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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2020 2:49:11 GMT
Taylor Swift - betty (Live from the 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards)
This time the rumor from Inez was actually true: Country Taylor Swift is back. Last night, The Old Taylor came to the phone made her return to the Academy of Country Music Awards stage for the first time in seven years to perform a song off of her new album folklore.
For the first time in its 55-year history, the ceremony was held in Nashville at the Grand Ole Opry House, where the two-time ACM Entertainer of the Year winner performed folklore standout "Betty" live on stage. This marks the first time Swift has played a song live from her latest album.
The stripped down performance featured Swift in a red sequined turtleneck and a loose bun, sitting on a stool and playing guitar. While in recent years the singer has pivoted to pop (and on folklore, alt-indie), the twangy, Bob Dylan-esque stylings of "Betty" have been circulating on country radio. Not only was the vibe a good fit for the ACMs, but the lyrics as well — Swift made sure to make them country music-friendly.
One of the lyrics is supposed to go, “If I just showed up at your party…would you tell me to go fuck myself?” For this performance, she changed it to “...tell me to go straight to hell.”
The singer is known for hiding Easter eggs in her songs and videos, and "Betty" is no different. The song is part of a narrative that's weaved into folklore, which includes three fictional characters named after her celebrity couple friends Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds' three children: Betty, James, and Inez. "Betty" is said to be sung from the perspective of James, who is caught in a love triangle between Betty and another woman (her perspective is captured in the song "August," and "Cardigan" is from Betty's point of view).
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2020 3:39:43 GMT
A familiar voice resounded through the hallowed walls of the Grand Ole Opry on Wednesday night. Taylor Swift fell right back into her place on the country music stage with ease, as part of the 55th annual ACM Awards. The Opry stage was one of three legendary Nashville stages, including The Ryman and Bluebird Cafe, that hosted performers during this year’s re-imagined awards show. After seven years away, the industry icon performed her country-leaning song, “Betty” for the first time. The reminiscent track is the only one to make it to country radio from her latest indie-album, Folklore. The stripped-down session represented her new chapter, as defined by Folklore, which she announced only a day before her July release date. The artist re-emerged as Music City remembers her best ––acoustic guitar in hand, backed by only a harmonica. Swift styled herself for the pre-recorded event with a sophisticatedly undone look. Her sequined turtleneck softened the spotlight, creating an illustrious aura around her curls that she has concealed for so many years. The enchanting performance came after a seven-year absence from the awards event. The 30-year-old artist made her ACM debut in 2007, performing “Tim McGraw.” Since then, she’s claimed nine awards from the institution. Swift was the last woman to win the ACMs’ entertainer of the year crown, picking up the top prize in 2011 and 2012. Wednesday night, Carrie Underwood ended up in a tie with Thomas Rhett for entertainer of the year, winning it herself for the first time since her two-year run with it preceding Swift in 2009-2010. Her last ACM’s performance was in 2013 as a guest star on Tim McGraw’s rendition of “Highway Don’t Care,” along with Keith Urban. That year was also her last CMA Awards appearance. Swift sang the title-track from her then-current record, Red, in a similarly laid back acoustic setting with the help of Vince Gill and Alison Krauss.
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Post by Admin on Sept 22, 2020 4:35:56 GMT
Taylor Swift has dropped another chapter in her Folklore series. "The Yeah I Showed Up At Your Party" collection includes her recent performance of "Betty" from the 2020 ACM Awards. Like the previous three Folklore chapters, this six-song themed playlist collects songs from the Billboard 200 No. 1 album, with Swift organizing the songs around a theme. The "Party" track list also includes "The 1," "Mirrorball," "The Last Great American Dynasty," "Invisible String" and the album's first single, "Cardigan." Swift released her live version of "Betty" from the ACM Awards on Friday, after she performed on the show for the time in seven years last week.
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Post by Admin on Oct 13, 2020 19:35:20 GMT
On “Betty”, Swift sings with an icy shiver to her voice from the perspective of a teenager who is in love and wants to kiss her lover on the porch. The song opens: “Betty, I won’t make assumptions/About why you switched your homeroom but/I think it’s ’cause of me.” Later in the song, she sings: “Yeah, I showed up at your party/Will you have me?/Will you love me?/ Will you kiss me on the porch/In front of all your stupid friends?” But in a brutal broadside to the dreams of countless LGBT+ people, Swift confirmed that, no, “Betty” is no lesbian love story – it’s a heterosexual one. “I wrote from the perspective of a 17-year-old boy,” she said. Don’t run for the tissue box just yet, however. Petrie took to Instagram to showcase her singing chops with her own rendition of “Betty”, with one crucial difference. “Turns out you can make ‘Betty’ by Taylor Swift a lesbian song, if you change the word James to the word Grace,” she wrote on Twitter. www.instagram.com/tv/CGI-321HRDO/The Instagram video shows Petrie strums her guitar while her dog, Frank, curls up by her side and, yup, we’re crying now.
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2020 4:15:47 GMT
Taylor Swift is auctioning off the black 2018 Gibson acoustic guitar she played "Betty" at last month's ACM Awards to raise funds for COVID-19 relief. The signed instrument, which comes with a case, strap and five personalized TSwift guitar picks, is expected to go for $25,000-$40,000 as part of an upcoming online auction called "NASHVILLE: An Auction to Benefit ACM Lifting Lives COVID-19 Response Fund." The guitar is described as having a, "bound rosewood fingerboard with mother-of-pearl inlay of a star motif, wired with electronics for stage performance," with an inscription of the date it was played (Sept. 16, 2020) and a plectrum caddy containing with the five personalized picks, one commemorating her 2017 Reputation album and the other four her 2019 Lover release; the auction will run through Oct. 29. Other items up for auction in the event include an accordion played by Sheryl Crow, Tim McGraw's F131 Hellcat motorcycle, a Swarovski crystal-covered four-string dulcimer owned by Dolly Parton for 30 years, a Dwight Yoakam Epiphone hollow-body guitar, a Bradley Cooper Gibson semi-hollow body guitar and a Keith Urban electric guitar.
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