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Monument & its Inevitable End version are quite obviously the best thing put to recorded sound this year.
Yes.
I wonder if Robyn's gonna put her own spin on it for her next album.
Monument & its Inevitable End version are quite obviously the best thing put to recorded sound this year.
Sarasaland or Mushroom Kingdom?
Mau ®;135645823 said:The Lord is getting that acclaim for her first documented pop release. The critics are giving praise to 1989, the pure pop album of the decade.
Mau ®;135668734 said:"Mediocre" Artist Taylor Swift gets a great review on Godel's homepage!
Wonderland snippet
Mess at these snippets leaking like Xtina at a funeral and not the full album.
d @ me thinking you meant Metacritic.
Mau ®;135668734 said:"Mediocre" Artist Taylor Swift gets a great review on Godel's homepage!
And the initial purchased reviews come rolling in.
And the initial purchased reviews come rolling in.
Stefan;135672925 said:
Mau ®;135673924 said:OMG It's perfect!!
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Lana, ha impact
Not Jessie Ware?
Stefan;135674740 said:apparently, wildest dreams is a mix of lana and lorde. sounds similar to lana's without you imo.
bad blood snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-d1pAa4FfE
more style snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEH2guYy5lg
These poor Taylor Swift fans on Jimmy Kimmel tonight...;__;
Apparently Taylor is "performing." Deciding whether or not to change the channel.
Stefan;135672925 said:omg @ wildest dreams snippet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYhtPVHgtTA
Stefan;135674740 said:bad blood snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-d1pAa4FfE
Whoa...what happened to Taylor? She just came out, and she looks like she could easily be in her mid-thirties.
She sucks at interviews.
But how come you didn't tell us that YOU were going to be on Jimmy Kimmel
But instead it's Swift's best work -- a sophisticated pop tour de force that deserves to be as popular commercially as with Robyn-worshipping blog--gers; an album that finds Swift meeting Katy and Miley and Pink on their home turf and staring them down.
Stefan;135674740 said:apparently, wildest dreams is a mix of lana and lorde. sounds similar to lana's without you imo.
bad blood snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-d1pAa4FfE
more style snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEH2guYy5lg
1995: Daydream album: diamond selling, 3 number ones including song of the decade - One Sweet Day. 25 million sold worldwide
2005: The Emancipation of Mimi album: 2 number ones, 1 number 2 including song of the decade - We Belong Together. 7 million sold worldwide
2015: (New comeback album including much slayage)
Looking at the decline from 25m to 7m that means -11m for 2015?
Stefan™;135674740 said:apparently, wildest dreams is a mix of lana and lorde. sounds similar to lana's without you imo.
bad blood snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-d1pAa4FfE
more style snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEH2guYy5lg
If you dont delete this videos RIGHT NOW I'M GONNA REPORT YOU
If Wildest Dreams bears a hint of Lana del Ray, theres something hugely cheering about the way Swift turns the persona of the pathetic female appendage snivelling over her bad-boy boyfriend on its head. Ramping up the melodrama by way of Be My Babyish drums, Wildest Dreams paints the man as the victim, doomed to spend the rest of his life haunted by what hes carelessly lost.
...And I only just realised that OT9 was closed. Apparently OT-X is at page 112 already. I need to get with the program, PopGAF moves quickly.
Sonic landscape aside, the vital element in the brilliance of ‘1989’ is that the songwriting is of a phenomenally high standard. As well as being expertly written the majority of these songs are also skilfully structured – ‘1989’ is an album of great post-choruses and great middle eights accompanying the expected barrage of extraordinary choruses. Repetition is used sparingly, repetition is used knowingly, repetition is used to great effect. ‘1989’ is the sound of a popstar whose powers are scaling new heights finding the perfect executive producer in the shape of Max Martin, whose formidable talents are going at full throttle on a number of these songs. Ultimately, there’s a clarity of vision that’s virtually unrivalled in the current pop scene.
Fans of Taylor’s earlier work complain that this former country singer (was she ever, really, an actual country singer?) now makes electronic pop music ‘like everybody else’. The truth is, nobody else is making electronic pop music quite like this.
(entire review here)
Waffle aside, there are loads of top tunes here. ’1989’ feels effortlessly enchanting, and of course, it’s not effortless at all – this is a laser-guided pop – but there’s a feeling of relaxed charm to most of these songs, and it’s a feeling many artists find hard to engineer. Taylor pulls it off. This is not a perfect album, but it does contains enough perfect songs (three) plus enough 9/10s (three) and few enough sub-5/10s (none) to make it the best album of 2014, not to mention the best of Taylor’s career.