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

Wait what?

please tell me yr joking

http://files.sharenator.com/justkidding_demotivational_posters_Michael_Jackson-s440x352-26284.jpg

lol

let's not sully a t-swift thread with mention of the str*kes, even in jest (also lest i discover any of you are actually fans of them, in which case i may kiss my teeth right out of my mouth in horror)

fuck you if you don't fuck w/ "sparks fly"

i agree with this

i never got into "the story of us" though

"haunted" is a surprise keeper!

C'MON C'MON DON'T LEAVE ME LIKE THIS

how's it a surprise? it's always been so so awesome

it felt a bit like a sore thumb on the first few listens - like, good and catchy but a bit jarring in album context

still not feeling "the story of us" tbh, it's that kind of song that tries ever so hard to act like it's catchy by being loud and fast but doesn't actually have any particularly good hooks - easily the worst on the album

I think Story of Us is a highlight and have been hoping for Story of Us to be released as a single, with video and all. The two first singles were very much in the Fearless vein, would be nice with a different sounding thing on the radio.

has a post-"back to december" single even been announced? i thought it'd be "haunted" for some reason.

I'd have thought "Sparks Fly" would be a single---agreed on how hot a song that is. I've been listening to Swift since the debut & "Sparks Fly" is the first song where she's overtly sexual, or at least where I can hear her that way & not feel icky about it...that "I'm even better than you imagined I would be" line, with her jump at "better", how she rushes out "imagined I would be", so beguiling.

yeah, sparks fly is not only about sex but about unrecommended and not all that serious-relationship-sounding sex, which was cool after all that autopilot SHE HATES SEX SHE NEVER HAS SEX SHE WANTS NOBODY EVER TO HAVE SEX "criticism".

yeah but it didn't actually stop that "criticism" did it

not that that was ever based on anything as sensible as listening to taylor swift's music or indeed paying attention to anything taylor swift has said

yeah, sparks fly is not only about sex but about unrecommended and not all that serious-relationship-sounding sex, which was cool after all that autopilot SHE HATES SEX SHE NEVER HAS SEX SHE WANTS NOBODY EVER TO HAVE SEX "criticism".

even more interesting, perhaps, that it doesn't seem to have been written in response to the press around Fearless re: her clean and s3xless image in 2008-09-10 etc. -- there's a live recording of "Sparks Fly" going back to 2007 or so

Right well like Lex says, it's not like sex has ever been absent. She was in a pickup truck with a boy out in the middle of a field on her very first single. (She spends lots of time with boys in cars on those first two albums.) But yeah "Sparks Fly" is her frankest and most grown-up lust song. Plus, it rocks.

Ok, "stuck on backroads," not out in a field. Still. I don't think they're doing Bible study.

they're probably reading FAIRY TALES and talking about what she's going to COOK later

^^^ also very hot

Amazing show yesterday in Oslo!

gonna see her on the 30th in london, can't wait

This show was about being professional in the best possible way. The monologues are carefully written down and repeated every show, and she's good enough at acting that you're not totally sure if she actually IS in awe at the screams and shouts from the crowd going on forever, but! She's so in control and comfortable on that stage that whenever she feels like it and does let the fuck loose, rock out, her energy and charisma makes everyone go nuts, and she knows how to work the crowd with every little smile. Also flawless vocals.

Don't expect anything from the first album, though.

checked Setlist.fm and looks like she played more like a half to 2/3 length show? the one i saw last year was like 20 songs... would expect her to flesh out the setlist a bit more

maybe she's really been jamming out on stage and doing like 20 minute drum-solo versions of You Belong With Me

hah, she did that already w/ a 10-min version of "should've said no"

skip to 3:30 for drum solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQJ-IE64qcM

Taylor Swift should not have drum solos, no matter how hard it is to change into whatever new outfit she changed into.

agree-- was kinda bad way to end the show imo

I hope she learns to play better electric rhythm guitar than Madonna.

Show was 1 hr 30 min effective jamming.. a fine length in my opinion, but it wouldn't have hurt with a few extra songs.

T Swift Abbey Road concert on Radio 2 in 20 minutes (9pm UK) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zlbg5

Not sure what she will play, scheduled for an hour.

thanks for the tip, i'll tune in. still excited for next tuesday...

She's so good at talking.

Watch BBC's footage of the show here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fwntw

Basically a condensed version of the tour setlist.

abcfsk (or anyone else who's seen her live on this tour), how long does she play for?

1hr 30 min as best I could time it, maybe a few minutes short of that. Setlist is short but she mixes up things a bit, some songs go on for longer, goes to another stage for the acoustic part etc.

cool, thanks (am checking whether i can make a second gig afterwards :/ )

Clearly different from location to location, but she did not start on time... by some margin. I think it might have been because the organizers were slow to get the crowds into the hall, though.

that's useful to know (in an oh-well-guess-i-can't-make-nicolas-jaar-then way) - i don't trust anything happening at the O2 to be on time, really

great night. she was on at 8.35 in mcr tonight, finished at 10.05. it's a pretty well-drilled set by now i think. high on polish and choreography, leavened by her clever acting of genuine astonishment at the adulation she receives.

hit the high notes in dear john (the backdrop was particularly nice on this one). the only bum note i could hear was the very last one of that song, but by then the screams had already restarted.

my daughter was overjoyed, she touched taylor flesh.

how had i not seen taylor swift rapping a nicki minaj song before!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSSwUzdk8rU

<3 <3

she should've done the line about selling coke though :(

She and Michelle Trachtenberg should start a Minaj tribute act:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEW73k0bgDw

i just rapped along to michelle trachtenburg rapping along to nicki minaj :D

fuckin lasted longer than she did too

selena gomez too!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MVlS5Uj8Xs

and she did the coke line! (but it was faded out :( )

It doesn't surprise me, but I'm sure a lot of people would be astonished to learn that Taylor is really into Nicki Minaj.

OMG HER SHOW TONIGHT

DROP
EVERYTHING
NOW

#taylorswiftsurprisedface and #taylorswiftjesuspose both made several appearances, plus adorable audience interaction that was somehow even more adorable for being so obviously practised. she has a ton of stage presence!

so much ~relating~ going on in that arena. hearing all those thousands of teenage girls (and myself and cis) sing along to every word was amazing - in particular the coda of "enchanted" sticks out - "please don't be in love with someone else, please don't have somebody waiting for you" - everyone singing it, everyone in that arena had been there, heartbreaking and incredible

LOVE HER

Did she play Back to December??