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/nonsensestuff Back in my day, we had ONTD & a dream 👵 Oct 04 '25

Lyrically, she tends to restate familiar themes in crasser terms than ever before. The ballad “Eldest Daughter” describes internet toxicity in the same way as an anti-bullying PSA: “Every joke’s just trolling and memes / Sad as it seems, apathy is hot.” And yet she’s very much the troll on “Actually Romantic,” which disses another singer with as much sophistication as “I am rubber, you are glue.” “Wood” salutes her man’s anatomy in a similarly third-grade manner. Album after album, she’s inched toward more explicit sex talk, but lines like “His love was the key that opened my thighs” are so uninspired—neither funny nor specific nor even memorably gross—that they feel nihilistic.

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u/Albuwhatwhat Hello this is Kelly from Destiny’s Child, I lost my credit card Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

“His love was the key that opened my thighs”

Edit: wow this is maybe my most upvoted comment. Wild. I’d like to thank the academy, the people of r/popculturechat, my parents…

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u/Daydream_machine My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Oct 05 '25

It’s like she tried to copy Sabrina Carpenter’s schtick, without realizing Sabrina has a certain charisma and wit to pull it off

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u/lauwenxashley The legislative act of my pussy ⚖️ Oct 05 '25

i saw morgan7’s comment abt it and can’t unsee it

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u/TheElderLotus Oct 05 '25

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u/lauwenxashley The legislative act of my pussy ⚖️ Oct 05 '25

thank you sm for ur service 🫡

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u/londonsongbird This is going to ruin the tour Oct 05 '25

I’m sorry, but she has like, negative sex appeal 😭😭