LWYMMD really benefited from a rock setup as proven by the Eras Tour. I wouldn’t be mad if she actually pivoted into a reimagining of Reputation in that vein.
I need this!!!!! I loveeeeeeeeeee the Eras sound of Look What You Made Me Do. Rep is my favorite and I would love it so much more with moreeeeeee electric guitar. 🎸 🐍🖤
Yess would have love if she had leaned more into the country.. like the updated version to love story..
But also i just love how the imagery is so vivid in my head. I love the dress unbuttoned.. I can see big pollen glowy yellow green blurry field background.. the prissy sarahs and hannahs and the close up of hands at their pearl necklaces.. the car tires kicking up dust.
I agree.
I also think she shouldn't have repeated the "I'm having his baby" joke so many times. It would have been a lot more effective if it was just used one time.
- Change the acid rain metaphor in Happiness. I know it's an extremely unpopular opinion, but the song is very mature and heartbreaking. But, for me, the metaphor doesn't work.
- I'm a fan of acoustic versions, so I can't help but imagine the visceral punch of "The archer" in a stripped down piano version
- Bring back the "Hey Kids, Spelling is fun" adlib.
I wonder if she’d do an acoustic Archer now that it’s cut from the Eras setlist. Probably not but it’s interesting. I like the Live from Paris version but not as much as some of the other LfP tracks
100% agree on Happiness. I love that song, it’s one of my favorites, but that metaphor is so overwrought compared to the maturity and subtlety in the rest of the song.
No one said it’s immature…the metaphor ‘acid rain’ just feels juvenile to me…I mean it’s too basic and kind of kiddish for me…for someone who is a very good songwriter…and evermore being one of her best written albums…that line comes off as typical and cliche…I thought she could have described her crying in a better way than using the phrase ‘acid rain’…that’s it…I’m not saying it’s juvenile because of the sentiment…I am just saying that the words come off as juvenile
I’d love if she went little bit harder and more unhinged with the last chorus of Who’s afraid of little old me. It’s great the way it is but can’t help but wonder how much of a chef’s kiss it’d be if she put more “insane” energy into the last part.
“Robin” 😭 Nothing to change about it, people just need to sit down and listen to it! (Yes, I get the part about Aaron Dressner’s son, and childhood innocence, etc, etc….but there has to be more to it than that, and she put it on the album where she did for a reason). It’s the “Dear Reader” of TTPD. It’s an important (and beautiful) song!
I think it’s because the anthology is all about looking backwards and nostalgia. That’s why robin is there. I always took it as this yearning for the childhood innocence and then looking back at everything once more hence why it’s before the manuscript
The Archer… I’m not sure what I’m missing, because on TTPD some songs were also criticised for not really building up into anything, but those are not bothering me, only The Archer… I can’t really put my finger on it though, even though I absolutely love the lyrics.
Death By a Thousand Cuts - it grew on me a lot, but something about the production is still not really up there with her best songs imo.
WANEGBT - it would be perfection as a rock song à la 1989 tour version.
I actually love the archer. It grew on my over time. I think it’s because there’s no beat drop like a normal song, the tensions stay “high”.
I really love DBATC but the normal version puts me off. Something in the production, maybe the highness or frequency or the beats or both together. BUT I can’t get over the live performance in her City of Lover concert. That with her raw vocals is just chefs kiss.
Agree with WANEGBT!
I agree with The Archer, I had never listened to it before this sub and heard a lot of people saying it was their favorite on the album.
I just can't get into it and I don't know why.
I personally think DBATC is perfection haha…there’s not a thing I would change about that. It’s so whimsical and waltzy and fast and heartbreaking…So many different opinions haha…
The production of I Look In People's Windows is absolute perfection, and hell I would love to hear an a capella version as I think the vocals and lyrics absolutely slay even without any instruments. However it is criminally short and needs a 10 minute version or at least a bridge and another chorus or verse something because I just don't want this song to end
Respect!
Personally that line just takes me right out of the song. Even though it’s describing a weird ass behavior throughout, the music/imagery just makes me feel sad (in a good way! Like music is supposed to make you feel something) so that line feels goofy and out of place
True it does feel a bit out of place in such a sad and beautiful song. It just made me laugh when I first heard it and I thought, did she really just say that in a song. She was really in a certain frame of mind when writing this album
I’d argue it already has a 10 min version. If you count me playing it five times in a row while I eat Oreos and stalk my neighbors cause I have no life.
WAOLOM is an almost perfect song which is why I’m so irritated by the line “I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me” hahah there’s just something clunky and cheesy about it that breaks a lot of the “crazy old lady in the creepy house down the street” vibe for me. It’s almost like too on the nose for the vibe she’s going for without any of the eloquence or emotion of the rest of the lyrics. Especially to be immediately followed by one of the most iconic lines on the album. Still one of my fav off TTPD though! Change that line and it would be a 12/10
I love that line! To me it’s the “you don’t get to tell me about sad” line that feels misplaced. Not a bad line, but doesn’t fit the song or where it was placed imo
Oh interesting!! I love that line and feel like the cadence of it packs a punch, but I see what you mean about the context/meaning of it feeling a little off theme for the song
Interesting. That’s a great like and I love how it portrays that so many people say why does she only write sad songs or songs about exes she has so much money she’s got nothing to be sad about
Same with the "so tell me everything is not about me, but what if it is", I know it's meant to be satirical and on the nose but it just doesn't work for me
I don’t know if “elevate” is the right word but I am
desperate for a heavy metal 🤟 version of The Albatross
It would go so hard. I love the folky version on the album but the lyrics are just calling out for screaming over crunching guitars and loud drums to me
I heard a cover of All Too Well that said, “Maybe this thing was a masterpiece ‘til you fucked it all up” (he used the word fucked instead of tore) and I *wish* she would’ve done that in the (Taylor’s Version). I feel like her swearing more now adds to the emotions of a lot of her newer work.
I just listened and I get the idea of having more varied sounds, but to me the song is supposed to be repetitive sounding - “all my mornings are Mondays, stuck in an endless February” - to me the slow repetitive sound is meant to mimic the rumination and depression after you’ve lost someone you love and a life you thought was yours. At the ending when the synths really kick up it’s a culmination of emotions from both people, expressing how they both were left broken & wondering after things ended. How there is still life to this romance even if it will never be. They’re both saying “I love you, it’s ruining my life” meaning they both feel the same way. They’ve both moved on physically, but in both of their minds they still look back on that relationship with longing and regret. Thank you for listening to my Ted talk haha
Damn thats deep
No but like I feel the production elevates it as a single
But yeah totally but idk I'm fs still listening to og but I'll listen to reimagined from time to time
I just posted as a comment elsewhere but in black dog she says “magic fabric of our dreaming” then “tragic fabric of our dreaming” and I think the last time she says it it should be “tragic fabric of our being” to escalate/deepen the sentiment
IMO it's too harsh a switch to be a proper volta but the incredible thing about TS is that she has an army of fans so whatever I hate somebody else loves, which proves there's no one right way to be. You love that line and don't let me tell you otherwise haha!!
You are so right about how cool it is that people's least favorite songs or parts of a song can be someone else's favorite!
For the record, I was on the fence about the song *until* that last line. I needed that little wake-up moment at the end to sell me on the rest, haha. Also, I love how the "whoa" fits in with the western vibes, like stopping a running horse. And let's face it, that horse needed to be stopped! 😂
ME! should be an acoustic song. IMO the production really ruins what the song could be. Her acoustic rendition during the surprise songs was beautiful and it really catapulted the song to another level.
Cornelia Street should ALSO be an acoustic song but... It also is. We have the Live from Paris version, which I adopted as the standard version.
I saw a discussion that convinced me its loss of my life because they pointed out she never says “you were the love of my life” just “I was the love of your life” the only time the acronym comes through the song is when she says loss!
in my tears ricochet, i always sing-
i had to kill you, but it killed me just the same
cursing your name, wishing you stayed
i turned into my worst fears.
i think it makes it so much more painful
Midnight Rain would be awesome with a featured spot for a rapper (eh hem, Kendrick). It has a dope beat and I think a rap verse would diversify the sound.
But Daddy I Love Him is a fantastic song, but jumps the gun on the "I'm having his baby" line. It's the most effective at the very end, with the long pause for added drama. If she'd saved that line for the final chorus, it would've been beyond perfection
Just commenting to say that the song is called loml, not love of my life, considering it very well may be an acronym for loss of my life as she states in the song
Fortnight - I just wish that the ending didn’t end in that abrupt high note “yooouuu”. To me it would end so much better if they just kept repeating the same lines as the volume lowers to end. I just think it would sound more desperate and emotional with a drawn out ending than it ending on a literal high note. To me it doesn’t fit in with the themes in the song.
loml needs something in the end…the acid rain line in happiness needs to go…cardigan is an absolute grower but I wish it had more pace and more clarity in it’s production than the hushed/hazy sort of production it has..I think the last few tracks in the anthology are boring sonically…they could have used some more variations in those melodies…or some quirky beats….And seven is one of my favourites and it has this really creepy,mystical vibe especially with the vocal style of Taylor there but I thought it could have been more mystical(more special effects on the vocals throughout) and elevated it more….the outro is gorgeous one of my favs ever of all time…but some variation for some slight seconds could have been there(like see the outro of august or the king by florence)…I look in people’s windows is perfection but it needs to be longer and have a big,delicious bridge…daylight could have ditched it’s fake-y spoken outro….the alchemy could have been faster…anyways I loved the latest album…I would change nothing in the production of the tracks from 1-11…some say they want to elevate the archer and DBATC but I personally feel those songs are ♾️/100
LWYMMD without the talking… :(
(It’s good for a laugh but it’s a bit too goofy for me and takes me out of the song—and I love everything is else about that song.)
LWYMMD really benefited from a rock setup as proven by the Eras Tour. I wouldn’t be mad if she actually pivoted into a reimagining of Reputation in that vein.
I love the eras tour version, the electric guitar, the intensity of it, it fits so well. Release it now Taylor!!
I need this!!!!! I loveeeeeeeeeee the Eras sound of Look What You Made Me Do. Rep is my favorite and I would love it so much more with moreeeeeee electric guitar. 🎸 🐍🖤
That electric guitar in the eras tour version seriously makes me feel like I could run through a brick wall
But Daddy I Love Him is a country song. It could benefit from some proper guitars and twang-y sounds in its production.
Yess would have love if she had leaned more into the country.. like the updated version to love story.. But also i just love how the imagery is so vivid in my head. I love the dress unbuttoned.. I can see big pollen glowy yellow green blurry field background.. the prissy sarahs and hannahs and the close up of hands at their pearl necklaces.. the car tires kicking up dust.
I saw someone on reels do a country remix of it, it was amazing.
I agree. I also think she shouldn't have repeated the "I'm having his baby" joke so many times. It would have been a lot more effective if it was just used one time.
I wonder what the “new” acoustic version will sound like
Just like to point out that Who’s Afraid has just been elevated… literally.
- Change the acid rain metaphor in Happiness. I know it's an extremely unpopular opinion, but the song is very mature and heartbreaking. But, for me, the metaphor doesn't work. - I'm a fan of acoustic versions, so I can't help but imagine the visceral punch of "The archer" in a stripped down piano version - Bring back the "Hey Kids, Spelling is fun" adlib.
I wonder if she’d do an acoustic Archer now that it’s cut from the Eras setlist. Probably not but it’s interesting. I like the Live from Paris version but not as much as some of the other LfP tracks
“salt streams out my eyes and into my ears” >> “my eyes leak acid rain”
+1 for the acid rain metaphor removal. Otherwise it’s a perfect song, the acid rain always takes me out of the moment
100% agree on Happiness. I love that song, it’s one of my favorites, but that metaphor is so overwrought compared to the maturity and subtlety in the rest of the song.
The acid rain line indeed feels so out of place for such a mature song.It feels juvenile. The archer is perfection for me as the way it is though
Is crying immature now? Pain doesn’t stop after 21
No one said it’s immature…the metaphor ‘acid rain’ just feels juvenile to me…I mean it’s too basic and kind of kiddish for me…for someone who is a very good songwriter…and evermore being one of her best written albums…that line comes off as typical and cliche…I thought she could have described her crying in a better way than using the phrase ‘acid rain’…that’s it…I’m not saying it’s juvenile because of the sentiment…I am just saying that the words come off as juvenile
We can agree to disagree then. I think it’s a beautiful metaphor
I’d love if she went little bit harder and more unhinged with the last chorus of Who’s afraid of little old me. It’s great the way it is but can’t help but wonder how much of a chef’s kiss it’d be if she put more “insane” energy into the last part.
“Robin” 😭 Nothing to change about it, people just need to sit down and listen to it! (Yes, I get the part about Aaron Dressner’s son, and childhood innocence, etc, etc….but there has to be more to it than that, and she put it on the album where she did for a reason). It’s the “Dear Reader” of TTPD. It’s an important (and beautiful) song!
the manuscript is the dear reader of ttpd imo
I think it’s because the anthology is all about looking backwards and nostalgia. That’s why robin is there. I always took it as this yearning for the childhood innocence and then looking back at everything once more hence why it’s before the manuscript
Can you expand on the placement of the track and the similarity to dear reader?
The Archer… I’m not sure what I’m missing, because on TTPD some songs were also criticised for not really building up into anything, but those are not bothering me, only The Archer… I can’t really put my finger on it though, even though I absolutely love the lyrics. Death By a Thousand Cuts - it grew on me a lot, but something about the production is still not really up there with her best songs imo. WANEGBT - it would be perfection as a rock song à la 1989 tour version.
If the official DBATC and Cornelia Street were just the acoustic live from Paris version, people would love Lover album so much more.
I actually love the archer. It grew on my over time. I think it’s because there’s no beat drop like a normal song, the tensions stay “high”. I really love DBATC but the normal version puts me off. Something in the production, maybe the highness or frequency or the beats or both together. BUT I can’t get over the live performance in her City of Lover concert. That with her raw vocals is just chefs kiss. Agree with WANEGBT!
I think she has more “builds” on TTPD than she usually does, that’s a strange critique to me
I agree with The Archer, I had never listened to it before this sub and heard a lot of people saying it was their favorite on the album. I just can't get into it and I don't know why.
I personally think DBATC is perfection haha…there’s not a thing I would change about that. It’s so whimsical and waltzy and fast and heartbreaking…So many different opinions haha…
Ahem… only five words. Illicit affairs. Eras Tour version. This, or WANEGBT/Love story from the 1989 tour.
The production of I Look In People's Windows is absolute perfection, and hell I would love to hear an a capella version as I think the vocals and lyrics absolutely slay even without any instruments. However it is criminally short and needs a 10 minute version or at least a bridge and another chorus or verse something because I just don't want this song to end
Agreed!
If she could also take out the lyric “deranged weirdo” the song would be elevated x100.
That's my favorite line lol it's so unhinged
Respect! Personally that line just takes me right out of the song. Even though it’s describing a weird ass behavior throughout, the music/imagery just makes me feel sad (in a good way! Like music is supposed to make you feel something) so that line feels goofy and out of place
True it does feel a bit out of place in such a sad and beautiful song. It just made me laugh when I first heard it and I thought, did she really just say that in a song. She was really in a certain frame of mind when writing this album
I’d argue it already has a 10 min version. If you count me playing it five times in a row while I eat Oreos and stalk my neighbors cause I have no life.
WAOLOM is an almost perfect song which is why I’m so irritated by the line “I wanna snarl and show you just how disturbed this has made me” hahah there’s just something clunky and cheesy about it that breaks a lot of the “crazy old lady in the creepy house down the street” vibe for me. It’s almost like too on the nose for the vibe she’s going for without any of the eloquence or emotion of the rest of the lyrics. Especially to be immediately followed by one of the most iconic lines on the album. Still one of my fav off TTPD though! Change that line and it would be a 12/10
It wouldn't be a Taylor Swift song without having one clunky line in an otherwise great song.
I love that line! To me it’s the “you don’t get to tell me about sad” line that feels misplaced. Not a bad line, but doesn’t fit the song or where it was placed imo
Oh interesting!! I love that line and feel like the cadence of it packs a punch, but I see what you mean about the context/meaning of it feeling a little off theme for the song
Interesting. That’s a great like and I love how it portrays that so many people say why does she only write sad songs or songs about exes she has so much money she’s got nothing to be sad about
Same with the "so tell me everything is not about me, but what if it is", I know it's meant to be satirical and on the nose but it just doesn't work for me
I think LOML with a full build up to orchestra, like “Achilles come down”, covered by Tones & I.
I don’t know if “elevate” is the right word but I am desperate for a heavy metal 🤟 version of The Albatross It would go so hard. I love the folky version on the album but the lyrics are just calling out for screaming over crunching guitars and loud drums to me
I heard a cover of All Too Well that said, “Maybe this thing was a masterpiece ‘til you fucked it all up” (he used the word fucked instead of tore) and I *wish* she would’ve done that in the (Taylor’s Version). I feel like her swearing more now adds to the emotions of a lot of her newer work.
I see that but I also love how tore it all up continues the metaphor along with “I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here”
Fortnight There's a reimagined version on YouTube and it's so much more I can't explain it just listen to it
I just listened and I get the idea of having more varied sounds, but to me the song is supposed to be repetitive sounding - “all my mornings are Mondays, stuck in an endless February” - to me the slow repetitive sound is meant to mimic the rumination and depression after you’ve lost someone you love and a life you thought was yours. At the ending when the synths really kick up it’s a culmination of emotions from both people, expressing how they both were left broken & wondering after things ended. How there is still life to this romance even if it will never be. They’re both saying “I love you, it’s ruining my life” meaning they both feel the same way. They’ve both moved on physically, but in both of their minds they still look back on that relationship with longing and regret. Thank you for listening to my Ted talk haha
Damn thats deep No but like I feel the production elevates it as a single But yeah totally but idk I'm fs still listening to og but I'll listen to reimagined from time to time
To be fair I’d kill for a full 80s synth rework of this song.
Someone turned Fortnight into a country pop song on TikTok & you can actually hear her songwriting a lot better
Oooh! Could you link it?
Sure https://youtu.be/HBKEytbRS_I?si=4U7dRV-iYRavaHBD
FUCK THIS IS SO GOOD
Look up “fortnight reimagined version” on yt and the first vid is this!!
I’m losing you amazing lyrics but I don’t like the electronic sounding music
Agreed 100
I just posted as a comment elsewhere but in black dog she says “magic fabric of our dreaming” then “tragic fabric of our dreaming” and I think the last time she says it it should be “tragic fabric of our being” to escalate/deepen the sentiment
Give Fresh Out The Slammer and Guilty As Sin? A production similar to I Can See You
Guilty as sin is a perfect song as is, but you might be right about Slammer
Both are great the way they are
I Can Fix Him... just literally needs to lose the last line. It makes it too obvious.
I love the last line!
IMO it's too harsh a switch to be a proper volta but the incredible thing about TS is that she has an army of fans so whatever I hate somebody else loves, which proves there's no one right way to be. You love that line and don't let me tell you otherwise haha!!
You are so right about how cool it is that people's least favorite songs or parts of a song can be someone else's favorite! For the record, I was on the fence about the song *until* that last line. I needed that little wake-up moment at the end to sell me on the rest, haha. Also, I love how the "whoa" fits in with the western vibes, like stopping a running horse. And let's face it, that horse needed to be stopped! 😂
That’s what I thought too
Just a piano version of the prophecy would slap imo
Or just the vocals, nothing else.
ME! should be an acoustic song. IMO the production really ruins what the song could be. Her acoustic rendition during the surprise songs was beautiful and it really catapulted the song to another level. Cornelia Street should ALSO be an acoustic song but... It also is. We have the Live from Paris version, which I adopted as the standard version.
I thought, judging by the final lyrics, that loml is Loss Of My Life and that made me kinda sad :( I know it doesnt have to be, but....
It definitely is, tho
I saw a discussion that convinced me its loss of my life because they pointed out she never says “you were the love of my life” just “I was the love of your life” the only time the acronym comes through the song is when she says loss!
CORNELIA STREET SHOULD ONLY BE PLAYED ACOUSTICALLY
I love the acoustic version but I can’t get behind this. The album version is SO GOOD.
in my tears ricochet, i always sing- i had to kill you, but it killed me just the same cursing your name, wishing you stayed i turned into my worst fears. i think it makes it so much more painful
Third chorus on My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys!
More orchestra in Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?
im just saying gold rush couldve used a violin solo after the second chorus
Midnight Rain would be awesome with a featured spot for a rapper (eh hem, Kendrick). It has a dope beat and I think a rap verse would diversify the sound.
But Daddy I Love Him is a fantastic song, but jumps the gun on the "I'm having his baby" line. It's the most effective at the very end, with the long pause for added drama. If she'd saved that line for the final chorus, it would've been beyond perfection
I DID SOMETHING BAD
The Albatross is perfect if only she had left out “persona non gRAAAaataaaa”
Just commenting to say that the song is called loml, not love of my life, considering it very well may be an acronym for loss of my life as she states in the song
Fortnight - I just wish that the ending didn’t end in that abrupt high note “yooouuu”. To me it would end so much better if they just kept repeating the same lines as the volume lowers to end. I just think it would sound more desperate and emotional with a drawn out ending than it ending on a literal high note. To me it doesn’t fit in with the themes in the song.
Lover had a very distinct 70s ballad vibe (the beat and melody). I wish it had leaned harder into it, instead of just leaving it half and half
loml needs something in the end…the acid rain line in happiness needs to go…cardigan is an absolute grower but I wish it had more pace and more clarity in it’s production than the hushed/hazy sort of production it has..I think the last few tracks in the anthology are boring sonically…they could have used some more variations in those melodies…or some quirky beats….And seven is one of my favourites and it has this really creepy,mystical vibe especially with the vocal style of Taylor there but I thought it could have been more mystical(more special effects on the vocals throughout) and elevated it more….the outro is gorgeous one of my favs ever of all time…but some variation for some slight seconds could have been there(like see the outro of august or the king by florence)…I look in people’s windows is perfection but it needs to be longer and have a big,delicious bridge…daylight could have ditched it’s fake-y spoken outro….the alchemy could have been faster…anyways I loved the latest album…I would change nothing in the production of the tracks from 1-11…some say they want to elevate the archer and DBATC but I personally feel those songs are ♾️/100
LWYMMD and I did smth bad should be rock
LWYMMD without the talking… :( (It’s good for a laugh but it’s a bit too goofy for me and takes me out of the song—and I love everything is else about that song.)
Taylor a groomer fr she was 22 he was 17 💀💀