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Taylor Swift: Shake It Off (Album: 1989, Releasing 28th October)

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RoKKeR

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Delta Assault said:
It's pretty epic. Doesn't grab you as quickly as something like Love Story or You Belong With Me, but the pay-off around 1:40 is worth it.
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Ohh this song. Ok yeah, this is great. I don't think anything will ever top State of Grace but I forgot about this one. Definitely one of her best.

"Please don't..." refrain is so good.
 
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arts&crafts

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I don`t like any song other than Shake It off, but heres to a catchy album !

Edit. Just heard her new song, I am really liking this new Taylor Swift (Always hated country)
 
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Owzers

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I feel like her two songs are catchy yet are making an effort to melt my brain and reduce me to mush.

"Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good.
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good."

That's close to a zombie asking for brains.
 
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arts&crafts

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sillymonkey321 said:
I feel like her two songs are catchy yet are making an effort to melt my brain and reduce me to mush.

"Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good.
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet?
In the clear yet, good."

That's close to a zombie asking for brains.
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As long as its catchy I am happy. So many horrible radio songs these days.
 
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Owzers

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arts&crafts said:
As long as its catchy I am happy. So many horrible radio songs these days.
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Catchy stupid songs are a bit annoying though. I don't want " haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate hate hate and players gonna play play play play play play play play play so i'm just gonna shake shake shake shake shake" looping inside my head. It's vapid.
 
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Never Forever

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Sending love to the UK.

To all my wonderful UK fans,
I realize that you are not yet able to get ‘Out Of The Woods’ due to a new strategy my record label is working on in the UK. I’ve never been one to hold my music back from any of you so I will be watching closely to see if this is ultimately a better experience for you, the fans.
My good friend Ed Sheeran utilized the same strategy with ‘One’ in the UK and he seemed very happy with the feedback from his fans.
But, ultimately, it’s down to you. Let me know.
Peace out.
Taylor/Natalie/Becky
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#annoyed

what is this crazy talk
 
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Conkersbadfurday

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I'm a fan of the TSwift, which is odd since I'm mostly a metalhead. Oh well.

Looking forward to her new album. "Shake it Off" isn't her best, and I'm giving "Out of hte Woods" a go and maybe it isn't her best either, but both seem catchy and oh well. More TSwift won't hurt.

I think "Haunted" is my favorite song by her.
 
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Hasphat'sAnts

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Acquaintance of mine from college claims that he went to elementary school with Taylor Swift and turned her down for a dance at the third grade dance.

I'd like to think that that traumatic experience was what shaped her artistic output.

Don't have anything else to add except Love Story is like, my jam. Her new songs are cool too I guess.
 
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Measley

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Can't stand Taylor Swift's music, but I'll be damned if Shake it Off isn't my favorite pop song of 2014.

Well done Swift. Well done.
 
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Snowman

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The first songs from Red weren't my favourite either, and I like the 3 I've heard from 1989 enough, they're just not incredible. I've heard a lot about people who heard it early saying the best ones haven't been released yet as well, so I'm still hopeful.
 
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RoKKeR

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I was convinced all day that this album would be out tonight for some reason, and was disappointed when I realized it was a week away!

...and then was even more disappointed by the New York song. Eesh, and this is coming off State of fucking Grace as the opener of the last album.

Still holding out hope for the whole package, I've gotten into Out of the Woods for sure.
 
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Oozer3993

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Conkersbadfurday said:
Huh.

Every song I've heard from this album so far I've liked but not loved.

Kinda unsure about the album. Might have to give it a few Youtube listens before I go buy it. At three TSwift albums, unless I really like hte new one, I'm not sure I really need more of her music.
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RoKKeR said:
I was convinced all day that this album would be out tonight for some reason, and was disappointed when I realized it was a week away!

...and then was even more disappointed by the New York song. Eesh, and this is coming off State of fucking Grace as the opener of the last album.

Still holding out hope for the whole package, I've gotten into Out of the Woods for sure.
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Ryan Seacrest was blown away by the album. Take that as you will. And the editor-in-chief of Billboard heard months ago that "it was like the previous albums were practice for this one" then agreed with that assessment when he heard the album.

That being said, I am not enamored with Welcome to New York.

JackLongRod said:
Anyone buying the deluxe verison ?
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Yup.
 
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Zoned

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I don't like Taylor Swift song's but for some reason Shake it off is really growing on me. Really love the way she gently says "Shake it off" in the song.
 
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Conkersbadfurday

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All three songs released are very repetitive in some regard, and I don't like that. I'll have to wait for a YT upload to hear the whole thing before I go buy. The good thing about TSwift's deluxe editions is that they're super damn deluxe though, so at least ya get your monies worth. I think Red had like 22 friggen songs.

ALso, I thought "State of Grace" was a solid album opener.
 
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Kacar

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Taylor is bae. Really don't like Out of the Woods or Welcome to New York that much at all, too repetitive. That little 30 second clip sounds great though.
 
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are we out of the woods?

Lol I love that song
 
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Never Forever

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welcome to new york clicked with me this morning, it all made perfect sense and I ADORED it

and out of the woods is a delight, a beautiful impressionist masterpiece

this will be one of my albums of the year, screw the artsy shit that I pretend to love more than I do to seem cool on the Internet, this just seems like relentless exhilarating fun

I am going to have a listening party with one of my new uni bezzies, we are going to have an AMAZING time
 
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Oozer3993

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Supposedly these are the bonus tracks:

14. Wonderland
15. You Are In Love
16. New Romantics
17. I Know Places (Piano/Vocal)
18. I Wish You Would (Track/Vocal)
19. Blank Space (Guitar/Vocal)
 
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Never Forever

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Reviews are starting to come in:

Rolling Stone: 4/5
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Entertainment Weekly: B
Lyrics like that — aching and pinpoint-specific — used to be Swift's specialty. At her best (2010's ''Dear John,'' 2012's ''All Too Well''), she's the most vivid songwriter of her generation, able to summon the storm clouds of every heartbreak you've ever had with one couplet and then sweep them away with another. But too often on 1989 she's trying to win at somebody else's game, whittling her words down to generic love stuff over flowy synthesizers. That's because pop, as a musical genre, is most precisely defined by what it isn't: not country, not rock, and not rap. Swift isn't any of those, but she isn't 100 percent pop, either — she's still too unique, too identifiably herself.

That's a good thing, by the way. So if she makes another pop album next? Great. If she wants to write R&B, or show tunes, or a nü-metal concept LP? Mazel tov. But if she ditches what makes her special to get there, then she's doing a huge disservice to her fans — and an even bigger one to herself.
Best Tracks:
''I Wish You Would''
''Bad Blood''
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New York Times: Positive
But by making pop with almost no contemporary references, Ms. Swift is aiming somewhere even higher, a mode of timelessness that few true pop stars — aside from, say, Adele, who has a vocal gift that demands such an approach — even bother aspiring to. Everyone else striving to sound like now will have to shift gears once the now sound changes. But not Ms. Swift, who’s waging, and winning, a new war, one she’d never admit to fighting.
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(Ms. Swift :rip:)

TIME Magazine: Positive
As long Swift writes autobiographically, her romantic affairs will be the subject of speculation, but it’s the expertly crafted sound of 1989 that marks her most impressive sleight of hand yet–shifting the focus away from her past and onto her music, which is as smart and confident as it’s ever been. Who are these songs about? When they sound this good, who cares?
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Minus "wildly enthusiastic," this is almost exactly what many reviews said of 808s and Heartbreak.

P.S. Everything about the imminent leak is fascinating to me. Multiple people have the album (some for over 24 hours now) but nobody will post the whole thing. And there are many fans actively encouraging them NOT to leak it. Then there are Taylor's people who are getting snippets and even pictures of the CD taken down within minutes of being posted. This is the craziest non-Kanye related leak hysteria I've seen.
 
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Never Forever

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Popjustice:
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.

[...]

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.
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The Telegraph (4/5):
Scratch beneath the shiny surface, though, and Swift hasn’t moved so far from her roots. Amid the boom-clap drum patterns and digital hooks are songs that could conceivably be strummed on an acoustic guitar, with well-formed verses, rising bridges and catchy choruses. At the heart of country music is an engagement with the grit of real-life struggles, and this remains Swift’s lyrical terrain. Sharp observation and emotional engagement raise her material above the level of celebrity Twitter spat. They are not score-settling songs so much as emotional reckonings, revolving around the appeal and danger of reckless young love, with repeated motifs of memory and loss. The album ends with the understated, atmospheric Clean, a song of survival, evoking metaphors of the destructive yet cleansing force of a torrential storm but also breaking clean of an addiction. “You’re still all over me,” Swift mourns, “like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear anymore.” It’s not quite blood on the tracks, perhaps, but it’s got a truth and power rare in commercialised pop.
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h e l p

amazing

this is going to be so amazing
 
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