{"id":2014,"date":"2019-06-13T11:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:20:18","slug":"me-by-taylor-swift-is-a-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2018-2019\/me-by-taylor-swift-is-a-disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"ME! By Taylor Swift Is a Disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Song Belongs on the ‘Trolls’ Movie Soundtrack<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Regina Allen and Kate Casper<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\tYou are driving around town when \u201cME!\u201d<\/em> by Taylor Swift comes on the radio. You are about to change the station when your 7-year-old sister who owns a bedazzled razor scooter yells to turn it up. Is this what Taylor Swift\u2019s music has come to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tUpon the release of \u201cME!<\/em>\u201d on April 25, anticipation was building among Taylor Swift\u2019s fans internationally. The singer posted cryptic pictures and tweets previewing the style of her new era in music. With a lighter pastel color scheme and motifs of rainbows and butterflies, Taylor Swift\u2019s new album was looking like the antithesis of her much darker, more mature album, Reputation<\/em> (2017). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t\u201c[Swift has] been on that emo dark side for a bit…so I was not expecting this bright colorful [single]. I am not a fan\u2026 It is just not cute,\u201d said junior Ayan Zahra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t\t\tFans embraced Reputation because it represented how Taylor Swift was growing up with her audience; while Swift was going from country narrative-based love songs to highly produced pop hits, her fans were going from pigtails to school dances and graduation ceremonies. Reputation <\/em>seemed to be the perfect album to represent this transition, with a strong production value, a developed vision, and mature themes that were unlike her other albums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, \u201cME!<\/em>\u201d has no creative license–there is nothing special about it. It is the average cotton candy pop song with a repetitive chorus, cheesy verses, and a generic beat. \u201cI think it sounds like every other pop song that exists,\u201d said junior Tillie Davies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t\tBrendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco was featured on the track. While he is a very talented vocalist, Urie added absolutely nothing to the single. Swift and Urie sounded good together, but the vocals could not make up for the childish nature of this song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\t\tThe lyric \u201cSpelling is fun!\u201d before the bridge seemed like a failed attempt at being light-hearted and silly but just came off as juvenile. Up until that point, the song sounded somewhat bearable, but it only gets worse. Lyrics such as \u201cYou can\u2019t spell awesome without me,\u201d added to the cringe-worthiness of this track. Another questionable lyric is \u201cLike a rainbow with all of the colors,\u201d because rainbows have \u201call of the colors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tThe most redeeming quality of the song is the catchy-ness of it, which is more annoying than pleasurable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tWhile the overall consensus is very negative, sophomore Henry Wiedemer said, \u201cI think that the drum line that goes throughout the song brings a cool, different vibe to [it], rather than just a normal pop beat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tUltimately, \u201cME!<\/em>\u201d was a disappointment. It is a generic pop song that belongs on the Trolls movie soundtrack, not a Grammy-award winner\u2019s album.  After the success and artistry displayed in Reputation<\/em>, this butterfly-pastel album is already feeling like a major misstep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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