Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

this is great:

First off, to everyone who says she only writes songs about boys:
- A Place In This World- Tied Together With A Smile- The Outside- Fifteen- Breathe- The Best Day- Change- Mean- Never Grow Up- Innocent- Long Live- 22- The Lucky One- Eyes Open- Safe and Sound- Ronan- Didn’t They- Breathless- Brought Up That Way
Second, to people who say she only complains about boys doing her wrong:
- Tim Mcgraw- Stay Beautiful- Mary’s Song- Our Song- Jump Then Fall- Fearless- Love Story- Hey Stephen- Mine- Sparks Fly- Enchanted- Ours- State of Grace- Stay, Stay, Stay- Holy Ground- Everything Has Changed- Starlight- Begin Again- Beautiful Eyes- Crazier- I’d Lie- Today Was A Fairytale
Third, to people who say she writes tons of songs that speak badly of other girls:
-Better Than Revenge-………..-…………-&h ellip;.that’s it.
Fourth, to people who say “has she ever thought that maybe she’s the problem?”:
- The Other Side Of The Door- Back To December - ‘Maybe I was naïve’ White Horse- ‘Was I out of line? Did I say something way too honest, made you run and hide.’ Forever & Always- ‘Well maybe it’s me and my blind optimism to blame.’ Dear John- ‘I knew you were trouble when you walked in, so shame on me now.’ I Knew You Were Trouble- ‘I bet you think I either moved on or hate you, ‘cause each time you reach out there’s no reply.’ I Almost Do- ‘You wear your best apology, but I was there to watch you leave. And all the times I let you in, just for you to go again.’ The Last Time- ‘I told myself don’t get attached, but in my mind I play it back.’ Come Back…Be Here
Fifth, to the people who say she’s dated a whole laundry list of guys:
- Joe Jonas- Lucas Till- Taylor Lautner- Adam Young- Corey Monteith- John Mayer- Toby Hemingway- Garrett Hedlund- Chord Overstreet- Zac Efron- Jake Gyllenhaal- Conor Kennedy- Harry Styles ‘If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. 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.’ Taylor Swift (Vanity Fair April 2013)
Sixth, to the people who say that she’s too wrapped up in her relationship business to do anything else:
- Most charitable celebrity of 2012 Donates to:- ‘Delete Online Predators’- ‘Victory Junction’- ‘Red Cross’- ‘Donate My Dress’- ‘Wish Upon A Hero’- ‘Got Milk’- ‘Scholastic’s Read Now’- ‘ACM Lifting Lives’- ‘Children In Need’ - ‘Clothes Off My Back’- ‘Feeding America’- ‘Habitat For Humanity’- ‘Hands On Nashville’- ‘Save The Music Foundation’- ‘Stand Up To Cancer’- ‘UNICEF’- Often donates to other charities anonymously because she doesn’t want the publicity to over shine the good deed- Wrote a song entitled ‘Ronan’ in memory of a little boy who died based off of his mothers blog
Seventh, to the people who say she has no talent:
- Grammy Awards: 7 wins, 8 nominations- Academy of Country Music Awards: 6 wins, 13 nominations- American Music Awards: 11 wins, 2 nominations- BRIT Awards: 2 nominations- Country Music Association Awards: 7 wins, 9 nominations- Billboard Music Awards: 4 wins, 6 nominations- CMT Music Awards: 6 wins, 10 nominations- Golden Globe Awards: 1 nomination - MTV Video Music Awards: 1 win, 3 nominations- People’s Choice Awards: 4 wins, 8 nominations- Teen Choice Awards: 17 wins, 6 nominations- Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards: 3 wins, 4 nominations- 2010 Songwriters Hall of Fame- 2010 CMT Artist of the Year- 2011 CMT Artist of the Year
Eighth, to the people who say this latest Vanity Fair interview if her breaking point, proving that she’s no longer “America’s Sweetheart”:
Well, what did you expect? Take a good listen to her song ‘The Lucky One’. No, it’s not about Zac Efron like you all tried to assume. It’s about an ‘anonymous’ celebrities’ struggle with living in the lime light. She is a gracious, humble woman who has never been anything but thankful for being blessed with the chance of living her dream of making music and performing it in front of large crowds and hearing them sing her own words back to her. But after all this picking and nagging and poking and joking and accusing and assuming and belittling, who can blame her for feeling tired? Of course she’s going to stand up for herself. After millions and millions of people saying she’s nothing but a whiny, attention seeking, pathetic, man-needing little child, I’m shocked she’s made it this long keeping her cool. Sure, she has her flaws. But who doesn’t? I do. You do. Everyone does. But do we really need to pick on an innocent young woman, just because she’s living her life free of needing to please people? Did you know she’s afraid of being seen by the paparazzi now? In an interview from Elle 2013, a reporter writes “Are you ready to see my ‘no emotion’ face?” she asks me, gesturing to the throngs of photographers waiting outside. The 10 paces we take from the door of the restaurant to Swift’s black SUV feel a bit like walking the plank. […] “I usually only make that face when I’m alone, or I put my head down.” Why? I ask. “So they don’t get a good shot.” She pauses and thinks about it. “I guess also because I’m scared.” She’s scared. She’s scared of what’s going to be said about her, just because she’s stepping out for coffee. She’s not attention seeking, she’s actually scared. And while we’re on the topic of publicity, no, she did not tell Tina Fey and Amy Pohler that they will “burn in hell”. She admits to being put off by their joke, but says she’s able to laugh at her self. She jokingly says she appreciates Katie Couric’s attempt of cheering her up. That’s it. And sense when does standing up for her music mean that she’s accusing everyone of being sexist? Her direct quote was “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.” She’s not calling you a sexist for not enjoying her music, she’s saying you’re leaning towards sexist feelings if you think that a woman wanting a deep love in her life with a man is “clingy and insane.”
Ninth, to the people who say she’s a little girl “stuck in her middle school years” and needs to grow up:
Look what happens when she tries. She tries to branch out into new music, she pursues men she hopes to settle down with, she matures her style with new hair and new clothes, she presents herself with dignity and grace in her interviews. And yet, all people can seem to do is focus on where she’s doing wrong. ‘Too many boyfriends’, or ‘trying too hard to be someone she’s not’, or ‘I can’t believe she thinks she can still be sweet and innocent in that dress’. If you want her to ‘grow up’ so badly, why can’t you let her? She’s 23 years old. Since when did that become the mandatory age to be wearing velvet jumps suits with a husband and a kid, ready to be done with the ‘childlike years’? Everyone wants her to stop being so man-dependent and focused on finding a man. So here she is, focusing on her career and doing good for other people and living her life in the most normal way possible and not needing a husband to provide for her, and once again she’s wrong. So if she just can’t win in your eyes, then why not let her just enjoy her life? She’s not hurting you, she’s not hurting our family, she’s not hurting anybody. So what if she is a little quirky, if she still presents herself as a humble, well mannered young woman, if she enjoys surrounding herself with many different types of people? If you can’t let her grow up, but you can’t let her stay young, then just leave her be. Is that too hard?
Tenth, to my fellow Swifties:
No matter what happens, don’t give up on our girl. No matter what the tabloids say, no matter what the critics say, no matter what anyone else says, don’t give up on her. We are the people that are keeping her strong. We are the ones who have to stand behind her when the rest of society has chosen to gang up on her. We are the ones she’ll be looking to in the end to remind her of why all this bullying and all this hate is worth it. Because we love her. So whenever you hear criticism, whenever you hear hate, whenever you hear anything bad being sad about her, make me this promise: rise above it. Think of how Taylor would handle it. Would she handle it with harsh words or mean things being said back to those people who have a different opinion that hers, no matter how harsh those opinions are? No. She would kill them with kindness. And until this society-wide gang up on Taylor is over, that’s what we have to do to. We have to remember the little curly haired, blue eyed girl from Pennsylvania who loves cats, and baking, and loving life with her friends, and her fans. And we have to continue to be those loyal fans she loves to love. Stand behind her. Tweet her her own lyrics when the media is being particularly rough. Tell her ‘I believe in whatever you do, and I’ll do anything to see it through.’ Remind her that we are the ones she should listen to, not the tabloids. We’re the ones who see her as charming and kind and strong and inspirational, and those are the things she should think about herself, not that other crap. Never leave her side, just like she has never left ours.

http://community.sparknotes.com/2013/03/07/three-reasons-taylor-swift-is-getting-on-our-nerves

that Red video is baaadd (in literal sense)

a joke:

So he calls me up and he's like, 'I still love you.' And I'm like: 'Wait, are you Joe, Taylor, Luca, John, Cory, Toby, Jake, Garret, Eddie, Conor, Patrick, or Harry?'

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/taylor-swift-looking-ahead-to-next-album-20130715

haven't anticipated an album so much as this

I just listened to Red again last week, and I'm still disappointed. Was hoping that Speak Now was the slump album, because it had two or three tracks I didn't like. At least I can name those tracks! I don't even know what the tracks I don't like on Red are called. They're so yawn-inducing and unremarkable. So maybe I won't so much anticipate this next record as wait apprehensively.

kinda think this is her best album now

it is

This is the only one of her albums I've heard, thinking it's time to check some of the rest.

i'm with how's life on basically all points

kinda think this is her best album now

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, July 17, 2013 3:04 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel this though it's weird bc it seems like it shouldn't be true.

t-swift albums are weird in that irrespective of their comparative quality, she seems to overlay her past albums with each new one - each new work doesn't exactly render its predecessors irrelevant, but it kind of consigns them firmly to The Past, somewhere she's not going to return to.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fa/Taylor_Swift.png/220px-Taylor_Swift.png

He's got a month to think about it, but Sheeran also admitted that he didn't even really know what the dress code for the VMAs is. "Do I wear a suit or a t-shirt?" he pondered. What he does know is exactly what he'll do if he wins.

Right after the nominations were announced, he got a text from songwriting and touring partner Taylor Swift, congratulating him on his nod. He said he told the two-time nominee for "I Knew You Were Trouble" (Video of the Year, Best Female Video) that if they won he had the perfect celebration in mind. "I told her that if we both won we'd put on loads of bling and pretend to be rappers," he said.

My trepidation is linked to her continued association with this fool.

let's hope that doesn't happen

oh my goooooodddddddd that wanker

SAVE TAYLOR

idk who the author is but this one week one band on t-swift is very good so far

http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/tagged/taylor-swift

This song is very girly Taylor, it’s very young Taylor, it’s a little petty a little flip, all shades of Taylor we’ve seen before, but this time packaged more Katy than Shania. What makes it work, for me, is that the quality of immaturity, for lack of a better word, that this song possesses, feels like a purposeful choice, not an accident of personal emotional weakness. I think it’s important to remember that Stage Taylor/Record Taylor is allowed to be malleable, allowed to be dreamed up and twisted around, important to remember this young woman does not owe you or me or anyone an Authentic Self that can be easily pinned down and exposed. I swear, it’s not that I want to say it again, but there are layers. “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" can be read as Taylor speaking a truth through a put-on voice. “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" doesn’t have to be silly just because it sounds like it.

I can't quibble with how much people invest in/project on this person, but I do find it an intriguing mix of adorable and perplexing. Even so, that's a pretty good defense of any pop star and their attendant career machinations, I think.

no taylor swift thread bump is complete without a patronising josh in chicago post

i don't even know who you get enthusiastic about, but i'm sure it's just as worthy of a pat on the head

Ha, I'm not even sure what I like is worthy of a pat on the head!

I was talking about the piece linked, by the way. In this (rare) instance I was not making fun of the enthusiasm of the thread participants.

In all honesty, I'd love to hear the making of a song like "We Are Never ...." from its demo form to fruition, because Swift, no matter how I or you or anyone feels, is no puppet, but Max Martin is a sort of drag and drop hit maker, and I'm really curious what she added to his insta-hit, because she's smart/talented enough to make his stuff better/more personal. Like, I'm not sure what Bon Jovi brought to "It's My Life," but "We Are Never..." seems particularly, well, tailor made for Taylor at this point in her career, which I do think totally validates her instincts. Again, no matter how I ultimately feel about the product.

It's not at all hard to hear the specific Max Martin elements in any of the songs they did. The songs sound like 90 percent Taylor goosed up with 10 percent Max.

I'd love to hear any early versions of those songs too.

this is the writer fyi http://tandess.tumblr.com/

i like this owob v much so far

attn lex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO8pZGH2WBU&list=UUC_GSLfEd3Ms9r_e7pxuqbg&index=2

Seeing Swift on Friday, so stoked.

wow, cher lloyd sounds slightly worse than taylor live and that says something

I wish she'd do a new "22" for each year of her life.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSIkRtZCcAAY4GJ.jpg

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wow they're flying

"red" is such a lovely song... i have to say, i wasn't initially super impressed with this album, but it has really revealed itself to me over this past year.

http://www.theawl.com/2013/08/taylor-swift-and-tegan-and-sara-closer

<3

That's pretty cool, actually. I love Taylor's sheer fandom for so much stuff.

http://instagram.com/p/dYwJQJzfeh/

i dunno if there's video yet but apparently tonight she brought out j lo and they did "jenny from the block"

OH MY GODDDDDDD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8EdlRIpD98

need a gif of them grinding asap

i love taylor but her posed storytelling mode is "annoying"

i love taylor but "jenny from the block" has always sucked

yup

I finally got sold on "22" today. A friend of mine had a birthday party at the lake and picked me up on the way. He and his girlfriend were in the front seats, so I was in back with his kids. In response to their grumbling at having to share the back seat with me, my friend said, "But he has a lot of songs on his phone that you like." So his kids, who are about 7 and 10, grabbed my phone and started looking through it and picking songs to play. They eventually dug out the Taylor Swift, and when "22" came on, my friend said, "Hey, I"m 44 today -- that's twice as good as 22!" And so all of us went down the highway with the windows down singing, "I'm feeling 44!"

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/803396381.gif?1377479383

um, is that "shut the fuck up"?

oh never mind, this is all over the internet

"breakfast at midnight" reminds me of BAD II the Globe: "get up and clean your teeth and have a shave/It's one a.m. let's go out to a rave." Anyone think that Swifty is waking up with something a little less innocuous than a Lumberjack Slam at Dennys?

Live performance of this for the first time and it sounds real good live

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

Not as good as Tell Me Why tho http://youtu.be/CnlYrt75m4M

omg "tell me why"