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Taylor Swift came out swinging Thursday night with “Look What You Made Me Do,” a boring attempt at a diss track aimed at Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. I hate that I just wrote that sentence. I want to cut all of the skin off my body, burn it and cleanse myself through the pain. Best case scenario, I mercilessly beat the song into my brain until I trick myself into liking it.
Taylor trying to go after Kim and Kanye is a bold move, but Taylor’s a bold chick. You don’t rise to “kweeeeeen” status through half measures and occasional top 50 tracks. She sits upon a throne made of platinum records. Her pedigree is unmatched. “1989” was a goddamn masterpiece (minus “Welcome To New York”, which caused more people to leave New York than move there), and “Shake It Off” is the best pop song in the last 20 years. Taylor didn’t trust her fastball and she hung a curve to Kanye. He’s about to come back twice as hard and ruthless. I expect a counter-attack by the end of the weekend, and I don’t expect it to be a proportional response.
All she had to do was make fun of Kim and Kanye for being shitty parents, Kim being a skank who ruined Kanye, Kim being a skank who made a sex tape with a C-list rapper, Kanye being a lunatic or just like 75% of the population despising them as a couple in general.
We had to suffer through Woke Katy Perry. Don’t make us suffer through Diss Track Taylor Swift. I miss the old Taylor, the old Taylor was just fine! She didn’t need to change anything! But I get it, your mid-20s is for discovering success and refining your talent. Your late 20s is for realizing that everyone wants to destroy you while trying to gain an inch in a meaningless race to the top. Maybe Taylor is just jaded like the rest of us.
However, fighting a war on two fronts — potentially three fronts if you count the scorched earth smear campaign Kris Jenner is about to launch — is foolish to the extreme. Fortunately for Taylor, Katy Perry is now so insignificant that she can be squashed like a bug in a matter of minutes. She’s already doing enough self-sabotage as it is. Her entire album is hot garbage and the video for “Swish Swish” gives Rebecca Black a run for her money.
The rest of the album better be absolute fire. Maybe she just needed to get this out of her system, because this song absolutely sucks. When you take an L like Taylor took an L last summer, you shut it down, spend time with your friends and only leave your apartment in a box (which is such a power move I can’t even stand it). Her BFFFEs, HAIM and Selena Gomez have both released bangers this year. HAIM’s new album is top notch and “Bad Liar” is a masterpiece on its own.
I have faith in Taylor Swift. She’s the biggest pop star in the world. Get back to business and just releasing heater after heater until November 10th..
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The song was not good but Kayne isn’t the king of a damn thing.
what’s a king to a god
What’s a God to a PGPer who can’t afford anything?
Wow
This comment will never get the likes it deserves, but I will hold it dear in my heart, forever.
Get back in your tuna can you dumb blow hole breather
he’s yeezus
I miss country Taylor.
Boy oh boy do I love Taylor Swift
I was invited to a meet n greet with her recently. I talked to her for 20 minutes and she never once formed a coherent sentence. Bitch is dumb as a bag of rocks
She said the old Taylor Swift is dead in the song but by the sounds of it, I hope the new Taylor is dead. #BringBackOldTaylor
How is this not old Taylor? She’s still writing songs where she blames everyone else for her bad personality
If she could just make another album like 1989 and not try to be so fake-edgy, that’d be fine…her attempting to diss Kanye and Kim is just pathetic.
Cover photo: Would 10x
You “would” anything with a pulse. 10x you are a virgin
So I guess sex with your mom doesn’t count?
I don’t hate the song, just the chorus/hook
But that’s supposed to be the best part of a song.
You’re right. But an example of another song where the chorus isn’t the best part of the song is Katy Perry’s Swish Swish. In that song the best part is when it ends.
Zzzzzinger!
I’m here to watch this album fail.
Yeah I bet nobody will buy it.
I know you’re being facetious Dave, but on a real note do people really buy music now vs streaming or torrenting? I don’t think I can name anyone I know who does.
With her stuff available on Spotify, I don’t know why anyone would make the purchase.
This we know – it will either be forever, or it will go down in flames.
Kind of like the fourth Indiana Jones movie
When you borrow from “I’m Too Sexy” in order to make a seemingly serious-sounding song, you need to reevaluate just what the hell you’re doing.
@dagoofjohn has worse takes than the completely failing @MorningJoe. Trump doesn’t forget – Sad!
Bold words after Charlottesville, but I dig it.
No need to bring real word politics into this, dude.
I also dislike this but honestly give us all a month, and we’ll be indoctrinated and in love with it. Taylor songs tend to grow on you.
If this is the song that is supposed to get eveyone pumped for the album, like Shake It Off was for 1989, needless to say this album will be hot garbage that’s gonna be all up it’s own ass trying to diss Kanye for 12 tracks that will fall short. Let’s he real, everyone’s career has to fade eventually.