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80
The pop star’s love life and squabbles take centre stage on a riveting R&B set that carries her even further from her country roots.
80
She's playing for bigger emotional stakes – this is an album full of one-on-one adult love songs.
80
At their best, these songs have a fizzing, pugilistic energy that recalls Britney Spears’ brilliant, mid-breakdown, screw-you-all 2007 album Blackout. At their least appealing, they’re still decent pop songs, but they feel generic.
80
Reputation’s hi-tech digital sound pushes Swift further into the realm of plastic pop. It is an ear-bending assault of warping bass synths, head-smacking drum patterns and deliriously treated vocals.
80
Over the years, she has been portrayed by the outside world: as the girl next door, the geek, the romantic, the marketing genius, the victim, the snake. Add them together and you might just get a complete person. Swift isn’t denying any of those facets of herself. She’s not excusing them. She’s just saying there’s more than one.
80
While ‘Reputation’ packs heavy artillery that was almost entirely absent from ‘1989’, it’s actually a helluva ride.
80
It's Swift's willingness to portray herself not as a victim, but the villain of her own story that makes Reputation such a fascinatingly thorny glimpse inside the mind of pop's reigning princess.
80
It may not quite measure up to the heights of 1989, but whether she’s Old Taylor or New Taylor, there’s enough here to demonstrate why she’s still one of pop’s brightest pop stars.
80
The melodies are so glossy-haired and bright eyed, you suspect eugenics; and the production by Jack Antonoff, Max Martin and Shellack is state-of-the-art.
80
An album full of cryptic love songs and kiss-offs that beg further exploration, sprinkled with irresistible hooks and wrapped up in glistening production.
75
Reputation is an oddly bifurcated creation, half obsessed with grim score-settling and celebrity damage, half infatuated with a lover who takes her away from all that.
75
It’s as 2017 an album as you could imagine: a numbing narrative space that blots out the real world, where facts are tidy and stories are digestible and everything feels good enough to keep you entertained, at least until the next thudding chorus hits.
70
On Reputation, the Taylor she's chosen to show us is one that's more confident than ever. Her adventurous sound is coupled with lyrics that are drunker and more sexual than ever.
70
Taylor Swift, once country music’s teen dream, is growing up and so is her fan base. They’re drinking whiskey and done playing nice. And despite some growing pains, most listeners can have a good time with the new Taylor.
70
Reputation showcases a grown-up Swift, that's for certain. But she can't yet shake the fabled girl-next-door persona she has always written into her songs, no matter how hard she tries to play the Bad Girl.
70
The midas pop touch that ran through 1989, on which she struck the perfect balance between her past and present selves, is lacking here; she’s sacrificed some of it for such a wholesale acceptance of current pop trappings. What’s refreshing about Reputation, though, is that she’s no longer holding the mask so tightly to her face.
70
Gratefully, nothing on Reputation sounds like “LWYMMD.” In fact, after releasing a single that sounds as far away from her 2006 self-titled country-labeled debut as humanly possible, Taylor Swift on Reputation sounds more like herself than she has since 2012’s Red.
65
Reputation isn’t the failure that seemed possible a month or two ago; it’s full of bulletproof hooks and sticky turns of phrase. But in committing to a more conventional form of superstardom, Swift has deemphasized the skill at the core of her genius.
60
Not everything on the record is a winner, but it has enough glimpses of magic that it is certainly worth the dive.
60
reputation's best tracks are those which undermine its central conceit.
60
Sometimes overly busy album. ... Swift soars when she is most herself.
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1mo
60
Reputation is the boring screaming gesture on behalf of a marketing fleet, an advertisement reaching out expecting your righteous empathy.
60
Swift’s unencumbered analysis of the tectonic shifts within her personal and public life are equal parts razor sharp and self-indulgent. But as a pop album, ‘Reputation’ is never revolutionary, the adrenalin rush heady but ultimately short-lived.
60
It's difficult not to read Reputation as Swift's first self-consciously "adult" record, one preoccupied with sex, betrayal, and the scars they leave behind. Appropriately, she dresses Reputation in dark, moody sounds, dwelling on drum loops and synthesizers.
60
It's not a game-changer, but it's also far from a disaster. Remove that EDM gossamer, and you're left with a solid, flawed little pop album, end of story.
60
In many ways, Reputation is a failure. But fucking up until you find something that works is what being 27 is all about. In that respect, Reputation is the only album its creator could have made.
58
Taylor Swift’s newest release Reputation is the hypothetical pop album we once feared. Here she is, an artist on the defense, an expert singer-songwriter struggling to grasp at current trends that may not be beyond her reach, but also don’t suit her particular talents.
40
Reputation focuses more on the pop star narrative than it does actual pop songs.
40
Taylor Swift’s Reputation isn’t a complete car wreck, but it is a hapless, facetious and an unconvincing attempt at making a whole generation familiar with a well-mannered pop star suddenly believe she’s got a heart of stone.
40
Swift might have transformed into the popular girl, but by all accounts, she’s still stuck in high school. Unfortunately for her, many fans are over it.
33
With Reputation, Swift seemingly has the idea that bigger, wider, and louder is necessarily better, but the dopamine rush that modern pop music can so reliably produce never arrives.
Music is like conversation. It should often feel and read like a Q&A between an artist at the moment of crafting of an album, for example, and the wider audience that will soon be presented that individual's ideas, ambitions, vision, opinions and, above all, emotions - be them external or internal. Those personal issues can manifest in multiple forms and be channeled into sound waves of endlessly varying waveforms. If you consider how sound propagates only through air - in other words: ... read more
"reputation" is an album.
Scratch that.
"reputation" is a 55-minute dumpster fire of blandness. The production is as offensively generic as electropop can get, the lyrics are horrid and it tries WAAAAYYY to hard to be edgy, most of it coming off as cringe-worthy. There are a few songs that are passable at best but the record overall is just unbearably pretentious.
Fav Tracks: New Year's Day, Delicate, Getaway Car
Least Fav Tracks: Look What You Made Me Do, ...Ready For ... read more
"reputation" o sexto álbum de estúdio de Taylor Swift faz 4 anos hoje, foi nesse álbum que me tornei fã dela, por isso eu tenho um carinho especial por ele, é odiado por muitos, mas eu amo ❤.
Em 2016, Swift vinha sofrendo uma onda de ataques virtuais depois um "exposed" promovido por Kim Kardashian e Kanye West, no qual supostamente ela estaria mentindo sobre uma polêmica que havia surgido na época em volta de seu nome. ... read more
Most tracks fail in attempting the Electropop genre. They either sound vaguely electronic, or sound very awkward with her vocals. Still, some songs such as 'Don't Blame Me' and 'Delicate' does this job quite well.
…Ready For It? - This song def. does the “Swift gone bad” thing the best, since it includes some decent lines in the trap-y sections and it actually works well with the super catchy and poppy chorus. Delivery on “are you ready for it” is sick too. The super blown out bass and tiger samples are probably annoying for some but for some reason it just fits here.
End Game - The ed sheeran verse was absolutely unnecessary, the Future verse was just a little jarring, ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | ...Ready For It? 3:28 | 66 |
| 2 | End Game 4:04 feat. Ed Sheeran, Future | 60 |
| 3 | I Did Something Bad 3:58 | 75 |
| 4 | Don’t Blame Me 3:56 | 79 |
| 5 | Delicate 3:52 | 83 |
| 6 | Look What You Made Me Do 3:31 | 62 |
| 7 | So It Goes... 3:47 | 70 |
| 8 | Gorgeous 3:29 | 61 |
| 9 | Getaway Car 3:53 | 86 |
| 10 | King of My Heart 3:34 | 72 |
| 11 | Dancing With Our Hands Tied 3:31 | 80 |
| 12 | Dress 3:50 | 75 |
| 13 | This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things 3:27 | 59 |
| 14 | Call It What You Want 3:23 | 80 |
| 15 | New Year's Day 3:55 | 77 |
Total Length: 55 minutes
Year End Lists
| #1 | / | People |
| #5 | / | Associated Press |
| #5 | / | The New York Times: Jon Caramanica |
| #6 | / | Billboard |
| #7 | / | Rolling Stone |
| #7 | / | Rolling Stone (Australia) |
| #9 | / | Time |
| #16 | / | musicOMH |
| #17 | / | Slant Magazine |
| #19 | / | The Independent |
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5mo
TBH I Really Didn't Like The Album I Liked Some Of The Songs Like I Did Something Bad, Delicate, Goregous, Getaway Car, And New Years Day. I Don't Like The Album.
6mo
Far worse than Taylor stans make it out to be, far better than what music nerds make it out to be. It’s just a mixed bag with some of her best songs and some of her worst.
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Added on: August 23, 2017