you done? Spoke another bad high school poem over a nothing instrumental? Not enough. You’re shattering me, Taylor. I’m getting hives. I’m going to try imagining the song “Centerfold” by the J. Geils Band. Not that it’s a good song, but it’s funny. It would be nice to smile. OH GOD NO. A representative for a conservative coffee company has stepped into the stu’. This sounds like a performance from the bullies at a high school talent show that all the teachers love. Six songs left. Six. Six. And so blew the horn of Gabriel. Bound by Euphrates no longer. The return of heavenly entities was to usher the end times. The revelations made by gods unknown. Lamentations through tears of blood, drenching alabaster robes. No purity in life can alleviate the pain in this death. God misinterpreted, demons deified, earth pillaged. The faithful razed as martyrs unremembered. Sound the horn. Convulsing to the sound of the final cracks of earth. Faith in vain. Anyway. This song was horrid. A cheating glorifying track!! She’s a cowboy. Perfect. Another stinker. Hey Taylor? This long story is VERY LONG. It’s not short at all. I wish it was, trust me. More bad poetry. At least we’re sisters in that regard. Please. End. Nothing is happening here. This is the music that plays before a timeshare seminar. I can see the folds in the projection screen. The shape of his name spells out pain? Well you see Taylor. Letters are shapes. So. The shape of a name is the letters of a name. Meaning the shape IS the name. Was her boyfriend named Payne? That guy sounds cool as hell. The robot beeps are fun. If she would disappear off of this track, it might be the best one. But for now, it remains at the bottom of the barrel with the rest of them. This one is quiet. Wow. Bon Iver sounds stupid. Rancid. Abysmal. Horrendous. Unpalatable. Revolting. Disgusting. Gross. Terrible. Awful. Cringeworthy. I ran out of time for more synonyms. This was another album NOT made for me. I’ve said a lot of stuff here. I didn’t think I could muster up the power to hate this as much as I did. This is disgustingly poppy garbage, BUT played quietly. You know. To feign depth. I don’t want to be the asshole who just hates the female pop star because she’s the female pop star. I would be this hard on any person who released this album. It was grossly commercial, and hellishly unbearable. I am spent. Music for your conveyor belt commute to work in a pop-up Amazon™️ city. Hey Siri™️, exclude this from my taste profile, oh and order me a refreshing glass of Coca-Cola™️; I have a popular NFL™️ matchup to attend. Long live our oligarchy. May it reign a thousand eons. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: IA IA, RISE FROM THE OOZE O ANCIENT ONE. THE DAY OF REUNION IS OUR DAWN.

i hate taylor swift

NO!

Yah this is not for me. It comes across as shallow and narcissistic. It’s so vein and yet also so “lowest common denominator” that I don’t understand how people could obsess over this music. It’s so lifeless and melodramatic. This is a nice reminder that maybe the deaf DO have it better.

Millions love her but it's lost on me.

Fuck this commercial hoe that makes music for teenagers.

I’m like the critic who writes in the night, in the night night night Tracing these verses in soft candlelight, light light light Evermore whispers, a forest of sound, But is it enchantment or lost to the ground? One for the playlist, one for the skip, Folk-tinted blandness, a nighty night grip Bridge after bridge, water is wet Singing of heartbreak, eating a raisen. I sit at this table, I write write with a pen pen Of metaphors metaphorming meta music You call it your magnum, a raincoat of big big But darling, I’ve heard this heartbreak before. I think I’ve seen this theme before, Poptart following along along Cottagecore dreams in a long wool coat, Album is poo poo doo doo

I saw this and immediately hoped the album was better than the cover. Nope. The music is just as generic dismissable. That country song is alright I guess, but it make me want to listen to Carrie Underwood.

The Good: ee cummings inspired title… The Bad: Most people don’t know E.E. Cummings The Ugly: How I wish they would not have used lower case on the title and soiled ee cummings memory… Never listened to a Taylor Swift album before in my life… can’t say that my life is better now that I have. Let me recap the experience: Hate Lo-Fi Don’t understand why many modern tunes feel like they need have lyrics as extensive as a short essay When did Indie music mutate into pop? I get that she’s the BIGGEST star ever; selling out stadium concerts like grandma’s apple pie. Yet I can’t but wonder why. Then again, it isn’t easy once you’ve reached the heights of popularity she has reached, having everything you do scrutinized by “experts” like me… So, here’s to Taylor Swift and her impressive career! 1*

I don't listen to trash!!

She's cosplaying someone kareoking a cover of a Joan Baez song.

1.5/5 and obviously does not belong to such a list. Someone has already written the review I'd like to write, so I will just copy it here: "... Essentially what I hate about "pop music" is this perfect vocal-style, I like my vocals with some grit or humanness. This just feels so manufactured and processed. Instrumentally it's all fine, it's just pop vocals ruin it for me 100%. I have nothing against Taylor Swift as she clearly is successful at what she's doing, but it's just not for me in any capacity. Furthermore my impression is she has no different lyrical content beyond relationship woes which gets old, but I get it... that's a huge market."

The musical equivalent of wet, grey cardboard.

My first Taylor album came on a day when I really didn’t feel in a Swifty mood. Reading the tracklistings put me off. Saying that though I’m a sucker for good harmonies. Simple melodies with no special performances. Not my wheelhouse especially in comparison to any other queen of the genre. Obviously I have preconceived notions of a Taylor album but I wouldn’t judge anyone for finding joy in these works. Just not for me

Boring, irredeemable drivel

1.5 Turns out I'm not a Swifty. Pretty bland stuff

Pretty weak Tay Tay....pretty weak. I did not expect such a soft album. I thought I was at least gonna get some of the poppy bullshit that made her so big and actually would have preferred it. Not impressed but I will give her an ounce of credit for at least having a somewhat pretty voice (ehhh). I'm struggling to understand how T Swizzle became such a phenom with work like this. Doesn't set her apart, not groundbreaking in any way, not a must listen...but better than Beyonce...0.73.

the piano playing in champagne problems sounds like it was made by an ai. this sounds like any 00's-early 10s indie folk polished to a perfect sheen, no seams, no missed notes, no raw performance that would make it sound human. which misses the entire point of that style of music. did her and antonoff keep aaron dessner shoved in a walk-in freezer, this does not sound like high violet. how did the haims get sucked in to this. why are bon iver and matt berninger here other than to lend her their credibility. need a palate cleanser after this.

If you're looking for some inoffensive background elevator muzak to play at Starbucks this is definitely up your alley. Wait, nevermind, she does some swears. How does the first track have almost a billion plays on Spotify?! Don't these people know there's good music out there? Don't get me wrong, there are Taylor Swift songs that I enjoy but they're not here. And it's an hour long. This album is so boooooooooooring. It's the same acoustic guitar and the same piano part on every song. Why do the songs all sound the same?

I liked the country stuff, but her Pop era stinks!!!!!

Can't stand her trashy crap

Sorry, this is just dogshit.

This is #day91 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... over 90 million monthly listens on Spotify prove the world is flat. After listening to this (yes, I did it... against every single fucking odd), I feel like putting on some Einstürzende Neubauten... Has to be the blandest shit I've ever heard. Don't be ridiculous, don't listen to Taylor Swift before you die. Fucking challenge yourself. This is a 1 out of 5. Looking forward to #day92.

terrible. terrible production, cookie cutter songs, non-existent instrumentals, basic bitch lyrics, zero creativity. this album does not deserve to be in the 1001. not unlistenable, so I'm not going with the nuclear option of 0 or 1 2/10

4 chord, 4 min songs, with no need of forethought. World class production, because well of course.

Crap. Total crap. And bland AF.

I'm not a 10 year old girl

Absolutely terrible.

I can see why people like Taylor Swift but it's just not for me at all.

Garbage.

Говно, слушал не предвзято, но всё равно очень пресная музыка, мб по текстам интересно

I didn't want to listen to this album. I just find this type of music bland. After waiting for my wife to leave for work, enabling a private session in Spotify, I went for it. My trepidation was not unwarranted. This music is bland and does nothing for me. 60 minutes is too long for this.

Taylor Swift is overrated.

This album is not for me. I don't want this review to come off as I hate all modern music. However, this album is also the epitome of all of my least favorite genres: post 2010 pop, acoustic indie, folk, and country. First off, I really hated the production, this is a personal preference but I just can't stand music that sounds too clean (to me it sounds almost soulless). There is very little dynamics, every song sounds very similar, and I really disliked the electronic drums (or house style drums or whatever) they really didn't blend with the piano ballads. Every song also had a very similar melody, vocal harmonies, and song structure that got really taxing as the album went on. I wasn't paying too much attention to the lyrics, but every now and then I would catchy a really cringy lyric. Objectively this album isn't bad, it does everything it aims to do, and I guess it does it well. However, this is my review, and I was bored out of my mind listening to this. This isn't the worst quality album on the list but it is my least favorite (so far), because it is just too boring. evermore, more like eversnore!

next time someome mentions Taylor Swift im just gonna say ‘i dont like mumble rap’ because she barely sang on this bitch as far as i can tell. jesus fucking christ this chick is a billionaire based on what, tho? her voice sounds like a cross section of every white girl out there. She just named dropped olive garden as i write this and she is unironically the Olive Garden of the music world. There are zero bops on here. The inclusion of TS on this 1001 list brings down the validity of the whole project - isnt this supposed to be put together by a group of critics? This seems like someone was like ‘we have to include swift for some stupid reason’ and they just picked one of her albums that was least stupid. It supposed to be her 11th album but it sounds like a debut album. I hope shes happy n shit but this world is crazy man.

Ok, so not a pop music fan, and can't name one Swift song. So about to dive in for the first time. First few songs are not to my preferred pacing. Her voice sounds consistently in tune, and the lyrics are clear. That's where my positive comments end. The music does not appeal to me as it sounds bland, and canned. Lovely though the voice may be, I prefer grit, like Winehouse grit. But I've half an album to go, so maybe something will change? Nothing changed. The mellow carried on, and on. I don't get it. Is there a back story to how something so dull was a pop smash? I do not not denigrate the singer's voice, and if you want a melancholy mood, I can see this being right up your alley. But it fails to hold my interest on any level.

Another bland offering from Miss Swift. I'm clearly not the target market here and while she's certainly extremely talented, as I said in my last T. Swizzy review, this is about as "written for the masses" as it gets. Nothing here appeals to me, which is fine. I can see why it's on the list given the impact to so many others but it's just not for me.

I’ve specifically avoided listening to any TSwift after 2016 because I knew I wouldn’t like it. I’m not going to listen to this album because I already know what to expect. I know she’s had a huge influence on popular culture, but that’s not what I’m looking for on this list.

Warum ist sie nur so erfolgreich? Immer wieder die gleichen Harmonien und Melodien. Einfältig.

hello everyone you can ask for more out of life please do

Hoewel het luisterbaar is, voelt dit toch als een broodje niks. Dat bestel je toch niet in de snackbar? Omdat het voor Taylor schijnbaar onmogelijk is om niet zoetsappige muziek zonder een thema er aan te hangen is, gok ik dat dit d’r ‘herfst-era’ is. En dat is ook hoe ik me erover voel. Je wilt dat het snel over is en je de winter in kunt gaan, met blauwe lucht, zonneschijn en ijs in de sloot. Herfst is kut, niemand heeft zin in herfst. En zo heb ik geen zin in dit album. Ik moet zeggen dat ik vrij mild was op het vorige Taylor album in de lijst, maar ik ben haar spuugzat want elke scheet die ze laat verdient een nieuwsartikel of instagrampost, waardoor ik de hele dag door ongewenst confronteert word met haar. Ik ben het zat, een dikke 1.

Never

A totally forgettable singer-songwriter album. Will not listen again.

Apart from a few moments near the end of this (couldn't say which songs) giving me slight Laurie Anderson vibes, this didn't do much for me. Slick pop with a few quirky twists and lyrics that really didn't speak to me.

Refused to listen.

Gear: Hifiman Arya Mische: Klingt zumindest teuer. Akustikgitarren interessant, Piano authentisch eingefangen, Bass sehr zahm, einlullende Multi-Layered Vocals Mugge: Softcore Folk-Pop. Nich meins. Also so gar nicht. Wertung: 1/5

Nooooope.

Nope. Same reason as before

Really?

Well, that's the last 3 albums that I have been pleasantly surprised by. Only heard the first 5 tracks so far, but am reminded of Suzanne Vega, but with out the je ne sais quoi.

Niet luisteren als je gaat rijden, oerend saai. En na 3 nummers over verbroken relaties heb je er schoon genoeg van.

No me pasa nada con Taylor. Nada de nada.

I just don't get the appeal of Taylor Swift.

I really enjoyed the voice of Matt Berninger on the Coney Island song. This guy has one of the most distinctive singing voices around and I was very happy to be introduced to The National because of this list. Since that time, I have quite a bit music downloaded from his group and frequently listen to a lot of their music. This was one my "new" bands from 2022. Good stuff. As for Taylor Swift, I find her music pretty annoying and just plain unbearable. I tried listening Friday, but had to quit to get into a good mood for the weekend. Probably wasn't the best idea to listen on a Monday morning either. Pretty brutal. I will give her credit in the fact she got shit load of parent's to pay way too much money to send their kids to see her in concert. As for a score, I'd put a step up from that Nazi band and Suicide, but not much. 1 for Matt and .5 for not throwing my phone out the window. 1.5 1.5

I made an honest effort, but I dont know about this. 1/5

Who?

A raging hangover in the form of what some people perceive to be music. I can't stand Taylor Swift. She's looks like a beaver trying to stifle a sneeze and she makes the worst eggs in the morning. Absolutely the worst shag I've ever had. She just lay there, lifeless. Needed to put a bit of minge around it.

There are 15 songs on this album but all of them sound the same, I can't remember any of them even if I have just finished listening the whole album. It's a bland record without any originality of songwriting, very simple music, bad lyrics, and overproduction. Her voice is okay, not bad, but that is way too little to save this album. And one thing I don't understand is that why this album is on the 1001 albums list - it is the second Taylor Swift album on my list even though I still haven't listened to 80 albums overall. I'm sure there are hundreds of other albums that could have made the list but it won't. I haven't given out a 1 out of 5 on any albums yet even if there were 3-4 albums that were really bad and I regretted not to give a 1 on some of them, but I'm giving this a 1. It just doesn't deserve more than that.

тоже нет

Shitebag

Let’s put things on the table: I’m the last person Swift thinks of when she creates her music. A clear case of agreeing to disagree.

So boring and terrible person. How can this be on this list ? Production is solid ad some songs are catchy but I could definitely have died without listening to this. I'm so tired of these multimillionaires complaining about how hard their life is...

She's not for me

Hell no!

vähön heikompi Taylor albumi KUIN EILISPÄIVÄNÄ.. ei kuitenkaan ansaitse tähtivähennystä... heh....

I gave it multiple chances, it's just not for me

Hoe music

I just couldn't suffer my way through the whole thing....

Not a fan.

It sounds all plain to me. Not really special.. Still well produced and sang.

Ledsen över att människor inte har förstånd att lyssna på något bra istället för den här dyngan. Inte knöldåligt egentligen men musiken är så tråkig.

Don't like any of the songs. It's just not my style.

Two tracks in and this is the quickest I've wanted to turn off an album from this list. Not even Arcade Fire made me this unengaged and irritated. Credit where it's due, she has a lovely, skilled voice. The lyrics are about as engaging as canned tomato soup straight from the can. It's so polished and studio perfect, there's no rawness or ugliness to it, and yet it's like 90% about heartbreak and I'm NOT connecting with emotions cuz its way too poppy No body, no crime is the best track so far, and it's the MOST country track so far I'll never get that time back. 1/5

This album is total trash. I knew of Swift but hadn't heard much of her music before this. I have no idea how this would end up on a list of greatest albums. There's nothing here of value.

no

1/5 i just dont enjoy taylor swift

When I was 10 years old, I went through a phase of being a songwriter. I wrote like 15 songs, mostly about love I had never known and a lot about school. I even wrote one about school supplies. This is the level of lyrically talent I feel Taylor has. Her lyrics are filled with trite sayings like “if the shoe fits, wear it” and silly metaphors. Every song is exactly the same: I thought this guy was the one but he was too old/cheated on me/not who I thought he was and he did me wrong. Really hard to listen to. Also, this album is way too young to be on this list. We have no idea if it “defined a genre” or “influenced a generation”. It didn’t even chart that well.

Any one of these individual songs would be fine as a change of pace track on a more upbeat album. But when you have an entire album solely consisting of one anticlimactic song after the other, each comprised of the same breathy vocals, acoustic guitar, and piano, it becomes an exhaustingly dull slog. When did Swift become allergic to writing hooks? no body, no crime is the only track that comes close to being enjoyable for me. Everything else is just... nothingness.

Taylor has some tunes but not of them are on this album

Really not for me. A bit daft.

nah

Wow. I didn't want to judge T-Swizzle on just the fact that she's Taylor Swift... so I actually listened to this album. To be fair, probably could've just skipped that part. Bland. Uninteresting. Pointless. Drivel... Maybe it's just not MY thing, but I could quite happily have died having not listened to this. I hope the other 1000 albums live up to the name a bit more than this. #sad Stand out tracks: possibly that one where she pretends to be a murderer? :\

This was boring it’s all ms swift doing super calm acoustic stuffs it all sounds the same. Shall be immediately forgotten

No. It's not good. With this album, Swift lost all the goodwill she'd earned from me after folklore. I did not listen to it again because life is too short.

I can imagine that if you're into this style that the songs are cool and all. But... I find it vapid and redundant. For all I could tell this was one long song to teenage girls. I hope to FSM that there isn't another TS album on my list.

not my style

Why go to Taylor Swift painfully trying to build some sort of indie folk cred for herself? (the strategy is clear here: she's got to cater for her aging target audience) And more importantly, why go to her when you can go for the real thing, i.e. Other Lives, Weyes Blood, Aldous Harding or Big Thief? My take is that 80% of the audience falling for this sort of album does not know the first thing about what's going on on the margins of the mainstream music industry these days... And yes, that *does* include the writers of this list, who clearly lost most of the plot when it comes to recent stuff. You can bet your cowboy boots the acts I've quoted up there (especially Big Thief) will leave a far more memorable trace in music history than Swift's half-baked attempt to sound, well, "authentic". And it's not *all* about being a gatekeeper for certain genres, I'm also speaking in musical terms here. When Swift's voice is not bland, it tries too hard to inject feelings to her lame vocal lines. Everything is glossy--way too polished for an indie record--the songwriting looks as if it was done through corporate commitees (guess what, it was, contrary to what the official credits are saying--just listen out to those who are in the known on such things), and so, logically enough, the overall result is just boring as hell. I'd rather go to her pop albums of the early 10s. At least, I would find something that makes sense there, even if it's not exactly to my liking. And for those who might argue that her collaborators do have that indie cred I can't see anywhere in here, maybe they should start to reconsider their knowledge in the indie folk genre (to me, The National and post-*For Emma Forever Ago* Bon Iver are overrated anyway, so they can't really save Taylor from this debacle desperately trying to sound like an artistic breakthrough). Awesome PR work on the part of her agents if you're thinking of using this argument here. To each their own and the likes, so I guess you can like this thing, of course. But to me, trying to defend *evermore*'s artistic merits falls in either one of these two categories: a. your knowledge of current music is lacking. b. you're mostly focusing on the lyrics (nothing wrong about them of first listens), and consequently, you're not too bothered by unsurprising, linear melodies and all-too-safe production choices that don't have a shred of personality in them. Your call. Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 864 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 74 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 34 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 29 (including this one)

Taylor Swift es una cripto-nazi.

No for me, Country Taylor Swift is no fun

Nowadays I just hate TS. The music is bland, predictable, the works

Would give 1.5 if an option. Bon Iver’s appearance and a few other moments worth a re-listen. Otherwise, would never put this on by choice

Well it definitely sounds like it was made in 2020. I'm not just trying to be contrary to everything popular, but it is really obvious to me that pop music in our era is not very original or inventive. They're not daring with their song structures or chord progressions. I've heard way too many songs that sound just like this album, and the most the songs on this album are indistinguishable. Props to "closure" for being in 5/4 though. Yeah sure it's produced well (usually TOO well). But it's bland. The actual music behind her voice is usually so simple; it sounds like a default backing track on Garage Band or something. Once in a while there's a guitar part in the background that's more than just strumming, but it's mixed so quietly. Actual musical talent is NOT what gets you popular in today's world, but that's what I admire. The themes are just as basic too; how many "love going wrong/being hard" songs or "girl coming-of-age type" songs can one person write before it's too much of the same? All the songs sound like they're made for crying or listening to while looking out a rainy window. But they just do not resonate with me at all. I never hated it at any point but it's just soooo meh. It's a reminder of why I don't like today's pop music. And there weren't any bangers here like on her early albums; it's all just "sadgirl hours" songs. Even though her early hits weren't interesting, at least they were fun. P.S. I'm curious who the first sadgirl was to make all her song titles lowercase. Why does everybody do it now?

better than 1989, but that’s like saying Stalin was better than Hitler overall, eh, like a 2/10 I thought that song in 5/4, closure, was pretty impressive, it’s hard singing in five also, as an aphex twin fan, I got kinda excited hearing the drums kick in on long story short, but then she had to once again ruin it with her dumbass vocals like shit dude, some of these songs actually had pretty decent instrumentals, like dorothea was alright, not great but alright she just has to ruin any tiny, minuscule amount of good with the most basic-bitch vocals and mind-numbing lyrics, it’s a pain in the ass for me to listen to music like this also jesus christ, did she write no body, no crime? did she think she was writing something cool there? gotta be some of the dumbest fucking lyrics I’ve ever heard, just fabricate a made up character doing something mean and then have the biggest overreaction to that made up thing idk mid at best guess that’s her whole career, really

thought she was much more upbeat at least, wrist cutting music

So boring I couldn't finish it, just really not my thing sorry.

kanye better

Nice voice.

Extremely difficult for me to connect here. Another record I delayed a long time to try because I have a dire prejudice/aversion. To be fair, this seems somewhat comparable to Lana Del Rey in form, but I also abhor anything adjacent to Taylor Swift. TS is exponentially more impactful in this timeline than LDR. Anyway, from my limited perspective I torturously found this record to be shallow, bilious, and shallow.

FUCK TAYLOR SWIFT

Nope