#501

Billy no mates over here

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#502

Really love how hard she’s trying not to laugh during the ‘straight to hell’ bits.

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#503

‘I got wasted like all my potential’

Oh, Taylor :joy::sob: how do you think normal, truely under achieving people feel?

Such waste, so multi platinum selling artist.

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#504

Truly ffs

#505

Can’t remember if this is earlier or later than the original date

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#506

I think the original date was the 27th. I was expecting the worst, given other releases have brrn pushed back, this year, but from memory, not this time.

As an aside, I saw an apparent photo of one of the vinyl and it looked lovely.

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#507

Yeah, saw the email and was thinking it would be next year or something.

Thought it would, the Lover vinyl is a thing of beauty.

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#508

I still think the middle section is easily the best bit of the album and it makes the rest look worse by comparison - but the combination of lockdown 2 and the autumn/winter weather is really making Folklore start to click for me. Perfect November vibes innit?

Think I have to be honest with myself and say it’s better than Positions (“PERVO YOU DON’T NEED TO COMPARE WOMEN IN POP” :sob: I know! I just meant in my end of year rankings! Not that I’m even ranking that much stuff because it’s fairly unusual for me to really like an album)

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#509

Unrelated to Folklore chat, but Cruel Summer really is sensational isn’t it.

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#510
#511

Yeah I’m digging right back into this in the evenings at the moment. Lovely.

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#512

Just re-visted lover based on this (well my re-cut that removes the duffers) and it’s great - and you’re absolutely right, Cruel Summer is the standout.

Realised I had no idea what she was saying in one part of ‘I think he knows’ though, which after asking @squandered and being told I was a fool who couldn’t hear properly, it turns out she couldn’t either.

The line is ‘like I want you, bless my soul’, she reckoned it was ‘like I want you, let’s not talk’, while I obviously was hearing the totally sensible ‘Like I want you, Let’s sluteau’.

Amazing that I had never questioned this.

#513

actually lost it here :smiley:

what did you think it meant??

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#514

you know… like a slutty chateau trip? maybe?

I don’t know, didn’t think about it too hard - she can make up words if she wants!

#515

Out of interest, what have you removed? I was going to do a recut that removed tracks AND reordered the remaining tracks (I think it’s a poorly sequenced album) but never got round to it

#516

Mine is only slightly re-ordered (why was lover track 3? completely kills the momentum of cruel summer), but I was very harsh and cut a lot of it… but what’s left is great:

I Forgot That You Existed
Cruel Summer
I Think He Knows
The Archer
Miss Americana
Cornelia Street
Lover
False God
Afterglow

#517

Bit harsh on death by a thousand cuts - that probably should be in there to round it to a nice 10 tracks.

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#518

Oh wow, you really went for it. I think I’d only remove London Boy, You Need To Calm Down, ME and the one with the Dixie Chicks. The problem is more in the sequencing than the songs themselves I think, too many slow/quiet ones in the second half

#519

those were the main offenders for sure, but I didn’t like ‘the man’ and also found the last two a bit nothingy.

Think I’m quite harsh on her though, I also cut reputation down to 9 tracks! folklore made it to 12 though, so that’s something!

#520

Ooh, interested in the Reputation cut…

I think it’s better than most give it credit for but I really like Ready For It and Look What You Made Me Do, which were both panned on release :smiley: Gorgeous is awful though.

Managed to get a guy I fancied (very briefly a DiSer when I wasn’t even a teenager) to enjoy 1989 and Folklore :sunglasses: