Tag: Album Review
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Death to the Muse – “THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT” Review
(The Swiftening Series: 1. folklore | 2. Lover | 3. reputation | 4. 1989 | 5. Red | 6. Speak Now | 7. Fearless | 8. Taylor Swift Bonus: evermore | Red TV | Midnights | Speak Now TV | 1989 TV | evermore revisited | THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT) If you know anything at all about Taylor Swift, you know she writes songs about the men she’s…
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Growth and New Beginnings – “Deeper Well” Review
The world is waking up again. I go outside and I can hear birds again. Plants are starting to poke back up, strong and green. I see the family of rabbits that live near my apartment darting between trees, just now starting to grow leaves (or even bloom with little flower buds). This time of…
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A Taylor Swift Stan Review of evermore
(The Swiftening Series: 1. folklore | 2. Lover | 3. reputation | 4. 1989 | 5. Red | 6. Speak Now | 7. Fearless | 8. Taylor Swift Bonus: evermore | Red TV | Midnights | Speak Now TV | 1989 TV | evermore revisited) This past week was the third anniversary of Taylor Swift’s ninth studio album, evermore. On December 11th, 2020, just five months after the…
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A Rebirth – “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” Review
(The Swiftening Series: 1. folklore | 2. Lover | 3. reputation | 4. 1989 | 5. Red | 6. Speak Now | 7. Fearless | 8. Taylor Swift Bonus: evermore | Red TV | Midnights | Speak Now TV | 1989 TV) The original project of Taylor Swift’s rerecords was simple enough. After negotiations to buy the rights to her first six albums from her original record company,…
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An Ideal Pop Future – “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” Review
I’m sympathetic to the worries some have expressed about how platforms like TikTok are affecting the music industry. The demands of music to be slick and catchy and relatable for a 10-second audio meme has developed a pop landscape that can sometimes feel built on a foundation of sand – look away from that one…
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“I Know My Age, and I Act Like It” – GUTS Review
The opening track of Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS, “all-american bitch”, opens with soft, friendly strings, as the 19-year-old phenomenon croons out, “I’m as light as a feather and as stiff as a board…” But, as you might expect, this soft opening is just a ruse for the absolutely rollicking rock guitars that jolts in for the…
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The Man, the Mythos – “Unreal Unearth” Review
Hozier’s newest album, Unreal Unearth, begins with a two-song suite called “De Selby”. The song’s title is in reference to a character from Flann O’Brien’s 1967 novel, The Third Policeman, a classic surrealist piece of Irish literature. It’s beyond me, exactly, to understand the literary reference, as it’s to a book I’ve never read, but…
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Things That Shine – Speak Now Taylor’s Version Review
(The Swiftening Series: 1. folklore | 2. Lover | 3. reputation | 4. 1989 | 5. Red | 6. Speak Now | 7. Fearless | 8. Taylor Swift Bonus: evermore | Red TV | Midnights | Speak Now TV) “I always looked at this album as my album, and the lump in my throat expands to a quivering voice as I say this. Thanks to you, dear reader,…
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New Music Round-up – June 25th, 2023
Sometimes there is a drought and sometimes there is a flood – of new music, that is. And this week, there was a flood. So considering the amount of new music that came out this week, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of the releases I wanted to discuss. (Especially because, well, there’s an…
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Retro Review: Fallen by Evanescence
“How can you see into my eyes like open doors?” It’s the opening like that captivated so many kids and tweens on the early internet. Delivered with slow melodrama over the plinking of a piano by Amy Lee, the very image of gothic beauty any emo-adjacent girl would aspire to, it’s inspired a legion of…
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