Taylor Swift: Fearless Poll

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frankie valli sang about being a teenager

xp dude ive been looking for that for so long, i have cranky dorks on ilm to thank for finally finding it

idk i think "lyrical depth" requires a distance & nuance that a 20 yo or 18yo or w/e the fuck she was when she wrote those songs doesnt really have.

well i said she was honest and artful, which doesn't necessarily mean "deep." i don't actually think she's all that "deep," but otoh patti smith is "deep" and some of her stuff is way the hell more embarrassing than any taylor swift songs. i think taylor swift writes exceptionally good pop songs about the experiences of being a teenager. that's plenty for me.

DickieV Last week I saw Gladys Knight in concert n tonight= 'm going to see Taylor Swift-that is versatility baby just like Evan Turner!

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Uh oh, time for another poll!

so this is basically about discomfort with people expressing extreme amounts of enthusiasm isn't it

it's cool lampatee--sometimes ppl weird me out when they do that too

Forever and Always wuz robbed people

DickieV Taylor Swift was Awesooome Baby! half a minute ago via mobile web

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there are lots of Taylor Swift songs I haven't heard, but I do know that if I'm at a place where I'm practically forced to listen to country music radio and I hear "Love Story," then I'm pretty happy. And if I hear "Tim McGraw" (the song) then it's been a good fucking day...

I would probably characterize "You Belong With Me" as enjoyable fluff, but I don't think it's a totally inappropriate candidate for song of the year...I like "Daniel" and "Obsessed" (wz this even nominated?) a little more, and "Paparazzi" a little less...

has anyone itt heard of the intentional fallacy

pretty boomin band imo

duly noted, noted scholar

I just listened to White Horse for the first time...that's a pretty affecting song...

for all the haters who are like "it's ok for teenage girls, but be real, bros..." it's possible that you are letting the slick, produced mainstream pop-country sound and the accordant teenage wholesome good-girl image distract you from the songwriting smarts that are clearly there...

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plus, you never know, maybe there was actual teenage girls who post on here. it would be pretty crazy i know, everyone knows girls don't REALLY like music, not proper music like us guys. AM I RIGHT GUYS? YEAH! WHOO!

what?

xp my bad, wasn't trying to say that there wasn't...

plz don't start another ILM Census.

*registers teenage girl sockpuppet*

(how is it that Lamp says that teenage girls don't have real thoughts and I get shit?)

*registers teenage girl sockpuppet*

But... I thought Emily's Cheese was already on the site? :(

on my first listen-through, this is pretty d-_-b

parts of 'the way i loved you' sound like sk8er boi. and the opening to 'tell me why' sounds like that alicia keys song 'like you'll never see me again'

I got so bothered at how the J Newsom thread was just a giant carnival of internet yuks despite not liking that album all that much, and I kind of <3 Swifty but I always suspect her heterosexual grown man fans of having a fantasy about watching their girlfriends die in childbirth

Trying to stay one step ahead of the patriarchy has ruined my life, guys

chill out take a drive in a truck

ABSENTMINDEDLY MAKIN ME WANT U

A B C how did you peek into my secret heart and find out my desirs?

:kanyeshrug:

I kind of <3 Swifty but I always suspect her heterosexual grown man fans of having a fantasy about watching their girlfriends die in childbirth

?????

title track got fewer votes than i thought it would!

tswizz :3

I kind of <3 Swifty but I always suspect her heterosexual grown man fans of having a fantasy about watching their girlfriends die in childbirth
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― Tim F, Saturday, March 6, 2010 7:26 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yah srsly. i mean, girlfriends??

I always suspect her heterosexual grown man fans of having a fantasy about watching their girlfriends die in childbirth

Like, what. Dudes can't listen to music by women? Grow the fuck up.

My kingdom for a Deal With It Demi Lovato gif

ftr I meant girlfriend pillows

Like I would trade my pregnant wife for Ol' Ratface Taylor Swift or any other dumb rock star.

ftr, I meant grow the fuck up.

huh

anyway - <3 her

oh god those are some bad posts

sorry thread, sorry kingkong vsgodzilla, sorry taylor swift homeschooler hit machine

Why do so many good threads go to waste like this one? Can't we just talk about liking her music and why without this wining about what that means and who it makes us? I don't like Joanna Newsom, but I don't bother posting on her thread and telling people they are stupid for liking her. It's really that simple.

lol I didn't even get A B C's zings until kingkong pointed them out. good lookin tho against the patriarchal majority, stop them from their fiendish task of reappropriation imo.

Maybe gone to waste isn't the best way to put it, still.....

the ship will right itself, take a look at the joanna newsom thread

nothing wrong with going over to the newsom thread and saying you don't like her (all in the how, of course), but the anti-Taylor business has been covered in the og Taylor thread and the singles poll, so I can't imagine why anyone should bother spreading it here as well.

okay well to try to turn this thread back on topic - wow @ this album. easily the best thing I've heard all year. completely walks the other critical faves from last year that I've heard so far (yyy's and phoenix, apologies for not being that into 'current' music atm.) the only other thing I've heard that comes close in terms of euphoria is maybe 'shine blockers' but that's completely different.

parts of 'the way i loved you' sound like sk8er boi.

I meant complicated, of course

returning briefly to the whole issue of whether she can actually sing outside the recording studio, this is a good argument in her favor. she's no powerhouse, but in a room with good sound and monitors, she sounds just fine.