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
Kayne.
― how's life, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
Kanye
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:05 (six years ago) link
Dammit. Kanye.
Video teaser up.
Official #LWYMMDvideo world premiere. Sunday 8/27 at the @vmas pic.twitter.com/tjAxr8qdsY— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 25, 2017
― how's life, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link
see, I give zero shits about any feuds (although people lapped this up when Britney or Gaga or even _1989_ did it) and find almost all of her old material cloying, suffocatingly regressive, no better crafted than the material women on country radio are writing or getting now to zero fanfare (see: the Liz Rose that just dropped, which stans of Old!Taylor Swift have mostly ignored) and terminally boring.
This is not boring. the references I'm seeing are Peaches, Ladytron, unreleased Britney tracks, "Die Another Day," (this one from me) Jessie Malakouti -- and all of these are good to great! they're also good to great enough to stand alone even if you give zero shits about aforementioned feuds.
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 25 August 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
also anyone who praised "We Are Never Getting Back Together" is not allowed to complain about songwriting
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 25 August 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together is great!
― niels, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
on some level i "don't care" about her feuds but on the other hand her hit song "i am never ever dating jake gyllenhaal again" was hilarious to me
― crüt, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
'we are never' >>>> this
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
I don't follow celebrity profiles or care about biographical parallels, so whomever she dates hasn't bothered me. I already shut a dude down yesterday who cackled about which guy she's "writing about now."
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2017 12:37 (six years ago) link
Wait, Taylor is premiering her video at the VMAs. Ain't Katy Perry hosting this year? pic.twitter.com/tVzDpRIKWg— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) August 25, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
ok i was done complaining about taylor swift i felt gross n w/e and then i saw this n absolutely fuck taylor swift pic.twitter.com/ws9LYkmeFu— darcie (@333333333433333) August 25, 2017
― J. Sam, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:51 (six years ago) link
lol no
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
i'm already so tired
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 25 August 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link
yah that's overreaching it xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 25 August 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link
Oooh, that's why she waited an extra year to put out an album, so that Kanye's mom's death would fall on a record-release Friday. Cold, Cruella.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 25 August 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
(Imagining Taylor with a wall calendar and various dates important to her enemies marked in blood-red.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 25 August 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
I didn't listen to this song yet but "Look what you made me do" generally being a sentence culturally linked to domestic abusers is an extra layer of *thinking emoji*
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 25 August 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
crut with the "Rob Manzoli actually wrote all Right Said Fred's songs solo" conspiracy theory could really liven up the *thinking emoji*
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Friday, 25 August 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link
the new song is like a really boring "piece of me"
― Mordy, Friday, 25 August 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link
the new song is like a really boring "piece of me" about as good as "My Humps."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 August 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link