Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

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

yes that is the best bit

also the talking part is still hilarious

Yeah the new song doesn't do a lot for me until the bridge(verse?) bit at 2:57 on. The standing in the closet line is such a weird image to being it with and then "what if the miracle was even gettin one moment with you" and then that breath... bah! i get all moved.. I think if it was any one else other than Taylor singing it I wouldn't feel the same way. But then again, part of the fun of investing into one artist and following their career closely, means that sometimes they get a pass that new(to me) artists don't and I get to enjoy things I might otherwise dismiss.

"being it with" should be "begin it with"..

'never' just isn't working for me; it clicked for the first day and then I realized i never wanted to hear it again.

she wrote 10/16 tracks on this album by herself

love this new track http://woundstobindx.tumblr.com/post/32244061547/taylor-swift-begin-again-took-a-deep-breath-in

oh wow this is absolutely fantastic

i've been spending the last 8 months
thinking all love ever does is
break
and burn
and end
but on a wednesday
in a cafe
i watched it begin again

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

marred with a slight bit of NO NO NO at the news that that lead singer from train is involved in one of the songs on the album lol... ed sheeran and train. it just literally doesn't get worse.

You said you never met one girl
Who has as many James Taylor records as you
But I do

And you, will hide away and find your piece of mind with some indie record that's much cooler than mine

So the last record was all about ex-boyfriends, this one is all about record collections?

yeah i had the same thought

Giving me hope for the album, dub step and Ed Sheeran aside.

Like, not as much finesse as her best ballads but this is much more in the vein of what I want.

This album is about boyfriends' record collections.

she was across the street from my store and she didn't come in and buy any tammy wynette records from me!!!!

"On Saturday, Swift, 22, and Kennedy, 18, headed for the intimately lit Taylor’s Tavern & Restaurant in Greenfield, Mass., a quaint New England town only a few miles from Kennedy’s prep school in Deerfield."

taylor's tavern is blah but i guess they went cuzza the name. apparently they went to hope & olive too which is my friend maggie's restaurant.

to be honest, they might have come in and it probably never would have occurred to me that it was her.

"begin again" is so good <3

oh look it's that i've-just-played-this-song-20-times-on-loop-and-am-utterly-overwhelmed feeling i'd been missing from this t-swift campaign <3 <3 <3

all those fleeting things you think for just a moment captured so well <3

simultaneous external/internal narratives <3

"i think it's strange you think i'm funny cuz he never did" <3 <3