taylor swift red poll

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ten minute long Red-era Taylor let'sgoooooooo

it was always spiritually a double album, to me

it's a 10 minute We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Oops! All WEEEEEEs remix)

lol i was about to say

22 (The Last Nine Years Remix)

Is the 10-minute song a long version of "All Too Well"? Wasn't that originally an epic?

who the hell cares -- seriously

so much new music but we Swift fans are supposed to put more time into another version of an album?

xxp My Swiftie coworker says with authority that it is indeed “All Too Well.”

...now with Drums & Space!

very excited for taylor's mellon collie

The infinite regress

it would be more exciting if she made her mellon collie now in her new indie-singer/songwriter style, rather than re-releasing old music...

but a ten-minute version of all too well? sometimes quantity really is more important than quality. inject it directly into my veins.

so much new music but we Swift fans are supposed to put more time into _another_ version of an album?

this album already had too many needless tracks

Preorder is digital download format only? Why

I dunno, I can readily believe that she wrote a shitload of tracks that (a) didn’t make it; and (b) are better than several of the songs that were included. From a sales perspective it makes more sense to include a blah Gary Lightbody duet and a flawed-but-interesting Mazzy Star homage over a sixth and seventh flawless love song about Jake Gyllenhaal.

this album already had too many needless tracks

― dyl, Saturday, June 19, 2021 12:49 AM (one hour ago)

wrong

anyway artists release expanded editions of albums w/ demos and b sides all the time, what's the big deal

if the vault tracks for fearless hadn’t been mostly astonishing i’d be wondering myself, but

*presses post*
*cackles maniacally*

Level: casually cruel in the name of being honest pic.twitter.com/Tf0ahCMql8

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 5, 2021

phoebe bridgers and chris stapleton to appear on red (taylor's version)

fairly good upgrade from Ed Sheeran and Snow Patrol guy

don't worry, ed sheeran will still be there

of course

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

10 minute "all too well" doesn't really justify its length but it's still great to hear. gorgeous & shimmering & she wrings endless new variations out of the melody

the actual rerecordings of red are either ok (title track) or suck (i knew you were trouble). i still don't like this project

i thought trouble and getting back together both sounded noticeably livelier and more fun on first listen... is she doing 1989 as well? that'd be insane. wildest dreams is a worldie

"All Too Well" is probably my favorite Swift song -- the one that made me fully confident that she was more than the current teen pop sensation.

I love this through about the 7 minute mark and am fully obsessed with the new lyrics!:

They say all's well that ends well/ but I'm in a new hell every time/ you double-cross my mind/
You say if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine/ and that made me want to die/
The idea you had of me who was she?/ A never-needy ever lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you/
Not weeping in a party bathroom/ some actress asking me what happened/ YOU. That's what happened. YOU.

the brand new arrangement of "girl at home" is dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNckfN9upqo

her version of "better man" is also like... 1000x better than the little big town version? i think? someone confirm

"nothing new"... wow a long lost collection of devastating taylor swift lyrics from 2012, just what i wanted, brb crying forever

How long will it be cute
All this crying in my room
When you can’t blame it on my youth
And roll your eyes with affection
And my cheeks are growing tired
From turning red and faking smiles
Are we only biding time till I lose your attention?
And someone else lights up the room
People love an ingénue

kick my ass taylor swift!!!!

Nothing new is definitely too good to have been shelved

Whether you prefer the re-recordings or OG is kinda besides the point here, I think, the genius of the project is that we, people around the world, will sit down again with her entire album discography - en masse- and really talk and listen to it. I don't know exactly how she'd be able to make these big events happen without the gimmick of the project. We re-appraise, we find new truths from different contexts, and for her, as a businesswoman, the breadth of her career is appreciated by more people and sells a lot more. Plus of course the extra EPs worth of new old songs. For something that does seem like it happened by accident, it's brilliant.

"message in a bottle" like the rerecorded "girl at home" is like an alt-universe version of taylor-going-pop, very refreshing

Didn't get into this when it came out but my kids are into it and I'm enjoying listening to it with fresh ears.

I really rode hard for this album when it came out and can't say I've revisited it even once in the 8 or 9 years since. Big & Rich 2.0

even the new ed sheeran duet ("run") is really good, lmao

Just listened to Taylor's version of "Begin Again" and the original back to back, and I think I like this better than some of the earlier re-recordings, but I still feel like something of the freshness and immediacy of the original gets lost in the process of trying to copy her own vocals. It's still a beautiful song and it still sounds great, but to my ears the vocals in the original carry more of that sense of wonder and surprise and gratitude that makes the song so devastating.

https://www.gawker.com/celebrity/taylor-swift-is-lying-about-all-too-well-10-minute-version-taylors-version

Author uses Google trends to prove Taylor could not possibly have heard the phrase "Fuck the Patriarchy" in 2011.

Swift herself did not enter her feminista era until 2014.

.......lol

yup, people can't say "fuck the patriarchy" on a record until they get their certified Feminist certificate in the mail, those are the rules, I don't make them, case closed.

tumblr seems poorly indexed by google afaict xp

of course i have no way of proving that the phrase appeared there before then, but i would also bet tens of dollars on taylor swift having used tumblr in the early '10s

And a "fuck the patriarchy" keychain wouldn't necessarily need to be widely sold and advertised on the internet in order to exist; it's the sort of thing that you can find at farmer's markets and street fairs and so on.

TS officially joined tumblr in late 2014, but I’m sure she was on there earlier.

https://www.gawker.com/celebrity/taylor-swift-is-lying-about-all-too-well-10-minute-version-taylors-version

Author uses Google trends to prove Taylor could not possibly have heard the phrase "Fuck the Patriarchy" in 2011.

― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, November 12, 2021 11:49 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If this was Bob Dylan presenting some new song as an outtake from Blood on the Tracks, I'm pretty sure ppl would be chuckling about Dylan being a weirdo and teasing out all the Dylan masks not straight up calling him a liar.

I don’t have a real view on it nor do I think it’s impossible for TS to be telling the truth on it, it’s just a flimsy reasoning to hang a piece on. I generally like new Gawker a lot fwiw.

the weird thing is if I were trying to single out a part of the song that feels like it was written later, it woudn't be the keychain thing at all, it would be the "just between us" part which reminds me of her folklore/evermore lyrical style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9r6xvGK1M