There is a divide within my family, and the source is Taylor Swift. I think the new album is a stunning failure--utterly uninspired. I think a high-school student might feel embarrassed to submit a sophomore poetry assignment with the following lines:
It's about to be the sleepless night you've been dreaming of!
And:
Don't care where the hell you've been cuz now you're mine!
And:
Daisy's bare naked, I was distraught.
He loves me not, he loves me not.
The final clunker asks us to believe that "distraught/not" is a persuasive rhyme. It also uses a cliche. It also uses a cliche that Taylor herself has employed before. ("I picked the petals, he loves me not.")
My husband feels more enthusiasm for this enterprise. Though he has an overall "thumbs down" response, he does enjoy quoting from "Wood." ("Sounds like Travis has a magic wand!")
My niece just likes the album. She plays it quite a bit. She isn't discounting the idea that there is secretly Olivia Rodrigo hatred behind the song "Actually Romantic," but she is more focused on the feud (or perceived feud) between Taylor and Charli XCX.
Now my daughter is involved. She wants each of the gowns in the "Ophelia" music video, except for the "rope dress"--the rope dress is distressing to Susie. She also thinks that the song is about cereal, as in "the fate...of...the cereal...."
We live in a democracy, and I can tolerate the diversity of opinions. It's not easy. But I'm trying.
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