as a longtime taylor swift fan, this album is such a bummer. for years it felt like she wrote songs that spoke to the core of the female experience at its most vulnerable. it felt like she lived and learned in parallel with her listeners, and that feeling is gone
i don’t really like people being like “y’all said this about midnights” “y’all said this about ttpd” because i genuinely liked both of those albums on first listen and only certain songs needed to grow on me but this one just truly isn’t hitting for me as a whole
i think i’m disappointed because lyrically a lot of these songs come off as juvenile & out of touch touch and nothing tied the songs together thematically despite it being marketed as a look into the life of a showgirl~~~ it felt like the life a facebook millenial