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Post by SHOOTER on Jul 10, 2024 11:21:05 GMT -5
Which cover is the standard cover? That’s the one I want to purchase. The portal. |
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Post by schnetzka on Jul 10, 2024 11:45:16 GMT -5
I am so excited for this era. Love the cover.
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Jul 10, 2024 11:56:32 GMT -5
The standard cover looks amateurish and cheap, plus she looks stiff. The second one looks much better. She has an autographed vinyl on her site, but it sold out already.
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Post by Taylor. on Jul 10, 2024 12:11:26 GMT -5
Nice covers — visuals this era are strong, but she really can't resist being cheesy in her videos, eh?
Slightly different versions of the covers leaked alongside other imagery and the tracklist last month, so I assume the tracklist with Kim Petras, JID, 21 Savage, etc. is real now.
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Post by Caviar on Jul 10, 2024 12:49:04 GMT -5
CRYING!
I updated the first post with the news.
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Post by taylor is terrified on Jul 10, 2024 12:54:43 GMT -5
That standard cover is INCREDIBLE. Dare I say the best of her career.
Hoping that this lead is a smash and this era brings her back into the limelight somehow.
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Post by wavey. on Jul 10, 2024 13:16:31 GMT -5
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Post by Enigma. on Jul 10, 2024 14:20:57 GMT -5
inb4 the "chart position" jokes start to appear on the internet... oh they already have
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Post by 👑 Eloquent ™ on Jul 10, 2024 14:30:22 GMT -5
I LOVE the second cover and paired pink vinyl!!! Wanna skip the metal vinyl and the first cover isn't bad!
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Post by The Black Bird on Jul 10, 2024 14:54:51 GMT -5
I love the cover and agree it's all very chromatica. Let's hope the song is good and streaming doesn't disappoint.
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Post by wjr15 on Jul 10, 2024 15:03:58 GMT -5
I love both covers. Honestly, these are her best album covers since Teenage Dream (Prism’s cover was still good too).
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Jul 10, 2024 15:46:36 GMT -5
So far, album covers:
1. One Of The Boys (classic, she looked human)
2. Teenage Dream (great photo but it was so airbrushed that it looked like a painting. Maybe that was the point? Props to the scratch-and-sniff cotton candy CD case. Very on-brand for that era.)
3. 143 (Alternative cover, but the Woman's World single cover really should be the album cover instead, or at least one of the other photos from that shoot.)
4. Witness (BONKERS, but I kinda like it?)
5. Prism (Looks fan-made and disjointed, but love the photo of her. Natural and beautiful.)
6. Smi-Yo (Katy Klown wasn't it and only opened her up for ridicule. Plus, it looked cheap.)
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Post by Dylan :) on Jul 10, 2024 15:48:35 GMT -5
2. Teenage Dream (great photo but it was so airbrushed that it looked like a painting. Maybe that was the point? Props to the scratch-and-sniff cotton candy CD case. Very on-brand for that era.) Apparently it was |
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Jul 10, 2024 15:53:21 GMT -5
 @ her face in the picture in which the artist is painting her. |
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Post by wjr15 on Jul 10, 2024 15:56:21 GMT -5
If I had to rank Katy’s album covers:
1. Teenage Dream
2. 143
3. Prism
4. One Of The Boys
5. Witness
6. Smile
Smile is such a solid album but that cover and clown aesthetic was not it…at all
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Post by The Black Bird on Jul 10, 2024 16:05:44 GMT -5
I absolutely HATE the Prism cover, we can barely see her face. The photo shoot didn't really capture the album's mood tbh, but this would've been such a better choice:  |
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Post by wavey. on Jul 10, 2024 16:06:56 GMT -5
Did she ever fully explain why it was a Circus theme?
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Post by 👑 Eloquent ™ on Jul 10, 2024 16:15:09 GMT -5
Did she ever fully explain why it was a Circus theme? The singer also explained how she came up with the circus theme of Smile. “I just thought a sad clown that had lost its smile really embodied the feeling of what I was feeling in the past couple of years,” she said. |
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Post by wavey. on Jul 10, 2024 17:08:00 GMT -5
Did she ever fully explain why it was a Circus theme? The singer also explained how she came up with the circus theme of Smile. “I just thought a sad clown that had lost its smile really embodied the feeling of what I was feeling in the past couple of years,” she said. Hmm. It was a very positive album even tho she wasn't feeling the greatest. |
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Post by juanmiesk on Jul 10, 2024 18:41:34 GMT -5
I really wish she went with the NRO/HIH aesthetic for the whole Smile album.
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Post by Caviar on Jul 10, 2024 18:42:57 GMT -5
She just previewed “Nirvana” on live!
Plus “I’m His, He’s Mine”
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Post by 👑 Eloquent ™ on Jul 10, 2024 18:47:22 GMT -5
"Gimme Gimme" sounded pretty good!
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Post by Caviar on Jul 10, 2024 18:47:55 GMT -5
Gimmie is FIRE.
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Post by wjr15 on Jul 10, 2024 19:11:46 GMT -5
“Nirvana” sounds amazing!!! That’s my favorite so far!
“I’m His, He’s Mine” and “Gimme Gimme” both sound good too. I swear the former samples another song.
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Post by wjr15 on Jul 10, 2024 19:13:59 GMT -5
Sorry for double post. Here’s the other two snippets:
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Post by 👑 Eloquent ™ on Jul 10, 2024 19:19:29 GMT -5
"Nirvana" is my favorite so far! They're definitely going for Teenage Dream 2024 vibes! "Gimme Gimme" was giving me "Dark Horse" teas for some reason!
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Post by Ivy Leegue™ on Jul 10, 2024 19:53:43 GMT -5
I'm His, He's Mine samples Gypsy Woman by Crystal Waters and sounds...bad. Gimme Gimme sounds solid (though I am sooo over 21 21 21 21 21 21). Is that random tempo downshift actually part of the song, though? Sounds weird. Nirvana sounds good too, though it definitely gives me reject Kim Petras vibes. I feel like we are getting an album full of the best dance/uptempo/midtempo songs from Smile and Prism, which I am fine with.
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Post by wavey. on Jul 10, 2024 20:53:25 GMT -5
Very smart to do a live with previews!! Love the snippets, I couldn't resist.
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Post by SPRΞΞ on Jul 10, 2024 21:08:42 GMT -5
Not sure how I’ll manage to wait until 9/20 for the album, ugh. At least tomorrow I get something.
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Post by Enigma. on Jul 11, 2024 1:05:17 GMT -5
Previewing so many songs at once 2.5 months before the album release was a weird decision.
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