Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

Kind of odd that her record company hasn't put out any official remixes of "I Knew You Were Trouble." Would be an easy way to rack up a couple million more iTunes downloads for Tay, I would think.

DANCEHALL COVER OF I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE ALERT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQnH_b1S-Qk

!!

Lol that is exactly what I expected, in the best sense.

any love for 'come back, be here'? had a dream last night in which it played like a music video. except the lyrics were all changed.

Taylor's new duet with Tim McGraw, "Highway Don't Care," is kinda interesting. Interesting to hear her in the "guest star vocalist" role on a song she had no hand in writing.

her grammy thing was pretty dumb

The thing where she was all like "Miguel, I've never heard of you but you're so sexy weshould sing together"?

No when she did her ex boyfriend as a bad english accent during that song lex loves? It was all over the gossip sites.

yeah it was immature

her grammy thing was pretty dumb

Yep. I'm not a fan of that song, and the Alice-in-Wonderland staging was ridiculously over-the-top. The performance, plus her "dis" of Harry Styles, generated more of a online backlash against Taylor than anything I've seen yet. I guess a backlash was inevitable - when you get as big as she has gotten, there's nowhere to go but down, but I wish she would focus a little bit more on her acoustic/country/indie side - i.e., tracks such as "Safe and Sound" and "Girl at Home," and less on the super-pop songs such as "We Are Never Ever." But the next single is going to be "22," so I guess she's gonna milk the super-pop side of the album for another three months. She ought to release "Stay Stay Stay" to country radio to shore up her support there, in my opinion.

The Grammy thing will add to the sense that Taylor is maybe not a very nice person, but what's funny about her is that none of this stuff really seems to matter. She prances through these ridiculous relationships, evidently bagging anyone she sets a mind to (actors, rock stars, Kennedys, more actors, more rock stars), pouts and makes faces and breezily moves on to the next -- and people make fun of her and whatever, but she just writes a song about it and sells another bajillion records. I'm mostly a fan of her music, not her persona, but even on the persona level she seems unusual. I can't quite think of a precedent for anyone getting away with her weird combination of innocent romantic/bed-hopping vixen.

I can't quite think of a precedent for anyone getting away with her weird combination of innocent romantic/bed-hopping vixen

It's not just that contradiction - there's also the contradiction of her being the innocent good girl who gets bullied by Kanye West - and who writes an anti-bullying anthem in "Mean" - but who also casually eviscerates her rivals and ex-boyfriends in songs such as "Better Than Revenge," "Dear John," and "All Too Well." I'm not sure how much longer she can keep up the innocent good-girl persona - One Direction's retarded tween fanbase predictably went ballistic when Taylor "made fun" of Harry Styles the other night by dropping a Brit accent into her Grammy performance of WANEGBT, but, in the larger culture, I think there's a growing perception of Taylor as someone who dates celebrities for a month or two and then writes mean songs about them. Never mind that her kind of songwriting has been part of pop music since time immemorial - think of the speculation as to which Stones' girlfriend Rolling Stones songs such as "Ruby Tuesday" or 'Angie" were "really about," not to mention the kiss-and-tell mythology of albums such as Rumours or Blood on the Tracks - the perception of Taylor as Serial Dater Who Writes Mean-Spirited Songs About Her Boyfriends is threatening to become her defining image. You're probably write that she'll just continue on her current course and continue to write more songs in this vein and sell bajillions more records in the process, but, if I were her, I would maybe aim higher than dating younger guys in flash-in-the-pan boy bands (and also aim my songwriting higher than more songs in the vein of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - she's already proven over and over again that she can do much, much better than that).

meant to type "probably right" above

as a casual fan my perception is still Interesting Catalog But Probably Should Just Not Sing Out Loud In Public Like, Ever.

ever, ever, ever?

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/988173/thumbs/r-TAYLOR-SWIFT-22-large570.jpg?7

Purchased at Target or Walgreens?

Never mind that her kind of songwriting has been part of pop music since time immemorial - think of the speculation as to which Stones' girlfriend Rolling Stones songs such as "Ruby Tuesday" or 'Angie" were "really about," not to mention the kiss-and-tell mythology of albums such as Rumours or Blood on the Tracks - the perception of Taylor as Serial Dater Who Writes Mean-Spirited Songs About Her Boyfriends is threatening to become her defining image.

Well, Taylor is a standardly pretty young woman, so obviously our culture has A Problem with thinking it's ok for her to do it.

also dropping a Brit accent in her Grammy thing was fucking hilarious and fit the spirit of a song that's meant to take juvenile glee ("weEEEE!" as you slide away from him) in not being with your ex ever ever. so troll on, Swift.

obviously our culture has A Problem with thinking it's ok for her to do it.

― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Sunday, February 17

finding this less-than-obvious in light of her sales and airplay tbh

Quote was re: image/perception, not sales.

quote was from one guy on a message board, not Our Culture

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr03/2013/2/21/11/enhanced-buzz-25658-1361463804-18.jpg

Taylor took to the DJ booth at the Universal afterparty (held at pop-up Soho House party on Princes Street) and played the following girl power anthems; Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing), Adele - Rolling In The Deep, Kelis - Milkshake, and Eve ft. Gwen Stefani - Blow Ya Mind.

i see no flaws

NICE

i joked on twitter that she dropped the lumineers

the best

and played the following girl power anthems; Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing), Adele - Rolling In The Deep, Kelis - Milkshake, and Eve ft. Gwen Stefani - Blow Ya Mind.

love you boo

did she dj properly?

why do u care

If she did then I would admire her more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=cpfQSqfpuac

<i>In the April issue of Vanity Fair, Swift tells the mag she’s not “some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend,” calling that idea of her “fictional.”

She says, “If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people,” referring to Conor Kennedy and Harry Styles.

Swift notes, “The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with… it’s just kind of ridiculous,” explaining, “It’s why I have to avoid the tabloid part of our culture, because they turn you into a fictional character.”

Asked if she truly is boy crazy, as much of the public perceives her to be, the pop star responds, “For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something that potentially should be celebrated — a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way — that’s taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.”</i>

What's wrong with being sexy?

ok is she really letting ed sheeran smash now

all signs point to no

I love hip-hop! The first song I memorized was “Fireman” by Lil Wayne. Ever since then…it’s Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa, the Game. When I was in high school, my boyfriend and I would drive around and he’d always point to this neighborhood where Young Buck lived. We would drive and look at his cars and be like, “Oh my gawd! Those cars are so cool! I wonder if he’s in there!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyMJAL4KPII
sigh

i honestly find the nic cage one funny tho

I don't know much about Taylor Swift beyond the fact that there's somebody out there named Taylor Swift, and that she's liked by both my female students and rock-critic friends. So this is not meant as a knock on her in any way. But I thought the quote I read from Amy Poehler today was the funniest thing I've come across in quite a while:

"I feel bad if she was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff."

http://www.wkrn.com/story/21575366/unopened-taylor-swift-fan-mail-found-in-dumpster

lol scandal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgFeZr5ptV8

MUST WATCH

using west coast malibu mansion beach bum lifestyles as an antidote/rejection of saddo nyc studio apt dwelling hipsterism seems idk, a lil abercrombie to me

hate to admit it but tay is feeling a bit offtm w these recent vids

best recent taylor swift video was the target commercial.

yeah i think everyone who doesn't like this shit should go post on threads about blogs tbh

SAIL

#carefreewhitegirls