Doug

Babylon has hit me like a train this week out of nowhere, listening to it outside of the album playthrough it really is so stunning.

Very close between faves as I thought it would be! There’s a tie between Ready For It and The 1 that needs breaking - if it’s not broken by tomorrow I’ll set up a separate tiebreak poll.

+5: Patient Zero +4: Babylon +3: Nicole Kidman +2: Cleveland +1: Babydoll -1: Stop The Wedding -2: Great Expectation -3: Choosin Texas -4: The Cure -5: Boston All of a sudden I love over half of the top 10!! Thank you Taylor 💙

Best: Greedy Worst: Successful Man I wish most of the track 6s were track 7s lol

Won’t be as active today due to family stuff but all my support for Taylor today and hoping Adela will have maintained decent positions with both her tracks!

The mistreatment of Anita is absolutely HORRENDOUS like I thought she was in the top? The first and third looks were brilliant and I saw the intention with the second one and it did look good to me! She deserved the bottom 3 placement last week as she was a bit lost compared to most, but she should have been in the top for the first episode, win for snatch game and top for this. And for the other queens mostly to say her name especially after helping them all… I’m so glad she’s speaking up next week because this is worse than Chai’s treatment last year. Just glad that Paris left, for every step she’d take forward she’d take three back. I will say she got a taste of her own medicine after getting under the skin of so many, but on one hand I think she can dish it but can’t take it and on the other KY didn’t need to take it so far. Either way, no loss.

Ain’t In LA 💔💔💔 what a run it’s had though! Also wish New Religion or most of Bebe’s other songs actually got the love R1 have given Sad Girls.

Love Tilted but Around The World is an all-time classic!!

If one of the two new entrants is fat guy rep/trade which we sadly lacked this year I might start watching again lmao

I wish they didn’t give that rotten school bully more of a centre stage in this, I was hoping she’d be killed off swiftly rather than made a traitor. It’s bad enough that she’s on everything ugh. Hoping she won’t last long although Richard has as much shelf life as Tesco value raspberries left out in the sun. Wish Leigh-Anne was made a traitor instead, hope she gets recruited down the line and takes over the sinking ship.

Best: Ready For It (very special mentions to State Of Grace, Welcome To New York, Willow and The Fate Of Ophelia though! This really has started off strong!) Worst: Tim McGraw

With the success of the ultimate album track game in other artist forums and the green light to do the same, I’m bringing the game into the Taylor forum! Each round, vote your favourite and least favourite track from each album starting with the first, and then the second, and so on to determine the best and worst picks from each album on average of the votes the tracks receive. 12 albums into her career, the variety is very strong, which will make for a big but fun challenge! I’ll keep each thread open for 4 days, so the first round I’ll keep up until Sunday. Have fun!

Goodbye goodbye goodbye, you were bigger than the whole sky 💔💔💔 Nobody talk to me 😭

I love a bit of Freya Ridings but does Lost Without You really get someone in the mood to get it on? I personally vote no. I also loved the scene between Denise and Ash, really showcasing that the latter is still intelligent even if she is stubborn as hell.

Best: Bad Idea Worst: Piano Less close this time although I do love Supernatural too.

Cara’s not a new addition lol she was part of the Bad Blood squad!! Still though we love legends supporting legends 🥰

Len would have got my vote but still happy with whoever wins, although my vote goes to LeAnn!

Dirty Talk, a timeless classic tbh!!

Very close but In My Mind has the edge slightly.

Saw my mistake now 😅 edited the list, every song below 23 got an extra point and Feels has been added giving it one point.

+30: Jax Jones (feat. Ina Wroldsen) - Breathe +29: Taylor Swift - Call It What You Want +28: Taylor Swift - Ready For It +27: Lorde - Green Light +26: Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling +25: Niall Horan - Slow Hands +24: Galantis - True Feeling +23: Hailee Steinfeld (feat. Alesso, Florida Georgia Line & Watt) - Let Me Go +22: Lorde - Homemade Dynamite +21: Zara Larsson - TG4M +20: Little Mix - Touch +19: Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still +18: Jax Jones (feat. RAYE) - You Don't Know Me +17: Lana Del Rey - Love +16: Rita Ora - Anywhere +15: Dua Lipa - Be The One +14: Lorde - Perfect Places +13: Avicii (feat. Rita Ora) - Lonely Together +12: Axwell & Ingrosso (feat. Bonn) - More Than You Know +11: Marshmello (feat. Khalid) - Silence +10: Martin Solveig (feat. Ina Wroldsen) - Places +09: Disciples - On My Mind +08: Little Mix - Power +07: Clean Bandit (feat. Zara Larsson) - Symphony +06: Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me +05: ZAYN (feat. Sia) - Dusk Till Dawn +04: Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa - Scared to Be Lonely +03: Post Malone (feat. 21 Savage) - Rockstar +02: DJ Khaled (feat. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller) - Wild Thoughts +01: Calvin Harris (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean) - Feels Wow 2017 was CRAZY good!! It hurt not giving so many of these full points but Breathe is the best dance song of the 10s for me

No no it’s not aimed at you because you articulate your thoughts and opinions properly without toxic remarks - I have to make that absolutely clear, you’re not being referred to here as I know that what she has brought out recently hasn’t been to your taste and that’s fine! But I will tell you in regards to the biased critics, Pitchfork made a tweet about the Encore before it even dropped foreshadowing their opinions before they even heard it, and have never rated any of her albums higher prior to Showgirl. Having taste is one thing but making presumptuous comments about how something is going to be bad before having proper judgement is bias. My problem comes from those who have barely ever liked her at her best (which I’m grown up enough to admit that this isn’t her best work even though I do enjoy it) making comments that liking one’s music is to be ashamed of and making comments on variants and wealth when the majority of the big pop stars are the same - a huge amount of pop stars release tonnes of vinyls and have a net worth of shy of £1B and don’t get anywhere near the same flack, she’s just a scapegoat. Not to mention how much money she donates to charities more than governments can be arsed to do. None of that matters at all to some people because it’s flashy to hate on someone who’s not popular in the echo chamber they call home, and that is aimed at somebody here but again, absolutely not you.

Duffy with absolute ease.

I also want to note that it’s okay not to understand something or even to understand something and not like it, I can understand how Cleveland is cringey and still love it. The issue comes when you have a problem that not everyone feels the same way. It’s just music.

The conversation isn’t being started by Swifties though, it’s being started by non-fans and biased critics who either want her to remake Folklore, make a toaster-dropped-in-a-bath hyperpop album or quit music in general. Do better than assume that every pop music enthusiast is going to think the same way because I know you’re more mature than this.