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Post by Joe1240 on May 7, 2015 12:08:07 GMT -5
New Elle Magazine USA cover
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Post by musiciscool on May 7, 2015 23:15:05 GMT -5
New Elle Magazine USA cover She looks absolutely beautiful in that photo. Such beauty.
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Post by tucomrang on May 8, 2015 9:52:01 GMT -5
Did anyone post this? Her next #1 is coming
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Post by Clauss on May 8, 2015 9:58:13 GMT -5
Did anyone post this? Her next #1 is coming We've been discussing it on the BB thread in CHR
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Post by Clauss on May 12, 2015 19:29:56 GMT -5
“I was telling my mom this yesterday when I was putting together a package for this British fan-I was writing her notes and stuff, my mom was helping me wrap presents-and she goes, “Remember last year?” Last year Red was nominated for Album of the Year. You go into Grammy week thinking, I’m not going to win and I’m fine with that and I have enough happiness and success. And if I don’t win, I won’t be sad. And the everybody comes up to you at these functions and they go, “You know you’re going to win Album of the Year; you know you’re going to win Album of the Year; I voted for you for Album of the Year, you’re going to win; you’re going to win.” And so then you start getting hopeful. So we got to the awards and they’re announcing the winner for the Album of the Year-last award of the night-and the presenter says, “Album of the Year; RRRRRRRandom Access Memories, Daft punk! And, you know, you clap because you support other people and all that. And then I didn’t want to go to after-parties. I just wanted to lay in a blanket and eat an In-N-Out burger on my couch. I found myself wanting something that anyone would want, and I was really bummed. My backup singers texted me and said, “Hey, are you okay?” And I wrote, “I’m okay, but I’d love some company. So they come over, and I was like, "Hey, do you want to hear something I wrote this week?” And I played them the demo of “Welcome to New York.” And they look at me and go, “This is an ‘80s throwback song-you’re using all ‘80s sounds on this. And I was like, "Wow, I didn’t really think about that, but I’d been doing that on every song I’ve made for this record so far. I go to sleep, and I wake up in the middle of the night at three in the morning and sit up straight, like out of a movie, and go "1989. It’s called 1989.” That moment wouldn’t have happened if I had won Album of the Year. So many things would have been different if I hadn’t experience failure-the way I live my life and my resilience-and if I hadn’t been harshly criticized every step of the way. So that’s what gives me faith that even if you made a mistake in the past, or you didn’t do something quite as well as you wanted to, these are things we learn from-it’s not useless.”
"Do you know how many sit downs I got at the label about that? A lot of me making this album was me going in the studio, making something I loved, and showing it to the label and getting a principle’s-office discussion. Like, “Young lady, you know you’re not going to sell as many albums if you’re not labeled as country.” I wasn’t kicking and screaming, but I was very firm about the fact that to call this album a country album would be the biggest mistake. Because when you’re trying to fool people, you insinuating that you think they’re stupid. And insinuating that people aren’t going to see through your transparent motives is the one worst mistake you can make as an artist who is supposed to respect their fans. That was my argument. I got really, really lectured about not putting my name on the title on the front of the album cover―that was fun. And then it was suggested to me that we use a different picture for the album cover because, they kept saying, “We need eyes, lips, hair on an album cover. You know no one’s going to know who that is.” And I was like, “That’s the point. We’re starting over.” Also, the reason I didn’t put my face on the album cover is because I didn’t want people to fully diagnose the emotional DNA of this album before it came out. If I’m smiling, it’s a happy record; if I’m frowning, it’s a sad record. I wanted people to be able to detect no emotion on my face. It was just taken on this ‘80s Polaroid camera that I have. I knew that I was doing something that I fully believed in when I was confronted with these people on my team, who were only going by what they knew―which is that there hasn’t been a successful country-to-pop crossover, really ever, who has sold as well as their country career did. They’d say “You’re not going to sell as much.“ and I would say, “I don’t care. This is the album I made, this is what I’m going to call it, this is how I’m going to label it.” I knew that I’d made songs that my fans would like; I was like, “You guys don’t know them like I do. You sit in an office, I’m out there at shows with them, I’m on tumblr talking to them, I know what they want from me.” Thank God it worked out. If we’d sold one album less than a million in the first week, it would have been two years of “Taylor, we told you.” So glad we sold almost 1.3 [million] in the first week.”
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Post by Mark on May 12, 2015 19:50:46 GMT -5
So we got to the awards and they’re announcing the winner for the Album of the Year-last award of the night-and the presenter says, “Album of the Year; RRRRRRRandom Access Memories, Daft punk! Never forget.
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Post by countrygirl918 on May 12, 2015 21:30:33 GMT -5
The fact that she considers being nominated for Album of the Year and losing it a failure shows just how blessed she's been with her career. Also, how could her label think she'd sell less as a pop star? Pop stars frequently sell more than country stars, especially ones at the level Taylor was at coming off 'Red'. It was beyond obvious that pop was where she wanted to be, they'd focused most of their 'Red' promotion on pop with WANEGBT, IKYWT & 22, and I'm not at all surprised at the success she's had this era. She is a pop superstar and is meant to be exactly where she is right now. I can understand their concerns about leaving her name and face off the album cover, but come on - it's Taylor Swift. If there was anyone who didn't know who she is and wasn't aware of '1989' before its release, they must have been living under a rock.
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Post by pnobelysk on May 13, 2015 8:55:26 GMT -5
The fact that she considers being nominated for Album of the Year and losing it a failure shows just how blessed she's been with her career. Also, how could her label think she'd sell less as a pop star? Pop stars frequently sell more than country stars, especially ones at the level Taylor was at coming off 'Red'. It was beyond obvious that pop was where she wanted to be, they'd focused most of their 'Red' promotion on pop with WANEGBT, IKYWT & 22, and I'm not at all surprised at the success she's had this era. She is a pop superstar and is meant to be exactly where she is right now. I can understand their concerns about leaving her name and face off the album cover, but come on - it's Taylor Swift. If there was anyone who didn't know who she is and wasn't aware of '1989' before its release, they must have beers n living under a rock. It seems like a no brainer now that she went to pop but at the time it was risky for her to just leave her original format all together
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Post by countrygirl918 on May 13, 2015 8:59:20 GMT -5
It seems like a no brainer now that she went to pop but at the time it was risky for her to just leave her original format all together I suppose, but as a country fan I think we all knew she was headed to pop and actually preferred her to be honest about that rather than making pop music and still labeling it country. It would have been riskier for her to make a pop album with a few token country songs and label it country, IMO. There would have been a huge backlash from country fans if that had happened - a lot of them already felt that way about 'Red'. Like she herself said, nobody was surprised she made a pop record, but a lot of country fans were surprised she was honest about it. For any other artist it definitely would have been risky, but IMO Taylor was already a pop superstar at the time and it was obvious she'd only continue that success (and to a greater degree) with her officially crossing over.
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Post by Ace on May 14, 2015 10:01:04 GMT -5
Just stopping by to remind everyone that the bridge of Wildest Dreams was the best pop music moment of the year 2014.
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Post by Keelzit on May 15, 2015 12:43:59 GMT -5
She speaks the truth and I respect her a lot for that.
One thing I'm 'concerned' about is whether we'll get a new album next year or not. I don't remember where she said it but I think she said something among the lines of 'haven't even thought about it yet/don't know when #TS6 will be released'. I'm also curious to discover if the next album will be pop or country. Nevertheless, this is a great time to be a Taylor fan and I can't wait for the Bad Blood video to demolish VEVO's charts.
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Post by slayZ on May 15, 2015 16:20:47 GMT -5
I don't remember where I read it but she said the 2 year cycle may be broken, and she doesn't know what she's doing yet. 1989 is so huge that I actually don't see them releasing another album next year, especially since it's her last with Scott (that we know of so far.) There doesn't seem to be plans of releasing an album next year.
I don't see her going back to country. I do think she'll go for a more indie/electronic vibe, a la HAIM/Lorde though.
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Post by McCreerian on May 15, 2015 18:02:14 GMT -5
Next year will be Taylor's 10th year. It's time for a Greatest Hits. I can see them doing a 2 disc. One with her Country hits and one with her Pop hits. Maybe 2 new songs and some remixes of older ones.
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Post by neverduplicated on May 16, 2015 0:17:10 GMT -5
I have wondered if she might release a greatest hits. She certainly has enough material, but nowadays a greatest hits album can only do so well. All the big Taylor fans will already have her albums anyway.
I'll be a bit sad if the 2-year cycle gets broken as it works so well for her, and I'm always eager for new Taylor material. It would be pretty cool if she released a double album at some point. That would be worth waiting longer for.
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Post by pnobelysk on May 16, 2015 0:32:33 GMT -5
I have wondered if she might release a greatest hits. She certainly has enough material, but nowadays a greatest hits album can only do so well. All the big Taylor fans will already have her albums anyway. I'll be a bit sad if the 2-year cycle gets broken as it works so well for her, and I'm always eager for new Taylor material. It would be pretty cool if she released a double album at some point. That would be worth waiting longer for. with Taylor being Taylor I could totally see a greatest hits album doing extremely well . Opening around 300k and selling 1.5 million total. She has the fanbase
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Post by 14887fan on May 16, 2015 2:34:08 GMT -5
She'd be able to manage a successful GH era, no doubt.
Honestly, whatever her next move is, it'll be successful. She's at a perfect point in her career.
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Post by Keelzit on May 16, 2015 3:39:14 GMT -5
If she were to put out a GH she should do it pre-1989 to close out her country years. It'd be weird if she did it right after her most successful album ever that marked the beginning of a new chapter in her career.
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Post by Clauss on May 16, 2015 8:48:55 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 11:50:07 GMT -5
Found it only appropriate to make my 1,989th post here. Can't wait to see and hear the remix of Bad Blood tonight!
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Post by Clauss on May 19, 2015 15:41:09 GMT -5
A great video! Taylor Swift rescued Mariska Hargitay way before she cast her in her “Bad Blood” video.
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Post by Taylor. on May 21, 2015 8:03:27 GMT -5
She performed Wonderland instead of You Are In Love last night at Bossier City; she did the same at Rock In Rio.
Why can't she just do both? smh
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Post by Joe1240 on May 23, 2015 11:10:06 GMT -5
1989 Tour Should Give Taylor Swift Her First $100 Million YearEarlier this week in Bossier City, Louisiana, Taylor Swift played eighteen songs to a sold-out crowd at the CenturyLink CTL -0.88% Center, kicking off the North American leg of her 1989 tour. But her performance at the 14,000-seat arena is just the beginning of what promises to be the best financial year of her career so far. Swift’s tour, which is set to include more than 75 dates across three continents through the end of 2015, should mark the first time she tops the $100 million mark in annual earnings. According to Pollstar, Swift has grossed nearly $2.5 million per stop on the road in recent years. Both her ticket sales numbers and her unusually-strong merchandise sales figures should grow dramatically as Swift moves on from smaller venues in places like Bossier City to much larger ones in bigger cities. Taylor Swift: With her 1989 Tour, the 25-year-old is set to join stadium rock royalty. Photo by Christopher Polk / Getty Images Entertainment. Taylor Swift: With her 1989 Tour, the 25-year-old is set to join stadium rock royalty. Photo by Christopher Polk / Getty Images Entertainment. Tonight, for example, Swift will perform at Baton Rouge’s LSU Tiger Stadium, a building with a capacity of roughly 100,000. Later in the summer, she’ll play back-to-back nights at NFL stadiums like Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field and Chicago’s Soldier Field. Those are venues Beyonce played with Jay Z last summer–for one night only, not back to back gigs–during a year in which she earned $115 million, second only to Dr. Dre’s record $620 million. In the past three years, Madonna is the only other solo act who has topped $100 million in a single year. With her 1989 Tour routed through some of the largest stadiums in the world throughout the next six months, Swift seems to have nearly outgrown the arenas most often frequented by solo pop acts and has entered the rarefied financial air historically inhabited by the likes of U2 and the Rolling Stones. Given that sort of trajectory, it seems quite likely that the aforementioned club of $100 million annual earners will soon have a new member. www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2015/05/22/1989-tour-should-give-taylor-swift-her-first-100-million-year/
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Post by Clauss on May 24, 2015 14:10:56 GMT -5
You can watch Taylor in the Radio 1's Big Weekend here: Link
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Post by desertfloods on May 25, 2015 7:59:06 GMT -5
“I was telling my mom this yesterday when I was putting together a package for this British fan-I was writing her notes and stuff, my mom was helping me wrap presents-and she goes, “Remember last year?” Last year Red was nominated for Album of the Year. You go into Grammy week thinking, I’m not going to win and I’m fine with that and I have enough happiness and success. And if I don’t win, I won’t be sad. And the everybody comes up to you at these functions and they go, “You know you’re going to win Album of the Year; you know you’re going to win Album of the Year; I voted for you for Album of the Year, you’re going to win; you’re going to win.” And so then you start getting hopeful. So we got to the awards and they’re announcing the winner for the Album of the Year-last award of the night-and the presenter says, “Album of the Year; RRRRRRRandom Access Memories, Daft punk! And, you know, you clap because you support other people and all that. And then I didn’t want to go to after-parties. I just wanted to lay in a blanket and eat an In-N-Out burger on my couch. I found myself wanting something that anyone would want, and I was really bummed. My backup singers texted me and said, “Hey, are you okay?” And I wrote, “ I’m okay, but I’d love some company. So they come over, and I was like, "Hey, do you want to hear something I wrote this week?” And I played them the demo of “Welcome to New York.” And they look at me and go, “This is an ‘80s throwback song-you’re using all ‘80s sounds on this. And I was like, "Wow, I didn’t really think about that, but I’d been doing that on every song I’ve made for this record so far. I go to sleep, and I wake up in the middle of the night at three in the morning and sit up straight, like out of a movie, and go "1989. It’s called 1989.” That moment wouldn’t have happened if I had won Album of the Year. So many things would have been different if I hadn’t experience failure-the way I live my life and my resilience-and if I hadn’t been harshly criticized every step of the way. So that’s what gives me faith that even if you made a mistake in the past, or you didn’t do something quite as well as you wanted to, these are things we learn from-it’s not useless.” "Do you know how many sit downs I got at the label about that? A lot of me making this album was me going in the studio, making something I loved, and showing it to the label and getting a principle’s-office discussion. Like, “Young lady, you know you’re not going to sell as many albums if you’re not labeled as country.” I wasn’t kicking and screaming, but I was very firm about the fact that to call this album a country album would be the biggest mistake. Because when you’re trying to fool people, you insinuating that you think they’re stupid. And insinuating that people aren’t going to see through your transparent motives is the one worst mistake you can make as an artist who is supposed to respect their fans. That was my argument. I got really, really lectured about not putting my name on the title on the front of the album cover―that was fun. And then it was suggested to me that we use a different picture for the album cover because, they kept saying, “We need eyes, lips, hair on an album cover. You know no one’s going to know who that is.” And I was like, “That’s the point. We’re starting over.” Also, the reason I didn’t put my face on the album cover is because I didn’t want people to fully diagnose the emotional DNA of this album before it came out. If I’m smiling, it’s a happy record; if I’m frowning, it’s a sad record. I wanted people to be able to detect no emotion on my face. It was just taken on this ‘80s Polaroid camera that I have. I knew that I was doing something that I fully believed in when I was confronted with these people on my team, who were only going by what they knew―which is that there hasn’t been a successful country-to-pop crossover, really ever, who has sold as well as their country career did. They’d say “You’re not going to sell as much.“ and I would say, “I don’t care. This is the album I made, this is what I’m going to call it, this is how I’m going to label it.” I knew that I’d made songs that my fans would like; I was like, “You guys don’t know them like I do. You sit in an office, I’m out there at shows with them, I’m on tumblr talking to them, I know what they want from me.” Thank God it worked out. If we’d sold one album less than a million in the first week, it would have been two years of “Taylor, we told you.” So glad we sold almost 1.3 [million] in the first week.”-From "Elle" LOVE every bit of this. Love the honesty.
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Post by Clauss on May 25, 2015 8:03:43 GMT -5
It's clear why it didn't break the britney record, they were sure it wasn't making 1 million at all. I'm confident they'll go for it with TS6 whenever it's released
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Post by MWLJ on May 25, 2015 10:49:06 GMT -5
Genuine question here; if Taylor's next album sells around 1.2 million records, but hits the 1.4 mark with SPS, will that be the same as breaking Britney's record? I mean, the record is for most records sold during week 1 (female), and SPS isn't 100% "records sold", but at the same time BB counts them as sales...so? Or will Taylor's massive debut be a whole new record?
Britney fan here, and I personally hope Brit keeps her record, but if Taylor snatches it then I will applaud her. And I'm not trying to stir anything up, I just want opinions! I like Taylor :)
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 13:16:37 GMT -5
"Do you know how many sit downs I got at the label about that? A lot of me making this album was me going in the studio, making something I loved, and showing it to the label and getting a principle’s-office discussion. Like, “Young lady, you know you’re not going to sell as many albums if you’re not labeled as country.” I wasn’t kicking and screaming, but I was very firm about the fact that to call this album a country album would be the biggest mistake. Because when you’re trying to fool people, you insinuating that you think they’re stupid. And insinuating that people aren’t going to see through your transparent motives is the one worst mistake you can make as an artist who is supposed to respect their fans. That was my argument. I got really, really lectured about not putting my name on the title on the front of the album cover―that was fun. And then it was suggested to me that we use a different picture for the album cover because, they kept saying, “We need eyes, lips, hair on an album cover. You know no one’s going to know who that is.” And I was like, “That’s the point. We’re starting over.” Also, the reason I didn’t put my face on the album cover is because I didn’t want people to fully diagnose the emotional DNA of this album before it came out. If I’m smiling, it’s a happy record; if I’m frowning, it’s a sad record. I wanted people to be able to detect no emotion on my face. It was just taken on this ‘80s Polaroid camera that I have. I knew that I was doing something that I fully believed in when I was confronted with these people on my team, who were only going by what they knew―which is that there hasn’t been a successful country-to-pop crossover, really ever, who has sold as well as their country career did. They’d say “You’re not going to sell as much.“ and I would say, “I don’t care. This is the album I made, this is what I’m going to call it, this is how I’m going to label it.” I knew that I’d made songs that my fans would like; I was like, “You guys don’t know them like I do. You sit in an office, I’m out there at shows with them, I’m on tumblr talking to them, I know what they want from me.” Thank God it worked out. If we’d sold one album less than a million in the first week, it would have been two years of “Taylor, we told you.” So glad we sold almost 1.3 [million] in the first week.”-From "Elle" I haven't been in here in forever, so I'm just now seeing this, and it's almost mind-boggling. Taylor has always had such a solid backing and flawless promotion that I can't fathom someone telling her that she'd fail at something, and especially not with this album. She was always one of the few - maybe the only star - that I felt had that unicorn of a truly supportive label that let her develop artistically and didn't throw b.s. like that her way. I almost get it from the perspective of 'well you'll sell a bit less if you leave country behind completely' (which many of us, even most hardcore Taylor fans, thought would happen) but it's not like she was going to do anything less than a 700k opening week, let alone come out and fall flat on her face. She'd already shown she could pull off pop success with Red, and she wasn't diving off the deep end into a sound left of center. I'm so glad that it worked out for her and that she didn't back down.
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Post by kanimal on May 26, 2015 11:15:56 GMT -5
Genuine question here; if Taylor's next album sells around 1.2 million records, but hits the 1.4 mark with SPS, will that be the same as breaking Britney's record? I mean, the record is for most records sold during week 1 (female), and SPS isn't 100% "records sold", but at the same time BB counts them as sales...so? Or will Taylor's massive debut be a whole new record? Britney fan here, and I personally hope Brit keeps her record, but if Taylor snatches it then I will applaud her. And I'm not trying to stir anything up, I just want opinions! I like Taylor :) So the thing is that Billboard doesn't yet count TEA and SEA units as sales. It continues to differentiate between pure/traditional sales and "album equivalent units," and it still maintains charts that specifically focus on album sales. Moreover, it still reports chart achievements in terms of pure sales. It wrote articles about when 1989 crossed 3 million pure sales, 4 million pure sales, the Speak Now pure sales total, etc, but it didn't write anything about 1989 going over 5 million -- and recently 6 million -- in sales + tracks. Labels are still 50/50 on the issue. I see some press releases that differentiate between sales and SPS, and I see others that outright say "This album sold X units," where X = sales + tracks + streams. So, if Taylor's new album were to sell 1.2 million in pure copies/1.4 with TEA TODAY, Billboard would not say she broke Britney's record. That could change by the fall of 2016.
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Post by Wolfy on May 27, 2015 2:10:34 GMT -5
Taylor is surging on VEVO this year. She's now the #3 Vevo Diva: Top Vevo Channels (Divas)1) Rihanna 6.58 B (total views) +194,464,687 (30 day change)2) Katy Perry 5.56 B +194,224,833 3) Taylor Swift 4.94 B +379,941,905 4) Shakira 4.81 B +132,391,427 5) Beyonce 4.01 B +120,197,671 6) Lady Gaga 3.25 B +36,482,675 7) Nicki Minaj 3.07 B +109,358,688 8) JLo 2.65 B +55,134,919 9) Britney Spears 2.33 B +88,552,499 10) Selena Gomez 2.31 B +49,861,763 11) Ariana Grande 2.01 B +142,863,651 12) Miley Cyrus 2 B +39,449,045
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