V OTM
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 August 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
this song is deeply dippy
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 25 August 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
that liz rose record isn't even listed on her wikipedia page lol
excited to dive into it
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 25 August 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
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)
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 25 August 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
wish Caitlin Rose would put out a new album :(
― Number None, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
same
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 25 August 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
the stand-in is so wonderful
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 25 August 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
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
― Number None, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
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
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 25 August 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
sorry simon the flattening effect of the internet means it's all candles and corncobs from here on out
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 25 August 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
That's the sequel to Bedknobs and Broomsticks, yes?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
Good grief
Thank you so much to @taylorswift13 & @jackantonoff - very kind!(📸: Karl Adamson) pic.twitter.com/BWqrcCnYas— Right Said Fred (@TheFreds) August 25, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
Can't knock the Saul Bass-y lyric visuals, though.
― Eazy, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
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."
...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."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
im happy for them, i guess this is a good side effect of the Blurred Lines verdict
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:44 (six years ago) 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.
― flappy bird, Friday, 25 August 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 August 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
and it's like... not a good photo? of a person of whom there are approx 1000000 great photos?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 August 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
that's it though, that's all you get from me as far as caring about taylor swift goes as of 25 aug 2017
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 August 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― Number None, Friday, 25 August 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
omg i remember when red was on the papa johns boxes
― dyl, Friday, 25 August 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
you, a rube: this is just like Harry Potter omgme, a smart online bro: this is just like[searches]...this dril tweet— brad shoup (@bshoup) January 26, 2017
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 25 August 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
lmao
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 25 August 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
the only swift delivery song i will acknowledgehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txQUD0Rymsc
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 25 August 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
an improved opportunity to buy taylor swift tickets?? dad that's just what i've always wanted!@@!!!!1111eleven!!11
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 August 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
lol @ professional music critics resting so much of their criticism on the assumption that Taylor Swift actively sought to borrow from Right Said Fred rather than writing a song and then realizing after the fact that it sounded sort of like this other song
― crĂĽt, Friday, 25 August 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
I had that song in my head in the last week for some reason that I'm stuggling to place.
― how's life, Friday, 25 August 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
― crüt, Friday, August 25, 2017
this is a short laugh for such a long sentence
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 August 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
that's why I don't get paid to write
― crĂĽt, Friday, 25 August 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
I don't have the economy of words, just excellent, unassailable ideas
― crĂĽt, Friday, 25 August 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
why do u think that crut? it seems less likely than the alternative?
― Mordy, Friday, 25 August 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
really? i think it seems far more likely that they realized it after the fact.
― alpine static, Friday, 25 August 2017 22:17 (six years ago) link
yeah, post-Blurred Lines they probably have people specifically employed to catch this stuff
or an app of some sort
― Number None, Friday, 25 August 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
In the past they turned down a Southeast Asian artist who wanted to change the lyrics to being about bondage.WHO
― goole, Saturday, 26 August 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
this all reminds me of
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCW7AP3CYAA4MU7.jpg
― sleeve, Saturday, 26 August 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
i purposefully avoided this cos i think Kanye is not bad and people shit on him all the time to maintain a dumb and exploitative narrative and this feels like yet another instance of that
tomorrow im visiting my niece who is a serious Swift fan, interested in hearing her reaction...
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 August 2017 15:10 (six years ago) link
a+ comment from jim in vancouver that flew over everyone's head
― maura, Saturday, 26 August 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
i'll explain: he's my lois lane
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 26 August 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
maura OTM
I like the verses to this. I do not like the chorus. It's about a million times better than "Shake It Off". If I was an A&R person, I would draw up whatever contracts necessary to market this as a split A-side with "Swish Swish".
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Saturday, 26 August 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/08/taylor-swift-and-ticketmaster-launch-controversial-ticketing-system/
― crĂĽt, Sunday, 27 August 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
Okay so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tmd-ClpJxA
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 August 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
i am so confused by this song, this video, this meta-winky-self-referential thing, "I don't like your tilted stage", all of it
― northwest pass-agg (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 28 August 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
i feel like a grandmother looking at memes
Really disturbing video
― flappy bird, Monday, 28 August 2017 01:20 (six years ago) link
Something that’s especially troubling in all of this is the fact that you can purchase Swift’s new album up to 13 times to receive further boosts to your spot in line. There is even a “progress bar” showing how your purchases are advancing your place in the virtual line.
Fuck this, this is worse than Lars suing his fans. This is Swift exploiting her fans in lamest way. I hope everyone steals her album and then doesn't go to the show.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 August 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
alternatively, it is rewarding her die hard fans
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 28 August 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
i like the video. song is still pretty blah.
― Mordy, Monday, 28 August 2017 01:30 (six years ago) link