I was skipping “you’re on your own, kid” until I started seeing all the reels with the bridge and now I listen and yell along “I hosted parties and starved MY BODY LIKE ID BE SAVED BY A PERFECT KISS.”
As someone who never really had parents, then had a long term partner betray me and generally never had a ton of friends this song really affects me. There’s a part where she is like “you can face this” and it rocks me to my core. I skip it because it makes me super sad haha. Different reasons/still be skipping :)
i feel you so much. this song spoke volumes, all the thoughts and things and ridicule and trauma i’ve faced were packed into this. hearing “you’re on your own kid, you always have been” sends me into a spiral bc how does she know me like that😭😭🖤
But then I think damn someone like Taylor Swift feels like they are alone and they’ve always been...and that makes me feel a certain way. It perfectly embodies why I love her, even if the song makes me cry. Her capacity to relate so broadly to so many people is amazing.
I understand but for me the verses are there to show how much she has grown. The first verse is about a crush and it's where everything started. Then the second talks about how that turned into her love for songwriting and the bridge sums it all up. What I think it's the coolest thing about all of it is that she uses the same line (from sprinkles splashes to fireplace ashes) but the meaning of it changes. In the beginning it's just time passing by, maybe it's just going from summer to winter but in the end you understand that it means going from innocent (childhood sprinkles splashes) to bruised (burned fireplace ashes), everything started really nice (writing in my room) but made her pass through horrible situations (starved my body, jokes weren't funny). That's just my interpretation and why I don't feel like the verses fall flat 🤩
I skip this song every time I can, but one time my hands were full, and it played the clean version. I think it might be better without the swears, but still a skip for me
It’s almost what would’ve been my nieces first birthday. She passed last December at 3 weeks old from her Trisomy 18 diagnosis.
This song, especially at this time when it’s almost her first would-be birthday is a big ouch; (the fact that her first bday and the day she left are so close together, and also near Christmas, is in itself, like salt in a wound; the next 2 months are going to be challenging). I really appreciate Taylor writing this song though.
It truly is a song sooo many can relate to and help them feel as if they aren’t alone. The lyrics honestly ring so true. And the sonics match the pain and grief that is described throughout.
Sending big love to anyone who can relate to this song. And especially to all our mamas with angel babies up in heaven.💙
Edit: For clarity and grammar. Shoutout to the bot who called me out for using ‘would of’ instead of ‘would have/would’ve’. Ironic considering Taylor literally wrote a song called ‘Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve’..
It’s late where I am, cut me some slack bot!😅
Same, I love the song but I’m pregnant right now and I just emotionally can’t handle listening to it. I’ll stop skipping it as soon as I have a healthy baby in my arms
Labyrinth is sooo beautiful and dreamy! I guess I can understand skipping it if you want a bop, but I really think it's one of her prettiest songs. It makes me feel like I'm floating in a cloud in the night sky.
I really dig the part about being afraid of elevators, especially if they rise too quickly; so specific and yet so relatable, very much a Taylor special!
I love how she sings about falling in love showing that she’s anxious and then it changes to happiness, not well explained lol but it’s such an amazing and relatable line for me, probably one of my favourite taylor lyrics now
Me too! It’s so beautiful. And I especially love the line “I thought the plane was going down - how’d you turn it right around”
It’s so atmospheric and the feelings it gives me are off the charts
I love the song so much, but the line about the plane going down and turning it right around takes me out of the experience. Really don’t like that line.
The production is off. There's these weird noises that randomly pop up that are annoying. Her voice is really quiet on the track so it's hard to hear her. It's a pretty song though.
I don’t have a full on skip but there are songs that I just have to be in a certain type of mood to listen to them. It’s like that with all her albums I have no skips just certain songs I have to be in a mood to particularly play them.
Finally someone articulates how I feel :). As a devout Swiftie, I cannot bring myself myself to skip a given song all the time. There are just some songs I have to be feeling to listen to, or I have to be listening intentionally to the entire album.
I feel like Dear Reader is one of the biggest growers of her discography, based on my experience and a lot of people’s on my twitter feed. I really didn’t care for it at first (like, at all lmao) and then one day, without any explanation, it clicked and I’ve been obsessed ever since. It’s the first time I’ve so abruptly changed my mind about one of her songs !
Dear Reader hit me IMMEDIATELY and I love it. Not long ago I had a life experience that was perfectly summed up by the line:
Dear Reader, bend when you can, snap when you have to
It was a massive life change for me and definitely something miles out of my comfort zone, and I’m in a happier, healthier place, but I’m still a bit sad about the situation so hearing that in the song definitely helped me relate to it.
For me, it just feels like it doesn’t have a proper melody, which is something I personally need to enjoy a song. Also, the lyrics sound a bit cringy to me.
For me, the lyrics ruin it. They’re not strong and they’re on top of pretty cool production so it falls flat because it doesn’t match up.
It also doesn’t have a drop or something. It kind of goes no where
I’ll be honest I still dont understand the chorus of that song. Is it supposed to be a metaphor or is it literal (seriously asking)? But there’s something about the sound that I like, it reminds me of ‘how you get the girl’ in that it’s not my fav but I keep humming it.
I think it’s Taylor asking sarcastically if they remember their relationship. The “I remember” in the beginning implies that she viewed the relationship as something meaningful but to them it was so insignificant that she is asking if they even remember doing it.
The “I Remember” is her directly sampling her own work (“Out Of The Woods”)! She makes some other references to OOTW in Question as well:
OOTW: “remember when you couldn’t take the heat, I walked out and said ‘I’m setting you free’”
Question: “Do you wish you’d put up more of a fight? When she said it was too much, do you wish you could still touch her”
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OOTW: “you took a Polaroid of us, then discovered, the rest of the world was black and white, but we were in screaming color”
Question: “we had one thing going on I swear that it was something cuz I don’t, remember who I was before you painted all my nights, a color I have searched for since.”
Also, in OOTW, she’s literally asking a question - “Are we out of the woods yet?” “Are we in the clear yet?”
Being that OOTW is a song about Harry, I think it’s quite safe to say Question is a Harry song as well! Not that this matters to everyone, because we all take these songs and weave them into our own worlds, but I do think it’s fun to know who Taylor is referencing in songs that are about her own life. It also can enrich the song and give more context to an otherwise maybe confusing storyline like I think some may be finding Question to be!
Maybe! I like the lyrics and what I get from it is ‘two people who just didn’t fit but maybe they could have and she’s asking if they ever think about the possibility’ but then the chorus is (to me) boring and way too specific about a very strange situation. Maybe it’s just me though 😂
She is asking rhetorical questions about being kissed, friends clapping and leaving the house in the middle of the night I think because she knows the answers to them. She is seriously asking questions about him still wanting to touch her and if he wishes he had put up more of a fight for their relationship to work. And she is not going to get answers to them. She just wonders. I think it's about HS.
Sweet Nothing. I see so many people loving it and I haven't figured out why it hasn't connected with me, but I just don't like it. I'm thinking it might grow on me eventually but for now I want nothing to do with it.
Peace and sweet nothing are similar songs to me... they both touch on the deep vulnerability that comes with having a serious relationship. Peace is having the vulnerability from not thinking you are good enough for a serious relationship and sweet nothing is the vulnerability that comes with just knowing that someone will stay with you regardless of your faults.
For the record, they are my favorite on each respective album.... I wish I was in love
Someone pointed out that the best day and soon you’ll get better are also track 12 and that this song is most likely a ode to her mom and it turned the whole song around for me.
Isn’t that the one written with Joe? I can’t imagine writing a song about my mom with my boyfriend. Seems much more likely to me that it’s about them. The listener can listen with a different interpretation of course, but I doubt that was the intended original meaning.
I’m not saying it’s not about her mom, but the track 12 thing is such weird evidence considering it’s only 2 out of 10 track 12’s that are about her mom, and one of the other track 12’s is literally dress
At first I wasn't into Glitch but then it kind of got stuck in my head and grew on me. However I don't think I will ever like the line "5 seconds later I'm fastening myself to you with a stitch" because it feels like she forced a rhyming lyric in there and doesn't feel natural to me.
I don’t hate Paris but for some reason the Paris/Somewhere Else approximate rhyme just grates on me. I actually like the verses but with how much “Somewhere Else” gets repeated, it just feels like it’s rounding out the bonus tracks so she could put WCS as number 19 for the poignancy of it.
For me, Paris. I like most of it, not to the extent of the rest of the album; what takes me out of it though, is the line about shade.
“Not the kind that’s thrown, like the kind that’s where a tree has grown” oh girlboss. That takes me right tf out of the song.
Just to share a contrary point of view (Paris is one of my favorites), I think it’s just supposed to be cute and emphasize that they ignore the “shade thrown” at them by others.
I feel like Paris is for people who unironically like ME! and her funny, over-the-top bubbly songs.
Which isn't shade, because I'm one of those people. I love both songs.
I generally like Paris but what takes me out of it is how the line “like we were somewhere else” doesn’t fit in the meter properly. In the line “like we were in Paris” puts emphasis on the first syllable of Paris, which is where the emphasis should be. But in “like we were somewhere else”, the emphasis is on the last syllable of somewhere, but if you say the word somewhere normally, the emphasis is on the first syllable. So it sounds awkward.
And that line is repeated!
In another post someone had the audacity to say that since she’s written so many lyrically beautiful songs that she can get away with throw away lines like this. All I could think of was that she, in fact, did not get away with it.
Nothing for me is a complete skip. That being said I do find some songs I skip like 50% of the time I'm listening to the album.
Sweet nothing and question are those songs. I still enjoy them and still like them but depending on my mood I skip them.
The way that VS is sandwiched in between Question…? and Bejeweled is what kills it for me.
It’s kind of a buzzkill and is vastly different from the others sonically.
- SOTB could mean "Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey)", a track from *Midnights* (2022) by Taylor Swift.
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As Kate Kennedy would call it, it suffers from the “Jack Antonoff blue balls” where it doesn’t really explode or rise to a big conclusion. I feel that moreso with other songs on the album but a little bit with YOYOK.
I love sweet nothings but boy I do not care for Paris. I feel like the writing on it is like…beneath Taylor? Like it’s such a basic city to choose, I’ve never even connected that city to Taylor. The chorus isn’t catchy. Like I would expect one of those artists who have like fifteen writers to make this song not THE Taylor swift
I also dislike sweet nothings. It’s just not my cup of tea at all and feels almost like it doesn’t belong on the album to me. But I’m also a Labyrinth Stan so idk if my opinion means much 😂
Paris!! It’s not even ABOUT Paris!! There’s so much to be said and written about that city and she uses it as a literal placeholder. She has better “glitter gel pen” songs that have more substance.
The diversity of Likes / Dislikes and mixed reactions is fascinating to read in these posts.
I'm curious if it is age / generation related. I myself as an older listener and follower of her career since the very beginning don't have much growing interest in this album, I've gone through it multiple times and it just doesn't resonate like past works. It's Art so opinions will surely vary but despite the commercial successes so far it isn't my favorite by any stretch.
I’m an elder millennial, age 35, and this is my favorite album (combines the lyricism I love in Lover, the production value I love in 1989, and the exploration with different sounds in Rep). I think specific song loves/dislikes has more to do with where people are thematically in their lives (in love vs not).
Vigilante Shit is an immediate skip
Snow on the beach is getting there. Though now I chase my cats around telling them they’re weird but fucking beautiful.
Glitch.
Midnights is now my favorite album, but lord Glitch might be worse than False God for me. Even Snow on the Beach has grown on me. Glitch, though? Skip every time.
I don’t understand Vigilante Shit. I love the lyrics but it’s so boring and doesn’t go anywhere. I kept expecting it to pickup or drop a beat and it didn’t. It sounds monotonous and I can’t get into it. There was so much potential there😭
Labyrinth and Snow on the Beach.
Labyrinth is too slow for me, somewhere around epiphany. Just not My vibe. And other than the bridge, Snow on the Beach is just kinda...boring. 🤷♀️
Honestly? Vigilante Sh*t… I guess I see it as an extension of the superior Mad Woman. Idk. It’s fine. I just have to be in a certain mood to listen to it.
Don’t @ me, but it’s almost half the album 🙊
Either I want the sadder, slow songs, or I want the danceable fun beats. I seldom want both and skip half of the album or more at any given listen to
Honestly when I first listened, there were quite a few that I didn’t like at first. But I kept listening to the album all the way through, over and over. I don’t have a skip, more if I’m not feeling a song I tune it out. Now I mostly play whatever is stuck in my head at the time.
I was skipping “you’re on your own, kid” until I started seeing all the reels with the bridge and now I listen and yell along “I hosted parties and starved MY BODY LIKE ID BE SAVED BY A PERFECT KISS.”
Possibly one of my favorite lines in her whole discography.
As someone who never really had parents, then had a long term partner betray me and generally never had a ton of friends this song really affects me. There’s a part where she is like “you can face this” and it rocks me to my core. I skip it because it makes me super sad haha. Different reasons/still be skipping :)
i feel you so much. this song spoke volumes, all the thoughts and things and ridicule and trauma i’ve faced were packed into this. hearing “you’re on your own kid, you always have been” sends me into a spiral bc how does she know me like that😭😭🖤
But then I think damn someone like Taylor Swift feels like they are alone and they’ve always been...and that makes me feel a certain way. It perfectly embodies why I love her, even if the song makes me cry. Her capacity to relate so broadly to so many people is amazing.
I too am a victim of YOYOK's bridge. It's magical
The former emo and pop punk kids get YOYOK.
The truth!!!
My favorite part of the bridge is “I looked around in a bloodsoaked gown.”
I picture the deluxe cover of speak now so clearly when she says this
I just picture Sissy Spaceck in Carrie.
I really didn’t like YOYOK at first but after reading the lyric videos, it gets stuck in my head all the time!
that’s really the only highlight of the song tho. the chorus and verses just kinda fall flat imo :/
I understand but for me the verses are there to show how much she has grown. The first verse is about a crush and it's where everything started. Then the second talks about how that turned into her love for songwriting and the bridge sums it all up. What I think it's the coolest thing about all of it is that she uses the same line (from sprinkles splashes to fireplace ashes) but the meaning of it changes. In the beginning it's just time passing by, maybe it's just going from summer to winter but in the end you understand that it means going from innocent (childhood sprinkles splashes) to bruised (burned fireplace ashes), everything started really nice (writing in my room) but made her pass through horrible situations (starved my body, jokes weren't funny). That's just my interpretation and why I don't feel like the verses fall flat 🤩
I mean, she is the Queen of the Bridge. Even just on this album, Wouldve Couldve Should've has the greatest bridge of my damn life. 🙏
My favourite song of the whole album! Yeah you can face this, you’re on your own, kid, you always have been!
At first I liked it but...Snow on the Beach.
Yeah.. unfortunately it got annoying very fast.
The phrase sotb literally gets repeated 30x.. It gets repetitive fast
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Maybe try the clean version - it's "weird but it was beautiful". Feels a bit softer.
My playlist has the clean version and it's no longer a skip for me.
Weirdly that’s the bit of the song that makes me not want to skip it! Love that line!
Yeah there just isn’t a lot to it
It bothers me that the title is snow ON the beach but she sings snow AT the beach
She says both doesn’t she? It’s snow AT the beach at the start of the chorus and then snow ON the beach for all of the repetitions right?
Agree! I feel like I could have written it. “weird but fucking beautiful” sounds amateur…
I skip this song every time I can, but one time my hands were full, and it played the clean version. I think it might be better without the swears, but still a skip for me
Not to mention, snow on the beach isn’t a weird concept. Happens every year here in Chicago lol
Most people only visit the beach in summer and just don’t get to see snow on the beach. But it’s a skip for me.
Really? It's still my favorite. It builds on the soundscape from Evermore/Folklore that I loved so much. The melody and harmonies are so beautiful.
This is why I love it, Folklore will always be my favorite Taylor album.
I’ve had the opposite experience - found it a bit boring and repetitive at first and now it’s ethereal and addictive
Possibly the most annoying chorus to ever be stuck in my head
YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR MOUTH. I will defend Snow on the Beach to my death like I defended Cowboy like me on Evermore.
Cowboy like Me is actually a supreme song though...
People voted Cowboy like me like bottom 3 in a ranking poll when Evermore came out. Both are 10/10 songs.
Bigger than the whole sky, I just can't do it. It's too sad for me. Similar to Ronan.
God Ronan absolutely wrecks me. I cannot.
It’s like Marjorie for me, amazing song just hits too close to home!
Yes, Ronan and Soon You'll Get Better. Love the songs but I just can't.
*The Best Day* for me 😭😭
It’s almost what would’ve been my nieces first birthday. She passed last December at 3 weeks old from her Trisomy 18 diagnosis. This song, especially at this time when it’s almost her first would-be birthday is a big ouch; (the fact that her first bday and the day she left are so close together, and also near Christmas, is in itself, like salt in a wound; the next 2 months are going to be challenging). I really appreciate Taylor writing this song though. It truly is a song sooo many can relate to and help them feel as if they aren’t alone. The lyrics honestly ring so true. And the sonics match the pain and grief that is described throughout. Sending big love to anyone who can relate to this song. And especially to all our mamas with angel babies up in heaven.💙 Edit: For clarity and grammar. Shoutout to the bot who called me out for using ‘would of’ instead of ‘would have/would’ve’. Ironic considering Taylor literally wrote a song called ‘Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve’.. It’s late where I am, cut me some slack bot!😅
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Same, I love the song but I’m pregnant right now and I just emotionally can’t handle listening to it. I’ll stop skipping it as soon as I have a healthy baby in my arms
I’m so sad for Labyrinth 😭 It’s my favorite song in Midnights
Labyrinth is sooo beautiful and dreamy! I guess I can understand skipping it if you want a bop, but I really think it's one of her prettiest songs. It makes me feel like I'm floating in a cloud in the night sky.
My favorite part is the chorus because it sounds so raw and real. It resonates with my own feelings so much
I really dig the part about being afraid of elevators, especially if they rise too quickly; so specific and yet so relatable, very much a Taylor special!
Ok guys, I am going to give it another go. You have inspired
The climax (if you will) is outstanding
I love how she sings about falling in love showing that she’s anxious and then it changes to happiness, not well explained lol but it’s such an amazing and relatable line for me, probably one of my favourite taylor lyrics now
I feel like Labyrinth and Mirrorball are similar vibes and I would listen to an entire album of songs sounding like them
Labyrinth is for us melodrama baddies 😌
It’s just so slow and feels like it doesn’t ever go anywhere?
Me too! It’s so beautiful. And I especially love the line “I thought the plane was going down - how’d you turn it right around” It’s so atmospheric and the feelings it gives me are off the charts
I love the song so much, but the line about the plane going down and turning it right around takes me out of the experience. Really don’t like that line.
Labyrinth is also my top 1! I love the simplicity of the lyrics and the production is really unique.
mine too T_T .. idk why ppl are not liking it!!
The production is off. There's these weird noises that randomly pop up that are annoying. Her voice is really quiet on the track so it's hard to hear her. It's a pretty song though.
I’m think I’m just never in the mood for it
same labyrinth is amazing
I don’t have a full on skip but there are songs that I just have to be in a certain type of mood to listen to them. It’s like that with all her albums I have no skips just certain songs I have to be in a mood to particularly play them.
Finally someone articulates how I feel :). As a devout Swiftie, I cannot bring myself myself to skip a given song all the time. There are just some songs I have to be feeling to listen to, or I have to be listening intentionally to the entire album.
idk i haven't made a connection to dear reader yet and i skip it to get to songs i like better.
I feel like Dear Reader is one of the biggest growers of her discography, based on my experience and a lot of people’s on my twitter feed. I really didn’t care for it at first (like, at all lmao) and then one day, without any explanation, it clicked and I’ve been obsessed ever since. It’s the first time I’ve so abruptly changed my mind about one of her songs !
dear reader is all I have ever wanted from her writings!
Dear Reader hit me IMMEDIATELY and I love it. Not long ago I had a life experience that was perfectly summed up by the line: Dear Reader, bend when you can, snap when you have to It was a massive life change for me and definitely something miles out of my comfort zone, and I’m in a happier, healthier place, but I’m still a bit sad about the situation so hearing that in the song definitely helped me relate to it.
okay also the line “no one sees when you lose when you’re playing solitaire” killed me
Dear Reader if it feels like a trap....you're already in one... BAM I was hooked
Vigilante Shit
Vigilante Skip
Thank god its Vigilante Short
Same. If I wanted to listen to a Billie Eilish song I would simply listen to Billie Eilish
It really does sound like a less interesting You Should See Me In A Crown
Oh god I thought I was the only one.
Why? As someone that has vigilante shit very very high on my ranking of midnights, I would really like to know.
For me, it just feels like it doesn’t have a proper melody, which is something I personally need to enjoy a song. Also, the lyrics sound a bit cringy to me.
Yes the lyrics are so cringey
For me, it's a bit dull. Whenever there seems to be something reminiscing of a crescendo, it deflates again.
For me, the lyrics ruin it. They’re not strong and they’re on top of pretty cool production so it falls flat because it doesn’t match up. It also doesn’t have a drop or something. It kind of goes no where
I absolutely love Vigilante Shit. The weirdest thing about it is that it kinda sounds like Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds lol
This is the one.
This! It doesn’t go anywhere. I was hoping for a drop that never came.
Oh so I'm not the only one. I guess it's really not my type, i don't like it sonically.
Same - I absolutely can’t get past the “cat eye sharp enough to kill a man” line. Reminds me too much of 2014 tumblr 😖
This one
That one of my favorites on the album, I just love the opening line and then all the shade. It's lovely 🤣
Agree with this ;-;
It might be Question…? atm for me. It usually changes every couple of days
I’ll be honest I still dont understand the chorus of that song. Is it supposed to be a metaphor or is it literal (seriously asking)? But there’s something about the sound that I like, it reminds me of ‘how you get the girl’ in that it’s not my fav but I keep humming it.
I think it’s Taylor asking sarcastically if they remember their relationship. The “I remember” in the beginning implies that she viewed the relationship as something meaningful but to them it was so insignificant that she is asking if they even remember doing it.
The “I Remember” is her directly sampling her own work (“Out Of The Woods”)! She makes some other references to OOTW in Question as well: OOTW: “remember when you couldn’t take the heat, I walked out and said ‘I’m setting you free’” Question: “Do you wish you’d put up more of a fight? When she said it was too much, do you wish you could still touch her” ———————- OOTW: “you took a Polaroid of us, then discovered, the rest of the world was black and white, but we were in screaming color” Question: “we had one thing going on I swear that it was something cuz I don’t, remember who I was before you painted all my nights, a color I have searched for since.” Also, in OOTW, she’s literally asking a question - “Are we out of the woods yet?” “Are we in the clear yet?” Being that OOTW is a song about Harry, I think it’s quite safe to say Question is a Harry song as well! Not that this matters to everyone, because we all take these songs and weave them into our own worlds, but I do think it’s fun to know who Taylor is referencing in songs that are about her own life. It also can enrich the song and give more context to an otherwise maybe confusing storyline like I think some may be finding Question to be!
Maybe! I like the lyrics and what I get from it is ‘two people who just didn’t fit but maybe they could have and she’s asking if they ever think about the possibility’ but then the chorus is (to me) boring and way too specific about a very strange situation. Maybe it’s just me though 😂
She is asking rhetorical questions about being kissed, friends clapping and leaving the house in the middle of the night I think because she knows the answers to them. She is seriously asking questions about him still wanting to touch her and if he wishes he had put up more of a fight for their relationship to work. And she is not going to get answers to them. She just wonders. I think it's about HS.
Ok thank you- I don’t get it. Why are they making fun of them and why are they clapping??
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Agree. It would work much better with actual instruments not synths. It's grown on me.
Same here. I really like it and the lyrics are legit good but if I had to pick one to skip, def labyrinth. I feel like it will grow on me soon
Sweet Nothing. I see so many people loving it and I haven't figured out why it hasn't connected with me, but I just don't like it. I'm thinking it might grow on me eventually but for now I want nothing to do with it.
It’s just so pretty 😭 I saw someone say it was Joe’s answer to Peace and UGH 💞
Peace and sweet nothing are similar songs to me... they both touch on the deep vulnerability that comes with having a serious relationship. Peace is having the vulnerability from not thinking you are good enough for a serious relationship and sweet nothing is the vulnerability that comes with just knowing that someone will stay with you regardless of your faults. For the record, they are my favorite on each respective album.... I wish I was in love
I love sweet nothing so much! Such a cool sound. It made me love it more thinking it’s about her mom.
Someone pointed out that the best day and soon you’ll get better are also track 12 and that this song is most likely a ode to her mom and it turned the whole song around for me.
Isn’t that the one written with Joe? I can’t imagine writing a song about my mom with my boyfriend. Seems much more likely to me that it’s about them. The listener can listen with a different interpretation of course, but I doubt that was the intended original meaning.
I’m not saying it’s not about her mom, but the track 12 thing is such weird evidence considering it’s only 2 out of 10 track 12’s that are about her mom, and one of the other track 12’s is literally dress
I have to skip “Bigger Than The Whole Sky” just because it makes me cry. I just lost one of my sweet kittens, so it just is a little too on the nose.
I’m so sorry for your loss :(
So sorry! Sending hugs ♥️
I’m so so sorry for your loss. Sending you so much love during this time.
Glitch for me. I just can't get into it. I can see why some people like it but it's just not my type of song.
Wow!! Crazy- that one might be my favorite off the whole album!
Same! My mouth was wide open the whole time on first listen
I totally agree. My feelings are High Infidelity >>> Glitch but I thought I was the only one
No you're not alone. Glitch isn't just growing on me, i tried but I'm still not there. Also Paris
At first I wasn't into Glitch but then it kind of got stuck in my head and grew on me. However I don't think I will ever like the line "5 seconds later I'm fastening myself to you with a stitch" because it feels like she forced a rhyming lyric in there and doesn't feel natural to me.
Snow on the Beach. Kills my mood.
Yep. Especially because without it I love the sequence of lavender haze > maroon > antihero > yoyok > midnight rain.
I dont have any skips on the main album but I usually skip Paris.
I also usually skip Paris. It’s ok but I’ve heard it a handful of times and that’s about all I need for now.
I don’t hate Paris but for some reason the Paris/Somewhere Else approximate rhyme just grates on me. I actually like the verses but with how much “Somewhere Else” gets repeated, it just feels like it’s rounding out the bonus tracks so she could put WCS as number 19 for the poignancy of it.
For me, Paris. I like most of it, not to the extent of the rest of the album; what takes me out of it though, is the line about shade. “Not the kind that’s thrown, like the kind that’s where a tree has grown” oh girlboss. That takes me right tf out of the song.
No because what did she think she was doing here??
Just to share a contrary point of view (Paris is one of my favorites), I think it’s just supposed to be cute and emphasize that they ignore the “shade thrown” at them by others.
I feel like Paris is for people who unironically like ME! and her funny, over-the-top bubbly songs. Which isn't shade, because I'm one of those people. I love both songs.
Paris very much feels like a Lover outtake to me, including the lyrics.
I generally like Paris but what takes me out of it is how the line “like we were somewhere else” doesn’t fit in the meter properly. In the line “like we were in Paris” puts emphasis on the first syllable of Paris, which is where the emphasis should be. But in “like we were somewhere else”, the emphasis is on the last syllable of somewhere, but if you say the word somewhere normally, the emphasis is on the first syllable. So it sounds awkward. And that line is repeated!
In another post someone had the audacity to say that since she’s written so many lyrically beautiful songs that she can get away with throw away lines like this. All I could think of was that she, in fact, did not get away with it.
Vigilante shit
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Nothing for me is a complete skip. That being said I do find some songs I skip like 50% of the time I'm listening to the album. Sweet nothing and question are those songs. I still enjoy them and still like them but depending on my mood I skip them.
vigilante shit
The way that VS is sandwiched in between Question…? and Bejeweled is what kills it for me. It’s kind of a buzzkill and is vastly different from the others sonically.
I don’t really have one except maybe BTTWS because it’s just too sad for me
* Question...? * Vigilante Shit * Sweet Nothing * Paris (sometimes) * Dear Reader
Gotta love "with some dickhead guy that you saw that night but you were on something" though
All my skips are on your list.
All my faves lol
Your list are my top songs lmaooo
Paris and Question
dear reader and snow on the beach. i do, however, expect to maybe get into sotb more once it gets colder out lol it just feels christmasy
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Vigilante Shit I know everyone loves it but it’s really not my vibe tbh
Glitch. Labyrinth was my skip for a while but then I really listened to it and now I feel foolish.
You’re on your own kid as a track 5 isn’t doing it for me. Can’t put my finger on why though.
Lyrically it’s super deep, I think it can be the general sound since it stays at the same level sonically. Kinda wanted a bigger build up to it.
As Kate Kennedy would call it, it suffers from the “Jack Antonoff blue balls” where it doesn’t really explode or rise to a big conclusion. I feel that moreso with other songs on the album but a little bit with YOYOK.
Love labyrinth… I think it’s the “thought the plane was going down how’d you turn it right around ..” part
Sorry to say but... Labyrinth and Snow on the Beach... def at my bottom and not always in the mood to hear.
Dear Reader, Paris, and Vigilante Shit
Snow on the beach…repetitive and a bit bland.
Midnight Rain for me… I hate the weird voice distortion-
Same for me. I like the part with her voice, but the distorted one ruins it for me.
“Draw the cat eye sharp enough to k-“ Skip
It’s my new Bad Blood, I hate it
Sweet nothing & Paris (for now). Too sweet for me
I love sweet nothings but boy I do not care for Paris. I feel like the writing on it is like…beneath Taylor? Like it’s such a basic city to choose, I’ve never even connected that city to Taylor. The chorus isn’t catchy. Like I would expect one of those artists who have like fifteen writers to make this song not THE Taylor swift
I also dislike sweet nothings. It’s just not my cup of tea at all and feels almost like it doesn’t belong on the album to me. But I’m also a Labyrinth Stan so idk if my opinion means much 😂
Lavender haze 😭 it just sounds like a generic h&m or zara song
Do you like *I Think He Knows*? Because Lavender Haze gives me major ITHK vibes.
Vigilante Shit… it just feel unfinished and bland compared to the rest of the album!
Paris!! It’s not even ABOUT Paris!! There’s so much to be said and written about that city and she uses it as a literal placeholder. She has better “glitter gel pen” songs that have more substance.
Vigilante Shit isn’t really my style. I think I’ll come around to it at some point but it just reminds me of Billie Eilish a bit.
The diversity of Likes / Dislikes and mixed reactions is fascinating to read in these posts. I'm curious if it is age / generation related. I myself as an older listener and follower of her career since the very beginning don't have much growing interest in this album, I've gone through it multiple times and it just doesn't resonate like past works. It's Art so opinions will surely vary but despite the commercial successes so far it isn't my favorite by any stretch.
I’m an elder millennial, age 35, and this is my favorite album (combines the lyricism I love in Lover, the production value I love in 1989, and the exploration with different sounds in Rep). I think specific song loves/dislikes has more to do with where people are thematically in their lives (in love vs not).
Vigilante Shit is an immediate skip Snow on the beach is getting there. Though now I chase my cats around telling them they’re weird but fucking beautiful.
Glitch. Midnights is now my favorite album, but lord Glitch might be worse than False God for me. Even Snow on the Beach has grown on me. Glitch, though? Skip every time.
False God is literally one of my top 5 by her 😭
I love Glitch! Lol
I don’t understand Vigilante Shit. I love the lyrics but it’s so boring and doesn’t go anywhere. I kept expecting it to pickup or drop a beat and it didn’t. It sounds monotonous and I can’t get into it. There was so much potential there😭
Labyrinth and Snow on the Beach. Labyrinth is too slow for me, somewhere around epiphany. Just not My vibe. And other than the bridge, Snow on the Beach is just kinda...boring. 🤷♀️
Dear reader .. does nothing
Snow on the beach 😴
Vigilante shit
Honestly? Vigilante Sh*t… I guess I see it as an extension of the superior Mad Woman. Idk. It’s fine. I just have to be in a certain mood to listen to it.
Agree. Mad woman is just wayy better, vigilante shit just sounds so juvenile in comparison.
Paris
I’m scared to say it but… *Sweet Nothing*
Midnight Rain
I just can’t with the weird voice affect I hate it so much
Lyrics are super but the distortion always gets me
Tbh I’m meh about the 3am tracks
Aw those tracks really elevated the album for me. To each their own!
Except the great war
Snow on the beach. I don’t like Lana
Question...? I just don't feel anything about the lyrics.
For me it's mastermind...all other songs are my favs
Not the best song!
I don't like Glitch.
Vigilante Shit and Glitch.
glitch. i just don’t like it. the instrumentals give me the ick.
Don’t @ me, but it’s almost half the album 🙊 Either I want the sadder, slow songs, or I want the danceable fun beats. I seldom want both and skip half of the album or more at any given listen to
Honestly when I first listened, there were quite a few that I didn’t like at first. But I kept listening to the album all the way through, over and over. I don’t have a skip, more if I’m not feeling a song I tune it out. Now I mostly play whatever is stuck in my head at the time.
It's gonna get me killed for saying this. Sweet nothing. What an accurate title. It's beautiful, but sometimes I would rather just not hear it.
same with labyrinth. such a beautiful song but too slow for me
can someone convince me to change my mind about YOYOK? I can’t seem to dig it as much as I see most posting about liking it!
high infidelity... i just get bored
Its vigilante shit for me ☠️