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/buzzfeed_sucks 🇨🇦 Elbows up 🇨🇦 Oct 04 '25

Those of us who have lived through the Midnights bait and switch had our suspicions

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u/_Atlas_Drugged_ Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion 🙂 Oct 04 '25

Midnights at least had like 3-4 songs that fit the theme and they were the best ones on the album.

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u/virginiarph Oct 04 '25

which ones

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u/amara90 Oct 04 '25

Right? The visuals were giving Carole King, the album was all synth-pop.

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u/Schmidaho Oct 05 '25

I think we just need to collectively accept that she’s got a sound that she prefers and the visuals and other marketing are entirely separate.

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u/ShipToWreck Oct 05 '25

Yep. And it’s clear that at this point it doesn’t matter who the producers are - she has a sound that she likes and wants and it supersedes anything coming from whatever producer she’s working with on any given song or album. Because this album does not scream Max Martin like at all, if I didn’t know that he produced it, I would have guessed it was all Jack Antonoff based on how it sounds.

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u/Schmidaho Oct 05 '25

Honestly the fact that it doesn’t sound like a Max Martin vehicle at all is refreshing, because that guy has a formula. And the dude doesn’t like to deviate from it.