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Reputation (stylized as reputation) is the sixth studio album by American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on November 10, 2017, through Big Machine Records. The record was primarily produced by Jack Antonoff, Max Martin, Shellback and Swift herself, who also serves as the executive producer. Featured artists included on the album are English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and American rapper Future. - Wikipedia
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. . . listen to the music, and you'll discover pure pop magic.
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Reuters
November 10, 2017. “Reputation,” Swift’s first studio album in three years, marks another transformation in image for the country-turned-pop star. The 15-track album’s mix of hip-hop, dance and just one acoustic ballad projects a tougher, more vindictive image of the singer who made her name 10 years ago with yearning songs about first love and being an outsider.
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NME
Tay ploughs over the media and former friends with her exhilarating, tank-like sixth album
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Medium
A year and a half ago, I reviewed the then newly-released reputation and gave it a C+, . . . . Most of the problems with reputation are still apparent: lackluster lyrics, lengthy tracklist, and rough production on some tracks.. . . I appreciate the second half of the album a lot more, picking up more personal and thoughtful lyrics as well as some interesting melodies and instrumentations.
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EL BROIDE
. . . ‘reputation’ is exactly the album Taylor needed to release. It’s edgy, it’s different and the new mature sound is exciting. It makes people want to hear what she’s cooked up and the hype couldn’t be greater.
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Pitchfork
Taylor Swift’s sixth album is an aggressive, lascivious display of craftsmanship, but her full embrace of modern pop feels sadly conventional.
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Newsweek
Reputation is a dark, dizzying monument to the madness of modern celebrity.
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Rolling Stone
Sixth album shows the darker, deeper side of the pop mastermind.
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The New York Times
“Reputation” is a public renegotiation, engaging pop music on its terms, not hers.
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Consequence of Sound
The blockbuster star's sixth studio album is a bloated disaster, but maybe that's the point?
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Variety
It’s Swift’s refusal to have to choose between delightfully effervescent sonic values and raw, classic candor that makes “Reputation” the pop album of the year.
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The Harvard Law Record
The Swift shown to us on Reputation is older, more confident, and – more than anything else – happier.
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The Guardian
The pop star’s love life and squabbles take centre stage on a riveting R&B set that carries her even further from her country roots.
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Independent
Each of the 15 songs on 'reputation' tackles how Swift is perceived by the people who know her - and the people who don’t.
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Yakima Herald
Taylor Swift's 'Reputation' gives listeners feeling of disunity.
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The New Yorker
Her new album is full of wry and revealing lines. But is she admitting to flaws or just trying to fit in?
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Entertainment Weekly
reputation — with its subterranean bass notes and lyrical fixations on seduction, alcohol, and the soul-numbing isolation of fame — runs more along the lines of late-night libertines Zayn and the Weeknd.
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BBC
Reputation, like Taylor Swift, is a product of its time. It's an overtly commercial, well-targeted, highly professional piece of pop art.
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The Telegraph
Reputation is a big, brash, all-guns-blazing blast of weaponised pop that grapples with the vulnerability of the human heart as it is pummelled by 21st-century fame.
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CHYFM
The album is a very different sound compared to her earlier albums and marks a shift in her pop sound with electronic influences.
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Spin
In Embracing Evil on Reputation, Taylor Swift Has Never Sounded More Free
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Genius
“Reputation” is filled with heavy beat drops, hip-hop snare rolls and circles around a house music vibe. It’s filled with upbeat, catchy songs that will be stuck in your head for days.
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NME
Tay ploughs over the media and former friends with her exhilarating, tank-like sixth album.
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MusicOMH
Reputation is never less than a fascinating listen though, and for all its flaws – it’s overlong, and sometimes seems too keen to be meta and self-referencing – it’s full of energy and often makes for an exhilarating listen.
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Drowned in Sound
Reputation is the most honest iteration we’ve seen of her yet.
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The Music
Taylor Swift Takes A New Direction With ‘Reputation’ - But Is It The Right One?
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The Collegian
It’s as if she is washing her hands of one of the darkest times in her career, and though she won’t forget what she has gone through, she’s ready to move forward with those who stood by her.
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The Sphinx
reputation highlights Swift’s new happiness in a way her previous work has been unable to capture.
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Nylon
Reputation, I'm here to admit, is a really good album. It's Swift canon.
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NOW
Taylor Swift has changed for the worse on Reputation.
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The Sagamore
Reputation appears to serve more as a public statement of revenge rather than a musical endeavor.
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The Lantern
“Reputation” cohesively encapsulates the complexity that is Taylor Swift. She is a woman viewed as a monster, but her songs — and album sales— prove otherwise.
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Slant Magazine
Swift assesses her crumbling empire and tattered reputation, discovering redemption in love.
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GQ
On her sixth album, Taylor Swift takes aim at her haters. The result is mixed.
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North Texas Daily
“Reputation” is filled with heavy beat drops, hip-hop snare rolls and circles around a house music vibe. It’s filled with upbeat, catchy songs that will be stuck in your head for days.
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FeMale Radio
Whatever genre that Taylor Swift stretches to his album theme, Taylor Swift's greatest strength is not just in music, but from the lyrics.
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The Jakarta Post
It’s campy; it’s the sound of a wronged person toying around with EDM-lite beats in the studio.
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The Daily Aztec
“Reputation” is the most fascinating depiction of Swift yet.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Reputation is a bad idea, but it’s still an idea, the voice of a stranger I’d (want to) recognize anywhere.
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US Magazine
In all, Reputation offers a rare, but sometimes manufactured, insight into Swift’s personal life.
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The Breeze
If this were any other album review, I’d write about Swift’s “new sound” and “growth as an artist.” While, yes, these two ideas are indeed evident on “Reputation,” Swift brought something far more intricate and complex to her sixth studio album.
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Cleveland
If there's one thing Taylor Swift doesn't have to worry about, it's her reputation.
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Insider
There's no reason anyone should care about Taylor Swift's new album.
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The Atlantic
It’s hard to love Reputation as unreservedly as any of her previous work, but listeners looking for a catharsis party will get one.
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The Diamondback
Taylor Swift's album is a feeble attempt to make her mundane narrative fit into themes of victimhood and vengeance.
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The Sunday Times
This has left her taking a risk on the album, which features a newly villainous image, a harsher sound courtesy of crystalline pop producers/writers Max Martin, Shellback and Jack Antonoff, and a lot of self-regarding lyrics about her reputation.
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The Washington Post
For an album that reflects on such a dark time period, it ends on a message of hope.
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The Post
‘Reputation’ is Taylor Swift’s best album to date
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Pretty Much Amazing
Reputation reveals treasures with each successive spin.
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Atwood Magazine
Reputation is a solid album of pop-music, even in some of the moments that were easily parodied or criticized find a way of getting stuck in your head.
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NPR Music
On 'Reputation,' the pop star employs new sounds to explore old obsessions.
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Chicago Tribune
The Swift who used to treat her fans like confidantes instead of a marketing demographic resurfaces only as the album winds down.
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Billboard
Even in its missteps, the album's willingness to explore the limits of Swift's comfort zone makes for a fascinating listen.
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The Irish Times
With references to past spats and lovers, Reputation could well be the singer’s coming-of-age album.
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Vulture
Reputation strikes the exact mix of necessary roughness and personal reckoning needed to shake off a calendar year of mounting turmoil.
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Los Angeles Times
Taylor Swift's privacy is a public act on 'Reputation'
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Harper's Bazaar
An hour-long ride of love, heartbreak, shade, and straight-up savagery.
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Virginia Law Weekly
In sum, this album is not good.
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HIGHSNOBIETY
Reputation isn’t a complete car wreck, but it is a hapless, facetious and an unconvincing attempt at making a whole generation familiar with a well-mannered pop star suddenly believe she’s got a heart of stone.
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Pop Matters
It's not a game-changer, but it's also far from a disaster.
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Mashable
The titles are also a handy guide into the dichotomy of the entire album — righteous anger and petty vengeance but also how dare you! It's not my fault! I would never!
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The Beacon
Give it a chance, and you’ll find a song you will secretly love, even if you’re not a “Swiftie,” because this album marks a new, unapologetic era in Swift’s legacy.
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Sputnik Music
Her own self fulfilling prophecy.
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Metro
Reputation proves once again that Swift is still – at her peaks – one of the best pop lyricists and melodists of a generation.
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ET Online
Taylor Swift Goes Bad, Boozy, and Boy-Crazy on Her Most Honest Album Yet
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A Bit of Pop Music
Will reputation be another imperial phase for Taylor or is this record a step down from its predecessor?
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Beat
Swift is never afraid to hold back in her lyrics and she proves that in this album. Throughout she speaks her truth.
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Thrillist Entertainment
No matter what additional sonic risks she takes in the future, her reputation as a pop mastermind is safe.
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People
Reputation is a keen commentary on modern celebrity. And more importantly, each of the songs makes you feel something — and that’s what pop music is all about.
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The Verge
Online, everyone is always the best ever or the very worst, and Reputation is an album about existing at poles.
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The Statesman
Swift’s willingness to experiment as an artist is commendable, but “Reputation,” seems like an outright miss for an artist who can do better.
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Odyssey
Whether you’re a fan or not, I feel as though this album deserves to be listened to, cried over, laughed over, appreciated and all overplayed about.
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The Upcoming
In a true pop masterpiece that may single-handedly save the genre for the next year, each track shines brighter than the last.
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Totem Talk
From all the disses and amazing track names, this album definitely went down in history as some of Taylor’s best work.
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Richer Sounds
But for the large part the album delivers, with huge choruses, great pop hooks and enough lyrical word games to keep the world turning around Taylor for a while.
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Bearded Gentelmen Music
It doesn’t show growth in itself, but taken in context with her past records, it shows the ambitions have always been there and suggests they always will be.
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The Spokesman-Review
Taylor Swift’s ‘reputation’ is pure pop magic
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Albumism
Above all else, Taylor Swift is savvy. She makes albums for her fans and Reputation sticks to the formula. Every track is catchy, scratching a confessional itch in different flavors for every fan.
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The National
Darker and broodier, Swift’s new album confirms her status as pop music’s reigning queen.
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The Bird Feed
We all know that the old Taylor is dead, but after listening to her new album, I have also discovered that so is her music.
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The Nevada Sagebrush
This is not the worst album you will hear all year, but it’s far from the best. Even the highest highs on Swift’s “reputation” can’t reconcile her real life reputation.
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Irish Examiner
As journey into the inner life of one of music’s biggest celebrities, Reputation is riveting. As pop album, it is extraordinary.
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Slate
Taylor Swift’s ungainly, intermittently brilliant new album finds the former child star making art out of her growing pains.
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Popfection
Overall the good outweighs the bad by far, becoming a record that requires several listens to really click and make you realise how great it is.
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Cryptic Rock
It is a refreshing Swift record that gives out different atmospheres and perspectives on music that no one else has heard from her before.
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Fusfoo
In this album, Swift was able to put the same amount of emotion into more upbeat pop music as she put into her first four albums that featured softer music.
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The Daily Nebraskan
Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ is nothing like her old music, but still great.
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Redbrick
The change in Swift’s sound is ultimately a positive one, bringing with it a more mature and authoritative voice which helps make Reputation Swift’s most intimate record to date. So maybe the old Taylor is dead, but the new one is just as brilliant, and so is her new album.
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A Diverse Sound
Reputation isn’t the worst album I’ve heard this year but neither will it be remembered a year or two down the road.
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June & Winter Magazine
Reputation is an album which speaks for itself. It is the reclaiming of a narrative which Swift previously lost control of and an overdue acceptance of the fact that perfection is difficult to achieve and impossible to maintain.
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Evening Standard
‘Glossy-haired and bright-eyed melodies with state-of-the-art production’
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Pure M Magazine
This is not a pity-party record that a lot of people expected, this is a highlight of Taylor’s career where she does not feel the need to justify her actions.
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Medium
Swift is back with her world-famous reputation in tow, and she’s created a powerful album that is sure to rule the airwaves.
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The Daily Listening
From warm to tear-induced to gut-wrenching to confidently bad ass to ridiculously sarcastic to every single thing in between, reputation is Swift’s most remarkable album yet.
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AXS
The 15-track collection plays like a cohesive, melodic stream of consciousness in which Swift examines herself in the light of people and events that have, on one hand shaped her public reputation and on the other hand, impacted her heart.
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The Daily Iowan
Reputation encompasses a more mature Swift, as she sings about the emotional stakes and aftermath of relationships, sex, heartbreak, revenge, and backlash from her foes. Her beautifully worded lyrics convey that even the world’s largest pop star can’t escape heartbreak, rumors, or cruelty.
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The Young Folks
When music fans look back on the career of Taylor Swift, Reputation won’t be celebrated as her crowning achievement. However, it spans the many fascinations of the artist in a way that finds her continually growing and adapting to her surroundings.
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The Ringer
Even in the high points of Reputation—and there are a few—Swift doesn’t sound like someone setting trends so much as sprinting to keep up with them.
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The Courier
Taylor Swift whips up a frenzy of aggressive pop on Reputation, but in a groundbreaking year for pop music, this record could get lost.
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Popsugar
While the album serves as an introspective look at the media and the image she has created over the years, it also gives an inside look at her personal life.
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Herald-Standard
With “Reputation,” Swift’s sixth studio release is one fearless statement about confidently embracing the trappings of success both professionally and personally.
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Clash
‘Reputation’ is, aside from the injudicious choice of singles, an exhilarating ride through the trials and tribulations of one of the most illustrious artists in the world.
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Varsity
One of the most striking features of Reputation is Swift’s embrace of roles that she once previously rejected. Gone is the whimsical naivety of her past; in its place there is a determined frankness.
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The Flash
No matter how you feel about Taylor Swift, I recommend giving the album a listen.
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The Ithacan
“Reputation” is a bold attempt at a bad idea — no one was asking for a new Taylor Swift.
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The Fresh Committee
This comeback album places Swift back at the helm of commercial mediocrity.
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Substream Magazine
Reputation is an album about seduction, the price of fame and how important the people who can save us from the destructive parts of ourselves can be to us, making it her most divisive and engrossing work right behind her most underrated opus, Red.
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Spectrum Culture
In her lyrics, she’s diaristic, silly at times, and still in love with the idea of being in love.
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The Tech
Reputation presents a Taylor Swift who has come into the sexuality of her late 20s gracefully.
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Her Campus
Reputation is Swift’s response to critiques about her innocent and naive-yet-heartbreaking image. Of all the accomplishments on Swift’s new album, her ability create a cohesive album using a diverse nature of songs stands out the most.
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The Kelly Alexander Show
With almost every song lyric, Swift is retaining her own unique style of pop music while also addressing a lot of what people say about her, which has given her this “reputation.”
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Under the Radar
Reputation showcases a grown-up Swift, that's for certain. But she can't yet shake the fabled girl-next-door persona she has always written into her songs, no matter how hard she tries to play the Bad Girl.
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The West Australian
Guess what? T-Swizzle made a rap album. And she’s not very good at it.
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Stingray
If there’s anything reputation makes clear over its sprawling 15 tracks, it’s that Taylor’s fire is inextinguishable.
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Whip
Reputation is Swift’s way of telling critics, fans, enemies and the media that she knows we’re watching and she knows what everyone has said and will say about her, but she doesn’t care anymore.
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The Musical Hype
After listening to Reputation, there was never a need to worry – it not only meets expectations, but exceeds them. There’s lots to like.
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The Boston Globe
The unapologetic defiance of “Reputation” can’t help but leave a sour after-taste, and even the sweetest pop chorus might not be enough to wash it away this time.
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ACRN
This album chronicles some of her most recent PR failures and her anger towards the way things were handled. Many of the tracks are jabs at her exes (are we surprised?) and comparisons to the current man she is with.
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Daily Titan
Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ is an unfiltered and fiery response to her public image
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The Arts Desk
Reputation is brassy and bold, intimate and sensual. It juxtaposes songs about retreating from the limelight, building blanket forts with a lover with outrageous bridge-burners, all the while professing that its author doesn’t “love the drama”.
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Talisman
This album is a vulnerable showcase of the range of emotions Taylor has experienced in the past year, and there are truly no holds barred.
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Daily Emerald
“Reputation” finds a self-aware Swift writing more overtly about sexuality and maturity in her relationships, but it also explores how the events of the last couple years (mainly the media’s coverage of her relationships and her feud with Kanye) have affected how she sees the world.
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Vada Magazine
Reputation, then, feels more like a gleaming but uneven stop-gap; a curio with some great moments but few defining ones rather than the work of artist at the peak of their power.
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Barstool Sports
Reputation as a whole is great.
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Monika Weatherly
Taylor Swift’s latest album, reputation, showcases how the singer-songwriter continues to go beyond the boundaries by exploring creative opportunity through music.
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The Daily Aztec
Taylor Swift confronts herself on “Reputation”
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Lifestyle
Taylor has always said her vocals were secondary to and merely a vehicle for her lyrics, but on reputation her voice is more powerful than ever, as she now seems to recognise all the ways she can use it.
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Sound Opiniona
Greg agrees that as a writer and performer, Taylor is one of the strongest in the pop landscape. However, he finds the record to be sonically overproduced and feels Swift is less relatable because of some of the superficial content she sings about on reputation. . . . . Greg gives reputation a Try It.
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Newsday
‘Reputation’ review: Taylor Swift’s pleasant surprise
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Pop Central
Reputation, with its sloppy drops, forgettable beat and random usage of autotune, doesn’t respect pop music as a form of art, pretty much giving in into the reasoning of the same “haters” she keeps on saying she’s above of.
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axs
Taylor Swift's new LP 'reputation' resonates with lyrical confidence and emotional clarity.
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Hello Giggles
Taylor Swift’s latest studio album, Reputation, is finally here and, as you can imagine, Taylor Nation has gone into full-blown freakout mode — with good reason. As Swift has teased over the last few weeks, the “old Taylor” is dead, and this is the new Taylor. Buckle up, kids, because this isn’t just a new Taylor, this is a new era of Taylor.
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Jon On Film
. . . if there’s anything I’ve learned after hearing Reputation it’s that Old Taylor is alive and well. She’s just got a darker wardrobe.
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KENTWIRED.com
Drama aside, “reputation” is an entertaining album packing another crop of the catchy songs fans have come to expect from 2016’s highest-paid artist.
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Female Radio
. . . on the album Reputation, Taylor Swift sounds more "calm" because the focus of this album is just electro pop. But actually, whatever genre Taylor Swift uses for the theme of his album, the greatest strength of Taylor Swift is not only in music, but in the lyrics.
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The Run Down With Haley
This album is amazing. . . . . Not many artists can keep reinventing themselves the way Taylor does. I was happy to discover that not every song is about hating on Kanye or wanting revenge, but I don’t hate the sass. Overall, I am here for the new Taylor.
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JNSP
There's a moment on this record when you're having such a good time that you wonder why you had underestimated fun.
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ALGOAFM
Taylor Swift’s ‘reputation’ is pure pop magic This album’s got an outstanding reputation.
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ACCESS
Taylor Swift Proves She Is The Artist Of A Generation With ‘Reputation’
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Ground Punch
Reputation struggles with profoundly uneven quality and tone but if you can get past the dramatics you'll still find some of the old Taylor here, even if she desperately wants you to think you won't.
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READINGFASHIONISTA
I feel like this is her most honest, mature album yet. While she still sings of love and maneuvering through life, she does so in a mature way. . . . While it still hasn’t hit 1989 level for me, the sound she’s acquired for this album is mature. And so are her lyrics. That’s what I love about Taylor Swift: she grows with each album. No two albums are exactly alike.
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Erlin Natawiria
. . . when reputation came yesterday afternoon, I tried to accept this album. As expected, I was surprised. But what I did not anticipate, reputation is not as bad as thought. Swift mixes electropops , R&B, to ballads in a series of grim tunes that are worth listening to.
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Luis C. Medina
The album is not bad. It doesn’t have any misguided tracks and doesn’t run long. The singles are worthy of repeat status, but aren’t quite peak Swift. On the other hand, the album is not great … but that was to be expected after she crafted the perfect pop album in “1989.”
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