If you had forgotten that this song came out in , she keeps the line about Tae Bo. Max Martin and Shellback pack the track with all sorts of amusing audio doodads, but the melody is a little too horizontal to stick, and the lyrics have a touch of first draft about them. Perhaps too much — you get the sense it might work better as a Bleachers song. As if to reassure nervous country fans, the fiddle goes absolutely nuts.
Swift often plays guessing games about which parts of her songs are autobiographical, but this one is explicitly a fantasy.
The slangy Trump jabs to say nothing of the slight West Indian accents in the chorus may read as a few years behind the times, but when it comes to straight pop stars penning gay-rights theme songs , you could do a lot worse.
Inspiration works in mysterious ways. Despite the extravagant title, the date described here is charmingly low-key: The dude wears a T-shirt, and his grand gestures are showing up on time and being nice. The production and vocals are appropriately restrained — sometimes, simplicity works.
Turns out, adolescent self-mythologizing is the same no matter where you are — no surprise that Swift could pull it off despite leaving school after sophomore year.
The high point comes when she contemplates forgiving a hater, then bursts into an incredulous guffaw. Reader, I laughed out loud. The key to a good apology has always been sincerity, and whatever faults Swift may have, a lack of sincerity has never been one of them. No matter. As a slice of gothic pop-star paranoia, it gives a much-needed bit of edge to Bumped up a couple of spots for the line about vultures, which I can only assume is a shout-out.
Finally, at a pivotal moment she stands up in front of everyone and protests the impending union. Luckily the guy is cool with it, so we get a happy ending! Mostly for better. The way the whole song starts and stops is an obvious trick, but I like it. In just her second album, she and Rose gave us this clear-eyed look at the emptiness of symbolic gestures, allegedly finished in a mere 45 minutes.
Almost left off the album, but saved thanks to Shonda Rhimes. Here, we go from Kelly Clarkson verses to a roller-coaster chorus to a dubstep breakdown that dates the song as surely as radiocarbon — then back again. Good to see you? Never mind that Red had its own sugary singles. Docked ten or so spots for the spoken-word bridge and cheerleader breakdown, which might be the worst 24 seconds of the entire album. The exuberance of the lyrics is matched in the way she tumbles from line to line into the chorus.
Accidents happen. But careers take hard work. Even as a teenager, Swift was savvy enough to know that country fans love nothing more than listening to songs about listening to country music. Are those fucking gunshots? The Back Issues Browse the archives. Because I want that job Tagged: Noted: , notes Reblogged: thatsthat My god?? It just makes no sense. Tagged: Noted: , notes Reblogged: tyleroakley. Watercolor Theme by Sara White. Cancel Report. Create a new account. Log In. Powered by CITE.
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