i think i saw buzzings on a blog somewhere that there may be a mix for country radio
the album will have a lot more darker mood pieces like "safe & sound"
i am hopeful that this is the case - that song in particular has grown on me quite a lot since it came out
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
here's the country mix: http://tasteofcountry.com/taylor-swift-we-are-never-ever-getting-back-together/
― prolego, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
the good - flawless album cover:
http://cdn.idolator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/13/taylor-swift-red-album.jpg
the bad/really ugly - ed sheeran will be on the album :////////////
― prolego, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:34 (twelve years ago) link
Hope he's as audible as Colbie Caillat on 'Breathe'.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
i really like this and also the red lipstick shots have me swooning like crazy <3 <3 <3
but ew i refuse to get anything with ed sheeran on it
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
i always though breathe could have used a little more Caillat, tbh. i've never heard Ed Sheeran. He looks like a smarmy douche.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
I remember when Speak Now came out, there was a little processed drum loop on one of the songs and I was like "god, don't do this Taylor" and now this song basically sounds like P¡nk or something. But it`s not a particularly novel take on the P¡nk thing.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
Like, and it's not to say that Taylor couldn't do that sort of pop well, as a departure from the country/pop/rock thing that's worked really well for her, but god those drums stomp all over everything in the song.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
i think something like Sparks Fly is as far down the pop taylor rabbithole i was prepared to go. if the new LP is all shit like Avril's 'Girlfriend' i may have to take my leave.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:04 (twelve years ago) link
I think pseudo-Avril is a pretty good sound for Taylor! This is much better than I was expecting from reading the above.
Except for the talky aside, Lex is right about that
― Tim F, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
Taylor's better than this and Avril's better than this.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but I can't get past the fact that Avril is releasing that sort of thing when she's 28. If Taylor is still doing non stop indecisive boyfriend focused stuff in three-five years it would be a big disappointment. she's a good enough writer to be able to go somewhere else with it.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'd rather Taylor did pseudo-Ashlee rather than pseudo-Avril.
― prolego, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah also hate the talky asides. the ones on Better Than Revenge were cringe enough.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
― prolego, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:14 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
From a distance this post makes perfect sense but on reflection I think it totally depends which Ashlee album you're referring to here.
At any rate I think this could easily seem as much like an Ashlee song as an Avril song, it's just that Taylor's voice ends up sounding more like Avril b/c she's girly rather than throaty.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah also hate the talky asides. the ones on Better Than Revenge were cringe enough.― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:14 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:14 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The ones on Better Than Revenge were completely cringe-inducing, but less-so for this song. The cut-up snippets of conversation reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7MTuovhhE
like she's trying to do something experimental with found sound and it could probably be awesome in some other producer's hands.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
This song is okay on second listen but then I had a similar reaction to "Mine."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
I finally listened to the country mix linked upthread. Still mediocre, but I would have preferred it to the mix I actually bought from itunes.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
I don't understand this expiry date for pop starlets thingum, like what? What is supposed to happen when pop star turns 28? Jazz albums? Lyrics about Plenty Of Fish?
― Ówen P., Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe Avril's almost 28 though. Poor thing. She's all like "I'm a goddamn grownup. Get all this crap off of me!"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Avril_Lavigne_%28crop%29.jpg
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:52 (twelve years ago) link
So what? I didn't get it with the "CR Jepsen is 26, too old for this shii" argument and I don't get it with Avril either. Most women I know are chin-stroking think pieces in their early 20s, and raving horn-dogs in their 30s. I mean, this whole "she's too old for this" is male gaze talking, if I may say so in the gentlest of terms
― Ówen P., Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
Please accept "raving horn-dogs" with a grain of salt.
― Ówen P., Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
xpost ^^^^
Although really any age is too old for that hair IMO.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
owen otm
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
it's nagl on avril for different reasons, one of which is that it wasn't a gl in the first place
erm :/
i don't hate it but i probably will after like ten listens
i dunno... i miss the narratives and lyrical specifities and stuff... not really what i wanted but i mean this is off like 2 listens thus far. i guess she really wants to expand her fanbase beyond north america. defo sounds like it could be ubiquitous or whatever but i mean... erm ok... :/
maybe i'll end up loving it? lol this post is a mess but i've been waiting for this for 2 years and now all this info coming out at once aaaaaaa
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KCJO0.jpg
― kanye shiwen (dayo), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
i guess she really wants to expand her fanbase beyond north america.
this is pretty much The Plan, yes
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not allowed to post any more ://////////// i need to be kept away from this thread
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
along with avril, i immediately flashed on JoJo hearing this.
I don't think it's horrible Taylor Swift's doing this type of thing per se, just ironic cuz she always seemed like someone who couldn't wait to grow up.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
@ dayo I don't get it oh wait LOL
― Ówen P., Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
anyway the thing that this song reminds me of is "my life would suck without you", i think you all remember how i felt about that, it's not quite that mediocre and i enjoy it BUT.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
it's that clumsy lyrical phrasing in the chorus. basic.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:03 (twelve years ago) link
He said the way my blue eyes shinedPut those Georgia stars to shame that nightI said: "That's a lie."Just a boy in a Chevy truckThat had a tendency of gettin' stuckOn backroads at nightAnd I was right there beside him all summer longAnd then the time we woke up to find that summer gone
But when you think Tim McGrawI hope you think my favorite songThe one we danced to all night longThe moon like a spotlight on the lakeWhen you think happinessI hope you think that little black dressThink of my head on your chestAnd my old faded blue jeansWhen you think Tim McGrawI hope you think of me
September saw a month of tearsAnd thankin' God that you weren't hereTo see me like thatBut in a box beneath my bedIs a letter that you never readFrom three summers backIt's hard not to find it all a little bitter sweetAnd lookin' back on all of that, it's nice to believe
When you think Tim McGrawI hope you think my favorite songThe one we danced to all night longThe moon like a spotlight on the lakeWhen you think happinessI hope you think that little black dressThink of my head on your chestAnd my old faded blue jeansWhen you think Tim McGrawI hope you think of me
And I'm back for the first time since thenI'm standin' on your streetAnd there's a letter left on your doorstepAnd the first thing that you'll read is:
When you think Tim McGrawI hope you think my favorite songSomeday you'll turn your radio onI hope it takes you back to that placeWhen you think happinessI hope you think that little black dressThink of my head on your chestAnd my old faded blue jeansWhen you think Tim McGrawI hope you think of me
Oh, think of meMmmm
He said the way my blue eyes shinePut those Georgia stars to shame that nightI said: "That's a lie"
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
nevr 4get
i was just thinking how every first single she's had is worse than the last. and like yeah her debut song is still her very best but it's such an all-time pinnacle of music that I guess it's not too depressing that nothing else can really compare (the vast majority of all her other stuff is still a++ good).
everytime I listen to "tim mcgraw" and realise it was written by a 14 y/o makes me go o.O - like how the fuck?!
― prolego, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
could shakespeare have written that well at 14? idts.
― prolego, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
anyway the thing that this song reminds me of is "my life would suck without you"
OTM
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
So what? I didn't get it with the "CR Jepsen is 26, too old for this shii" argument and I don't get it with Avril either. Most women I know are chin-stroking think pieces in their early 20s, and raving horn-dogs in their 30s. I mean, this whole "she's too old for this" is male gaze talking, if I may say so in the gentlest of terms― Ówen P., Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:54 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ówen P., Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:54 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I was sorta joking in re avril and her music and pop music in general. As long as you're striving for excellence, ya know. But it would be sorta cool if she got rid of raccoon eyes for 2013.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link
(best TS song is still "Our Song" fuiud)
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
best TS song is Forever & Always, fuiUd.
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
if i had to put t-swift's singles in order of preference...
tim mcgrawour songfearlessback to decembermineyou belong with mefifteensparks flywhite horsesafe & soundlove songpicture to burnteardrops on my guitarshould've said nomeanwe are never ever getting back togetheroursthe story of useyes open
everything down to "love song" is 10/10 though
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
oh i forgot about the fairytale one but i can't even remember it tbh
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'd like to meet Joe Jonas and shake his hand for that one. "Hey thanks for being an asshole. Wait! No, really!"
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
no i'm pretty sure her best single is "fearless"
oh god just thinking of that song...
THIS WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER THING DOESN'T CUT IT SORRY TAYLOR NEXT
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
fearlesstim mcgrawfifteenour songmineback to decemberlove storyyou belong with mesparks flysafe & soundmeanwhite horsepicture to burnshould've said noteardrops on my guitarwe are never ever getting back togetherourseyes openthe story of us
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
tim mcgrawfearlessour songfifteenyou belong with melove storysafe & soundback to decembermeanminesparks flypicture to burnshould've said nowhite horseourswe are never ever getting back togethereyes openthe story of usteardrops on my guitar
― prolego, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit, we need a swifty poll
― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
never knew story of us was that disfavored
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
the story of us is very loud and blustering and almost completely unmemorable
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
i'm expecting lead single + album title + few other details, just like last time
― uberweiss, Monday, 11 August 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/IjnEDDM.gif
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
"But I took your matches snatched my hand back before fire could catch me"
― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
good gif
― markers, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
god, that video of her up there visiting that little boy is incredible
i ended up here because RED continues to grow for me and i wanted to read the thread again :D
― alpine static, Sunday, 19 April 2015 09:21 (nine years ago) link
watching some Red-era clips this morning and she is terribly pitchy on a few that i watched from 2013, but this Letterman one from 2012 sounds terrific!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i56EKIx0VdU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1jwAZVlnowUJULxMCvUyKrGBC4RzYmMZspKd8t-eTx4KUQdCv630AjcPc
― one charm and one antiup quark (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 5 October 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
wtf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i56EKIx0VdU
this should be it?
― ufo, Saturday, 5 October 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link