Taylor Swift '08: The Hype, Anticipation & Appreciation Begins Right Here

This woman is a gift from the gods.

yeah probably the best album made by a teenage girl in at least the last 20 years? any serious suggestions for something better?

The first M2M record?

yeah probably the best album made by a teenage girl in at least the last 20 years? any serious suggestions for something better?

If I'm not mistaken, Ashlee was still 19 when Autobiography came out, but only just, and depending on the day of the week, Fearless might overtake it. But then again Ashlee's albums have gotten progressively less detail-oriented and interesting lyrically, esp. by the third album.

i'm glad "you belong with me" got a chart run, great tune. not many things make me wish i still had a car, but that's a totally windows-down summer cruising song.

I can't stop listening to "You Belong With Me." Single of the summer, single of the fucking year.

where does it rank in your decade top 10, kshighway?

Shit dude, I don't know! I haven't even thought of doing a best-of-the-decade list for singles, but I should! That would be much harder for me to pull off than a list of albums, though. A lot of trying to remember what came out this decade. I watched MTV and listened to the radio obsessively before I started listening to indie rock and reading about music online, and although there have been times when I have stopped listening to chart music for a span of time here and there, I always come back to it. Partially to keep in touch with pop culture, partially because that shit can be pretty amazing.

That being said: How the FUCK was Crazy Town's Butterfly a #1 single in 2001? And fucking Savage Garden in 2000! (Not so surprised about that one, actually.) There is some awful shlock on these Billboard Hot 100 lists. Some great songs too, though.

Never made it to #1, but Petey Pablo's "Raise Up" will always be #1 in my heart. Love the 2000s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-26bRZEedZg

Also, Euler upthread is so so so OTM:

There are so many hooks, and she gets me in the details: for instance, the bit where she trills a little like Beyoncé ("I know you better than that"), or the way she talks the line "she's cheer captain" on the lead-in to the second chorus.

Both the melody and her delivery on the "better than that" line SLAY me.

that shit really can get pretty amazing!

I sense some sarcasm there mister.

me? never

I think you need to listen to WANNA BE A BALLER, which should've come out in 2000 so I could put it on some list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_089EURkNo

(Revisiting all these old songs I used to love is thrilling. This thread isn't the place for discussing all of them, though.)

I've decided my list of the best singles of the decade would inevitably include mostly mainstream rap songs. Holy shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KqFs-pzS4

Looking so innocent, I might believe you if I didn't know.

Still think I'm a sock puppet?

If it'd make y'all feel better, I used to post equally sincere (to y'all, probably naive) shit back in late 2007 under the name "three handclaps":

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/FullTextSearchControllerServlet?terms=three+handclaps&offset=0&searchtype=id&startdate=&enddate=&artefact=threads&idtype=displayname&sortorder=Relevance&boardid=0

Nah, just quoting "You're Not Sorry", great album track!

Among others:

the role of music criticism as a buyer's guide
Taking A Break: Music Burnout / Overload (lol @ overload at age 20)
Quirky Personal Mix Tape Rules
Are Music Blogs Worth Reading Anymore? Which Ones? Why?
2007: How many new records did you hear?

And, of course, a WILCO poll:

Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: Favorite Track

Hahhaa, ah!

why is all of this on the Taylor Swift thread?

I'm not sure. But back on topic: "You Belong With Me" is presently #1 on the US country chart and #2 on the Hot 100. So it's a genuine hit in the US. #52 in the UK, #42 in Ireland. And it's peaked so far at #5 in New Zealand! I mention it just because I wasn't sure if it had broken out. I heard "Love Story" all the time on the radio, both pop and country, back in the USA but I've not heard "You Belong With Me" at all. It looks like it was only released as a single in the US in April, though.

dled her first album yesterday and I can't get enough of the singles that never got airplay over here

Apologies for the veering off into off-topicness yesterday!

In any case, this is definitely a hit over here in the wonderful Boston area of the USA. Our pop station, Kiss 108 FM, plays it all the time, and as such I've had many opportunities to crank the volume and rock out while driving around over the past few weeks.

I tuned into Mix 106 on the way out the door this morning with the specific intention of hearing this song and it was the first song they played.

that is a semi magical story

Fearless: Platinum Edition out this week, apparently, w/ 6 new tracks. Leaked today.

http://ajshadowcat08.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/fearless_platinum.jpg

New song:
Jump Then Fall
Untouchable
Forever & Always (Piano Version)
Come In With the Rain
SuperStar
The Other Side of the Door

Come in With the Rain has been floating around since the first album came out but otherwise, things to be excited about, I think. We'll see.

^__^

k3vin, remember when we used to be indie? haha.

The new songs are good. Obviously derivative of the 'Fearless' work which is why she's plopped it on a re-relase. She didn't need to put a cover on there, though -- even if it vastly improves on the shoddy original.

Oh Taylor, the love affair is over. :/

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tmz.com/media/2009/10/1029_swastika_ex.jpg

Ok, fuck you iTunes. $1.29 for each one of the new songs? I thought the $1.29 was supposed to be for the "hottest hits" not every single new release.

tbf basically every song is in the top 10 right now so they might be on to something

xp What the fuck? There has to be context here?!?!

let's all just chill out for a minute

The guy at the core of the Taylor Swift swastika scandal claims it's possible the singer did not see the Nazi symbol on his chest when he pulled her in for a photo the other night.

The shirt-bearer, AJ English, tells TMZ he didn't know Taylor before Katy Perry's party last weekend -- and he's sorry for dragging her into the chaos.

As for why he had a swastika on his shirt in the first place -- English says it started out as an "X" but was "perverted" as the night went on, adding he's "not a racist" and doesn't support the Nazi agenda.

whatever imo

At least it's not Boyd Rice.

Sorry dude but if you knew it was being "perverted" and continued to wear the shirt in front of tons of paparazzi cameras anyway, you are a irredeemable shitstain and deserve to be shot.

def

you are a irredeemable shitstain and deserve to be shot.

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Him

Wait a minute, isn't Taylor sort of indie anyway? She's Lisa Loeb on mainstream pop and country radio!

I can't believe Taylor Swift is a nazi sympathizer. That totally blows! Next thing she'll be getting Prussian Blue to open for her.

taylor is like, the antithesis of anything indie dude

i love the way when she says "music she doesn't like" in you belong to me, its totes obv that she means like josh turner or something

I like to imagine it's Les Rallizes Denudes or something.

she's hosting/performing on snl tonight btw

am i alone in being a complete sucker for "the best day"? i know, song for mom, it's such a set-up, but it just seems so right in its details. especially the middle verse, where they go on a shopping trip cuz taylor is all bummed out about her mean friends.

Nah, you're not alone. That's the one on the album that chokes me up every time. But then, I'm a dad. (It's not just for mom! The verse where she's scared on halloween kills!)

In fact, I wrote about it here, over a year ago:

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/rs_sotd/926/song-of-the-day-taylor-swift-the-best-day/

i know, it tugs at my parental strings too. makes me want to hug my kids.

speaking of kids, taylor swift has now joined the short list of people (previously including m.i.a. and green day) who my 5-yr-old requests by name. this morning he asked me to put on a video by "taylor." i said, "taylor?" he nodded emphatically and said, "taylor swift!"