I like WANEGBT entirely for its sheer Ear Worm powers. And for the fact that I like hearing Taylor do something outside her comfort zone (at least sonically — lyrically, it's still her usual "house style").
Let's have some fun/this beat is sick/I wanna take a ride on your disco stick/don't think too much/just bust that dick/I wanna take a ride on your disco stick.
Mainly for that line. The rest of the song is pretty average.
Seriously, "disco stick." It just speaks for itself.
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For me it's the bad kind of Ear Worm, more like an Ear Parasite. It's just so obnoxious and condescending.
edited 18th Nov '12 7:30:25 AM by shoboni
I am indifferent to Taylor Swift in general, but I was amused when I first heard that was actually what her latest hit single was called - "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" sounds like a fake Taylor Swift song title someone would come up with to make fun of her tendency to write Breakup Songs.
edited 18th Nov '12 5:32:13 PM by MikeK
Don't write off that idea too quickly—it wasn't written entirely by her, but with Max Martin (a.k.a.: the man who is the face of what is wrong with so much popular music today), I found out.
Oddly enough, even though the lyrics piss me off from just how juvenile they are, it's the guitar riff in it that pisses me off the most. Ooh, you think you're so clever playing that riff and then repeating it reversed? The Beatles beat you to that by about 46 years.
edited 18th Nov '12 6:22:19 PM by 0dd1
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What amuses me is that the song bombed SO badly at country radio (debuted at #13, fell to #19, rebounded to #15, disappeared). Yet it's the #1 country song because they rejiggered the country charts to factor in downloads.
Dear Lord, if that song was a hit on country radio stations, I think we'd have to officially declare the genre dead.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Yeah, I read that the instrumental track was different there. Is it any...I hesitate to say "better", because that implies there was quality to begin with.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.The Soup this week cut together a bunch of Taylor Swift intros to her songs on VH 1's Storytellers. They were all about "guys that she really liked at the time", with only minor variations on that phrase. I just about died laughing at how sad that was.
But to the thread topic, I can't stand Gorillaz' "Starshine". No one enjoys hearing Damon Albarn's voice crack, do they? I never understood why that song couldn't have been sung by Tina Weymouth. It's not a bad song, it's just so painfully out of Albarn's register.
edited 18th Nov '12 8:21:15 PM by LargoQuagmire
I liked "Not Afraid" for a while and still do, but it does come off as quite silly with the ANGRY INSPIRATIONAL RAPPING.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Normally I'm a big fan of George Strait, but everything about "Love Bug" sets my teeth on edge.
George Jones cover, did you know that?
I already listed my least favorite George Strait songs. I know most people hate "The Breath You Take", and I admit it has the typical Casey Beathard faults (by which I mean a mostly two-note melody), but I don't mind it.
Not a "hate," this one, but a "don't quite get the joke": "Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long" by The Magnetic Fields. I just don't know what I think, let alone what I'm supposed to think.
That said, I went from hating to loving "The Luckiest Guy In Town" over the course of the song itself when I first heard it. The Magnetic Fields are like that.
edited 21st Dec '12 7:15:07 PM by JHM
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.I don't exactly hate it, but I find Creep decidedly average compared to the rest of Radiohead's output
I'm so sorry that my avatar doesn't appear fully in the shot, but the cat was threatening the photographer.
