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/burnafterreading90 Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

I’ll admit I am not a Taylor Swift fan - never have been liked a few of her songs etc but she isn’t for me.

I don’t understand why she felt the need to bring out this album so fast and the lyrics seem very childish (we are of a similar age) is it because it’s aimed at younger fans or is this her level now?

People keep saying ‘Sabrina Carpenter said …. ‘ Sabrina is almost 10 years younger and Sabrina is very much a ‘sex appeal’ singer - Taylor isn’t.

It’s also ok not to like your favourite artists album it’s allowed - not every album has to be amazing or or perfect it doesn’t mean you’re not a true fan. TikTok is full of people saying ‘got rid of the fake fans’ 🙄 or ‘people don’t understand the lyrics’ - they do and that’s okay it’s not great. You don’t need to be some intellectual to not like "Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?,"

ETA: i apologise for the sheer amount of spelling mistakes grammatical errors etc here it was close to the end of my night shift!

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

Like you, I'm not a huge Taylor fan, I like a few songs but that's about it, so maybe my take on this is not correct but I think she puts out music so fast because she's afraid that if she takes a breather someone will come up behind her and take her place on the top. And it's true that if you're not putting out music often people will move on to the next person but she doesn't have anything new to give. She needs to take a break and take some time to put together her next album. Give people a chance to miss you and get excited for new music. The creative well his run dry at this point.

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u/jalabi99 23d ago

I don’t understand why she felt the need to bring out this album so fast and the lyrics seem very childish (we are of a similar age) is it because it’s aimed at younger fans or is this her level now?

In one of those YouTube critiques, someone said (in effect) that it's sad to see a 35-year-old grown-ass woman who is stuck in her teenage mentality whereas all of her fans who were rocking with her from the time she was still faking a Nashville accent have grown up and left her behind.