Deleted all the old reviews on here (what few of them I had) and am planning on reviving this account. Gonna mostly be putting down a couple sentences about records I want to talk about but won't get the time of day to discuss on my main account (a man only has so much free time to write detailed reviews about records). I don't really wanna clog up that account with short "you should listen to this" posts on albums ... read more

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Taylor Swift

1989 (Taylor's Version)

Straight White Man Reviews Taylor Swift #14

Phewf... this one's rough. Not only is this the only TV that's worse than the OG... it's worse by a LONGSHOT. I mean, she messed up style, the perfect pop song. HOW DO YOU EVEN MANAGE TO DO THAT??? Songs like the new version of Welcome To New York, which just sounds bad on the ears and obnoxiously loud compared to the understated nature of the original song, Shake It Off, which is another example of poor mixing on the instrumental front here, New ... read more

Taylor Swift

Red (Taylor's Version)

Straight White Man Reviews Taylor Swift #13

Wow ok this thing is so head and shoulders above the original. The original felt like Hallmark-core country pop. It was... fine, had a few great moments, but generally felt very sterile and Taylor's voice felt too, idk, like a vocalist from one of those feel-good commercials or something? But here, the minor improvements made make pretty much every single instrumental better PLUS Taylor's voice sounds so much more organic and better on this one. ... read more

Taylor Swift

Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

Straight White Man Reviews Taylor Swift #12

Starting with the negatives: this version of Enchanted is marginally worse than the OG, most likely due to Taylor's vocals being more aged. I feel like her being older does give quite a few songs a much needed sense of maturity, though Enchanted does feel neutered in losing its adolescent charm; similar sentiments shroud The Story of Us and Better Than Revenge, which I already didn't enjoy initially. Otherwise, the rest of the tracks are either on ... read more

Taylor Swift

Fearless (Taylor's Version)

Straight White Man Reviews Taylor Swift #11

It's honestly kind of incredible how much of an improvement this is over the original despite not changing up too much. While I'm still not too huge on many of these compositions, Taylor's voice has improved by leaps and bounds in the decade-plus since she released the original Fearless allowing many songs to become a lot more bearable. All the TV's of tracks off the OG record are improvements and Fifteen is actually now one of my favorites here. ... read more

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Taylor Swift

Midnights

Straight White Man Reviews Taylor Swift #10

Midnights is largely a hodgepodge of half-baked and incredibly devoid of personality tracks that feel incredibly underwhelming coming straight off the cuffs of Taylor's sister folk albums, two of the most front-to-back exciting records in her catalog. While occasionally decent in moments like the incredibly catchy Anti-Hero or the somewhat aimless though nonetheless pretty pristine Sweet Nothings, the one-dimensional and dingy aesthetic of the whole ... read more

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This account is probably gonna need some explaining, so lemme do that. There are plenty of albums I listen to and want to talk about, but don't have enough to say about them or enough time to write about them. This is where this account comes in. What I'm doing here is writing reviews that are only a few sentences long about some albums I don't cover on my main account but want to speak on.

Avoiding ratings to not get banned for rating duping by Rob.