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Fan Base: Archived: Taylor Swift (#1)
Member Since: 9/1/2012
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i think i'm the last member to know bout the promo singles  so excited for it. there's going to be a bloodbath at the Cornucopia next week
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Member Since: 12/13/2011
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It is best that we just ignore and concentrate on on-topic discussion. I wouldn't want any of you to get WPs for being passionate stans. 
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Member Since: 12/31/2011
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Member Since: 11/27/2011
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Ahhh I missed arguing with people on here .
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Member Since: 11/29/2010
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Member Since: 5/9/2012
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Anyway, I can't wait for Tuesday 
Come on Taylor, please deliver a better, more mature song please.
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Originally posted by Bahjat
Ahhh I missed arguing with people on here . |
i hope you post more now .. !  i certainly missed you (stanning around for taylor!  ) 
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Member Since: 12/31/2011
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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
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I think so. She gave a hint during the live chat where she said we will see pictures of her on stage if she's in a film she loves.
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Member Since: 11/27/2011
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WANEGBT is doing well in Spain !
She needs big promo in Italy and France.
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Member Since: 11/9/2011
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Tbh, we are just as 'delusional' as Kesha stans, hell even more, at times. And Kesha has a nice chance for it. And it's just a promo single from Taylor. Taylor ain't control the chart master anyway. Her singles' chart history is not that great. 
Oh well ignore me, I'm just not in the right mood.
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Member Since: 11/29/2010
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Originally posted by thediscomonkey
Tbh, we are just as 'delusional' as Kesha stans, hell even more, at times. And Kesha has a nice chance for it. And it's just a promo single from Taylor. Taylor ain't control the chart master anyway. Her singles' chart history is not that great.
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I agree that Kesha could snatch it with the full week of sales. But the question in the thread was who will top Itunes faster. I think here Taylor has a better chance. 
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Member Since: 11/29/2010
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Disco. This is for you. Bow to WANEGBTsus. 
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It took her five years, four albums, two world tours and several high-profile troubled relationships with boyfriends to do it — but Taylor Swift has finally — and fully — pulled the plug on her roots as a County Music artist.
Indeed, Swift has truly hit her stride with the mega-hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” — a completely original tour de force of a pop anthem — which is at once overtly catchy and viscerally empowering — and also shows off the 22-year-old’s caustic sense of humor.
As if “Never Ever’s” insistent bass drum, tweaky acoustic guitar, rolling bass line — and power-chorus chant of a thousand teenagers joyously shout-singing the hook weren’t enough — there’s also the absolutely brilliant bridge section of the song — with Swift talking privately with a friend, baring her truth and letting us in on it:
(sigh)So he calls me up and he’s like, ‘I still love you’ and I’m like
I’m just like, I mean, this is exhausting, ya’ know?
Like, we are never getting back together… like ever.”
As with Bob Dylan’s classic “Like a Rolling Stone” — a true “**** you “ diatribe aimed directly at the Folk Music community which had rabidly turned on him after he “went electric” — today, Swift’s “Never Ever” lyric could very well be interpreted as her own “drop dead” to the Country Music industry:
I’m really gonna miss you picking fights
And me, falling for it, screaming that I’m right
And you would hide away and find your ‘piece of mind’
With some indie record that’s ‘much cooler’ than mine.”
But taking Swift’s “Never Ever” to the deeper level it deserves, consider that:
Every so often, a song comes along that virtually impacts the entire landscape (whether the business wants it or not) for every creative venture that will follow it.
The Sixties saw this happen with songs like “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “Satisfaction,” “Good Vibrations,” and “Like a Rolling Stone.” The 70s had it with “Stayin’ Alive,” the 80s with “Billie Jean,” the 90s had “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
And now, for the 10s, it’s Swift’s “Never Ever” — a veritable “We Will Rock You”-meets-“Like a Rolling Stone” for the new generation — and which will now be the bar all pop-rockers will need to check first before their music charts and lyric notepads come out.
For proof of this, check out Swift’s recent performance at the 2012 VMAs; it brought the house down — and found Swift performing fully in the mold of a pop act — deploying a track instead of her usually-present band — and handling a complex dance routine while singing live at the same time — and well too.
Gone is the “OMG!/hands-on-face” routine, which Swift knows was getting old fast; rather, “Never Ever” has empowered her to wear her newly confident attitude like some steely armor that can deflect all haters.
All this Swift visioning will be quite troubling for the Country Music genre going forward — which has long-claimed Swift as one of its own, even if her coming out of Reading, PA never really qualified her to be so in the first place.
And the past five years has seen Swift virtually carrying the genre single-handedly; she’s sold 22 million albums for starters. And awards? Well, between the Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards, the Country Music Association (CMA) awards and the Country Music Television (CMT) awards — Swift has pulled in 40 nominations and won 20 times — including four as “Entertainer of the Year.”
When Swift is not actively participating in the game, County Music basically — and barely — putters along with scant few crossovers into the pop genre — other than the occasional hit by Carrie Underwood (“Cowboy Casanova”) or Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now.” And as with Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” which blew-up the pop charts in the early 80s — none of these acts brought the sense they had truly transcended their genre.
But “Never Ever” takes Swift to the absolute heights of crossover — and unabashedly declares that her already-shaky relationship with Country Music is now fully over and done; dead. And without her presence, the genre will most likely go back to doing what it does naturally: putter and sputter along.
In fact, top Country artists are already feeling the pinch. Looking to produce a novelty-type “Never Ever”-type hit — with suggestive lyrics and anthemic chorus — Tim McGraw for instance, recently rushed-out the wacky “Truck Yeah!”. But compared with “Never Ever,” McGraw falls flat on his cowboy hat.
Swift’s new album “Red” comes out in late October — and it remains to be seen if she can completely seal the deal here. Dylan did it after “Like a Rolling Stone,” with his brilliant “Blonde on Blonde” album — and while it’s unlikely that Swift can pull something Herculean like that off — “Red” will certainly assure that Swift has fully matured into a bonafide rock artist.
On a personal note: I bought tickets awhile back to the upcoming Brad Paisley concert in my area. But I know when I get there, my mind will be wandering over to “Never Ever” — and I wouldn’t be surprised if Paisley himself covers the Swift anthem. In fact, hundreds are already doing just that and posting to YouTube — including name acts like Hanson and boy-band One2Five.
In other media, Swift’s impact can be felt as well. For example, ABC is to premiere its Country Music TV drama, “Nashville,” on October 10th – but because of the bombastic power of “Never Ever” — the series already feels dusty, dull and dated — and the pilot hasn’t even aired yet.
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Member Since: 12/19/2009
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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
Disco. This is for you. Bow to WANEGBsus. |
Not them comparing it to Like a Rolling Stone.  
edit I read further down and I can't at them pretending that Here we come again never happened. they seriously could have done better with the review and listing Truck Yeah as a song that followed the trend of WANEGBT when that song came out before WANEGBT 
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Member Since: 9/1/2012
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Ke$ha is guaranteed to own next week .  but as long as Taylor's promo single is not blocked by GS, i'm with it 
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Member Since: 11/9/2011
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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
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Originally posted by Taylor Swift
I think so. She gave a hint during the live chat where she said we will see pictures of her on stage if she's in a film she loves.
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That project is still gonna happen?  She's not letting it go I see. I'm excited for it. Fingers crossed for Taylor to get acclaims like Sam Riley & Penn Badgley.
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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
I agree that Kesha could snatch it with the full week of sales. But the question in the thread was who will top Itunes faster. I think here Taylor has a better chance. |
I could care less about iTunes chart tbh. I just don't like how we call Kesha stans as delusional bricks when we do the same thing all the time.
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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
Disco. This is for you. Bow to WANEGBsus. |
And who wrote that ****? 
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Originally posted by Icannot
It is best that we just ignore and concentrate on on-topic discussion. I wouldn't want any of you to get WPs for being passionate stans. |
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!! i got a WP! 
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Originally posted by thediscomonkey
I could care less about iTunes chart tbh. I just don't like how we call Kesha stans as delusional bricks when we do the same thing all the time.
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well when i was calling them delusional it was bcuz of the sparks fly/mine/promo song #1 confusion they created! it was plain stupid!
i dont judge them for thinking kesha will go #1
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Member Since: 4/17/2012
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No, K$ is very popular on ATRL but that's it, very few people actually remember her and I think she'll need time to try to have good sales again... hope I'm wrong tho!
However, Taylor is a safe bet, Ronan & her first single proved it. I think she'll dominate the first half of the week and then we'll see.^^
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