and im dying to know is it killing you like its killing me - taylor swift - speak now

probably voting sparks fly

i think i might also vote "sparks fly" even though it wasn't until the run-up to seeing her live this year that i considered it in this album's upper tier

"back to december" and "never grow up" are contenders, and you gotta give "dear john" its props too

most overrated = "the story of us"

1 back to december
2 dear john
3 sparks fly
4 enchanted
5 mine

Most overrated: "Back to December."

Picked "Mean" over "Never Grow Up" and "Sparks Fly."

Mean and Selena Gomez's Who Says are pretty much the same thing, 'cept one is Country.

not a fan of "mean" -- the chorus is like nails on a chalkboard 2 me for some reason

I picked "Mean"!

thanks for voting!!

the only songs I've kept in rotation off of this are mean and never grow up. and i actually just broke out fearless today for the first time since speak now came out and i'm still convinced of its superiority. i'll listen to the album again before i actually vote, but tentatively, i'd give it to mean.

voted "Speak Now"

"mean"

maybe dear john? i listened to mean 100 times a day for a spell there, though.

i still don't like "mean" either really

she (or the speaker or whoever) comes of like an asshole in "speak now" but as a song it's kind of undeniable. (see also: "you belong with me")

"Never Grow Up."

I am 7/14ths of the way theough this and it's leagues better than I remember it. still not as perfect as Fearless imo, but I'm wondering why I was so on the fence about it last fall. Maybe the answer is somewhere in the second half.

better than revenge. that's where i tuned out last time. i remember now. Taylor Swift, you sound like a schoolmarm - cut it out!

i like better than revenge a lot

im somewhat w/ you that if you put this vs fearless id have a tough time picking

Love the album but Fearless is on another level. Think that with this album, I mostly dug the craft, except for a few tracks that hit me emotionally like 'Never Grow Up', but with Fearless I cared about every word and observation and exclamation.

My brain is aware that there's no way that 'Ours' is the best track on this but it's just so compulsively listenable.

not voting because c'mon

alright i'll vote for long live but it could be for a lot of these and i don't want to think i'd rather just speak now

01. sparks fly
02. mean
03. enchanted

For a long time it was "Dear John" for me but possibly "Enchanted" now.

good choice imo

1. Enchanted.

No other choice. But I suppose after that it'd be:

2. Sparks Fly
3. Better than Revenge
4. Mean
5. Last Kiss (completely completely will fuck you up if you let it)

damn I thought "Dear John" would carry this easily.

BTW "Enchanted" is dire

Very hard to choose. Was stuck between Never Grow Up, Haunted, and Long Live.

Decided on Haunted.

jeez guys "I'm shining like fireworks over your sad empty town."

every time I read this thread title I think of mr. brightside

^^^ this

BTW "Enchanted" is dire

what i can't even

you take your "dear john" and go home

i mean i love "dear john" but it is kind of exhausting

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 fly
3. mine
4. never grow up
5. back to december/last kiss

they're all completely great tbh, but s/t = fearless (basically best album ever contenders imo) > speak now

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.

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.

1. mean
2. sparks fly
3. mine
4. enchanted
5. better than revenge

last kiss is a painful cut and i don't have anything bad to say about story of us really.

like at all because it's great.

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.

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).

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.

"If This Was A Movie" is the best bonus track

I JUST WANT IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE
AND I JUST WANT TO SEE YOU BACK AT MY. FRONT. DOOR.

pleasantly shocked at all the "enchanted" love! i thought I was the only one sticking up for that song last fall

i felt the same way about mean, actually

"never grow up" was the one that surprised me the most the first time i heard it, and it still kinda does.

What the fucking fuck are the last three tracks? They aren't on itunes or wiki p.

Bonus tracks not really worth checking out.

1. Never Grow Up
2. Back to December
3. Mean
4. Last Kiss
5. Mine

enchanted. love it so much

1. Speak Now

Catchy as Juliana Hatfield, verbose as Joe Strummer.

2. Sparks Fly
3. Better Than Revenge
4. Innocent
5. (everything else)

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.

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.

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"

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

i don't think i can listen to that song any more

You don't like Merseybeat, lex?

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!

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I want to know more about lex's aversion to Merseybeat.

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and her next single wins

The top 2 are correct. "Last Kiss" deserved a vote

weird

http://i.imgur.com/yZCMR.gif

"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.

Last Kiss gets me emotional, for real. I'm surprised that no one voted for it.

yes its v good

Her measured pacing and delivery in it are breathtaking. Ugh. Regretting not voting for it.

<3 her

You are an expert at sorry
And keeping the lines blurry
Never impressed by me acing your tests
All the girls that you run dry have tired lifeless eyes
Cause you burned them out

<3 <3 <3

I'd have voted "Sparks Fly" if I'd not missed this. But "Last Kiss" is my second favourite.

(worst song after living with the album for a bit is "Haunted")

omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDs9ocHVZ-g

last kiss was robbed

by me, too; i think i probably voted "dear john"

none of you soulless monsters voted for "last kiss" how dare you all

it felt us forget it the way it used to feel us breathe

re: "last kiss", I love how they kept T Swizzle's breathing in heavily before "and something reminds you" @ 4:29 in the mix

ALSO HOW DID NO ONE VOTE FOR "OURS" WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS