Taylor Swift: Fearless Poll

smashin ol ratface

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkK0bfJhYhw

today my favorite song is 'the best day'

For me the funny thing about this album isn't merely that my favourite changes all the time but that songs radically wax and wane in my affections, dropping from 1 to 7 or so from day to day.

― Tim F, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 2:02 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

have reached this point with the album. last week it was the best day. yesterday it was breathe. today it's tell me why. what does tomorrow hold?

a facebook friend just discovered her tom petty cover, and now my homepage is full of angry rockists waving torches and getting out the tar and feathers. sacrilege!

I have no problem w/ calling taylor swift our generation's tom petty

i think that's a solid rallying cry, really.

yeah that's about as good as it gets.

I think a lot of people here don't actually enjoy country music as they'd like to on some philosophical level and taylor swift - who writes decent, approachable pop songs - is a good way to pretend like they actually like country music. hope she makes a 'yankee hotel foxtrot' soon!

This has probably all been pointed out, but...

1. I don't need to "pretend" I enjoy country music. I generally don't.

2. Taylor doesn't do country music so much as she does flawless, heart-swelling pop songs.

3. Fearless is better than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot could ever dream of being.

yankee hotel foxtrot can have some amazing dreams cause it's a viking of sleep

also stfu

Also YMMV but I would also take Fearless over pretty much anything in Cale's solo output, maybe aside from Vintage Violence or Paris 1919... anything released by Smog (speaking of a "viking of sleep")... the list continues to grow.

so I'm not having this debate with anyone

but I'm especially not having this debate with you

go read pitchfork or something

i dislike country on some philosophical level and taylor swift - who writes amazing, approachable pop songs - is an artist who writes amazing, approachable pop songs

go read pitchfork or something

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You're more likely to find Cale or Smog or Beach Boys reviews there than anything related to Ms. Swift!

What a fantastic album. Some of the most nostalgic and relate-able lyrics I've heard in a long time. I may just be re-hashing what everyone has alrSady said but its quite amazing. Anywhere from a 12yr old girl to a 50+ senior could feel something from her lyrics. she makes the kind of music that reminds me why I started liking pop music in the first place. She paints pictures of small town wherever, failed relationships, remembering the past for the good and bad times that it was. She's the best. It's been awhile since a female pop star has hit me this way.

I re-upped this because its election season and yall better recognize. Definitely one of the best releases in the past 5 years.

Pretty sure I posted these on another thread... but, I went to Taylor's Houston show about a week ago with my little one (who went nuts, predictably) and took a bunch of photos, which can be found here for those curious.

friending u iirc

I'll likely throw Fearless a vote in the '05-'09 poll, btw!

lot of ppl there, more than yr average indie rock show O_O

They screamed a lot.

any show of excitement at a concert is a good thing imo

Dude your FB profile is totally blank. What gives?

Are you concerned the CIA is watching (remember: don't use Google either!!!!!!!!!!11)?

I happened to hear "You Belong With Me" twice during car rides while staying with my brother a couple weeks ago, and I've lost any ambivalence I had about it. One thing I like about it is the way the current of joyousness in the song builds in momentum, so it becomes less and less about frustration or envy and more about the joy of an imagined world in which she is together with her love object, or even just a celebration of the feelings she has in their own right. It's also an incredible song to have playing during a car ride, as I think others said.

^^otm - the lyric of "you belong with me" is open-ended enough to be performed in completely different ways, there's no confirmation of a happy ending in it - it could be a lot more ambiguous or even self-deluding - but it's just performed with this incredible optimism. i've written before that that indicates that the narrator (as performed by taylor) does get her man in the end, but actually rudipherous is right - it's the sheer heart-swelling celebration of having feelings this big and strong in the first place (and as such a celebration of being human, really).

and its melody is pliable enough to work in different settings, too. i like this:

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

omg

omg this is great

hahah that makes me feel like I'm in a karaoke room

awesome.

lolz at the anime orchestra version of fearless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BFQjyb_WIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnWDtQUd9Dk

"The Other Side Of The Door" from the Platinum Edition triumphs them all. Well except "You Belong With Me"

definitely not

this album is perfect but probably "fearless"

CAPture it
REMEMber it

I wish someone would have brought up a young Kristin Hersh upthread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYpCU13hdi8

Tell Me Why was robbed. Such a great song. How did no one vote for it? Secret heart of the album, imo.

Eh, maybe not.

it's a great song, album is full of great songs, i for one remain sore that i'm the only vote for "you're not sorry"

http://i.imgur.com/3JC1KjH.png

how in the world did tell me why not get a single vote

poss my favorite twifty song ever

seriously

i think it's her most underrated deep cut

also fearless with only 1 vote wtf

ten yrs old today

Re-recorded Love Story drops tonight at midnight. Full album with lots of bonus material coming soon. I'm excited to see how this shapes up - Fearless is still my favorite of all her work.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Et8qlsWXMAQ80VC?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

“bonus material” and suddenly my interest goes from 0 to 10

i'm definitely curious if she's messed with things at all or if they're going to just be slavish re-recordings. i'm expecting the latter but you never know

unreleased tracks are very cool of course

re, ufo: someone noted in another thread that if the point is to encourage anyone who wants to use these songs to use "Taylor's Version," it wouldn't make sense to change things up. Would expect them to be quite faithful to the originals - maybe just polished up.

On the right day, this is still my favorite Taylor album. The self-titled showed great promise but the little critical writing I remember seeing on it seemed to attribute at least some of that to cowriter Liz Rose. Fearless was grander in scale ("Love Story," "Change"), more personal ("Fifteen," "The Best Day" - the tenderness of which has only grown on me more as I've grown up and had kids of my own), and was when her gift for writing melody became obvious ("Hey Stephen," "You Belong With Me," every song...).

At the time, I was the only person I knew who took Swift seriously. I was living in the UK and the Pop mix of "Love Story" was in rotation, but friends back home dismissed her as Radio Disney or Shania Twain lite. I don't recall Fearless doing particularly well on EOY lists, though Rolling Stone probably ranked it. I didn't pay any attention to the Grammys at this time in my life and don't remember what the reaction was to Fearless winning AOTY. Was the sense at the time that she was for real or that this was the Grammys being the Grammys?

ok the "love story" remake is out and it's kinda fascinating to compare because while it's largely a recreation, there's a few slight differences in the details, the tones are different etc., and i prefer her current voice too

I like it! Not better than the original, but it's good as just another version. Drums are more rock than on Fearless, which gives it a slightly bar-band feel, in a good way. Modulation at the end still slays.