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Originally posted by Pop pop123
compared to Ultraviolence:
1. The album was recorded entirely LIVE with a seven piece band
2. All of the songs WRE DONE in one take. (Cruel World and Pretty When You Cry were a free style song done ON THE SPOT)
3. All of the songs were recorded with a 1950s mic.
4. The recording of the album were done with a special technique (forgot the official name for it) to amplify richness in sound esp for Vinyl records.
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Okay, that's all very nice, but what does it have to do with the actual songs? If I recorded an album in one take singing into a cup with a piece of string attached to it from 1920 with 10 live xylophone players, would it immediately deserve praise? And the bits about a 1950s mic and special vinyl technique are a gimmick meant to entice the kind of 18 y/os who wish they were born 60 years ago "when music was good!"
None of this has anything to do with the actual
songs: the melodies, the beats, the lyrics, the actual appeal of the instrumentation, etc.
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Originally posted by Pop pop123
a horrible grade 1 lyricist.
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And I say this as a fan of both artists: Lana's lyrics are often very cringeworthy and laughable. In some ways, that's part of her appeal for me, but mostly in the sense that I enjoy this little character she has created. Lana is actually much closer to a "grade 1 lyricist" in that she (and her stans) think a bunch of flowery language and shallow film/literature references make her sound deep.
Taylor has clearly studied many of the songwriting "greats" very closely, and while she isn't up to their level, she is still an adroit lyricist.
Take "Clean" from 1989:
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The drought was the very worst
When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst
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Simple, but potent and clever. Clean is really brilliant, combining love, water, and addiction into a coherent song. Lana could never.
Even Lana is kinda tired of it. 