I love these two sections in a new article on Billboard.com:
"Shake It Off" is not, in fact, the sound of Swift losing her most defining features, or becoming a generic pop artist. Taylor is still being Taylor, the type of writer any musician would dream of becoming, but she's shedding her damaged skin like a snake and morphing into a more carefree, confident narrator.
Taylor Swift may not be a pop artist forever, or even for very long; perhaps later in her career, she'll return to country music with open arms. I wouldn't be shocked if she made an acoustic album someday. However, this is where she is right now -- holding oversized boom boxes in gaudy music videos, jiving with Max Martin in the studio, flipping off the naysayers who don't think she can make spectacular pop music. She can, and she will. The rest of us will just have to get used to it.
Last Edit: Aug 20, 2014 7:00:52 GMT -5 by Az Paynter
Cynthia says:
I love that we are always finding ways to try to get someone to listen to our flop faves. No YOP thread, RT theme, or Games section stone will be left unturned in our mission to get somebody, anybody to validate our taste in music. That is when you know the love of the music is real. Like "LISTEN TO THESE SONGS THEY'RE GREAT DAMMIT PLEASE GIVE MY FAVES 0.0000002 CENTS ON SPOTIFY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD." It's the modus operandi of Pulse so much at this point.
This is even bigger than Born this way. Hopefully she will be able to maintain the buzz around the song (sometimes this big starter suffer to find their way to the top)
Post by JamaicaFunk² on Aug 20, 2014 6:56:24 GMT -5
This could be the song to break Mariah's record for highest pop radio entrance for "Dreamlover" (#12, I believe).... which has held for 21 years! (21 years and 1 week, to be exact)
Humongo. I imagine there wasn't any kind of radio promo yesterday,m as it did premiere two days ago?
The most celebrated and important female artist of the last half-century. The world has been "hung up" on her since she announced to Dick Clark in 1984 that she wanted to rule the world. And RULE it she has...
Well i heard the whole debate about the video being racist and the stupid cultural appropiation (it seems it's only cultural apropiation when it goes one way), and i find laughable that some member of odd future got so mad (it would be nice if he was so angry when Tyler the creator went homophobic or do another uninspired rhyme about Bruno Mars' sexual life). The video is joking, and is joking all the time, not only in that part. It's curious that some people that are perpetuating negative stereotypes (see 80%, and i'm being generous, of hip hop videos) get so pissed about a funny video of a pop star (but hey, they were offended at the new Katy Perry video too).
I don't know there, but here it's always said that imitation is the biggest form of appreciation
Anyone else hear "Should get off" instead of "Shake it off?"
LOL, yes!
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