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Fan Base: Archived: Taylor Swift (#3)
Member Since: 8/18/2013
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ugh Scott is taylurking 
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Member Since: 4/9/2012
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We spent four hours together each night, taking Polaroids and having a great time and giving them a chance to tell me their stories that they wanted to tell in their own time. Not being rushed. Not having to feel panic. And then they went back out into the world, and they kept those promises. They didn't talk about lyrics. They didn't spoil the secret for other fans. Two days before the album came out, it leaked online, and it was the first time I've ever had an album leak without it trending on Twitter — because my fans protected it. Anytime they'd see an illegal post of it, they'd comment, "Why are you doing this? Why don't you respect the value of art? Don't do this. We don't believe in this. This is illegal. This isn't fair. This isn't right." And it was wild seeing that happen.
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Well I truly believe in the album. From the start of making one to the time it's finished, I focus on there being a visual theme and emotional DNA to it — including the physical package. I mean there has to be an incentive to go to a store, buy a CD. What people who are forecasting the downfall of the music industry don't think about is that there is a still a huge percentage of the country who drive their kids to school every day and play a CD and listen to it with their kids – there's a CD in the CD player in their car. So I understand that the industry's changing and a lot of people are streaming. However, there are a lot of people who aren't, which is what this release reflects. And so, in the physical CD, we've done an exclusive at Target that has three extra songs. It has three songwriting voice memos from my cell phone that were, you know, the initial rough rough ideas that I had; we put those on the album so people can have insight into the songwriting process. I have five sets of 13 Polaroids from the album photo shoot that are in an envelope in the CD, and depending on what album they get, they'll get a different set of polaroids with lyrics written on the bottom of them. So it's very much an experience that's different than downloading the music itself. It's almost like this kind of collector's edition, the physical copy.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by Taylor Swift
Why aren't you guys doing anything for Halloween?
Anyway, glad to see it's 76 on Metacritic.  |
the only people who cares about Halloween in my country are 8 year old kids. 
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Member Since: 4/9/2012
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If you were to go back and perform one of your earliest songs, a song like "Tim McGraw," say, from your first album, could you connect? Could you go back to the girl who wrote that song as a young teenager?
Yes and no. When I do a live show, there are certain songs fans really want to hear, and I'm gonna always play those songs. There's a song called "Love Story" that I wrote when I was 17. I'm going to be playing that as long as I'm playing concerts. And I can go back and I can connect to that song — because of the stories I've heard from fans saying, "We walked down the aisle to that song," or how special I feel it was when that was our first No. 1 worldwide hit. But "Tim McGraw," that song I don't really connect to as much. I connect to it in the form of nostalgia, but that was a song about a first love. I'm in a very different place in my life right now, and I think you can only hope to grow so much, emotionally, that you can't necessarily connect to wide-eyed 15-year-old ideas of love anymore.
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Bye bye to debut performances.
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Member Since: 12/31/2011
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Originally posted by dragon
Bye bye to debut performances.
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Lol Our Song is the only song she's ever going to perform from the debut.
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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What happened to this app supposedly being released by Taylor. Giving me ARTPOP app teas.
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Member Since: 9/13/2012
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Originally posted by Taylor Swift
Lol Our Song is the only song she's ever going to perform from the debut.
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As long as She still plays God's Song, I'm good 
I can totally understand why She's not inclined to play stuff like Tim McGraw anymore, as amazing as it is. It's not uncommon with people who write directly from life.
No Doubt (my main fave ) fans are always complaining about them not playing enough of the old tracks anymore, but Gwen has said that she just doesn't connect to certain songs 20 years after the events that inspired them happened. Lord is going to have a very long career, I'm sure lots of amazing songs will eventually have to be left in the dust 
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Vespertine
As long as She still plays God's Song, I'm good
I can totally understand why she's not inclined to play stuff like Tim McGraw anymore, as amazing as it is. It's not uncommon with people who write directly from life.
No Doubt (my main fave ) fans are always complaining about them not playing enough of the old tracks anymore, but Gwen has said that she just doesn't connect to certain songs 20 years after the events that inspired them happened. Lord is going to have a very long career, I'm sure lots of amazing songs will eventually have to be left in the dust |
As her Discography grows older songs will always have to be dropped from the setlist. Technically this should mean the concerts are better as the strongest material from earlier albums is retained. I think 1989 has strengthed her Discography and quite a few tracks from it could be quite amazing in a stadium setting. OOTW and Style could sound really epic.
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Member Since: 6/25/2012
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Originally posted by Vespertine
As long as She still plays God's Song, I'm good
I can totally understand why She's not inclined to play stuff like Tim McGraw anymore, as amazing as it is. It's not uncommon with people who write directly from life.
No Doubt (my main fave ) fans are always complaining about them not playing enough of the old tracks anymore, but Gwen has said that she just doesn't connect to certain songs 20 years after the events that inspired them happened. Lord is going to have a very long career, I'm sure lots of amazing songs will eventually have to be left in the dust |
what kind of depressing thought
hell no i need her to do six hour concerts the masterpieces can't be forgotten
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Im still so in love with this album yall have no idea. Style and Blank Space only get better, while the rest stays just as great as it was 
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Member Since: 2/15/2010
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Why's the album so great y'all? It's honestly PERFECT. Taylor is a QUEEN. A FORCE to be reckoned with
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Member Since: 7/4/2007
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Well She doesn't keep the "strongest" songs in quality so much as the biggest hits. Which makes sense.
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Member Since: 9/16/2011
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Originally posted by TroubleSwift
What happened to this app supposedly being released by Taylor. Giving me ARTPOP app teas.
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Ask this question again November 10th or later. 
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Member Since: 9/13/2012
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Ask this question again November 10th or later. |
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Member Since: 4/4/2014
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Target is US only?
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Target is also in Canada, but they have limited stores and they don't ship.
In other words, if you don't live anywhere close to a Target in Canada (which is the case of most people) it's impossible to buy You Are In Love and the memos 
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by GeorgiaStars
Target is also in Canada, but they have limited stores and they don't ship.
In other words, if you don't live anywhere close to a Target in Canada (which is the case of most people) it's impossible to buy You Are In Love and the memos |
Did you get a Deluxe?
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Member Since: 4/4/2014
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Originally posted by revel8
Did you get a Deluxe?
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I can't find it anywhere since the closest Target is 4 hours away.....
I have a friend who is sending it to me though.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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That NPR interview was pretty long. About 30 mins long and she touched on quite serious topics like feminism and social media causing insecurity in young kids. So it is basically a serious interview and then at the end Taylor reveals she has been doing this entire interview while wearing her Pegacorn outfit!! ROFL.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by GeorgiaStars
I can't find it anywhere since the closest Target is 4 hours away.....
I have a friend who is sending it to me though.
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Cool.
Yeah, I guess Canada is a pretty massive country.
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Member Since: 9/13/2012
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That NPR interviewer bothered me. The interviewer just kept bringing up her 12-year-old daughter and middle schoolers, as if that is Taylor's main audience. A bit condescending (though maybe unintentionally).
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