Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024) Album • Page 56

especially since she included a 24 page booklet right in the middle of the gatefold. if she adds more pages for the other 15 songs - in addition to two extra LPs - there's a nonzero chance those discs are gonna be incredibly warped. it's already bad enough she packed 4 discs in a slightly wider gatefold for Red TV. even if she separated the booklet from the gatefold, that's still a lot to pack in a single album package. i had to pull out an extra large sleeve for this thing in its base form. she'd probably have to do a boxset - similar to what Beyoncé did for Renaissance - to not damage everything.

 

See, she should have included an Elliot Smith reference to really help everyone.

 

no, it is, but not like iPhone, just like I r, I am, I is

 

thread is so weird

 

You lose your mind a bit when you listen to two hours of music that sounds sonically similar.

 

I, a non “swiftie”, who is more online than ur mum have no fuckin clue what the Chelsea Hotel is

 

I listened to the album like 4 times today so that's like 8 hours and I'm doing pretty good.

 

I'll drop a critical opinion...

This is some of Aaron's worst work on the second "album". It's all very similar. Like he's fallen into the same trap Jack has.

 

Doubt. She is terminally online, just in a different way.

 

damn, go listen to chelsea hotel #2 by leonard cohen asap, classic song

that's funny, i honestly thought to myself this sounds more interesting than literally the entirety of the national's 2023 output

 

I'll give you that F2POF is not great sonically but LT is where it's at.

 

I think he already was in that trap. Would've Could've Should've is basically the same musically as Renegade and long story short. Those are all great songs, but I've always found his work to be even more same-space with her than Jack's, by far

 

haven’t heard the album yet but it can’t possibly be more boring than his gracie abrams work lol

 

What the fuck are you all listening to? This is hot capitalistic garbage.

 

"I Can Do It With a Broken Heart" is cool. I wonder if there actually is some Blue Nile influence on these tracks. A lot of these driving synths seem like they could come from one of their records. More muddled and not as beautiful, but the core idea is there.

 

Isn’t The Blue Nile reference just another jab at Matty?

 

I tried to hard to find something interesting on that album, but it's so blaaaannnddd

 

This is a lot of songs to take in at once. I enjoyed album 1 last night, and even more again this morning. Wrapping up my first listen of album 2 now, and the first half of this one is probably my favorite part of the entire thing, but then the second half is my least favorite part. Curious to see how this grows on me. I’m really not sure how I’ll feel in a couple weeks or a month. But there is definitely a lot I loved!

 

Love how lyrically it's so bad and yet somehow she gets a pass lol

 

Where is she getting a pass…. Multiple different users have pointed to not loving some of the lyrics

 

Not necessarily. Obviously the "he" is Matty, but I don't take the line as a jab.

 

something to think about

 

I put on my thinking cap

 

Might just be my bad mood lately but I like this less than anything post-Red, maybe about even with Rep.

 

Sit down in your thinking chair