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It all makes for a boundlessly energetic, soul-baring pop masterpiece—and her boldest statement yet.

which features sexual imagery of smeared lipstick on her lover's face and leaving scratches on his back, [46] [61] the narrator details how he helps her get out of her fixations and promises she will "do bad things with [him]" despite not being a "bad girl". She identified Game of Thrones influences for certain songs: "I Did Something Bad" was inspired by Sansa and Arya Stark's plot to kill Littlefinger, "Look What You Made Me Do" by Arya Stark's "kill list", and "King of My Heart" by Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drogo's romance. Now with a massively successful US tour opening for sweet soul darlings Thee Sacred Souls behind him, 2023 is sure to be a propitious year for Daptone's newest signee. You’d really think the rights holders of Taylor’s catalog would be pumping out 10,000 different variants of all of her albums. She would come over to my apartment, and we would talk and eat and talk more, and the things we talked about turned into songs.the former of which topped charts, including the US Billboard Hot 100, and broke sales and streaming records. Critic Steven Hyden considered Reputation a concept album about Swift's celebrity and said it encapsulates her attention to the conversation about her. A routinely great artist, much of Sufjan's universal appeal comes from his skills as a gifted narrator, pairing personal musings on love and devotion with commentary on American culture, whilst welding folk and electronica, the ambient and existential.

The last of which was the album's most successful radio single, [6] peaking atop three Billboard airplay charts: Pop Songs, Adult Pop Songs, and Adult Contemporary. When she tries to get diplomatic with them ("forgiveness is a nice thing to do"), she laughs at the idea. Inspired by the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, it incorporates a criminal metaphor that recurs on other tracks. In "End Game", Swift, Future, and Sheeran rap and sing about finding true love in spite of the gossip surrounding their perceived images. Now, along with Taylor's previous vinyl editions, I enjoyed all of the songs of the 'Reputation' Picture Disc edition as well, or perhaps even more as they simply 'rocked'.Despite the first few tracks about outright vengeance and anger, much of Reputation is about romantic themes of finding love, intimacy, and expressing one's vulnerability when one thinks they might have suffered too much to love again. Recorded at Hive Mind Studios in Brooklyn, NY, with the help of producer/arrangers Mike Buckley and Vincent Chiarito (both members of Charles Bradley's Extraordinaires) and crack team of a-list musicians, his upcoming album blends heavy arrangements and introspective lyrics with sophistication, leaving the listener in a blissful wash of wonderment.

In the course of a day — in the course of two minutes — you can feel like you can conquer the world, or you can feel like the biggest piece of garbage that ever existed. Swift told Entertainment Weekly that much of the album was influenced by HBO’s smash hit Game of Thrones. Deluxe Versions - For the past two years, Taylor focused on her music, her art, her lyrics and living her life.Kate Knibbs of The Ringer labelled the partnerships as "maximum commercialization" and wrote, "If [Swift] was going to be a snake, she was going to be an ultracapitalist snake. Retrospectively, music critics have opined that Reputation surpassed the initial disappointment and stood the test of time. On Slant Magazine's list of the best 2010s-decade album published in 2019, Reputation ranked at number 88. Inspired by the fantasy series Game of Thrones, she split the album's lyrical scope in two: one is about the downsides of fame and the resultant anger, and the other about love amidst the tumult. She's braggadocious on “End Game,” a languid hip-hop cut with Ed Sheeran and Future, and then sassy and sensual on “…Ready for It?