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"katy perry becomes the first pop star to go to space" have you listened to down bad

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How it feels being a longtime Taylor fan that remembers when there used to be two years between new music releases.

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Now I'm not one to clown BUT WHERE TF IS REPUTATION??? HMM??

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So I saw this review of the deluxe tracks for Short n' Sweet and I have to say I ~absolutely~ agree. That being said, just to add *my opinion* that Bad Reviews really doesn't work as a closing track to the album for me.

Especially as we know Needless to Say exists, is missing from the tracklist and would be the PERFECT closing tack. Like that was my initial reaction when it was released back in August last year: "This should have been the closer". But after the 2 final slow, sad songs on the standard tracklist, Lie To Girls and Don't Smile, I could understand why it was initially cut. But with these bonus tracks added there's really no excuse? Like it makes sense chronologically/thematically for Needless to Say to come straight after Bad Reviews?!

Like the Deluxe album (I would've preferred she kept the Short n' Sweet(er) title or Short n' Sweet(est) in line with emails i can't sent fwd: over simply Deluxe, but I digress), is 17 tracks longs which is a really weird number for an album? It's not even a physical copy thing because CDs can contain up to 99 tracks and 12" vinyls can hold between 4-7 tracks each side, so having the extra final track that would bring the total up to an even number would actually make more sense? Like I don't get it? I suppose it was the less popular of the 2 bonus tracks she put out last summer, but even then I really can't see the issue with adding 1 more track to the deluxe edition? If a track really needed to be cut from the record, cut one of the other tracks we hadn't heard yet. It's not like Needless to Say is an emotional love ballad about an ex and she no longer feels that way, it still rings true to the general experience of being a public figure and goes hand-in-hand with the themes brought up by 15 Minutes.

I'm assuming she's pulling a 'Taylor' (whom I LOVE, this is a Swiftie fan page and I know she's not the only one to do this) of stringing out the releases so people have to buy multiple copies of the same album to get the complete set of songs. In terms of streaming I don't want to have to make a playlist to have the complete setlist either, surely in terms of streams it's got to make more sense to have one record with all the streams rather than have your streams split across multiple releases anyway?

The whole multiple Midnights releases and the fact Taylor had to put out a 1989 (Taylor's Version) Deluxe (which still doesn't contain the full tracklist, where is Sweeter Than Fiction? And same goes for Fearless (Taylor's Version) and If This Was A Movie) still rubs me the wrong way. It negates the entire point of the (Taylor's Version)s from the listener's point of view, to have the complete collection, the ultimate deluxe edition of the record with better quality vocals/production (whereas the point for Taylor is obviously to reclaim her masters and also of course, money/reintroducing her back catalog to a new generation).

If I were to rework the tracklist, it would look like this:

Taste

Sharpest Tool

Please Please Please

Good Graces

Bed Chem

Coincidence

Espresso

Dumb & Poetic

Slim Pickins

Juno

Lie To Girls

Don’t Smile

15 Minutes

Busy Woman

Couldn't Make it Any Harder

Please Please Please feat. Dolly Parton

Bad Reviews

Needless to Say

To me, 15 Minutes and Needless to Say work as the bookends of the deluxe album and both discuss themes of fame and its fleetingness, being caught up in it all whilst held in contempt of the court of public opinion - but from different perspectives! To make a comparison to Taylor Swift, an almost I Can Do It With A Broken Heart-esque song and a Nothing New/Castles Crumbling "I'm too soft for all of it" style song. Busy Woman and Couldn't Make it Any Harder are also two faces of the same coin, discussing Sabrina's public perception and private reality of her sexual life. Please Please Please (feat. Dolly Parton)and Bad Reviews, not to intrude on Sabrina's personal life, are both presumably are about her relationship with Barry Keoghan - how she felt whilst dating him, hoping she knows better than her friends and family and not wanting to lose her pride and ego vs the harsh aftermath. Additionally, Needless to Say also works thematically/chronologically after Bad Reviews, as it's not just her friends and family who raised concerns about her dating Keoghan but the general public/her fans as well - and who are we to comment on what life decisions she makes, especially those concerning her private life.

I agree with the singles she chose and the general view that Bed Chem and Busy Woman should be singles, although because of Please Please Please having a feature with Dolly Parton - that was always going to get a music video. I think what they did with it 'kill off' Barry Keoghan's character (keeping in line with the theme that men never survive the Sabrina Carpenter Cinematic Universe also, presumably to save face somewhat on Sabrina's part) was the right call to make. I'm not sure if they could make a music video for Bed Chem and have it still be relatively PG-13, so I think a clip from the Short n' Sweet Tour performance would well here. And then a general tour/2024 recap video for Busy Woman as she's been so productive this last year (clips from the show, behind-the-scenes, rehearsals, costume/set design, general memories, Award shows, interviews, pop-up events, perfume launches) - thus a Busy Woman.

Anyway that's my rant for today, let me know what you think and if I'm barking up the wrong tree entirely here, please let me know *POLITELY* how I've got it wrong and I'll put my hands up and apologise.

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OMG I'M SO THICK ok. so. Maybe I'm just an idiot who only just realised, BUT. THE PIANO SCALE AT THE END OF CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE PIANO INTRO TO CHLOE OR SAM OR SOPHIA OF MARCUS. WTF DO I DO WITH THIS INFORMATION.

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and the fact that friendship bracelets wouldn't have even been a 'thing' (in the taylor swift universe) if not for a song ironically named 'you're on your own, kid'... i mean come on!

when you think about it, travis going from attempting to give taylor a friendship bracelet with his number on it at an eras tour show in kansas city to him organising her end of tour surprise party in that same city is actually so crazy

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swifties in my phone i had the time of my life fighting dragons with you

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I'M GENUINELY SO SORRY I DON'T MEAN TO BRAG BUT WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'VE GOT TO SEE (OR AM GOING TO SEE) TAYLOR, LANA, PARAMORE, CHAPPELL, SABRINA, OLIVIA, BILLIE, RAYE, STEPHEN SANCHEZ, POSTMODERN JUKEBOX, NOTHING BUT THIEVES & IMAGINE DRAGONS LIVE IN CONCERT

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thank you to everyone here who made eras tour so special. from people posting about surprise songs to everyone yelling about new outfits and sets, it's truly been an honor to share it with you. i love you all so much. end of an era.

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Original concept of the stage during ''Mastermind'' at The Eras Tour! (December 1, 2024)

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13 years ago today, Taylor Swift cut her bangs for a Vogue photoshoot and never looked back since then!

'It was a pretty interesting morning because they were like, 'we're thinking we're gonna do maybe bangs, maybe some extensions.' And I'm like, You know what, just cut it. This is vogue, why not. So I have bangs now! It's just so exciting to get to make a departure from what people usually see me looking like but still be recognizable. It's a great balance of the two.''

(On December 1, 2011)

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goodbye “gray november, i’ve been down since july,” hello “hey december, guess i’m feeling unmoored”

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Full Page UHQ Scan of The Eras Tour Book Outfit Drawings

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her calling “1, 2, 3, LGB” an eras tour tradition… she’s rewriting history again, your honor

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4 years ago today, Tumblr replied to Taylor's post on Twitter:

''Hey Taylor, how has your day been? We miss you.''

(On November 25, 2020)

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“and you stood there in front of me just close enough to touch” // “i’m reaching for you, terrified”