I was hoping her taking a break was to clear people's minds of all the annoying kanye/kim bullshit that nobody but the press and fanboys+girls gave a shit about. that way she could come back with somethinga little fresh and removed.... instead the vibe is... "guys i am back with some zingers. remember Bad Blood? shit gonna get real snarky but in a slightly sad and ineffectual way"
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 24 August 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/FileLibrary/ProductResources/Images/142060-L-LO.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 24 August 2017 10:01 (six years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/9B2kNHGBbgAraRaq7xE-5G96E88=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3009241-1440582480-6448.jpeg.jpg
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 August 2017 10:50 (six years ago) link
lol at that crj one
― niels, Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:39 (six years ago) link
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES SWIFTY A HEALTH GOTH apparently
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 24 August 2017 11:54 (six years ago) link
― niels, Thursday, August 24, 2017 7:39 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idgi
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 August 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
Interesting read focusing on her album launches since 2010 and what's changed:
https://cultural-learnings.com/2017/08/24/erasing-herself-from-the-narrative-taylor-swift-and-the-absence-of-intimacy-in-the-launch-of-reputation/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 August 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
I know she's done stuff like "Mean" in the past but I'm hoping Swifty's savvy enough not to make an entire album about the Perils of Celebrity. I don't need to hear her Yeezus.
― evol j, Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
is this the Kinsey scale pic.twitter.com/x4Y00i9nbJ— anna (@waltdisknee) August 23, 2017
lol
― j., Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
Or 3 albums away from D&D character alignment.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
― how's life, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/46/c2/62/46c262e5f528a42cad10e27aa19faa77--robert-trujillo-lars-ulrich.jpg
― Eazy, Thursday, 24 August 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
Kirk: "I'm not sure what to do with my hands?"
― niels, Thursday, 24 August 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
is it debuting on YouTube? anyone know times?
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 August 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
It debuts in your skull.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 August 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
New single's out, i'm listening on apple music but it's probs on other streaming services too
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 25 August 2017 03:43 (six years ago) link
this is actually great
- me, and no one else
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 25 August 2017 03:47 (six years ago) link
it sounds scarily like meghan trainor's me too on the chorus :/
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 25 August 2017 03:47 (six years ago) link
Well here we are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K0RzZGpyds
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2017 03:53 (six years ago) link
the near-unanimous hatred for this is baffling and if this were by anyone but this pop season's designated critical villain I suspect people would love it
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 25 August 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
Chorus was the only part I liked! Until I read that.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 25 August 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
xp I can't speak for everyone, but I'm just sick of songs that sound like this and are constructed this way and I kinda (maybe wrongly) assumed she'd rise above.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 25 August 2017 04:01 (six years ago) link
Guess what! The Right Said Fred comparisons are in fact intentional
https://genius.com/Taylor-swift-look-what-you-made-me-do-lyrics
Written ByTaylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, Richard Fairbrass, Fred Fairbrass & Rob Manzoli
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
I like the first minute or so.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 25 August 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
Yeah had a feeling Jack Antonoff produced this. Kept reminding me of Lorde at points.
― MarkoP, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
get you love drunk off my hump, my lovely little hump
― Sharkie, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:10 (six years ago) link
lol that the Fairbrass bros actually got credited on this, that is some weird post-"Blurred Lines" lawsuit shit
― crüt, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:25 (six years ago) link
Man I don't mind them getting some cash.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:35 (six years ago) link
So then the real target of the song is Robin Thicke and the family of Marvin Gaye.
― MarkoP, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:37 (six years ago) link
rhyming "time" with "time" eh
― maura, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:40 (six years ago) link
available for Taylor's 6th studio album reputation and help boost your place in line? Here's how…The two Unique and Collectible Magazines created by Taylor will be available exclusively at Target on November 10th and for pre-order online immediately at www.target.com/TaylorSwift. Each collectible edition (Volume 1 and Volume 2) of reputation magazine will include 72-pages of:Personal poetry and photosArtwork by TaylorHandwritten lyricsBehind-the-scene photos from the "Look What You Made Me Do" video shootExclusive poster
― maura, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:47 (six years ago) link
wow people really hate this song don't they? i think it's fine. i guess i'm team taylor now.
― crüt, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
that's from a press release i just got. sorry about messing up the c/p
― maura, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:57 (six years ago) link
lol @ Target
― crüt, Friday, 25 August 2017 04:59 (six years ago) link
Seems like a blown opportunity to not also have a tie-in Taylor Burn Book.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 August 2017 05:09 (six years ago) link
^^ yes
― Eazy, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:23 (six years ago) link
I'll appreciate having some "Never Again"-style pure spite back on the radio, and the production is interestingly sparse and drum-machiney at points, but the song structure feels bizarrely labyrinthine for a comeback single. Like obvs the chorus chant is an effective hook (worked well enough for the credited co-writers back in the 90s), but the Taylor tabloid-sparring that takes up the rest of it feels like a weird fit for, say, a dance remix during the drive-time DJ set (not that I don't expect some procrustean effort to start showing up on my radio within the next week). Like, I have no idea at this point whether top40 stations will go for it in the long term.Although maybe that's kind of a good and fun thing to see for a pop release of this magnitude?
― Champiness, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:24 (six years ago) link
Huh, I like everything about this *except* the chorus. it does sound a hell of a lot like the Lorde album, though, right down to the vocal rhythms.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 25 August 2017 06:30 (six years ago) link
i don't think there's anything particularly challenging about it as a sonic fit for the current wave of top 40. (other than that it's by a woman and is not completely anonymous-sounding.)
my feelings about it aren't strong either way. the meghan trainor similarity did strike me before the right said fred one. (is that songwriting credit official or just random trolling on genius?) like, i'm surprised to hear that ppl hate it but would also be surprised if ppl were overwhelmingly in love with it.
― dyl, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:38 (six years ago) link
Thank you @taylorswift13 ❤️ what a marvellous reinvention! #imtoosexy #lookwhatyoumademedo https://t.co/malXQ8uMQe— Right Said Fred (@TheFreds) August 25, 2017
― maura, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:39 (six years ago) link
even 'Me Too' is better than this
― ufo, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:42 (six years ago) link
now i have 'green light' stuck in my head
― maura, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:44 (six years ago) link
Song rules but this album launch narrative is so tone deaf - you're gonna make an album about how poorly the media has treated you? Sounds familiar
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:51 (six years ago) link
The song feels like a discarded '1989' outtake. This is the first time new Taylor music sounds regressive and a step backwards to my ears. Singing "the old Taylor is dead" is the most blatant sign of this. TS had worked her way into a position and status where she didn't need to make such on the nose statements. The old Taylor was dead with every new album. Having to declare it out loud now just feels so... off. Show don't tell imo.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 25 August 2017 07:00 (six years ago) link
verse = that lorde co-writer bro's shit all sounds the same. chorus = bad. feels like 00s Madonna. i sort of like the synthy stuff on the outro though.
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 25 August 2017 09:52 (six years ago) link
sounds like somebody whose name rhymes with Baylor Bift is getting down and out about the liars and the dirty dirty cheats of this world
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 August 2017 10:10 (six years ago) link
I haven't liked any of her first singles since 2009 so my mild appreciation of this one is a surprise.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
there are too many words in this
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 August 2017 11:14 (six years ago) link
I can't believe that the old Taylor is completely dead if someone is still making terrible asides in the middle of her songs.
For me, Taylor's feuds and disputes as subject matter have always been the least interesting thing about her. When I jumped on the train during the Fearless days because her songs were so warm and nuanced and amazingly crafted, I never would have expected that part of the recurring themes of her career was going to be "welcome back Taylor Swift - and here's the celebrity she's singing about this time." It's depressing self-parody at this point.
I haven't been listening to enough pop to figure out how well it fits into that zeitgeist. What's good these days? It sounds pretty good for a pop song to my ears. I guess.
― how's life, Friday, 25 August 2017 11:20 (six years ago) link
What celebrity is she singing about?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2017 12:04 (six years ago) link
My Swiftie daughter is perplexed trying to imagine how or if she will promote it, because her tour runs until October.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 February 2024 03:05 (two months ago) link
“Promote” it??
― jake morgendorffer core (morrisp), Monday, 5 February 2024 03:09 (two months ago) link
Your daughter is missing the literalism: it will simply be the screams of tortured poets from Taylor's lair.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 February 2024 03:09 (two months ago) link
1.5 years is about average for her in recent years, though it is short for pretty much anyone else
she has april and most of march off from touring, so that's where the album promo will fit in. i expect the tour will be overhauled for the europe leg in may - at the very least the midnights section will be cut down and a section for the new album will be added in
― ufo, Monday, 5 February 2024 03:13 (two months ago) link
April is the cruelest month after all
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 5 February 2024 03:13 (two months ago) link
so that's what the TS in TS Eliot stands for
― jaymc, Monday, 5 February 2024 03:14 (two months ago) link
Swift is suing his estate
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 5 February 2024 03:15 (two months ago) link
Had to do it:
Let us go then, you and I/When the evening is spread out against the sky/Like a tight end playing in the Super Bowl -- The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift, April 19
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 February 2024 03:22 (two months ago) link
yeah that is what I meant
― Tim F, Monday, 5 February 2024 03:28 (two months ago) link