New world to me, but the comparisons hold up:
Taylor Swift's new Jojo-Siwa-lite aesthetic is really depressing me. Surely she can get a #1 without luring iPad-addicted children to her content?? I just feel bad for the parents who will have to endure this song at school drop-offs and talent shows for years to come pic.twitter.com/fUa3HygiBs— Molly Mulshine (@mollymulshine) April 26, 2019
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 26 April 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
Beeb says it could be a reference to 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort', but that's stretching it imo. xp
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 26 April 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
unsurprisingly I love this
― L'assie (Euler), Friday, 26 April 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
i don't understand people who hated "we are never ever getting back together" on first blush and i never will― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, April 26, 2019 12:10 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, April 26, 2019 12:10 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Have you ever heard of country music? It is a style of music that Taylor Swift played prior to recording that song. ;)
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 26 April 2019 12:46 (five years ago) link
Was it like that "Old Town Road" song?
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 26 April 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
Hot takes from my daughters, aka the target demo:
14-year old "Panic!" fan: this is OK.
11-year old theatre kid: "Is this for 2-year olds?" Shortly afterward she started singing "Fight Song," but I have heard her walking around ironically singing "you can't spell US without ME!" So: mission accomplished?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
The only thing Demy-like about this is that it's as unbearably wtf awful as his last one, the one where Yves Montand plays himself and fucks his own daughter. But I guess Brendon Urie is too young for that to be the twist.
― Frederik B, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
Why do I already feel like I've heard this chorus a hundred times?
― jmm, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
you can't spell empty without me
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 26 April 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
lmao oh my god this is so embarrassing, it's literally called "ME!" and the whole song is just like "I'm NoT lIkE oThEr GiRlS", great to see she sure has matured and evolved a lot over the last decade!!!!
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 26 April 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
ahah, yeah that french speaking intro is wtf !and the whole thing is hideous in every aspects...but I suppose her fanbase will love it since it's hooks-a-gogo.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:47 (five years ago) link
her RYM fanbase is completely hating this tbh. hard to say if they feel more betrayed by her or marina
― imago, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:48 (five years ago) link
lol love to see ppl desperately trying to convince themselves that this song might not be horriblewould be good for, like, the end credits of Minions movie
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 April 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
this was starting to grow on me on second listen except for the millennial whoop which I will always hate and is pretty much impossible to ignore here. I didn't pick up on the godawful "spelling is fun" though until I read this thread because I'm dumb and just couldn't make out what was being said, to me it sounded like "stalling is fun" which made no sense of course but I was already leaning towards just hearing it as "Stalin is fun!" but now that's ruined.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link
I like the hookiness of it, which at times reaches almost K-pop'ian levels of overload, but the whole thinking is so winking, and so sour. Just make some joy and enjoy it. It's pop! It's not complicated.
― Frederik B, Friday, 26 April 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
spelling is fun vs. everybody loves counting
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
It's a good thing this is just a soundtrack song from a kids movie rather than some event preceded by weeks of countdowns and murals
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
i predict this will appear on "inspiring" "active" playlists for years to come
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
The CGI is really amazing in this video, very pretty production values
I don't see a marked difference between this and any of her singles 1989 onward
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 26 April 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
what is with the painting of the dixie chicks
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
like i know the lyrics say "lots of cool chicks" at the point where we see it but why tho
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
In fact, I appreciate the snare-focused production stuff, it's interesting and silly and totally OK
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 26 April 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
I'm going to my son's preschool festival tomorrow and fully expect a Kids Bop version of this to be playing there
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
The video is like, what we gave Meghan Trainor too much money and too much power?
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
lmao
― buttigieg play the blues (crüt), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
xxxxpost Dixie Chicks (or just Maines) supposedly guests on new TS album
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link
can someone delete this new song so i don't have to hear it playing anywhere
― buttigieg play the blues (crüt), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link
I liked "Shake It Off," despised "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," liked "Look What You Made Me Do," and this is... fine.
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
also obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clX7lOGtpa8
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
This song sounds like someone tried to do one of those ultimate-lifeform cloning experiments by cross-pollinating “Roar” and “Fight Song” and every other Lite FM inspiro-pop standard and, like, it was a success, but the result is still in that creepy early stage you see with artificial creatures in movies where it doesn’t fully understand its power yet and can’t, like, stand on its own (which I guess is analogous here to having the most basic of all chord progressions)I’m guessing by later this month it will have escaped its lab and witnessed some example of human cruelty that turns it against us as a species, at which point, like, sorry, we’re done for
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, Brendon Urie really looks like he's having lots of fun in this, and is not as bad as I thought he would be when reading that he'd be on the song.
― triggercut, Friday, 26 April 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
xpost Are you saying that we have reached the Singularity?
Brendon Urie always looks like he is having fun, because he is Peak Theatre Kid and it looks like Taylor can't stop making cheap-seats faces, either.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 April 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
brendon did a ton of vines (as above), he's in his element
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
lmao "hey man you guys really looked you were having fun up there" - now we're reaching for "just saw your coworker's terrible band and you have to say something nice" level comments
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
Is there really a 'me' in 'team'? This seems debatable.
― jmm, Friday, 26 April 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
the deterioration of her lyrics remains depressing to me but i eventually grew to kinda love reputation including "look what you made me do," it is very good at being what it is
hoping for a similar feeling about this one in two years i guess
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 26 April 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
reputation is a pretty great album its pre-release singles notwithstanding. i just felt like she had wrung everything she could from the post-skrillex pop template she settled on w max martin & shellback but this is pretty close to my worst nightmare of what she would turn to next
― J0rdan S., Friday, 26 April 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
like, do we need to crowdfund $20 million or something for her to just go ahead and make like a sheryl crow or bonnie raitt album? what's going on here
― J0rdan S., Friday, 26 April 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
instead of this new one i would like to talk about how "don't blame me" is one of her very best songs
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
this is the first time she's sounded manic and desperate, like someone pleading for her life; she could've titled it "You Must Love Me."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
these TS first singles are feeling more and more like Eminem's reaching-for-relevancy first singles
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 26 April 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
Without Me?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 26 April 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
this is terrible and it loses even more points for making me google who Jojo Siwa is.
― akm, Friday, 26 April 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
Je soo-way calme.
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Friday, 26 April 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
I mean, my accent isn't always the greatest, esp first thing in the morning, and I don't think they're horrendous for non-native speakers; I just don't get the point of using non-French-speaking pop stars to do... whatever it is they're doing there.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 26 April 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
There are two ‘me’s in meme.
― byebyepride, Friday, 26 April 2019 17:03 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sotm0zQQhzk
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Friday, 26 April 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Friday, 26 April 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
i don't mind this but i also think everything panic at the disco touches is inherently dumb as balls and i don't know why she'd work with that guy when there are *waves arms around* all them other boys to work with
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 26 April 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link
Like brandon flowers is AROUND
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 26 April 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link