You're fine. No one hates you. I've got it as well (Taylor, not Slipknot):
It's musically ok+, lyrically better, but
- her songwriting (the music, not the lyrics) is kind of samey, the chorus harmonies and melodies are often interchangeable,
- as a singer, she's no Lady Gaga or Pink, her voice never transcends "nice"; in her favor: she's not the umpteenth white girl that tries to sound black, but she's not Karen Carpenter, Emmylou Harris or Alison Krauss either,
- those electronic-loungy drums & synth beats as a basis of nearly every song (Sweet Nothing does mercifully without them) get tiresome after a while.
But she's a phenomenon. Yet in a way she is musically more conservative/less daring than Madonna ever was. Yes, she's left the New Country that made her famous bravely behind, but now seems to be in cruise mode. If it weren't for the lyrics, you'd be forgiven to sometimes think that "Midnights" is an Enya album with all those layered vocals billowing everywhere.
But perhaps you can't really expect an angsty album entitled "Midnights" to be varied or treading new ground. Let's wait for the next one. Picking up a guitar again to write songs might help too.
