Two phenomena has unleashed the launch of Taylor Swift’s new album, ‘The Life of A Showgirl’. An expected one: the top of the sales lists has been perched, taking a couple of previous records and confirming it as the main superstar pop of the moment. Another not so much: a the Swifties They have not finished convincing the product. That The specialized criticism He has Ojeriza Taylor Swift has nothing strange, but … his own fans? Is the status quo In the paradisiaca Villa Taylor?
One hundred million nioles. The album arrived at the stores on October 3 and immediately beat his first records: 2.7 million copies on its first day alone in the US, beating the previous Swift record, being the second highest sales figure in a week in history (only ” of Adele goes ahead). As we havethe movie-documentary that accompanies the launch, ‘The Official Release Party of A Showgirl’ raised almost 50 million dollars in its first weekend in the US.
A few criticisms. Swift’s new has been said to be “A musical thread just friendly“. That “His music has never been so unattractive“. What is a”masterpiece CRINGE“. That is full of” classic design pop songs, with standard stanza and chorus arrangements and rarely exceed four minutes “(And it’s not a praise). And that “it is more enjoyable if you do not take Taylor Swift – the artist, the character, the person— too seriously“But of course, criticism. Who pays for pitchfork at this point?
Fans disappointment. The Swifties More loyal are also experiencing some disappointment. The more or less objective causes, or that enter the most conventional musical analysis are innumerable. There seems to be a certain consensus in which The letters and musical complexity It is very far Of those who are considered their best albums, ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ (and that ‘Wood’, a song full of sexual references trying to make a kind of Sabrina Carpenter for all audiences, is a bit embarrassing). There are those who point to their fiance, Travis Kelce, It is a terrible museand has made the diva enter an era of artistic conformism far away from the music he made up when he had a six -year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn.
Criticism and more criticism. In Tiktok the thing is getting, as expected, even more passionate and personal: innumerable Accounts are criticizing heroften defending that the frivolous and disconnected approach from public opinion and what happens in the world has made this new album isolated in a vacuum, In a kind of bubble that emphasizes that we are not facing a “real” artist, but before a diva, with problems outside his fans. Criticism about their way of doing business with innumerable variants and added to the album that convert the experience of launch into a Festival of microtransactions.
It defends itself. After a week of criticism, Taylor Swift made an appearance in the podcast ‘The Zane Lowe Show‘by Apple Music and commented that his reaction before all this is to “embrace chaos.” He also made his version of “The bad press is also a press”: “If it is the first week since the launch of my album and you mention my name or the title, you are helping.” He added: “I respect people’s subjective opinions very much about art. I am not the art police. (…) Our goal as artists is to be a mirror.”
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