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deadass, we need to kill him.
But then who is going to do the Billie/Dua write-ups...
Radical Optimism bar like 3-4 tracks can go expeditiously at this point.
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HIGHEST
10 x 7 (@sexercise, @Ashling92, @Babyface, @DJHazey, @fatyoshi, @Euphoria, @Music Is Life & Death)
LOWEST
3 x 3 (@BEST FICTION, @Daniel_O, @Plethorya)
“The Bolter” is such a beautiful song. It reminds me so much of the early Taylor songs that I fell in love with all those years ago. In particular, there’s a certain feeling that this song gives me that reminds me so much of the Fearless era. There’s a playfulness to “The Bolter” that immediately evokes the sounds of Fearless.
I mentioned how this track sonically reminds me of Fearless, but I feel that the lyricism here is reminiscent of the storytelling in folklore where she blurred the lines between fact and fiction to tell a story. In this case, I think this song is mostly fictitious but the core of it – a song about someone who runs away whenever someone starts getting too close. In part, I think it’s about Taylor reminiscing about past relationships (rather than recent ones, like most of the album does).
I absolutely adore the production on here – it’s one of Aaron’s best on this album. I love it so much it made me go out of my way and break my promise of only buying one vinyl variant per album, where I went out of my way to get the vinyl with this song tacked on at the end… and then I got the other two I was missing so I had all the bonus tracks… and then I got THE ANTHOLOGY. I hate her.
Radical Optimism bar like 3-4 tracks can go expeditiously at this point.
Radical Optimism better not be going anywhere yet!
Goddammit! I stan The Bolter, should've bumped it up to a 10. That chorus is such a satisfying cadence, the way she approaches each run of it a little differently is a nice touch too. This one feels like a natural successor to the also underrated Dorothea while also being buried in the tracklist so I didn't expect much but in a world where a lot of Taylor songs can feel workshopped to death, this one is refreshingly effervescent.
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I don’t even care about The Bolter but the way these Taylor eliminations are going I fully expect Guilty as Sin to take out at like #75 and me to want to burn this place to the ground.
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The Bolter's always felt like a hit of fresh air in the back half of an album that can be a little stuffy and intense. I definitely get that old school Taylor nostalgia feel, it has a sweetness to it that I adore.
Desert Eagle is sexy, funky, and fascinating. Proud of my 10 here and I wish she'd gone further with it.
Coincidence is so fucking fun. The '70s folk campfire vibes threw me the fuck off the first time I heard the album, but upon learning it was one of a few songs directly making fun of Shawn Mendes' current Be Here Now/Kumbaya, My Lord hippie-fuckboy era, I soon found it irresistible. I'm charmed by Sabrina's sense of humor and I just find the song to be very cheeky and funny. Love her.
Fresh Out The Slammer was always going to bomb (she places all of her least-liked, more subdued songs as Track 7s if you haven't noticed by now), but I have a soft spot for it. It's similar to (career-high) tracks like So It Goes, where she's just vibing, not even trying to create a single or even something super catchy, but rather trying to sustain a slow-burning atmosphere. It's delicious and it works. Those who get it get it.
And I've always enjoyed Coffee. Echoing @RainOnFire here, I've always found it very affecting. When I first heard the album I was so convinced it was going to be a fan favorite. I was wrong! But for me, her vocal performance here is a highlight of the album, and it pairs beautifully in the tracklist next to Casual. Coffee's underrated, luvs.
Desert Eagle is sexy, funky, and fascinating. Proud of my 10 here and I wish she'd gone further with it.
Coincidence is so fucking fun. The '70s folk campfire vibes threw me the fuck off the first time I heard the album, but upon learning it was one of a few songs directly making fun of Shawn Mendes' current Be Here Now/Kumbaya, My Lord hippie-fuckboy era, I soon found it irresistible. I'm charmed by Sabrina's sense of humor and I just find the song to be very cheeky and funny. Love her.
Fresh Out The Slammer was always going to bomb (she places all of her least-liked, more subdued songs as Track 7s if you haven't noticed by now), but I have a soft spot for it. It's similar to (career-high) tracks like So It Goes, where she's just vibing, not even trying to create a single or even something super catchy, but rather trying to sustain a slow-burning atmosphere. It's delicious and it works. Those who get it get it.
And I've always enjoyed Coffee. Echoing @RainOnFire here, I've always found it very affecting. When I first heard the album I was so convinced it was going to be a fan favorite. I was wrong! But for me, her vocal performance here is a highlight of the album, and it pairs beautifully in the tracklist next to Casual. Coffee's underrated, luvs.
This rate editing Taylor's album down to a reasonable length before the top 100. Our power!
Can you really call it editing when the songs are basically being picked at random though...
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@Music Is Life & Death has already dragged me for this but The Bolter was one of my two lowest remaining Taylor scores. I just haven't connected with it. It's possible though that it just slipped through the cracks due to the sheer amount of songs on the album? Who knows.
Fresh Out the Slammer is solid though! I'm sad to see it go.
Fresh Out the Slammer is solid though! I'm sad to see it go.
While I’m disheartened by the chronic underscoring, every host write-up of a TTPD elimination has been so on the money and spotlighted the songwriting so beautifully that I still feel like I have at least got some pop justice. Music not the charts!
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I think you had championed the bolter in her thread which made me give it a second pass and she really is so alive in her vocal delivery in a way much of TTPD lacks. The folklore connection is also strong in her writing more about a character than herself which is always welcomed by me. It’s a moment where her and Aaron make magic out of a homespun study.
Fresh out the slammer on the other hand can’t quite escape the sleepiness of both her delivery and jacks production. Plus Taylor swift of all people using a prison metaphor for a relationship does not quite land right in my heart.