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POPGAF |OT3| Geo Da Silva > nails on chalkboard > Taylor Swift

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royalan said:
Christina Aguilera's duet with Tony Bennett was leaked today.

I love when she sings like this. Such effortless mastery of jazz phrasing. Nobody can compare.

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I've always liked it when Xtina did jazzier stuff.
 
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Keeping the Xtina love going, an interview she did for the American Music Awards was put up on youtube today.

Part 1

Part 2

tl;dw

1) She and Max Martin got along famously while recording tracks for Lotus. She loves that he's a singer.

2) She was put on this earth to do what she do.

3) She stans Lana Del Rey, Adele and Rihanna. Shades the rest of the Pop industry in one fell swoop.

4) Poor brave Lance Bass ;___;
 
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royalan said:
Keeping the Xtina love going, an interview she did for the American Music Awards was put up on youtube today.

Part 1

Part 2

tl;dw

1) She and Max Martin got along famously while recording tracks for Lotus. She loves that he's a singer. Cool.

2) She was put on this earth to do what she do. Totally understandable with the talent she has.

3) She stans Lana Del Rey, Adele and Rihanna. Shades the rest of the Pop industry in one fell swoop. Might be missing a few but respectable.

4) Poor brave Lance Bass ;___; Poor has been.
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royalan said:
Keeping the Xtina love going, an interview she did for the American Music Awards was put up on youtube today.

Part 1

Part 2

tl;dw

1) She and Max Martin got along famously while recording tracks for Lotus. She loves that he's a singer.

2) She was put on this earth to do what she do.

3) She stans Lana Del Rey, Adele and Rihanna. Shades the rest of the Pop industry in one fell swoop.

4) Poor brave Lance Bass ;___;
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+1 for Christina Awesomelera

botty said:
Probably wouldn't work well. Lana's music seems to be specifically catered to her monotone voice.
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-1 for floptty
 
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Mau ®

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Imma be a good gurl tho and wait for the official release. A friend and I are gonna hold a listening party for RED in her bedroom while we jump, giggle and cry to every song ;_______;
 
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Artemisia said:
I'm guessing this is gonna ruin her chance of getting over a million?
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I dont know if she will debut to over a million tbh. The predictions are set for 900k. Tho it could go up like with Speak Now.

Anyway Speak Now leaked a few days before the US release. Big Machine was vicious with it.
 
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EW reviews RED. They gave it a B+, same as Speak Now.

The writer James Dickey once described a poet as ''someone who stands outside in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning.'' He could've been talking about Taylor Swift. When the Dean of Tween isn't inviting guys to meet her in the pouring rain, she's courting danger any other way she can, just for the drama of it all. Her new album is called Red — as in red light or red alert — and it finds her singing about walking directly into traffic, wading into quicksand, and flirting with the kinds of jerks Kanye West might toast to. ''You look like bad news,'' she purrs on ''22.'' ''I gotta have you.'' One gets the feeling that it's not this guy's love she's after. She's just using him for the breakup songs.

This time around, it's getting harder to feel sorry for Swift. Whether she's plucking her mandolin, belting out U2-inspired arena rock, or harmonizing with Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol or Ed Sheeran, she never sounds happier than when she's getting dumped hard enough to justify a good revenge anthem.

Luckily, she's recruited the world's greatest boy-shaming pop team — Max Martin, the Swede behind Kelly Clarkson's ''Since U Been Gone'' and Pink's ''So What,'' and his partner Shellback — to produce three of her best tell-offs yet. The smash ''We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together'' is such a sublime explosion of Euro-pop glee, robots will still pillow-fight to it in 2035. And between the dubstep-lite chorus of ''I Knew You Were Trouble'' and gooey-sweet synths of ''22,'' Red should be required listening at the EDM Camp for Girls, if such a thing existed. (In Swift's polka-dot world, it totally would.)

''22'' also shows how savvy Swift is about uniting guy haters of all ages. After enlisting her girlfriends to ''make fun of our exes,'' she invites them to dance ''like we're 22.'' She is 22, but this song belongs just as much to the preteens and power moms who pretend to be that age.

At times, Swift sounds too eager to TMZ-ify her own life. ''Starlight'' seems to nod to her recent Kennedy wedding-crasher scandal (''We snuck into a yacht-club party/Pretending to be a duchess and a prince''). And ''Treacherous'' is nearly NC-17. (When she sighs, ''I'll do anything you say, if you say it with your hands,'' it's safe to assume she's not dating an ASL interpreter.) But the dishiest track is also one of the best. Over plaintive acoustic strumming, ''All Too Well'' recalls a trip to meet an old boyfriend's family (Thanksgiving with the Gyllenhaals, perhaps?), and goes into heartbreaking detail about nights spent singing to the radio or flipping through photos of her ex as a ''little kid with glasses in a twin-size bed.'' She leaves her scarf at his sister's place, and he keeps it long after they've split, which makes you wonder. Red might be about flirting with danger, but who's risking more here: Swift, or the guy whose baby photos are now public domain? For him, it's not such a fair trade. He walks away with a scarf. And she gets the rights to the memory.
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THIS WEEK's TOP 10

1. Maroon 5, "One More Night" (=)
2. PSY, "Gangnam Style" (=)
3. Taylor Swift, "I Knew You Were Trouble" (HOT SHOT DEBUT)
4. fun., "Some Nights" (=)
5. Taylor Swift, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (=)
6. Justin Bieber f/ Big Sean, "As Long As You Love Me" (+1)
7. Alex Clare, "Too Close" (+3)
8. Ke$ha, "Die Young" (+6)
9. P!nk, "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" (=)
10. Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen, "Good Time" (+1)
 
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I'm still surprised that Maroon 5 is slaying the charts. I haven't liked any of their new stuff except Moves Like Jagger.
 
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