she went to a fan's bridal shower.
― markers, Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
speak now > red > fearless > s/t
though I've boiled the s/t down to a core that I couldn't live without
― Euler, Friday, 14 February 2014 20:51
While I agree with Lex that each album shows growth and a break from "The Past," I disagree with the implicit conclusion that maturation --> quality. The first two records exude charm for their simplicity, naivety, earnestness, and authenticity. These attitudes define these records for me and SUPPORT their imperfection (the s/t, for sure). The last two records have certainly charted an adroit pivot toward pop radio and stardom, accompanied by better songwriting and production, overall; and while I've enjoyed them both, over time, I've lost a sense of belief that was essential to enjoying those first two albums. These days, I find her more interesting as a person than anything else.
Fearless > s/t = Red > Speak Now
― Indexed, Thursday, 17 April 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
love that t-swizzle's new publicist is called tree paine
― prolego, Thursday, 17 April 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
source plz
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:56 (ten years ago) link
http://nashvillepost.com/blogs/postbusiness/2014/4/11/taylor_swift_hires_new_publicist
― prolego, Friday, 18 April 2014 09:54 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/treepaine
― katherine, Friday, 18 April 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
tree paining the skull of a man
― robocop ELF (seandalai), Friday, 18 April 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
treeship's evil twin
― Mordy , Friday, 18 April 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
From today's AV Club interview with erstwhile Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson:
Taylor Swift, “Treacherous,” (From Red, 2012)AVC: What’s the process when you’re writing with someone else?DW: It depends on how they work. With Taylor, we had been kind of circling around, very much aware of each other’s work for a while. We figured out these two days to work together and she came to my studio super excited and said, “I had an idea in the car.” And she sang me the first three or four lines of it and said, “I want to call it ‘Treacherous’ and maybe the chorus can go like this.” And we were writing the song in 10 minutes and she was just so full of excitement.It’s interesting because I find that she’s very sincere and very what-you-see-is-what-you-get. When you see her on an award show and she wins the award and she looks astonished, that’s how she looks when you’re writing a song and you come up with a good lyric or a good melodic idea. She looks amazed; she’s like, “Whoa!” She’s just like that. She’s also very consistent and a monster songwriter.AVC: She’s 24 years old. She’s allowed to be sincere.DW: And that’s the kind of person you’re dealing with. She’s that way from beginning to end.
AVC: What’s the process when you’re writing with someone else?
DW: It depends on how they work. With Taylor, we had been kind of circling around, very much aware of each other’s work for a while. We figured out these two days to work together and she came to my studio super excited and said, “I had an idea in the car.” And she sang me the first three or four lines of it and said, “I want to call it ‘Treacherous’ and maybe the chorus can go like this.” And we were writing the song in 10 minutes and she was just so full of excitement.
It’s interesting because I find that she’s very sincere and very what-you-see-is-what-you-get. When you see her on an award show and she wins the award and she looks astonished, that’s how she looks when you’re writing a song and you come up with a good lyric or a good melodic idea. She looks amazed; she’s like, “Whoa!” She’s just like that. She’s also very consistent and a monster songwriter.
AVC: She’s 24 years old. She’s allowed to be sincere.
DW: And that’s the kind of person you’re dealing with. She’s that way from beginning to end.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Friday, 18 April 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/e6cafe10d76758df59a90f1f24be5bf0/tumblr_n4g4wpQbLz1qd3quqo1_1280.jpg
totally ready for her ***flawless
― prolego, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
lol it actually turned out to be the new york section http://defamer.gawker.com/when-taylor-swift-goes-book-shopping-1566225432 (i wrote that)
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
unretweeting that second tweet i guess
― markers, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
i don't know who to believe
These attitudes define these records for me and SUPPORT their imperfection (the s/t, for sure).
Name a single imperfection on Fearless.
― glasses jacket jerfman (how's life), Thursday, 24 April 2014 12:19 (ten years ago) link
Some of Chapman's production on the power ballads especially ("White Horse," "You're Not Sorry," "Change") is overwrought and cheesy--the wailing electric guitar solo in the closing bars of the album epitomizes this. They're not technical imperfections, per se, but I think folks like Paul Worley, Frank Liddell, or even a Justin Meldal-Johnsen would have approached these songs differently.
Again: The production works, however, because of the inherent simplicity, naivety, earnestness, and authenticity of Swift and her lyrics. The idea of an 18-year-old closing her 2nd album with a song about overcoming seemingly insurmountable, lifelong struggles of navigating the Music Industrial Complex to succeed is pretty hilarious. It's glam metal -esque, which, I guess, explains that guitar solo...
― Indexed, Thursday, 24 April 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I'm scheduled to run a hair metal ballot poll sometime in the near future, so will remain unconvinced by your overwrought guitar solos argument.
― glasses jacket jerfman (how's life), Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
I've never really liked "White Horse", which has always struck me as sounding like the product of a "write a Taylor Swift song" school exercise.
― Tim F, Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:38 (ten years ago) link
how is her set list like? I'd like to know the ratio of songs from each album.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 19 May 2014 06:49 (nine years ago) link
this could be total garbage but two seconds of googling turned up this: http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/taylor-swift-3bd6bc5c.html
― markers, Monday, 19 May 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Hmm thanks but I think that includes sets from pre-red era.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 19 May 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
From London shows in Feb:
State of Grace Holy Ground Red You Belong with Me The Lucky One Mean 22 Fearless Sparks Fly Next to Me (Emeli Sandé cover) (with Emeli Sandé)I Knew You Were Trouble All Too Well Love Story Treacherous We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
9 of 15 off Red, 2 off Speak Now, 3 off Fearless, 1 cover. Nothing off the first album.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Also, cover aside, that is a flawless run of songs.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 19 May 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-taylor-swift-the-future-of-music-is-a-love-story-1404763219
― abcfsk, Monday, 7 July 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
There continues to be a bad girl vs. good girl/clean-cut vs. sexy debate, and for as long as those labels exist, I just hope there will be contenders on both sides. Everyone needs someone to relate to.
― prolego, Monday, 7 July 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
rich person rallying against piracy yay
― brimstead, Monday, 7 July 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
In the YouTube generation we live in
great now i can't get "live and let die" out of my head
― da croupier, Monday, 7 July 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
love the humble bragging throughout that article
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
Getting to be about time for the album announcement. One of these days.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 July 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
gotta be coming soon *prayer hands emoji*
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
NOT WHILE I'M ON HOLIDAY THO
― lex pretend, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link
Taylor Swift - RED - October 22 (started by spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life) on board I Love Music on Aug 14, 2012)Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Oct 2010) - hype, anticipation &c (started by لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend) on board I Love Music on Jul 21, 2010)
ya know? we're right in the sweet spot here.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
umm http://popdust.com/2014/07/24/taylor-swift-debut-new-music-iheartradio-festival-september/
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
i've barely listened to red
― markers, Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
i don't even know if i've listened to it all the way through. maybe once? oh well
― markers, Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
you're fucking up, markers
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
wtf markers
― Tim F, Thursday, 24 July 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
Don't know what to expect and I'm nervous
Hints dropped -
Rock direction? Cool, some of her best songs lean rock
Max Martin all over it? Like the guy, like their tracks together but think she loses some uniquely t swifty qualities by leaning on his familiar production. Or she will if that's all we get.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 24 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtVrmg0CIAAAqy0.jpg
fuck this RS interviewer with her in central park today :(
― prolego, Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-xNBLOLH9Y
http://gawker.com/taylor-swift-visits-young-cancer-patient-drowns-you-in-1615713252
Taylor Swift, gardener and cat enthusiast, killed you Sunday when she visited a 7-year-old cancer patient and offered to sing him any song he wanted, or just do some of her favorite things, like playing with Play-Doh or talking about Spider-Man or whatever. Authorities say the cause of your death was drowning in a flood of your own tears. . . . Medical examiners placed your time of death at around 5:05 in this video, when Taylor reached the chorus of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," and Jordan started singing along at the top of his little lungs.
. . . Medical examiners placed your time of death at around 5:05 in this video, when Taylor reached the chorus of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," and Jordan started singing along at the top of his little lungs.
― brimming with misplaced confidence (Phil D.), Monday, 4 August 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
http://instagram.com/p/rSJfxLDvH4/
18TH AUGUST BE READY
― uberweiss, Monday, 4 August 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Grammy-Award winning, multi-platinum artist Taylor Swift's new album, "Faulty Elevator" to be released this fall, featuring the singles "Use Phone in Case of Emergency" and "OTIS".
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 4 August 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
oooh, a kanye duet already?
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 August 2014 18:40 (nine years ago) link
floor 32 and still going up now
― prolego, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
the music that taylor's been championing (ed sheeran and whatnot) doesn't inspire confidence tbh.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 10:00 (nine years ago) link
she was championing him on her last album and that turned out a bit amazingand ed sheeran's new album is really good, catch up every1
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 10:14 (nine years ago) link
she had ed sheeran and gary lightbody on one of the best albums of the decade we'll be fine
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/10582801_10152355724940369_6568154568776223259_o.jpg
― how's life, Monday, 11 August 2014 11:56 (nine years ago) link
i'm crying
― uberweiss, Monday, 11 August 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
internet suggests it is a conversation and not a stream of the album unfortunately
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 August 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Bet we will at the very least get a release date though.
― how's life, Monday, 11 August 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link