Taylor Swift Glitchy Snake Gifs thread 2017 - Reputation

I mean we could do this all day ("kingdom keys" is probably meant to ==> Kim Kardashian)

wow, to think this on the same day Carly Rae Jepsen dropped “Cut To The Feeling (Kid Froopy Remix),” drag her kween

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9ntHhDmAg

the "can't come to the phone right now" line is so weird to hear in 2017...did the Old Taylor not have her own cell # ?

christ this is terrible. Katy Perry must be pissing herself.

this is not good

not sure why people are so hung up on the telephone thing -- it's just a standard pop Thing at this point, from Little Mix's "How Ya Doing" to, uh, "Telephone"

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.

I have no idea what Britney or Gaga have ever done, in terms of public musical drama. And iirc correctly nobody at all lapped up Bad Blood. I don't know anything about cloying or regressive, but after hearing the first few Swifty records I went on an extensive country binge back in 2011 attempting to find more that I liked. I did find more country artists who I thought were really good, and most of them were women. But overall (as is usually the case for me and you could sub in almost any genre you want here), I came to the realization that I didn't like "country music" as much as I just liked this one artist.

I hadn't even heard about the Liz Rose album, but will make sure to listen to it since she was a key Swift collaborator.

britney: "piece of me" and other _blackout_ tracks directly addressing her tabloid drama, and not really working in any other context ("I'm Mrs. Most Likely to Get on the TV for Stripping on the Street When Getting the Groceries": so #relatable!) which was really pretty restrained as far as tabloid-baiting could have been for her (iirc she or her team specifically did not want to address it, though she did *record* a lot of very pointed material; "Guilty" is a very clear counterpart to "Cry Me a River.") (come to think of it, Justin Timberlake's whole "Cry Me a River"/"What Goes Around" era was this exact same thing, suggesting this is yet another accusation leveled primarily at women)

gaga: uh, everything? at least everything circa "The Fame"

the difference is that the britney tracks were actually compelling songs

and this is the fundamental difference because I just don't see how this is the track that *isn't* compelling, where glurge like "White Horse" or "Fifteen" or "Mine" supposedly are. it isn't even a pop vs. craft thing, either -- "We Are Never Getting Back Together" is awful and gets worse every year

Yeah, I'm sorry. I meant to say that I don't pay enough attention to Britney and Gaga to even know what they would have done along this ilk. But did Gaga really have musical feuds as far back as The Fame?

not feuds, per se, but definitely tabloid-y controversies. until "Paparazzi" most people saw her as having nothing *but* those

Lady Gaga is a bit weird though given that songs like Paparazzi were recorded before she was much of controversial name. Like I remember when that album was released, there was very little fanfare and that it took a while for her to really take off.

I'm kinda wondering if this is gonna be similar to when Shake it Off came out and the reception was mostly negative (see: the 1989 thread on this site) but by the end of the year it's winning 4th place in pazz & jop and getting hailed as a perfect pop song

I can't decide what I think of this one yet but the verses/beat/'telephone' segment are pretty good. If the full albums all sass and anger and electroclash beats I'm down.

Don't get why she doesn't like Kanye's tilted stage though. When I saw him live it was one of the more interesting parts of his surprisingly-not-great show

I'm kinda wondering if this is gonna be similar to when Shake it Off came out and the reception was mostly negative (see: the 1989 thread on this site) but by the end of the year it's winning 4th place in pazz & jop and getting hailed as a perfect pop song

I can't decide what I think of this one yet but the verses/beat/'telephone' segment are pretty good. If the full albums all sass and anger and electroclash beats I'm down.

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, August 25, 2017 11:47 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, again, I still haven't listened to this, but all the "HO HUM NOT COMPELLING" stuff on this thread is probably gonna look very stupid when this thing is Number One for two months

i'm sure it'll be very popular on the radio, all her stuff is - that doesn't mean i have to like it or think it's interesting

Yeah, I certainly don't think it's going to flop or anything.

i have no idea how "shake it off" managed to be that high on p&j, esp since i never noticed anyone who disliked it initially coming around to it

ubiquity breeds surrender

I've dug her since the debut and I dig this.

I listened to it, song is good, haters gonna hate

It took me a good year and a half to come around to "Shake It Off", especially the stupid rap.

As someone with no interest or knowledge of the real-life drammer behind it, I like this song - it's memorable at least - sounds a bit like Britney's Circus. But the 'Fred chorus is an anticlimax.

not crazy about this song but the one aspect of the backlash to it that really grinds my gears is the resurrection of the worst normie music opinion: suspicion of sampling

V OTM

this song is deeply dippy

that liz rose record isn't even listed on her wikipedia page lol

excited to dive into it

yeah I admit that it got basically zero coverage at all anywhere (it seems to be either self-released or on a *very* small label)

wish Caitlin Rose would put out a new album :(

same

the stand-in is so wonderful

yeah, it's a perennial in my house

the new Nicole Atkins (Goodnight Rhonda Lee) has kinda been scratching that same itch for me recently

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm not yet sick of people shoehorning Dril references in at every opportunity but it would be nice if they went for some deep cuts from time to time

sorry simon the flattening effect of the internet means it's all candles and corncobs from here on out

That's the sequel to Bedknobs and Broomsticks, yes?

Good grief

Thank you so much to @taylorswift13 & @jackantonoff - very kind!
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— Right Said Fred (@TheFreds) August 25, 2017

Can't knock the Saul Bass-y lyric visuals, though.

And we got interview

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/right-said-fred-praise-cynical-taylor-swift-song-w499547

Just about a week ago, the members of Right Said Fred got a mysterious offer. A "big, contemporary female artist who hasn't released anything for a while" wanted to interpolate the British duo's tongue-in-cheek Nineties hit "I'm Too Sexy" into a new song, the group's Fred Fairbrass recalls.

...In fact, if Swift's song had been too sexual, the group may not of have let her use it. In the past they turned down a Southeast Asian artist who wanted to change the lyrics to being about bondage.

"But we had no reservations, because we like her," says Fred, adding that they deduced it was Swift who'd requested the song from the clues they were given. "To have an artist as big as Taylor Swift give you the thumbs up and introduce us to her fan base is amazing."

"It also proves the point that 'Sexy' wasn't just a ludicrous 'Purple People Eater' kind of nonsense song," Richard says. "There was more to it than that."

im happy for them, i guess this is a good side effect of the Blurred Lines verdict

Song's growing on me. Like the pre-chorus. Hate the second verse rap and the bridge. Chorus stands up only because of the RSF link.

like I think "I'm Too Sexy" will probably get licensed more now (not that it already isn't used semi-frequently), and it's a better song than this new Taylor Swift song that I already forgot the name of.

but i do like the song. don't really get the hate in here w/r/t the music. like i said upthread, lyrics & narrative conceit of the song & presumably the record (based on the cover) is hilariously tone-deaf

the cover does look incredibly amateurish

and it's like... not a good photo? of a person of whom there are approx 1000000 great photos?

that's it though, that's all you get from me as far as caring about taylor swift goes as of 25 aug 2017

The UPS package cars with Taylor Swift’s album cover on them will roll out in cities across America, beginning with Nashville, Atlanta and New York City on Sat., Aug. 26. UPS will announce via social media when the package cars will arrive in other cities. Fans who snap a picture of a decaled UPS package car, at a safe distance, then tag @UPS and share the hashtag #TaylorSwiftDelivery may receive an improved opportunity to buy Taylor Swift concert tickets.

omg i remember when red was on the papa johns boxes

you, a rube: this is just like Harry Potter omg

me, a smart online bro: this is just like[searches]...this dril tweet

— brad shoup (@bshoup) January 26, 2017