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.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
Taylor Swift - 1996 (her SkaCore album)
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
Taylor Swift - 1999 (her Prince covers album)
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 01:36 (ten years ago) link
1999 is her nu-metal album
xpost shit fuck ass piss goddammit
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 01:40 (ten years ago) link
that's not how "family reunion" goes
― markers, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 01:43 (ten years ago) link
this song's gonna be a big hit
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 02:24 (ten years ago) link
i love this song
wonder if any of the involved parties have ever heard "bubble pop"
― james brooks, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 05:12 (ten years ago) link
ok, so the song is two times better without the video. anyone wants to predict thesinglesjukebox's score?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 08:47 (ten years ago) link
LOL: https://mobile.twitter.com/CountryMusic/status/501483161101279232― lex pretend, Monday, August 18, 2014 3:56 PM (Yesterday)
― lex pretend, Monday, August 18, 2014 3:56 PM (Yesterday)
what did this say, seems to have been deleted?
― alpine static, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 08:59 (ten years ago) link
uh no, "bubble pop" is 10x the song this is, bad dubstep interlude >>> bad taylor swift rapping. xposts
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 09:02 (ten years ago) link
this is terrible, but I can already tell it's going to be massive
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 09:04 (ten years ago) link
xpostshttp://imagizer.imageshack.com/img540/9408/hOFX7U.png
― jay., Tuesday, 19 August 2014 09:36 (ten years ago) link
that's sweet
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 09:42 (ten years ago) link
"This sick beat" rivals "Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did" for cringe inducage.
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 09:53 (ten years ago) link
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.
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 09:54 (ten years ago) link
she talked in the livestream about her inspiration from late 80s nyc bohemian freedom doing whatever you want and loving who you want
wow
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 11:04 (ten years ago) link
that video is like watching your grown-up kid make unfortunate choices
― zombie formalist (m coleman), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 11:09 (ten years ago) link
plus as a bald man the thing about the "hella good hair" just hurts.
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 11:16 (ten years ago) link
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??
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 11:33 (ten years ago) link
i mean yeah i was not enthused by WANEGBT on first listen for similar reasons but this is a hundred times worse
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 11:34 (ten years ago) link
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 brainThat’s what people say, that’s what people sayI go on too many dates, but I can’t make them stayAt least that’s what people say, that’s what people say
seriously..
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:00 (ten years ago) link
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
― katherine, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:09 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Popture, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:11 (ten years ago) link
here for unapologetically basic anything/everything
― james brooks, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
I go on too many dates*trademark knowing chuckle*but I can’t make them stay
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
Earl Sweatshirt Slams Taylor Swift for “Inherently Offensive” Video
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:32 (ten years ago) link
Loving the big echo-ey MUAH's!
― 龜, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
should i buy keds, guys?
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
gotta say, if you take out the problematic bits then the video's really fun to watch
― cerealbar, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
this is basically taylor swift wanting her very own 'Problem', isn't it?
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
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
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
*and release schedule
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
^otm.
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Like maybe I can hear a little Belinda Carlisle or something in the melodies, but this is firmly a mid-2000s joint.
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
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.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
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"
― katherine, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
there's also the fact that the video is so so so so phil collins
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
he liked a twerpy horn section on the uptempo stuff too
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
phil collins? more like high school musical
― katherine, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
but this ain't a binary, yes this max martin pop resembles disney pop and yes this superstar horn-fueled tomfoolery resembles phil collins
― da croupier, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
it is funny how "Mickey" has become this singular touchstone that Gwen and Avril and the JoBros and now Taylor have all kind of used for YAY CHEERLEADERS '80S POP YEAH shorthand
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoTz3WgZm4c
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
xpost -- Does that make Nirvana the exception that proves the rule?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
more like "jerk it off"
― ienjoyhotdogs, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
more like "ienjoysnotclogs"
― how's life, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
to be fair that horn section was earth wind & fire
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link