Fair warning, I’m the mod of [email protected] but hear me out folks.
So I’m no stranger to posts like this at all. I’m no stranger to the peer pressure to not like her by my friends, and everything.
Back story, I had always been hard into zeppelin, pink Floyd, queen, and was one of those “yeah man this is real music”. I refused to listen to anything else. It wasn’t until I was broken up with over a weekend and was driving home late at night and " You Belong With Me" came on, and it just hit me all over the feels. Completely differently when you’ve just had your heart ripped out. I couldn’t tell anyone, I felt shame because I knew my friends would make fun of me.
So I kept making fun of her trash music, it sucks, it all sounds the same, because that’s what my friends did. Then 1989 and Shake it Off came out and it was such a fun song. It didn’t have deep lyrics about hobbits or trees or bicycles, but it was fun. And I enjoyed it. So I bought her album. And reputation, and lover. I joined the subreddit and I was gobsmacked. People were welcoming, and loved having me there. It became our fun space where we talked about how a song made us feel, or guessing when the next tour would be.
So my view has been shaped by these memories. There is no such thing as good and bad music. There is no master ranking of songs that say this is good or bad. There are complexities, there is technical difficulty, but those are mechanical. It can’t be quantified how a song makes a person feel. So yeah, you may think her songs all sound the same, that they are boring, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy them. Last weekend I both had on my TV The Delicate Sound of Thunder live bluray and the 4k copy of the Reputation stadium album.
It comes down to let people enjoy things. It brings them happiness, so why ruin that?
And final note. The trope of “only young girls like her music”; I’m saying as a near 40 year old man who dressed up with my wife to go to the eras tour, that is an incredibly sexist take.
(If you enjoy her music and want to come over, check us out at [email protected]. No music judgments there)
Fair warning, I’m the mod of [email protected] but hear me out folks.
So I’m no stranger to posts like this at all. I’m no stranger to the peer pressure to not like her by my friends, and everything.
Back story, I had always been hard into zeppelin, pink Floyd, queen, and was one of those “yeah man this is real music”. I refused to listen to anything else. It wasn’t until I was broken up with over a weekend and was driving home late at night and " You Belong With Me" came on, and it just hit me all over the feels. Completely differently when you’ve just had your heart ripped out. I couldn’t tell anyone, I felt shame because I knew my friends would make fun of me.
So I kept making fun of her trash music, it sucks, it all sounds the same, because that’s what my friends did. Then 1989 and Shake it Off came out and it was such a fun song. It didn’t have deep lyrics about hobbits or trees or bicycles, but it was fun. And I enjoyed it. So I bought her album. And reputation, and lover. I joined the subreddit and I was gobsmacked. People were welcoming, and loved having me there. It became our fun space where we talked about how a song made us feel, or guessing when the next tour would be.
So my view has been shaped by these memories. There is no such thing as good and bad music. There is no master ranking of songs that say this is good or bad. There are complexities, there is technical difficulty, but those are mechanical. It can’t be quantified how a song makes a person feel. So yeah, you may think her songs all sound the same, that they are boring, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy them. Last weekend I both had on my TV The Delicate Sound of Thunder live bluray and the 4k copy of the Reputation stadium album.
It comes down to let people enjoy things. It brings them happiness, so why ruin that?
And final note. The trope of “only young girls like her music”; I’m saying as a near 40 year old man who dressed up with my wife to go to the eras tour, that is an incredibly sexist take.
(If you enjoy her music and want to come over, check us out at [email protected]. No music judgments there)
Yeah man lyrics were just better then
I unironically love Bicycle tho