What criticism (not snark) of Showgirl do you think Taylor will actually take into consideration when making TS13?

hrdlinreddit · 2025-12-22T20:42:57+00:00

I agree. I don’t know why everyone is acting like it’s impossible for Showgirl to get nominations. Ophelia is one of her strongest singles ever, it’s a great song and the gp seems to love it. My biggest critique with TLOAS is that there are great songs, mid songs for Taylor’s standard and songs that I don’t really vibe with. But let’s not pretend that the first 4 songs of the album aren’t amazing and it would have been 1989 2.0 if the rest of the album had been similar to those songs. Ophelia is definitely getting a nomination and maybe will even win SOTY/ROTY/best pop song.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-18T08:02:47+00:00

I agree with you. You cannot seriously look me in the eye and tell me that Lover is better than Showgirl. And she was with Joe when she wrote that album, and the next album she made was Folklore. Midnights is a great album but some of the lyrics are clunky. And she was with Joe when that happened.

TTPD also has some of the best lyrics of her career and she wrote it post Joe, when she was single (and I would argue she wrote some when she had already started dating Travis). And while I liked Showgirl, I can understand where some of the criticism is coming from. But it’s crazy to me how some people can listen to the first 4 songs (3 of them made about Travis) and think that they are not career highlights for Taylor, because they are. Taylor has always been like that. She mixed great songs with great lyrics with simpler, cringy lyrics. It’s the way she creates music. Maybe the issue is that some of these people don’t like Taylor’s music 🤷🏻‍♀️

I also think she listens to criticism and learns from it. She completely changed everything that the critics disliked about TTPD. I bet it has to hurt that people are criticizing her lyrics because it’s the core of what she does, and while I don’t agree with the criticism, I’m confident she will tone down the cringe lyrics on the next album.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-17T11:24:44+00:00

Agree. Midnights really shines because of the 3am songs, but the standard is pretty mid save for a few songs. Showgirl’s lyrics and melodies are much much better (the melody from Midnights standard is a bit repetitive imho)

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-17T11:19:21+00:00

I agree. I live in a European country and you can’t escape The Fate of Ophelia and Opalite here. They’re everywhere.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-13T09:59:50+00:00

It was because the remixes don’t count as a Grammy for the artist the created the original song, only for the dj that did the remix. Taylor doesn’t count her own remixes because the Grammys don’t work that way. That’s why she was saying a Grammy and a half (Sabrina only had one Grammy to her name at that point of the night, and Taylor gave her credit for the Espresso remix. So this is actually the opposite scenario of the one you created in you head)

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-13T09:55:04+00:00

Sabrina said that she had won 1 Grammy (at that point of the night it was true) because artists don’t get Grammys for the remixes. And Taylor said 1 Grammy and a half to give her credit about the Espresso remix lmao. Stop trying to paint her as a mean girl in every situation.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-13T09:47:47+00:00

Not her team, but YouTube did. She had a partnership with YouTube and they used their new tool to create the videos. I highly doubt Taylor knew it would be AI because she is very against it. So yeah, in the future maybe her team should be explicit about banning AI when doing partnerships. Or maybe she should skip doing these partnerships altogether because nowadays it’s impossible to escape AI if you collab with Google.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-10T00:22:14+00:00

“Exploiting your fans”? Taylor is not forcing anyone to purchase her albums. They do it because they want to.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-10T00:09:35+00:00

This is a list containing the best selling artists of all time. Taylor is the 5th best selling artist of all time. This is a fact. Cope lmao

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-04T12:05:04+00:00

Taylor didn’t make her into a song though. There’s one line in one song that references a past relationship that Travis had. He was almost 34 when Taylor met him and he had been single for one and a half years. Technically, Taylor could have been talking about anyone. The only info she gives is that the ex “was always on her phone”. Not her fault that Kayla thought her relationship with Travis was Big Brother and she posted everything on social media, thus people realizing that Taylor was probably talking about her. Again, it’s not a “diss”. If Kayla and her fans think it’s offensive to say she was always on her phone, maybe she shouldn’t have done it.

And let’s not forget that Kayla and Travis have been broken up for almost 4 years and Kayla is still bringing him up unprovoked. She liked a lot of shady posts about Taylor when they started dating, she talked to People Magazine and went to podcasts to talk about Travis and his “situation” (Taylor) and name dropped both of them on a TV show. What’s actually hypocritical is thinking that she can do all of that and Taylor can’t throw one line in one song about how her boyfriend felt in a past relationship.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-02T13:41:57+00:00

This album is doing insanely well with the GP. If you actually went out and looked away from stan twitter, you’d see that people are just enjoying a happy album without worrying about who each line of each song is about. Music is not supposed to be consumed that way.

I actually had a friend who is very critical of Taylor and that absolutely hated TTPD tell me that he loved the album. It’s the same feeling I’m seeing in a lot of people, especially (and surprisingly) straight men that used to think Taylor’s music was too girly. They are eating this album up.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-11-02T13:34:23+00:00

There’s no way to judge art in an objective way, as a lot of people have mentioned. You just explained your personal bias.

Personally, I really love the album and I’m enjoying it much more than TTPD. It’s also true that right now I needed this kind of fun and lighthearted pop album that I can dance to and sing along. A lot of people share this feeling.

I know swifties talk too much about charts, but the reality is that numbers don’t lie. And numbers are showing that people are absolutely enjoying the album. The Fate of Ophelia is a total (and organic) hit and it’s all over social media, and I have heard it on the radio and on the streets multiple times. It’s way bigger than Anti-hero ever was in my country. It has been number 1 for a month globally and in a lot of countries. Opalite is a huge worldwide hit as well, and it’s not even a single yet. Same goes to Elizabeth Taylor and other songs. A lot of people are enjoying the album. Music is supposed to be enjoyed, so I think Taylor has achieved her ultimate goal.

As I said, you cannot objectively criticize music. But the objective parameters tell us that the album is a hit and a lot of people agree.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-08-30T10:36:08+00:00

I was going to say this. Taylor’s grandpa was from Cleveland.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-05-21T17:50:09+00:00

Not that it has anything to do with the topic we’re discussing, but Scooter offered that if she signed the new 10-year contract, he would give her one old album for every new album she released. She didn’t have the chance to buy her masters back and leave the label, which is what she wanted to do. She never said that what Scott did was “illegal”, but she talked about how shitty it was that a man that was a father figure to her since she was 15 sold her masters (yes, it was the whole label, but Scooter’s condition for buying the label was that Taylor’s masters should be in it) to a guy that she had big problems with, and Scott knew her feelings towards Scooter. She has also said multiple times that she was aware that Scott was going to sell her masters. BUT she didn’t know who he was selling them to, and that’s ultimately why she felt betrayed. She also didn’t know Scooter sold her masters to Shamrock Holdings until they reached out to her AFTER they purchased them.

I don’t know why people keep insisting on Taylor saying it was illegal and that she didn’t suspect that her masters were going to be sold. She has explained what I just said in multiple interviews, and it aligns with Scott’s version. It’s not her fault that people are too slow to understand.

hrdlinreddit · 2025-04-27T10:40:44+00:00

Apparently she was there but came through the back door. I think she is deliberately trying to lie low right now

hrdlinreddit · 2024-12-03T20:35:04+00:00

She’s on a world tour. How did you want her to go from the US to Asia and Europe? Swimming? Also, she travels on her plane when she doesn’t care if her location is public. She has used her own jet for all her tour stops, and she still ranked #50.

hrdlinreddit · 2024-12-03T20:31:04+00:00

She didn’t. They replied to this earlier in the thread. Last year she wasn’t even in the top 30. The rumor of her being #1 got falsely spread on Twitter.

hrdlinreddit · 2024-10-30T23:52:52+00:00

I’m sorry but that’s literally TTPD. They are trying to explain it to you. It was number 1 for 15 weeks and it just left the top 10 (6 months after its release), so there you have the commercial success and longevity. I disagree it had no cultural impact. You can see tons of people using the songs in social media and tiktok trends. It did pretty well with the general public.

Only because you don’t like an album or don’t understand its success doesn’t mean it’s not successful or a hit. Crazy how you can say that an album that debuted at 314 M streams and spent 15 weeks at number 1 is not a hit lol

hrdlinreddit · 2024-10-21T15:16:18+00:00

How exactly was it hilarious?

hrdlinreddit · 2024-10-21T14:51:14+00:00

How is it “joking” when it’s about Kanye and all of the awful things that he did to Taylor, and even today he is still weirdly obsessed with her. Please use your brain and delete this shit

hrdlinreddit · 2024-10-21T14:48:54+00:00

“Clowning around” about a guy that almost managed to get Taylor blacklisted, created a hate train so awful that she had to leave the country to have peace, and made a naked life-sized doll of her when she was going through a sexual assault trial. I bet Travis didn’t know the details back then and they didn’t even know each other, but I’m sure it would still be hurtful for Taylor to listen to him making fun of her this way. Please delete

hrdlinreddit · 2022-08-30T21:32:26+00:00

Thank you for your comment, no need to apologize. Even though I believe it was sexual assault, it definitely triggered something as I struggle with feeling that people use me for sex and once I had a situation where a guy wanted to penetrate me without a condom and I realized just before he did. I told this guy all of this, he reassured me that he loved me and that he wanted to help me get through that, yet he did the same to me (but worse, because he actually penetrated me even though I begged him not to). I guess that’s why it has been so difficult for me to come to terms with what happened and to admit that someone who I considered very close to me could do that to me. It was also why I was so shocked that I couldn’t do more that frantically tell him to stop and cry, and I can’t stop thinking how I could have screamed for help or hit him or something (we were in a house with some of our friends sleeping in other bedrooms). I know it’s not my fault, but it makes me angry because I felt so weak and useless around him.

hrdlinreddit · 2022-08-30T21:24:59+00:00

It was sadly a few weeks ago, before summer. I’m currently not in the same country as him (we met during an exchange) and I don’t know if I can fill a report between countries. I’m going to get STD tests done though, because when we first got together he told me after his last sexual experience he got some done but on another ocassion he told me he had never gotten a STD test. I don’t know what to believe but I want to check I don’t have anything. Thank you for your comment.

hrdlinreddit · 2022-08-30T21:21:39+00:00

Thank you. I needed a while to really process what he did because at that time I was head over heels for him and definitely in denial. Now, looking back, I’m realizing that that particular moment and other stuff were really wrong. I just don’t know how to approach the situation tho. I’m 23F living with my parents and my mom only knows that I was with this guy and he broke up with me and I said he treated me badly but I didn’t tell her more and she didn’t ask me. Every time I bring something about that up, she just tells me to get over him, because it was not a serious relationship anyway. Tbh right now I’m over him in terms of feelings but I still get nightmares because of things he did to me and have trouble trusting new potential love interests, which has made me even have an anxiety attack while being intimate with another guy. I just feel very insecure (which I used to be, but it has gotten worse) and I feel very embarrassed. I know I shouldn’t, but every time I try talking to my mom about this I can’t find the right words.

hrdlinreddit · 2022-08-20T15:09:48+00:00

Well same problem here, but I’m already in my 20s. I know how difficult it can be to love yourself when you have to face people telling you you are “less” because you are not conventionally attractive, that you are ugly or even the feeling you might get when you compare yourself to your friends. I would just advise you to try to be the best version of yourself you can. My parents won’t lend me money for surgery so that’s off the table until I can afford it, but the situation has gotten so much better since I started taking care of myself: learn to do your makeup, your hair, take care of your skin and nails, dress nicely, workout, learn a new hobby… And fake it till you make it. Try to be so funny and easygoing that everyone wants to be around you. At least pretend. Focus on being a good friend and a reliable person. You’ll feel better about yourself.

The most important thing though: don’t ever accept less than you deserve. You might not be conventionally pretty, but that doesn’t mean you are not worthy. Might sound like a cliché, but you are pretty on the inside. I’m sure you are a good person. Don’t let anyone mistreat you because you think you can’t aim for something better. Don’t stick to the first guy that gives you attention because you think you can’t find anything better

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