UNOFFICIAL IMPORT REISSUE on colored vinyl - Taylor Swift’s sixth studio album, Reputation, is a riveting record, whose release is hard to extricate from the context into which it drops. Fifteen tracks long, and with songs that range from forgettable to exquisite, it is concerned with lust, loss and revenge. Tangentially, it takes in gender and power. As much as Reputation seeks to duck the conversation, it is an album in which victimhood, white privilege and freedom of speech loom large. Taylor Swift never hesitated to place a veiled version of herself at the center of her songs, but reputation is her first record specifically about "Taylor Swift Superstar," not the singer/songwriter who grew up in public. reputation dispenses with the notion that Swift is a babe in the woods, swapping naivete for calculation, leaning hard into the idea that she plots her every move. In that light, it's difficult not to read reputation as Swift's first self-consciously "adult" record, one preoccupied with sex, betrayal, and the scars they leave behind. Appropriately, she dresses reputation in dark, moody sounds, dwelling on drum loops and synthesizers. Working with Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, and Shellback -- all veterans of 2014's 1989 -- her official pop makeover -- Swift achieves a steely, nocturnal sound, one that appears to exist on a gray scale: Apart from the delicate closer "New Year's Day," every song on reputation has a cool, gleaming patina that's designed to put an alluring distance between Swift and the listener.
| 1 | ...Ready For It? |
| 2 | End Game |
| 3 | I Did Something Bad |
| 4 | Don't Blame Me |
| 5 | Delicate |
| 6 | Look What You Made Me Do |
| 7 | So It Goes... |
| 8 | Gorgeous |
| 9 | Getaway Car |
| 10 | King Of My Heart |
| 11 | Dancing With Our Hands Tied |
| 12 | Dress |
| 13 | This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things |
| 14 | Call It What You Want |
| 15 | New Year's Day |
