BPG 2019 - THE END
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I'd have eliminated break up first but good riddance as well
Re: the tradition of the single/album campaign roll out, maybe I’m alone in this but I just...don’t find it particularly exciting? Like yes, I enjoy a good lerk like any queen but if it can be condensed in order to get the music faster I think that’s always a positive. Thankfully streaming has alleviated the need for the formalities of prolonged release strategies, so that will likely mean less traditional and more progressive album campaigns in the future. While I do think there needs to be a handle on quality control, as a victory lap Monopoly is superfluous at worst.
Yeah, now we get prolonged release strategies with no formalities outside of four Wonderland covers in the same calender year.
I had to endure 'Monopoly' live... out of nowhere. I over scored it in retrospect.
He/Him
Lose You To Love Me - I gave it a 9. Yes, I feel like Selena deserves some of the criticism she gets on here, but the song itself is actually relly beautiful. It gave me the lowest level of chills possible, and I love the lyrics and production. If it was sung by someone like JoJo it'd probably be amazing.
London Boy - A solid 7/10. The production slaps, and I find the lyrics ironically hilarious. Not surprised, but wish it had outlasted a couple songs still here.
Monopoly - My join-lowest Ari score at a 5. I just find it so boring and inessential, but I found myself bopping a tiny bit to it. Not at all upset about this though.
London Boy - A solid 7/10. The production slaps, and I find the lyrics ironically hilarious. Not surprised, but wish it had outlasted a couple songs still here.
Monopoly - My join-lowest Ari score at a 5. I just find it so boring and inessential, but I found myself bopping a tiny bit to it. Not at all upset about this though.
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SCORE: 5.345
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 2 (@savilizabeths @Subwaykid)
LOWEST SCORE: 0 x 4 (@Petty Mayonnaise @Seventeen Days @godspeed @Serg.)
MY SCORE: 3/10
What an annoyingly frantic, manic, jittering, finger-clicky, hand-clappy mess. Did Taylor steal this from the new Jonas Brothers record? Did Jack have too much sugar? His mum normally keeps all the candy in a drawer he can't reach at home!
I despise these songs that are deliberately produced to sound like some kind of glee club jam session as if they were all just in the same room with a band and it just happened when the reality is most likely that Jack Antonoff programmed every single instrument on his Dragonball-Z-sticker-emblazoned Macbook Pro and called it a day. It's also when the weird sequencing issues really start with the album where it lurches from one extreme to the next, culminating in the back half basically being a tonal ping pong match. And we're supposed to reward such demented devilry?
Also, I refuse - refuse - to believe that Taylor Swift did not get secretly married at some point last year and is waiting until the end of the era to announce it so it can be some kind of chapter closing moment in her narrative because she's crazy and literally needs one of those shots where the camera zooms out from her face, turns it into a picture in a book, before said book closes with ...and they lived happily ever after on the last page. "Paper Rings" is probably the most explicit of Lover's eighty thousand references to marriage. It also contains a reference to people getting high!!!!!! taylor is growing up!!!!!
We have so far been spared a live performance of "Paper Rings" which will no doubt be a complete lyric-mangling disaster on tour because it's one of the few uptempo songs on the album that will actually get a stadium remotely going. Pray for LoverFesters.
Also, @Laura Vanderbooben if you ever propose to me with anything other than the severed heads of my forum enemies, never mind paper rings like we own the village arts and crafts shop, we're done.
SCORE: 5.345
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 2 (@savilizabeths @Subwaykid)
LOWEST SCORE: 0 x 4 (@Petty Mayonnaise @Seventeen Days @godspeed @Serg.)
MY SCORE: 3/10
What an annoyingly frantic, manic, jittering, finger-clicky, hand-clappy mess. Did Taylor steal this from the new Jonas Brothers record? Did Jack have too much sugar? His mum normally keeps all the candy in a drawer he can't reach at home!
I despise these songs that are deliberately produced to sound like some kind of glee club jam session as if they were all just in the same room with a band and it just happened when the reality is most likely that Jack Antonoff programmed every single instrument on his Dragonball-Z-sticker-emblazoned Macbook Pro and called it a day. It's also when the weird sequencing issues really start with the album where it lurches from one extreme to the next, culminating in the back half basically being a tonal ping pong match. And we're supposed to reward such demented devilry?
Also, I refuse - refuse - to believe that Taylor Swift did not get secretly married at some point last year and is waiting until the end of the era to announce it so it can be some kind of chapter closing moment in her narrative because she's crazy and literally needs one of those shots where the camera zooms out from her face, turns it into a picture in a book, before said book closes with ...and they lived happily ever after on the last page. "Paper Rings" is probably the most explicit of Lover's eighty thousand references to marriage. It also contains a reference to people getting high!!!!!! taylor is growing up!!!!!
We have so far been spared a live performance of "Paper Rings" which will no doubt be a complete lyric-mangling disaster on tour because it's one of the few uptempo songs on the album that will actually get a stadium remotely going. Pray for LoverFesters.
Also, @Laura Vanderbooben if you ever propose to me with anything other than the severed heads of my forum enemies, never mind paper rings like we own the village arts and crafts shop, we're done.
Paper Rings is classique Taylor and I'm here. for. it.
He/Him
I gave Paper Rings an 8.5 because it's a cute, fun little bop with more crazy Taylor obsessiveness. It's a sugar rush, and I love it.
I'm pretty sure The Man (and maybe I Think He Knows? Not sure how popular that is) will probably be going fairly soon, but hopefully that'll be it in terms of Lover cuts for a while.