Taylor Swift - RED - October 22

I don't like "White Horse" much but "Back To Decemeber" is great.

love the bridge & the chorus, haven't hated anything like I hate these verses in a long time

Owen otm btw

It's a shame that one of the most popular singers of the day decided her strategy would be to become even more popular. LOL, Max Martin, sigh... was Mutt too busy with Nickelback? Dr. Luke luking it up somewhere else?

Nathan Chapman is so good too. I hope he gets most of the album.

yeah his backing vocals are a great part of her sound

Most women I know are chin-stroking think pieces

this objectifying usage never occurred to me before, i love it

Most women I know are chin-stroking think pieces

was this a line left out of "Your Body is a Wonderland"?

If only Enchanted had been released in a single (in a way that didn't have to truncate it too much) and became the "My Heart Will Go On" of our time.

oh my god i wanted this to happen so bad

anyway i feel all of u on the "loss of specificity" thing

but

this song makes me so happy

also i am pro spoken aside b/c that shit is hilarious

I'm in the minority, I guess: I dislike not so much the indie line as the bad acting she puts into saying the line. It's like a kid wearing a big black mustache.

It's like that moment in Talking Heads' "Wild Wild Life" video when the camera zooms into David Byrne's face for the only time so that no one can doubt it's ol' David mugging in a mustache.

it's this generation's "I certainly do" from "You Learn"

and the rest of the spoken asides from "You Learn" that inspired a generation to pray for death

man i have never thought of "i certainly do" as spoken, just some rarely-tapped purgatorial aspect of alanis' horrible drifting whine

finally won over by the "next chapter" and "the end" asides in "the story of us" by singing it at karaoke because it is SUPER dramatic but also the drama is totally undone by how awkward it is

Too bad TS is going to jail now RIP

51-year-old George Boedecker, one of the three men who founded the controversial footwear company Crocs, was arrested by Boulder Police officers yesterday and charged with driving under the influence after he was found passed out in his Porsche.

Boedecker initially tried to pin the blame on singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, whom he claimed was his girlfriend.

Per the incident report, Boedecker said Swift was in the driver's seat, but had run off during an altercation. Asked by the cops where Swift was now, Boedecker pointed towards a nearby yard and responded, "Nashville."

Swift — "a really fucking famous singer" according to Boedecker — was "batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said.

Boedecker continued to be extremely inimical toward the officers, telling them to "go fuck yourselves in the ass" and "fucking die." In a last-ditch effort to wiggle his way out of the collar, Boedecker, a deep-pocketed benefactor and philanthropist, attempted to throw some weight around, telling the officers he "couldn't believe we were doing this after all he had done for this city."

The braggadocio proved pointless, as Boedecker was ultimately booked into Boulder County jail. The Smoking Gun notes that he was wearing flip flops at the time.

pictures of the red flip fops or it didn't happen.

too bad she didn't stick around to turn this into songwriting fodder

One of the comments on the country video page: Reminds me of "Call Me Maybe," and not in a good way. I agree. Cute, kind of slight.

"red flip fops!"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KFAy_8RAnKU/TQ0GKlgJsbI/AAAAAAAAGgc/fIufs1xQ6p0/s1600/fop.jpg

That is a pretty great gawker piece.

Asked by the cops where Swift was now, Boedecker pointed towards a nearby yard and responded, "Nashville."

This thread or the song?

After sleeping on it, I think Miley Cyrus's new haircut is a more exciting development than this new Taylor Swift single.

the song, then the thread.

i really like the country version of this

the talky bit is awesome btw -- it has a punchline!

sounds very kk slider to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8FV6nZHv_4
which of course means i kinda like it

xps: the last miley song I heard was party in the u.s.a. God, was that really two years ago?

Long enough ago for Jessie J to get famous from it and have her own career rise and flatline.

"we are never getting back together.... like ever"

u missed the climb?

I think Miley Cyrus's new haircut is a more exciting development than this new Taylor Swift single.

I just now saw Miley's haircut (I've been busy). It and this song are an even match.

if you didn't hear miley's occupy song you missed out

"Batshit crazy, the foam clog tycoon said" sounds like a Beck lyric.

thank you lex. I nearly spit mtn dew, etc.

xps: the last miley song I heard was party in the u.s.a. God, was that really two years ago?

― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 1:03 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

no, 3 years ago!

I think the talky bit comes off as too mean girl, which I realize has always been a huge part of Taylor's persona. But for some reason that talky bit pushes this song into "Picture to Burn" territory for me, and I don't think its a good look. Maybe its because she's such a big star now. Her being a big star is also why I am disappointed by this seemingly by the numbers pop song. I'm afraid the album is going to be similar and isn't going to be, like, her response album to Joni Mitchell's Blue or anything. I know that is a stupid thing to hope for though.

i didn't get the Joni connection, good catch

I mean, there were all the Joni quotes up and down her arms all tour, right?

I like this song fine on one listen, can't tell yet if I like it like it. I can see generic hooky pop being a concern, but my bigger fear (prompted somewhat by her Civil Wars collab) is a turn toward snoozy adult-contemporary. So if she's erring on the side of Pop, that seems preferable.

where's the country version? i can't find it.

http://tasteofcountry.com/taylor-swift-we-are-never-ever-getting-back-together/

xxxp I assume that she didn't have Joni Mitchell quotes up and down her arm, right? I have no idea. But seeing the album cover its the first thing I thought of. Then I heard the single, and realized its not a good connection to make, but it was fun to think about for like 30 minutes.

i thought about joni too re: the title

goddamn forgot to ask her people about it today though, ugh @ me

(not just joni: "blue" kinda signifies lots of ~classic albums~ to me)

I thought about that movie with Bruce Willis and Helen Mirren, but I'm not a Joni fan and "Blue" didn't immediately come to mind.

http://tasteofcountry.com/taylor-swift-arm-lyrics/

okay, it wasn't just Joni...

idk if it's looking into it too much seeing similarities in their album covers as well - both looking down in the shadows.

Has she referred much to Joni before in her work? I've always heard the opening lines of "A Case of You" in those of "Tim McGraw".