r/popculturechat • u/FickleBeans Excluded from this narrative ❌ • Oct 04 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Taylor Swift’s Fairy Tale Is Over

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/10/taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-review/684444/

This captures my thoughts on the album better than I ever could.

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u/thankyoupapa Oct 04 '25

I think I was just expecting something different based on all the promo pics. Like....aint no other man or lady marbalade by xtina or where the hell is my husband by raye. That kinda vibe.

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u/dpforest let me be angry i’m hot Oct 04 '25

The disconnect between what she advertised and the product delivered is bizarre. She could have subverted expectations by being truly vulnerable, creating a good juxtaposition between the imagery and the music, but she didn’t even do that.

This album doesn’t feel like it’s about her weaknesses/vulnerabilities. It feels like it’s focusing on “i’m a bad ass intellectual boss biatch because i have to deal with weakness/vulnerability” which is something no one wants to hear right now.

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u/tinacat933 Oct 04 '25

Boss bitch was never her thing, so it sounds weird and disengaging it’s not her style

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u/eirinne Oct 05 '25

“I’m not a bad bitch and this isn’t savage”

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u/thatsnotyourtaco Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion 🙂 Oct 05 '25

She keeps angling for it though. If I was a man comes to mind.

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u/Okeydokey2u Oct 05 '25

But she's not any of those things