Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

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.

To be fair (?) to her band, I've been impressed for years now how they've stuck to their incredibly ugly hairdos / personal style even as Taylor and her shows got more and more popular. The uncool uncle wanting to be young, the hot topic clerk, etc.

No selling out there!

Yeah I think annoying grinny dude was in her band when I saw her back in 2008?

grinny dude looks almost exactly like nick grimshaw

i liked this but i sort of don't need to hear this - ever - again

it's... exhausting.

I think annoying grinny dude was in her band when I saw her back in 2008?

he was! well, he was in her band when i saw her in 2008, so. (i remember being like 'and this one is the pete wentz knock-off, and this one is the...') Mind you at that point I thought her violinist was in her late thirties because her dress sense seemed so... mutton-dressed-as-lamb.

OMG yes I thought the same thing.

she was wearing these coloured leopardprint pants that only a woman having a mid-life crisis would wear! i cannot be blamed for being confused.

And they had the face-off during "Should've Said No" with the trash can timpanis.

haha wait, Taylor was incorporating "Stomp!" into her stage show?

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

kind of extremely awesome

taylor looking bangin', still can't sing live

I was there! Pretty awesome. Rest of the vmas paled a bit. One direction is pretty big I guess? Terrible.

New single out for cancer charity, "Ronan". It's on iTunes. Very sparse, very country (lyrically at least). Good vocal performance.

stream http://eyesopen.tumblr.com/post/31087957839/ronan-taylor-swift

i've really grown to love "we are never ever"

yea ive played 'we are never' a ton

Vma performance sort of turned me around on it. Still don't think it's great, and part of that is I think there are other people doing that thing a bit better maybe, but I'm not totes against. I can't hear it without thinking of Avril's "What the Hell".

that was kinda maudlin

we are never has won me over too, when i finally noticed the we--EE in the chorus that sealed the deal

that was kinda maudlin

― call all destroyer, Friday, September 7, 2012 9:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah. well you understand why she sung it for a cancer benefit.

Yeah, I've come around "we are never.." too. I knew I would, I always do. But, I still don't like the talky part, it was especially awkward during the VMA performance.

the we-EE is the part that keeps it from being really great imo i just cant

No that's the best bit