Werewolf General Planning Thread

[PanzerCorps]

@Panzer :

TBH, I didn't like her much back in the country days, Love Story and 22 were of course jams that I could listen to, but the rest of her album, I didn't feel it, but 1989 is a true masterpiece, amazing songwriting as always and catchy tunes, really proud of her very "swift" change this year (see what I did there?).

Country Taylor Best Taylor.

Well to be fair, Red(the album) kind of sucked. If the albums were chronological time periods and Taylor Nation was Europe, Taylor Swift(the album) would be prehistory(the start-but-not-really), Fearless would be Republican Rome(Gives off a nice vibe, even if it's not that great by itself), Speak Now would be Imperial Rome(no doubt the Golden Era), dating Jake Gyllenhaal the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Red would be the Dark Ages, and 1989 the Renaissance - which is made even better by the fact she calls it a "Rebirth" herself.

 

[GreatUberGeek]

What Taylor Swift song should I listen to first if I haven't heard any of her songs in my life, or only little snippets?

 

[PanzerCorps]

What Taylor Swift song should I listen to first if I haven't heard any of her songs in my life, or only little snippets?

WAIT. I'll find you a good one. Just give me a minute and DON'T LISTEN TO ANY SONG IN THE MEANWHILE. Don't ruin this for me.

 

[marty99]

What Taylor Swift song should I listen to first if I haven't heard any of her songs in my life, or only little snippets?

None of them.

 

[LatinKaiser]

What Taylor Swift song should I listen to first if I haven't heard any of her songs in my life, or only little snippets?

Rolling in the Deep, Bad Romance, or We Can't Stop.

 

[marty99]

Rolling in the Deep, Bad Romance, or We Can't Stop.

I don't think she's ever reached the heights of Umbrella, or Crazy in Love. in recent years.


But yeah let's please stop talking about mediocre female pop singers. Oh and Shake it Off is possibly one of the worst 10 songs of all time btw.

 

[Sleepyhead]

None of them.

'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

But you know what? Taylor Swift is just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
She will shake it off, shake it off

 

[marty99]

 

[LatinKaiser]

I don't think she's ever reached the heights of Umbrella, or Crazy in Love. in recent years.


But yeah let's please stop talking about mediocre female pop singers. Oh and Shake it Off is possibly one of the worst 10 songs of all time btw.

It's right up there with Call Me Maybe.

 

[PanzerCorps]

What Taylor Swift song should I listen to first if I haven't heard any of her songs in my life, or only little snippets?

If you're feeling like something rythmic and a bit dark:

Spoiler

[video=youtube;Fi4SWJGXDHY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi4SWJGXDHY[/video]

If you're into something also rythmic but more uplifting:

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[video=youtube;Souz7EESHxw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Souz7EESHxw[/video]

If you're feeling like a slow song with awesome lyrics instead:

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[video=youtube;daT-Q8pzEVw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daT-Q8pzEVw[/video]
Actual song starts at ~2:20, but the intro is well worth listening to.

The thing about hopeless romanticism in the fandom is true, btw

"-Someone should make a swifty dating site
-Or a hopeless romantics dating site, same thing, same people"

Now you may know why I do the Valentine's Specials

And for the best music video you've ever seen:

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[video=youtube;nN6VR92V70M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN6VR92V70M[/video]

Or for a more symbolical one:

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[video=youtube;QUwxKWT6m7U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwxKWT6m7U[/video]

And that's it, really.

None of them.

I assume that means you've heard them all?

Actually, scrap all those. Go for this one:

[video=youtube;VECYUS9rYYs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VECYUS9rYYs[/video]

 

[PanzerCorps]

'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

But you know what? Taylor Swift is just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
She will shake it off, shake it off

This song is why I blame Taylor for most of the people that hate her. She writes awesome songs, hidden in the albums only people who already love her will buy, and releases the crappy cash-making ones to the public. Since the release of Red you had the entire fandom begging for All Too Well to be a single and it never came. Which songs became singles instead? Crap like I knew you were trouble. The best written of the Red songs was in the deluxe edition only for Christ's sake.

Taylor writes great songs, but she values money more than her public image.

 

[marty99]

I assume that means you've heard them all?

This rebuttal does not work even from a semantics perspective.

 

[PanzerCorps]

This rebuttal does not work even from a semantics perspective.

But it does from a non-semantics perspective. For the reason, see above. I honestly believe the songs you're most likely to have heard are far from the best ones she has.

 

[marty99]

But it does from a non-semantics perspective. For the reason, see above. I honestly believe the songs you're most likely to have heard are far from the best ones she has.

Why would I have listened to her album stuff when I could've been getting down to this. sick. beat.

 

[LatinKaiser]

Why would I have listened to her album stuff when I could've been getting down to this. sick. beat.

:rofl:

 

[PanzerCorps]

Why would I have listened to her album stuff when I could've been getting down to this. sick. beat.

It's a daydream dressed like a nightmare.

 

[Sleepyhead]

My ex-man brought his new girlfriend
She's like "Oh, my god!" but I'm just gonna shake.

 

[PanzerCorps]

Darn you Taylor Swift for making the lot of us look like fools with that song. Just take a look at these lyrics:

"You call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest, I'm a crumpled up peace of paper laying here 'cause I remember it all too well"

"And the cynics were outraged, screaming: this is absurd. 'Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped-up jeans got to rule the world

Long live the walls we crushed through, all the kingdom lights shined just for me and you
And I was screaming, long live all the magic we made, and bring on all the pretenders, I'm not afraid
Long live all the mountains we moved
I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you
I was screaming, long live that look on your face
And bring on all the pretenders, one day we will be remembered"

"Well maybe it's me and my blind optimism to blame. Or maybe it's you and your sick need to give love then take it away. And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand. And I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said 'Run as fast as you can' "

"So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep. And I'll feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe."

"And I'd go back in time and change it, but I can't. So if the chain is on your door, I understand. But this is me swallowing my pride standing in front of you saying I'm sorry for that night... and I go back to December all the time."

"There was nothing left to do, when the butterflies turned to dust that covered my whole room. So I punched a hole in the roof. Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you. The water filled my lungs I scream so loud but no one heard a thing. The rain came pouring down, when I was drowning, *that's* when I could finally breathe. And by morning, gone was any trace of you. I think I am finally clean."

"And I could tell you: His favourite colour's green. He loves to argue, born of the seventeenth. His sister's beautiful, he has his father's eyes. And if you asked me if I loved him... I'd lie" (For a song written by a 14 year old to perform at a school talent show...)

Now THAT'S the kind of lyrics we like. They may not be masterpieces, but they're not as bad as the stuff you'd think they'd be.

 

[madchemist]

Meh.

 

[PanzerCorps]

To be fair, lyrics without music are almost universally meh. The point was to contrast with the above

Anyway, GUG, you listened to it yet? What do you say?