Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

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"

Taylor vs. Kacey

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/5687317/taylor-swift-and-kacey-musgraves-lead-cma-awards-nominations

"sweeter than fiction"

http://youhittheground.tumblr.com/post/64612629799/lilacessa-full-song

:D <3

is this a random leak or for something specific

oh for some soundtrack thing

it's on some crj ish