yup
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 August 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
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!"
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 26 August 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/803396381.gif?1377479383
― uberweiss, Monday, 26 August 2013 03:08 (ten years ago) link
um, is that "shut the fuck up"?
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 August 2013 07:21 (ten years ago) link
oh never mind, this is all over the internet
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 August 2013 07:22 (ten years ago) link
"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?
― how's life, Thursday, 29 August 2013 11:17 (ten years ago) link
Live performance of this for the first time and it sounds real good live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljaKeFORiCM
― abcfsk, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
Not as good as Tell Me Why tho http://youtu.be/CnlYrt75m4M
― abcfsk, Monday, 9 September 2013 13:11 (ten years ago) link
omg "tell me why"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 9 September 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
Taylor vs. Kacey
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/5687317/taylor-swift-and-kacey-musgraves-lead-cma-awards-nominations
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 12 September 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
"sweeter than fiction"
http://youhittheground.tumblr.com/post/64612629799/lilacessa-full-song
― uberweiss, Sunday, 20 October 2013 21:34 (ten years ago) link
:D <3
― uberweiss, Sunday, 20 October 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
is this a random leak or for something specific
― J0rdan S., Monday, 21 October 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
oh for some soundtrack thing
― J0rdan S., Monday, 21 October 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
it's on some crj ish
― uberweiss, Monday, 21 October 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
recorded in lena dunham's living room!
― monotony, Monday, 21 October 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
I love that she can just throw away a song like this. Feels like it was written in about two hours, but it's still so carefully done. The modulation from the verse to chorus is a nice trick.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 23 October 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
I don't think it modulates so much as it just jumps to a different key, but it works.
― Driver 8, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 21:28 (ten years ago) link
Like the song, and love her, of course, but it showcases one of her annoying quirks, i.e., using nonsense syllables to fill out the melody when she can't make the lyrics scan right: "Hit the ground / Hit the ground oh oh" and "And now you've come undone and I-I-I-I-I" and "And now you're onto something I-I-I-I-I say," etc. It's not like she's alone in doing this as a songwriter, but it bugs me in this song for some reason.
― Driver 8, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
know what you're saying but for someone with the dn "Driver 8"...
― Euler, Wednesday, 23 October 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
I dig this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiXmnGWw2EU&feature=youtu.be
― Mule, Thursday, 7 November 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
yeah really good performance
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 November 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
Nice Jody Rosen profile:
http://www.vulture.com/2013/11/taylor-swift-reigning-queen-of-pop.html
These numbers are especially improbable when you consider the music, and the musician, behind them. Swift is an oddball. There is no real historical precedent for her. Her path to stardom has defied the established patterns; she falls between genres, eras, demographics, paradigms, trends. She is a Pennsylvania Yankee turned teen-pop country singer, a Nashville star who crossed over to Top 40, a confessional singer-songwriter who masquerades as a global pop diva. Her music mashes up the quirkily homespun and the gleaming pop-industrial, Etsy and Amazon, in a way we’ve never quite heard before.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
lmao is that para supposed to make me wanna click that
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
feel like the piece is decently-written but a redux of everything that's been written which i guess is what it's meant to be. worth it for t-swift coining "the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you" (telling she gets the best line!)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
like, perhaps, a contest of who can act like they care less?
― thighs without a face (c sharp major), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
i think that's what the ilx experiment is all about
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
h8 to be pedantic about one sentence but it was not the "country establishment" that sent "we are never ever getting back together" to #1 on the country charts... and also i am v skeptical of the claim that "i knew you were trouble" received even one spin on country radio. otherwise an interesting read.
― dyl, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 04:09 (ten years ago) link
feel like the piece is decently-written but a redux of everything that's been written which i guess is what it's meant to be.
I think his observations of the female-centricness of it all gets at some interesting things. I'm sure there's more to say along those lines, but maybe not by a male critic.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
― dyl, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 11:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i sure as shit never heard it once on any of the country stations here. Begin Again was the main country radio single
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
"Begin Again" hit #10 on country radio; "Red" hit #2. "Red" was also the song she performed on the CMAs last week, in a stripped-down country/bluegrass arrangement. However, I think "Stay Stay Stay" could have been a huge country radio hit for her if it had just been released to country radio as a single. Perhaps her management just doesn't care about that anymore, but "Stay Stay Stay" is the most overtly country track on the album, to my ears anyway. Certainly could have fit right in on Fearless.
― Driver 8, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link
"red" hit #2 on the revamped overall country chart, which incorporates all-format radio data and digital sales since about a year ago. it's still rising on country radio, where it's currently at its peak of #10. (by "hit #2," i really mean that it debuted there behind "we are never ever getting back together" on the very first week that the methodology change was implemented.)
― dyl, Thursday, 21 November 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the clarification. Regardless, I still think that failing to promote "Stay Stay Stay" to country radio was a missed opportunity to shore up her support in the genre. Maybe they will do that after "Red" finishes its run, as there's still a year to go until the next album. I would.
― Driver 8, Thursday, 21 November 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
red is totally packed with single contenders, honestly
― dyl, Thursday, 21 November 2013 02:09 (ten years ago) link
http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/67634577309/holy-dear-god-nightcore-remix-of-i-knew-you-were
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTcRhIoEAk
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
lorde was at her birthday party
― markers, Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
there's evidence on instagram: http://instagram.com/taylorswift
― markers, Saturday, 14 December 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
ha, I saw that. She was peering out from the back and I was like, "is that...Lorde?"
Must be pretty cool to break into the music biz and then be able to eat birthday cake with (presumably?) someone you used to only hear on the radio back when you were "normal".
― president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Saturday, 14 December 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
has this been linked? http://rookiemag.tumblr.com/post/56131794522/hundredmilesperhour-tavi-gevinson-notes-on
― just sayin, Saturday, 28 December 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
that's amazing <3
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 December 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
as tay quoted neruda in her red liner notes "love is so short, forgetting is so long"
ofc she'd quote this! perfectly encapsulates her m.o.
"CAPTURE IT. REMEMBER IT."
― prolego, Saturday, 28 December 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
i'm too ridiculously excited for her next album
hurry up and dominate my autumn again already
― prolego, Saturday, 28 December 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
so good live tonight <33333
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
'60s girl group version of "you belong with me" <3
pausing and holding "all too well" before the last verse <3
gigantically high-concept setpieces for 90% of the songs <3
everything about "treacherous" <3
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 23:58 (ten years ago) link
Yeah i was so pleased she did "treacherous" live this tour.
We didn't get a girl group "You Belong With Me" though ;_;
― Tim F, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 03:21 (ten years ago) link
Guess "Holy Ground" is the next single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdiA4HD_BOA
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 03:54 (ten years ago) link
WHHAAAAAAA
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 12:37 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmTaKM03zcY
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 12:52 (ten years ago) link
nice!
― how's life, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 13:01 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6fW3zRb.png
H/t Grimes, & OTM
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:49 (ten years ago) link