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Post by schnetzka on Jun 22, 2023 19:41:28 GMT -5
"I Did Something Bad" - She meant business with this song which has always drawn me to it. However, admittedly, I still am unsure what that something bad is... "Love Story" - The extended chorus and key change remain iconic. "Enchanted" - Magical. "Speak Now" - Storytelling was on point. Really wished this had a music video. Here's your chance Taylor. "The Archer" - The relatability factor on this one elevates it for me. She took her honestly to a new level with it.
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Post by Marooned@Midnight on Jun 22, 2023 20:53:01 GMT -5
All Too Well Anti-Hero Cardigan Cruel Summer Maroon
(Out of the woods) (Getaway car) (August) (Betty) (Champaign Problems)
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Post by #brayden on Jun 22, 2023 21:55:31 GMT -5
She has a lot of contenders for what I'd consider her five best songs. I'm listing these in order of release/tracklist.
1. "Last Kiss" 2. "All Too Well" 3. "Clean" 4. "Cardigan" 5. "August"
Please note this is my opinion tonight and it could very well change tomorrow.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Jun 22, 2023 22:25:57 GMT -5
All Too Well cardigan evermore You’re Losing Me Enchanted
I pulled this out of my ass, lol. This list changes with the wind (with the exception of ATW and cardigan.)
Oh, and if you haven’t heard You’re Losing Me yet, change that as soon as humanly possible.
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Post by kimberly on Jun 22, 2023 22:51:33 GMT -5
streets are saying she’ll headline Glastonbury this year 👀
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Post by Au$tin on Jun 22, 2023 23:38:55 GMT -5
I think Lover has a lot of great songs on it but it's one of my least favorite albums from her overall. It's not a very cohesive album in my opinion... and there's a few duds.Moving this here just to not clutter the "Cruel Summer" thread with the inevitable "ooh, Imma make me own list" responses lol. It's hyper-bloated, that's for sure. It has 18 damn tracks, but several of them either just don't fit the overall lyrical themes of the album or just aren't good enough to take up this space on the main album. This would have made for such a more cohesive album IMO: 1. The Archer 2. I Think He Knows 3. Lover <- second single 4. False God <- fourth single 5. Death By a Thousand Cuts 6. Cruel Summer <- lead single 7. It's Nice to Have a Friend 8. London Boy 9. Paper Rings <- the one that would've been fifth if not for COVID/folklore 10. Cornelia Street <- third single, focus track on streaming release week 11. Afterglow 12. All of the Girls You Loved Before 13. Daylight Target Deluxe 14. I Forgot That You Existed 15. Soon You'll Get Better Miss Americana Edition (an EP soundtrack of sorts for the doc that gets tacked onto the end of the album) 16. Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince <- streaming focus track on release week 17. The Man 18. You Need to Calm Down The vault track randomly released 4 years later: Me!
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Post by born on Jun 23, 2023 6:51:13 GMT -5
What would you all say is your top 5, best of the best, god-tier Taylor songs. Not necessarily your personal favorites or the ones you listen to most, but ones you feel are artistically speaking, career highlights. That's such an interesting question that I've thought about a lot throughout the years. top 5:All Too WellThe definitive Taylor Swift song. StyleWriting a great country/rock/softer song is good & impressive. But doing pop right seems even more impressive to me. A classic. Out Of The WoodsI'm kinda surprised I put this here but I always feel in awe when I play this. It just feels so... serious. I can't find another word for it. The heavy snare, reminiscent of the 1980s pop maximalism. So anthemic, and feelgood, and complex in its simplicity. cardigan This song feels like the tree that keeps on giving. Beautiful melodies, gorgeous instrumentation and lyrics so good that I bet she was smiling like a fool when she was writing them.right where you left meIt took a while for the melodies and the production to grow on me, but this song has some of my favorite storytelling & word play in music, ever. I feel like I'm getting more intelligent just by streaming this. extras:Blank Space New Romantics my tears ricochet Cruel Summer champagne problems
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Post by Peterawr on Jun 23, 2023 9:38:17 GMT -5
Blank Space - everything about this song just works, especially for launching her first “true” pop album to new heights.
Cardigan - she saved us during the pandemic with this song.
You Belong With Me - really her first “moment” outside of the country world. Sure, Love Story happened, but YBWM was just a different beast.
Don’t Blame Me - I never thought I’d hear this sound from her, let alone her making it work perfectly. This is my favorite song of hers. She isn’t afraid to experiment with new sounds.
Enchanted - just an incredible ride start to finish.
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Post by theflying on Jun 23, 2023 14:04:20 GMT -5
All Too Well, Blank Space, and Style feel like “musts”.
Cruel Summer.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2023 16:21:07 GMT -5
Enchanted Style Blank Space Don’t Blame Me Cruel Summer
(Cardigan too but I was told to pick five only)
Organic viral hits chosen by the people!
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Post by soulfulwings on Jun 24, 2023 8:48:51 GMT -5
Enchanted All To Well Cruel Summer Clean Love Story
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Post by firefox on Jun 24, 2023 12:09:13 GMT -5
Imagine if "ME!" was a vault track, people will probably say "Ooh, that's why it wasn't included in the album. It's so childish." or people will just be excited for the P!ATD x TS collab.
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Post by ¤ Matthea ¤ on Jun 24, 2023 13:19:26 GMT -5
"ME!" is my second favorite song from "Lover" after "Cruel Summer". I really enjoyed it as a single and loved the music video.
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Post by Dylan :) on Jun 26, 2023 8:43:33 GMT -5
Cornelia Street, but sadder
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Post by aznsinger on Jun 26, 2023 10:38:23 GMT -5
What would you all say is your top 5, best of the best, god-tier Taylor songs. Not necessarily your personal favorites or the ones you listen to most, but ones you feel are artistically speaking, career highlights. For me it's: "All Too Well" "Would've Could've Should've" "Blank Space" "Enchanted" "Cardigan" Artistically, the songs that I think are career highlights in the general public: - Love Story, a 16 year old high school writing in math class about a revised Romeo and Juliet ending in a pop country classic. - All Too Well, a 5 minute (later becoming 10 minutes) power ballad about a short lived romance that feels like a perfect embodiment of the entire relationship in one song, showcasing her lyricism prowess and emotional maturity to express herself fully. - Blank Space, a convincing satirical piece that fools people into believing she IS the girl in blank space, and proves how silly the public and the critics are in painting this narrative of a young woman who’s been on a normal amount of dates. - Cardigan, a genre shift that allows her to write the most intimate and intelligent works of art starting with this ballad about youth, loss, love, and using some of the best imagery and metaphors in her career. - Anti-Hero, a combination of introspection and vulnerability displayed in her folkevermore albums and her pop staples that she previously left and in turn creates a beautiful blend of the two, becoming her biggest hit ever and drawing new and old fans in.
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Post by Eloqueen™ on Jun 26, 2023 12:26:57 GMT -5
The concensus seems to all agree for the most part in regard to Taylor's best artistic achievements in song on Pulse, with "All Too Well", "Cardigan", and "Blank Space" specifically being evenly distributed amongst lists with the last two positions varying a bit more. Super interesting, but definitely great choices!
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Post by dbhmr on Jun 26, 2023 12:46:01 GMT -5
Style All Too Well cardigan tolerate it Anti-Hero HMs to Blank Space and State of Grace
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Post by 14887fan on Jun 26, 2023 16:11:21 GMT -5
“All Too Well” is truly one of the greatest songs of the millennium. Not exaggerating. An absolutely perfect work of art. Deserves the life it’s lived, and that much more. Bonnie Raitt is an icon and all, but I’ll always be annoyed at The Recording Academy for not giving TS & Liz Rose the flowers they deserved for Song of The Year with the 10 Min. Version this past spring.
“Enchanted” “Style” “my tears ricochet” “Fearless”
“Getaway Car”, “You Belong With Me”, “Blank Space”, “Anti-Hero”, and “Look What You Made Me Do” are all *right* there for me, too.
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Post by Grün on Jun 26, 2023 18:43:49 GMT -5
Echoing a lot of people here - not in any order. Love all these songs, but these would be the ones I'd show to impress a non-Taylor fan
1). All Too Well 2). Cardigan 3). Anti Hero 4). Clean 5). Dear John
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Post by Joe1240 on Jun 26, 2023 20:56:34 GMT -5
Hard to choose a top 5,Taylor has so many great songs and career highlights but here is mine- 1.All Too Well 2.Enchanted 3.Blank Space 4.I Knew You Were Trouble[This is the song that proved to everyone that Taylor can do pop, still an great song to this day] 5.cardigan
Honorable Mentions-Exile,Safe & Sound,Clean and Lavender Haze
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Post by Fears in the Fire on Jun 26, 2023 21:22:51 GMT -5
Best artistically:
The Story Of Us All Too Well cardigan tolerate it Carolina
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Post by Ryan on Jun 27, 2023 5:36:46 GMT -5
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on Jun 27, 2023 7:52:47 GMT -5
What would you all say is your top 5, best of the best, god-tier Taylor songs. Not necessarily your personal favorites or the ones you listen to most, but ones you feel are artistically speaking, career highlights. "Lover" "All Too Well" "Cornelia Street" "august" "ivy" Those are in no particular order but "ivy" could also be "champagne problems" or "exile" or "Death By A Thousand Cuts" or "Safe and Sound". Either way, these are all songs to me that elevate Taylor's music.
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Post by Troublemaker on Jun 27, 2023 8:51:06 GMT -5
“All Too Well” “Style” “Lover” “Cardigan” “Anti-Hero”
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Post by thezatch on Jun 27, 2023 9:14:37 GMT -5
All Too Well (10 Min Version) Cruel Summer Anti-Hero Blank Space Ready For It (this song gets me so hype, don't @ me)
HM: The 1, my tears ricochet, Fearless
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Post by nickd on Jun 27, 2023 9:35:19 GMT -5
Enchanted New Romantics All Too Well Holy Ground Blank Space
HM: Cardigan, Last Kiss, Mirrorball, Seven, Red, Out of the Woods, Sparks Fly, State of Grace, Don't Blame Me, Dancing With Our Hands Tied, Treacherous, Fearless
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Post by Taylor. on Jun 27, 2023 10:22:56 GMT -5
More dates added including a sixth (!) show in LA, third show in Paris, fifth show in London, and second shows in Stockholm, Hamburg, Zurich, Munich, Warsaw, and Vienna.
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Post by jayhawk1117 on Jun 27, 2023 13:00:12 GMT -5
Cruel Summer is now NUMBER THREE on Spotify global! Making it the most popular English song on streaming!
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Post by musiclife on Jun 27, 2023 13:38:43 GMT -5
Do we have a full total with streams included?
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Post by Wolfy on Jun 27, 2023 20:52:21 GMT -5
More dates added including a sixth (!) show in LA, third show in Paris, fifth show in London, and second shows in Stockholm, Hamburg, Zurich, Munich, Warsaw, and Vienna. /photo/2 She should add LA shows till the demand is met, even if it's 10 shows. That way all the scalpers will be forced to sell their tickets at a loss. Fans will then be able to go to a few shows and it will end the scalping problem. In the future they will be more cautious about buying up TS tickets to resell because they have no idea how many shows she will do. Madonna used to do this while she was at her peak. She's do tons of back to back shows in the same venue till the demand was met. It was amazing for her fans. I'd buy tickets full price for one show and then go to the other shows cheap. Right before the show they would get desperate and sell them cheap. After August 9, she doesn't have a show till August 24 in Mexico. She could easily add more SoFi dates. Beyonce did this. Her first shows at SoFi soldout fast, but the last show she added actually has lots of empty seats. This will make the scalpers very upset.
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