https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/68850/1/are-swifties-turning-on-taylor-swift-the-life-of-a-showgirl-album-fan-reaction
dazed wrote a really interesting article about swifties and taylor
The pop megastar’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has left her fandom divided: while some Swifties are as devout as ever, others believe
Amy was disappointed by Swift’s latest release, The Life of a Showgirl. “I was expecting a complex piece about the reality of being a showgirl – crashing in a bathtub after a show, hiding in European cities, and FaceTiming from planes. But I’m not really sure what we got,” she says.
“Lyrically, it’s all over the place. It sounds like what her haters think her music sounds like.” She adds that she has seen a “mostly critical” reaction from her fellow fans, too.
“We all love her and know she can do better. I just hope she takes some time off, gets back to her roots, and comes to us with more of an album than a product [...] but unfortunately this really is her dumbest album yet.”
27-year-old Will, while ordinarily a fan of Swift, is not a fan of the new album. “Ever since her debut, Taylor Swift has possessed an innate ability for storytelling,” he says, explaining that the singer’s lyricism has always been the main draw for him.
“I personally do not care for The Life of a Showgirl at all. I found the lyrics, which have always been her strong suit, to be superficial and basic.” He describes one line from ‘Eldest Daughter’ – “but I’m not a bad bitch, and this isn’t savage” – as “straight up cringy”.
Parisa, 28, feels similarly. “I keep trying to relisten to The Life of a Showgirl, to maybe come to terms with her new sound, but it’s just very different to her usual lyrics that have a deeper meaning,” she says. “The songs don’t reflect the Taylor we’ve known who’d reference Aristotle and Greek mythology"
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