Taylor Swift - "Hits Different"

[theflying]

It’s a forum. Different people expressed that they were going to hold out listening to Hits Different because it wasn’t on streaming. That’s their prerogative, but the distinction between a track that’s out but not on Spotify and one on Spotify is pretty arbitrary. A few people — not even saying you — got a little high-horse-y about not listening to it yet. And, yeah, they were likely underwhelmed.

And the point you missed is that, no, you likely wouldn’t have been as underwhelmed if you had listened to it as it was intended — as a bonus track with the album release, instead of giving it 8 months of build up and reading opinions about a song you didn’t listen to. Hits Different is a bonus track, it can’t live up to that. Gorgeous will never live up to “lyrics that cut glass”. New Romantics can’t live up to the hype as you yourself literally just said.

I’m just saying, waiting to hear bonus tracks is a lose/lose: the song probably can’t end up meeting expectations if it got good reviews. Then, when you do hear it, your opinion gets too colored by the weight of what you heard and whatever expectations you had that your assessment of the song and fans’ “overrating” reaction to it can’t really hold as much water.

[Choco]

I'm way too old and tired to search for stuff outside of streaming platforms these days. I only heard You're Losing Me because it went semi viral on Swiftie TikTok.

I too found it a tad overrated. It's a good song but fans hyped it up as the second coming of, like, Style and it wasn't.

Had I heard it back on release day I still think it wouldn't crack top five on the album.

[Dylan :)]

[born]

Let people listen to music however and whenever they want. Good God. I’ll never understand this need to always be all up in somebody’s business.

Anyways, I love that she sang this last night and that the whole stadium erupted! I would love to get this as a surprise song as well🥹