{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "folklore, first take:", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/624510613905981440/", "html": "<h1>folklore, first take:</h1><p>Marvel publishes alternate-continuity comics called What If?, soon to be adapted as TV, about what would happen if significant Marvelverse events had gone differently</p><p>folklore is a What If? concept album on the theme &ldquo;What if Taylor Swift&rsquo;s life <i>wasn&rsquo;t</i> a success?&rdquo;</p><p>Like the 1 is &ldquo;What if she <i>never</i> got over her bad breakups&rdquo;, mirrorball is &ldquo;What if she <i>never</i> learned to weaponize the bpd dynamic from Blank Space and it broke her?&rdquo;, the last great american dynasty is &ldquo;What if that period romance from Starlight <i>didn&rsquo;t</i> have a happy ending&rdquo;, there&rsquo;s a few &ldquo;What if she <i>never</i> escaped the undertow of small-town Pennsylvania adolescence?&rdquo;</p><p>Also:</p><ul><li>it starts off as a bedroom pop album then in the middle turns into 90s VH1 chick-pop(!!!) mirrorball is dream pop, august is Natalie Merchant, I&rsquo;m pretty sure mad woman is invoking Tori fucking Amos</li><li>speaking of which, the vice element added this album is &ldquo;cursing&rdquo;</li><li>none of the titles are capitalized</li><li>It&rsquo;s better than any of her other stuff than maybe Lover, but I still like Red better</li></ul>"}