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[tali'zorah84]

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.

 

[Vazra]

Sarasaland or Mushroom Kingdom?

#TeamButch (Daisy)
#DieRosalina (FUCK HA)

 

[The Flop]

First off, making me pick between two of my favs is evil. How do I decide?

Now onto the importance of this post. X Factor US Season 2 is coming for your favs weaves.

Firstly... little Bea Miller is beating out Carly Rose Hew at her first single. Her song "Young Blood" is rising on the radio charts and she is perched to become one of the youngest top 40 hit artists ever.

Next we have the feircest bitch on XFactor US. CeCe with her new/debut single "Dead 2 Me" Coming for those Ke$ha rose teas.

Then we have my girls Fifth Harmony about to snatch the wigs right off the haters. They are coming this week. First up some MTV promo and a cover of NKOTB "Right Stuff" and tonight a livestream where they hopefully will reveal their next single that's going to blast the merkins right off your favs.

Also in non X factor related news. Karmin has gone indie and I'm loving their new vibe.

Sugar
Yesterday


You may now continue spilling your tea.

 

[Touchdown]

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.

With her leaving Country, room for another Lord has cleared, the original Lord no less. Shania's coming.

 

[Vazra]

With her leaving Country, room for another Lord has cleared, the original Lord no less. Shania's coming.

The mediocre country artist got scared of the true queen.

 

[Mau ®]

"Mediocre" Artist Taylor Swift gets a great review on Godel's homepage!

 

[You Know Nothing]

Wonderland snippet

Mess at these snippets leaking like Xtina at a funeral and not the full album.

"Mediocre" Artist Taylor Swift gets a great review on Godel's homepage!

d @ me thinking you meant Metacritic.

 

[Vazra]

Wonderland snippet

Mess at these snippets leaking like Xtina at a funeral and not the full album.



d @ me thinking you meant Metacritic.

Natalia kills and her impact continues

 

[royalan]

"Mediocre" Artist Taylor Swift gets a great review on Godel's homepage!

And the initial purchased reviews come rolling in.

 

[Vazra]

And the initial purchased reviews come rolling in.

Drag IT

 

[Mau ®]

And the initial purchased reviews come rolling in.

Will you be reviewing 1989 like you did with your iconic RED review? *.*

 

[Styles]

omg @ wildest dreams snippet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYhtPVHgtTA

 

[Mau ®]

omg @ wildest dreams snippet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYhtPVHgtTA

OMG It's perfect!!

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Spoiler

Lana, ha impact

 

[Vazra]

OMG It's perfect!!

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Spoiler

Lana, ha impact

Spoiler

Not Jessie Ware?

 

[Mau ®]

Spoiler

Not Jessie Ware?

The vocal production gives me slightly sped up "Without You" teas tbh.

 

[Styles]

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

 

[You Know Nothing]

Lord, these snippets.

 

[royalan]

These poor Taylor Swift fans on Jimmy Kimmel tonight...;__;

Apparently Taylor is "performing." Deciding whether or not to change the channel.

 

[Mau ®]

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

Not PRISM being on the Bad Blood video :ahh:

 

[Vazra]

These poor Taylor Swift fans on Jimmy Kimmel tonight...;__;

Apparently Taylor is "performing." Deciding whether or not to change the channel.

Watch and drag.

 

[Aguila]

omg @ wildest dreams snippet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYhtPVHgtTA

bad blood snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-d1pAa4FfE

!!!!

I'm really liking these two.

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

All my life I’ve been so lonely
All in the name of being holy
Still, you’d like to think you know me
You keep buyin’ stars
And you could buy up all of the stars,
But it wouldn’t change who you are
You’re still living life in the dark
It’s just who you are
It’s just who you are

 

[royalan]

Whoa...what happened to Taylor? She just came out, and she looks like she could easily be in her mid-thirties.

 

[Mau ®]

I really need "Wildest Dreams".

I actually I really need all of 1989 ;___;

 

[Vazra]

Whoa...what happened to Taylor? She just came out, and she looks like she could easily be in her mid-thirties.

 

[royalan]

She sucks at interviews.

 

[Aguila]

She sucks at interviews.

But how come you didn't tell us that YOU were going to be on Jimmy Kimmel

 

[royalan]

But how come you didn't tell us that YOU were going to be on Jimmy Kimmel

He is so dreamy...*.*

 

[royalan]

Lord, no shade but Taylor looks so awkward and uncomfortable doing these high-glam Pop performances.

 

[Mau ®]

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.

The praise is real

 

[Styles]

The praise is real

oop

 

[AyaisMUsikWhore]

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

But wait.....

..these actually sound good. Hmmmm.. Interesting

 

[B-Dex]

Not off topic saying thriller is about rape. Wtf. Literally can't right now.

 

[Touchdown]

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)

 

[Vazra]

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?

 

[Touchdown]

Looking at the decline from 25m to 7m that means -11m for 2015?

It will be a postive number, but I will not speculate on how positive.

 

[Leona Lewis]

waiT at Taylor having a lower register though

 

[Blood Diamonds]

We were two kids just trying to get out
Lived on the dark side of the American dream
We would dance all night, play our music loud
But when we grew up, nothing was what it seemed

honestly when will anyone

 

[Vazduh]

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

This sounds nice, although I'm mostly looking forward to the album because of Max Martin, and not Taylor, tbh.

loling at the first comment:

If you dont delete this videos RIGHT NOW I'M GONNA REPORT YOU

smh

 

[You Know Nothing]

I can't wait for it to leak so all of her annoying teenage querl fans can cry about it.

 

[Matt_]

Ok I will concede a point, Wildest Dreams sounds like a legit bop

 

[Styles]

If Wildest Dreams bears a hint of Lana del Ray, there’s 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 he’s carelessly lost.

They went in on Lana.

 

[MoGamesXNA]

.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

FROOT is still such a bop tbh

 

[Mau ®]

...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.

Make sure to vote in the tournament.

Vote for supermodel Rhat

 

[royalan]

GIMME SOME MUSIC RIH!!!!

Can we just get a snippet of an instrumental or something?

 

[Mau ®]

No need for Rih anymore. Taylor is coming to save pop music.

 

[Soulscribe]

Nnnnn NOT Kelly Clarkson taking the lead this morning. Where's the #NAVY at?

With that said, huge turnout on this round. They're only a couple of votes apart so as far as I'm concerned this is still RiRi's match to lose.

Remember, whoever's eliminated this round is out for good, so choose wisely!! ...


PM me your vote today! And thank you so much to those that already voted!

 

[Never Forever]

Popjustice review of 1989

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.

 

[Phreaker]

Popjustice review of 1989

I am perched for 1989, my first TS album. Also, those snippets are gone from YouTube. That popjustice review sounds amazing!