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Fan Base: Archived: Taylor Swift (#1)
Member Since: 8/26/2011
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Your faves career must be something more is my Christmas jam 
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Disciples... Do you think that the Lord's 5th album will be her last?  |
I hope not
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Member Since: 12/31/2011
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Originally posted by ___littlered
Disciples... Do you think that the Lord's 5th album will be her last? |
Anyone know how many albums she has to make according to her contract?
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Member Since: 11/9/2011
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If it's a standard contract, then it must be for 6 LPs.
I just can't wait until She leaves that greedy Scott.
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Member Since: 12/26/2011
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67. Begin Again
79. Red
90. 22
(US iTunes)
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Member Since: 7/22/2012
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Originally posted by ___littlered
Disciples... Do you think that the Lord's 5th album will be her last? |
Maybe or 6th
Then we'll see from there
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Member Since: 7/15/2012
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Originally posted by ___littlered
Disciples... Do you think that the Lord's 5th album will be her last? |
Well based on statements Taylor has made in the past she will continue making music as long as people are there for it and she continues to be relevent otherwise she will just go away. She said she would just raise a bunch of kids and write for other people.
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Originally posted by rrr13rcc
67. Begin Again
79. Red
90. 22
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Red has to be a single 
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Member Since: 8/17/2011
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Originally posted by honey827
Well based on statements Taylor has made in the past she will continue making music as long as people are there for it and she continues to be relevent otherwise she will just go away. She said she would just raise a bunch of kids and write for other people.
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This makes me really sad. I could never imagine her just... disappearing. And that one line in The Lucky One
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‘Cause now my name is up in lights, but I think you got it right,
Let me tell you now, you’re the lucky one
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It just makes me feel like she doesn't enjoy this as much as she used to. 
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Member Since: 11/27/2011
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Originally posted by ___littlered
Disciples... Do you think that the Lord's 5th album will be her last? |
5th or 6th.
Taylor isn't enjoying this as much as she used to at all... it was all she ever wanted to do and now she wants to stop when she people get tired of her....
It's going to be a sad story...
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Member Since: 7/23/2012
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she's recently said she has come up with little ideas for LP5, but she hasn't conceptualized the alubm as a whole.
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Member Since: 5/9/2012
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Originally posted by Bahjat
5th or 6th.
Taylor isn't enjoying this as much as she used to at all... it was all she ever wanted to do and now she wants to stop when she people get tired of her....
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Y'all are gonna make me cry 
But I don't wan Taylor to do this if she's not happy
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Member Since: 11/27/2011
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Originally posted by Hunter_13
Y'all are gonna make me cry
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I feel so sad when I think about it too.
What I would HOPE she does is, she goes off the spotlight for like 3 or 4 years then comes back with an acoustic album and tour venues till she can.
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Member Since: 7/23/2012
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I think taylor's only sad about her career because of what it has become. The media rips her apart and over analyze her every move, and it probably destroys her. I'm sure she still loves making music, and I'm sure she loves her job, but i can't wait for her to quiet down.
I would love for RED to really smash, have her produce an extremely awesome, critically acclaimed follow-up, then just make quiet record for the rest of her career.
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She's gonna leave on a high I reckon, like Shania and not make much more albums and live a quiet life etc.. like a true LEGEND. I mean her 6 years here have already been legendary and in 20 years she'll be one of the most remembered. She's bound to lose her teen fans in the next few albums and gain/ grow with her adult ones and eventually go from superstar to respected to legend and everything she releases will debut big but it won't be like these 4 albums big but that's okay because she'll be doing what she wants when she wants..
I really feel like The Lucky One thingy, she doesn't seem 100% and I'm not the only one who's noticing :toosad:
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See why we can't take her words in interviews seriously?  It's obvious she's starting to get fed up with fame & commercial success. Didn't she say she's most honest when it comes to music? No holds barred there. Lemme re-post this:
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Taylor Swift weathers fame by tuning out the hype
Taylor Swift won’t Google herself.
Which is good, because typing “Taylor Swift” into a search engine is an exercise in inanity. You wind up with fatuous persiflage: Stuff involving her boyfriends (apparently, sometimes she has boyfriends!), her breakups with boyfriends (apparently, sometimes she breaks up with boyfriends!) or her boyfriends’ relatives. (Actual headline: “Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy’s grandmother Ethel are ‘Bestiez!’”)
In the words of great American philosopher Charlie Brown, good grief.
Good grief to identifying Kennedy family matriarch Ethel Kennedy as “Ethel” and as “Conor Kennedy’s grandmother.”
Good grief to “bestiez,” whatever they are.
Good grief to the hoo-ha, and to the unending string of breathless, goofy stories that pretend to poke into a somehow-still-personal life that Swift will write about in rhyme, meter and melody but doesn’t want to detail in the mass media.
Want to know something incredible about Taylor Swift? Here goes:
“I was the only girl I knew in my school who played guitar, and the only one I knew who was trying to write songs,” she says, sitting in a room at Starstruck Studios on Music Row.
Hard to find a high school like that these days. And these days are only five years removed from Swift’s high school days. The difference, the reason girls in high schools are playing guitars and writing songs now, is Taylor Swift.
“So many of the girls that come here to take lessons, they’re playing because of Taylor,” said Pamela Cole, who co-owns Fanny’s House of Music, an East Nashville store that features a poster-size, autographed (inscribed to three Fanny’s guitar students) reproduction of Swift on the cover of Rolling Stone.
“She’s responsible for this boom.”
An unprecedented force
Swift was 16 when her debut album came out, an album filled with songs about her own experiences, songs that didn’t pretend to be older or wiser than their protagonist.
Those songs caught the ears of millions, drew praise from Rolling Stone, The New York Times and other non-Perez Hilton-affiliated publications, and they single-handedly (Do songs have hands? Oh, nevermind.) convinced thousands of high school girls, and boys, that their adolescent triumphs, concerns and insecurities were of value and interest.
Real life, the way Swift sang it, didn’t have to begin at 21.
At present, Swift is 22, has just released a fourth blockbuster album, and, we pray, never uses the non-word “Bestiez.”
And she won’t Google herself, because doing so turns her into a two-dimensional celebrity when what she wants to be — what she is, beyond the search engines — is a three-dimensional singer-songwriter whose career to this point has been unprecedented.
Not since Janis Ian, more than 45 years ago, has a teenage girl sung self-penned songs that connected squarely with the public. And, as Ian did in 1975 with her smash single, “At 17,” Swift has moved into adulthood and retained an audience willing to grow with her.
Moreover, Swift’s audience is the kind that can, and does, fill arenas around the world. She’s a six-time Grammy award winner, and the youngest person ever to win a Grammy album of the year prize (for “Fearless,” released in 2008). She has sold more than 22 million albums and more than 50 million song downloads, and this week she’ll open the CMA Awards show as the reigning entertainer of the year.
Impressive, then? Good grief, yes.
The case can be made for Swift as both overexposed and underrated. She writes accessible songs that convey passion and emotion and that inspire other young folks to mine their own creativity. And we as a consumer culture tap our feet to her songs while wondering about tickle fights with Conor Kennedy’s grandmother.
A teenaged Swift told me she felt like the most understood person in the world, because her songs conveyed her emotions directly to her listeners. Now that she’s among the rumor mill’s chief exports, misunderstanding is part of the deal. But it’s the part she tries to ignore.
“I still feel like my fans get everything that I am, what I stand for, what I come from and what I think is funny,” she says. “There’s a level of trust there, to the point where I think when they hear some gossip article that sounds nothing like me, they’ll know that it isn’t me at all. Those places I’m misunderstood, I try to block those avenues from my life. I haven’t Googled myself in three years. I’m blissfully unaware.”
‘Taylor Swift has to belong to everybody’
She is aware, though, that pop-leaning single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” — the first single from just-released album “Red” — was a sales smash (three weeks at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 100 chart) that didn’t remain in the Top 10 at country radio for long.
And she’s aware that some in Nashville have worried that “Red” — featuring collaborations with pop producers Max Martin, Butch Walker and Shellback, and with pop and rock hit craftsman Dan Wilson and English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran — might mark a departure from country music concerns.
“Over and over again, Nashville has seen me experiment and seen me come back again,” she says. “And I think people mistake success for the opportunity to coast. Just because something does well doesn’t mean you should try to duplicate it, just repeat it and put a different cover and label on the front. I’m 22 years old, and it would be wrong to assume I know all I need to know about songwriting and craft and structure and being in the studio.”
Over 16 tracks, “Red” finds Swift inhabiting numerous sonic territories, including a few of the roads she’s traveled in the past with co-producer Nathan Chapman, who has worked with her since her debut. And when pop and hip-hop sounds enter the mix, Swift doesn’t sound as if she’s experimenting so much as she’s creating.
“Red” is a logical progression for a performer whose creative life was forged in the new century, when libraries of music are available to us via a few keystrokes.
Swift’s influences, from Emmylou Harris to rapper Wiz Khalifa, come to her by self-selected playlists, not because they’re in favor on any one radio format.
For artists of Swift’s age and inquisitiveness, openness to an expansive array of sounds and styles is natural, even authentic.
But while the new musical world is elastic, radio formats remain rigid. And so Swift has a massive fan base ready to hear her across the radio dial, while country radio programmers are seeking music that’s in line with the other stuff they’re playing. Sometimes, as with Carrie Underwood’s poppy anthem “Blown Away,” the programmers go ahead and spin the heck out of the thing. But from this point forward, Swift might be an artist who regularly tops the iTunes singles charts but who isn’t an automatic add on country radio.
“I think No. 1 records are still important to her,” says Billboard Nashville senior chart manager Wade Jessen. “I can tell you for sure that they’re still important to her record company. But while an artist like Carrie Underwood is still viewed as belonging proprietarily to country fans, Taylor Swift has to belong to everybody.”
Facing her fears
That’s a tall order, belonging to everybody. Most of us seek to be available to some, to be loved by a few but to be no one’s property. But Swift has already fulfilled a bunch of tall orders, not the least of which is negotiating, in public, what a lot of people find to be the most difficult, chaotic and unsure years of living.
“No one can know what it’s like to deal with that kind of fame and attention and pressure coming at you all the time, at such a young age,” says Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum writer/editor Michael McCall. “People much older have a hard time with it. It’s amazing that she’s handled this so well.”
Part of handling it well is Swift’s refusal to ego-surf the Internet, and, thus, her avoidance of idle chatter about her every rumored public interaction and dating decision.
Another part is a deliberate quest for balance.
“It’s about balancing normalcy and craziness, fear and hope,” Swift says. “Off-balance days make me question everything about my life: Who I am, something I said, where I’m going or where I’ve been. I can get really anxious, not to where I have to go home and have a day to myself, or freak out and yell at someone. I mean, it’s not a meltdown, but sometimes I have to talk myself through the fact that everything is going to be OK.”
Stakes are high, though Swift refutes the notion that her stakes are any higher than what the rest of us deal with. Her career to this point has been unprecedented, but — don’t be presumptuous — her concerns are common.
The author of a song and album called “Fearless” has studied both sides of that coin.
“When I get fearful, it’s that I’m fearful of people getting tired of me, or fearful of my life ending up a cliche of a person who has people around them all the time but in what matters most they’re alone. I want to have a life that looks warm and feels cozy, where I’m surrounded by the people I love. I’m scared of losing the kind of love that I have around me now, with my family. I’m always worried of things going wrong, but now I’m less worried than before.”
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http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2...-out-the-hype/
Just read the whole stuffs. It would give you a new perspective on this thing.
She started to listen to others ever since Fearless era. It's just gotten worse lately. Where is that girl who told RCA to go **** themselves at 14? I miss that girl. 
And ya know, I hope she's branching out a bit on LP5, not just love songs.  She has the potentials to pull something great tbh. Cause if it's another love songs, you know which boys are the inspirations. Which is gonna make me cringe. 
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On Shania tho, she's not exactly what a legend should be in public eyes. Other than mainstream Country and her stans, she has turned to be a (sorta) joke. 
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Originally posted by WayTooHonest13
I think taylor's only sad about her career because of what it has become. The media rips her apart and over analyze her every move, and it probably destroys her. I'm sure she still loves making music, and I'm sure she loves her job, but i can't wait for her to quiet down.
I would love for RED to really smash, have her produce an extremely awesome, critically acclaimed follow-up, then just make quiet record for the rest of her career.
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B-1: Her own fault for following Scott's instructions and appealing to the lowest common denominator.  Why can't She just say NO? 
B-2: Absolutely agree, if you said it last year. These days, after She said she would stop it altogether when ppl get tired of Her, I'm back to questioning Her passion at this. Taking long break in-between albums ≠ pull the plugs, disappear, and just write for others.
She would be lucky if in the future Her career ends up like Fiona Apple's, or Garth Brooks'. Worst is turning as Shania's, worshiped by some, joke for many.
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This makes me really sad. I could never imagine her just... disappearing. And that one line in The Lucky One
It just makes me feel like she doesn't enjoy this as much as she used to. |
It is not easy when your every move is analyzed by the media and not for the better. The twenties are also a difficult time period. I hope and think some of the mistakes Taylor has made will be good for her in the long run. Whatever happens in the future I hope she ends up happy.
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She can make a compilation album called "No Boys Allowed"  jsut for the sake of saying "f you I don't only write about boys"
Tracklist:
1. A Place In This World
2. The Outside
3. Tied Together With a Smile
4. Fifteen
5. The Best Day
6. Change
7. Safe & Sound
8. Eyes Open
9. Mean
10. Innocent
11. Never Grow Up
12. 22
13. The Lucky One
Bonus:
14. Brought Up That Way
15. Diary of Me
16. Didn't They
 #wishfulthinking
and 17. Dark Blue Tennessee just because it's that good.
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Credit to Nickf1
UK sales
Red {Album} #1 9 weeks
#01 - 61,779
#05 - 20,696
#12 - 13,914
#17 - 13,500*
#20 - 15,100*
#31 - 18,450*
#31 - 19,300*
#27 - 25,500*
#30 - 24,000*
Total: 212,239*
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together #4 18 weeks
#05 - 35,970
#08 - 28,717
#08 - 34,655
#07 - 38,042
#06 - 34,916
#04 - 32,550
#10 - 30,306
#12 - 27,851
#07 - 38,095
#09 - 33,737
#10 - 25,761
#18 - 18,192
#25 - 18,790*
#25 - 12,200*
#29 - 9,950*
#36 - 8,350*
#44 - 7,900*
#41 - 8,500*
Total: 444,482*
I Knew You Were Trouble #8 11 weeks
#23 - 12,050
#27 - 10,060*
#53 - 5,560*
#100 - 2,840*
#125 - 1,750*
#79 - 3,300*
#47 - 7,650
#24 - 14,937
#13 - 24,905
#11 - 28,550*
#08 - 38,823
Total: 150,405*
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LP5 will be a masterpiece.
LP6 will have references of her career, and reminiscing her past albums, ending the album will be a song like Change/Long Live.
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