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Celeb Photos: Why Taylor Swift Is The Biggest Popstar In The World
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Why Taylor Swift Is The Biggest Popstar In The World
Taylor Swift worries a lot about security. It’s an understandable concern.
This spring, a man was arrested in the wee hours of the morning near her estate
in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Police reportedly spotted him walking out of the
ocean; he told the arresting officers he had swum two miles to meet Taylor
Swift. The singer has two other homes—a modest house, which she calls a
“cottage,” in *Beverly Hills, and her main residence, a
penthouse apartment near downtown Nashville—and her team makes every
effort to keep the addresses hush-hush. But fans have a way of sniffing these
things out. On a Sunday morning in late September, a 12-year-old girl and her
mother, who had flown to Nashville from Connecticut to see Swift’s concert
at the Bridgestone Arena the night before, walked into the lobby of her
building. This was celebrity stalking at its most benign: The mom and daughter
had a gift for Swift, a big container of homemade chicken soup,
which they left with her doorman.
http://www.vulture.com/2013/11/taylo...en-of-pop.html
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Adele says hi.
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I read the article, they make lots of points. I don't expect atrl to agree with them though.
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Did she just say that Max Martin and Shellback are gonna be the bone of the album No stop Taylor no
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tbh men lie, woman lie, numbers don't. she's outdoing everyone by a large margin.
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Originally posted by KanYe!
tbh men lie, woman lie, numbers don't. she's outdoing everyone by a large margin.
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ADELE says hi
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Originally posted by holyground
Did she just say that Max Martin and Shellback are gonna be the bone of the album No stop Taylor no
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Did you read all of it though?
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Swift hopes to collaborate with new songwriters and producers. But she planned to begin, she said, by heading back into the studio with Max Martin and Shellback. “I want to go in with Max and Johan first, just to figure out what the bone structure of this record is going to be.
“I have a lot of things to draw from emotionally at the moment. But I have to draw from them with a different perspective than on Red. I can’t say the same things over and over, you know? I mean, I think it’s just all the more important that I don’t ever allow myself to coast.
“At the same time, there’s a mistake that I see artists make when they’re on their fourth or fifth record, and they think innovation is more important than solid songwriting. The most terrible letdown as a listener for me is when I’m listening to a song and I see what they were trying to do. Like, where there’s a dance break that doesn’t make any sense, there’s a rap that shouldn’t be there, there’s like a beat change that’s, like, the coolest, hippest thing this six months—but it has nothing to do with the feeling, it has nothing to do with the emotion, it has nothing to do with the lyric. I never want to put things in songs just because that might make them popular, like, on the more rhythmic stations or in dance clubs. I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.”
As for the theme of those songs: That’s a foregone conclusion. “I only write songs about crazy love,” Swift said. “If I go on two dates with a guy and we don’t click, I’m not writing a song about that. It didn’t matter in the emotional grand scheme of things. There’s a lot that goes on in daily life that isn’t really worth turning into a verse and a chorus.”
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Did you read all of it though?
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Yeah, but that means that the core of the album would be mainstream pop?
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She's triple threat. Lord has the singles, albums AND tour grosses.
Along with Grammys.
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Spot the lies. Oh right, there is none.
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At the same time, there’s a mistake that I see artists make when they’re on their fourth or fifth record, and they think innovation is more important than solid songwriting. The most terrible letdown as a listener for me is when I’m listening to a song and I see what they were trying to do. Like, where there’s a dance break that doesn’t make any sense, there’s a rap that shouldn’t be there, there’s like a beat change that’s, like, the coolest, hippest thing this six months—but it has nothing to do with the feeling, it has nothing to do with the emotion, it has nothing to do with the lyric. I never want to put things in songs just because that might make them popular, like, on the more rhythmic stations or in dance clubs. I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.
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Adelephants always trying to name drop Adele but no one cares.
And completely agree. She truly is.
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Then why does Beyonce, Britney, Rihanna, Madonna, Gaga exist? all of them are bigger than her
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I'm so buying this if I can find it.
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Adelephants always trying to name drop Adele but no one cares.
And completely agree. She truly is.
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You certainly cared enough .....you just didn't seem to have a strong argument against the facts stated like the rest.
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On Red, Swift made the big leap into high-gloss pop, co-writing three songs with the wizardly Swedish hit-makers Max Martin and Johan “Shellback” Schuster, who are responsible for dozens of pop smashes over the last decade and a half. You could hear Martin and Shellback’s touch in the bright, punchy sound of those songs, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” “I Knew You Were *Trouble,” and “22.” Yet the songs are unmistakably Swiftian; unlike other Martin songs, you can’t imagine them being recorded, interchangeably, by Katy Perry, or Pink, or any of the other usual suspects.
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HER POWER!
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Originally posted by Josh
Then why does Beyonce, Britney, Rihanna, Madonna, Gaga exist? all of them are bigger than her
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Years ago, but not anymore.
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Years ago, but not anymore.
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lies.
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i love that picture of her.
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lies.
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If you think that Beyonce, Britney, Rihanna, Madonna and Gaga are all CURRENTLY bigger than Taylor then there's something wrong with you...
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