Taylor Swift - 1989

so it's long enough

We need a backlash

it started off with a backlash!

i'm home now so i can dance with my cats to this as taylor intended

the cats will not comment

they're extremely frightened

to be real i think taylor's sensibility is extremely visible in the vocal it's just been floated over to different production

hey

i might buy a physical copy of this, which would be crazy considering i don't do that

this is p fun, im down

brad's got a cat for you, start dancing

he better have enough for all of us. loan me one!

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true

brad, can I come over with some gin do you have cats

Holy fucking shit

This >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> We Are Never Ever I Can't Even Remember The Rest Of The Name Of That Song

"haters gonna hate" is the most odious expression of the last 40 years so I'm not feeling generous

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, August 18, 2014 5:48 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I see where you're coming from but it is what it is

so the song impacted you then

Decided to action that post after listen-hearing the songmusic

Strangely enough the comeback single that this most reminds me of is "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)"

I am so excited about

http://i.imgur.com/2zysVFA.jpg

Tho

On first listen it doesn't irritate me the way "We Are Never" did on first listen -- but "We Are Never" grew on me and (for better/worse) had more identifiably Taylor touches than this does. So I dunno. I do agree with this:

this is the kind of song that requires a killer middle-eight to elevate it from catchy ringtone into something truly POP and holy shit does the rap let it down

... because as I was listening ambivalently I thought, "Well, one of her killer bridges could elevate this," and then there was the opposite of a killer bridge.

have you seen the bridge?

Those gated hi hats (I think that's what they're called) gave me a nice http://i.imgur.com/iHHBUZ1.png scare

Yeah I thought of "Umbrella" as well, though that comparison paints this in a pretty unflattering light.

Eh the comparison for me ended after the horn patch started playing

also: pop stars really don't know what the fuck to do with horn sections besides treat them as rhythm guitars or something

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, August 18, 2014 5:48 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Do agree that she should have taken the message of the song to heart and gone Full Skammunism

Right now imagining Taylor Swift doing the Save Ferris version of Come On Eileen and I am besides myself

aaah a better chorus and this would have been one of the pop songs for the ages, and i've always considered Swift's forte was big anthemic fun choruses. i was waiting for it and it never really happened, i really want to enjoy this song.

Taylor Swift - 1996 (her SkaCore album)

Taylor Swift - 1999 (her Prince covers album)

1999 is her nu-metal album

xpost shit fuck ass piss goddammit

that's not how "family reunion" goes

this song's gonna be a big hit

i love this song

wonder if any of the involved parties have ever heard "bubble pop"

ok, so the song is two times better without the video. anyone wants to predict thesinglesjukebox's score?

LOL: https://mobile.twitter.com/CountryMusic/status/501483161101279232

― lex pretend, Monday, August 18, 2014 3:56 PM (Yesterday)

what did this say, seems to have been deleted?

uh no, "bubble pop" is 10x the song this is, bad dubstep interlude >>> bad taylor swift rapping. xposts

this is terrible, but I can already tell it's going to be massive

xposts
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that's sweet

"This sick beat" rivals "Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did" for cringe inducage.

i woke up this morning and all I really felt like playing was "mean"

they're similar in sentiment and this works as a continuation/fulfillment of what she was singing about there but back then she was taking shots as a small-town girl taking refuge in a fantasy of what the future could one day bring - one day i'll be living in a big old city/i'll be big enough so you can't hit me etc. - and now she's got out and escaped to the biggest of cities the dynamics feel different. do you really need to sing about haters when the world's now at your feet? it felt bratty in mean but at least that felt like an uncertain defence mechanism against bigger forces. this is being heavily positioned as her big city nyc album that she's been driving towards since her debut (that small town a thousand miles away in her rear view mirror now) and i like how she talked in the livestream about her inspiration from late 80s nyc bohemian freedom, doing whatever you want and loving who you want (i have too many #queertaylorthoughts) i just hope she has some serious songwriting about dealing with all that doesn't only just feel like a victory lap. and i hope her identity isn't subsumed too much by max martin. 9/16 songs is an awful lot.

she talked in the livestream about her inspiration from late 80s nyc bohemian freedom doing whatever you want and loving who you want

wow

that video is like watching your grown-up kid make unfortunate choices

plus as a bald man the thing about the "hella good hair" just hurts.

song sounds even worse in the cold light of day. oh god, even apart from the obviously terrible bits like the spoken word/rap and the horrible video, the lyrics are so basic. the woman who wrote "tim mcgraw" at 16 is resorting to scavenging through katy perry's bin for rejected lyric sheets??

i mean yeah i was not enthused by WANEGBT on first listen for similar reasons but this is a hundred times worse

I'll just give her the benefit of the doubt and assume those lyrics were written entirely by max martin or whoever the producer was. I mean,

I stay up too late, got nothing in my brain
That’s what people say, that’s what people say
I go on too many dates, but I can’t make them stay
At least that’s what people say, that’s what people say

seriously..

there is no way "I go on too many dates, but I can’t make them stay" was written for anyone in music besides taylor swift, and likely *by* swift, given how much shit she's taken from tabloids for exactly that

IDK, they feel like her lyrics. It isn't rigid / perfect in that max martin sort of way. There's awkward numbers of syllables.

And yeah, unapologetically basic is the new aesthetic.