Taylor Swift: Fearless Poll

Maybe gone to waste isn't the best way to put it, still.....

the ship will right itself, take a look at the joanna newsom thread

nothing wrong with going over to the newsom thread and saying you don't like her (all in the how, of course), but the anti-Taylor business has been covered in the og Taylor thread and the singles poll, so I can't imagine why anyone should bother spreading it here as well.

okay well to try to turn this thread back on topic - wow @ this album. easily the best thing I've heard all year. completely walks the other critical faves from last year that I've heard so far (yyy's and phoenix, apologies for not being that into 'current' music atm.) the only other thing I've heard that comes close in terms of euphoria is maybe 'shine blockers' but that's completely different.

parts of 'the way i loved you' sound like sk8er boi.

I meant complicated, of course

returning briefly to the whole issue of whether she can actually sing outside the recording studio, this is a good argument in her favor. she's no powerhouse, but in a room with good sound and monitors, she sounds just fine.

I thought the childbirth post was good and well phrased!

I have not heard this album really.

I do think anyone in group b is fronting to some degree or another, and it's pretty apparent in the way some people here talk about her.

this is just o_O

anyway listening to this on headphones now and it feels a little bit too intimate - feelin a little embarassed tbh

all i know is i wanna pound her till her eyes fall out of their sockets

gunnin for 51 with a double up of username and comment
Saluting you canks.

why would anyone SB me for that? i bet even the homos itt would bang the bejeezus outta her

yeah i don't think canks is the first to express that sentiment

She's only fifteen dude. I bet you banged Abigail too.

she gave cankles everything she had

i feel sorry for your mother :korean shopkeeper voice:

hahahaha

cause when you're
SB'd
and somebody tell you they got a hot chick waiting for them
you're gonna believe them

arianne more like amirite?

lol canks
taylor is vv pretty yes WS x10000000

smashin ol ratface

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkK0bfJhYhw

today my favorite song is 'the best day'

For me the funny thing about this album isn't merely that my favourite changes all the time but that songs radically wax and wane in my affections, dropping from 1 to 7 or so from day to day.

― Tim F, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 2:02 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

have reached this point with the album. last week it was the best day. yesterday it was breathe. today it's tell me why. what does tomorrow hold?

a facebook friend just discovered her tom petty cover, and now my homepage is full of angry rockists waving torches and getting out the tar and feathers. sacrilege!

I have no problem w/ calling taylor swift our generation's tom petty

i think that's a solid rallying cry, really.

yeah that's about as good as it gets.

I think a lot of people here don't actually enjoy country music as they'd like to on some philosophical level and taylor swift - who writes decent, approachable pop songs - is a good way to pretend like they actually like country music. hope she makes a 'yankee hotel foxtrot' soon!

This has probably all been pointed out, but...

1. I don't need to "pretend" I enjoy country music. I generally don't.

2. Taylor doesn't do country music so much as she does flawless, heart-swelling pop songs.

3. Fearless is better than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot could ever dream of being.

yankee hotel foxtrot can have some amazing dreams cause it's a viking of sleep

also stfu

Also YMMV but I would also take Fearless over pretty much anything in Cale's solo output, maybe aside from Vintage Violence or Paris 1919... anything released by Smog (speaking of a "viking of sleep")... the list continues to grow.

so I'm not having this debate with anyone

but I'm especially not having this debate with you

go read pitchfork or something

i dislike country on some philosophical level and taylor swift - who writes amazing, approachable pop songs - is an artist who writes amazing, approachable pop songs

go read pitchfork or something

??

You're more likely to find Cale or Smog or Beach Boys reviews there than anything related to Ms. Swift!

What a fantastic album. Some of the most nostalgic and relate-able lyrics I've heard in a long time. I may just be re-hashing what everyone has alrSady said but its quite amazing. Anywhere from a 12yr old girl to a 50+ senior could feel something from her lyrics. she makes the kind of music that reminds me why I started liking pop music in the first place. She paints pictures of small town wherever, failed relationships, remembering the past for the good and bad times that it was. She's the best. It's been awhile since a female pop star has hit me this way.

I re-upped this because its election season and yall better recognize. Definitely one of the best releases in the past 5 years.

Pretty sure I posted these on another thread... but, I went to Taylor's Houston show about a week ago with my little one (who went nuts, predictably) and took a bunch of photos, which can be found here for those curious.

friending u iirc

I'll likely throw Fearless a vote in the '05-'09 poll, btw!

lot of ppl there, more than yr average indie rock show O_O

They screamed a lot.

any show of excitement at a concert is a good thing imo

Dude your FB profile is totally blank. What gives?

Are you concerned the CIA is watching (remember: don't use Google either!!!!!!!!!!11)?

I happened to hear "You Belong With Me" twice during car rides while staying with my brother a couple weeks ago, and I've lost any ambivalence I had about it. One thing I like about it is the way the current of joyousness in the song builds in momentum, so it becomes less and less about frustration or envy and more about the joy of an imagined world in which she is together with her love object, or even just a celebration of the feelings she has in their own right. It's also an incredible song to have playing during a car ride, as I think others said.

^^otm - the lyric of "you belong with me" is open-ended enough to be performed in completely different ways, there's no confirmation of a happy ending in it - it could be a lot more ambiguous or even self-deluding - but it's just performed with this incredible optimism. i've written before that that indicates that the narrator (as performed by taylor) does get her man in the end, but actually rudipherous is right - it's the sheer heart-swelling celebration of having feelings this big and strong in the first place (and as such a celebration of being human, really).

and its melody is pliable enough to work in different settings, too. i like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVHJhaExkgw

omg

omg this is great

hahah that makes me feel like I'm in a karaoke room

awesome.