Good one

Yooo dolan

This guy I love this guy. If you put a panda in your next weekly slop I will just die

thanks for slopping by

He gave it a 30 on AOTY

Taylor needs to get into trap frfr. Maybe Drake get tap her into the beef against Kendrick or Kanye

she needs to drop a collab album with 21 savage imo

H&V Taylor’s version

@@dutdut2.091what?

@@realtwovo she's already the biggest hip hop artist

And the Taylor-verse was a marketing tactic deliberately cultivated. It goes to show you how the corporate music industry compromises authenticity for marketability.

This is literally where I am as the husband of a day-one Swiftie (although in her defense she's feeling the degradation in musicality too)

I think this is a large part of her appeal. And i think thats why theres such a divide between what her fans think of her and what the rest of us think.

as a swiftie, that hit hard

called me tf out but i agreed lmao

I lover her music, but the second-half is really boring, and has at least five skips- unfortunately. Simultaneously her best and worst work.

​@@mystic5663it's just a boring album, all the songs sound the same

Honestly Fortnight isn't good imo. Boring as well

except he didn't give the album a score, so arguably he feels like he does (or he's trolling us alongside the swifties in the audience)

@@jan_kulawa he said FOREVER. That means 4/10

Having seen Barbs make deepfake p0rn of people, including teenagers as young as 13 who dislike Cardi, Swifties don't scare me. They're not on the higher level of evil that Barbs are.

​@@jan_kulawa it's called a cliff hanger pookums

bro hes trashed taylor swifts albums in the past. stop making stuff up cause they fit your narrative.​@@jan_kulawa

Where did she say Fortnite 💀 too lazy to check

She I also heard she mentioned Sigourney Weaver and Alien. Like bruh

@JorgeGomez-hx5uu first song is called Fortnight close enough 💀💀💀

Touch me while your bros play Grand Theft Auto 6

i would rather get a good album

For real

​@@thembashawn Crazy to think he's worked on every Taylor album since 1989

@@icemic-ux2ip 7 albums!!! No wonder I'm starting to get tired of his sound - the fact that I enjoy the anthology more than ttpd speaks volumes (for me personally)

I loved what he did for her on Folklore, reputation, even lover and midnights, but this just fell short. It's the same sound and I don't think that's right for this album. I'm not saying hes a bad producer at all, I just think this album could have sounded more unique and different if it was someone new, The anthology is more liked because it's a breath of fresh air.

I mean Aaron Dressner produced about 10+ songs on the album so you kinda already have that 🤷‍♂️

It's not his fault that was pretty subtle. Only the most tortured poets could have gotten it.

I want to know how much Taylor is getting for namedropping video games.

Let’s not pretend for a second that Anthony hasn’t been touched whilst his bros play gta

Go play your video games= flirting Touch me while your bros play GTA= harassing

Haven't heard the album. Explain to me why that's a bad lyric

@@PresidentKamalaHarris. Unfortunately it's an adult fantasy on par with Tolkien's works

If there's one 'cartoon' out there that's not aimed at kids and where your diss is not at all applicable it's the one on his profile pic​@@PresidentKamalaHarris.

​@@PresidentKamalaHarris. What the sigma

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.are you a man or a woman?

⁠​⁠​⁠@@PresidentKamalaHarris.​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠his profile picture is guts from berserk. One of the best manga of all time. Your embarrassing yourself

Thissss 🎯

Get him back by Fiona is so refreshing to listen to despite being an "old" song

Yep loved that song. But also everything has been done and redone… and we always think whatever is new is somehow original

It's not that hard to achieve it though. Both are becoming more mediocre than ever, but their fans will massacre you if you tell them so.

@@Rodrigombia1990 Not to mention Kanye West being all anti-Semitic back in late 2022... as well as the Donda Academy shit.

@@crazyluigi6664donda academy will be kanye's diddy-level scandal

As a swiftie, I adore the always sunny reference. Top tier comment

Idk I started to put my spite aside knowing that the album wasn’t for everyone and Kanye’s been acting pretty silly lately

Charlie Pooth

who?

Charlie Puth has a track with 1.5 Billion views, he barely could be a bigger artist, what is Taylor smoking?😮

Duh, that line is ironic. Unless ur joking

she's saying the truth. Charlie should at least be able to sell stadiums

lol the true are is not what they put out but what they inspire others to make in reaction

lmao

Yeah, umm...this is actually true.

Ye and Taylor in the same field. Talk about ironic poetry

Kanye is cloned though

Candice Nuts?

jack an ant off or whatever

Jack Hoff

​@@franklingoodwin Candice Koch

Jack Anton off

how do u come up with this gold?

Been asking for a full rock album lmaooo mabye a taylor swift nu metal album would really push boundaries 🤣

@@insertname941 Crunkcore

The tortured rappers department

@@insertname941A Taylor Swift rock album would slap. She’s had some good rock inspired songs over the years.

​@@insertname941 with her vocal range? How?

I wanna see him start the intro once, “hello everyone internet’s busiest music nerd Cal here and-“

​@@PresidentKamalaHarris. I do

I care so much! Cal is one of my favorite parts of Fantano’s videos. I’ve been a fan since 2013. ​@@PresidentKamalaHarris.

Really wish he'd get his own show so he could ditch toxic Mr. Foureyes over here

​@@PresidentKamalaHarris.You cared enough to reply lol, and also reply to anyone who dares say anything negative about this album, are you just constantly refreshing the comments here cause you're so butthurt that people don't like the album. I mean you're really taking the whole parasocial thing to another level it could be bordering on psychotic. Maybe instead of caring so much about what literal strangers online think of an album you like, you could maybe I don't know go listen to the actual album that you seem to like so much, instead of sulking that not alot of people seem to be liking the album.

Nope I liked it

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.bro what is your channel name 😭

Easy but a good pun

@@theboi5584I’m a woman

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.no, it’s actually a pretty thorough breakdown on why it’s trash. But like what you want.

Yes, this distills my thoughts exactly. It's the actual break up that needs to happen.

Especially compared to the second disc, where she collaborated with Dessner mainly, and not Jack.

Yes but also the other way around where she apparantly hasn't once said "maybe midnights' 15 tracks of identical production were enough"

nah jack just sucks now

Yes this!! Said the same thing!!

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.you’re the only one in the comments trying to defend this 😭

@@theboi5584how about you stop acting like a follower. This fantano guy isn’t going to date you

🙏🏻🤣🤣​@@PresidentKamalaHarris.

@@PresidentKamalaHarris.you telling me to stop acting like a follower meanwhile you’re replying to every comment calling the album bad is hilarious

It would have been a 10 if it was actually called “Tortured Poets see Ghosts” 😪

The most sane Swiftie

@@franklingoodwin WE EXIST I PROMISE!!! Just overshadowed by the insane fans lol

@@CoolScratcherthis !! I hate the fact that saying I’m a swiftie means people immediately think I don’t like other music, I’ll die on the hill for her. I really like this album, but I hated midnigjts, and I also think there are a handful of objectively bad songs and examples of terrible writing on this album. There are some real highs but there are a lot of lows. All this to say critically minded swifties do exist , it’s just hard to find them

​@@amydougies3852 I think that maybe part of your image problem is that you refer to yourselves as "Swifties". It gives unhinged obsession right out of the gate.

@@padawansound6423 if I’m a swiftie( as in a more than casual listener of Taylor swift, know the lore etc), I feel like it’s the only appropriate label ya know

😐

The fact that a new album is compelling you to go back and listen to old ones should ring alarm bells, you're right

i think at 22 she was more honest. this whole album just feels fake and disingenuous to me, like she can't grow out of her lovesick heartbroken 20-something role, which is disappointing cuz i thought she was doing that on her more recent works (more self reflection, taking accountability, singing about subjects besides romance)

At 22 she was still working with editors and wasn't yet high on her own supply. I desperately wish she'd get away from Antonoff because he seems to enable and even feed her most petty urges.

15 is being generous. I am a former fan. And id say she has two decent songs. I wish i liked the record, but it shouldve stayed in the drafts

Money making machine

I agree. Slow it down. I liked the fortnight song, but the others seemed a bit trite and melodramatic. And she’s happy now with Travis but these songs are about past guys. Kinda weird

​@@JulieKnose78loml (loss of my life), guilty as sin, Who's Afraid of little old me, So long London & Clara Bow were amazing songs with amazing lyrics... Some of her best lyricism was showing cases in those songs with religious & death imageries... She always had a knack in painting a picture in her songs.

I got to track 3 and gave up!

It really is the perfect comparison. It's the Eternals of Taylor swift albums.

Thanks for being honest.

I agree the songs are way more interesting for pop culture value than actual artistry

hey, if she does grow, hears, and processes what's being said about this album we might get another speak now album which would honestly be a serve

@@_desibees1876 great point. i hope so.

the thing is, she is so up and down. red and 1989 were really good but then she made reputation and lover which did not measure up. folklore and evermore came after those, which is where she peaked creatively imo, both were great but now these last two albums aren’t nearly as good. i mean poets is especially awful and feels even more regressive than midnights

players gonna play play play play and haters gonna hate hate hate hate

@@yue_river I was expecting Folklore and Evermore for TTPD but instead it was a long run on sentence and word vomit.

@@lilyyang6252 i knew not to expect anything like that when i saw the tracklist tbh even the names of the songs were corny to me. what is a song named “down bad”, “loml” or “i can fix him no really i can” doing on an album you named tortured poets department?

Her music in general lacks self-awareness. She doesn't know who she is. She also doesn't know her power, nor does she know her weaknesses. She hasn't actually been tested enough to figure it out. All her music is just her whining without actually fixing her problems🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

If you relate to this narcissistic shit you might wanna do some self reflecting

@@rouge939 well I’m in my 40s, been married 20+ years, have kids, a solid career and have done a ton of therapy in my life. I feel like it’s a very mid-life crisis album, highlighting the very worst of your thoughts and feelings during this time of life. It’s kind of fun to indulge in the narcissism when your life is really all about EVERYONE else. Obviously just my personal opinion and you are very much entitled to yours!!

Not really! She couldn’t hold a candle to K Dot! Because Kendrick Lamar wouldn’t hold back

@@andresciahooten9598i bet you’re exciting at all the parties.

@@andresciahooten9598Kendrick don’t want the smoke with T Swizzle and her cult fans

@@atomicpunk2360he also just worked with her on the bad blood re-recording in oct 2023

average youtube replies not understanding a joke

Actually, most of the discussion around this album has been about fair criticisms and disappointment from longtime fans. Unless you stay in Twitter hellholes... Look at how the vultures review turned out in comparison

her cultists*

fantano about to unite the most psychopatic-venn diagram crossover of kanye stans and swifties

nah, kanye fans are just as psychotic and he still went out of his way to shit on ye lmao. I think it’s cuz he might be reviewing the second part of the album (plus I don’t really think swifties check out for anthony that much, or at least not the crazy ones)

Was thinking the same thing he lacks the brass to stand on numerical business

😂👏🏼

She did once say that there’s a phrase “you stop maturing once you make it” and she admitted that because she made it as a teenager that has definitely affected her view point and her lifestyle.

nothing was high school about this album expect the song so high school

@@lavilacin8579 1. down bad 2. i can fix him no really i can 3. i can do it with a broken heart 3. my boy only breaks his favourite toys 4. but daddy i love him

Dudes def a virgin

Dressner produced and co-wrote more songs than Antonoff on TTPD…..

It was actually Aaron dessner and I like the songs he did

@@Lulu-pi2qp I swear if she just released these as two separate albums at the same time people would have a completely different reaction and would probably be praising both. But even then “Jack’s” album is just as solid as “Dressner’s”. Which makes it even more baffling that people keep saying everything sounds the same because the two halves are nothing alike despite Dressner and Antonoff both contributing a few songs to the other’s portion to mix it up just enough

@@dsmith2420 I think cause they only listen to it once and probably in 1 sitting which is horrible to do. They need to give it another listen The more I listen to it the more I see how different they are. I personally like both , prefer Aaron’s based on folklore and evermore but I thought both were great in this album. My 10/10 are loml , so long London, guilty as sin, smallest man, black dog, how did it end , I hate it here, Chloe or Sam, the prophecy , Peter The rest are still pretty good . Very few that I skip currently. I’m enjoying this album so I don’t really care about the ppl who don’t like it , just curious. I’ve seen reactions where either lyrics just fly over their heads , or they don’t get what Taylor was doing in the song (who’s afraid of little old me etc). I feel like she painted the emotions she wanted to portray perfectly clear in her songs.

@@Lulu-pi2qp I understand the reaction because I had some similar thoughts after one time through. I’ve seen a lot of people say they can’t put their finger on this record and I couldn’t either at first but TTPD is a slow-burn, intentionally I believe. This isn’t meant to captivate you with production-she wants the lyrics to marinate over time to fully appreciate what she’s doing, hence the album title.

So you just rubbed your hands menacingly

​@randomsomeguy156 Yes, but like flies do

@@StopmotionStudios13spoken like a true tortured poet

You mean you sprinkled acid on your phone and then sucked the review through a straw on your face? Ahaha

Birdman?

ttpd daughter isnt a nazi at the very least

Child neglect

vultures daughter

abortion

fantano route - getting a vasectomy

i think all of speak now is a good parallel to the criticisms of the album. its a way more mature album and that's even including better than revenge. theoretically better than revenge should have the cringe flair of "who's afraid of little old me" but it just works for some reason and lines like "now go stand in the corner and think about what you did" and "she should keep in mind there's nothing i do better than revenge" are fun and playful regardless. the production is great with some really cool instrumentals like on the song haunted whereas jack antonoff just creates such a boring environment on ttpd. the choruses feel earned and grand and the songs are written very well like with back to december (NOT TO MENTION ITS A SONG WHERE SHE ADMITS SHE'S FLAWED AND THAT SHE MESSED UP which is very anti-modern swift given the narcissism in her recent projects). i think it really just comes down to the fact that speak now is a genuine album with engaging production, more mature lyrics and good songwriting and ttpd is an artificial self indulgent attempt at being edgy with boring overdone production, really cringe lyrics and generic songwriting at best.

But who cares it’s Kim k If it was someone that wasn’t her I think it would matter 😂 that Ho is horrible Who likes the kartrashians

Me neither and i literally look forward to her work. Guess i didn't miss anything tho

there can’t be any argument for this one it’s awful

Which they cannot.

He did rate it on pt.2

I still wouldn't hold my breath

Do you wanna be associated with a bad album though? Lol

I doubt anyone maladjusted enough to willingly date this woman would be bothered by that fact.

From what I gather it’s less about the relationship, or him as a person, and more about the controversy

I don't really care about Matty but to be fair she has already written dozens of songs about Joe and being hung up on the guy you were in a situasionship with for two months is the most relatable thing ever

Who's the racist dude?

yeah thats a deep take

Red is one her best albums while I don’t like 1989 and Reputation. Her music is hit or miss, not steadily declining.

@@blackishboi3895 I agree! I actually love 1989 and think it’s a nearly perfect pop album. Folklore and Evermore were a culmination of all the good parts of her previous albums and sounded mature and fresh. I think the quality has been declining ever since with Midnights and TTPD in my opinion.

The declined was since Rep so FO/EV were an anomaly.

Fan? Taylor always uses cringe lyrics, like always. 😂😂😂😂😂

Touch me while yo bros play gta😭😭

I learned that many people don't know what figures of speech are. and you belong to that group of people

More like a metaphor for her household-bully troubles being like an asylum?

I snorted

That's the best you could get??? It's a metaphor for the music industry. Like everyone knows how toxic the music industry is💀💀

This is literally the best fucking comment, ever.

omg this is so true

maybe she has been taking the quackzine. she has lost some hormone or something.

come on!! only a few songs are like that! there are gems in the album too you know..

OMG I wrote about Chat GPT before reading your comment. It's so true though!! What a cringe-worthy mess of an album

The “while your bros play GTA” like reminds me of video games by Lana if it was genuinely re-written by ai

we need metro boomin

​@@MaddoxRees2no metro boomin actually works with quality artists. She needs to take a break and then drop an album

Then again, maybe a singer who CAN'T SING shouldn't be popular and successful.

Or adrianne lenker

I mean, I think their songwriting does very different things. I didn’t like this album either, but I think both folklore and evermore are both 9s and albums like lover are just full of extremely well written pop tunes

she cunningly got her catalogue back on tiktok in time for this when others on the label remain banished

​@@satelliteimagerymusicyeah Anthony giving evermore a light 7 is still a tragedy. It deserved a higher score. Her other albums are more rightfully criticized, but the folklore/evermore series is just solid folk/indie pop, where her lyrics are more clever than dumbed down direct references to things.

With how successful her Eras tour has been so far and the success of all the albums she put out before that, despite the criticism on her personal life (private jet, Healy, and the NFL guy relationships), you'd think she'd pivot this album to a more fun one where her success in life would bleed through.

Maybe 🤷‍♂️

The bar is very low it seems

It’s always nice to see love for Lover. A lot of her fans crap on that album, but I think it’s her best Pop album production and creative wise. It’s only fault is having a long runtime. You are so right about her downgrade since Lover/Folklore/Evermore. She isn’t exploring creatively like she did for those 3 albums. She is in her Drake era right now where she’s just dishing out music left and right to stay on top of the industry and collect cash.

who asked

Yup

For the most part i want to enjoy pop but so many artists are just really boring, and Taylor used to be the artist I could go to that was guaranteed a fun time with great dance inducing choruses, but now that's seriously dwindling

seriously and i think its a little gross the extent to which she exploits her relationships at this point, like all the fans basically being able to pinpoint exactly who each song is about and dredging up all the personal details of their breakups. also, i just dont believe her that she's really this devastated about EVERY ex bf she's ever had, like cmon at this point theres not a couple breakups that u just moved on from? all of them are breakup song worthy?

Love the record, all of it and so do the majority of top critics as well as the fans who have made it # 1 for five weeks.

@@patriciawebb403 shame peoples bar is so low now, miss the good stuff

Ikr his back looks so straight. How does anyone sit like that?

Sounds like a Drake subliminal

Great comment and wonderful profile picture of "The Velvet Underground & Nico"

Anthony wow 😂😂😂

He is lacking, nothing new here, he doesn't like Taylor and with every review he proves this. This album may not be for everyone but Taylor said this was an album she had to write. Yes some songs are not for me but I love everything else on this album.

What don’t you understand about that? He’s saying the qualities of the song don’t justify the length

@@welshbolshevik you could say that about literally any song that has repeated lyrics. It’s a very ignorant take about art.

@@makcarolin yeah you can. If verses are repeated or choruses are repeated without any changes in execution or meaning then it can be criticized for making the song longer than it needs to be.

@@aboithatsaboi182 fair point. It would be nice if that criticism made sense for the song Fantano referred to. Instead he just spots anti-artistic nonsense.

He probably doesnt think its necessary to fully clarify everything he says just to appease particularly uncharitable nitwits who will only assume the worst

Amy Winehouse is an amazing singer and songwriter. I remember reading somewhere that Anthony wasn’t huge on her though :(

Please don’t compare her even as a songwriter to taylor. It ain’t fair. And as a singer/vocal talent…, like a slow person versus Copernicus trying to do math, dog

​@@sethboooooi23245 Please tell me you're on Amy's side because I can't tell from your comment.

@@L0zza baffling comment to make if they're not on amy's side

Sounds like you all need to get out there and make a hugely successful pop album since Taylor cant

I’m a woman who’s 43 years old and I’ve never been in a relationship, so I’ve never been through a breakup. I’ve also never listened to a Taylor Swift song voluntarily and I think you’ve described why her songs would never resonate with me.

One of the most common critiques of her among even her fans (at least those with the capacity to see that she CAN do wrong) is that she has glaring quality control issues. It's like she doesn't know what's good or bad. She'll write some incredible poetry and then hilariously awful lines all within the same song (most popular example being Willow and the godforsaken 90s trend line).

​@@FPSBuzzNo offense but I think she might have let the popularity gotten into her head, thinking that she can release any song and it doesn't matter if the quality's bad because she's too big to fail. Not that I think she should be taken off her pedestal a notch or two but it might be worth for her to actually sit and take her time making good quality songs that deserve the fame she gets.

​@@vtheory7531 You seem to be under the impression that she would even consider this as bad material, which is wholly inconsistent with how she portrays herself and the world around her.

Im not a huge fan but my significant other is. I like the simple stuff. Her music doesnt need to be super deep for me, in fact i just want fun shit i can bop to. After listening to this album i only really saw 3 "bops" out of 31 songs and a lot of potential bops that just get ruined by her being oddly immature and...i think i actually lost it at the one high school whatever song, i legit started cackling. Sounded exactly like the tik tok ai songs people were meming about her writing when she first got with kelce. Anyways that charlie puth lyric was the worst thing ive heard in a long time

I think the second album with aaron is better, the writing on it is so good compared to the first. She could've had better track choices and come out with only one

The second half is ridiculously better.

​​@@countyfacts69201000% It just doesn't feel like a standalone album. It's just beautiful songs. I mean Peter, Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus, The Black Dog, The Albatross, The Bolter and the Manuscript are career highlight songs. Very emotional, very moving.

She should've removed Down Bad, Whos afraid of little old me, I can fix him, I can do it with a broken heart and replaced it with The Black Dog, The Bolter, Chloe or Sam..., and Cassandra or The Albatross. Boom. Already 4 times a better album than the one we got. Still not awe inspiring, but at least it's not a train wreck.

@@melissapartsafas2556 I (respectfully) have the opposite opinion. On the second half, it flows really nice as an album, although I don't think I'll return to very many tracks on their own.

@@rurubelle2920 Who's Afraid... imo is way too dramatic and direct, not making a great listening experience. The rest of these are good tho!!