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Gorgeous" has playful lyrics about newfound romantic attraction, where the narrator feels tempted to cheat on an existing boyfriend for another. Now, getting back on track here, one couldn't help but note that the 'Getaway Car' was strangely original and actually a very cute piece.

That was the theme of those sessions: ‘Let’s just tell this story, whatever that story is, because that’s the whole point. Swift became increasingly reticent on social media despite a large following and avoided the press amidst the commotion. Within a month, the record was certified triple platinum, becoming RIAA’s top-certified album of the year, and even a year after its release, it was deemed the biggest album of 2018 on the Billboard charts.

The record was certified platinum or higher in the first three countries, [138] being certified 3× Platinum in Australia [139] and 4× Platinum in New Zealand. It is followed by "Getaway Car", which uses crime scene escape imagery and a Bonnie and Clyde reference to tell the story of how the narrator leaves her former lover in a hotel room and escapes in the getaway car with a new lover. Swift said its mentions of bank heists, robbers, and thieves, a "twisted" but "interesting" way to depict "finding your partner in crime". For Nelson, the album found Swift adopting black-music styles and African-American Vernacular English, a "reflection of a wider cultural problem". It’s even got this post-hook of drums — I wanted them to sound like Dothraki drums […] ‘I Did Something Bad,’ I wrote after Arya and Sansa conspire to kill Littlefinger.

Of course, I could go on and on to glamorize every single song on this Picture Disc edition, but every one of these tunes were absolutely wonderful and moving. Some critics interpreted the overarching narrative as a love story chronicling the burgeoning days, fallout, and recovery, [f] which Swift corroborated in a 2019 Rolling Stone interview: "The one-two punch, bait-and-switch of Reputation is that it was actually [. Swift said that Reputation consists of a linear timeline: it begins with how she felt when she started working on the album and transitions to how she felt by the time she completed it. At a fan event that took place in June 2018, Swift described the record as a story of “finding love throughout all the noise,” referring to how the album transitions from discussing her persona to falling in love with British actor Joe Alwyn. Joe Lynch of Billboard attributed the initial criticism to the general preconception disregarding lyrics in synthesizer-based arrangements; "Which is a shame, because on Reputation, Swift's words deliver vivid Polaroid shots directly to your brain.

Swift in support of the album embarked on the Reputation Stadium Tour (2018), which became the highest-grossing North American tour of all time. He wanted Swift to capture her emotions at a particular time when "you can feel like you can conquer the world, or you can feel like the biggest piece of garbage that ever existed", resulting in a "very intense" record. But she’s really great at knowing what it’s about: talking about what the hell is going on in your life and somehow finding a way to take that exact emotion and make a song out of it. has an industrial production backed by a thumping bassline, [42] [43] "End Game" features sputtering trap beats, [44] "I Did Something Bad" is punctuated by a dubstep drop, [43] and "Don't Blame Me" has a gothic, gospel-oriented soundscape drenched in synthesizers, dubstep beats, and vocal harmonization. The Independent critic Roisin O'Connor and Vulture journalist Craig Jenkins both regarded Reputation as a showcase of Swift's both vindictive and vulnerable sides; [50] the former lauded it for displaying Swift's talents capturing emotional details "that you as a listener cannot".

She said in a 2019 Rolling Stone interview that she followed the songwriting for her 2014 single " Blank Space", which satirizes the criticism targeting her for dating "too many people" in her twenties, and wrote Reputation from the perspective of a character that others believed her to be. Pitchfork critic Jamieson Cox described the instrumentation as "hair-raising bass drops, vacuum-cleaner synths [. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. Recording sessions with Antonoff mostly took place at his home studio in Brooklyn, with several trips to Atlanta and California for him to incorporate ideas from other producers.Film director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson cited Reputation as an inspiration for her 2022 teen comedy film Do Revenge. There were lyric ideas or things like that [that she would bring], but I would say the majority of it came from scratch. Oh, 'cause she's dead", [23] which reference the phone recording between her and West that Kardashian had released. c] " Look What You Made Me Do" uses modular synthesizers, drums, and guitars in the second pre-chorus; [28] it incorporates an interpolation of " I'm Too Sexy" (1991) by English band Right Said Fred. By engaging a smaller production group on Reputation than on 1989, she envisioned that the album would be more coherent but still "versatile enough".

Other albums I’ve made have felt like a scrapbook of different memories, but there was something overarching about the theme of this album for me.In 'King Of My Heart', it's funny that Taylor mentions expensive cars like 'Jaguar' as that's exactly what I drive. Reputation topped the albums charts in many European territories including Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland. Look what you made them do: understanding fans' affective responses to Taylor Swift's political coming-out" (PDF).