taylorswift:

Midnights is a wild ride of an album and I couldn’t be happier that my co pilot on this adventure was Jack Antonoff. He’s my friend for life (presumptuous I know but I stand by it) and we’ve been making music together for nearly a decade HOWEVER… this is our first album we’ve done with just the two of us as main collaborators. We’d been toying with ideas and had written a few things we loved, but Midnights actually really coalesced and flowed out of us when our partners (both actors) did a film together in Panama. Jack and I found ourselves back in New York, alone, recording every night, staying up late and exploring old memories and midnights past. We were so lucky to also work with our brilliant collaborators Sam Dew, Sounwave, Lana Del Rey, Jahaan Sweet, Keanu Beats, William Bowery, and Zoe Kravitz. Laura Sisk was our excellent engineer. The wonderful and wise Beth Garrabrant took the album photographs. Midnights is a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows. Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely. Just like Midnights. Which is out now  

https://taylor.lnk.to/taylorswiftmidnights

Honestly, I respect that after John Green but before Neil Gaiman inherited the role, Taylor Swift did a turn as biggest celebrity on [tumblr], and appreciate that we’re still targeted in her promotional campaigns

kontextmaschine:

Taylor Swift Albums, Ranked

(No EPs, Taylor’s Versions or deluxe editions. “New Romantics” woulda lifted 1989 over Fearless.)

1. Lover
2. Red
3. Fearless
4. 1989
5. Folklore
6. Speak Now
7. Taylor Swift
8. Evermore
9. Reputation

Oh also everyone knows “New Romantics” is a reference to the early-80s proto-New Wave pretty queer British-visual-kei pop that “Neuromancer” was punning on, right?

Taylor Swift Albums, Ranked

(No EPs, Taylor’s Versions or deluxe editions. “New Romantics” woulda lifted 1989 over Fearless.)

1. Lover
2. Red
3. Fearless
4. 1989
5. Folklore
6. Speak Now
7. Taylor Swift
8. Evermore
9. Reputation

gunsandfireandshit:

Had a dream that Taylor Swift announced she was doing a “pronoun reveal” and all the annoying swifties were losing their shit for weeks and saying “I told you so” and then Taylor just tweeted “she/her”

Oh, a Taylor Swift/Lana Del Rey song? Well, Lana was clearly the contemporary artist Taylor most considered a peer

You know, the progression from Stay, Stay, Stay off Red (2012), which is about how great it would be to have a boy who didn’t leave when you threw phones at him and I Wish You Would off 1989 (2014), where it’s “I regret I cut things off with the dramatic gesture of hanging up the phone, and I wish you would resolve this of your own initiative with some dramatic Prince Charming gesture” to Afterglow off Lover (2019) which is “yeah, I’ll take responsibility and apologize whenever I get BPD Too Much and start fucking things up” is a genuinely nice maturation arc for Taylor Swift

melodramas:

TAYLOR SWIFT
attends the 2022 VMAs | August 28, 2022    

kontextmaschine:

taylorswift:

Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight.

Pre-order now: https://taylor.lnk.to/taylorswiftmidnights

Oh, huh, I was just an hour ago thinking it was time for another Taylor Swift album by now

Also, if her look for this album/tour cycle includes eyeshadow, good. It’s kinda been out since the 80s and I miss it.

taylorswift:

Midnights, the stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life, will be out October 21. Meet me at midnight.

Pre-order now: https://taylor.lnk.to/taylorswiftmidnights

Oh, huh, I was just an hour ago thinking it was time for another Taylor Swift album by now

official-kircheis:

afloweroutofstone:

We can say, with 100% certainty, that Taylor Swift was/is a 4Chan user

@kontextmaschine

ghostlyharmonystarfish:

ghostlyharmonystarfish:

songsforsnarkhunters:

collapsedsquid:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Taylor Swift in the style of Alphonse Mucha

She seems to be the best subject to try “in the style of” variations on, they come out good I’m guessing cause there are enough pictures of Taylor Swift out there the AI picked up a very good sense of how to depict her (in particular poses, outfits, angles, lighting, etc.)

Who wants to try Bosch and report back For me?

I’m surprised that “taylor swift hieronymus bosch” utterly ignores Bosch. [After looking at the other results the right-hand panel of the first image looks a little Boschy. But that’s only 1/13.] Why the double images? Is this magazine collage?

“taylor swift painted by hieronymus bosch” worked better. 

The last five don’t seem to involve Taylor Swift, but if she were one of the miniatures, could you tell? I don’t know what a Bosch portrait should look like.

Weird that they look like they’re painted on solid slabs of wood. I don’t see that in google images. Or is it the box of a jigsaw puzzle?

“Taylor Swift portrait by Hieronymus Bosch”

Looks Dutch but not distinctively Bosch. The portraits above have Boschy backgrounds and arches.

Stable diffusion is here. enstil doesn’t even require creating an account. It creates 3 samples per text.

“Taylor Swift portrait by Hieronymus Bosch”

1 too modern:

2 Dutch master:

3: exactly what I want!

Better prompt: “Taylor Swift in the garden by Hieronymus Bosch”

Oh okay the new phone’s speaker is good enough I can tell the difference between Red and Red (Taylor’s Version)

Friendly reminder to anyone else trying to map out American culture in the intermediate term that Taylor Swift is king-in-the-mountain right now

captain-kampari:

Taylor Swift

Like, I probably take things too far in viewing everything through the lens of Taylor Swift, but “the star who broke out in the mid-2000s as a hyper-social all-American teenage country singer fixated on the romance of romance is now a relative recluse releasing concept albums about how things are more complicated than her early work and pop songs about BPD recovery” is an amazing synecdoche of 21st century American culture so far

I mean, she demonstrably observes and absorbs things from the general culture fluently. which is where I learned about climate change

gunsandfireandshit:

headspace-hotel:

*grabs both your hands in gesture of sincerity*

Don’t let this die. Taylor Swift is the Pollution Queen now. We need meme edits with her photoshopped onto backgrounds of wildfire-ravaged landscapes and oil refineries chugging out black smoke.

Photo of smudgy black eye shadow? That’s THE Taylor Swift-inspired look now, it represents fossil fuels.

We need parodies of Taylor Swift songs about pollution and killing polar bears.

Give her representatives a full-time job for the rest of their lives defending her from the phrase “Pollution Queen.” Make this meme a the figurehead of an entire fleet of other celebrity-terrorizing memes.

“But this doesn’t dismantle the system that—” Shut. Don’t care. Isn’t it great that such a huge portion of environmental damage is being done by human individuals with egos, whose feelings can be hurt when people are mean?

Money can save you from physical harm, but can it save you from looking ridiculous?

I mean she’s a blonde white lady so she does kinda look like Dr. Blight from Captain Planet …

Was thinking of this exact connection before I scrolled down and saw it

Wait ‘til people realize that part of why Taylor Swift flies so much is that she returns home to Nashville every night on tour rather than staying in hotels to rack up residence days to count as a resident of income tax-free Tennessee despite her bicoastal/intercontinental cosmopolitan lifestyle

So she’s been doing songs about BPD recovery for a while now, but I’m looking forward to seeing how years of not existing in a feedback loop have treated Taylor Swift

Suddenly seized by the image of Taylor Swift tweeting “Gargamel could get it”