ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

yeah Vemillion, which is better than I'd remembered, is clearly a testament to TSJ's influence on ILM

if blank space places this high i assume style (which was my only tswift vote) places in the top 3

i have no idea how anyone misheard the line as "starbucks lovers" which wouldn't even have made grammatical sense

one of my initial favourites off the swift album that's fallen slightly in my estimation since but which is still a very excellent pop song

i thought this was a bad song and one of her worst singles for a bit but the songwriting is pretty incredible

still wish it had a "sound" ... i don't really understand what it's supposed to be, but that's a small potatoes critique

How is this better than Shake It Off? IDGI and I doubt I'll ever get Taylor Swift.

to my Afro-Cuban ears attuned to coffee 'n' cigarettes it sounds like Starbucks lovers

how many P4K: DNPs have there been and what's the highest placed P4K track so far?

german whip, that's not me, & hot n*gga... today was a good day

lol it just sounds like that if you listen to it a certain way, "song lyric that doesn't make grammatical sense" cmon man

lol CAD i read your post as "there are one thousand nine hundred and eighty nine songs i like better than this, but this one is cool"

voted vermillion
beautiful song that grew on me with with every listen

I owe my discovery of (and votes for) Vermillion and Quarterback to The Singles Jukebox. Normally it's so kvetchy that the few times they get above 8.0 I know it's going to be great.

Relieved this isn't #1.

thought i did anyhow haha

I totally heard it as "Starbucks lovers," but I wasn't really paying enough attention to what she said before that to determine whether it made sense. I guess some people hear it as "all the lonely Starbucks lovers": http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/11/why-you-keep-mishearing-that-taylor-swift-lyric.html

still wish it had a "sound" ... i don't really understand what it's supposed to be, but that's a small potatoes critique

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:24 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are interesting sounds elsehwere on 1989 but those don't seem to be the songs ppl are grabbing onto.

lol CAD i read your post as "there are one thousand nine hundred and eighty nine songs i like better than this, but this one is cool"

― gr8080, Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:25 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol on its way to being a saer post

Never heard of Vermillion before either. Great song!

Vermillion is good

there are interesting sounds elsehwere on 1989 but those don't seem to be the songs ppl are grabbing onto.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:26 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark

"style" for instance is at least a "sound" even if it's just a total pastiche, i'm glad it's the next single

"Tuesday" was #2 on Pitchfork xxxp

this is a great song that's let down by its production. the static in the background bugs me to no end.

"All lovely Starbucks lovers, they tell you I'm insane"

I thought it was audacious product placement for sure

apparently she is on tour in germany rn: https://twitter.com/sofidelatorre/status/556438993014120448

Definitely hear "Starbucks lovers".

in other news, i think i've aged several lifetimes and i'm still listening to this friggin richard dawson song

Blank Space was not one of the initial favorites on the album but grew on me and has been such a welcome single and hit - part of it is starting to pay attention to and anticipate the lyrics.

I also totally hear it as "Starbucks Lovers" and so have a lot of my friends.

This is the song that singlehandedly got me ~into~ Taylor Swift.

and the video oh my god how many times have I watched it?

at least 1,989 times.

mignight you pick me up no head lice >>>>>>

i really don't understand how "blank space" has become the taylor swift song for people who never liked or cared about taylor swift

is it just the momentum of her career or is it something specific about it in particular

your neck was hanging round my neck >>>>>>>

thank the lord this was not #1

i first heard it as "lotta lonely starbucks lovers"

rubbish song and it definitely sounds like starbucks lovers

Would literally not put it past her to have totally done that on purpose and got muthafukken paid for it tbh.

AND
YOU
LOVE
THE. GAME.

sang this on the intercampus shuttle last month with punctuating hand gestures, guy in front of me thought I was a pedo

always heard "gotta love these starbucks lovers"

my favorite thing about this song is the pen sound

i really don't understand how "blank space" has become the taylor swift song for people who never liked or cared about taylor swift

is it just the momentum of her career or is it something specific about it in particular

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just the song, I'd think. Her music's always been just fine to me but nothing that really engaged me all that much; idk what it is about this song but it just really snagged me.

Blank Space has grown on me hugely thanks to my daughters' obsession with it. To them Shake It Off is like Happy, it's fun, it's fine, but Blank Space is like Let It Go - they hang on every word, relish every syllable. After a zillion listens I love the pacing, the delivery, the humour, the rock-solid craft of it.

what is the pen sound?

also omg the reverb on "AND YOU LOVE THE GAME" is so wonderful

The click?

And what are their thoughts on "Style"?

what is the pen sound?

i gotta blank space baby *shk* and i'll write your name

is THAT what it is

I heard star crossed lovers?

xp They say Style's OK but its no Out of the Woods.

I wanna see 'Style' performed on an Italian Saturday night TV show in the early 80s with way too much dry ice