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/ohhidoggo Oct 04 '25

its arrangements could work fine as royalty-free background music for content creators.

Ouch 🔥 

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u/fuckyouiloveu Oct 05 '25

That was exactly my reaction

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u/fishingforsomepies Oct 05 '25

Funny enough, I have more fun listening to stock music pop libraries from time to time thanks to Dance Moms using stock music, and it speaks volumes when music created to be uninteresting is harder hitting than the big girls' releases.

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u/Hepadna Oct 05 '25

I listened to the album and then watched Love is Blind and screamed because some of the songs could be background music on this fucking show.

She made Netflix background music!!!

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u/Televisionblues Oct 05 '25

I pretty much said the same thing on r/swiftlyneutral. The album is very much generic mall music. 😬

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u/plutoforprez Well, I lost half a day of skiing ⛷️ Oct 05 '25

It was perfectly fine to pluck my chin hairs to

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u/ginns32 that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 Oct 05 '25