And what sick beat, its hour come round at last / Slouches towards Stockholm to be born?
― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Monday, 30 October 2023 01:44 (six months ago) link
I’m sure it’s “This sick beast”
assuming you're not being sarcastic and/or making a Yeats joke: "Taylor Swift Trademarks ‘This Sick Beat’ and Other ‘1989’ Phrases":
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-trademarks-this-sick-beat-and-other-1989-phrases-41228/
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 30 October 2023 02:32 (six months ago) link
I assumed these were all jokes...
― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Monday, 30 October 2023 02:49 (six months ago) link
It’s all fun and jokes until the falcon cannot hear the falconer
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 30 October 2023 03:14 (six months ago) link
Surely some Reputation is at hand;Surely the Taylor's Version is at hand.
― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Monday, 30 October 2023 03:30 (six months ago) link
the players lack all conviction, while the haters are filled with passionate intensity
― Tim F, Monday, 30 October 2023 03:48 (six months ago) link
Horse girls, pass by
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 30 October 2023 04:01 (six months ago) link
(if Taylor ever did write a song premised on The Second Coming it would finally justify all the lazy Joni Mitchell critical comparisons)
― Tim F, Monday, 30 October 2023 04:47 (six months ago) link
The Pitchfork review, exploring how the vault tracks differ from the album cuts, makes an interesting observation (which may help explain why I like them so much):
On “Suburban Legends,” Swift writes in the dense, largely rhymeless run-on style that defines later records like Folklore and Midnights. The second verse builds to the lines, “I am standing in a 1950s gymnasium/And I can still see it now”—an unwieldy contrast to the appealingly quantized bounce of 1989 cuts like “How You Get the Girl” and “Style.”
― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Monday, 30 October 2023 05:22 (six months ago) link
I’m surprised that “Slut!” seems to be generally disfavored… I think it’s such a good song (and with a great refrain—“If I’m gonna be drunk / I might as well be drunk in love”)
― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Monday, 30 October 2023 05:26 (six months ago) link
See, Beyonce, this is what happens when you don't trademark your phrases
― Vinnie, Monday, 30 October 2023 11:01 (six months ago) link
If I’m gonna be crazy, I may as may be…
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 30 October 2023 12:21 (six months ago) link
We played TS in the car yesterday and a few of the redone 1989 songs came up. "Style" was the one I noticed was particularly lacking for the reasons some of you mentioned: guitar and mixing were weaker, less emotion in the vocal. But I've also listened to that song many more times than the others so the differences jump out
― Vinnie, Monday, 30 October 2023 14:02 (six months ago) link
Finally got around to listening to the new vault songs, they're really good! The best batch of vault tracks of any of the do-overs? She's taking the imperial phase to kind of ridiculous extremes here.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 03:14 (five months ago) link
On par with the Fearless vault tracks IMO (though there is one track more of those)
― Phair · Jagger/Richards · Carl Perkins (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 03:25 (five months ago) link
It's interesting that Midnights was received rather poorly here yet there seems to be universal approval of the Vault tracks. There's a lot of "Mastermind" and "Labyrinth" in "Suburban Legends" and "Is It Over Now."
― Indexed, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 14:59 (five months ago) link
Well as J0rdan and I discussed above, they’re in a similar mode but so much better!
― Phair · Jagger/Richards · Carl Perkins (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 15:45 (five months ago) link