Tag: Taylor Swift
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You Don’t Have to Care About Taylor Swift
It was the Winter of 2021. My partner and I were in Cincinnati visiting one of my good friends, and we all decided to take a trip downtown to check out a Christmas market there. It was a really lovely afternoon – cold and blustery, but not so cold that we couldn’t enjoy checking out…
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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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Ultimate Taylor Swift Song Ranking Smackdown (Part 2)
Last week, I began my ridiculous mission of ranking the songs on every single one of Taylor Swift’s ten studio albums in advance of her eleventh, coming next week. I highly recommend you go back and check that one out first to hear a bit more about my thought process going into this project, but…
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Ultimate Taylor Swift Song Ranking Smackdown (Pt 1)
Okay, so… let’s just say I’m a little excited for the impending release of Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Let’s just say I also happen to be in the midst of writing my master’s thesis, and thus, am in a bit of a manic mental state. Let’s just say that I…
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A Thematic Exploration of “Midnights”
Before the release of my personal most-anticipated re-record, Speak Now Taylor’s Version, I wrote a post analyzing the themes of the album as a way to speculate on and look forward to all the ways that the re-record might iterate upon and build on the story the original album told. I think of that post…
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A Year of Pop – Top 30 Tracks of 2023
Previous year-end lists:2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Ultimate Top 30 (2016-2020) | 2021 | 2022 Alright, I admit it, it’s been a long time coming, but I’m a fan of pop. I think this has always been true about me, even in my teenage years, when I was in the throes of my own self-disparagingly named…
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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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“You’re Losing Me” and the Murky Boundary of Fan Speculation
On May 24th, 2023, Taylor Swift announced the release of a special deluxe version of her newest album, Midnights, exclusively sold at the merchandise stands of her Eras Tour. The deluxe version, called the “Late Night Edition”, featured the original 13 tracks of the album, a few of the “3 am edition” vault tracks, two…
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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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FROCKTOBER: Reviewing Taylor Swift Outfits from Across the Eras
For the final week of our themed October, I thought I’d return to a topic I often find myself covering here on this blog. My favorite blonde superstar, Miss Taylor Alison Swift. (What? There’s another week of October left? Nah, I don’t think I see that. We’ve got something else coming next week, anyway.) Taylor…
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