ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

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

i heard "style" on the radio for the first time yesterday already, sounds great :D

I think the Singles Jukebox has shaped this list quite a lot over the last couple of years actually, to the better. Like there's this parallel hive mind with a load of voters over here and it's helped spring a lot of surprises, tracks with a big following but seemingly little ILM buzz.

Gone 180 on Blank Space and now I love itg, but I voted for Out of the Woods.

holy shit I have never noticed that! I love this song EVEN MORE

i also love the way she sings "boyyyyyyys"

No matter my personal feelings on any song in the top 77, I love them each for keeping out Rude, All About That Bass and/or Fancy.

In the context of the album, the first two songs were always just setting up tracks 3&4 for me.

deeply regret not voting for "rude"

Lol I just watched the Sofi de la Torre video and the ad for it was that horrible Xmas Jammies family doing some kind of super bowl party rap.

Probably made the song sound slightly better by comparison.

xxxp idk I have an unsettling feeling that Iggy Azalea is gonna show up soon

It's supposed to say 'all my ex lovers' no?

I'm hearing starbecks lovers. I hate bourgueoise idealism videos.

This song is the most boring TS that has placed so far. I prefer the one that sounds like kare bush or cheerleader school.

well, lots of Singles Jukebox members and ILMers overlap.

she's a Battlestar Galactica fan.

The actual line is "Got a long list of ex lovers"

i feel like there has always been a big tsj/ilm overlap in terms of membership but even so many of the songs that did very well over at tsj did nothing over here

i think she actually says "long list of ex-lovers"?

blank space is fine, i always thought it was a lil too cutesy the player/game lines, kinda reminded me of that kasey musgraves song that uses 'mary/merry' 6 diff ways idk its offputting to me, that plus the halting delivery doesn't quite work for me, i agree there're abt 8 better songs on 1989 including shake it off

FWIW Blank Space is the first TS song I've ever put on intentionally. It's not exactly good but it's catchy in a more purely pop way than like Trouble. Haven't heard Style yet.

Yeah Shake It Off is way better than this

I think she does but were is the R sound coming from? I don't want to listen to it again.

Style is hte one where I was genuinely puzzled by all the admiration from TS stans

and yeah I couldn't not hear Starbucks lovers until like the 20th listen

well that's silly, listen to the guitar xpost

Do you know what she said? "Gunga galunga. Gunga gunga lagunga."

q: the blank space in the song - does that refer to swift writing a bunch of breakup songs and leaving a blank space for the person's name so that they're all ready to go the next time a relationship collapses?

No it's about the blank space at the top of a Starbucks cup - she's a barista in the song

A pretty face and an average voice will take you places.