http://i.imgur.com/rmurE.jpg
― markers, Monday, 20 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
some haters here
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
she's on leno tonight
― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
I dig her new look w/ bangs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzhAS_GnJIc
but I'm not sure how much I dig this song
― dayo, Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't like it at first but now i think it's pretty good
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
amazing song
way better than the follow-up "eyes open"
― nowadays suckers seem to be so fucking naïve (uberweiss), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
"eyes open" is not very good
"safe & sound" can be completely devastating if you're in the right headspace for it
― lex pretend, Sunday, 25 March 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/F7fTw.png
Great look and great song.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://speedyortiz.bandcamp.com/track/taylor-swift
― billstevejim, Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
the chorus of 'eyes open' is so wooden and un-taylor like
― dayo, Sunday, 25 March 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
"Ours" is all over my local country station & ah ha I see why! it's #1 on the country charts this week. I thought it was slight on first listens but like e.g. New Order the melody won't leave me alone & now the words don't seem so slight either.
― Euler, Monday, 26 March 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Always thought "Ours" was slight as well, but that it had unbelievable charm (see also: "Stay Beautiful"), and after "Mean" it seemed like the only truly twang-ish song for country radio. But even slight Swift means a lovely melody and deceptively simple words that accrue resonance as the song's narrative progresses ("People throw rocks at things that shine" shouldn't work, but it really devastates me). Also the video w/ Matt Saracen melts me even though the end feels like pandering.
Re: "Safe & Sound": it's a good look on her I think, and while it may be more tone than tune, the tone is lovely and, as Lex said, really devastating in the right moment.
I've been struggling with "Eyes Open" because it feels so obviously like The Song That Tells The Movie's Story, Possibly While The End Credits Roll, and I haven't felt her music to be this rote since "Change," but I think she sings it very well, and I guess it's a little interesting how the lyric can double as "cautionary tale of fame."
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://taylorswift.com/media/photos/17363/650551
― markers, Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
had no idea there was a deluxe edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9W-4PMngAU
― swaghand (dayo), Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/taylor-swift-may-play-joni-mitchell-finally-kill-t,72806/
― fruitsbs (beachville), Monday, 23 April 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yxkFw.jpg
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
dan lacey strikes again
― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 April 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
her track w/ civil wars on the hunger games sdtrk is pretty okay
― Mordy, Monday, 30 April 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-mayer-taylor-swifts-dear-john-song-humiliated-me-20120606
― how's life, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
that poor poor man
― “Argh!” I cry. But I really don’t care. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
dude gets caught up in the dumbest feuds.
― Cunga, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
oh j mayer i think that was the point
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
shut it down
shut it all down
http://www.viddy.com/video/591db795-cf0c-4232-b116-16621bd94861
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
idgi
― how's life, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
The comments on that RS post are things of wonder.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
ed sheeran is collaborating with ed sheeran :)
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fqKq3.jpg
disappointing single tho
― kanye shiwen (dayo), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
Hahah fuck is that a joke or is that seriously the name of the next single?
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
Serious. New thread here folks:
Taylor Swift - RED - Octobert 22
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
'CAUSE FOR A MOMENT A BAND OF THIEVES IN RIPPED UP JEANS GOT TO RUUUUUUUULE THE WORLD
― markers, Saturday, 24 August 2013 06:14 (ten years ago) link
BRING ON ALL THE PRETENDERS, I'M NOT AFRAID
― markers, Saturday, 24 August 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
feel like i overrated this album initially then underrated it for two years but i listened to it again recently and damn
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
still her best imo
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
"better than revenge" really sticks out and kinda throws the second half of the album off but the run from the start through "enchanted" might be her best stretch of music
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
agreeing this is likely her best album; i think i don't care for Red when everything's said and done
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 07:12 (ten years ago) link
Better than Fearless? Come on.
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 09:58 (ten years ago) link
I think "Dear John" is my only real keeper from this... I just don't like most the songs that much, including the string of hits at the beginning (though I do like "Mean"). I feel like this album was sort of a stylistic dead-end for her(?), although obviously it was a huge success.
But then I only became a fan with Red, so I don't have much of a context for the earlier albums beyond knowing the hits.
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Sunday, 21 March 2021 05:27 (three years ago) link
(and now listening to them in toto every so often, as I've been doing lately)
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Sunday, 21 March 2021 05:29 (three years ago) link
Oh, I like "Last Kiss" too!
― beer drops on my keytar (morrisp), Sunday, 21 March 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
one of my students wrote her analysis essay about "dear john" and i wasn't familiar with the song but i like it -- so anthemic and also so relatable. the paper was top notch.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link
Tribute to Imran Khan on his 70th Birthday. The legend! #HappyBirthdayImranKhan pic.twitter.com/i58oNHo99v— PTI (@PTIofficial) October 4, 2022
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
Taylor’s Version out in early July…
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Saturday, 6 May 2023 04:40 (eleven months ago) link
Cool. I'll look forward to it partly just for refocusing attention on what I think is one of her best albums.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 6 May 2023 19:00 (eleven months ago) link
I would suggest John Mayer’s publicist should get ready
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Saturday, 6 May 2023 19:05 (eleven months ago) link
"Timeless," the final (vault) track on the new version, is a very nice Swift tune.
I'm a little Taylor-ed out these days; I feel like something's shifted slightly, no doubt due to the tour, where various folks you encounter on social media etc. are So Serious about their deep/committed Taylor fandom (and I mean lawyers, academics, etc.; not "stan accounts" or even ppl who seem to focus on music otherwise)... it's a little off-putting.
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Friday, 7 July 2023 04:52 (nine months ago) link
(no shade, it's good to see folks positive & passionate about what they love, but the scope of it feels a little bizarre to me lately)
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Friday, 7 July 2023 04:53 (nine months ago) link
I feel that a bit, but to me it’s more like I can kinda let go of being a Taylor stan, lord knows she doesn’t need boosters of any kind anymore. But as a Speak Now fan I’ll definitely listen to this.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 July 2023 05:51 (nine months ago) link
this is the best taylor's version yet imo. the rerecordings sound good, much less of an uncanny effect than either fearless or red. there aren't as many devastating new classics in the vault tracks as red (tv) but god, "i can see you," can't believe she had that one in her pocket
― ivy (BradNelson), Friday, 7 July 2023 14:12 (nine months ago) link
I see she changed the mattress line in Better Than Revenge
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Friday, 7 July 2023 14:35 (nine months ago) link
oh yes, i don't approve (my friend said if swift really wanted to edit the misogyny out of this record she should've deleted the title track), but i figure she did it bc she anticipated how much shit she'd get if she didn't? idk
― ivy (BradNelson), Friday, 7 July 2023 14:50 (nine months ago) link