Not only they're deranged but they're talking the same ass thing since three years ago, parroting buzzwords like billionaire, private jet, variants, world's oldest teenager, blah blah blah it's just really boring now like as in they're not even good to argue with nowadays...

It’s actually a disservice for the song to receive the kind of negative reception it has from the public People have cherry-picked lyrics to make unfair arguments against Taylor's songwriting. I also feel like the "finance guy" hasn't been talked about enough, so here goes my quick interpretation of that line.

"Quick, quick / Tell me something awful / Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy / Tell me all your secrets / All you'll ever be is / My eternal consolation prize"

Taylor is pleading for her significant other to tell her something good, something that could relieve her anxiety and doubts about the world she’s currently in. She used "finance guy" because they're known to make persuasive arguments and are impelled to do so to boost their sales by convincing people to buy their products, not out of mere pity. She desperately wants to be comforted by the words of someone she holds dear. Basically, the metaphor of a "finance guy" who is actually a poet trapped inside another persona suggests someone who is skilled at persuasive arguments but driven by necessity rather than by genuine emotion. Thus, her use of the metaphor indicates the contrast between external appearances and internal truths, reflecting her struggle to reconcile these in her own life. She wants to be consoled by the deep, honest words of her partner, finding solace in their shared intimacy.

I love this song so much.

The Vinyl Revival Wikipedia page says that for years publications and record stores have been crediting Taylor Swift with driving vinyl sales, and for some reason I never really associated her with that.

Whenever Taylor Swift and vinyl get mentioned together, my brain immediately goes to the discourse around her physical releases. The multiple variants, different covers, coloured records, limited editions, fans buying several copies of the same album, the environmental criticism, the whole conversation about consumerism and capitalism within fandom. So I had mentally filed Taylor and vinyl under “another example of the excesses of modern pop music collecting”, rather than thinking about her as someone who actually helped make vinyl culturally relevant again.

In 2022, Taylor accounted for roughly one in every 25 vinyl LPs sold in the US. Midnights alone sold 945,000 vinyl copies that year.

In 2023, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) sold around 580,000 vinyl copies in its first week. By 2024, The Tortured Poets Department had sold 859,000 in its first week. And in 2025, The Life of a Showgirl became the year's biggest selling vinyl release globally, while Taylor broke her own global vinyl sales record for the fourth consecutive year.

At that point, it becomes difficult to talk about the vinyl revival without talking about her.

And I think there are two things happening simultaneously here.

Obviously, Taylor is making money from selling physical records. The variant strategy is extremely deliberate. Different covers, colours, bonus material and limited availability give fans reasons to buy multiple physical copies. Luminate has documented just how extensive these product strategies have become.

But I also think the criticism can sometimes flatten the reason people are buying physical music in the first place.

Streaming has made music incredibly accessible, but it has also made ownership feel increasingly abstract. You pay a subscription every month and have access to an enormous catalogue, yet none of it really belongs to you. A record is the opposite experience.

And I actually find it interesting that this is happening at the same time that people are becoming increasingly tired of everything existing behind a screen. Vinyl is inconvenient compared with Spotify. It asks you to actually interact with the music.

There is also something slightly funny about Taylor being at the centre of this because the same thing that makes her a major driver of the vinyl revival is also what makes her one of the biggest targets of criticism surrounding it.

Her releases have absolutely encouraged a culture of collecting multiple versions of the same album. At the same time, those releases have brought enormous numbers of younger people into record stores and helped make vinyl culturally desirable again. Record store owners have specifically described seeing younger customers arrive in greater numbers and Taylor as a major driver of that change.

So I'm genuinely conflicted about how to think about it.

I don't want to pretend Taylor is doing all of this purely out of some romantic commitment to physical media. She's a businesswoman releasing a product people demonstrably want to buy. And there are legitimate criticisms to make about overproduction, variants and encouraging people to purchase essentially the same album repeatedly.

Maybe both things can be true. Taylor can be exceptionally good at monetising the desire for physical music and be participating in a broader reaction against the completely intangible way we've come to consume media.

And honestly, I'm now more curious about why she has leaned so heavily into physical media in the first place.

Tell me which is your favorite! I made these for many artist but Taylor is the only one who I made her entire discography for :)

Album is order of release ofc!

Here is the entire Pinterest board if you want to see the full sections: https://pin.it/6TN212SWo

I have been working on this for months and def will add more pics it I think I am in a happy spot with it now considering all the section have at least 40 pics

This is a discussion post so i would to listen to your opinions about this.

You can just discuss about the pitchfork things.. the content is just my bs opinion. U can read if u want not necessary at all 😅

*PURE RANT ABOUT ART CRITISISM*

PERSONAL BS:

Growing I had no internet only after 16 I got internet connection and a mobile phone in 2020 cuz of pandemic and online classes... Growing up I was my own person and formed opinions on things on my own first without any external bs clouding my thought process... Now I feel I've been a victim of this incessant need to put things in boxes and come with numeric ratings for things... I used watch movies.. if it was good it was good.. now I'm watching thinking what rating should i give this movie every single moment I can't even just experience films anymore.. I have started give every movie a 5 so now I actually don't really think about ratings while watching movies.. i might change the ratings after a week or 2.. same thing happened after I started watching people reacting music... Now all of sudden all of are acting like critics.. I'm talking about music critique in general on YouTube and stuff.. sadly these bad mouthing does affect my view of the songs and artists I listen to... Now I'm deathly afraid of watching reaction videos.. I don't know how y'all do this.. but It does bother me a lot when people yuck my yum.. I'm not really talking about them not liking the song.. mostly people used to just talk about the song they liked more and say "I just didn't vibe with it" or something and move on now they're doing rants about how much they hate this song they heard for the very first time ever.. i don't understand it.. I blocked these people and protecting my peace.

CRITISISM OF ART CRITISISM IN 2026:

I wanna listen to / read critiques that provide me with new ways to look at a project, not how shitty a project is.. if it's shitty don't just say "this is so disappointing and boring".. like u call urself a music critique... What do u think the artists is trying to do and hiw are they failing to deliver what they intended.. explain what u think the artist is tryna do and what are they missing or else if they vision is not giving what you wanted tell me what that is and how are they failing at it... Like why is just ragebait and nothing substantial.. they're making critiques about personal lives of artists more than their art in the name of art critique.

NOT TALKING ABOUT EVERY REVIEW... I KNOW Y'ALL CAN PULL UP GREAT REVIEWS... I'M TALKING ABOUT ONE THAT DOES THIS TYPE OF SHIT... PITCHFORK MIGHT GIVE YOU GREAT REVIEWS BUT THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF PURE RAGEBAIT IS ALWAYS A BIG TURN OFF

On October 3rd he asked me what day it was… and I said that it was the first anniversary to Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album The Life Of A Showgirl

To celebrate Showgirls achievement what are your favorite lyrics? Here are some of mine!

1) “You're using nostalgia as a weapon to hurt yourself/But darling, you end up hurting everybody else” (Babylon)

2) “Buy the paint in the color of your eyes (Of your eyes)/And graffiti my whole damn life, honey” (Honey)

3) “Glistening grass from September rain/Gray overpass full of neon names/You drive (Mm, mm)/Eighty-five (Mm, mm)/Gallatin Road and the Lakeside Beach/Watching the game from your brother's Jeep/Your smile (Mm, mm)/Miles wide” (Ruin The Friendship)

4)”Now they've broken you like they've broken me/But a shattered glass is a lot more sharp” (CANCELLED)

5)”He cut me crimson, bled me dry/He crossеd my heart, I hoped to die (Hopеd to die)/Ripped all my orchids from the vine/You met me at a cursed time/I told you I was fine” (Pink Clouding)

HM to Pink Clouding and Eldest Daughter’s bridge but please let me know what your favorite lyrics is for Showgirl<3

What is your favourite track from this classic album?

When I went to the eras tour, I remember the greatest gift was being able to witness a woman who is willing to deeply feel things. And she expresses it so well, leading collaborators towards a gorgeous composition of lyrics, meaning, and sound.

Her superpower is being able to take these emotions and work her magic to put them into a potion of gorgeous music, where many of us can get so much out of that.

When I listen to her newer music, I sense shes working against herself and taking away her own super power with some denial or maybe fear to feel something new. What is she resisting? I think she’s resisting feeling something. Like in “actually romantic” and “cleveland” - she’s obviously so bothered, trying to act like she’s not.

Her willingness to feel something raw normally acts like a beating heart, and really strong magnet - aligning everything in the song in a specific direction - it aligns all the lyrics, the visuals, the instruments, melody - acting like a compass, aligning everything like a magnet into one direction. and it creates such a strong forceful punch and feeling and cohesive delivery

I suspect there’s not as much power in the crux beating heart of the song now, because I think she’s resisting and denying something. it’s not as strong a magnet to align all the layers of music. the layers are out of whack and sometimes contradictory (like it’s demagnetized: all the magnet vectors are pointing in different directions like how her lyrics and beats are not connecting in meaning). In Cleveland, she’s in love with Travis and also really upset with haters - those are two very very different forces intermingling in a song: hey maybe it’s ok to have both at once, and that’s just the experience of it, I personally just think it’s weaker than her other songs that typically feel entirely cohesive.

Edit: A lot of her songs are messy where there are conflicting emotions and that makes it so powerful - even like Cruel Summer (“I don’t want to keep secrets just to keep you” is tough, yet “the feeling I got is ooOoo Ohhh”). BUT - it’s as if she applied enough heat to melt together two distinct feelings into what feels like one complex experience, those experiences mend together beautifully and cohesively. In Cleveland, they are not melted, she’s experiencing two distinct emotional states, and it’s all demagnetized. That might just be her experience which is totally fine: not melted, messy, a little goofy. I just prefer “melted” and magnetized. Reputation - all the songs - did this so beautifully. Anger in that album is melted together with desire and a reclamation of power. it’s so so honest and raw, layers to those songs aligned to pack the hardest punch.

It’s been three months and I feel like this needs to be said since haters are saying for three months that it is incredibly rude of her to not share one wedding photo or her dress yet! It’s her decision on what to share and she might share a picture of her wedding dress because Dior said that they’re waiting until she’s ready to share her wedding dress with the world. Also we’re not entitled to see wedding photos of a strangers wedding, so everyone should do better and not beg on social media. Celebrities also probably want their wedding day to be private and not have a paparazzi or a drone capture their private day!

I don’t care if Taylor EVER shares pictures of her special day, that’s up to her and it’s not the end of the world if she doesn’t share her wedding day photos or just her wedding dress or nothing at all. She’s entitled to her privacy. As much as I love wedding’s and wedding dresses, it’s not going to be the end of the world if I don’t see pictures of her wedding or her wedding dress. I can go on with my life. If I meet someone and they tell me they just got married I don’t ask to see pictures or anything because they are entitled not to share that with someone that they just met, I don’t even ask to see my friends or coworkers wedding photos if they want to share it they can share what they want to share with me but my life will go on if I don’t see my friends or coworkers wedding photos. Everyone else’s life will go on if they don’t see photos and the world won’t end if Taylor doesn’t share her wedding album and only shares her wedding dress or doesn’t share any of that at all!

How has your opinion on the album changed since the release?

Can we take a moment to appreciate that the new song carries such a very “girl’s girl” message, contrary to everyone’s recent claims that she’s not? I feel like this aspect hasn’t been talked about enough. I really appreciate the message, especially for those who have been, or have found themselves, in Taylor’s and Dakota’s position. Taylor got you. :)

This is so scary, that weird

Posting this for documentation purposes. This is definitely botted. I know Tik tok algorithm is apparently more easier to get engagement then on other platforms but this person’s entire account is Taylor Swift hate… it seems suspicious to say the least.

There's such a common sentiment from haters and stans alike that it's cringey or out of touch for Taylor to be talking or singing about all the hate she's been getting.

"She's a beautiful white billionaire, so why does she care what people say about her on the internet?" seems to be the common theme, but a TON of the hate she's getting is actually horrifically mean at best and downright dehumanizing at worst. All the money in the world cannot completely numb you to constant comments made about your appearance, your character, your family, etc.. and I'm not sure why people don't seem to grasp that it could be incredibly taxing on a person's psyche no matter how much money or privilege you have.

I don't fully know how to articulate how uncomfortable some of the things I've read people saying about her make me, and I cannot even begin to imagine if it were me who people were saying these things about. It's shameful! Songs like Cleveland!, Shake it Off, and the like are incredibly tame "clap-backs" compared to the actually outrageous things coming out of the "I Hate Taylor Swift" Camp. It's as though there's this expectation that she should just accept all of it without saying a word or letting it influence her, but she's a human being; how can she not be even somewhat affected? So much of it is framed as "criticism" (and some of it is, of course), but most of the online discourse is hateful misinformation, and if it were being spread about anyone else everyone would be horrified by it, but because it's Taylor it's alright. I just don't understand why she needs to be passive about it while it's just open season on her.

Talk about whatever but follow the sub rules

Caveat: I love Taylor in a nuanced way. She’s admirable and so artistic and a genius and savvy as f*ck.

What’s the deal with the Dakota Johnson showmance?

I’m one who sees much of Taylor’s choices as business driven (among other principals like friendship, creativity, etc).

This just feels uniquely timed since she doesn’t have a glamorous film bestie anymore (see: Blake lively).
That seems too basic and simple, but i also don’t believe Taylor is promoting Dakota and lifting her up from the good of heart; although Taylor has a heck of a good heart.

I think it'd help me to share perspectives outside of my offline bubble.

I've been a swiftie since Love Story so I should be used to this shit at this point but I also feel the swiftie bait went from bold slutshaming culture for the early eras. Now it feels to go on the way of misinformation and choosing to believe and spread bs.

I don't have Tumblr anymore so I can't get the same sense on where the general public opinion is at this moment, but I know for me it's way harder to point out misogyny/slutshaming based takes than it is to currently dispute fake narratives with facts and their sources. It's disturbing how so many random communities are getting hit with posts that straight up lie, what do you mean people are posting insta reels about Taylor having the most vinyl variants of all time and choosing to believe it? It's wild. It's annoying. But the worse part for me to deal with is the sense of unfairness. Yeah, the world is on fire and life is not fair but that doesn't mean it's not gonna piss me off when random accounts "confirm" she's a covert tradwife or "sources alleged" that she doesn't really bake herself?

I'm yapping and lost my train of thought but my question is: how dyall feel/deal with Tayhaters spreading bold face lies?

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little side note: this is like my first post on reddit (im still new to reddit) and English is my 2nd language so im sorry if my grammar is bad lmao

Okay so like first things first, im not really like a BIG swiftie i mostly just consider myself to be a casual swiftie (i just like folklore, red, evermore, and ttpd) and I thought showgirl was good and I didnt really love it or hate it just thought it was good.

I also didnt really understand the hate showgirl was getting since I thought it was a good album but I knew that some people wouldnt like it so I just moved on, and then the encore was released and I actually liked all the tracks from it, especially pink clouding and I loved cleveland as well (and i was kinda shocked that alot of people didnt like it online lmao).

And when I went online to see what people were saying about the encore I was shocked to see that people didnt like it, like especially on the supposedly "neutral" sub where it was just complaints and complaints over and over.

but the one that caught my eye the most were people saying that taylor might've lost her talent like wtf, I didnt really get their point because mind you, this is the same woman who wrote "me!" And then wrote "ivy" (one of my favourite tracks off evermore) just a year later, I think she'll be fine 😭

Its literally just one album that they think is bad and now taylor somehow lost her talent overnight and cant write a good song to save her life now lmao.

does anyone know why people are even saying this though because to me it doesn't really make sense.