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Fan Base: Archived: Taylor Swift (#3)
Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Dani97
no wonder you like GU  |
Wasn't I the first one in this base, who thinks BAD BLOOD as a good lead single? It seems Ed Sheeran agrees with me, so does Lorde. That's like 3 of my favorites (Including Taylor) 
Edit: I know your feeling for the same reason, I don't mind they put BAD BLOOD as an album track (From the very beginning, If you backtrack)
Edit2: I've compared BAD BLOOD with NEVER EVER for quite a while.
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Member Since: 9/7/2012
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Originally posted by Great Username
Let it use you.
Style - Bad Blood - This Love is the trinity.
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omg yas
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Because Taylor Swift will not perform tomorrow, Guys, what's your most anticipated performance tomorrow?
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Member Since: 10/31/2011
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Originally posted by kevinnyc
You know, Taylor Swift is always the Queen of Bridge
The bridge of BAD BLOOD is one of the best as well. |
Bad Blood punches too hard. One of the towering achievements of Her career.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by kevinnyc
Wasn't I the first one in this base, who thinks BAD BLOOD as a good lead single? It seems Ed Sheeran agrees with me, so does Lorde. That's like 3 of my favorites (Including Taylor)
Edit: I know your feeling for the same reason, I don't mind they put BAD BLOOD as an album track (From the very beginning, If you backtrack)
Edit2: I've compared BAD BLOOD with NEVER EVER for quite a while. |
My boss asked me if the girl singing BB was katy, her daughter loves katy, let that sink in. 
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Great Username
Bad Blood punches too hard. One of the towering achievements of Her career.
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Unfortunately, KP didn't promote it very well  so it's still NOT impossible BAD BLOOD will remain as an album track, sadly so will THIS LOVE.
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Member Since: 10/31/2011
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I’ve been thinking a lot this week about Joanna Russ’ 1983 book How to Suppress Women’s Writing. The cover gets passed around on Tumblr a certain amount, because it lays out the bare bones of her argument, the phrases people use to dismiss and demean women’s work. She didn’t write it. She wrote it but she shouldn’t have. She wrote it, but look what she wrote about. She wrote it, but she isn’t really an artist, and it isn’t really art.
Each of these accusations has been leveled at Taylor Swift in turn: the press said that having co-writers on her songs meant she wasn’t really writing them, so she wrote every word on Speak Now all by herself.
That album marked a sharp turning point in her career: where before, breakup songs had tended to stay into the sad, sweet, territory of Teardrops on My Guitar, Speak Now had the much more accusatory Dear John, and the frankly nasty Better Than Revenge. As her fame became ever more mainstream and the subjects of her songs better and better known, Taylor’s habit of writing about her personal life began to look very different to certain people.
It’s one thing when a teenage girl writes about her exes; the grown ups can write that off. But when it became apparent that she wasn’t afraid to call one of them out— to be specific, and remind us that there was a face, and name, and career attached to the man who’d hurt her— it got too real for some people. It’s fine for girls to get their feelings hurt and talk about it until the way they talk about it threatens an actual man, at which point, she’s either hysterical, or a selfish bitch.
So often women’s art holds up a mirror to the bad behavior of the men in their lives, and men say, god, can’t you think of something else to write about? Did you have to expose me like that? She wrote it but she shouldn’t have. She wrote it, but look what she wrote about. It’s just her little girl’s diary. It’s pop, it’s melodrama, it’s delusional, it’s insane. She isn’t really an artist, and it isn’t really art.
Because if you can deny the creative work that went into transforming experience into song, you can pretend she never thought about what happened to her, or much of anything at all. If you can deny that the story was important in the first place, you can keep pretending that what happens to women doesn’t matter to you, and shouldn’t matter to them.
Before Speak Now it was easy to dismiss Taylor Swift fans the way we always dismiss young women: as dumb romantics obsessed with the interior of their own minds and hearts, and deaf to everything else. Speak Now marked the moment Taylor began to use her voice to tell stories about something other than the culturally sanctioned narratives of Romeo and Juliet. Suddenly it became apparent that she was going to speak ugly truth to specific power— and that the fanbase she’d amassed when she seemed harmless was going to love it when she did.
Worse than that, that girls were going to learn from her: you get to decide what happened to you, and whether you want to talk about it, and how. There’s nothing more threatening to patriarchal culture than when women learn to use their own voices— except maybe when they start to see each other as allies instead of enemies, too. Taylor Swift’s success proves, among many other things, that women are hungry to hear stories lived and written and sung by their peers, which is to say, to hear voices that sound like their own, and validate their lived experiences as being not just true, but worthy of the attention and transformation and time it took to make them art.
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Rooting for lord epic dance tomorrow 
Planning to change my avi next 
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Originally posted by Great Username
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<3
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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As talented as Taylor Swift, do you guys remember how many great songs she put as album tracks?
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Member Since: 12/13/2011
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Dear John
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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ALL TOO WELL
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Member Since: 12/13/2011
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When the bell hits you right before she belts out the "town" note in the bridge. 
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Less than 23 hours until Grammys, if considering the Red Carpet, it's even much shorter, I think this base need to change to Grammy mode. Like what will Taylor wear on Red Carpet tomorrow? Will she ride a horse  like a real one?
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Member Since: 10/31/2011
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This Love doesn’t specify what kind of love it’s talking about. It’s littered with allusions to other songs on the album: in silent screams and wildest dreams, for starters. I Know Places’ loose lips sink ships all the damn time becomes been losing grip / oh, sinking ships. 1989’s various cheek-kisses take a final bow in the bridge.
The song starts at the edge of the ocean: clear blue water / high tide came and brought you in / and I could go on and on and I will / skies grew darker / currents came and swept you out again / and you were just gone and gone and gone. For the first time, the push and pull of a relationship isn’t cast as all or nothing, burning flames / or paradise. Instead it’s tidal: unsettled and unsettling, but not breaking, or broken.
The chorus promises the same series of returns: this love is good / this love is bad / this love is alive, back from the dead / these hands had to let it go free and / this love came back to me. The song is quiet and delicate, by turns hopeful and exhausted by hope. The ocean laps at the same shore every day, and every time it does the pressure of the water transforms the coastline, making it new again, or at least different. A relationship that doesn’t end can seem like a way of getting stuck, but every time you leave and come back again, you come back different. It takes tens or hundreds or maybe thousands of days, of deciding to stay and leave and stay again, but one day you wake up and recognize that you’re miles from where you thought you were. You were moving all along.
The bridge ends on a line that promises hope: when you’re young / you just run / but you come back / to what you need. Or it’s hopeful if you assume that what they need, ultimately, is each other. Or maybe it’s hopeful either way: if they stop coming back, it’s because they’ve learned enough from each other, and don’t need to come back to same places, anymore.
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Ugh such a hymn.
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
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LORD HA 8TH GRAMMY IS COMING
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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STYLE is still my background music today, a thought just came into my mind minutes ago: Taylor has everything to establish business in MODELLING. A side project of STYLE?
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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This night is sparkling, don't you let it go
I'm wonder struck, blushing all the way home
I'll spend forever wondering if you know
This night is flawless, don't you let it go
I'm wonderstruck, dancing round all alone
I'll spend forever wondering if you know
I was enchanted to meet you
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by castle13
LORD HA 8TH GRAMMY IS COMING |
8TH, 9TH, AND 10TH GRAMMY!!! 
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