Taylor released her newest album last night. About three hours later, she revealed that it was secretly a double album and dropped an additional fifteen songs.

It's incredible. I liked Midnights well enough, but this is much more a folklore/evermore follow up. It's got a few decent pop bangers as expected, but it is much more a turn back to the moodier vibes of the previous two albums. She apparently worked a lot with Aaron Dessner of The National quite a bit again, which I think is fantastic, and those songs are absolutely the standouts for me.

I'll have to listen to it a bunch more to really know, but this is certainly in the running for my favorite record of hers.

The Black Dog is the standout track for me so far.

I haven’t gotten a chance to give it an undistracted listen (which is how I always listen to albums by artist I really respect). Your endorsement has made me excited to find the time.

I haven’t gotten a chance to give it an undistracted listen (which is how I always listen to albums by artist I really respect). Your endorsement has made me excited to find the time.

I'm very much the same way. I don't want to assess something like that by just having it on in the background while I'm working or something. It's got to be either while driving (alone), going for a walk/run etc., or a dedicated sit-down listening session which is hard for me to do. Don't like sitting still, at least without a controller.

Personally, I'm only now getting to the point where I'm starting to single out songs and lyrics I like most, but I'm enjoying it. Takes longer with this one because, er... it's longer.

That’s probably my biggest complaint. I still really enjoy sitting down with my headphones and listening to an entire album as an experience. I did that with this the night it came out and a few times since, but it’s just too long to realistically do that. As much as I hate it, this will probably just end up in a playlist somewhere and put on shuffle as I go about my life, whereas I don’t think I’ve ever heard a folklore song out of order.

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Taylor Swift - The Complete Mashography - DJ Earworm - 59 Music Videos

Apparently I am dumb and can't get this to embed on here

I'm very impressed with the execution but it also kind of made my brain hurt.

Apparently I am dumb and can't get this to embed on here

You're not dumb, they've disabled embedding, you have to watch it on YouTube (I assume for the added revenue? I dunno).

Edit: Holy shit. Parts of that are brilliant. Parts seemed phoned in. I'm having trouble with the idea that the person who did the brilliant bits would tolerate the other stuff.

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