Index > Trump is a moron Augustus, Joe Biden is the new Tacitus (the emperor), Bob Woodward is Tacitus (the writer), Stephen Colbert s Martial, Jon Stewart is Juvenal, the 119th Congress is the end-of-repunlican Senate, Julius Caesar was an ultra-hawkish Barack Obama > Poptimism vs. Rockism and the Death of The Critic Pt. Deux > Has KEN weighed in on new Taylor Swift yet?
Posted by Ken (@ken) on Oct. 6, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
dont have time at the moment. but I think its among her better records. Some killer pop hooks and the production is really good. As usual its her lyrics that create most of the discourse.
“Opalite” is my pick for best track at first impression.
However I am still trying to mentally process that the same girl who wrote Love Story wrote a tribute to cock as unsubtle as XTC’s Pink Thing. How does this exist???!?!!