Just when you thought Taylor Swift's music couldn't get more hollow.

With the release of her latest album The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift has found herself the talk of the town again. This time not even all the swifties are buying the slop she's shoveling out. The album lacks the girlhood charm of her early work, which she has used to remain in the charts for years while her new music falls flat. This album seems like the final straw for those who continued to support her as her music began to falter in quality.

The album starts out with Ophelia, which feels like a cheap imitation of the iconic pop princesses of the early 2000s with weaker, cringier lyrics. It feels like a seventh song on an album, with the classic Swift blandness we've come to expect from her. This thread of nothing runs through the album.

It's hard to tell if her feigning working class or her leaning into her billionaire status is worse. Father Figure is on the nose enough to pass as metaphor, but it just doesn't hit as hard from the woman who fleeces her fans for everything they've got. Knowing that your music is a safe space for young girls and consistently taking advantage of that is hardly something to write “Did you girl-boss to close to the sun” about. Considering that a way of being a Girl Boss may be accurate, but we all know she considers Girl Boss to be a positive term.

But she has to have both, she can't just be one of the richest women in the world. She has to have everyone's sympathy too. You just don't know how hard she has it, sitting in her little mansion, or her little private jet, or her other mansion (she has eight homes). She's being cyber bullied, and she's “not a bad bitch”.

On top of people not liking her, she thinks Charli xcx wrote a diss track about her. She didn't, but it hurt Taylor's feelings. Actually Romantic is certainly a ‘clap back’. Her lyricism leaves much to be desired, with a strong disney channel stench emanating from every line. More so than that is her reading comprehension. While Sympathy is a Knife is definitely about Taylor, it's more so about her standing in the industry. She is famously out for herself, and in an industry that consistently pits women against each other she could be using her power to change the status quo.

The album overall is a series of stolen sounds strung together to make the perfect retail soundtrack that no one will truly love or remember ten years down the road.