Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

From today's AV Club interview with erstwhile Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson:

Taylor Swift, “Treacherous,” (From Red, 2012)

AVC: What’s the process when you’re writing with someone else?

DW: It depends on how they work. With Taylor, we had been kind of circling around, very much aware of each other’s work for a while. We figured out these two days to work together and she came to my studio super excited and said, “I had an idea in the car.” And she sang me the first three or four lines of it and said, “I want to call it ‘Treacherous’ and maybe the chorus can go like this.” And we were writing the song in 10 minutes and she was just so full of excitement.

It’s interesting because I find that she’s very sincere and very what-you-see-is-what-you-get. When you see her on an award show and she wins the award and she looks astonished, that’s how she looks when you’re writing a song and you come up with a good lyric or a good melodic idea. She looks amazed; she’s like, “Whoa!” She’s just like that. She’s also very consistent and a monster songwriter.

AVC: She’s 24 years old. She’s allowed to be sincere.

DW: And that’s the kind of person you’re dealing with. She’s that way from beginning to end.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/e6cafe10d76758df59a90f1f24be5bf0/tumblr_n4g4wpQbLz1qd3quqo1_1280.jpg

totally ready for her ***flawless

lol it actually turned out to be the new york section http://defamer.gawker.com/when-taylor-swift-goes-book-shopping-1566225432 (i wrote that)

unretweeting that second tweet i guess

i don't know who to believe

These attitudes define these records for me and SUPPORT their imperfection (the s/t, for sure).

Name a single imperfection on Fearless.

Name a single imperfection on Fearless.

Some of Chapman's production on the power ballads especially ("White Horse," "You're Not Sorry," "Change") is overwrought and cheesy--the wailing electric guitar solo in the closing bars of the album epitomizes this. They're not technical imperfections, per se, but I think folks like Paul Worley, Frank Liddell, or even a Justin Meldal-Johnsen would have approached these songs differently.

Again: The production works, however, because of the inherent simplicity, naivety, earnestness, and authenticity of Swift and her lyrics. The idea of an 18-year-old closing her 2nd album with a song about overcoming seemingly insurmountable, lifelong struggles of navigating the Music Industrial Complex to succeed is pretty hilarious. It's glam metal -esque, which, I guess, explains that guitar solo...

Oh, I'm scheduled to run a hair metal ballot poll sometime in the near future, so will remain unconvinced by your overwrought guitar solos argument.

I've never really liked "White Horse", which has always struck me as sounding like the product of a "write a Taylor Swift song" school exercise.

how is her set list like? I'd like to know the ratio of songs from each album.

this could be total garbage but two seconds of googling turned up this: http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/taylor-swift-3bd6bc5c.html

Hmm thanks but I think that includes sets from pre-red era.

From London shows in Feb:

State of Grace
Holy Ground
Red
You Belong with Me
The Lucky One
Mean
22
Fearless
Sparks Fly
Next to Me
(Emeli Sandé cover) (with Emeli Sandé)
I Knew You Were Trouble
All Too Well
Love Story
Treacherous
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

9 of 15 off Red, 2 off Speak Now, 3 off Fearless, 1 cover. Nothing off the first album.

Also, cover aside, that is a flawless run of songs.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-1404763219

There continues to be a bad girl vs. good girl/clean-cut vs. sexy debate, and for as long as those labels exist, I just hope there will be contenders on both sides. Everyone needs someone to relate to.

rich person rallying against piracy yay

In the YouTube generation we live in

great now i can't get "live and let die" out of my head

love the humble bragging throughout that article

Getting to be about time for the album announcement. One of these days.

gotta be coming soon *prayer hands emoji*

NOT WHILE I'M ON HOLIDAY THO

Taylor Swift - RED - October 22 (started by spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life) on board I Love Music on Aug 14, 2012)
Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Oct 2010) - hype, anticipation &c (started by لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend) on board I Love Music on Jul 21, 2010)

ya know? we're right in the sweet spot here.

umm http://popdust.com/2014/07/24/taylor-swift-debut-new-music-iheartradio-festival-september/

i've barely listened to red

i don't even know if i've listened to it all the way through. maybe once? oh well

you're fucking up, markers

wtf markers

Don't know what to expect and I'm nervous

Hints dropped -

Rock direction? Cool, some of her best songs lean rock

Max Martin all over it? Like the guy, like their tracks together but think she loses some uniquely t swifty qualities by leaning on his familiar production. Or she will if that's all we get.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtVrmg0CIAAAqy0.jpg

fuck this RS interviewer with her in central park today :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-xNBLOLH9Y

http://gawker.com/taylor-swift-visits-young-cancer-patient-drowns-you-in-1615713252

Taylor Swift, gardener and cat enthusiast, killed you Sunday when she visited a 7-year-old cancer patient and offered to sing him any song he wanted, or just do some of her favorite things, like playing with Play-Doh or talking about Spider-Man or whatever. Authorities say the cause of your death was drowning in a flood of your own tears.

. . . Medical examiners placed your time of death at around 5:05 in this video, when Taylor reached the chorus of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," and Jordan started singing along at the top of his little lungs.

http://instagram.com/p/rSJfxLDvH4/

18TH AUGUST BE READY

Grammy-Award winning, multi-platinum artist Taylor Swift's new album, "Faulty Elevator" to be released this fall, featuring the singles "Use Phone in Case of Emergency" and "OTIS".

oooh, a kanye duet already?

floor 32 and still going up now

the music that taylor's been championing (ed sheeran and whatnot) doesn't inspire confidence tbh.

she was championing him on her last album and that turned out a bit amazing
and ed sheeran's new album is really good, catch up every1

she had ed sheeran and gary lightbody on one of the best albums of the decade we'll be fine

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/10582801_10152355724940369_6568154568776223259_o.jpg

i'm crying

internet suggests it is a conversation and not a stream of the album unfortunately

Bet we will at the very least get a release date though.

surely it's the worst kept secret ever at this point that's she's releasing on oct 13th

i'm expecting lead single + album title + few other details, just like last time

http://i.imgur.com/IjnEDDM.gif

"But I took your matches snatched my hand back before fire could catch me"

good gif

god, that video of her up there visiting that little boy is incredible

i ended up here because RED continues to grow for me and i wanted to read the thread again :D

watching some Red-era clips this morning and she is terribly pitchy on a few that i watched from 2013, but this Letterman one from 2012 sounds terrific!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i56EKIx0VdU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1jwAZVlnowUJULxMCvUyKrGBC4RzYmMZspKd8t-eTx4KUQdCv630AjcPc

wtf