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

I'm way behind on 2010 listening but I need to pick this up. I've not heard anything from it yet (staying away from youtubes so far). re. country radio: I've not been around to listen but I suspect it's getting played just out of inertia; Garth didn't really fit in either musically, at least not with what e.g. Randy Travis or George Strait were playing at the time, and they worked around him. I think the same'll happen with Swift.

right, "Mine" is currently #8 on the country chart

I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you gotta rise above

i'm embarrassed to know this, but i think back to december is about the werewolf dude from the vampire movies

maybe the one about how she wishes that cute baby would stay forever young that i couldn't quite finish.

that song is worth finishing. (SPOILER: the baby is HER)

and, i mean, that song ends with her cold and alone in the dark contemplating death. i think it's one of the keys to the whole record.

goddamn i have been so busy this week and so many words and conversations about this record have all happened already

i think i actually feel more behind on them than on the record itself, which i've been happily listening to but haven't got anywhere near thought-out opinions on

xp okay, will go back to it

i'm trying to not let the emotional impact of "back to december" be blunted by the fact that it's about someone as boring & unattractive as taylor lautner

album is definitely a case of "I wish I didnt know who these songs are about"

in general im not really someone who wants to know that kind of stuff, though -- id rather just take the record on its own terms

i'm trying to not let the emotional impact of "back to december" be blunted by the fact that it's about someone as boring & unattractive as taylor lautner

ha ksh and sarge both otm

I like her reservation, that it's "probably mindless dreaming", but that her rational objections don't stop the outpouring of emotion. "It won't work, but what if it did"

Favourite line is "...so if the chain is on your door, I understand."

ugh i forgot she dated taylor lautner

i'm with jordan, that boy is not attractive at all. i was going to say "apart from the body" but i can't even bring myself to care about that. he looks like an illustration in a fantasy novel.

good casting on the twilight people's part then

i just think that he looks like a mountainous feline in the face

Something about his face makes me completely uneasy. It's more animal than human.

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swift has a ratface to be fair

she's gotten markedly less ratty as she's matured -- she might as well be nibbling on some cheese on the cover of her first album tho

now she's more mouse than rat -- p common

lautner's eyes are just waaaay too narrow, the rest of his face is almost like a parody of "good-looking features". then again i go for vertical faces, not horizontal ones.

I assume that the actress referenced in "Better Than Revenge" is Camilla Belle? Sort of strange, though natural I suppose, to blame the woman in this setup. Any other identifiers not mentioned yet?

My problem with this album is that Taylor appears blameless throughout. I'd like to see her turn her critical eye upon herself for once. Maybe a song about some of her faults, instead of the continual litany of how she has been done wrong. It was cute and Dawson's Creek-ish when she could write about riding around in pickup trucks and lusting after the quarterback, but I'm expecting a bit more self-reflection from her at this point.

"Dear John" is a very pretty song, but by posing as the victim Taylor relieves herself of any culpability, and the public nature of her self-identified victimization reads as a (passive) aggressive stance.

Um.. Back to December is about her faults. She dumped him, in a bad way, etc. And Mine too, in a different way. And in Dear John she also does get aggressive, warns of revenge with a "you should've known".

thought she was telling herself "you shoulda known" as well as telling John he shoulda known not to cradlerob

taylor is always more self critical than people realize

for instance, "fifteen"

Anyone seen the sales figures published the last few days?

Crazy.

Are they they same ones linked to in Nabisco's article? Are they expecting to hit 1 million?

uh if this doesn't go triple plat i'll be fuckin shocked

silly question, but is this out on vinyl? i'm curious.

My understanding is that a million is in sight

I had a dream last night that I bought this from a record store for only $8. O_O

there's pretty much no way that it doesn't hit 950k, will be super close to 1m too

or obv possibly over 1m

I'd like to see her turn her critical eye upon herself for once. Maybe a song about some of her faults, instead of the continual litany of how she has been done wrong.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

oh we're talking week 1 haha

so how many songs are based on wikipedia synopses of shitty romantic comedies

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thought she was telling herself "you shoulda known" as well as telling John he shoulda known not to cradlerob

Or "you shoulda known I would write a song about you".

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

silly question, but is this out on vinyl? i'm curious.

They're releasing a vinyl copy in a month or so, I think.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

Title track is about her stealing a guy AT HIS WEDDING.

― salem witch bile (Tape Store), Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i don't understand your point

That the title track is about her stealing a guy at his wedding.

what, that biggie song is about cars and money? how uninsightful!

thought tape store loved taylor

another ciara song about dancing with boys?! where the hell are my jill scott albums!