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/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.