[Vespertine]

Originally posted by Chemical X.

Katy is capable of making great pop music. Teenage Dream (the song) proves this.

One or two great pop songs out of a few dozen proves nothing They're flukes (or just the result of her co-writers/producers feeling particularly inspired).

Originally posted by Flanders

I always considered Nightmare before Christmas a holiday movie moreso than a halloween movie

I watch it on Thanksgiving every year to split the difference

[Reader]

Originally posted by Subomie

It's probably the most overrated song they ever made.

The Promise takes that one tbh

[johnsuxx]

Originally posted by Nialler

After a long consideration Birthday sounds like a filler too. Thank God Bonnie is gone.

She belongs to the debt collectors now

[Subomie]

Spiritual is one of the better Prism tracks.

[B-Luke]

Originally posted by Chemical X.

Get into Cold Sweat and skip the interludes! Also DJ Mustard his revenge. Poor Mike Will

Whew you're right, I knew this album had at least 2 or 3 more good songs on it.

Like: Bet, Aquarius, Cold Sweat, Thug Cry (okay might be generic but don't make me hate any more songs of hers at this point), Far Side of the Moon, Wildfire
Meh: Pretend, All Hands on Deck, Feels Like Vegas (the part @3.00 is beautiful), 2 On
Boring: How Many Times, Bated Breath (sry every1)

Better than the first few times but that Black Water song is still superior to everything on here.

[Clump]

Listening to 1989 for the first time:

"Welcome to New York" sounds a lot like "Love Action" by Human League.

[BoyOnBoy Wonder]

Originally posted by Flanders

I always considered Nightmare before Christmas a holiday movie moreso than a halloween movie

Like Clump said, it's a movie for both holidays! That's why I watch at Midnight - a transition from one holiday into the other (yes, I celebrate Christmas super early)

[Vespertine]

Originally posted by Subomie

Spiritual is one of the better Prism tracks.

That's not really saying much.

[Clump]

All I want to do is listen to "Love Action" now. What an anthem.

[katyperryismylife]

The only holiday movie that matters.



Can't wait to watch this again on December.

[thirdward]

"Meh: Pretend, All Hands on Deck, Feels Like Vegas "

TF?

[Cap10Planet]

Originally posted by Clump

Listening to 1989 for the first time:

"Welcome to New York" sounds a lot like "Love Action" by Human League.

Don't hear it.

1989 is good, but I'm not going to faux stan. There will be too much of that going on.

Oh, and Tinashe still has one of the few good releases of the year.

[Clump]

Originally posted by Cap10Planet

Don't hear it.

1989 is good, but I'm not going to faux stan. There will be too much of that going on.

Oh, and Tinashe still has one of the few good releases of the year.

It's the instrumental. The synth lines are similar. Or at least close enough that I was instantly reminded of "Love Action"

[DrownedWorld]

People on here overrate Taylor so much

[Subomie]

Originally posted by Reader

The Promise takes that one tbh

Maybe, I'e seen a lot of fan hate for that one though.

Originally posted by Vespertine

That's not really saying much.

It's a solid track that gives me a little more motivation to get through that tiring second half of the album.

[BoyOnBoy Wonder]

Originally posted by katyperryismylife

The only holiday movie that matters.



Can't wait to watch this again on December.

Love Actually >>>

[BoyOnBoy Wonder]

Clump: have you listened to Perfume Genius' new album yet?

[RobynYoBank]

Hi Cap10!

Originally posted by Rolling Stone

1989 is a drastic departure – only a couple of tracks feature her trademark tear-stained guitar. But she's still Taylor Swift, which means she's dreaming bigger and oversharing louder than anyone else in the game. And she still has way too many feelings for the kind of dudes who probably can't even spell "feelings."

Swift has already written enough great songs for two or three careers. Red, from 2012, was her Purple Rain, a sprawling I-am-the-cosmos epic with disco banjos and piano ballads and dubstep drops. But as every Eighties pop star knew, you don't follow one epic with another – instead, you surprise everybody with a quick-change experiment. So rather than trying to duplicate the wide reach of Red, she focuses on one aspect of her sound for a whole album – a very Prince thing to do.

Originally posted by NY Times

Full of expertly constructed, slightly neutered songs about heartbreak, “1989,” which is to be released on Monday, doesn’t announce itself as oppositional. But there is an implicit enemy on this breezily effective album: the rest of mainstream pop, which “1989” has almost nothing in common with. Modern pop stars — white pop stars, that is — mainly get there by emulating black music.

Ms. Swift, though, is having none of that. There is no production by Diplo or Mike Will Made-It here, no guest verse by Drake or Pitbull. Her idea of pop music harks back to a period — the mid-1980s — when pop was less overtly hybrid. That choice allows her to stake out popular turf without having to keep up with the latest microtrends, and without being accused of cultural appropriation.

By making pop with almost no contemporary references, Ms. Swift is aiming somewhere even higher, a mode of timelessness that few true pop stars — aside from, say, Adele, who has a vocal gift that demands such an approach — even bother aspiring to. Everyone else striving to sound like now will have to shift gears once the now sound changes. But not Ms. Swift, who’s waging, and winning, a new war, one she’d never admit to fighting.

Glad to hear you like the album! Good luck with your 1989 predictions this week!

[Clump]

Hopefully Taylor's album helps people realize that 80s pop >> 90s+2000s+2010s



So many 10/10 songs released in one decade.

[thirdward]

everyone will stan for feels like vegas when it will be Tinashe's first number one