Posted on 09/03/2017 6:33:04 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Taylor Swift has revealed a second track off her upcoming Reputation with new song "
Ready for It?" A portion of the song premiered Saturday during the broadcast of the Alabama vs. Florida State college football game before Swift dropped the complete track Sunday morning.
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Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do ( cover by J.Fla )
She needs to bring back her A-Game.
Drew68, this sounds more like a throw away song than a headline for an Album.
Not a worthy successor to "1989"
Perfectly said Yaelle, when Taylor switched to straight pop from country, I was apprehensive at best.
I was an original fan, going all the way back to 2006.
But "1989" turned out to be, as Drew68 said, the definitive album of Taylor's career.
The country stuff was catchy, I liked Red a lot, and I sincerely, truthfully believe that 1989 will be the definitive album of Swift's career. Like you said, there isn't a bad song on the album. Even the throwaways are good. And the good songs are absolute dynamite. The album as a whole is a towering musical achievement that stands should-to-shoulder with some of pop music's greatest releases.
You've released your career-defining masterpiece. How do you follow it up? The truth is, you can't.
And what I'm hearing underscores my point. The songs are ok but they're missing that spark of magic. She's still young, not yet 28, with good music in her future, but there will never be another 1989. Those career-defining albums don't happen twice.
What he said.
And as HonkyTonkMan said, she needs songs that show off her vocals. WITH actual melodies.
This sounds far too much like combo mid to late 2000's pop.
I hope she didn't dig up someone from that time and put them in charge of "Reputation"
I must have missed them.
The song itself isn't terrible, just not executed with the correct beat or proper cappella.
A shame.
Someone else said it... I don’t see how she doesn’t get sued for ripping off “I’m too sexy for my shirt.”
Referring to “Look what you made me do.”
By giving the three members of Right Said Fred a co-writing credit (which means big fat checks every week from Big Machine Records).
Right Said Fred on Taylor Swift's 'Cynical' 'Look What You Made Me Do'
The duo hedged their bets that the new song wouldn't upset them and agreed to the blind offer. Just this morning, they heard the finished product for the first time: Taylor Swift's caustic, bad-girl Reputation single (and apparent Kanye West diss track) "Look What You Made Me Do," on which she speak-sings the chorus to the same rhythm as "I'm too sexy for my shirt."
I made it 20 seconds.
I was going to blame producer Jack Antonoff, Swift BFF Lena Dunham's emasculated "sobbed when Hillary lost" pussy hat-wearing musician boyfriend but then I see that he produced some pretty good tracks on 1989.
I think the finger needs to be pointed at Swift herself who has been completely forthcoming that her next album would be largely hip-hop/EDM influenced.
So far, she's made good on this. Two songs now and I don't hear a single electric guitar anywhere, just synth beats.
From what I heard, I don’t like it very much.
LOL!
I found “Red” in the car during my Midlife Crisis and played it a lot. Also Halestorm. It was a weird time ...
That song is incredibly bad.
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