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Post by Admin on Sept 5, 2017 18:33:00 GMT
The 27-year-old singer surprised fans on Saturday with a snippet of her new song before releasing it in full on Sunday morning. The beat drops. Taylor Swift clears her throat. The best response to controversy is more music. It's only fitting that "…Ready for It?," the second single from Swift’s upcoming album Reputation, premiered last night via a trailer for ABC's fall season. This is the perfect song for soapy, don't-call-it-a-guilty-pleasure television, all too appropriate for a woman who named her cat for Meredith of Grey's Anatomy. If 1989 was Swift's attempt to rewrite pop music in her own image, "…Ready for It?" finds her doing Top 40 pop on everyone else's terms. The ingredients are familiar - a beat borrowed from Sleigh Bells' "Kids," her voice channelling Ellie Goulding, Sia, Rihanna. Swift has never sung more expressively, nor sounded more in tune with the way modern pop production uses the voice as an instrument. Some will call it a concession to pop radio - where all roads lead back to Rihanna.
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Post by Admin on Sept 7, 2017 18:47:56 GMT
Unaffected (probably) by the lukewarm critical response to “Look What You Made Me Do,” the rollout for Taylor Swift’s new album, Reputation, continued apace over Labor Day weekend. The artist debuted “… Ready for It?” Saturday before a nationally televised college football game and then released the single properly overnight. A smart move — if you’re only as good as your last song and your last song wasn’t good, best to drop a new song as soon as possible. Simply by virtue of not being “Look What You Made Me Do,” the new song marks forward progress, and it’s not terrible on its own, either. Welded together by Swedish pop mastermind Max Martin and his longtime teammates Ali Payami and Shellback, the production more than carries its own weight: Hypnotized by the cumulative grind of synths, one can just about forget the fact that Swift is — or at the very least sounds like — she’s rapping for the first time. For some observers, the track’s abrasive sonics suggested that Swift, after “taking back” the snake imagery directed at her last summer by fans of antagonists Kanye and Kim Kardashian, was appropriating the glass-breaking noise popularized by Kanye’s 2013 punk-rap opus Yeezus. There really are some similarities, though resonances would likely be too strong a phrase. The austere, start-stop pacing of the lead-in to “Ready” sounds a bit like that of Yeezus centerpiece “I’m in It,” though more homogenized.
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Post by Admin on Sept 8, 2017 18:47:59 GMT
Taylor Swift, a girl who just last year had the most public of celebrity relationships with Tom Hiddleston, is now doing the exact opposite with her British boyfriend Joe Alwyn. But while Swift may be happy about "her decision to keep her relationship with Joe quiet" (per People), she hasn't actually been completely mum...at least on Tumblr. Following the release of her second single, "...Ready For It?"—which fans and media outlets speculate is either about him or Swift's ex Harry Styles—the singer came back on Tumblr to "like" fan theories she endorsed. The song is about Alwyn, Swift seemingly confirmed by liking this Tumblr post.
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2017 19:20:29 GMT
Swift reigns for a second week with "Look What You Made Me Do" & debuts with "…Ready for It?" Plus, as Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow" rises 3-2, solo women control the top two for the first time in almost three years. Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" spends a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Sept. 23). Swift also debuts at No. 4 on the Hot 100 with "…Ready for It?," with both songs previewing her new album Reputation, due Nov. 10.
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2017 18:36:05 GMT
In her latest single, Taylor Swift harkens back to one of Hollywood’s most epic love stories — for good reason. The Grammy winning singer recently released her new song “…Ready For It?” — an upbeat track driven by a dominating baseline and seemingly filled with adoring references to her new love, Joe Alwyn. But the one line that stands out the most comes at the top of the second verse when Swift compares their relationship to Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor‘s legendary love. “He can be my jailor/Burton to this Taylor/Every love I’ve known in comparison is a failure,” Swift talk-sings over the catchy beat.
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