Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Oct 2010) - hype, anticipation &c

both times I've seen her live she was totally on pitch

tim f otm ^^

i've only seen her once but she was v much on pitch all night

i dont think shes actually playing that piano

guitar dude has some zany hair tbh

i think she was playing the piano, it was very stiff and rudimentary piano-playing. but points for the effort.

and i think you guys who have seen her in concert have probably benefited from live autotuning. which i guess is harder to do for tv? i don't know.

maybe she lip-synchs more in her stage show, or has better support singers bolstering her voice?

maybe she was nervous.

robots don't get nervous, tho

yeah i was kidding about not actually playing the piano

that's a hot look there.

the flatness is odd cos i've seen her once and she was on pitch. this and the grammys (i think it was) it's as though her voice is mixed far too loud. and in part it feels like the songs are at the wrong pitch for her voice. but they are her songs so she must be happy with the sound.

would an in-ear mic help?

ok, she's already wearing a mic

you'd think if live autotuning was a thing that could happen, they'd do it at the big award shows where the whole sceptical world is watching her, not nec in front of her adoring fans at her own shows

If anything, a direct mix delivered straight to your speakers is a lot more sensitive to bad pitch than going to a show. That is, I'd think it'd be easier to notice anything wrong on the awards show broadcast than at the actual awards show.

^^^

This doesn't concern the live performances, hope that's ok.

I've fallen hard for the new album, unsurprisingly. The song's that's earwormed itself the most is the title track. Her enunciation on it is so strange, like she's speaking in tongues, particularly on the chorus. I think this song could be a huge hit; the big ballads on the first half are stellar, and I'm sure they'll do really well, but "Speak Now" is a potential summer song, and I can see this album pumping out singles that long (go with "Back To December" after "Mine", next month obviously). Also: "Mean" is really terrific! It could have legs on the country chart, but more to the point it's so confident in its defensiveness that it's persuasive. "Long Live" gives me chills: I'm a big fan of love songs that aren't romantic love songs and this is exactly one of those.

woof that AMA perf is BaaaaaaaD

!!!!

http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/assets_c/2010/11/Taylor%20Swift%20AMA%20press%20room%20107056876-thumb-420x625.jpg

she looks a bit like the girl out of the raveonettes :/

she looks unrecognizable

RIP Ratface

She looks like John Mayer's girlfriend.

she looks really hot

yea this look is better.

she looks indie

ws

^^

indie schmindie

Shot actually looks vaguely post plastic surgery ish.

Only in the opposite direction to normal (i.e. less rather than more pointed features).

Poking my head in several months too late, but I finally got around to getting this today. SO good.

I thought real hard today about how much I want "Enchanted" to be a single.

It is!

Damn, she looks like an intern or something.

oh man i haven't posted to this thread yet. this album's fabulous almost all the way through. destroy: "enchanted" (chorus hits the mark, but the rest is a chore to listen to)... the rest's almost universally great.

Shot actually looks vaguely post plastic surgery ish.

Only in the opposite direction to normal (i.e. less rather than more pointed features).

― Tim F, Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:20 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i thought on the AMA clip that her nose looked like it had had a workout.

she really is the best. This nbc special has elicited about 100 smiles in 15 min

really hope someone puts it all up on some blog and/or youtube

best was her looking really tired in the studio but then deleriously dancing around and singing along to the finished "story of us"

not going to read all this, but here you go

http://deadspin.com/5701312/the-haters-guide-to-taylor-swift

oh god why did you post this

deadspin and jezebel find common ground at last!

destroy: "enchanted" (chorus hits the mark, but the rest is a chore to listen to)... the rest's almost universally great.

― in a merzbow world, how is kanye ambitious?? (ilxor), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:21 AM (6 days ago

destroy u

this thread is sparkling, don't you let it go

http://i52.tinypic.com/fb9o43.jpg

nagl

ban dayo

nagl seconded =/

ws

idg nagl, ws imho A+

idg nagl either tbh

Creepy tux. Johnny Depp hat.

taylor scissorhands

captain taylor sparrow

taylor wonka