• Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    Why would that be a problem now? I thought western song is full of this when you actually read the lyrics.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 hours ago

      Yeah.

      Here’s a scathing review from a self-professed Swift fan.

      How does someone who wrote a line like “You call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest,” or “I should’ve kept every grocery store receipt / Because every scrap of you would be taken from me,” or “Take the words for what they are / A dwindling, mercurial high / A drug that only worked / The first few hundred times” end up writing, “Forgive me, it sounds cocky / He ah-matized me and opened my eyes / Redwood tree, it ain’t hard to see / His love was the key that opened my thighs.”

      Why is this such a lyrical disaster? Why doesn’t it show any of the intrigue or the artistry she’s managed to display in the past? Is it because Jack Antonoff was the secret sauce the whole time? Is it because she’s so dickmatized (“ah-matized,” as she self-censors it on “Wood”) by Travis Kelce that she forgot how to write? Is it because she’s happier now and she can only write when depressed? Is it because her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn had more of a hand in the writing of Folklore and Evermore than we thought? Is it because Aaron Dessner wasn’t involved?

      Full article: https://defector.com/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-bad-greed

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        7 hours ago

        Is it because Jack Antonoff was the secret sauce the whole time?

        are you telling me that human beings make shitty, unauthentic slop that’s worse than a shitty idiot that fed something resembling an idea that they couldn’t make because of their lack of musical capability into an ai promt? I’m shocked shocked at this!

        Well not that shocked, since pop music has been recycling tin pan alley songs since the dawn of time.

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      3 hours ago

      Sigh… i cant believe im about to write this.

      Conspiracy Swifties believe the song Wood, being about Travis’ dick, is song #9 on the album because he’s 9 inches. Additionally, the song is 2:30, and 23 cm is 9 inches.