Taylor Swift - reputation (Nov 10)

[woods]

"Look What You Made Me Do" finally reached 1 billion views on YouTube today!

[Choco]

Dec 26, 2018 18:05:32 GMT -5 woods said:

"Look What You Made Me Do" finally reached 1 billion views on YouTube today!

Which is great but considering the early record breaking numbers... damn, it sure fell off a cliff after it's first month, didn't it?

I'm sure she's paying attention to all these things as usual and I hope she can course correct with her next album... hopefully next year?

[nickd]

Dec 26, 2018 20:06:32 GMT -5 Choco said:

Dec 26, 2018 18:05:32 GMT -5 woods said:

"Look What You Made Me Do" finally reached 1 billion views on YouTube today!

Which is great but considering the early record breaking numbers... damn, it sure fell off a cliff after it's first month, didn't it?

I'm sure she's paying attention to all these things as usual and I hope she can course correct with her next album... hopefully next year?

This Is America fell off harder, and Thank U, Next fell off much much harder though. Looks like TUN's 4th week will get less than 1/3 of the views LWYMMD's 4th week got.

[Exclusive]

Over a year and End Game is still that song. Such a misfortune it underperformed.

[deepston]

Dec 26, 2018 21:37:37 GMT -5 Exclusive said:

Over a year and End Game is still that song. Such a misfortune it underperformed.

The smash the world was not ready for. 


When do you guys think she'll drop something? I'm actually inclined to say the lead single will drop around Q2 or we'll get a song for a soundtrack as she has done previously.

[theflying]

End Game is so freaking catchy and probably my most played song from Reputation. I love it. Kind of strange it underperformed but I think it’s just not what people “wanted” to hear, idk.

[Janhova's Witness]

I think she will try for song of the summer in 2019 and release her best and most successful album ever before the Grammy cutoff date

[Glove Slap]

They put up versions with commentaries (for every song) for all her albums on Spotify.

[insen_13]

Hope she releases 2 singles from her album before the album release.

[insen_13]

1st single - February/March 2019
2nd single - May/June 2019
TS7 and 3rd single - August/September 2019
4th single - November/December 2019

[austin]

Dec 26, 2018 22:18:23 GMT -5 deepston said:

When do you guys think she'll drop something? I'm actually inclined to say the lead single will drop around Q2 or we'll get a song for a soundtrack as she has done previously.

I think we will get some kind of soundtrack song or some one off song (like Ronan) in Q2, as well. Then she will follow her usual pattern of lead single in August, album in Oct/Nov. I think she likes being behind the Grammy cycle, so she can build a years worth of momentum and sales to try and take AOTY. There is no doubt she is going more radio-friendly/typical Taylor with TS7 than the experiment album reputation.

[nickd]

Some previews of the movie are starting to come out.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk8qwQqPenA

[aznsinger]

I’m gonna say single comes late Q2 instead of her usual tradition, with a lot of promotion before her album comes out in October.

[Lumi]

I'm expecting first single in April and the album to release in the Summer.

[Janhova's Witness]

Ohhh... I was kind of excited to watch it but now idk

She really should work on her live vocals for the next era 🙍🏼

[Exclusive]

She’s really going to make me stay up until 3 am to watch the tour movie isn’t she.

[theflying]

Dec 31, 2018 0:52:05 GMT -5 Janhova's Witness said:

Ohhh... I was kind of excited to watch it but now idk

She really should work on her live vocals for the next era 🙍🏼

Here’s the thing, and it was one kind of drawback from seeing her in concert in June:

The concert is amazing. And Taylor has great live vocals. But she doesn’t do vocal theatrics, and because everyone is singing along, it FEELS like a singalong with Taylor Swift leading the charge — as opposed to “watching a performance”. It was amazing being there but you wouldn’t want to listen to the audio clips from the concert, not because she’s bad or because she needs to work on her live vocals, she’s just not loud enough over the crowd.0

[tryexp]

Dec 31, 2018 11:13:57 GMT -5 theflying said:

Dec 31, 2018 0:52:05 GMT -5 Janhova's Witness said:

Ohhh... I was kind of excited to watch it but now idk

She really should work on her live vocals for the next era 🙍🏼

Here’s the thing, and it was one kind of drawback from seeing her in concert in June:

The concert is amazing. And Taylor has great live vocals. But she doesn’t do vocal theatrics, and because everyone is singing along, it FEELS like a singalong with Taylor Swift leading the charge — as opposed to “watching a performance”. It was amazing being there but you wouldn’t want to listen to the audio clips from the concert, not because she’s bad or because she needs to work on her live vocals, she’s just not loud enough over the crowd.0

That has always been my main criticism over Taylor's live stuff - even if you go back to the "Journey To Fearless" there are loads of moments that you can barely hear her over the crowd. I get that people want to sing along loudly, but I would be seriously pissed off if I paid for a ticket and then had an obnoxiously loud (bad) singer next to me. It actually happened once when I was at a Maddie and Tae concert, but the girl has so drunk that only kept it up for a song or two. Totally different experience when I attended Kacey Musgraves concert - you can actually hear her over the crowd and instruments at all times - and she doesn't do any vocal acrobatics either.

I think this is partially Taylor's preference, as she encourages the loud obnoxious singing and part the crowd type. But it ends up with terrible live audio - also the reason why I would pay so much more money to see her at an intimate setting without all the fanfare - like the vh1 storytellers thing.

[Choco]

I watched the whole thing and loved it. "All Too Well" was beautiful, "Bad Blood / Should've Said No" was great and the "Style / Love Story / You Belong With Me" section was really good too.

Killing "Gorgeous" in favor of "I Knew You Were Trouble", "Mine" or "Wildest Dreams" would have made it even better. "King of My Heart" is filler on the album but on the concert it was great.

[Exclusive]

Pissed she that she still benched “So it Goes..” but I loved it nonetheless.

[Choco]

Dec 31, 2018 12:40:03 GMT -5 Exclusive said:

Pissed she that she still benched “So it Goes..” but I loved it nonetheless.

I believe she only did that one once (and it would have meant losing "All Too Well", so no), but at least it played during the bloopers/credits.

[nickd]

Dec 31, 2018 13:02:01 GMT -5 Choco said:

Dec 31, 2018 12:40:03 GMT -5 Exclusive said:

Pissed she that she still benched “So it Goes..” but I loved it nonetheless.

I believe she only did that one once (and it would have meant losing "All Too Well", so no), but at least it played during the bloopers/credits.

She only did So It Goes once in the surprise song slot, but she did it about a dozen times in place of Dancing With Our Hands Tied.

[Okay]

I didn't go to the concert but the tour movie was awesome! Don't Blame Me was epic.

[Enigma.]

Brilliant to see this via Netflix (Gaga and Bey take notes!)

Some thoughts:

-The staging and visuals are stunning
-Choreos are like Ally Maine level (=mostly very poor and cliched) but all artists are just not born to dance and that's ok
-All Too Well, Shake It Off, Style/Love Story/YBWM were outstanding (LS is my fave from her)
-But when it drags, it drags A LOT, that is especially during Dress, Don't Blame Me, End Game which of course all are on Reputation but have no business of being included in a show of this level.

Overall, pretty enjoyable.

[†ealsünset]

Dec 31, 2018 17:14:03 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Brilliant to see this via Netflix (Gaga and Bey take notes!)
-All Too Well, Shake It Off, Style/Love Story/YBWM were outstanding (LS is my fave from her)
-But when it drags, it drags A LOT, that is especially during Dress, Don't Blame Me, End Game which of course all are on Reputation but have no business of being included in a show of this level.

I haven't finished watching it but I'm not expecting much from Dress. I re-watched my video from the Pasadena show and Dress was kind of just thrown in there to give her something to do on the side stage. I suppose there wasn't much she could do on the small stages.

[Caviar]

Watching now...

[Snowbeast]

Dec 31, 2018 17:14:03 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Brilliant to see this via Netflix (Gaga and Bey take notes!)

Some thoughts:

-The staging and visuals are stunning
-Choreos are like Ally Maine level (=mostly very poor and cliched) but all artists are just not born to dance and that's ok
-All Too Well, Shake It Off, Style/Love Story/YBWM were outstanding (LS is my fave from her)
-But when it drags, it drags A LOT, that is especially during Dress, Don't Blame Me, End Game which of course all are on Reputation but have no business of being included in a show of this level.

Overall, pretty enjoyable.

Ill give you dress, but Don’t Blame Me and End Game have no business being included? Omg

[Caviar]

End Game was my favorite

So many gems! I cried watching "New Years Day". I haven't heard that song since probably early this year. Amazing

[Marooned@Midnight]

I watched the tour on Netflix and was incredibly impressed. So many highlights. I particularly loved Blank Space, Don’t Blame Me, Getaway Car, and the Nice Things finale. Would have loved to see Wildest Dreams included. And I’m not a fan of what they did with Style.

[nickd]

Dec 31, 2018 22:18:49 GMT -5 Marooned@Midnight said:

I watched the tour on Netflix and was incredibly impressed. So many highlights. I particularly loved Blank Space, Don’t Blame Me, Getaway Car, and the Nice Things finale. Would have loved to see Wildest Dreams included. And I’m not a fan of what they did with Style.

Here's to hoping we get Style in full next tour.