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If this wasn’t a 3-way tie I’d say to move my vote to WTNY to cut the tie as it’d be my next pick, but that wouldn’t help too much lol It’s a great album opener but as far as returning to it as an individual song - meh

Is there any such thing as a singles chart that is more boring than ARIA? Mind you I’m not super up to date with charts overseas besides the #1s. Is chart movement really becoming this stale lol On the plus side I suppose I’m happy for the TS domination. I wonder where Lover would chart if Cruel Summer was out of the picture?

100x better than yes, and? tbh. I was worried I wasn’t gonna enjoy this era too much but this has given me faith

I guess a follow up to this would also be: what is your favourite line in her songs?

Not necessarily your favourite song or the one that performed the best. But lyrically speaking, which of her songs do you think has the best writing? A couple of my favs below. What do you think? sRxrwjOtIagryLGxpjwAhM

Aaaand four years on... 1. ...Ready For It? 2. Don't Blame Me 3. Delicate 4. Getaway Car 5. Look What You Made Me Do 6. I Did Something Bad 7. Call It What You Want 8. Gorgeous 9. So It Goes 10. End Game 11. King Of My Heart 12. New Year's Day 13. Dress 14. Dancing With Our Hands Tied 15. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things RFI is firmly a Top 5 Taylor Swift song for me, no question about it. I'd push to say 'perfect' but who am I to judge hmm. I will say though that reputation was the best album live at the Eras tour. Obviously it was all amazing, but repuation was such a production. The energy behind each song was phenomenal. Four years ago I probably would've said this was my favourite TS album but now maybe I'd drop it to #2-3. The re-recordings have reignited my love for her older albums and pushed rep to the side a little. I imagine when reputation TV comes out it'll be different though :lol:

Sad to agree that Selfish is a whole lot of nothing, as if that’s what he chose to be the lead Drown however is actually quite nice. Sure it’s not an all timer but it’s way better than Selfish

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Clean 100% How did y’all manage to do both Bad Bloods so dirty omg

I was in Sydney last week and the entire city was Taylor crazy! 4 shows and I reckonjust about everyone was listening to her, here’s some genuine examples lol Radio having an hour a day dedicated to playing just Taylor, not even just the biggest hits either they played august :heart: I was in a huge department store entrance and could hear four different speakers playing music from different shops. ALL FOUR SHOPS PLAYING TAYLOR SWIFT. No joke. Bejewelled, WANEGBT, Shake It Off, Anti Hero The train to and from the concert renamed Tay Tay Express and playing her songs for passengers, though this one makes the most sense

I wasn’t too keen on this album at first besides the singles tbh. I listed to it a few times but nothing really clicked with me. That was, until I saw her live. Now I think I would fully rank Midnights in my Top 4/5 and half the album are staples for me :lol: Special shout to Bejewelled, Hits Different, and W/C/S

I wonder if this album will count as officially after the “eras” era? Like how Ed Sheerans Autumn album came out during the mathematics tour but wasn’t a maths album? Her first ten albums are all fairly tied together now through the tour. I can imagine a box set of some kind with 1-10 literally called The Eras

Disc one makes sense but two is an absolute rollercoaster

As always in love with The Killers 10.0 Mr. Brightside 10.0 Somebody Told Me 11.0 All These Things That I've Done 08.5 Smile Like You Meant It 10.0 When You Were Young 08.0 Bones 10.0 Read My Mind 07.0 For Reasons Unknown 07.0 Shadowplay 05.0 Tranquilize (feat. Lou Reed) 09.5 Human 09.0 Spaceman 08.0 The World We Live In 08.5 A Dustland Fairytale 08.5 Runaways 08.5 Miss Atomic Bomb 07.5 Here With Me 09.5 Shot At The Night 08.5 Just Another Girl 07.0 Peace Of Mind 09.5 The Man 10.0 Run For Cover 09.5 Rut 06.5 Land Of The Free 09.0 Caution 08.0 Fire In Bone 10.0 My Own Soul’s Warning 09.5 Dying Breed 07.0 Dustland (feat. Bruce Springsteen) 07.5 boy 06.0 Your Side Of Town 07.5 Spirit Christmas Singles: 07.5 A Great Big Sled (feat. Toni Halliday) 08.0 Don't Shoot Me Santa 05.0 Joseph, Better You Than Me (feat. Elton John & Neil Tennant) 04.5 ¡H Birthday Guadalupe! (feat. Wild Light and Mariachi El Bronx) 06.0 Boots 06.5 The Cowboys' Christmas Ball 07.0 I Feel It In My Bones 09.0 Christmas In L.A. (feat. Dawes) 04.0 Joel, The Lump of Coal (feat. Jimmy Kimmel) 05.0 Dirt Sledding (feat. Ryan Pardey and Richard Dreyfuss)

The Story to go viral next pls

I suppose that’s true, mystery around companions is nice. But if it turns out that Ruby is an orphaned timelord and the neighbour is an exiled timelord that’s in hiding to protect the child I will riot in Star Wars Season finale is the Master saying “Ruby, I am your father”

Id rate it as maybe an 8/10 in Christmas specials and 6/10 in companion introduction episodes. I really enjoyed this as a light, fun episode and the only criticism I mirror from others on here is the singing. The goblin song was funny and genuinely would’ve been my favourite part of this if not for the Doctor and Ruby then singing along. It just felt a bit strange that Ruby who was about to see a baby get eaten alive by Jabba The Hutt didn’t have an issue jumping into song and dance along with a stranger she had only just met. A man who she met at a club who then mysteriously appeared at her house the next day. 15 is fantastic so far, as is Ruby to be honest despite the above thing. But now they’ve met and assuming with a proper introduction at the beginning of episode 1 I’m all here for the new era. I’m also loving the fact that Ruby doesn’t seem to have a huge overarching “most important person in the universe” shtick like other companions have had. I’m rewatching older series right now and going Donna->Amy->Clara it’s just everyone one upping each other with who has the biggest impact on the rest of the world lol

+5 Noah Kahan - Stick Season +4 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York +3 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me +2 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone +1 Wham! - Last Christmas -1 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas -2 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock -3 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You -4 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas -5 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree +5 Noah Kahan - Stick Season +4 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York +3 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me +2 Wham! - Last Christmas +1 Tate McRae - greedy -1 Michael Bublé - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas -2 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You -3 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas -4 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree -5 Sam Ryder - You're Christmas To Me

Absolutely, please go for it! I can’t believe it’s been over FIVE YEARS since I did this. Wowee Two more albums released since then but all I really hope for is My Own Soul’s Warning to crack into the Top 10 where it deserves

Never thought I’d be describing a song as moreish… but here I am

Hits of Australia 1975-now would be awesome. The 70s is when Australian music culture really started up with AC/DC, Cold Chisel, The Angels, Midnight Oil, etc. pumping out some massive rock songs. But as years went on the predominant genre turned to grunge/indie rock, then to pop/electronic, then back to more indie soft rock/pseudo folk, and in more recent years (for lack of a better word) hip hop. Australian rap isn’t exactly hip hop.. maybe the genre is just Australian rap? In any case you could literally plot out the transition of Australian music over 4 discs. Would be difficult to not have Kylie Minogue on every disc lol

+18 BAND AID – DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? +17 SLADE – MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY +16 QUEEN – BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY +15 THE HUMAN LEAGUE – DON'T YOU WANT ME +14 WHAM - LAST CHRISTMAS +13 SHAKIN' STEVENS – MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE +12 CLEAN BANDIT – ROCKABYE +11 ALEXANDRA BURKE – HALLELUJAH +10 MATT CARDLE – WHEN WE COLLIDE +09 BONEY M – MARY'S BOY CHILD – OH MY LORD | +08 BAND AID 20 – DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? +07 ROBBIE WILLIAMS & NICOLE KIDMAN – SOMETHIN' STUPID +06 WHITNEY HOUSTON – I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU +05 BOB THE BUILDER – CAN WE FIX IT? +04 PINK FLOYD – ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) +03 EAST 17 – STAY ANOTHER DAY +02 GIRLS ALOUD – SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND +01 ED SHEERAN – PERFECT What a series list of songs. I wonder how this would look if, instead of just being the #1s, it was instead a list of the highest charting Christmas-themed song per year (ignoring double ups and passing on to the second best charting song if that’s already in the list).

Remember back when the only reason that X Factor was produced was so Simon Cowell could get a Christmas #1? Those were definitely the days

Wow, I expected some discussion but you guys really went off in here huh As much as I enjoyed these specials I’m not in any rush to rewatch them. Better than Chibnalls efforts, sure, but RTD seems to have this way of shoehorning his forced progressiveness in for no reason. Each episode had at least 1-2 moments where I was bordering cringing. The “binary binary - non-binary” scene, Donna’s “just let it go”, “mavity”, “wait til the boss hears about this” (or something along those lines), pointing out the wheelchair access to the Tardis, “he was so hot”, sprinkling salt to become a superstition/law of the universe(?), a weapon used to destroy a satellite immediately only harms the Doctor enough to force a regeneration when it quite clearly shouldve blasted a hole through his torso… there’s maybe more but that’s off the top of my head. I don’t have a problem with the inclusivity and social awareness, but the way it’s been written into these episodes is like it’s never happened before when almost all of it has in DW. Over the years of modern who, at least, there has been acknowledgment of all these things but RTD has decided he should showcase everything all at once and as much as possible in 60 minutes. It just comes off as preachy and like it’s purposely trying to rub people the wrong way. People are getting “outraged” at “nEw DoCtOr WhO wOkE pRoPaGaNdA” which is absurd in itself because nothing in these episodes is new. It’s just been portrayed as if it is. Introducing Isaac Newton and renaming gravity was a choice. On the one hand it’s interesting to see a time travellers effect on the world around them, but shouldn’t Donna be exempt from the history changing because she’s spent so long in the Tardis? The salt at the edge of the universe thing is a similar idea, but how did Kate come to know about this superstition in current time? How many other non-entity demons have come from beyond the edge and spread their superstitions to Earth? My guess would be with the move to Disney+ they’ve wanted to encapsulate all the development of the last 18~ years within 3 episodes, but who knows… The very end scene was very cute and all but is 14 really gonna spend his days on Earth and only hang out with two of his companions? What exactly is gonna happen the next time an alien race tries to invade Earth and 15 shows up, only to also have 14 on the same planet? 14 won’t avoid a crisis because he is the Doctor. Does Earth have a permanent protector now, and 15 will spend all his time in space? But Ruby is presumably human, so, 15 is on Earth. With 14 also there. But not doing Doctor things. Just having a family meal with a select few of his friends. But anyway.. love Tennant and Tate as always. Loved seeing Wilf back as heartwrenching as it was. The basic story of Wild Blue Yonder was fantastic if you look past the absurdity of salt. NPH was a clear highlight for me overall though and I think he did a great job. I went off too, sorry lol. I love Doctor Who and always have I’m just sceptical about the future based on these specials. The foreshadowing of “big boss” and the Masters return yet again felt a little like it was spending too much time trying to hook future viewers in as opposed to just straight up celebrating 60 years, but eh. Here’s to hoping Eccleston, Capaldi and Whittaker come back one day. Maybe 75th?

Hype for Kygo & Dean Lewis :heart: