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Post by maria4hitz on Oct 16, 2011 13:36:00 GMT -5
47 SWIFT*TAYLOR TAYLOR SWIFT 2,465 2 2,428 5,079,247
9 87 86 84 SWIFT*TAYLOR SPARKS FLY 16,844 3 16,424 447,821
29 143 151 165 SWIFT*TAYLOR MEAN 9,473 -3 9,797 1,143,793
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Post by Joe1240 on Oct 18, 2011 13:15:42 GMT -5
New Taylor Swift Wonderstuck iPhone app out! It is now out on iPhone! Link for iPhone- t.co/4B7MOkwW
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Post by Kyla on Oct 18, 2011 15:06:59 GMT -5
Taylor's taping Ellen today! No performance, just an interview to promote her perfume. It airs tomorrow.
Btw, Foster the People's performing on the same show. <3
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Post by Joe1240 on Oct 19, 2011 12:02:40 GMT -5
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Post by Taylor. on Oct 19, 2011 15:24:45 GMT -5
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Post by maria4hitz on Oct 19, 2011 21:53:39 GMT -5
51 BGMA 47 46 41 SWIFT*TAYLOR SPEAK NOW 9,929 9 9,112 3,698,820
153 BGMA 166 155 157 SWIFT*TAYLOR FEARLESS 3,274 0 3,271 6,383,145
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Post by Mark on Oct 19, 2011 23:21:47 GMT -5
I CANNOT handle the fact that the girl was standing there as a giant bottle of her perfume on stage. Ellen is too much.
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Post by austin on Oct 20, 2011 12:55:31 GMT -5
LoL I love Taylor. She says she doesn't wanna be "that girl" who dates and dates and dates, yet she has basically been a maneater of A-list celebs with her history of one to three month long relationships. She's the best.
And the perfume bottle costume was so funny. Great interview. I hope she sings "Sparks Fly" on the CMAs.
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Post by Joe1240 on Oct 20, 2011 13:56:12 GMT -5
Yesterday's Taylor Swift interview on Ellen was great as always.I loved it. :)
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Post by Kyla on Oct 20, 2011 14:17:00 GMT -5
LoL I love Taylor. She says she doesn't wanna be "that girl" who dates and dates and dates, yet she has basically been a maneater of A-list celebs with her history of one to three month long relationships. She's the best. She really isn't that girl that always has a boyfriend, though. She hasn't had one in almost a year. But I think she's aware of the general public's perception of her and her dating life. That she's always dating someone. And how they turn every single guy she goes on a single date with or flirts with into a "boyfriend". So she's being more careful before jumping into anything now. And with her last relationship ending the way it ended after only a few months, because he (allegedly) couldn't deal with all the media attention, I think she wants to be extra sure before she gets into another relationship. I have mixed feelings about that, as far as how it affects her music. But I just really want to see her writing from the perspective of a long-term relationship. That's past the initial butterfly stages, and is a little more settled. But I'm not so sure that's going to happen for the next album. And if she's been lonely this past year, which judging from her arm lyrics, tweets and interviews she has been, I want to see her write about that. Not about any one guy, just about herself.
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Post by tsr on Oct 20, 2011 15:58:30 GMT -5
Random, but I was listening to Fearless today, and I really can't figure out a valid reason as to why "Forever & Always" was not released as a single. As much as I love "Fifteen" and "Fearless," I get the feeling that "Forever & Always" could've been just as big if not bigger than "You Belong With Me."
Same goes for "You're Not Sorry."
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Post by Living Legend on Oct 20, 2011 16:55:06 GMT -5
The "Journey to Fearless" DVD debuted at #1 on Top DVD Music Videos selling 11,000 copies.
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Post by Gravity. on Oct 20, 2011 16:57:48 GMT -5
LoL I love Taylor. She says she doesn't wanna be "that girl" who dates and dates and dates, yet she has basically been a maneater of A-list celebs with her history of one to three month long relationships. She's the best. She really isn't that girl that always has a boyfriend, though. She hasn't had one in almost a year. But I think she's aware of the general public's perception of her and her dating life. That she's always dating someone. And how they turn every single guy she goes on a single date with or flirts with into a "boyfriend". So she's being more careful before jumping into anything now. And with her last relationship ending the way it ended after only a few months, because he (allegedly) couldn't deal with all the media attention, I think she wants to be extra sure before she gets into another relationship. I have mixed feelings about that, as far as how it affects her music. But I just really want to see her writing from the perspective of a long-term relationship. That's past the initial butterfly stages, and is a little more settled. But I'm not so sure that's going to happen for the next album. And if she's been lonely this past year, which judging from her arm lyrics, tweets and interviews she has been, I want to see her write about that. Not about any one guy, just about herself. As much as I would personally hate for Taylor to be lonely, I think her writing about herself would be great.
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Post by desertfloods on Oct 20, 2011 23:08:53 GMT -5
But I just really want to see her writing from the perspective of a long-term relationship. That's past the initial butterfly stages, and is a little more settled. TBH, I'd love that too. Although there are occasional gems like Last Kiss and Breathe, three albums of mostly daydreaming and initial butterfly stages are getting a bit much imo. As much as I would personally hate for Taylor to be lonely, I think her writing about herself would be great. Considering the possible lack of relationship material, this would be a nice change as well.
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Post by Joe1240 on Oct 21, 2011 10:40:46 GMT -5
The Speak Now CD/DVD tracklist from Amazon.com- Disc: 1 1. Sparks Fly 2. Mine 3. The Story of Us 4. Mean 5. Ours 6. Back To December/Apologize/You're Not Sorry 7. Better Than Revenge 8. Speak Now 9. Last Kiss 10. Drops of Jupiter 11. Bette Davis Eyes 12. I Want You Back 13. Dear John 14. Enchanted 15. Haunted 16. Long Live Disc: 2 1. Sparks Fly 2. Mine 3. The Story of Us 4. Our Song 5. Mean 6. Back To December/Apologize/You're Not Sorry 7. Better Than Revenge 8. Speak Now 9. Fearless/I'm Yours/Hey, Soul Sister 10. Last Kiss 11. Drops of Jupiter 12. You Belong With Me 13. Dean John 14. Enchanted 15. Haunted 16. Long Live 17. Fifteen 18. Love Story Bonus Video Content includes Home Movies & Rehearsals of the Speak Now World Tour www.amazon.com/Speak-Now-World-Tour-Live/dp/tracks/B005OLF6BI/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1
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Post by ListenToItTwice on Oct 22, 2011 21:00:16 GMT -5
^ Just came here to post this. Bummed that we're not getting new material.
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Post by CammyCan on Oct 24, 2011 0:34:37 GMT -5
So no non-Speak Now tracks for the cd? I think I'm ok with that. I'm excited to hear her covers. I love this picture: Superstar. Also, she performed "The Middle" tonight with Jim Adkins from Jimmy Eat World. Waiting patiently for a youtube video! Edit: Some more tidbits... - Taylor was named Songwriter/Artist of the Year for the 4th time (in 5 years) at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. - She donated 6,000 books to her economically troubled hometown library, about $68k worth. Our Taylor, never stops giving.
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Post by Kyla on Oct 24, 2011 0:43:10 GMT -5
"The Middle" with Jimmy Eat World lead singer, Jim Adkins in Phoenix on 10/22.
I like how she's had rock guys performing with her in the last 2 shows. I know she's a big Jimmy Eat World fan. She actually used to perform "The Middle" a few years ago. And she's had Jimmy Eat World lyrics on her arm 4 times on this tour, more than from anyone else.
The tour's also winding down. She has 13 shows (1 month) left. I'm surprised we haven't heard anything about a second leg of the tour in the US in 2012. And the way she's been talking about the tour wrapping up, I'm not sure there will be one. I know there was talk of a South American leg at one point too. But it seems like it's just going to be the Australia/NZ dates in March. She must have something else going on? Aside from recording the next album.
Speaking of, she's also mentioned that she's already written & recorded 25 songs. The last album, most of the songs that ended up on it were written in the second year of writing for the album (2010). But unless she gets a great new burst of inspiration or decides to go in a completely different direction, it sounds like she's already written a lot of the songs that will make the fourth album.
I wish interviewers would asked her what the next album's going to sound like. If it's still going to be all over the map musically like "Speak Now" was. Or if it's going to be more of one style, and what is it. I also want to know if it's still just her and Nathan producing it. With the same engineers and musicians from the first 3 albums. She never gets asked good questions like that (she didn't for the last album either)....
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Post by CammyCan on Oct 24, 2011 1:10:16 GMT -5
I don't think we'll be getting a second US leg. Didn't she mention in an interview (I'm blanking on which one) that she wanted to do some more acting this next year? I'm guessing she'll be spending most of free time with the new album and her acting bug. Besides she will have played to almost 2 million people by the time the tour wraps up, and even though I'm sure she could sell out another leg, I don't know if would want to. A South American leg would be good idea though.
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Post by Kyla on Oct 24, 2011 2:35:37 GMT -5
I don't think we'll be getting a second US leg. Didn't she mention in an interview (I'm blanking on which one) that she wanted to do some more acting this next year? I'm guessing she'll be spending most of free time with the new album and her acting bug. Besides she will have played to almost 2 million people by the time the tour wraps up, and even though I'm sure she could sell out another leg, I don't know if would want to. A South American leg would be good idea though. She said, "some surprise projects that may or may not happen, and possibly some acting." Pretty indefinite. And the way she said "possibly some acting" in the video, it didn't sound like there was anything planned. Just maybe some things in talks? I don't think she'd put acting above her music, to where she'd skip another leg of the tour to do a movie or something. At least that's what she's said in the past. And there was another interview where she was talking about how she has no idea what she's going to do with herself after the tour ends in November and she was so sad about it ending. So I guess she's just taking some time off. Which is a great thing, don't get me wrong. They work her to death sometimes. I'm just a little surprised since she seems to always need to stay busy and have something work-related to do. And after the tour wraps up next month, the 2 week long Australian tour in March is the only thing she has scheduled that we know of, until the album comes out in a year. You would think they could add a couple months of US or South American dates in April/May, like they did for the second leg of the Fearless tour. But I guess it's more complicated than that. But at least she'll be able to devote a lot of time to the new album. If she's written 25 songs, while touring. I can't imagine how many more she'll write when she has all of that free time.
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Post by Joe1240 on Oct 24, 2011 5:08:21 GMT -5
Taylor covered Michelle Branch's "All You Wanted" at her Phoenix concert also.
Speaking of the downtime,We TS fans are getting next year till the album comes out.We got the "Journey To Fearless" and "Speak Now Live CD/DVD" to hold us over till the next album comes out.I'm sure we will see Taylor at the usual awards shows over the next few months[Grammys,AMAs,CMAs,]. For sure,Taylor will attend the Grammys next year no doubt about that.2012 will be a interesting year for us TS Fans nonetheless.
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Post by Kyla on Oct 24, 2011 8:53:23 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm sure she'll be nominated for Country AOTY at the Grammys. After SN sold a million copies the first week and got such great reviews, I thought it would be a lock for an AOTY nom, but since Lady Gaga's album ended up selling a million too, it kinda diminishes SN's feat. Adele's gonna win for sure, I'd just like to see Taylor nominated again.
I wonder if they'll ask her to perform again. Or what she would do if she does. Hopefully something a little outside of the box. Not Speak Now, or whatever the 5th single ends up being. Maybe DJ? It sounds great on tour and it's a pretty epic song. Might be too long though. And too uncomfortable if John's there.
Eta: Oh, speaking of 2012, I guess she'll miss the premiere of her movie once again. I don't know when the red carpet premiere will be but The Lorax hits theaters March 2nd, same day her Australian tour starts. She was touring in Australia and missed the premiere for Valentine's Day too last year.
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Post by 👑 Eloquent ™ on Oct 25, 2011 2:43:33 GMT -5
"Sparks Fly" is now officially a top-five county hit (placing at #5 on this week's Billboard Hot Country Songs chart).
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Post by neverduplicated on Oct 25, 2011 5:28:30 GMT -5
"Sparks Fly" is now officially a top-five county hit (placing at #5 on this week's Billboard Hot Country Songs chart). It's amazing that whilst Taylor's music has gradually embraced other genres and isn't just "pure country" (if such a thing exists) like it was on her first album, she's still having mega success on the country charts. 4 top 5's from this album is actually more than she had with Fearless. It's just too bad that "Sparks Fly" hasn't found any love on Top 40 or Hot AC. I wasn't expecting it to smash on either, but it hasn't even popped up in the nether regions of either chart.
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Post by †ealsünset on Oct 25, 2011 19:02:00 GMT -5
One year since the album was released! I got the album at Target this morning one year ago, and Taylor made history with 1 million copies sold that week. The album is as great to listen to now as it was on that first listen.
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Post by tsr on Oct 25, 2011 21:03:46 GMT -5
One year since the album was released! I got the album at Target this morning one year ago, and Taylor made history with 1 million copies sold that week. The album is as great to listen to now as it was on that first listen. Wow, I can't believe it's been a year. The album still feels as new today as it did a year ago. What's even more amazing is that Taylor Swift turned five years old yesterday and I can still listen to it without skipping any tracks.
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Post by Joe1240 on Oct 25, 2011 23:44:45 GMT -5
Yes can't beileve it's been a year since Speak Now was released.I still listen to the album and the album is still just as amazing as it was when it came out one year ago.Just like any other Taylor album,Every track is great.
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Post by CammyCan on Oct 26, 2011 23:43:43 GMT -5
New tour stats: 1 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, James Wesley, Charlie Worsham Cowboys Stadium Arlington, Texas Oct. 8, 2011 $4,337,062 55,451 / 55,451 1 / 1 $98.50, $76.50, $43.50 The Messina Group/AEG Live 5 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, Charlie Worsham Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City, Mo. Sept. 24, 2011 $3,148,046 48,562 / 48,562 1 / 1 $89.50, $39.50 The Messina Group/AEG Live 7 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, David Nail Jobing.com Arena Glendale, Ariz. Oct. 21-22, 2011 $1,826,025 27,029 / 27,029 2 / 2 $69.50, $59.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 8 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, James Wesley Philips Arena Atlanta, Ga. Oct. 1-2, 2011 $1,726,661 26,244 / 26,244 2 / 2 $69.50, $59.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 13 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, James Wesley KFC Yum! Center Louisville, Ky. Oct. 11, 2011 $1,003,828 14,848 / 14,848 1 / 1 $69.50, $59.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 15 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, Charlie Worsham BOK Center Tulsa, Okla. Sept. 21, 2011 $907,573 12,546 / 12,546 1 / 1 $69.50, $59.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 16 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, Charlie Worsham EnergySolutions Arena Salt Lake City, Utah Sept. 28, 2011 $896,946 13,720 / 13,720 1 / 1 $69.50, $59.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 17 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, Charlie Worsham Verizon Arena North Little Rock, Ark. Oct. 4, 2011 $856,123 13,566 / 13,566 1 / 1 $69.50, $59.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 18 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, Charlie Worsham Pepsi Center Denver, Colo. Sept. 27, 2011 $834,916 12,908 / 12,908 1 / 1 $69.50, $59.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 19 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, Charlie Worsham New Orleans Arena New Orleans, La. Oct. 5, 2011 $830,289 12,943 / 12,943 1 / 1 $69.50, $59.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 21 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, David Nail Valley View Casino Center San Diego, Calif. Oct. 20, 2011 $792,634 10,834 / 10,834 1 / 1 $79.50, $69.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 22 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, David Nail Chesapeake Energy Arena Oklahoma City, Okla. Oct. 15, 2011 $758,364 11,592 / 11,592 1 / 1 $69.50, $59.50, $25 The Messina Group/AEG Live 23 Taylor Swift, Needtobreathe, David Nail United Spirit Arena Lubbock, Texas Oct. 14, 2011 $710,426 10,419 / 10,419 1 / 1 $69.50 The Messina Group/AEG Live Total gross: $18,628,893 Total attendance: 270,663 Average per show: $1,241,926
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Post by Joe1240 on Oct 27, 2011 3:56:20 GMT -5
Taylor Swift's Grammy submissions:
Album of the Year, "Speak Now" Record of the Year, "Back to December" Song of the Year, "Back to December" Pop Vocal Performance, "Back to December" Country Album, "Speak Now" Country Vocal Performance, "Mean" Country Song, "Mean" Best Short Form Music Video "Mean" Best Long Form Music Video "Speak Now NBC Special"
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Post by Rhythm Nation on Oct 27, 2011 6:32:55 GMT -5
Doubt she'll win any of those :( Maybe Country Album?
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