PC Music Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 How is this any different than Shake it Off? It sounds to me like the same stale bubblegum pop song. I get that she is doing a full blown pop album now, but it seems to me that she threw out her writing skills as well. She went from writing her own songs that were great to co writing her pop songs that all sound like every other generic pop song with bad lyrics. It's pretty different than SIO because to me it has more of her traditional storytelling in the verses and bridge. There are even some shades of All Too Well here with the "Moved the furniture so we could dance/baby like we stood a chance/Two paper airplanes flying" line. To me it's reminiscent of "Dancing 'round the kitchen in the refrigerator light." And it also has some Taylor-esque metaphors particularly with the lines "the rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming color" and "the monsters turned out to be just trees" and the aforementioned paper airplanes line. Maybe I'm off-base, but the lyricism is way better in this song than SIO. Even though the chorus is really repetitive, I think it's used to effect in this song because she keeps talking about the anxiousness with the state of their relationship, and so she's constantly asking herself trying to gauge how everything's going. Finally, the bridge is great like almost all her bridges. I really hated the SIO bridge at first, and still only tolerate it. One of the things she's always done flawlessly is capping the song with an outstanding bridge and this song hits the mark for me. Finally, the music itself works for me. Maybe just cuz I've been a fan of Jack's since Steel Train and he's always done jittery beats well, even when it was more guitar than electronics. The synths are driving and anthemic and fit the song perfectly. I liked this song right away compared to SIO, which took me a long while to warm up to and even still I like this way better than that. Snaggle Von Swift and agaetisbyrjun 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1876records Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Daydreaming about spending my afternoon with Taylor Swift and 100 kittens. Getting zero work done. LeeKaye, Snaggle Von Swift, tape and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biodigitaljazz Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Twitter has yielded some fruit. Alleged tracklisting: Welcome to New York Blank Spaces Style. Out of the Woods All You Had to Do Was Stay Shake It Off I Wish You Would Bad Blood How Do You Get The Girl Wildest Dreams This Love I Know Places Clean Wonderland You Are In Love The New Romantics Also, a tweet from her suggests something will be made available worldwide on iTunes Monday at midnight. She used the #1989... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsimmons Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Itunes has no tracklist or track times, except for the 2 released tracks and the album opener. I bet the album opener is what gets released on Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Sup. Snaggle Von Swift, trevorxramage, tape and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nardes Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 she confirmed on tumblr that is not the correct tracklisting aju2streets 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booms528 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 It's going to be the full album stream. We are a week out, releasing 1 new track would be pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Would be shocked it if was a full album stream, since it hasn't leaked yet. She isn't a small time artist looking to gain listens and likes. I'm expecting one song. nardes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booms528 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Every big artist has been streaming their album a week in advance, to help prevent downloads of leaks among other reasons, over the last year or two. Weezer, Jason Aldean and TI are recent ones on iTunes, and Prince put his 2 new albums up for streaming a week early on Spotify. It's the new standard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chhholly123 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 According to her twitter, it's a new song. Welcome to New York. I'm ready to hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aju2streets Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Here is a preview of Welcome to New York. I don't really like it, Shake It Off was great, OOTW was a little repetitive but still enjoyable but this might be a little too poppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hecollec+or Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Juan are you hoarding all the Rolling Stones? Can't find this sucka anywhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsimmons Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I bet the album gets streamed on iTunes, but probably later in the week like Thursday or Friday when the retail versions start popping up in stores in other countries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Juan are you hoarding all the Rolling Stones? Can't find this sucka anywhere aju2streets and trevorxramage 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hecollec+or Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Oh Taylor, I can't stay mad at you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipsterasfolk Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Uh...OK...that snippet of the new song makes me shudder. It's cringe-worthy. That's some Katy Perry level shit that I'd never thought T-Swizzle would reach. Maybe the whole song will make more sense to me once I hear it. But just on those 30 seconds...EW! aju2streets and jewfro 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhitmuzik Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 whole song is out there by the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1876records Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 NEW SONG SNIPPET = garbage. But I do love NY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biodigitaljazz Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Can't find the full song. I gave you guys SIO and OOTW. Somebody throw me a bone? And yeah, that snippet is really disappointing. If every song on this album just has repeating choruses it's gonna be lazy af. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Apparently that El-P character is hatin' on the song all over twitter. http://m.pitchfork.com/news/57152-echo-chamber-el-p-says-taylor-swifts-welcome-to-new-york-makes-him-want-to-move-from-new-york/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Can't find the full song. I gave you guys SIO and OOTW. Somebody throw me a bone? And yeah, that snippet is really disappointing. If every song on this album just has repeating choruses it's gonna be lazy af. http://www.stereogum.com/1712817/taylor-swift-welcome-to-new-york/mp3s/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Definitely my least favorite of the 3. aju2streets 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biodigitaljazz Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I actually like it more than the others. Fucking fight me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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