The screamo challenge ‘Taylor Swift’, launched by Ogbert The Nerd’s Madison James, has returned to Bandcamp.
Final 12 months, the New Jersey emo band Ogbert The Nerd secured the Bandcamp area identify for the pop megastar and posted a single, blistering screamo monitor named ‘Taylor Swift 1’.
Saying the enterprising challenge, James took to X final April to say: “Okay, secured the URL, who’s beginning a screamo band with me”.
Earlier than lengthy, nevertheless, the web page disappeared from Bandcamp, however now, 18 months later, James tweeted once more. “Fellas….we bought it again,” he mentioned.
fellas…. we bought it again… https://t.co/OIG7fcAkdj
— quincy motorola (@quartzmorrigan) November 7, 2025
Since then, a seven-track launch has been posted to the web page, with every track clocking in at underneath 80 seconds. Try the relentlessly brutal noise rock from Taylor Swift right here:
The opposite Taylor Swift, in the meantime, launched her twelfth studio album ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ final month, scoring her fifteenth US Quantity One and breaking Adele’s long-held streaming-era document for first-week gross sales.
Regardless of its enormous industrial success, it has not been met with common acclaim from the massive Swift fanbase, with some hailing it because the return of “pop perfection”, however others declaring it “the worst Taylor Swift album but” and “boring and fundamental”.
Swift has addressed a few of the unfavorable suggestions she has acquired, telling Apple Music: “I welcome the chaos. The rule of present enterprise is that if it’s the primary week of my album launch, and you might be saying both my identify or my album title, you’re serving to.”
NME gave ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ three stars, writing: “To hunt escapism shouldn’t be a sin, however the very best pop music makes the non-public really feel like life or dying. ‘Converse Now’, ‘Fame’, ‘Folklore’: her biggest works might be genuinely transformative. For the primary time, ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ sees Swift not catalysed into creative development by love, however merely comfortably secured by it.”
Swift additionally not too long ago donated $100,000 to a GoFundMe marketing campaign of a younger fan who’s battling mind most cancers, with the message: “Sending the largest hug to my good friend, Lilah! Love, Taylor.”
