Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

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

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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

Yes this is excellent. Love the cover (if that's real) as well.

the joni signifiers are really coming thick and fast now, right?

- image-wise, the resemblance on that cover is surely not accidental - not just the hair and the dress but the general pose
- the title of the album as counterpoint to blue
- cafe reference
- JAMES TAYLOR reference

like...nothing specific or definite, but we know how taylor has a knack of using these things that fleetingly remind you of something else

i love how the phrase "i do" shifts meaning throughout, from the initial means of clinging on to her own identity to finding things in common with someone else, and of course the echo of marriage vows...i BET she thought about writing a verse to this song that ended with her saying "i do" at the wedding

Wouldn't be the first time.

i'm sure james taylor is interested if swift is

i BET she thought about writing a verse to this song that ended with her saying "i do" at the wedding

was legit shocked on first listen when this did not happen, thought it bespoke Mature Restraint

this is lovely.

yeah i got this shit on repeat

http://we-nevergettingback.tumblr.com/post/32725725820/taylor-swift-red-loving-him-is-like-driving

well hell

"I call her Red / yeah yeah yeah"

is this the first time she ever ceded a hook to an instrument?

can't wait to get home and hear this

interviewing her this week btw

interviewing her this week btw

!

Ask her some critical questions about letting producers take the reigns on certain tracks (although if uberweiss is correct it's not the majority of the album and these two latest tracks suggest classic taylor, I need to know why she let lame people mess with her steez (probably to get that smash mega hit, but))

There aren't many artists/people I really like and would also have lots of urgent questions to ask in an interview setting, but TS is one of them. Pressure is on you.

the problem is she's enjoyed several smash mega hits

ask her t;o mary me

this new one is fucking great

new song is lovely of course. such a talented vocalist, making even that crossword line sound not completely embarrassing

lex you are the LUCKIEST GUY EVER. can not wait for that interview, i'm expecting some hard-hitting shit

part of the problem with modern society is that people say things like "such a talented vocalist" about artists like Taylor Swift without even a hint of irony

i'd love to see dan interview taylor swift

lex make taylor admit that she's just using ed to establish herself in the uk and that she doesn't actually think he's any good

how do we not have a tracklist for this 20 days before release?

confirmed tracks:
we are never ever getting back together
begin again
red
everything has changed (feat. ed sheeran)
i knew you were trouble
state of grace
holy ground

12 more titles to come isn't this exciting