Taylor Swift’s ‘ME!’ Is Everything Wrong With Pop
The star’s first single since <em>Reputation</em> has almost none of the elements that once made her interesting, but it does have a dolphin screech for a chorus.
One of the most impressive things about Taylor Swift is that she keeps finding a way to offend people simply with sound alone. The story’s been the same every album rollout since 2012’s : Swift, the onetime mascot for speaking your own truth over humble country strums, “goes pop,” garishly and greatly. The bungee-jump yodels of the Jazzercise drum line of and the rude robotics of each represented a fresh, unapologetic kind of tackiness..
