Taylor Swift - 1989

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.

here for unapologetically basic anything/everything

I go on too many dates
*trademark knowing chuckle*
but I can’t make them stay

Earl Sweatshirt Slams Taylor Swift for “Inherently Offensive” Video

the taylor swift video is offensive but anyone in odd future can sit alllll the way down given that "being offensive" is their entire fucking shtick

Loving the big echo-ey MUAH's!

should i buy keds, guys?

gotta say, if you take out the problematic bits then the video's really fun to watch

this is basically taylor swift wanting her very own 'Problem', isn't it?

taylor's manager a few months ago in an interview was talking about how best to avoid ariana's "ascendancy" release as if she were her chief competition

I guess with the max martin productions that's where they see her right now

*and release schedule

I listened to this, and my youngest daughter, in another room, was humming it when I got back into the room. "what was that?" she asked, and I explained. "it's not very good," she replied, then continued humming it.

Getting a strong Avril meets Fergie vibe with a "I think everyone forgot about Hey Ya!" twist. Or that video for "Intuition" by Jewel; anyone remember that?

The strangest thing is this whole "It's so 80's!" undercurrent. I understand that half of the people writing these pieces were probably born in the early 90's, but like, there is absolutely nothing 80's about this song.

^otm.

Like maybe I can hear a little Belinda Carlisle or something in the melodies, but this is firmly a mid-2000s joint.

The only 80's tune I can think of any resembelance is Toni Basil's Mickey, and that's probably only for the chearleader-esque chant part. But definitely not anything from the year of the album title.

the people who mention "late '80s" are likely doing so because taylor herself brought it up in the presser, as far as I can tell. this isn't that, though. it's pure disneypop -- jobros' "pom poms," bella thorne's "call it whatever," nods to "dancing on my own" and "come on over baby"

there's also the fact that the video is so so so so phil collins

he liked a twerpy horn section on the uptempo stuff too

phil collins? more like high school musical

any superstar who makes a wacky video where they prance around in front of a variety of pop archetypes as if they don't belong there owe phil a royalty