jeez guys "I'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town."
― President Keyes, Saturday, 9 July 2011 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
every time I read this thread title I think of mr. brightside
― dayo, Saturday, 9 July 2011 02:43 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ this
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 July 2011 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
BTW "Enchanted" is dire
what i can't even
you take your "dear john" and go home
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 July 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i love "dear john" but it is kind of exhausting
― preschoolin' life (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 July 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
the verses and bridge to "enchanted" are so so so good. the chorus brings it down a bit, but it's still probably my favourite.
2. sparks fly3. mine4. never grow up5. back to december/last kiss
they're all completely great tbh, but s/t = fearless (basically best album ever contenders imo) > speak now
― uberweiss, Saturday, 9 July 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah what pushes "Enchanted" over the edge for me are:
1. "and you will say... Hey..."
2. The multi-tracked "please don't be in love with someone else / please don't have somebody waiting on you" section near the end.
― Tim F, Saturday, 9 July 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I think what taylor does best is transform personal experience into universals and 'enchanted' does the best job of that on this album. so, enchanted.
― dayo, Saturday, 9 July 2011 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
1. mean2. sparks fly3. mine4. enchanted5. better than revenge
last kiss is a painful cut and i don't have anything bad to say about story of us really.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 9 July 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
like at all because it's great.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 9 July 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
The multi-tracked "please don't be in love with someone else / please don't have somebody waiting on you" section near the end.
This. Absolutely makes the song.
1. Sparks Fly.2. Back to December (The, "When your birthday passed, and I didn't call," line stopped me cold the first time I heard it and still does).3. Enchanted.
― jon_oh, Saturday, 9 July 2011 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard "Sparks Fly" on country radio yesterday; apparently it's the new single now that "Mean" is winding down ("Mean" hit #2 on the country charts).
― Euler, Saturday, 9 July 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
TOO HARD
My brain is aware that there's no way that 'Ours' is the best track on this but it's just so compulsively listenable.
This is the "Stay Beautiful" effect. Though really the bonus tracks shouldn't be on here, even though I don't see any of them picking up votes. It's obvious why they didn't make the album; in comparison to shit like "Dear John" and "Haunted," they are so slight and Taylor-by-numbers (which obv still means they are pretty good).
I love Fearless much as anybody but for me it kinda falls off just a little bit after track 6 or 7. Speak Now doesn't hit as high, but it's more varied and interesting, and for someone who gets criticized for her voice she adds all sorts of shade to her vocalization that really augments the songs, or moments in songs that add up (that sort of defeated growl-sigh on "I swear I'd love you rrrrright" on "Back To December" or how she jumps at "I'm even better than you"--indicating a pleasant surprise, whether it's his at her proficiency or it's hers at being touched--and then lowers into something really sultry and flirty on "imagined I would be" in "Sparks Fly").
Maybe "Sparks Fly" then, which isn't the best song but has grown in estimation the more I listen to it. But then there's "Back To December" and "Dear John" and "Mean" and "Enchanted" and "Long Live." TOO HARD.
― c'mon (billy), Saturday, 9 July 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
"If This Was A Movie" is the best bonus track
I JUST WANT IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS BEFOREAND I JUST WANT TO SEE YOU BACK AT MY. FRONT. DOOR.
― uberweiss, Saturday, 9 July 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
pleasantly shocked at all the "enchanted" love! i thought I was the only one sticking up for that song last fall
― bros -izing bros (k3vin k.), Saturday, 9 July 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i felt the same way about mean, actually
― kaygee, Saturday, 9 July 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
"never grow up" was the one that surprised me the most the first time i heard it, and it still kinda does.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 9 July 2011 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
What the fucking fuck are the last three tracks? They aren't on itunes or wiki p.
― kkvgz, Sunday, 10 July 2011 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Bonus tracks not really worth checking out.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 10 July 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
1. Never Grow Up2. Back to December3. Mean4. Last Kiss5. Mine
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
enchanted. love it so much
― gman59, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
1. Speak Now
Catchy as Juliana Hatfield, verbose as Joe Strummer.
2. Sparks Fly3. Better Than Revenge4. Innocent5. (everything else)
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I hear "Speak Now" as Merseybeat of the best kind, & yeah it's my vote too.
I think I'm finally coming around on "The Story Of Us". Hearing it all the time on the radio is helping.
― Euler, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i think of myself as really liking this album but i only ever listen to half of it, pretty much always turn off somewhere around better than revenge/innocent/haunted -- maybe if the three unlikeable tracks weren't all clumped together I'd have some kind of idea how the album ends.
those first eight songs are all the best though.
― c sharp major, Thursday, 14 July 2011 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
also, i am never going to stop being convinced that the chorus of 'if this was a movie' starts "come back, come back, come back to me, Eli"
― c sharp major, Thursday, 14 July 2011 09:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I hear "Speak Now" as Merseybeat of the best kind
oh no oh no oh no oh no i have to forget i ever read this
― lex pretend, Thursday, 14 July 2011 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think i can listen to that song any more
You don't like Merseybeat, lex?
― kkvgz, Thursday, 14 July 2011 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
When "Speak Now" first came out, I shared a clip of her performing the song on Letterman with my friends on FB and referred to it as Merseybeat!
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 July 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
haha lex I just mean that it swings in a pretty classic way...Merseybeat came in part from classic country...listen to your Dwight Yoakum & you'll know the score.
― Euler, Thursday, 14 July 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 18 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to know more about lex's aversion to Merseybeat.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
and her next single wins
― markers, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
The top 2 are correct. "Last Kiss" deserved a vote
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
weird
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yZCMR.gif
― markers, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"Last Kiss" deserved a vote
― uberweiss, Tuesday, July 19, 2011 7:33 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
More than one. Too many good tracks, though.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 21 July 2011 13:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Last Kiss gets me emotional, for real. I'm surprised that no one voted for it.
― grit of ad hominem (kkvgz), Thursday, 21 July 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yes its v good
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 21 July 2011 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Her measured pacing and delivery in it are breathtaking. Ugh. Regretting not voting for it.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 21 July 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 her
― markers, Thursday, 21 July 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
You are an expert at sorryAnd keeping the lines blurryNever impressed by me acing your testsAll the girls that you run dry have tired lifeless eyesCause you burned them out
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 July 2011 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
― those facts at that point were still in the future (c sharp major), Monday, 25 July 2011 07:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd have voted "Sparks Fly" if I'd not missed this. But "Last Kiss" is my second favourite.
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 25 July 2011 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
(worst song after living with the album for a bit is "Haunted")
― unskinny blap (edwardo), Monday, 25 July 2011 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDs9ocHVZ-g
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 06:37 (thirteen years ago) link
last kiss was robbed
― horseshoe, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
by me, too; i think i probably voted "dear john"
― horseshoe, Saturday, 6 December 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
none of you soulless monsters voted for "last kiss" how dare you all
― j. winters (josh), Sunday, 7 December 2014 08:07 (nine years ago) link
it felt us forget it the way it used to feel us breathe
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 7 December 2014 10:53 (nine years ago) link
re: "last kiss", I love how they kept T Swizzle's breathing in heavily before "and something reminds you" @ 4:29 in the mix
― Sharkie, Monday, 8 December 2014 07:51 (nine years ago) link
ALSO HOW DID NO ONE VOTE FOR "OURS" WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 8 December 2014 09:32 (nine years ago) link