Taylor Swift - 1989

That Vulture piece seems off to me:

While her other white peers, after coming of age, represented themselves as less naïve and more sexual, Swift has persisted in playing her original part, that of the wide-eyed underdog ingénue fighting against the indignities visited upon her by dishonest men. .... Whatever the realities of her actual existence, in her art and publicity she remains the same romantic, asexual, self-evidently virtuous figure that she had put forward in her first, self-titled album in 2006 (an album which, it should be said, is very good).

The whole point of "Blank Space" as both song and video is basically exploding the trappings of the wide-eyed ingenue. And "asexual"? Granted she's no Nikki, but there's an awful lot of sex in the last couple records especially.

an awful lot of clichés in that passage too ("wide-eyed"? "underdog"?).

No one knew who George W Bush was until Kanye called him out either

"asexual" is a totally weird complaint. why should she be any more "sexual" than she is comfortable being? that's sort of what i was talking about earlier with the fact that there is something gross about the glee i am seeing in some corners at a "stuck up" "mean girl" being "exposed."

i thought the vulture piece was good in the last few paragraphs, but the things i didnt quite get were the insinuation that her not allying herself with rap and R&B is a dubious move (why? it might be that she thinks shes above those genres, yes, but might also just be that shes avoiding them to set herself apart, and also tie into broader nostalgia in music), and that kanye and kim have somehow exposed some great flaw in her/her music, when i dont think any of her fans really want her, or expect her to really turn her persona on its head. i cant imagine that they think it has run its course.

They need to settle this with a rap-off.

or a round of croquet on martha's vineyard

Both, but we'd need a tiebreaker event.

a wine-tasting smackdown

tea shop googles fired, gets Treeship

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mess with the tea, you get the treesh

Ready for a new album Taylor, whenever you want.

kinda concerned about the inevitable drake collaboration tbh

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-taylor-swift-pre-super-bowl-show-20170205-story.html

The singer, who won the album of the year Grammy last year for her first official pop album "1989," said the pre-Super Bowl show would likely be her only one this year.

"As far as I know I'm only doing one show in 2017, and as far as I know, this is that show," she said. "You are attending 100 percent of my tour dates."

back on spotify

Hi! Saw you guys got Wildest Dreams trending on tiktok, thought you should have my version 😘😘😘😘https://t.co/dZSBbSCcxV pic.twitter.com/MecFvUPNJb

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) September 17, 2021

This Love (Taylor's Version) out tomorrow apparently so album may be coming soon

"New Romantics" was playing in Rite-Aid and I looked it up; thought it may be a candidate for "Obscure singles heard in CVS," as I only know it as a Deluxe Edition bonus track. Was surprised to learn it was actually released as 1989's seventh and final single – 16 months after the album came out(!) – and did fairly well on some charts (although it barely broke the Top 50 on the Hot 100).

Anyways, as I'm sure all have heard, this comes out in a few months:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Taylor_Swift_-_1989_%28Taylor%27s_Version%29.png

i am excite :D

Slut! (Taylor's Version)

Unless she's waiting to reveal them in coming weeks, no guest stars on the vault tracks this time?

Weird how she changed the "Blank Space" line to "Come on all you Dunkin' lovers"

I think the 1989 songs sound like sh*t, but the Vault tracks are really strong this time around.

wow, damn, this last one especially... 100% legit

This sounds noticeably worse than the previous rerecordings. Weird echo or something in the vocals that wasn’t there before, unless it’s the Spotify quality affecting it.

She removed the “Hey!’s from Blank Space

i listened to a bit of this and whenever i thought a detail sounded weird i went back and compared and it was always pretty much spot-on. i think these re-recordings just encourage listening with a weird focus on details that can catch you out if you haven't done that before

these vault tracks are better than at least a third of the album and really paint a picture of how this album could have been so much better. it's quite different from previous vault tracks which were re-arranged to the point of not really having the possibility of fitting with their parent albums

The indexing is fucked up – I Know Places starts in the middle of the song and includes the intro to Clean.

i'm two tracks in, the compression and weird gating on blank space is so fatiguing...

the fuck? there's loads of weird high frequency information on this... i'm listening lossless. your ear latches onto it and it really throws the low end off. the drums have lost all their pizzazz on shake it off...

It does seem noticeably different on the Max Martin songs, like they couldn’t duplicate the sound or we’re trying for what she does in concert

It seems like if it was easy to replicate whatever it is these big-name producers do in the studio, then everyone would be doing it.

I haven't looked, but just curious, who *is* credited as producer(s) on all these new versions?

I think Shellback is involved with most of them

I mean on some of the Max Martin songs. Christopher Rowe is the main producer.

Shellback’s on just one track, it looks like. It’s mostly this guy, this guy, Antonoff on a few tracks (including most the vault tracks), Imogen Heap on “Clean”…

(these are all co-producers with Swift)

Oh one of the vault tracks was co-written with Diane Warren, that’s interesting

Shellback produced Wildest Dreams but is listed as "Drums, Sound Effects" for Shake it Off

I hadn’t heard of Rowe but it looks like he’s primarily a country guy, wonder why she worked with him on these particular songs.

He's done production on all of the rerecorded albums. Must be able able to bang tracks out quickly.

lol she got Kendrick to re-do his Bad Blood verse on the deluxe version

the cover art for this one is much worse than the original, how boring. I don't think I'll bother giving this a listen

Yeah I really don't like the regular version cover, but some of the alternates had better photos imo.

oh I love the original cover, I think the polaroid is really cool.

ok i'm listening to some of this now and it sounds just like I remember the original sounding so whatever.

she never changes the things that I find irritating, like when she talk-sings lines like "cause, darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream". just sing that, don't talk it, it's not cute it's annoying.

i realize I'm in the minority there and that kind of cutesy shit is what lots of people love

she had a chance to change "nice dress" and let it stand

It is pretty hard to imagine people preferring to listen to these new versions except out of loyalty

"I don't have to pretend I like acid rock"

xp - sorry, i meant the "regular" version of the new Taylor's Version. some of the exclusive vinyl ones she sold had better covers.

Gawd, "Say Don't Go" (the Warren co-write) is so so good. All these Vault tracks are so good