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if there's a problem, it's the lack of any real stompers. it's a little reserved and passive.

Agreed. I can’t tell yet how much of an issue it is. It’ll probably take weeks for me to see how the songs settle into my brain. But my initial impression is that it’s objectively a very strong album, but a little languid and dreamy for my personal taste. I like some forward momentum and build in my music, so that it doesn’t feel too…ambient? Folklore feels a little bit…sonically samey? I would’ve liked some of the songs to be a little more distinct from each other, sonically, and to have more prominent climax points.

What’s funny is that folk is one of my favorite genres of music, and pop is a bit of a detour for me. I like a strong sense of “authenticity” in my music, and pop’s polished perfection often leaves me a bit cold. Yet here, Tay is doing folk and I’m…not 100% sold?

It’s good. It’s an artistically strong album, and I like it. But I don’t think I love it?

Like, I’ve listened to Folklore three times through, and I still can’t really pick out any songs that are clear favorites?

also, an interesting choice to write a song whose imagined love object is a woman, with the thinnest possible conceit of being written from a male point of view

I love the idea of “James” actually being female, and the songs being about a lesbian love triangle. And I’m curious to know whether excluding pronouns was deliberate on Taylor’s part (I hope it was). That said, I am strongly of the belief that Tay herself is as straight as a very straight arrow, and I wish the Kaylor shippers wouldn’t tinhat quite so hard (I have no problem with Kaylor, just with tinhatters in general).

TBH I think it's kind of a common problem double albums have, IE, most double albums should be single albums. But whatever, Taylor I'm sure had her own reasons for structuring it this way and the strong parts are really strong to me.

I really, really like betty. That thing where you just want to play a song on repeat.

Also did Taylor make Cardigan the first single so she can make August the second single in August. What a dork.

That said, I am strongly of the belief that Tay herself is as straight as a very straight arrow, and I wish the Kaylor shippers wouldn’t tinhat quite so hard (I have no problem with Kaylor, just with tinhatters in general).

Yeah, this is sort of why I was a bit surprised she wasn't more hesitant with it. But the album seems to be a smash hit with gay women at least judging from my timeline.

TBH I think it's kind of a common problem double albums have, IE, most double albums should be single albums.

Yeah, this is definitely part of it. Also, I think it's just a totally personal thing about my taste in music. I've never been one to put on an album and forget about it. I'm a super active listener, compulsively (I can't listen to music while reading or writing, ever, for this reason). So an album this sonically mellow is a bit of a challenge for me.

I love The National, but I can't listen to a ton of The National straight through, either, because the sound is too similar across numerous tracks and I'll get like 20 minutes in and be like, "I can't remember anything I just listened to. How many songs was that? Has there been any choruses?"

I think the songs on Folklore will grow on me the same way a lot of The National's songs grow on me. Separately.

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