Taylor Swift: America's Cultural Colossus

[MartyFunkhouser]

what about cheerleader t swift? that is also highly inoffensive. i feel like i should also like the modern dance thing more.

It is a nice look. T-Swift has many nice looks in the video. However, none of them work as much as the black motif.

[TripletDaddy]

she needs to stop wearing tight clothing. it looks ridiculous. that song is a catchy tune.

[YOhio]

she needs to stop wearing tight clothing. it looks ridiculous. that song is a catchy tune.

Haters gonna hate hate hate and she's just gonna shake shake shake.

[Shaka]

Meh. They were exactly what I thought they would be: well-crafted pop that is fun but not very significant unless you're keeping track of things like pop charts in 80 countries. But I am glad you like it so much.

Not every artist can be Radiohead.

She writes her stuff, plays on her albums, and actually sings live. In an era where Ke$ha can be a star I find Swifty a breath of fresh air.

[TripletDaddy]

even radiohead isnt radiohead anymore, not for several years.

[creekster]

Taylor Swift 1989

Not every artist can be Radiohead.

She writes her stuff, plays on her albums, and actually sings live. In an era where Ke$ha can be a star I find Swifty a breath of fresh air.

I am not trying to denigrate her. I have agreed from the get go that she writes some very catchy tunes. But the Beatles she isn't.

I would take over Keisha any time. As you suggest

[Levin]

I am not trying to denigrate her. I have agreed from the get go that she writes some very catchy tunes. But the Beatles she isn't.

Lol. Creekster from start of thread to now: From: completely forgettable. To: "Well, not the Beatles."

Did you watch the Ronan video?

[Katy Lied]

I just discovered Begin Again from her Red Album. I think the lyrics are really very good. If you were to write a sad, poignant song about a failed love and the hollow, desolated aftermath, how would you put it?

Here's how Tove Lo puts it (a 27 year old songwriter just a little older than Taylor Swift):

I eat my dinner in my bathtub
Then I go to sex clubs
Watching freaky people gettin' it on
It doesn't make me nervous
If anything I'm restless
Yeah, I've been around and I've seen it all


I get home, I got the munchies
Binge on all my Twinkies
Throw up in the tub
Then I go to sleep
And I drank up all my money
Dazed and kinda lonely


You're gone and I gotta stay
High all the time
To keep you off my mind
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
High all the time
To keep you off my mind
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Trying to forget you babe
I fall back down
Gotta stay high all my life
To forget I'm missing you
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh


Pick up daddies at the playground
How I spend my day time
Loosen up the frown,
Make them feel alive
Oh, make it fast and greasy
I'm numb and way too easy


You're gone and I gotta stay
High all the time...

Taylor Swift tells the same story by contrasting the differences in her old relationship with her ex, to the burgeoning differences she's just discovering with a boy she just met. The differences with her ex are negative, and the differences in new guy are positive. You don't know if the new guy is a new love interest, or if he is merely an indication of her willingness to pick up from her life and begin again with someone else. The lyrics are so much more mature and interesting, despite Tove Lo's adult themed lyrics.

[creekster]

I just discovered Begin Again from her Red Album. I think the lyrics are really very good. If you were to write a sad, poignant song about a failed love and the hollow, desolated aftermath, how would you put it?

Here's how Tove Lo puts it (a 27 year old songwriter just a little older than Taylor Swift):



Taylor Swift tells the same story by contrasting the differences in her old relationship with her ex, to the burgeoning differences she's just discovering with a boy she just met. The differences with her ex are negative, and the differences in new guy are positive. You don't know if the new guy is a new love interest, or if he is merely an indication of her willingness to pick up from her life and begin again with someone else. The lyrics are so much more mature and interesting, despite Tove Lo's adult themed lyrics.

You should show us the lyrics from swifty! As a compare and contrast essay this would be a fail without them.

[TripletDaddy]

I just discovered Begin Again from her Red Album. I think the lyrics are really very good. If you were to write a sad, poignant song about a failed love and the hollow, desolated aftermath, how would you put it?

Here's how Tove Lo puts it (a 27 year old songwriter just a little older than Taylor Swift):

Taylor Swift tells the same story by contrasting the differences in her old relationship with her ex, to the burgeoning differences she's just discovering with a boy she just met. The differences with her ex are negative, and the differences in new guy are positive. You don't know if the new guy is a new love interest, or if he is merely an indication of her willingness to pick up from her life and begin again with someone else. The lyrics are so much more mature and interesting, despite Tove Lo's adult themed lyrics.

I dont care whats happening in my life, im not going to throw up in the same place where I eat my dinner. I would consider going to a sex club.

[creekster]

Lol. Creekster from start of thread to now: From: completely forgettable. To: "Well, not the Beatles."

Did you watch the Ronan video?

I said "ultimately forgettable" and "pretty forgettable." And she is and will be. Compare her stuff to someone like Carol King. Great songs, good melodies, interesting chord progressions (at least for King) and they both sing their own stuff. No one really cares much about Carol King anymore, except the old farts that grew up with it. TS will be the same way. Except for the kiddies who grew up with it and you (unless you're dead by then) no one will care about her when she's on the state fair summer circuit. That's OK, as it is thus with almost all pop artists.

I am not sure what your point is. Do you really contend that she is anything other than the pop princess of the day? Do you think her music is meaningful beyond selling CDs/downloads all over the world? Just like others have done and will do? I know she's popular. But, ultimately, so what? Ultimately, she's pretty forgettable.

I didn't watch the video, to be honest. I am sure it moved you very much.

[New Mexican Disaster]

When do we get a Shania Twain thread?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Kind of embarrassing to see my old buddy creekster being so badly trolled.

[CardiacCoug]

I like T-Swizzle and am not ashamed.

[creekster]

Taylor Swift 1989

Kind of embarrassing to see my old buddy creekster being so badly trolled.

I don't really do that I am what I am the whole trolling thing is pointless from my pov