Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

"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

recorded in lena dunham's living room!

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.

I don't think it modulates so much as it just jumps to a different key, but it works.

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.

know what you're saying but for someone with the dn "Driver 8"...

I dig this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiXmnGWw2EU&feature=youtu.be

yeah really good performance

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.

lmao is that para supposed to make me wanna click that

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!)

like, perhaps, a contest of who can act like they care less?

i think that's what the ilx experiment is all about

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.

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.

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, 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

"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.

"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.)

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.

red is totally packed with single contenders, honestly

http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/67634577309/holy-dear-god-nightcore-remix-of-i-knew-you-were

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

lorde was at her birthday party

there's evidence on instagram: http://instagram.com/taylorswift

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".

has this been linked? http://rookiemag.tumblr.com/post/56131794522/hundredmilesperhour-tavi-gevinson-notes-on

that's amazing <3

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."

i'm too ridiculously excited for her next album

hurry up and dominate my autumn again already

so good live tonight <33333

'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

Yeah i was so pleased she did "treacherous" live this tour.

We didn't get a girl group "You Belong With Me" though ;_;

Guess "Holy Ground" is the next single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdiA4HD_BOA

'60s girl group version of "you belong with me" <3

WHHAAAAAAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmTaKM03zcY

nice!

http://i.imgur.com/6fW3zRb.png

H/t Grimes, & OTM

Xpost: kinda disappointed there's no drop.

I can't decide whether this is her best or Speak Now. Someone help.

it's this

fearless = red > speak now > s/t

tho i admit most of the reason for my preference for fearless is sentimentality.

literally every time she's released a new album my initial response has been "no way is this as good as her previous album(s)" and then a few months down the line i do an about turn and think it's her best to date. i think that's because i get so attached to each album that when she switches things up it takes me some time to get my head around the direction she's taking and really appreciate and love it. and then it makes the earlier albums sound meagre by comparison.

speak now > red > fearless > s/t

though I've boiled the s/t down to a core that I couldn't live without