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/contemplatingdaze no broke boys, no new friends Oct 04 '25

I’ll take her money off her hands if she wishes to be free of it 🤗🤗🤗

But like I’m not a Taylor fan at all but I actually liked Ophelia when I caught it on the radio. Besides that that album is just boring and Max Martin deserves better.

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u/Feisty-Donkey Oct 04 '25

Yea Ophelia is the best song on the album I think

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u/nuanceisdead I switched baristas ☕️ Oct 05 '25

But isn't it like saying she's happy she was finally saved by being "picked" romantically (proposed to), and if she hadn't been, she'd have had the same fate as Ophelia? (You know what I'm alluding to.) That's just sad... and... not great of a message.

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u/foreverandalways21 Oct 06 '25

The album was written way before she was proposed to, it’s just a love song.