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which features sexual imagery of smeared lipstick on her lover's face and leaving scratches on his back, [46] [61] the narrator details how he helps her get out of her fixations and promises she will "do bad things with [him]" despite not being a "bad girl". For some critics, though Reputation is not as accomplished as Swift's other albums, its hip-hop experimentation and detail-heavy songwriting led to her refined craftsmanship on subsequent records, namely Folklore (2020), Evermore (2020), and Midnights (2022). Attributed to reviews by Ann Powers for NPR, [61] Sal Cinquemani for Slant Magazine, [62] and Clayton Purdom for The A.

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. Martin and Shellback co-wrote and produced nine, and Antonoff co-wrote and co-produced the remaining six, all of which were co-produced by Swift. There are so many things that I simply adore about this Taylor Swift 'Reputation' Picture Disc edition that I scarcely know where to begin here. Dress" features a sultry production with stuttering beats, syncopated phrasings, swirling synthesizers, and a refrain containing falsetto vocals. King of My Heart" features surging keyboard instruments in the pre-chorus and thumping drums in the post-chorus, [23] [50] and "Dancing with Our Hands Tied" is instrumented with propelling beats and an EDM refrain.Kate Knibbs of The Ringer labelled the partnerships as "maximum commercialization" and wrote, "If [Swift] was going to be a snake, she was going to be an ultracapitalist snake. 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. The two argued that Reputation was the "most adequate" release in terms of marketing, driven by fan-oriented social media promotion and Swift's long-standing relationship with her supporters. Mary Siroky of Consequence observed how time proved it to be an authentic record, contrary to some initial reviews claiming otherwise [181] and, as part of a 2022 piece titled "What Were We Thinking?

Outstanding balance, zero sibilance, very minimal surface noise, both records were flat, and great picture quality on all 4 sides. Times We Were Wrong", opined that the publication's initial review was influenced by Swift's negative press and its score should have been higher. The closing track, the piano ballad " New Year's Day", is the album's only acoustic song; [40] it was recorded on an acoustic piano in "scratch takes" that do not filter unwanted sounds from the outer environment. There were lyric ideas or things like that [that she would bring], but I would say the majority of it came from scratch. Reputation topped the albums charts in many European territories including Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland.Reputation] was interesting because I'd never before had an album that wasn't fully understood until it was seen live. Although the streaming provider Spotify initially promoted Reputation on its playlists and commercial billboards, Swift and Big Machine kept the album off streaming platforms until December 1. This will be the only window of this kind into the creation of Taylor's sixth studio album, reputation.

Reputation featured on several publications' lists of the best albums of 2017, ranking on such lists by Time (fifth), [153] Rolling Stone (seventh), [154] Slant Magazine (17th), [155] The Independent (19), [156] Complex (26th), [157] NME (31st), [158] and Spin (48th). 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. Other opinions observed how the public backlash during promotion of Reputation contributed to Swift's political engagements after 2018; she publicly endorsed political candidates, supported LGBT rights, and criticized systemic racism. 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 the song, she wonders because "[her] reputation has never been worse", the love interest must love her for herself.

It should have the whole gamut of what it actually is like for the artist to be alive at that moment. Her inclusion as one of the "Silence Breakers"—a group of six women who publicly spoke out against sexual misconduct—for the cover of Time 2017's People of the Year was criticized by some who disdained her "spineless feminism and political passivity". Swift constantly refers back to the grand implications of its title, but never has she sounded freer than she does here, a self-styled villain biting the forbidden fruit of gossip and letting its juices run down her neck.

The next track, "Dancing With Our Hands Tied", describes a narrator's reflection on a past relationship when she was 25 years old and how the lover turns her bed "into a sacred oasis".

Oh, 'cause she's dead", [23] which reference the phone recording between her and West that Kardashian had released.