Taylor Swift - "You Need To Calm Down"

[Mayman]

Loving this rn. Much better than ME!. The best part imo is the pre-chorus.

[ZAYN]

Jun 19, 2019 4:58:00 GMT -5 Mylo13 💜 said:

Jun 19, 2019 3:24:51 GMT -5 ZAYN said:

No way LOL he's one of my real life friends!

I'm really not sure if this is a joke or not lol. If it's not a joke, that's absolutely awesome! I mean, you live in the same city as him so I can imagine this being true haha.

hehe

[Deleted]

The fat religous pigs in the state of Alabama are the type to preach in church about family and molest children . Fuck that state and its hypocrisy.

I expected them to censor but I instead of lame could they not have said shade doesnt make anyone less fabulous.

[neverduplicated]

Jun 19, 2019 14:26:01 GMT -5 @pma2015 said:

The fat religous pigs in the state of Alabama are the type to preach in church about family and molest children . f**k that state and its hypocrisy.

I expected them to censor but I instead of lame could they not have said shade doesnt make anyone less fabulous.

I absolutely agree. It's very offensive to me to replace the word "gay" with "lame" because they are in no way synonymous. If Taylor approved this edit, shame on her. If she did not, I hope she calls them out and asks them to stop playing that version.

On another note, quality and message of music aside, I am in awe of what a marketing genius Taylor is. She knows how to keep herself in the headlines (even when she says literally nothing like in the reputation era) and make sure people are talking about her. I was actually a little worried she lost her touch in this regard after "Me!", but nope, bish is all anyone can talk about again.

[cassiuscasanova]

Jun 19, 2019 13:09:46 GMT -5 matty005 said:

Jun 19, 2019 13:00:39 GMT -5 cassiuscasanova said:

Are we still ragging on Chris ten years later and both parties have reconciled and moved on?

Yeah, like what the heck? All he did was beat the crap out of her. Seriously, people need to get over it. Her face was basically back to normal 6 months later.

/S

She forgave him and moved on. I would think people it didn’t even affect would too

[Sambalada]

Why is this argument happening I-

[deepston]

Jun 19, 2019 14:50:55 GMT -5 cassiuscasanova said:

Jun 19, 2019 13:09:46 GMT -5 matty005 said:

Yeah, like what the heck? All he did was beat the crap out of her. Seriously, people need to get over it. Her face was basically back to normal 6 months later.

/S

She forgave him and moved on. I would think people it didn’t even affect would too

An attitude like that one can never be forgiven, especially coming from a public figure who has (had) millions of fans looking up to him.

[cassiuscasanova]

Jun 19, 2019 15:30:10 GMT -5 deepston said:

Jun 19, 2019 14:50:55 GMT -5 cassiuscasanova said:

She forgave him and moved on. I would think people it didn’t even affect would too

An attitude like that one can never be forgiven, especially coming from a public figure who has (had) millions of fans looking up to him.

Well it can be forgiven. Depends on the person. It happened ten years ago, he was young and they have reconciled since then. There really isn’t much reason to sill be angry about it especially if you aren’t a friend, relative or directly related to the incident. Do you have to support him, hell no. But to constantly wish bad fortune on someone who has apologized, explained, taken a massive career hit, and reconciled with the person he has wronged is just stubbornness at some point

[Love Plastic Love]

You keep talking about the person he wronged. He has a track record of 10 years of being shitty to everyone around him, including women and children and people working under him. He is a violent abuser. I legit don't care if Rihanna herself has forgiven him for herself. If you want to support an abuser with a decade+ history of abusing those around him, including those literally and figuratively weaker than him, fine, but don't put that on Rihanna, one of his many victims. Just admit that you don't care that he is a violent abuser that likes to hurt women, coworkers, employees, etc.

Anyways, this song is growing on me. I like the Ohs, which is funny because most people are saying they hate them and wish they were cut.

[Taylor.]

And with that.. let's move on from the Chris Brown talk, thanks.

[Mylo13 💜]

Jun 19, 2019 13:40:15 GMT -5 ZAYN said:

Jun 19, 2019 4:58:00 GMT -5 Mylo13 💜 said:

I'm really not sure if this is a joke or not lol. If it's not a joke, that's absolutely awesome! I mean, you live in the same city as him so I can imagine this being true haha.

hehe

Big props to you my dude! You've chosen your friends wisely haha

[wjr15]

ME! trying to find the last post in here about Taylor:

[CatSoul]

"You Need to Calm Down" is #1 on Radio Disney.

Furthermore, they're playing it UNCENSORED - I was crossing my fingers "shade never made anybody less gay" would be intact, but they didn't even blank "damn"!

[Joe1240]

It looks like this is gonna be another top ten debut for Taylor this era.The only thing left to guess is maybe Taylor releases another single in Late August/Early September if this holds up long on the charts.Unlike some other albums from other artists that ended after Release week,I don't see this one ending at all there either.This is the streaming era,But I think Taylor will have singles long after the album release.

[Az Paynter]

POP:
-- 22 TAYLOR SWIFT You Need To Calm Down 3361 0 3361 20.171

+653 Spins
+653 Bullet
+3.315 Audience

HOT AC:
-- 25 TAYLOR SWIFT You Need To Calm Down 792 0 792 5.658

+164 Spins
+164 Bullet
+0.935 Audience

[👑 Eloquent ™]

Blowing up ❤

[theflying]

Sorry to be "that person", but --

Did we get confirmation about the Alabama station replacing "gay" with "lame" or not?

[Taylor.]

[nickd]

Jun 20, 2019 1:51:58 GMT -5 Joe1240 said:

It looks like this is gonna be another top ten debut for Taylor this era.The only thing left to guess is maybe Taylor releases another single in Late August/Early September if this holds up long on the charts.Unlike some other albums from other artists that ended after Release week,I don't see this one ending at all there either.This is the streaming era,But I think Taylor will have singles long after the album release.

I don't know how many post album singles we'll get. Maybe we'll get a single off a re-release? Those have the potential to do well now since fans will be hungry for new material and buy the songs (rather than the album) to add them to their library. They'll also stream them in higher numbers than album tracks since there will be fewer songs competing for attention in the "new Taylor music" department than with when an album drops with 18 songs (12 to 15 of which are new). And I can imagine the most popular album track getting playlisting for GP attention if fans stream the bonus tracks enough.

Her bonus tracks were able to chart pretty high in the past (for 1 week) thanks to sales from fans adding them to their library.
#10 jump then fall
#10 if this was a movie
#13 ours
#19 the other side of the door
#23 untouchable
#26 superman
#26 superstar
#30 come in with the rain

Sales are lower now so they won't be enough but her fanbase does seem to be adopting streaming so they could push the songs to still chart well thanks to streams (and could still do 30k first week sales or something). The peak would most likely be lower than her previous bonus songs but if the most popular one gets playlisting and that leads to airplay and a music video maybe she could get decent longevity out of it.

[Deleted]

Jun 20, 2019 10:06:37 GMT -5 theflying said:

Sorry to be "that person", but --

Did we get confirmation about the Alabama station replacing "gay" with "lame" or not?

No... in fact the only place I can find is that one reddit post. If it was true, we would have had confirmation by now.

[kcdawg13]

Jun 20, 2019 11:35:52 GMT -5 @snapculture said:

Jun 20, 2019 10:06:37 GMT -5 theflying said:

Sorry to be "that person", but --

Did we get confirmation about the Alabama station replacing "gay" with "lame" or not?

No... in fact the only place I can find is that one reddit post. If it was true, we would have had confirmation by now.

Wouldn't be surprised if the whole situation was faked to drag attention to Taylor and this song. If so, that's pretty lame.

[Choco]

Wouldn't be surprised if someone posted it just to mess with people and it got blown out of proportion without any evidence. 🤷

[Deleted]

Let's be logical—the people running Top 40 radio stations in Alabama aren't your run of the mill xenophobic, homophobic, backwoods idiot. In fact, most people in Alabama aren't, despite what some want you to believe about the South. So it seems to me that someone made that up to perpetuate an image and create a storm. People need to get jobs and lives.

[nickd]

Jun 20, 2019 12:52:50 GMT -5 @snapculture said:

Let's be logical—the people running Top 40 radio stations in Alabama aren't your run of the mill xenophobic, homophobic, backwoods idiot. In fact, most people in Alabama aren't, despite what some want you to believe about the South. So it seems to me that someone made that up to perpetuate an image and create a storm. People need to get jobs and lives.

I'd tend to agree (although the DJ that groped her did happen to get a new job at a radio station in the deep South after losing his court case).

I think it's also possible that the change was made by an intern by something who didn't think things through. Like apparently one of the radio edits for Picture To Burn involved changing "gay" to "lame", so maybe they just mindlessly did that without realizing that the way "gay" was used this time had positive connotations unlike for Picture To Burn. And maybe they quickly realized they messed up (and possibly contacted by Taylor's team) and switched to playing the original version of "You Need To Calm Down" and that's why it hasn't gotten any attention since. I think that the fan brought it up on the first day of airplay?

I know it seems a bit unlikely for a radio station to mess up like that (due to stupidity rather than bigotry) but when you have thousands of radio stations in the country, the odds of one of them messing up aren't that low imo.

[Deleted]

Jun 20, 2019 13:44:39 GMT -5 nickd said:

Jun 20, 2019 12:52:50 GMT -5 @snapculture said:

Let's be logical—the people running Top 40 radio stations in Alabama aren't your run of the mill xenophobic, homophobic, backwoods idiot. In fact, most people in Alabama aren't, despite what some want you to believe about the South. So it seems to me that someone made that up to perpetuate an image and create a storm. People need to get jobs and lives.

I'd tend to agree (although the DJ that groped her did happen to get a new job at a radio station in the deep South after losing his court case).

I think it's also possible that the change was made by an intern by something who didn't think things through. Like apparently one of the radio edits for Picture To Burn involved changing "gay" to "lame", so maybe they just mindlessly did that without realizing that the way "gay" was used this time had positive connotations unlike for Picture To Burn. And maybe they quickly realized they messed up (and possibly contacted by Taylor's team) and switched to playing the original version of "You Need To Calm Down" and that's why it hasn't gotten any attention since. I think that the fan brought it up on the first day of airplay?

I know it seems a bit unlikely for a radio station to mess up like that (due to stupidity rather than bigotry) but when you have thousands of radio stations in the country, the odds of one of them messing up aren't that low imo.

I think that's overestimating the power that an intern has.

[nickd]

Jun 20, 2019 15:30:07 GMT -5 Codex said:

How does a radio station even change the lyrics without Taylor actually singing it and sending them a radio edit? Unless they spliced together her vocals from somewhere...

She says "lame" in ME! so they could've spliced it from there, or from the Picture To Burn radio edit that replaced "gay" with "lame", or somewhere else?

[🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾]

Jun 20, 2019 15:30:07 GMT -5 Codex said:

How does a radio station even change the lyrics without Taylor actually singing it and sending them a radio edit? Unless they spliced together her vocals from somewhere...

They can always splice together syllables and words from other parts of the song. They can be creative.

[Joe1240]

With the great start this week, Taylor is on pace for another #2 Debut on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart this week.It is possible that this could be the next #1 on the charts.It has everything going for it at the moment.Would love to see Taylor get a #1 single this era.This is going to be in the top 10 for awhile.

[𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤]

Maybe I’m cynical, but I really don’t expect this to have much staying power? It won’t do worse than ME, that’d be sad, but my friends aren’t exactly responding to it well.

[musicbuff26]

Jun 20, 2019 22:15:11 GMT -5 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 said:

Jun 20, 2019 15:30:07 GMT -5 Codex said:

How does a radio station even change the lyrics without Taylor actually singing it and sending them a radio edit? Unless they spliced together her vocals from somewhere...

They can always splice together syllables and words from other parts of the song. They can be creative.

But would they be allowed to? I would think that Taylor would have to approve of a different version of her song being played that changes the meaning of her song. Bleeps are one thing, but word changes are another.