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Fan Base: Archived: Taylor Swift (#1)
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The Lord & Greg? Omg. That would be both scandalous & delicious. 
EDIT: Has anybody known whose studio is that btw? Not here for ANOTHER MM track. 
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Member Since: 12/26/2011
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EDIT: Caitlin replied.
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"All Too Well i think" "pop gems" 
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Swift’s Poetry Turns Into Globe-Nominated Tune
Anthony D’Alessandro
Who better to provide a voice to the well-received feature adaptation The Hunger Games than the generation’s most popular soulful vocalist, 23-year-old Taylor Swift? However, when Lionsgate executives and Oscar-winning singer-songwriter T-Bone Burnett approached Swift to pen an end-credits song, it wasn’t about the marriage of pop brands, rather it was her penchant for confessional folk ballads that caught their ear. Still, synergy doesn’t hurt. Last year, Swift’s album-sales headlines read like the boxoffice numbers of a record-breaking tentpole film: Her fourth album Red marked the second time in a debut week she sold over a million records, a feat no other female recording artist—not even Lady Gaga—can tout.
“They wanted the song to reflect what Appalachian music would sound like in 300 years, and they wanted me to write from Katniss Everdeen’s (Jennifer Lawrence’s character) perspective,” says Swift of the Golden Globe-nominated tune. After watching exclusive clips from the apocalyptic thriller in Nashville, she promptly ripped through Suzanne Collins’ trilogy before teaming up with Burnett and the Civil Wars (Joy Williams and John Paul White). When the four gathered in a studio home that Burnett was working from, “It was just like lighting a match,” she says. “Joy suggested that we write about how Katniss wants to protect and comfort (the youngest Hunger Games contestant) Rue to the very end.” Coincidentally, Swift had been working on a song concept she was calling “Safe & Sound,” hence the tune’s title. Swift wrote the song on the back of her baby Taylor guitar (a brand unrelated to Swift), while the Civil Wars mapped out harmonies, an experience that she says was akin to “watching twins.”
“Throughout the course of writing ‘Safe & Sound,’ we discovered we were also writing about Katniss and her (best friend) Peeta, as well as her relationship with her (sister) Prim,” explains Swift. “The theme of protecting and comforting someone is so broad-reaching throughout the film.”
This is further evident in the song’s refrain, recalling the scene in which Rue dies in the forest before a crying Katniss: Just close your eyes/The sun is going down/You’ll be alright/No one can hurt you now/Come morning light/You and I’ll be safe and sound.
Swift dropped the song on Twitter just before Christmas 2011, three months prior to the Stateside release of Hunger Games. Within two days, the song sold 136,000 copies on iTunes before culminating a tally of 1.4 million last month, in addition to two Grammy nominations (best country duo/group performance, best song written for visual media) and, of course, its Golden Globes best original song nom. Unfortunately, the song was deemed ineligible by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences as it plays as a second end-credits track—a pity because the song, coupled with Swift’s ethereal, touching vocals, truly captures the film’s spirit.
Outside the film, “Safe & Sound” stands on its own with its guitar-stringed heart-wrenching lyrics about undying love against a wilderness setting. Should “Safe & Sound” softly bring to mind Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide,” that’s no coincidence.
“Stevie Nicks has inspired me in so many ways,” exclaims Swift, who spent time with the iconic artist a few years ago, “I’ll never forget the way she tells a story. There’s so much feeling in everything she does. No wonder that comes through in her songs.”
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From Deadline
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That was a nice read. 
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Member Since: 9/16/2011
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Anyone who thinks Taylor Swift isn’t good for the girl cause has to be crazy, because any woman who’s dominating the charts, the creative director of her own empire, and made whatever millions of dollars last year is only lifting us up. Killing it. And she’s super-creative, an amazing role model, beautiful…..And I think it’s fake intellectuals who don’t have an interest in her. I think real intellectuals would be interested in what she’s doing and understand that she represents something really cool and like a great cultural shift. Anyone who tries to debate Taylor Swift with me, I’m like, “You are an uninformed consumer, and you will be shut down. You’re not doing this.
-Lena Dunham in Vulture Magazine
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omg. she said exactly what i want to say whenever the feminist stuff comes up. Bless her.
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Omg. Lena was PREACHING there. This woman is so amazing. 
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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i m listening to taylor today after such a long time... 
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Member Since: 5/26/2012
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I love it when you're mad, mad, mad |
it s because I start to get worried, I mean Taylocal's market share in my heart peaked just before the 1D mess, after that it completly plummeted !
and Lana Delflop is getting bigger & bigger like Thrift Shop on itunes , she s unstoppable, I m just afraid I won t love Taylor that much with all these stuffs she does (MM, 1D, Zedd, 22, Adam Levine...) 
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Member Since: 5/26/2012
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Originally posted by thediscomonkey
Queen Serena Williams, 2nd best female tennis player of all time after the Goddess of Tennis (Steffi Graf) and Her "You Belong With Jesus" stanning tweets:
Follow Her on Twitter. And don't forget to wish our fellow Disciple good luck for this upcoming tournament. 
kthxbye. 
Yes, Serena & Steffi are 2 best female players. What is a Hingis? I don't know ha. |
Sis not you forgetting Chris Evert-sus ?! 
her winning percentage in singles matches of 90.05% (1309–145) is the the best in the history of professional tennis, man or woman and she reached 34 Grand Slam singles finals, our fellow Disciple could neva !!!!
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Member Since: 3/10/2012
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Originally posted by Ashrock
it s because I start to get worried, I mean Taylocal's market share in my heart peaked just before the 1D mess, after that it completly plummeted !
and Lana Delflop is getting bigger & bigger like Thrift Shop on itunes , she s unstoppable, I m just afraid I won t love Taylor that much with all these stuffs she does (MM, 1D, Zedd, 22, Adam Levine...)
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We all know that it's them who uses Taylor Swift
Little did they know, Taylor has sucked up all their talent with just one session. Look at Dear John, Liz Rose was not needed anymore. Sad Beautiful Tragic giving me S&S 2.0, The Civil Wars was completely unnecessary.
Next album, she won't be needing MM&SB 'cause she's finally mastered pop.
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Member Since: 3/10/2012
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Originally posted by swiftie13
So with all this drama she should release The Lucky One and make an epic video to catch the public's attention and make the song popular and all and it will be like an "ahhh!!!" for the GP and a fierce response from Swift.
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A Paparazzi-esque music video. I can see it. The look must be the same of that Australian photo shoot where she had bangs and straight hair. 
Still one of the songs I skip and hardly finish listening to. 
The Last Time and 22 for singles!!!!
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CFC on Begin Again
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Connor shouldn't have BA either. The song is not about him  |
Eh?
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All I know is pouring raaaiin! And everything has changed
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"Don't you see the starlight, starlight? Don't you dream impossible things"? 
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The Holy Trinity (Singles, it's so hard to choose)
Taylor Swift - Teardrops On My Guitar, Our Song, Should've Said No
Fearless - White Horse, Love Story, You Belong With Me
Speak Now - Sparks Fly, Back to December, Mine
RED - Begin Again, Begin Again, Begin Again
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Originally posted by Taylor fanboy
All I know is pouring raaaiin! And everything has changed
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you love EHC???  yes finlly... I AM NOT ALONE..!!
All I know is we said "Hello"
So dust off your highest hopes
All I know is pouring rain and everything has changed
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Member Since: 9/7/2012
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Originally posted by Taylor fanboy
The Holy Trinity (Singles, it's so hard to choose)
Taylor Swift - Teardrops On My Guitar, Our Song, Should've Said No, Timmy
Fearless - White Horse, Love Story,
Fifteen
Speak Now -
Ours
, Back to December, Mine
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Member Since: 9/16/2011
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Originally posted by Taylor fanboy
The Holy Trinity (Singles, it's so hard to choose)
Taylor Swift - Teardrops On My Guitar, Our Song, Should've Said No
Fearless - White Horse, Love Story, You Belong With Me
Speak Now - Sparks Fly, Back to December, Mine
RED - Begin Again, Begin Again, Begin Again
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Uh, replace YBWM with Fearless and I basically agree. And I think we could squeeze one Trouble in there somewhere. 
+ TOMG ties Tim McGraw. 
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