Albums Dropping This Month That Aren’t Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’

Taylor Swift’s sixth studio album, Reputation, dropped last Friday, landing directly into a pool of mixed reviews, swimming right alongside the album’s messy lead single, “Look What You Made Me Do.”

Swift’s modern music evolution remains cringeworthy, jam packed full of childish lyrics, forcefully angsty themes and overproduced tracks. Her music and persona, both immature, relying on the innocent victim archetype, whether ‘subverted’ or not, doesn’t reflect the world of most women Swift’s age. Swift’s perfectly curated public image and the themes and complexity of her music stopped maturing seven years ago and she wants it that way.

Although Swift’s music proves lackluster, her recent attacks on free speech and her silence in the face of the white supremacist movement’s endorsement of her reveal the mogul for who she really is: an opportunist comfortable with turning anything, even the alt-right’s stamp of approval, into cash.

Swift’s a malignant tumor resting atop America’s cultural pyramid, refusing to use her social and cultural capital, her voice, to bring about positive change.

The singer-songwriter doesn’t deserve your attention, nor does she deserve your time or cash. Reputation’s a sad attempt at monetizing and patching up the gaping holes in Swift’s cracked victim persona.

Instead of supporting Swift this November and spinning Reputation, give non-white supremacist endorsed musicians that have dropped, or will drop, albums and EPs this November a listen. Do you really want to listen to someone that coopts feminism for profit, vilifies everyone she encounters as a way to generate revenue and ruthlessly attempts silencing all of her critics?

Miguel – Told You So (Nov 3)