SNL’s caricature of Carlson is stuck in 2021-era “sexy green M&M” content because his current output of antisemitic conspiracy theories is almost identical to those of the lefty creative circles that the show’s writers run in.
With the Encore tracks included, our lists are now as follows:
13. Patient Zero, 4th out of 12
14. Cleveland, 11th out of 12
15. Pink Clouding, 9th out of 11
16. Babylon, 2nd out of 10
TLOAS's weighted score increases to 0.60, rank is unchanged.
Fearless has an exemplary “main album” with some just-okay deluxe/vault tracks, while Midnights’ best songs other than Anti-Hero/YOYOK are all deluxe.
Also each main album has 13 songs lol
Fearless and Midnights mirror each other in a way, they both are more pop-based then the preceding album and less musically diverse than the succeeding one, both spawned megahit singles, but… (1/2)
This is pretty different from my own vibes-based ranking, averaging scores pushed down albums with larger sample sizes (Fearless, Midnights) and pushed up those with smaller ones (Evermore, TLOAS).
This is pretty different from my own vibes-based ranking, averaging scores pushed down albums with larger sample sizes (Fearless, Midnights) and pushed up those with smaller ones (Evermore, TLOAS).
Track 23-25’s ranked
1. Timeless 💜
2. I Hate It Here 🤍
3. Babe ❤️
4. Don’t You 💛
5. Message in a Bottle ❤️
6. Thank You Aimee 🤍
7. That’s When 💛
8. I Look in People’s Windows 🤍
9. Bye Bye Baby 🤍
Track 21/22’s ranked
1. Mr. Perfectly Fine 💛
2. Is It Over Now? 🩵
3. Hits Different 💙
4. Better Man ❤️
5. Foolish One 💜
6. You’re Losing Me 💙
7. Castles Crumbling 💜
8. How Did it End? 🤍
9. Nothing New ❤️
10. So High School 🤍
11. We Were Happy 💛
10/12 albums are finished:
1. Folklore (0.28)
2. Evermore (0.38)
3. Speak Now (0.43)
4. 1989 (0.56)
5. The Life of a Showgirl (0.60)
6. Lover (0.627)
7. Midnights (0.632)
8. Reputation (0.637)
9. Fearless (0.66)
10. Taylor Swift (0.81)
A lot of music journalists’ hate for Swift, like many other issues in the journalism industry, is rooted in overprivileged NYC gentrifiers resenting what their family back in Indiana likes.
I actually have heard Choosin’ Texas, because it played twice in ten minutes on the car radio when I was in an uber last month (I use my own Spotify when I’m driving myself).
It wasn’t bad, it just inspired no reaction at all from me.