Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

i had thought that BPD was associated with women, but i can't really cite that and don't know where i got that idea from.

definitely don't think of Obama as having an aversion to macho bullshit, true. i am just going to mindlessly defend everything molly lambert ever said, though, tbh.

welp now i have to go find this stupid caitlin flanagan piece THANKS

that was one of those remarks which keeps me from thinking the piece is perfect. I'm not sure you can BE a successful pol in the U.S. without macho bullshit posturing.

the beauty of molly lambert's former blogstyle is her free association and the fact that she never cites anything, but i can see how others would disagree.

even women (e.g. HRC).

the best molly lambert thisrecording blogpost is a different one but it means too much to me to post on ilx lol

hs when i said 'lol trolling' i kind of meant myself

oh bringing up caitlin flanagan is definitely trolling

just found something on stanford's website about BPD occurring 2-3 times as frequently among women as men fwiw

whoa ok

also molly lambert rules caitlin flanagan drools

i don't understand what you mean. i like miranda lambert. i get that you think molly lambert is unreadable. what happened, i am confused?

xpost It was a joke. That is, if Taylor Swift scares you with "Dear John," then lookout for the female country singer who actually threatens to shoot you if you do her wrong. Bringing in Molly was just a goofy connector to Miranda.

i just read the caitlin flanagan on jfk article and i don't really get it

sorry for offtopic

Jeff ‏@jeff1317

I never thought I'd hear a dubstep/pop solo Taylor Swift song... but then that just happened... #red

lol?

just read a ton of molly lambert posts over last couple days bc of this thread and they are so good, esp love her writing about jack nicholson, warren beaty, sharon stone/basic instinct - all her film writing and celebrity analysis stuff is compelling. piece where she deconstructs john mayer is hilarious too - not sure if that was linked here?

<3 isn't she the best

i just wish there was like a catalog or rss feed or something where i could regularly read her writing

her writing for grantland is way less good :( she has this regular column reporting on stuff like us weekly. i don't think it adequately accommodates her genius.

i haven't looked at grantland in months, actually; maybe that's no longer true.

i haven't seen anything there remotely like her this recording format which suxx

Jeff ‏@jeff1317

I never thought I'd hear a dubstep/pop solo Taylor Swift song... but then that just happened... #red

lol?

who is that dude? lol

idk some guy who always has all the information on taylor. very reliable.

he is reliable yeah

oh shit it leaked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XemtXy7aAWA

someone should do that skrillex_bee.gif photoshop but with taylor's face on the bee's body

I smell a new song coming!
http://bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1061154912

biggest digital sales week for a female artist eva

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/08/21/159559500/taylor-swift-princess-of-punk

Uh, I think Ann Powers tries a little too hard here to lump all sorts of female performers together, but hey I'm a guy (and also she might have been given a limited wordcount). And maybe discussing Poly Styrene, Aretha, Pussy Riot and Taylor here the way she does makes sense to some. And I kinda like the Avril sound Taylor's going for with Max Martin btw.

Finally, someone else who thought of Poly Styrene when they heard Taylor Swift.

"The dialect Swift adopts in her new song is obviously modeled on Lavigne's perky smirk, which itself distills and dilutes a quarter-century's worth of unladylike singers: Patti Smith, Joan Jett, Deborah Harry, Poly Styrene, Exene Cervenka, Cyndi Lauper, Kathleen Hanna, Gwen Stefani, Courtney Love."

this is true as far as it goes. But the laundry list needs editing.

As just tweeted by Popdust:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg861/scaled.php?tn=0&server=861&filename=a0ncw.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

why were you tailgating?

Nothing better to do.

lol one of the country cable stations is playing the youtube lyric video

Uhhhhhhhhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4iX5D9Z64

picture T trollin'

this song is actually getting worse with increased exposure and that video is not helping

it's been real, tay

gets better with more listens imo, and I like the dumb video too.

Great song, great video. Always up for a nerdy Taylor. Do the stuffed animals become Animal Collective when they go from her bedroom to the club?

No, taylor be collabbing with Flaming Lips.

i do not particularly like this song

just had the weirdest revelation that this, especially in the verses, sounds just like Los Campesinos.

the final nail in the coffin

gets better with more listens imo, and I like the dumb video too.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:27 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the goofy expressions on her awful furry band's faces are going to haunt my nightmares ;_;

i am both amused and repulsed by the animal collective in the video. sort of the same way i felt about all the kids in the crash test dummies video back when that came out.

it's mostly that one attention-seeking guitarist with the wacky facial expression, i think?

the verses in this are so forgettable :( still down w/ the hook though.

it's mostly that one attention-seeking guitarist with the wacky facial expression, i think?

Remember the tall dude who used to mug for the camera in all the early britney video clips? He's like that dude but with the naked desperation covered by a patina of "wacky" smugness.

yeah, that dude's face is burned into my brain and probably my nightmares, but I've got a crush on the cat-ears (?) violinist.