But... You didn't mention Shake it Off π€¨
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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Because it sucks π€·
That's an understatement. All her songs sound like AI slop.
You could just pass her first song to an Ai and ask it to create 1000 more and you would end up with the same emotionless, boring quality.
Except for one?
Theyβre all uninteresting background noise and do a good job of that, but actively selecting it and listening to an album is not something Iβd do.
I don't like Taylor Swift. I wish I could just "live and let live" about the whole thing, but I seem completely incapable of going 48 hours without hearing her somewhere, so I have the urge to actively fight her presence in my life.
All the songs I've heard from her kind of sound the same. I probably haven't heard that many, but I don't know for sure.
Ron Howard narrating: he had in fact heard her entire discography multiple times
Plausible as hell.
I just can't stand her voice. It's like nails on a chalkboard or a dentist drill. It physically hurts my ears.
This is only unpopular among 13 year old girls.
That's categorically untrue π
...who?
Some billionaire singer
Fair warning, I'm the mod of !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech but hear me out folks.
So I'm no stranger to posts like this at all. I'm no stranger to the peer pressure to not like her by my friends, and everything.
Back story, I had always been hard into zeppelin, pink Floyd, queen, and was one of those "yeah man this is real music". I refused to listen to anything else. It wasn't until I was broken up with over a weekend and was driving home late at night and " You Belong With Me" came on, and it just hit me all over the feels. Completely differently when you've just had your heart ripped out. I couldn't tell anyone, I felt shame because I knew my friends would make fun of me.
So I kept making fun of her trash music, it sucks, it all sounds the same, because that's what my friends did. Then 1989 and Shake it Off came out and it was such a fun song. It didn't have deep lyrics about hobbits or trees or bicycles, but it was fun. And I enjoyed it. So I bought her album. And reputation, and lover. I joined the subreddit and I was gobsmacked. People were welcoming, and loved having me there. It became our fun space where we talked about how a song made us feel, or guessing when the next tour would be.
So my view has been shaped by these memories. There is no such thing as good and bad music. There is no master ranking of songs that say this is good or bad. There are complexities, there is technical difficulty, but those are mechanical. It can't be quantified how a song makes a person feel. So yeah, you may think her songs all sound the same, that they are boring, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy them. Last weekend I both had on my TV The Delicate Sound of Thunder live bluray and the 4k copy of the Reputation stadium album.
It comes down to let people enjoy things. It brings them happiness, so why ruin that?
And final note. The trope of "only young girls like her music"; I'm saying as a near 40 year old man who dressed up with my wife to go to the eras tour, that is an incredibly sexist take.
(If you enjoy her music and want to come over, check us out at !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech. No music judgments there)
Yeah man lyrics were just better then
I unironically love Bicycle tho
I mean, I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift, but why does that one in particular make the cut? They've all always just been okay songs to bob your head to, Trouble included. Not bad, not great, just standard fare music.
I honestly have no opinion on her. There were a few times I liked her music but I am incredibly indifferent to it. Not annoyed, not bored, not excited, just increasingly reactionless.
They goats are key for me.
why does that one in particular make the cut?
Purely personal preference. I don't even know why I like it, I just do π€·
Background music at Walgreens.
I have yet to hear Kurt Cobain singing "rape me" in an elevator.
all mainstream music is unremarkable
I wonder if Taylor Swift would have any appeal if she looked average.
That very much depends on how wide or narrow your definition of "mainstream music" is.
For example, Oscar Winning Tears could be considered "mainstream music" since it's generally considered a hit and it was nominated for a UK Music Video Award, or not mainstream because it didn't crack the Top 20 of any major market.
Nobody who knows anything about anything and is reasonably sane would, however, consider the vocal performance of Raye in the song "unremarkable"..
I like the one with "nasty scar"Β
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Goat version is best version
True.
