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Post by ampersand on Aug 23, 2019 17:51:31 GMT -5
28 euros is nearly $42 CAD. Lmao I had no idea! Thought it was closer to the american dollar. Our money is worthless, but it’s at least very gay and colourful! 😂 |
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Post by kmbgs on Aug 23, 2019 18:32:17 GMT -5
This bitch!
I love this album! OK, maybe not love the album since I don't care for about 5-6 songs, but she did that thing I hate where she released all the stuff I don't like before the album dropped. And the songs I like, I love! My favs are:
1. Cruel Summer (this should have been the SOTS 2019, and saved One Sweet Day's record. I can't forgive her for it!)
2. The Man (If I Were a Boy is shook)
3. London Boy (it's thisclose to being annoying but she got lucky and it lands in cute territory)
4. Paper Rings (catchy af)
5. Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince (annoying title but great song)
6. I Think He Knows (jam)
7. I Forgot That You Existed (love the message)
8. Afterglow
9. Cornelia Street (despite the fact that I was stood up for the one and only time at a place on Cornelia Street in NYC!)
10. Daylight
11. Death By A Thousand Cuts
I don't care for the rest at all, but I hear potential for Soon You'll Get Better and False God.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Aug 23, 2019 18:48:56 GMT -5
I read the RS review and they stay always doing the most. Comparisons to Prince, Cohen, Carole King? Really?
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Post by theflying on Aug 23, 2019 19:14:12 GMT -5
OK Cruel Summer is hitting me. Reaches the euphoric high of 1989. A blast.
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Post by justlurkingaround on Aug 23, 2019 19:59:57 GMT -5
Just bought 8 of the deluxe versions at target. The albums were front and center the second you enter the store, and I wasn’t even the only or first person buying them. I read that if you buy them all in a single receipt it counts as a single sale so I hope you didn't #GetLoverToAMilli. Maybe that was just stan Twitter tho. I got them in 2 separate transactions. I saw on twitter that the sale counts as 1 for target but that it’s still a total of 8 albums because 8 SKUs were scanned |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 20:16:57 GMT -5
Literally can't stop listening to Cruel Summer
"I love you, ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?"
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jessayli
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Post by jessayli on Aug 23, 2019 20:23:46 GMT -5
Cruel Summer totally could have been (and maybe still can be?) the Blank Space of this album. Can’t stop replaying it.
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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Aug 23, 2019 20:28:10 GMT -5
The album is  |
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Aug 23, 2019 20:32:14 GMT -5
I read that if you buy them all in a single receipt it counts as a single sale so I hope you didn't #GetLoverToAMilli. Maybe that was just stan Twitter tho. I got them in 2 separate transactions. I saw on twitter that the sale counts as 1 for target but that it’s still a total of 8 albums because 8 SKUs were scanned It will count as 8 svans |
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on Aug 23, 2019 22:18:56 GMT -5
My expectations were probably higher than they should have been as I found the album fluffier than I expected. I think more listens will win me over though because many of the songs were catchy enough, but nothing hit me the way Lover did on the first listen. The Dixie Chicks collab is nice. Definitely hoped it would have been more of a duet-style song but their support adds to that song, which I liked but I felt like could have hit harder in the chorus. False God was probably the song to jump out at me the most, though I was driving on a back road where it was pretty quiet and getting dark and the production of that song puts Taylor and the few instruments on it right in the speaker - which I think was really highlighted by my surroundings at the time. I liked it. Nothing jumped out as being terrible in any way though. I'm looking forward to digging deeper into it.
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Post by avatar on Aug 23, 2019 23:05:18 GMT -5
This Is My Personal Ranking Of “Lover”.
121.5/180
(Good Tier)
(Each Song Can Earn Up To 10 Points)
Great Job Taylor! You Pulled Off A Amazing Album.I’m Glad You Didn’t Just Make A Regular,Plain Pop Album.You Really Experimented With Different Sounds And Made This Album Beautiful And Genuine!
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Aug 23, 2019 23:07:31 GMT -5
This Is My Personal Ranking Of “Lover”. 121.5/180 (Good Tier) (Each Song Can Earn Up To 10 Points) Great Job Taylor! You Pulled Off A Amazing Album.I’m Glad You Didn’t Just Make A Regular,Plain Pop Album.You Really Experimented With Different Sounds And Made This Album Beautiful And Genuine! I stan this professional analysis. |
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Post by nightshade on Aug 23, 2019 23:39:16 GMT -5
Honestly, Cornelia Street is going to be the fan favorite of the album. It's got the lyricism, melodies, and production. Love the subtle windshield wipers, rain, and thunder you hear in the background in the final chorus. Her mind.
This album is truly great. If you're a Taylor Swift fan from her early days to present, this album is pretty much a work of art of everything she's learned.
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Post by nickd on Aug 24, 2019 0:26:01 GMT -5
Miss Americana and The Heartbreak Prince is my favorite so far.
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Post by Au$tin on Aug 24, 2019 1:10:59 GMT -5
Letting it sit a bit, I believe the album could really use restructuring. If I were putting it together:
1. The Archer
2. The Man
3. Cruel Summer
4. I Think He Knows
5. Cornelia Street
6. London Boy
7. Afterglow
8. Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince
9. False God
10. Lover
11. Paper Rings
12. Daylight
Deluxe
13. I Forgot That You Existed
14. You Need to Calm Down
15. ME!
16. Soon You'll Get Better
The standard edition of the album has a much better flow sonically and thematically this way and it's not as bloated either. Took some good yet not thematically relevant songs to the deluxe edition. "Death by a Thousand Cuts" and "It's Nice to Have a Friend" are both song about love, but not really about her current relationship. Thematically, they make more sense with the album than "The Man" and "Miss Americana," but personally I'd say their production value and repetitiveness of themes better discussed in context to her relationship through other tracks make them too samey and that's why I decided to remove them from the album altogether. They'd make fine B-sides for the first two singles, however. Or even nice Target exclusives or something.
I would then do this for singles:
1. Cruel Summer - Late April 2019
~B-Side: Death by a Thousand Cuts
2. Paper Rings - Mid July 2019
~B-Side: It's Nice to Have a Friend
3. The Man - Released alongside album, giving her an Ariana Grande-esque dominance of two singles at once and 3 singles released close together
4. Lover - Early November 2019
5. False God - Mid March 2020
6. Miss Americana or I Think He Knows - Late June 2020
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Post by Kinney on Aug 24, 2019 1:35:47 GMT -5
Debuts with 55 million first day streams on Spotify, second highest female debut ever behind Ariana (Thank U, Next) with 68 million. Just ahead of Billie Eilish with 48 million and Ariana again (Sweetener) with 36 million. Also has her highest Metascore currently, but only 10 reviews so far so the score will likely change.  |
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Post by Janhova's Witness on Aug 24, 2019 2:24:38 GMT -5
“False God” will be a single in early 2020 and it will be one of her most acclaimed hits, quote me in 5 years
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Post by Enigma. on Aug 24, 2019 3:09:10 GMT -5
This is playing amazingly well with her strengths! Her lyrics have gotten a bit worse since Red but here it does not matter that much as the album is a cohesive body of work and everything SUITS her! Well done!
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Post by Normi on Aug 24, 2019 3:24:06 GMT -5
I had very low expectations after hearing all the pre-released tracks which didn't click with me at all (apart from YNTCD) but she exceeded those! Still have to give the album some more spins but I see some great tracks on here (Cruel Summer, False God, The Man, Miss Americana) but also some that really just feel like they're there...
I'm not in love with this but it's better than what I was hoping for
Let's see what time brings
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Post by aussie1 on Aug 24, 2019 3:36:59 GMT -5
First day Spotify numbers range from 4,283,000M for Cruel Summer to 1,822,000M for It's nice to have a friend. (excluding the singles because I don't know what they were at previously).
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deepston
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Post by deepston on Aug 24, 2019 6:54:07 GMT -5
“False God” will be a single in early 2020 and it will be one of her most acclaimed hits, quote me in 5 years Finally, I thought everyone was slandering this track. It's clearly top 3 on the album. |
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Post by aznsinger on Aug 24, 2019 6:54:28 GMT -5
How do you find Spotify numbers? It’s not showing on Spotifycharts.com
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Aug 24, 2019 7:32:52 GMT -5
“False God” will be a single in early 2020 and it will be one of her most acclaimed hits, quote me in 5 years Finally, I thought everyone was slandering this track. It's clearly top 3 on the album. Could be Indonesian deluxe for me. The sax doesn't fit and the song is kinda sleep-sleep. I hear it's about the record industry tho, so...at least there's that? But yeah...not really for me. |
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deepston
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Post by deepston on Aug 24, 2019 7:33:25 GMT -5
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Post by nickd on Aug 24, 2019 7:34:10 GMT -5
How do you find Spotify numbers? It’s not showing on Spotifycharts.com There's early numbers on the counter on the desktop app. The numbers that Spotify charts releases later in the day are usually lower. |
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deepston
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Post by deepston on Aug 24, 2019 7:34:48 GMT -5
Finally, I thought everyone was slandering this track. It's clearly top 3 on the album. Could be Indonesian deluxe for me. The sax doesn't fit and the song is kinda sleep-sleep. I hear it's about the record industry tho, so...at least there's that? But yeah...not really for me. It's about sex  And "the altar is my hips" is clearly about oral sex. |
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Post by desertfloods on Aug 24, 2019 7:55:52 GMT -5
I only just found out that the 7 rooms in the Lover video represent the different album eras and her life during each of era. Wow, I have a newfound appreciation for that video now. Impressed!
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Post by schnetzka on Aug 24, 2019 8:04:43 GMT -5
Reputation still tops the album for me but Lover is definitely my second favorite. The Man and Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince are my favorite.
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Post by Zach on Aug 24, 2019 9:34:48 GMT -5
This might just be my fourth favourite album from her (after 1989, Speak Now and Red). I like Cruel Summer the best at this point.
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deepston
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Post by deepston on Aug 24, 2019 9:48:15 GMT -5
at ME! being one of the least streamed tracks, the GP really said NO!  |
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