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Member Since: 5/26/2012
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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
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That barbadian gurl will make Red's first week sound like Bionic 
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
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Same for me 
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I don't mind it honestly, but I'll leave it at that.
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Walked into my AMA dressing room and there was this little bowl of candy in there. Literally shrieked with excitement. Need to tone it down.
Didn't she already tweet candy in the dressing room/very excited at the last AMAs?  Or some awards show recently.
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Originally posted by Ashrock
That barbadian gurl will make Red's first week sound like Bionic |
Those 500k 1st week WW sales will make Tay look super local
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4. Red - Taylor Swift
She just passed Lana.
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Member Since: 8/9/2012
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I'm so against Haylor
And Rihanna's biggest opening numbers were 210k with LOUD only after OG(ITW) and the crossover hit WMN
She did 197k with TTT after WFL 
Unless Diamonds has some kind of album selling power, she ain't seeing those 275k
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Originally posted by Gossip_Boy
4. Red - Taylor Swift
She just passed Lana.
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who's #2 and #3???? and #1?? 
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I Knew You Were Trouble will top the Dance chart 
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Originally posted by boyswifty
I'm so against Haylor
And Rihanna's biggest opening numbers were 210k with LOUD only after OG(ITW) and the crossover hit WMN
She did 197k with TTT after WFL
Unless Diamonds has some kind of album selling power, she ain't seeing those 275k |
i would fly to US and buy Unapologetic if it manages to do 200K+ tbh...  that is so not happeneing!!
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Originally posted by boyswifty
I Knew You Were Trouble will top the Dance chart |
her first one there??? 
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Originally posted by thediscomonkey
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Do you agree with them? My computer is lagging real bad and I can't see it yet.
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I m on the side of people with no brain so YESSSSS TO Taylor & Harry 
and he won t go anytime soon as long as 1D is relevant but once they will fade away, Taylor will leave him like Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer etc .
tbh this song so fits with Taylor actually
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11...ial-girl_music
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Originally posted by theREALslimSHADY
who's #2 and #3???? and #1?? |
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Originally posted by boyswifty
I'm so against Haylor
And Rihanna's biggest opening numbers were 210k with LOUD only after OG(ITW) and the crossover hit WMN
She did 197k with TTT after WFL
Unless Diamonds has some kind of album selling power, she ain't seeing those 275k |
180-190k imo.
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Originally posted by theREALslimSHADY
her first one there??? |
Yep
And there are also very few country artist who have topped it
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Do you agree with them? My computer is lagging real bad and I can't see it yet.
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Ofc, no.
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If you already know and love the Rolling Stones, you won’t learn much of anything from Crossfire Hurricane, HBO’s Stones-produced history of the group in somewhat listless celebration of their 50th anniversary. But the doc is a pleasurable, well-edited wallow in old clips, concerts, and interviews, with a few present-day croaks from Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, and the rest by way of emendation. For instance, who knew that bassist Bill Wyman pronounces “urine” as “your-INE,” with a long “i”? (The word comes up in an anecdote about female fans wetting themselves.) Or that the boyish-looking slip of a guitarist Mick Taylor, who replaced founding member Brian Jones in 1969—and was replaced in turn by Ron Wood in the mid-70s—has the burly voice of a Guy Ritchie knuckle-dragger? Wyman offers an interesting observation about the band’s subatomic structure: whereas most groups follow the drummer’s lead, he says, the Stones’ rhythm section follows Richards’s guitar, with drummer Charlie Watts playing a hair behind the beat and Wyman a hair ahead. “It’s got a bit of a wobble,” Wyman explains. “It’s dangerous because it could all fall apart.” Richards suggests that the group’s bad-boy pose became something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everyone feels sad that they kicked Jones out of the band because he was too druggy even for the Stones, and that he then drowned in his swimming pool—but not that sad.
And if you don’t already know and love the Stones, you’ll finish the film with only a hazy grasp of their history and the personalities at play—but at least you’ll get a sense of what the fuss was all about. Fans and non-fans alike will be glad that the group’s first 15 years take up all but the last 10 or so minutes of the film’s two-hour running time. A few quick shots of throbbing stadiums and fireworks displays stand for three decades of bloated world tours and new records that served more as MacGuffins than music.
But here’s the weird thing: the whole time I was watching Crossfire Hurricane, I couldn’t stop thinking about Taylor Swift. Q: Who can stop thinking about Taylor Swift? A: Point taken. Let me back up: I love her snarky single and video “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” which has to be the year’s best pop song (as wonderful as “Gangnam Style” is, it’s more a thing than a song), but every time I heard Swift telling whichever ex of hers she’s referencing in the song to kiss off, I had this nagging feeling she reminded me of someone I couldn’t quite name or picture—like when you watch an actress in a film and can’t remember where you’ve seen her before, your inner search engine spinning in place. Maybe in that situation you can get on with your life, but I can’t—so what joy when it finally hit me, in the early going of Crossfire Hurricane, that Taylor Swift is the new Mick Jagger. (If you’ll forgive me such a blatant magazine-editor-ism.)
It’s not just the fetishization of her lips on the cover of her new album, Red, where they look like two pieces of candied sushi in an Irving Penn still-life—nor is it merely her recent social climbing in Hyannis Port, although that’s very Stones-y. (Crossfire Hurricane has some hilarious shots of the band backstage during their 1972 American tour, where you see the group hanging out with Lee Radziwill, Truman Capote, and Andy Warhol, with Annie Leibovitz documenting everything, and it all seems extremely glam and decadent, like a vintage Interview magazine come back to ghastly life, until the camera pans and you also see a long dressing-room table laden with ravaged Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets.)
Jagger and the Stones made their names in part with sneering put-down songs, snarly little anthems that occasionally, or often, reveled in misogyny—see: “Under My Thumb” and “Some Girls.” And if there’s anything Swift is famous for, it’s revenge songs. Her swipes at ex-boyfriends and other guys who tick her off don’t have quite the swagger of those Jagger-Richards compositions, and she’s never been accused of misandry, but unlike other “confessional” singer-songwriters from whom she’s supposedly descended, such as Alanis Morrissette or Lucinda Williams, or even the great Joni Mitchell, Swift seems increasingly reluctant to go full pity-party. She means to give as good as she gets.
Speaking of which, “Mean,” from Swift’s previous album, Speak Now, could serve as a decades-overdue answer song to Mick and Keith’s “Stupid Girl” or “Play with Fire.” “You have knocked me off my feet again, got me feeling like I’m nothing,” she sings in the first verse, sounding like a million and a half dorm-room poets, but a couple of choruses later she’s hitting back:
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And I can see you years from now in a bar, talking over a football game
With that same big loud opinion but nobody’s listening
Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things
Drunk and grumbling on about how I can’t sing.
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Not the greatest lyrics in the world, true, but then neither are . . .
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The way she powders her nose
Her vanity shows and it shows
She’s the worst thing in this world
Well, look at that stupid girl
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Sob sisters don’t have senses of humor, and you have to have at least a teeny sense of humor to sing a song about how an old drunk critic thinks you can’t sing. Swift pulls something similar in “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” with a spoken aside about how that song’s object of scorn “would hide away and find your peace of mind with some indie record that’s much cooler than mine.” Lyrical jujitsu: now Taylor’s the coolest! But what I love most, aside from the hooks and the insouciance, is the way Swift has let a bit of self-aware camp seep into her presentation—with bangs and hipster glasses replacing Pre-Raphaelite curls, gauzy dresses, and red cowboy boots, she’s a little less Nashville ingénue here, a little more Williamsburg brat. She’s hardly the only contemporary singer kicking bonehead boys to the curb, but she looks like she’s having more fun than most.
Camp, naturally, was always a huge part of the Rolling Stones’ arsenal and especially of Jagger’s strutting, leering stage persona. Swift will probably never do louche, but she and her producers and co-writers, Max Martin and Shellback, end “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” with a sneering little exhale of breath, a kind of non-vocalized “whatever.” It’s the aural equivalent of a curled Jagger lip, and every bit as canny and knowing.
Will people still be listening in 50 years? Beats me. I wish Swift’s records were less same-y—to my ears, the bulk of her songs range from only mildly catchy to insipid—but who’s more interesting in pop right now? I’ll take Swift’s girly cockiness over a dozen meat dresses, or yet another phlegmy run through “Start Me Up.”
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Does anyone else not like the Sammy Adams remix of 'Trouble'?
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Originally posted by CountryFriedChick
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well, then she'll be #2 in no time!
and then back out of top 5 with next week's album surge! 
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@the stones comparaison ^ oh I see...so WANEGBT alone can ciment her status as a legend like the stones ?!
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