Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

awwwwwww

lex! :D

the best 6 seconds there ever was

<3

I wouldn't have been able to wipe the grin off my face for the rest of the interview (/ month)

When do we get a "WANEGBT" remix w/ all spoken bits from the album ("exhausting," etc.) + "you are so legit"?

Begin Again video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMPEd8m79Hw

Saw her doing "Red" on Letterman. Sounded good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAr35Lok1ME

I wouldn't have been able to wipe the grin off my face for the rest of the interview (/ month)

i haven't yet!

all the anonymous love interest dudes from taylor's videos should start a band or something

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/10/taylor-swift-the-baddest-bitch-in-america

Swift isn’t just a KingSlayer of Men, but a celebrated one. The carefully curated men in Taylor Swift’s life are like victory heads, who may as well be stuffed and mounted on the walls of her recording studio, spoils of victory and reminders to all who may try to enter—literally—of her unimpeachable brute force.

yesss

not sure if that article is entirely meant to be positive

not all the reasons for taylor's juggernaut status are positive!

if ppl feel threatened by that article maybe they're not comfortable enough with their taylor stan identity.

^^^yes

it's really funny and well-written

perhaps overplays kanye being "wracked with grief" but other than that it's pretty irrefutable

I have poo-face on reading that reading, but I s'pose armchair tabloid analysis is gonna follow girl around like a rainbow

hahaha i hated that thing

http://www11.zippyshare.com/v/99604550/file.html

― lex pretend, Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:16 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

Awesome. Nice piece too, Lex.

WANEGBT has really grown on me. She sounds exactly like the Paramore chick when she does the "I'm telling you, I'm telling you" part. I don't like Parasnore, lol, but its cool anyway. Peace

man i really like this record

really like the sheeran track now and man at least he had the sense to only sing half a verse

regardless the snow patrol song is in my head all the damn time

do Americans all pronounce foyer like that?

Loved the piece Lex. You should use that clip every time you want to end an argument, like Woody Allen calling on Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall.

xp: yes, to rhyme with "lawyer"

WEIRD. she should have used lobby.

lover in the foyer vs lover in the lobby. hm.

I pronounce it in the proper French way, but then again I watched a lot of Truffaut when I was a teen.

Being a dumb American, I am lucky to be unaware of the apparent terror that is Ed Sheeran, so I will say that I find "Everything Has Changed" fairly beautiful, I especially love how her voice rises on each subsequent occurrence of "I just wanna know you better." Tonally, it reminds me a lot of "Enchanted."

The other day I went on a hike during a gloomy and windy day and wept to "I Almost Do." I really love how it switches from pining almost-calling him, to dismissive almost-but-not wanting him back. She does this often, wonderfully, using stress in her voice to change the intent of her language.

Really only skip "Sad Beautiful Tragic" (title of which seems like a Morissette reject) and "The Lucky One" (boohoo fame whatever, even though it reminds me of Wham!)

Sheeran collab is good. Snow Patrol collab is not. Not sure about: "The Lucky One" and "Red". The rest sounded fantastic on first listen. I got the deluxe edition and all of the three bonus tracks are worth having.

Favourite so far = "All Too Well".

yeah you can easily sub "the moment i knew" and "girl at home" for the collabs

no one else is gonna love me when i get mad, mad, mad <3 <3

(it's like portishead's "nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do" translated into swift)

In what represents the eighth largest first-week debut in modern chart history, Swift’s fourth studio album, the follow-up to 2010’s Speak Now, debuts at #1 with a gargantuan total of 1.21 million, beating that last record’s 1.05m.

It’s the highest first-week total in a decade, since Eminem’s The Eminem Show debuted with 1.3m in June 2002, finishing behind The Beatles’ 1 compilation, which sold 1.26 in January 2001. Swift’s the first artist since Eminem to have two first-week million sellers in a row. In addition, Swift will set the record for largest, non-99-cent-sale-priced digital album, besting the 420k digital first week most recently set by Mumford & Sons' Babel.

the cultural implications of tswift selling 1.2M records in 2012

I'm definitely buying this CD, which will be my first CD purchase in ages. That should tell you something.

you're a masochist?

Damnnn

Those sales! Holy crap

wtf 770 posts

go tay tay

wtf 770 posts

how is this even remotely a surprise to you

the most amazing thing just happened to me. I was watching "red" performed live at Ellen and when the "flashbacks and echoes" part came it felt like my breath was taken out from my mouth. I literally couldn't breath for 3 seconds and it's like there were tears welling up.

770 is nothing. this thread deserves more. it's too quiet here.

i have a feeling her tour for this album is going to be amazing and full of such moments

taylor swift can't sing live: myth or fact?

in concert she was fine

yeah she did fine when i saw her on the fearless tour, and i'd guess she's probably worked on it since then given the criticism

Obv she's not a vocal powerhouse that doesn't mean she can't sing

In my very humble opinion "The Last Time" would be a great song if a) it was mixed better and b) it appeared on a Snow Patrol record.

Otherwise the record is all over the place, so many stylistic variations, not surprisingly my favourite stuff is the U2-hybrid stuff like "State of Grace" and "All too well". Her band is awesome

"the moment i knew" is killing me

love this album so so so much now, maybe almost as much as fearless??

great article imo

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/164733-taylor-swift-red

It doth protest too much. xhuxk tangled with a few defenders on FB yesterday:

I like a lot of what's in this piece (what I got through, anyway), but I guess I think Nathan's setting up a bit of a straw man. There have always been critics who've taken Taylor Swift seriously, since her first album -- and in fact, given that he thinks she's made some major lyrical advance on her new one (which I definitely don't hear myself), I'm guessing that maybe more than a couple critics took her earlier (and sorry, better) albums more seriously than he did. *Speak Now* finished 26th in Pazz & Jop two years ago (35 voting critics put it on their top 10 lists), and Rob Sheffield gave it a 4-star lead review in Rolling Stone, a magazine he seems to be saying hasn't given her music its due. (On RS's website, *Fearless* gets 4 stars as well.) Took me less than two minutes to verify all that. So I'm stumped. Also, "Gangnam Style" is way more fun than he thinks, and in general it seems like he's coming a couple decades late to the Guess What Guys Pop Music Can Be Good Too revelation. It's still true, of course, but if whoever he's arguing with is too stupid to have figured it out already, I wonder if they might also be too stupid to argue with.

def just filed a piece where i argue that she's made a minor lyrical advance