TheThorne
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 26, 2019 6:48:29 GMT 1
This is actually really good and not just because Brendon Urie is on it. Its kinda like 'This Is Me' meets 'High Hopes' I guess.
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Post by o on Apr 26, 2019 9:23:22 GMT 1
Yeah heard this on the radio this morning and not surprisingly they didn't say who it was! Bloody radio presenters! But I'd picked up Brendan Urie's voice and thought it was a new Panic track, but sounded too poppy, so looked it up, and Taylor Swift, wow, the video is a visual, musical delight, it is far too pop for me, but it's just so damn catchy, if that doesn't go to #1 straightaway, I'm an elephant! And Taylor is 29, wow! Almost ancient!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2019 0:55:13 GMT 1
Terrible
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Apr 28, 2019 1:14:53 GMT 1
Spelling is fun!
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Post by raliverpool on Apr 28, 2019 9:13:44 GMT 1
This reminds me of the old John Peel quote which he first used about the Bay City Rollers. "Some acts get so big they can release a fart and it goes to number one".Right now Ed Sheeran; Drake; Adele; Ariana Grande; & Taylor Swift fall into that category with their first singles from a new album campaign.
Listening to that it is clear that Taylor Swift has just dropped one. Whilst the video is nauseating in a Meghan Trainor meets Disney doing The Greatest Showman (Me!'s producer Joel Little was responsible for that horror of a soundtrack) type of thing.
If I was Emeli Sande I would be consulting plagiarism lawyers over it borrowing from "Next To Me". If Katy Perry had released this she would be getting slaughtered by the critics for coming up with a pop song version of "Baby Shark".
And using Brendon Urie is a ....... choice!
If this was a Saturday Night Live parody it would be great in a deeply ironic way. As this is real then it is
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 28, 2019 9:32:33 GMT 1
Well as you know I try not to be affected my social media or media tbh, I really don't care how much pop stars act like assholes in real life, imagine if we could have recorded everything every rock star said in the last 50 years, you would have something on everyone.
If Chris Brown manages to still have a career then wot's the point in getting bothered by stuff like that ie. someone who was actually charged with something. I love Panic At The Disco! and his presence makes this song 1000x better. So I take back what I said at the top, he does make it good. Its fun lighten up. better than anything of 'Reputation' and 'Next To Me' was hardly anything new either.
As for SNL parody you do know that Brendon Durie has been starring in OTT videos since his band started, its what he does and I am sure it is tongue in cheek.
This was their 3rd single 13 years ago.
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Post by Jordan on Apr 28, 2019 9:59:49 GMT 1
The whole plagiarism argument in music these days is the biggest joke of all.
That being said, so far this is only making my ears bleed. But it is super catchy. But so is Chlamidia. Basically I’m quite conflicted.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Apr 28, 2019 10:00:57 GMT 1
I like it. It's camp, fun, catchy, has musically a great featured artist and sounds a lot better than her crappy Max Martin/Shellback produced soulless boring sell out do what's "populor" landfill "pop" over plastic beats and drum loops that everyone's doing even Papa Roach, Imagine Dragons etc that made up her last album
I respect that she has opted for fun and creativity over the production equivalent of Simon Cowells Xfactor. She wanted it to be cheesy, she wanted it to feature Brendan Urie, she wanted to go in another direction, fair play she could've just handed creative control to some boring soul destroying producers and released the same crap everyone else is like all the other sell outs do who are desperate to stay relevant at any cost.
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Post by o on Apr 28, 2019 10:17:57 GMT 1
Apparently the Panic fans think he's totally sold out now, oops.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 28, 2019 11:11:13 GMT 1
Apparently the Panic fans think he's totally sold out now, oops. Aww that ship sailed some time ago, Panic were never the most credible emo band in the first place, they always flirted with the mainstream.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Apr 28, 2019 12:38:18 GMT 1
Music fans are a weird bunch.
As an artist you have to be good but not too good because thats not cool, then if you get too good you become bad.
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Post by Smurfie on Apr 28, 2019 21:51:42 GMT 1
Well, I love it. More big pop songs like this please.
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Post by rewardman on Apr 29, 2019 3:48:54 GMT 1
I don’t know anything about the guy from Panic At The Disco so I cant factor in any animus against his politics or whatever. Taylor Swift has made some provocative statements of late after having resolutely refused to get political. I don’t know too much of her music either. That being said I’m just going to evaluate the song and video on their merits as I see it, purely subjectively.
I thought the video was good, very entertaining. Shades of Willie Wonka or the Wizard Of Oz in terms of the colors and imagery with a little Mary Poppins thrown in. So visually it was good for me. I thought the song was bouncy pop, nothing more nothing less, on a first listen. It’s catchy. Now, whether I’ll feel positive about it after thirty or forty listens is a matter for speculation.
I do recall the British tendency to build up people, be it actors, singers or other performers and then relish in tearing them down at some point for being too big for their own boots or some such rationale.
It’s a hit for me. So there. LOL.
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Post by chbigemi on May 13, 2019 0:09:47 GMT 1
It sucks that some mumble rapper is keeping this out of #1 on the Hot 100
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Post by justintime on Jun 18, 2019 17:23:52 GMT 1
I'm trying to understand what the appeal is for Taylor Swift, she seems very boring
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