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I didn’t rate this song that highly but I’m surprised it’s out this early - I figured as it’s an early track in the running order it might do better.
In all honesty, I find most of the lyrics clunky in this, not just the Charlie Puth/Golden retriever one.

The line about putting rings on different fingers is clumsy. I get what she was going for but for me, this stream of consciousness feels so unnatural and removes me from the feelings she’s trying to convey.
 
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You're in self-sabotage mode
Throwing spikes down on the road
But I've seen this episode and still loved the show
Who else decodes you?
And who's gonna hold you like me?

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Worth an 8 for that first bit of the chorus alone idc!
 
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“Cassandra” is one that never wholly clicked with me, I’m sorry. In similar fashion to what I said in my elimination of “thanK you aIMee”… I’m kind of tired of her retreading old lyrical ground – even if there’s a slight twist to it – it’s a bit boring. In the same way that “thanK you aIMee” deals with the Kim Kardashian conflict by intertwining and blurring it with other experiences she had in school, “Cassandra” intertwines Greek mythology with her own life.

I have very limited knowledge of Greek mythology because, frankly, I don’t really care about it, so correct me if I’m wrong. The myth tells that Cassandra was cursed by Apollo – giving her the curse that she would see the future, but no one would believe her. She foresaw the Trojan Horse and tried to warn the people of it, but no one believed her until it happened. There’s apparently a version of this myth where she was cursed by snakes (…I know).

“Cassandra” is another track about the Kim Kardashian situation – specifically, the phone call that started the whole mess. Essentially, with this song, Taylor intertwines her own story with Cassandra’s myth. She contrasts her own experience with the phone call, where she knew the truth that the call was edited, but no one believed her.

I understand that this is a new twist on her telling her own experience in 2016, but it doesn’t make it any less tired. “mad woman” from folklore pulled from the same experience and sounds exactly like this. In fact, they sound so close to each other that Swifties kept begging for the track to be mashed up during The Eras Tour.

All of this said, I do think there’s a phenomenal line here with “When it’s ‘burn the bitch’, they’re shrieking / When the truth comes out, it’s quiet” is phenomenal.” It almost makes the song worth it, almost.



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Pure Shores said:
the falsetto “who’s gonna hold you like me?” really sticks in my head.
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This.

-M- said:
I feel like it's one of the most straightforward pop songs on the record
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And this.

and harkening back to a sound of her last few releases which were a tad more instant for me are exactly why this got one of my few 10's on TTPD. This does not bode well for how we rank the others because a couple of my other 10's have been dragged multiple times in the thread so I know they won't last long.
 
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ffff I was planning to send my commentary for my 0 and 11 this week, expecting my 0 to last much longer than it did.

Oh well. Here goes I guess.

Do you girls remember when Reputation came around and we did the Taylor rate (Hi @ohnostalgia miss u x) and... apparently nobody, gun to their head, could remember how "So It Goes" went? Well, TTPD is that multiplied by 10. I used to think that bad songs were bad because they commited one of two sins: 1)extremely boring or 2)actively bad (stream Love Profusion!). TTPD is quietly revolutionary in a sense, because it is both. I listen to it and the second it ends I forget everything about it. I actively listen to it and I truly, truly think it's garbage, and that's even before reaching the Puth verse. That's just the rotten cherry on top of a shit.

There's no climax, the production is bland even by Jack standards, the lyrics are what they are, but most of all, it must be said, she truly sucks at stream-of-consciousness style tracks. She is a gifted lyricist when she wants to, but she still cannot handle this style of writing. She's no Alanis, Tori or Fiona (or Natalie, stream That Thay!!!). These women use stream of consciousness to express how their feelings and thoughts run faster than their pen or their voice. Taylor uses it... to prove that she's a great lyricist I guess? But the result sounds like she's reading an AI generated information leaflet. Girl, close the damn Thesaurus!

There's just no gusto to this. It's like a black hole in music form: big, excessive, it sucks your energy away and yet it serves nothing.

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Cleanse your ears:

 
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Catching up a bitsy:

"Lie to Girls" is so misunderstood, and here she lies in the dirt. Shame.

The Taylor cold cuts are hitting yet I actually kinda like "Cassandra".
 
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The timing of this elimination is killing me.

I don’t have much to say about this track other than it reminds me so much of The Eras Tour. For those of you that didn’t attend the biggest tour of all time by all metrics in its second iteration, “The Alchemy” is the song that plays over the speaker after the show. I will always remember walking down from the penultimate row at Wembley Stadium with some of my best friends after having one of the most special nights of my life.

As for the song itself, I think it’s cute.



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