Post by Admin on May 1, 2019 17:26:21 GMT
To call Taylor Swift’s new lead single from her as-yet-untitled seventh album, “ME!,” “brightly hued” would be an affront to primary colors. The collaboration with Panic! At the Disco’s Brendon Urie is spangled with rat-tat-tat drums and soaring “woo-hoo-hoo”s, seemingly designed to wrench even the most dedicated grouch out of her funk. It’s the confetti that accompanies a congratulatory iMessage reimagined as a three-minutes-and-change pop song; it’s a singing telegram with a pro-spelling PSA hooked into its bridge; it’s a self-empowerment anthem waiting for a musical comedy to surround it. It even doubles as an announcement that Swift has adopted a third cat.
Swift’s burst of unbridled musical joy — and its reference-packed, sorbet-colored video — came at the end of a busy fortnight for pop music watchers.
On April 17, the force of nature known as Beyoncé premiered "Homecoming," a chronicle of her incredible set at 2018’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. A few days earlier, this year’s edition of that festival had hosted chart-topper Ariana Grande, who brought together four-fifths of turn-of-the-millennium boy-band titans ‘N Sync for a run-through of their 1997 single “Tearin’ Up My Heart”; she closed out its second week by dueting with the allegedly-on-hiatus idol Justin Bieber. And Madonna began her comeback with “Medellín,” a vaporous, cha-chaing duet with the Colombian singer Maluma.
What “ME!” has to say about Swift’s still-untitled, still-unannounced seventh album is simple: “You’ll find out soon enough.” That ambiguity, teased out through Instagram Live appearances and quick-hit cutaways, is in keeping with her statement last week that her cats were one of her biggest recent artistic inspirations, as well as her forthcoming role as as Bombalurina in the film adaptation of the musical "Cats." After all, even the most ready-to-please kitty will remind its minder again and again that it has a mind of its own.
Swift’s burst of unbridled musical joy — and its reference-packed, sorbet-colored video — came at the end of a busy fortnight for pop music watchers.
On April 17, the force of nature known as Beyoncé premiered "Homecoming," a chronicle of her incredible set at 2018’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. A few days earlier, this year’s edition of that festival had hosted chart-topper Ariana Grande, who brought together four-fifths of turn-of-the-millennium boy-band titans ‘N Sync for a run-through of their 1997 single “Tearin’ Up My Heart”; she closed out its second week by dueting with the allegedly-on-hiatus idol Justin Bieber. And Madonna began her comeback with “Medellín,” a vaporous, cha-chaing duet with the Colombian singer Maluma.
What “ME!” has to say about Swift’s still-untitled, still-unannounced seventh album is simple: “You’ll find out soon enough.” That ambiguity, teased out through Instagram Live appearances and quick-hit cutaways, is in keeping with her statement last week that her cats were one of her biggest recent artistic inspirations, as well as her forthcoming role as as Bombalurina in the film adaptation of the musical "Cats." After all, even the most ready-to-please kitty will remind its minder again and again that it has a mind of its own.