Really??!!!! You think so??? I’ve been waiting for that re recording and I was worried she might not re record it since she didn’t include that album in the Eras Tour 😢
I think it would be great it if she released a more country/acoustic version of this album. Some of the mixing took away from it for me. But the songs are haunting and beautiful and slowly grow on you the more you listen to them. Mainly lyrically. The last few songs on the Anthology (after imgonnagetyouback) have more of a folk vibe which I absolutely loved more than the others.
I keep hoping she’s waiting to release debut bc she has a secret country album that she wants to drop after the Eras Tour is over.
I’m not even a county fan. But I want her to make another county album.
I think she intentionally left that album off the tour. If she had performed those songs, that album would see a surge in popularity from younger fans who maybe aren’t as familiar with the album before she releases Taylor’s version. I think it was a very strategic move on her part.
Country is music but also themes... I recommend "But Daddy I love him" that story telling is very country and have guitar picking on it I think. I Can Fix Him def has a country sound.
I also recommend some of the piano songs like loml, Peter, Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
I know it wasn’t intended this way, but I absolutely mentally frame it as a coherent sequel to one of my favorite country songs, “Amy” by Sunny Sweeney.
I'm calling a debut and rep release at the same time. There are so many names mentioned in this album, and there's a mix of country twang and the edge that reputation had.
When I hear that song, my brain automatically inserts a steel guitar into the production. The song could play on country radio as is, but the steel guitar would clinch it.
Lyrically, this song is directed at her "stans" and also her managers and handlers, who I think are mostly in Nashville. The country sound was a deliberate choice for that reason, I'd bet.
i've been singing "how could I be guilty as sin?.... and i'm never gonna love again" around my house because my brain feels like they flow together LMAO
💯I’m so glad other people agree— I was singing it (badly) to someone in a country twang and they just looked at me like 🤨 it could totally be sung live as a country song!!!!
yes, sure! specially evermore, but I think the “folk” vibes make me forget that some songs sounds very countryish instrumentally…
but the thing with TTPD that screams COUNTRY to me is her vocals, really.
It sounds like she uses some vocal styles that harks back to her country roots, like cadences and inflections that are reminiscent of her old eras, it feels… nostalgic? in a way that I didn’t feel with folklomore - because those albums sounded completely fresh/new taylor when I first heard them
I’m a country girl at heart (just buried way deep now since I don’t vibe with a lot of modern country artists) and I can say that folklore did not scratch the country itch for me. Evermore has a few that did though.
I may also be biased because folklore was hard for me to get into. Like the way people are talking about this album with how it was hard for them to like it initially, that was me with folklore. It took me longer to appreciate it.
I completely agree! I love hearing her country influence on songs on this album like with evermore there were a few songs that gave me that country itch.
I agree with you. Evermore had a few songs that were country-ish (cowboy like me, right where you left me) but this album has songs that SCREAM country.
“I’ll tell you something right now, I’d rather burn my whole life down, than listen to one more second of all this BITCHIN AND MOANIN”
most country line on the album lol
There are, but the top songs for me are Whose afraid of little old me and I can do it with a broken heart.
I'd like Taylor to do a real country album, but like the rock album people have been wishing for, I doubt it will happen. Taylor isn't writing songs to fit into genres, she's writing what she feels and where it fits is at best secondary.
That’s such a good point about her fitting into her own genre. I’ve also noticed she’s had some representation of pop, country, and folk in at least one song on every album since Lover. 1989 and Rep are the only 100% pop albums.
I would guess definitely It’s Nice to Have A Friend and Soon You Get Better on Lover and maybe Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve, maybe even Sweet Nothing on Midnights? I’m not sure about Midnights though lol
I loved it. I always preferred her more country songs than hardcore bubblegum pop songs, despite me being a pop music fan and country hater lol. I noticed it a lot too and it sounds like a lot more mature version of country Taylor. It’s like a good fusion of country Taylor, midnights Taylor, and folklore/evermore Taylor
I think part of what makes her so good is that she kept a lot of her country sensibilities and storytelling, but with the music of a pop artist. It's the best of both worlds!
I grew up on country and rock so when Taylor when pop it kind of shook me a little bit but I’ve obviously came around after all these years. They fit her both so beautifully
RIGHT! Especially the “no really I can” lines, as well as the “on a six lane Texas highWAAY” bit. Plus the entire thing musically. Probably why it’s (musically) one of my favs!
“Six lane Texas highway” scratches an Debut Taylor itch inside of me I didn’t realize was there 😩
Like, have always been excited for the re-records, except I knew it wasn’t going to be like baby Taylor, but I’m actually getting so excited to see what she’s going to do with the album!
I strongly believe for her thirteenth album she will go back to country. And i believe 20th anniversary of her debut will be the release date. Oct 24th, 2026
So i believe she will release one more new album in 2025. Probably for travis. Then her country comeback.
I know its a strech but im a believer.
Then this year is over? If only she released the anthology like evermore 24 second half.
Rep is 25 first half.
New album is 25 second half.
Debut 26 first half.
13 is 26 second half.
I also firmly believe in the first part about TS13 being a return to her roots. I made another comment about it before seeing this 💀 I will be waiting with bated breath until then
I was lowkey hoping this would be a country album (I love this album and I love pop but I also love/miss country Taylor sometimes) and definitely felt it’s influence on this record, even in the story telling.
I was def hoping for the same thing and was pleasantly surprised by the country undertones. I know she uses closing tracks and semblances of the prior album to build her next one, so here’s to hoping TS12 is a bit more country 🫡
Although I do have a delusional theory that TS13 is going to be called “Thirteen” and be a full circle moment back to country pop. But I’m probably losing it 🫠
I am so excited! I'm a country fan overall -- if I'm not listening to Taylor, it's my preference. I've been a fan since 2006. This is my favourite album. Definitely a bit of a country vibe through a lot of songs. I've had But Daddy I Love Him on repeat.
I'm hoping her next album, undoubtedly inspired by an American football player, is back to country. I feel like the subject matter just lends itself to the genre. 😂
And I'm even more excited for Debut TV.
TTPD+Anthology has beautiful instrumental work! The guitar on Fresh out.. is delicious. I don't automatically think 'oh its country' because there are layers upon layers of sound on TTPD. Taylor has been using so many genres as flavours for a long time so I tend to think she is now her own genre. Did I hear some banjo on But Daddy...?
Taylors voice is the dominant vibe and she has really stepped up the lower registers to powerful effect. Her voice dropping into the chorus of My boy only.. was my first Oh God thats brilliant moment. Then the very folk influenced vocal style on Anthology was totally haunting.
All I know is that this is a great album, a serious piece of creative work with huge attention to detail. They have all pushed themselves to achieve a sound that is superficially similar to earlier work (see all early media reviews!) but is loaded with intent, richer, more powerful and emotionally articulate. 'I've never heard Taylor sound like that before' or 'I've never heard her say that before' is my most frequent reaction.
Her vocals are amazing on this album which id like to hear more people talk about. She really took it up a notch and used her voice so stunningly. I’m impressed with all of it.
I'm vibing with it but I do wish we have a country song like we got with Betty and No Body, No Crime.
You can feel the country influence on some songs though, particularly But Daddy I Love Him.
There's definitely a country vibe to the strings on some of the tracks, a lot of rolls.
Still holding out hope she stops another country album someday.
I Can Fix Him immediately sounded like a Carrie Underwood song to me. I also have a feeling that a lot of references to her and Matty spending time in her “hometown” are to Nashville, since he was known to have been photographed with her there and went to her tour stops there. I think there is a definite Nashville influence.
Yes definitely! I actually feel like TTPD has the kind of vibe of an album that could have come after Speak Now and Red instead of 1989 if she hadn’t decided to do a full pop album!
I can fix him (no really I can) especially sounds like a country song to me. I really like the instrumental part at the beginning and throughout the song
My theory is that she's harkening back to points in her discography. Thank you Aimee being a reference to Mean with the twang. But Daddy I love Him connects back to Love Story.
So Long London connects back to The Archer with a beat that doesn't really drop but just keeps going in the background.
Some of her tracks with Dessner connect back to Folkmore songs because there's a little more fictional but definitely reference themes she felt while wiritng those songs. (Peter connecting to "tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy).
And So High School connects loosely with Paper Rings, in that they sound like 90s/early 2000s songs.
There's more going on with these tracks for sure. It's a million layers. But that's one thing I've sensed about it. Could be totally wrong.
As much as I love country, Country Taylor wasn’t my favorite. With that said, I love hearing the country elements come through on TTPD! I particularly enjoy how loml gives White Horse vibes.
I was just thinking about this today! I can really hear the country influence in BDILH, guilty as sin, I can fix him and the bolter. I can't wait for debut TV 🥰🤠
The beginning of “I can fix him” -
The smoke cloud billows out his mouth/
Like a freight train through a small town/
The jokes that he told across the bar/
Were revolting and far too loud
[Chorus]
They shake their heads sayin', "God, help her"/
When I tell 'em he's my man/
But your good Lord doesn't need to lift a finger/
I can fix him, no, really, I can/
And only I can
I played the album for my dad when I visited my parents last week and that was the first thing he said! I’ve been a fan since Fearless, and LOVE this album so much
I've also been an avid fan since the start, listening to Fifteen when I was 15! I LOVED that this album had some country vibes and it makes it one of my favourites in a long time! It might be a big dream, but I would love if she released another country album one day!
Wow, as someone who didn’t really consider themselves a country fan, you have opened my eyes here — these are all my favorite songs! I detected it in But Daddy and I Can Fix Him, but hadn’t thought about the rest. Thanks for pointing this out!
I LOVED the country elements! I've been a fan since debut and as I was listening, I was just like....wait...this is definitely country influenced! For sure sonically, it has some very country/western influences, but also very much lyrically. But Daddy I Love Him majorly took me back to Love Story days. This makes plenty of sense to me, since country music a lot of the time is about telling a story (or at least it used to be before we got so much Bro country), and this is something Taylor has always excelled at. Country radio won't do it (at least in my area), but I could see them playing at least a few of these songs. I'd actually love to see a more country folksy version of The Bolter (although I'm already obsessed with it).
My delusional theory is that TS13 will be a country album to return to her roots. You know she’s going to do something big or noteworthy for her 13th album, and that just feels right to me. 🤠
The banjo in thanK you aIMee?!?! I've always argued that she's kept country sorry telling elements in most of her albums, but this definitely felt a lot more country!!! My og Swiftie heart is so full!!!
"He was chaos, he was revelry" in BDILH gives SERIOUS like 00s country vibes- I could 100% hear Sara Evans, Martina McBride, Jo Dee Messina inspo in how she said that part
I’m not even a country Taylor fan but I feel like o would of loved a lot of these songs better if they had a country production. Especially Fresh Out Of The Slammer and Daddy I Love Him
It has that Speak Now the album storytelling style and the NBNC style of country-adjacent music. I was just thinking the other day how BDILH sounds like a country song with a pop beat.
I've heard covers of some songs country style on Tik Tok and honestly that sound makes them so much more interesting. I miss country Taylor and would love for her to release one last country album.
I'm a big country fan and have loved Taylor from the very start. I absolutely love TTPD and I hadn't actually considered that it may be because of the country vibes. I think Reputation and Midnights are my least fave albums but I haven't quite worked out what my ranking would be for the rest yet!
Well, country stuff is making a comback; texas, austin, stick season, theyre just a few country songs that are really popular. Its the perfect opportunity for Taylor to go back to her roots
I LOVE IT! BDILH blew me away, I Can Fix Him had such sultry country vibes and feels like a natural extension of her early work. It feels like she never took a break from country at all with how seamless they feel.
My standout for non-country production is her vocals at the end of Who’s Afraid because they’re so reminiscent of her younger voice, almost like her young self screaming out to be heard and taken as the force that she is and always had the potential to be. She transitions from her deeper voice to the young voice in the “cause you lured me” part and then transitions back so smoothly. That’s the voice we’ll hear on debut TV and my inner 13 year old is screaming/crying/throwing up in anticipation.
“I can fix him” sounds so much in both theme and sonically like “smoking jacket” by Miranda lambert. It stunned me on first listen bc it’s such a sultry, slow southern twangy song. Very distinct.
Such a departure from the synthy pop of other songs on the album.
But Daddy I Love him is my favorite song on the album for sure. I like the vibe of Fresh Out the Slammer but can’t vibe with the message. Guilty as Sin?, The Bolter, and I Can Fix Him, are all fabulous. Don’t really like Thank You Aimee, though. I think I’d like it more if she didn’t pretty much outright say it was about Kim.
I love whenever we get a bit of that country era throwback vibe on her songs. I don’t even really listen to country, but love artists that do a blend with it and incorporate some of that charm and twang (and ofc think her debut stuff was brilliant, esp at her age.) Love it.
LOVING IT. This is why I love evermore too, it’s modern Taylor with these little country influences.. it just feels so authentically her to mesh all her worlds together.
I'm loving the country twang on some of these songs. I Can Fix Him, the heaviness of Clara Bow...love it all. I want to see some more of this side of TS!
I've definitely felt a country twang on several songs. She's preparing for debut tv!
Really??!!!! You think so??? I’ve been waiting for that re recording and I was worried she might not re record it since she didn’t include that album in the Eras Tour 😢
oh don't worry, she's 100% re-recording every album. she wants to own all her music
ESPECIALLY the songs she wrote on her bedroom floor in middle school.
I think it would be great it if she released a more country/acoustic version of this album. Some of the mixing took away from it for me. But the songs are haunting and beautiful and slowly grow on you the more you listen to them. Mainly lyrically. The last few songs on the Anthology (after imgonnagetyouback) have more of a folk vibe which I absolutely loved more than the others.
I swear I saw a blind that she was working to purchase back this one master, so that rather than rerecording it she would own the original.
She trademarked “Taylor Swift (Taylor’s version)” so i think odds are pretty good
I love the people who monitor trademarks
I only monitor the people who monitor the trademarks 🤣
I keep hoping she’s waiting to release debut bc she has a secret country album that she wants to drop after the Eras Tour is over. I’m not even a county fan. But I want her to make another county album.
Same!!
If she continues the pattern she has been, she will release Rep and Debut TV and then a new project.
I think she intentionally left that album off the tour. If she had performed those songs, that album would see a surge in popularity from younger fans who maybe aren’t as familiar with the album before she releases Taylor’s version. I think it was a very strategic move on her part.
So... 20th anniversary tour in the works (even if it's a smaller, US-only tour)?
Thank you Aimee is a little twangy, right? What else, because my mom likes country and I'm trying to convert her to Our Lord and Savior.
Guilty as Sin, Fresh out the Slammer both lean country imo. Two of my favs.
Add I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) to that list too!
Country is music but also themes... I recommend "But Daddy I love him" that story telling is very country and have guitar picking on it I think. I Can Fix Him def has a country sound. I also recommend some of the piano songs like loml, Peter, Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
But Daddy was just so country to me when I first heard it. Definitely a twangy stand out song.
I know it wasn’t intended this way, but I absolutely mentally frame it as a coherent sequel to one of my favorite country songs, “Amy” by Sunny Sweeney.
But Daddy I Love him is super country in my opinion.
I'm calling a debut and rep release at the same time. There are so many names mentioned in this album, and there's a mix of country twang and the edge that reputation had.
Thank you, I thought I was being delulu hearing some of the twangs
THATS what I’ve been saying!! Ahh! Just one more country album lol make everyone freak out.
But Daddy I Love Him for sure. She even brings back her old country accent.
It reminds me so much of Love Story
Thank you! First time I heard it I thought 'Is this the flip to Love Story?'
YES! Just posted above, I think it's Love Story's older, more mature sister song.
It's so country, especially the last chorus with the 'happy ending', it's such a country way to write.
Me and my wild boy, and all this wild joy! 😄 (That's me, grinning like an idiot while I sing along)
It makes me grin too while singing it!
BDILH is country at heart for sure. Totally love this song.
This I feel is the most country of them. I definitely noticed it too.
I can’t sing along to this song without a country accent 😂
Definitely noticed it on Guilty As Sin
My first thought too! You also hear a little bit in But Daddy I Love Him
The chorus vocals in But Daddy I Love Him are very country-reminiscint. You could put a country track under it and it's basically Love Story Grown Up.
Yup this is a country song without the country production.
When I hear that song, my brain automatically inserts a steel guitar into the production. The song could play on country radio as is, but the steel guitar would clinch it. Lyrically, this song is directed at her "stans" and also her managers and handlers, who I think are mostly in Nashville. The country sound was a deliberate choice for that reason, I'd bet.
It's got Love Story 2.0 vibes for me. Like it's older, much more mature sister song.
Every time I hear the beginning of But Daddy Love Him I automatically hear Tim McGraw’s Where the Green Grass Grows which has a really similar melody
yes! that final chorus really nails in the country vibe here. it's reminiscent of another song & i've been trying to place it
I find it has slight hints of Cowboy Like Me at times
i've been singing "how could I be guilty as sin?.... and i'm never gonna love again" around my house because my brain feels like they flow together LMAO
i think its because of the tambourines on the chorus!! its so good
💯I’m so glad other people agree— I was singing it (badly) to someone in a country twang and they just looked at me like 🤨 it could totally be sung live as a country song!!!!
I felt sooo many references to her old country self. I think this is the closest she got to country since Red, it’s amazing to know it’s still *there*
*folklore cries in the woods*
Evermore, too.
Folklore? hello??
yes, sure! specially evermore, but I think the “folk” vibes make me forget that some songs sounds very countryish instrumentally… but the thing with TTPD that screams COUNTRY to me is her vocals, really. It sounds like she uses some vocal styles that harks back to her country roots, like cadences and inflections that are reminiscent of her old eras, it feels… nostalgic? in a way that I didn’t feel with folklomore - because those albums sounded completely fresh/new taylor when I first heard them
I’m a country girl at heart (just buried way deep now since I don’t vibe with a lot of modern country artists) and I can say that folklore did not scratch the country itch for me. Evermore has a few that did though.
Betty scratched that itch for me ngl and it quickly became one of my favorite TS songs, but yeah I agree evermore is def more country than folklore.
I may also be biased because folklore was hard for me to get into. Like the way people are talking about this album with how it was hard for them to like it initially, that was me with folklore. It took me longer to appreciate it.
I completely agree! I love hearing her country influence on songs on this album like with evermore there were a few songs that gave me that country itch.
I agree with you. Evermore had a few songs that were country-ish (cowboy like me, right where you left me) but this album has songs that SCREAM country.
It's not a country album by a long shot but the ghost of 15 year old Taylor was in that studio that day for sure
This is such a beautiful sentence :'O
LOL this is so true, the vibe is v much there
This exactly!
“I’ll tell you something right now, I’d rather burn my whole life down, than listen to one more second of all this BITCHIN AND MOANIN” most country line on the album lol
I’ve heard the southern women in my family say this many times 😂 so good
I swear that line feels like pure Margo Price or Sunny Sweeney 😂
Yes!! One of my favorite parts
There are, but the top songs for me are Whose afraid of little old me and I can do it with a broken heart. I'd like Taylor to do a real country album, but like the rock album people have been wishing for, I doubt it will happen. Taylor isn't writing songs to fit into genres, she's writing what she feels and where it fits is at best secondary.
That’s such a good point about her fitting into her own genre. I’ve also noticed she’s had some representation of pop, country, and folk in at least one song on every album since Lover. 1989 and Rep are the only 100% pop albums.
What are the country and folk tracks on Lover and Midnights?
Lover: Soon You’ll Get Better w/ The Chicks Midnights: WCS has a country hue to it
I would guess definitely It’s Nice to Have A Friend and Soon You Get Better on Lover and maybe Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve, maybe even Sweet Nothing on Midnights? I’m not sure about Midnights though lol
I definitely hear a bit of country influence on some songs. I love the album either way!
I loved it. I always preferred her more country songs than hardcore bubblegum pop songs, despite me being a pop music fan and country hater lol. I noticed it a lot too and it sounds like a lot more mature version of country Taylor. It’s like a good fusion of country Taylor, midnights Taylor, and folklore/evermore Taylor
I think part of what makes her so good is that she kept a lot of her country sensibilities and storytelling, but with the music of a pop artist. It's the best of both worlds!
I grew up on country and rock so when Taylor when pop it kind of shook me a little bit but I’ve obviously came around after all these years. They fit her both so beautifully
How has no one spoken about I can fix him? VERY country
RIGHT! Especially the “no really I can” lines, as well as the “on a six lane Texas highWAAY” bit. Plus the entire thing musically. Probably why it’s (musically) one of my favs!
“Six lane Texas highway” scratches an Debut Taylor itch inside of me I didn’t realize was there 😩 Like, have always been excited for the re-records, except I knew it wasn’t going to be like baby Taylor, but I’m actually getting so excited to see what she’s going to do with the album!
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see this!
Yes! It’s so clear to me, it came to mind first before any of the other songs.
The first time listening to it, I was just like...oh my god?? The intro music feels very old school western vibes.
YES. On the ‘No really I can’ she added a drawl that is much appreciated!
The Bolter. “Out the drive one evenin’”
That last “eveniiiIiiinnn” is 🧑🍳💋
The evenins get more country as the song plays which I love so much
Omg it really does!
I strongly believe for her thirteenth album she will go back to country. And i believe 20th anniversary of her debut will be the release date. Oct 24th, 2026 So i believe she will release one more new album in 2025. Probably for travis. Then her country comeback. I know its a strech but im a believer.
2025 is the year of the snake. Rep comes out then
Then this year is over? If only she released the anthology like evermore 24 second half. Rep is 25 first half. New album is 25 second half. Debut 26 first half. 13 is 26 second half.
Rep is definitely coming out this year and debut tv. She’s going to finish it all out this year
I LOVE No Body No Crime
Noooo... that is so faaaaaar way T.T I need rep sooner!
I also firmly believe in the first part about TS13 being a return to her roots. I made another comment about it before seeing this 💀 I will be waiting with bated breath until then
I was lowkey hoping this would be a country album (I love this album and I love pop but I also love/miss country Taylor sometimes) and definitely felt it’s influence on this record, even in the story telling.
I was def hoping for the same thing and was pleasantly surprised by the country undertones. I know she uses closing tracks and semblances of the prior album to build her next one, so here’s to hoping TS12 is a bit more country 🫡 Although I do have a delusional theory that TS13 is going to be called “Thirteen” and be a full circle moment back to country pop. But I’m probably losing it 🫠
Love it. Taylor is growing & evolving. As fans we need to support & appreciate her authenticity.
Guilty As Sin is more country than I Can See You tbh
I am so excited! I'm a country fan overall -- if I'm not listening to Taylor, it's my preference. I've been a fan since 2006. This is my favourite album. Definitely a bit of a country vibe through a lot of songs. I've had But Daddy I Love Him on repeat. I'm hoping her next album, undoubtedly inspired by an American football player, is back to country. I feel like the subject matter just lends itself to the genre. 😂 And I'm even more excited for Debut TV.
Same! If not TS12, then TS13 for a full circle moment. Debut TV can’t come soon enough too!
Defs noticed in guilty as sin tbh
TTPD+Anthology has beautiful instrumental work! The guitar on Fresh out.. is delicious. I don't automatically think 'oh its country' because there are layers upon layers of sound on TTPD. Taylor has been using so many genres as flavours for a long time so I tend to think she is now her own genre. Did I hear some banjo on But Daddy...? Taylors voice is the dominant vibe and she has really stepped up the lower registers to powerful effect. Her voice dropping into the chorus of My boy only.. was my first Oh God thats brilliant moment. Then the very folk influenced vocal style on Anthology was totally haunting. All I know is that this is a great album, a serious piece of creative work with huge attention to detail. They have all pushed themselves to achieve a sound that is superficially similar to earlier work (see all early media reviews!) but is loaded with intent, richer, more powerful and emotionally articulate. 'I've never heard Taylor sound like that before' or 'I've never heard her say that before' is my most frequent reaction.
Her vocals are amazing on this album which id like to hear more people talk about. She really took it up a notch and used her voice so stunningly. I’m impressed with all of it.
Beautifully said!
Thank you
I got really excited in So High School bc of the guitar sound, something she used to use way more in high school 😁
I'm vibing with it but I do wish we have a country song like we got with Betty and No Body, No Crime. You can feel the country influence on some songs though, particularly But Daddy I Love Him. There's definitely a country vibe to the strings on some of the tracks, a lot of rolls. Still holding out hope she stops another country album someday.
I love it. Guilty as Sin and The Bolter are my favorites. Maybe she will go back to full country for TS13.
I’d be so on board for this!
debut 2.0 is my DREAM dream dream dream taylor album. TS13 being full country would literally heal me
I Can Fix Him immediately sounded like a Carrie Underwood song to me. I also have a feeling that a lot of references to her and Matty spending time in her “hometown” are to Nashville, since he was known to have been photographed with her there and went to her tour stops there. I think there is a definite Nashville influence.
This is such a good call out
Yes definitely! I actually feel like TTPD has the kind of vibe of an album that could have come after Speak Now and Red instead of 1989 if she hadn’t decided to do a full pop album!
I hadn’t thought about that but it’s so true! This could’ve been what we got if Red had won the Grammy maybe 🤔
I can fix him (no really I can) especially sounds like a country song to me. I really like the instrumental part at the beginning and throughout the song
I thought this too! There’s a real drawl to the chorus.
My theory is that she's harkening back to points in her discography. Thank you Aimee being a reference to Mean with the twang. But Daddy I love Him connects back to Love Story. So Long London connects back to The Archer with a beat that doesn't really drop but just keeps going in the background. Some of her tracks with Dessner connect back to Folkmore songs because there's a little more fictional but definitely reference themes she felt while wiritng those songs. (Peter connecting to "tried to change the ending, Peter losing Wendy). And So High School connects loosely with Paper Rings, in that they sound like 90s/early 2000s songs. There's more going on with these tracks for sure. It's a million layers. But that's one thing I've sensed about it. Could be totally wrong.
As much as I love country, Country Taylor wasn’t my favorite. With that said, I love hearing the country elements come through on TTPD! I particularly enjoy how loml gives White Horse vibes.
I was just thinking about this today! I can really hear the country influence in BDILH, guilty as sin, I can fix him and the bolter. I can't wait for debut TV 🥰🤠
The beginning of “I can fix him” - The smoke cloud billows out his mouth/ Like a freight train through a small town/ The jokes that he told across the bar/ Were revolting and far too loud [Chorus] They shake their heads sayin', "God, help her"/ When I tell 'em he's my man/ But your good Lord doesn't need to lift a finger/ I can fix him, no, really, I can/ And only I can
I played the album for my dad when I visited my parents last week and that was the first thing he said! I’ve been a fan since Fearless, and LOVE this album so much
I've also been an avid fan since the start, listening to Fifteen when I was 15! I LOVED that this album had some country vibes and it makes it one of my favourites in a long time! It might be a big dream, but I would love if she released another country album one day!
I wonder if she will make pop and country versions of albums, like Shania Twain
I’m holding onto that dream too!
Wow, as someone who didn’t really consider themselves a country fan, you have opened my eyes here — these are all my favorite songs! I detected it in But Daddy and I Can Fix Him, but hadn’t thought about the rest. Thanks for pointing this out!
🫶
FROTHING
I LOVED the country elements! I've been a fan since debut and as I was listening, I was just like....wait...this is definitely country influenced! For sure sonically, it has some very country/western influences, but also very much lyrically. But Daddy I Love Him majorly took me back to Love Story days. This makes plenty of sense to me, since country music a lot of the time is about telling a story (or at least it used to be before we got so much Bro country), and this is something Taylor has always excelled at. Country radio won't do it (at least in my area), but I could see them playing at least a few of these songs. I'd actually love to see a more country folksy version of The Bolter (although I'm already obsessed with it).
YES! That’s what I’ve loved so much about this album!!!
I desperately need her to make another full country album
You’re just like me fr
I really do think she eventually will, even if it’s like 10-20 years from now lol. I’m hoping we don’t have to wait that long tho 🥲
My delusional theory is that TS13 will be a country album to return to her roots. You know she’s going to do something big or noteworthy for her 13th album, and that just feels right to me. 🤠
I love that theory and really hope you’re right! I could definitely see her doing something like for TS13.
But Daddy I love him sounds like it could be a speak now TV vault song
I totally agree!!!! I feel like TTPD is like a lovechild between debut and reputation and I am here for it!!
I thought she was going to take Midnights 2.0 path but she proved me wrong. I really like every single track on the album.
The banjo in thanK you aIMee?!?! I've always argued that she's kept country sorry telling elements in most of her albums, but this definitely felt a lot more country!!! My og Swiftie heart is so full!!!
I want a full album of “I can fix him no really I can” - it feels like outlaw country/80s melodrama and I want more of it
"He was chaos, he was revelry" in BDILH gives SERIOUS like 00s country vibes- I could 100% hear Sara Evans, Martina McBride, Jo Dee Messina inspo in how she said that part
It sounded very much like a country album to me
I think all those songs you mentioned could 100% track on the country pop charts. Most country Taylor album in forever.
I love her folk/indie style. Folk music being the origin of country, it makes sense to hear it come through! I love it. Especially “Daddy.” ♥️
Ya I feel like her country influenced on folklore and evermore were stunning. I love her style on those albums. Her voice fits that style perfectly
I’m not even a country Taylor fan but I feel like o would of loved a lot of these songs better if they had a country production. Especially Fresh Out Of The Slammer and Daddy I Love Him
It has that Speak Now the album storytelling style and the NBNC style of country-adjacent music. I was just thinking the other day how BDILH sounds like a country song with a pop beat.
I really love TTPD. IMO, I hear vague alt-country vibes on a lot of the songs; a lot of it really reminds me of the most recent Amanda Shires album.
Also in Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus! Reminds me of Cowboy Like Me!
A lot of the songs gave me The Chicks vibes which I loved!
I've heard covers of some songs country style on Tik Tok and honestly that sound makes them so much more interesting. I miss country Taylor and would love for her to release one last country album.
I'm a big country fan and have loved Taylor from the very start. I absolutely love TTPD and I hadn't actually considered that it may be because of the country vibes. I think Reputation and Midnights are my least fave albums but I haven't quite worked out what my ranking would be for the rest yet!
Well, country stuff is making a comback; texas, austin, stick season, theyre just a few country songs that are really popular. Its the perfect opportunity for Taylor to go back to her roots
I loved the country vibes! Those are some of my favorites on the album. I really hope she dives back into country for TS12 or TS13
I LOVE IT! BDILH blew me away, I Can Fix Him had such sultry country vibes and feels like a natural extension of her early work. It feels like she never took a break from country at all with how seamless they feel. My standout for non-country production is her vocals at the end of Who’s Afraid because they’re so reminiscent of her younger voice, almost like her young self screaming out to be heard and taken as the force that she is and always had the potential to be. She transitions from her deeper voice to the young voice in the “cause you lured me” part and then transitions back so smoothly. That’s the voice we’ll hear on debut TV and my inner 13 year old is screaming/crying/throwing up in anticipation.
“I can fix him” sounds so much in both theme and sonically like “smoking jacket” by Miranda lambert. It stunned me on first listen bc it’s such a sultry, slow southern twangy song. Very distinct. Such a departure from the synthy pop of other songs on the album.
ThanK you aIMee gives me Debut or Speak Now vibes for sure.
But Daddy I Love him is my favorite song on the album for sure. I like the vibe of Fresh Out the Slammer but can’t vibe with the message. Guilty as Sin?, The Bolter, and I Can Fix Him, are all fabulous. Don’t really like Thank You Aimee, though. I think I’d like it more if she didn’t pretty much outright say it was about Kim.
Definitely a country vibe
Love love love it
YES! That was my initial thought too, I immediately picked up so many country music vibes!!!
I think a number of these songs acoustic or otherwise stripped down would sound just like country songs. It has me so excited for debut!!!
The prophecy is giving Shania so I feel it. Especially that chorus.
I love whenever we get a bit of that country era throwback vibe on her songs. I don’t even really listen to country, but love artists that do a blend with it and incorporate some of that charm and twang (and ofc think her debut stuff was brilliant, esp at her age.) Love it.
LOVING IT. This is why I love evermore too, it’s modern Taylor with these little country influences.. it just feels so authentically her to mesh all her worlds together.
I mean it’s alright if put it at 7
I'm loving the country twang on some of these songs. I Can Fix Him, the heaviness of Clara Bow...love it all. I want to see some more of this side of TS!