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Posted by: Ryan. 6th November 2013, 04:13 PM

Taylor Swift has revealed she has written a lot of new songs for her new album which based on her previous album release dates, we should expect to be released in Autumn 2014. 'Red' has been incredibly successful for Taylor which will have produced 8 UK top 40 hits (including 4 top 10 hits) for Taylor if 'The Last Time' goes top 40 this week as expected. I'm so excited to listen to a new album from Taylor and this is what she has said about it:

Posted by: Ryan. 16th February 2014, 07:01 PM

I've read that recently Taylor has been in the studio with various people including Ryan Tedder, Diane Warren, Max Martin and Johan Shellback!

Posted by: d__ 16th February 2014, 07:12 PM

Expecting a lead single in May.

Posted by: AlexRange 17th February 2014, 07:52 AM

"Red" was good, but I want more country album. Somelthing like Shania's debut album.
Would she reached 4 millions mark in United States with this album ?
Last chance of music industry.

Posted by: Vidcapper 17th February 2014, 03:49 PM

QUOTE(AlexRange @ Feb 17 2014, 07:52 AM)

"Red" was good, but I want more country album. Somelthing like Shania's debut album.
Would she reached 4 millions mark in United States with this album ?
Last chance of music industry.

Posted by: Liаm 17th February 2014, 03:52 PM

I do kinda miss Speak Now/Fearless Taylor but Red was her best album (just about, Fearless is also outstanding as is Speak Now) and there was at least Red/All Too Well/Holy Ground/Treacherous/Begin Again etc. for classic Taylor, and then I Knew You Were Trouble and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together allowed for her to have massive WW hits. I think she's found a good niche where she can stay as one of the big pop females.

Posted by: d__ 17th February 2014, 03:54 PM

"Speak Now" and "Fearless" shat all over "Red".

Posted by: Ryan. 22nd May 2014, 02:35 PM

The latest rumour is that a single will be released at midnight after the final night of her Red tour next month. If this is true (which I find unlikely), that would mean the single would be released on June 13th and we know that 13 is Taylor's lucky number...

Posted by: Ryan. 11th June 2014, 11:17 PM

Just found this on ATRL:

New Taylor Swift album "mostly Max Martin"

Posted by: Ryan. 2nd August 2014, 11:48 PM

Looks like we should expect a new Taylor single in the next couple of weeks if she is going to have it released prior to her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 24th!

Posted by: Ryan. 3rd August 2014, 02:29 PM

Yesterday, Scott Borchetta (founder of Taylor's record label Big Machine Records) suddenly started replying to lots of tweets about Taylor's fifth album as well as giving us a few teasers! Reading ATRL, apparently the last time he did this before 'Red', the 'Red' announcement came very quickly afterwards so hopefully we could be getting some official announcements any day now!

Posted by: Ryan. 4th August 2014, 08:28 PM

Taylor has posted our first clue presumably to do with a single or album on Instagram: http://instagram.com/p/rSJfxLDvH4/

She presses the #18 button 6 times so what could it mean? Is it too obvious that a single will premiere on August 18th at 6pm? (or 6am!)

I am so so excited for this, Taylor is definitely one of my favourite artists!

Posted by: Liаm 4th August 2014, 08:32 PM

She needs to just give us something instead of just teasing, I know Red was only two years ago but she always slays and new Taylor can never come soon enough.

Posted by: Ryan. 5th August 2014, 01:46 PM

Posted by: Ultraviolence 5th August 2014, 02:34 PM

So So so so excited
Love Taylor so much

Posted by: BishWill 5th August 2014, 02:40 PM

This is good news, I find Taylor's stuff hit and miss for me personally but I look forward to hearing some new stuff

Posted by: Liаm 5th August 2014, 02:43 PM

Can't wait, she never fails to amaze me! Been waiting for this, hopefully a single very soon especially given she's performing at the VMAs.

Posted by: Ryan. 7th August 2014, 12:37 AM

Taylor has tweeted this image for our second clue!



I've merged the single topic back into this one for now as we have no idea if these clues are single or album-related!

Posted by: Liаm 7th August 2014, 12:42 AM

Olivia Benson <3 Gah she's so adorable!

Posted by: Ryan. 7th August 2014, 12:44 AM

This photo also leaked earlier today supposedly revealing Taylor's upcoming events including a media event (a webchat?) on the day we expect the single to be released!

Posted by: J▲hq 7th August 2014, 06:49 PM

Posted by: steve201 7th August 2014, 11:08 PM

I'm not a fan but as an outsider I can say after her last albums success this could be one of the years biggest comebacks - her release strategy will be interesting - her last lead singles were OA/OS but I think most record companies even outside the uk have been told to hold singles back now so we might have to wait until October to actually own the new material

Posted by: *Tim 11th August 2014, 12:17 PM

She's doing a Yahoo worldwide live stream on the 18th of august, 5PM ET
http://www.taylorswift.com/splash

Posted by: Ryan. 11th August 2014, 01:54 PM

So exciting! The 'Red' webchat was one of my favourite music-related things ever so I'm so glad she's doing another one to presumably unveil the new single!

Posted by: JosephStyles 11th August 2014, 03:41 PM

So excited for new Taylor

Posted by: Ryan. 13th August 2014, 06:31 PM

Yahoo! have confirmed that the Q&A live stream with Taylor will last 90 minutes and will also include Taylor revealing her album artwork and her brand new music video! Those first week sales are going to be massive for Taylor with music video views included too!

Posted by: Liаm 13th August 2014, 06:34 PM

Omg just days away

Posted by: Ryan. 18th August 2014, 09:11 PM

Called '1989'!

Posted by: Ryan. 18th August 2014, 09:12 PM

Album artwork:



Released October 27th!

Posted by: Ultraviolence 18th August 2014, 09:13 PM

Love the name and artwork

27 OCTOBER

Posted by: Ultraviolence 18th August 2014, 09:15 PM

There is also going to be a deluxe version

This is so amazing, I am in love with Taylor

Posted by: Ryan. 18th August 2014, 09:18 PM

There will be 13 polaroid photos with each physical album, but it won't be the same 13 with every album!

Posted by: Ryan. 18th August 2014, 09:33 PM

Taylor's website has crashed from all of the people trying to find out the pre-order information, me included!

Posted by: Ultraviolence 18th August 2014, 09:36 PM

QUOTE(Ryan. @ Aug 18 2014, 10:33 PM)

Taylor's website has crashed from all of the people trying to find out the pre-order information, me included!

Posted by: Ryan. 18th August 2014, 09:55 PM

All of the pre-order information and what the CD includes with it is now on taylorswift.com (which is now working again!)

Posted by: *Tim 18th August 2014, 09:58 PM

QUOTE(Ryan. @ Aug 18 2014, 09:33 PM)

Taylor's website has crashed from all of the people trying to find out the pre-order information, me included!

Posted by: Ryan. 18th August 2014, 10:01 PM

I know! I keep trying to load a page up on there and it manages about 1 in every 10 attempts!

Posted by: J▲hq 18th August 2014, 10:28 PM

Very intrigued by the track with an Imogen Heap co-write..

Ryan Tedder on board for two songs too and Max Martin doing half the album, a far cry from Speak Now.

Posted by: Ryan. 19th August 2014, 12:33 AM

Just watched the iTunes exclusive behind the scenes video which you can access when you click the banner at the top of the iTunes home page (or visit Taylor's artist page!) It's quite interesting and funny!

Her team have really thought of everything they can, it's all been handled so incredibly well!

Posted by: Ryan. 19th August 2014, 01:34 AM

Here's the deluxe edition artwork:

Posted by: Jonjo 19th August 2014, 03:28 AM

So excited for this album, you have no idea.

Posted by: Ryan. 19th August 2014, 01:55 PM

I hope iTunes sort out what seems to be some sort of error as the album pre-order isn't showing up on any charts and we all know that it would be top 200 at least somewhere (and most likely top 10 nearly everywhere!).

Posted by: Ryan. 19th August 2014, 07:40 PM

That error is now sorted and the album is #1 on UK iTunes (and in many other countries too)! I can't believe how successful Taylor has become here, she's also done well with albums since 'Fearless' but this is a new level!

Posted by: J▲hq 26th August 2014, 09:17 AM

taylorswiftstore.co.uk has the CD up to pre-order and you can also get a mens or womens t-shirt with "Shake It Off" written on the front. Think I'm going to order the CD/t-shirt package

Posted by: Ryan. 8th September 2014, 03:53 PM

Here is an absolutely fantastic article about Taylor by the Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/taylor-swift-1989-cover-story-20140908

There's quite a few song titles in there and a lovely story about Taylor giving a fan money for her birthday! It'll make sense when you read it

Posted by: J▲hq 8th September 2014, 04:46 PM

The interesting parts condensed;

Posted by: *Tim 8th September 2014, 04:47 PM

It's about Katy. She stole Taylor's backup dancers, midway through Taylor's tour I believe

Posted by: Liаm 8th September 2014, 04:50 PM

So excited, everything sounds really promising I'd love Bad Blood to be scathing like Better Than Revenge at least!

Posted by: Ryan. 8th September 2014, 04:53 PM

Yeah I've read that story about Katy as well on ATRL so I assume it's about her!

Posted by: *Tim 9th September 2014, 09:32 AM

Katy on twitter: Watch out for the Regina Georde in sheep's clothe


Katy's dancers that left Taylor's tour already confirmed in 2013 they left because Katy asked them back after they toured with her for TD.

Posted by: Ryan. 5th October 2014, 09:11 AM

Promotional singles should be coming soon judging by Taylor's reply to someone on Instagram, well I think it's Instagram!

Posted by: *Tim 5th October 2014, 11:22 AM

It's tumblr
But I expect the first to land this tuesday

Posted by: Ryan. 8th October 2014, 11:06 PM

Looks like the first promo single will be coming soon (probably on Tuesday) as "Track 4" now has a time next to it (3 minutes 55 seconds) on iTunes whereas all of the others still have the generic 7 or 8 seconds song length. Exciting!

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 8th October 2014, 11:09 PM

So so excited
I need Taylor songs

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 9th October 2014, 11:19 AM

Taylor's posted a massive clue on instagram with 5 days so we should be getting a new song in 5 days

Posted by: Liаm 9th October 2014, 06:04 PM

Posted by: Ryan. 9th October 2014, 06:08 PM

Here's Taylor performing 'Riptide' in the Live Lounge today!



And very exciting news about the promotional single, I believe it's called 'Out of the Woods'? It definitely matches the instagram clue anyway.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 9th October 2014, 06:26 PM

Her performance of riptide in the live lounge today was amazing- I managed to catch that one live
I missed SIO but heard it an hour ago. I thought it was good but the microphone obviously wasn't on properly at the start and the backing singers sometimes were a bit too loud

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 10th October 2014, 12:04 AM

I am now on a Taylor Speak Now binge listening. I've already done mine, mean, speak now (x2), enchanted (x3), haunted and more of them. I am literally posting so much on instagram at the moment and interacting with other swifties. I love swifties so much

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 10th October 2014, 10:32 AM

Has anyone else read some of the stories that Swifties have posted when they met Taylor yesterday. Some of them are so beautiful so I really recommend reading them- I started crying during a couple of them as well.
Taylor is just so amazing

Posted by: Liаm 13th October 2014, 04:06 PM

Taylor is performing on the finale of Australian X Factor on next Sunday/Monday (not sure which, it's split over two nights like ours), I hope she mashes up Out Of The Woods with the inevitable Shake It Off

Posted by: Liаm 13th October 2014, 04:22 PM

Also Out Of The Woods clip is here...

http://prxmise.tumblr.com/post/99904294173/thanksforsayingthat-out-of-the-woods-taylor

*.* Sound quite tribal, a bit like Uncondtionally almost?!

Posted by: J▲hq 14th October 2014, 12:13 AM

That hook sounds fabulous. So catchy already. Can't wait to hear the full thing in a few hours, if the clip is anything to go by it should be better than "Shake It Off"!

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 01:23 AM

Very excited for this, it's only a couple of hours until the full song will be released! Taylor posted a great picture on Twitter too teasing the song release tonight:



Also Taylor was amazing on the Graham Norton show the other day, the part when they were talking about the 1989 Secret Sessions was hilarious!

Posted by: M¤th 14th October 2014, 03:15 AM

'Out Of The Woods' is STUNNING, as expected.

Posted by: M¤th 14th October 2014, 03:22 AM

Link here:

http://alleyesonhunter.tumblr.com/post/99964705018/taylor-swift-out-of-the-woods-preorder-1989-on

Posted by: J▲hq 14th October 2014, 08:54 AM

Absolutely perfect.

Stunning production, very instant and catchy, leagues ahead of "Shake It Off" for me. This feels more natural.

Already dying for it to be an official single!

Posted by: J▼hnkm 14th October 2014, 09:34 AM

That chorus is amazing, the verses are going to take a while to grow on me I think but THANK GOD she's not solely peddling Shake It Off-esque lowest common denominator crap.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 14th October 2014, 10:56 AM

JUST STUNNING

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 11:26 AM

Incredible, I love the way it builds through the song and how it produces such a frantic atmosphere with the repetition and production, something Taylor has said was her aim. Her songwriting is once again amazing and shows why, in my opinion, she has that extra something special compared to the other "pop girls" of today as well as making Taylor's pop songs still just as much Taylor as her country songs.

The reaction worldwide when looking at album pre-order is sensational (it is top 3 in the UK for example and #1 in Australia!), I think this album (and singles) could be as big, if not bigger, than the 'Teenage Dream' campaign. I assume 'Out of the Woods' will be made available here at midnight maybe, hopefully it's very soon!

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 11:42 AM

Parts of the song also remind me of CHVRCHES too actually!

Posted by: Noahspike 14th October 2014, 01:02 PM

Love on first listen. Grew tired of 'Shake It Off' extremely quickly but I can see this potentially being one of her best ever tracks for me.

QUOTE(Ryan. @ Oct 14 2014, 12:26 PM)

Posted by: Joe. 14th October 2014, 02:57 PM

This song is truly amazing.

Posted by: *Tim 14th October 2014, 03:02 PM

Out Of The Woods is amazing!
Excitement for this album is an understatement, as this is shaping up to be even better than Red

Posted by: • Josh • 14th October 2014, 03:53 PM

Oh my, Out Of The Woods is phenomenal. I'm absolutely buzzing for this album, should be one of the best pop albums in a while!

Posted by: mr_aly 14th October 2014, 04:35 PM

It's pretty great.

I really dislike the girl though, I wish she'd stop making songs I like.

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 04:47 PM

QUOTE(Noahspike @ Oct 14 2014, 02:02 PM)

Love on first listen. Grew tired of 'Shake It Off' extremely quickly but I can see this potentially being one of her best ever tracks for me.
Say whaaaaaaaat

Posted by: BrookeOlivia 14th October 2014, 05:15 PM

Love 'Out of the Woods'

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 05:18 PM

It now seems to be available just about everywhere, except the UK. Hopefully we'll get it by midnight tonight!

The album is top 2 on UK iTunes with two weeks still until release - unbelievable!

Posted by: Liаm 14th October 2014, 05:22 PM

I don't even have the words to describe Out Of The Woods to be quite honest

Posted by: *Tim 14th October 2014, 05:25 PM

I'll wait for the previews to arrive but I'm 90% sure I'll be ordering this album

Posted by: Noahspike 14th October 2014, 05:37 PM

QUOTE(Ryan. @ Oct 14 2014, 05:47 PM)

Well she could have similar singles success, and Taylor is a better album seller than Katy I think so that's how I think it could be bigger overall, but it'll still be very tough of course!

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 05:47 PM

I was just talking more generally worldwide really. 'Teenage Dream' has sold 5.7 million albums worldwide apparently, while 'Red' is on 4.2 million (if I'm to believe Wikipedia). I think '1989' is definitely going to be Taylor's most successful album worldwide, so that would immediately put '1989' into the 5 to 6 million sales region (without a re-release which will have inflated Katy's sales too of course). Then singles-wise, I'd say 'Shake It Off' is getting quite close (although not quite matching it of course) to the success of 'California Gurls' when talking about general worldwide success and then there's no reason why Taylor couldn't have another 4 or 5 singles that go top 10 all over the world - 'I Knew You Were Trouble' and to a lesser extent '22' showed that there's definitely potential for lots of successful Taylor post-album singles from an album but of course she ran out of pop singles to release from 'Red' which she'll have no problem with on '1989'. Of course it'll be nearly impossible to match the record of 5 #1s from an album, but that's US-specific whereas I was just referring to general worldwide success.

Of course it's very ambitious but I think Taylor could get very close to the success of it, if not matching it. We can hope anyway!

Posted by: Noahspike 14th October 2014, 05:56 PM

QUOTE(Ryan. @ Oct 14 2014, 06:47 PM)

I was just talking more generally worldwide really. 'Teenage Dream' has sold 5.7 million albums worldwide apparently, while 'Red' is on 4.2 million (if I'm to believe Wikipedia). I think '1989' is definitely going to be Taylor's most successful album worldwide, so that would immediately put '1989' into the 5 to 6 million sales region (without a re-release which will have inflated Katy's sales too of course). Then singles-wise, I'd say 'Shake It Off' is getting quite close (although not quite matching it of course) to the success of 'California Gurls' when talking about general worldwide success and then there's no reason why Taylor couldn't have another 4 or 5 singles that go top 10 all over the world - 'I Knew You Were Trouble' and to a lesser extent '22' showed that there's definitely potential for lots of successful Taylor post-album singles from an album but of course she ran out of pop singles to release from 'Red' which she'll have no problem with on '1989'. Of course it'll be nearly impossible to match the record of 5 #1s from an album, but that's US-specific whereas I was just referring to general worldwide success.

Of course it's very ambitious but I think Taylor could get very close to the success of it, if not matching it. We can hope anyway!

Posted by: *Tim 14th October 2014, 06:02 PM

QUOTE(Noahspike @ Oct 14 2014, 05:56 PM)

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 07:07 PM

Incredible iTunes positions worldwide (not including second versions):

Out Of The Woods
#1 United States
#1 Argentina
#1 Armenia
#1 Australia
#1 Austria
#1 Bolivia
#1 Brazil
#1 Brunei Darussalam
#1 Bulgaria
#1 Cambodia
#1 Canada
#1 Colombia
#1 Costa Rica
#1 Cyprus
#1 Czech Republic
#1 Denmark
#1 Dominican Republic
#1 Ecuador
#1 Egypt
#1 El Salvador
#1 Estonia
#1 Finland
#1 Greece
#1 Guatemala
#1 Honduras
#1 Hong Kong
#1 Hungary
#1 India
#1 Indonesia
#1 Ireland
#1 Israel
#1 Japan
#1 Kazakhstan
#1 Laos
#1 Lebanon
#1 Luxembourg
#1 Macau
#1 Malaysia
#1 Mexico
#1 Mozambique
#1 Namibia
#1 New Zealand
#1 Nicaragua
#1 Norway
#1 Panama
#1 Papua New Guinea
#1 Paraguay
#1 Peru
#1 Philippines
#1 Poland
#1 Portugal
#1 Saudi Arabia
#1 Singapore
#1 Slovakia
#1 Slovenia
#1 South Africa
#1 Spain
#1 Sri Lanka
#1 Sweden
#1 Taiwan
#1 Thailand
#1 Trinidad and Tobago
#1 Turkey
#1 United Arab Emirates
#1 Venezuela
#1 Vietnam
#2 Belgium
#2 Italy
#2 Latvia
#2 Malta
#2 Netherlands
#2 Nigeria
#2 Switzerland
#3 Azerbaijan
#3 Belarus
#3 Cayman Islands
#3 France
#3 Germany
#4 Kyrgyzstan
#5 Russia
#6 Romania
#14 Ukraine
#19 Jordan
#27 Botswana
#41 Chile
#42 Oman
#65 The Bahamas
#106 Qatar

Posted by: Conderella 14th October 2014, 08:31 PM

qatar not getting it are they

Posted by: Regina 14th October 2014, 08:35 PM

Out Of The Woods is less abysmal than Shake It Off, but still pretty awful.

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 10:30 PM

Taylor has been amazing once again regarding communication with fans and wrote a special message on her Tumblr page for UK fans about why we haven't been able to get 'Out of the Woods' yet:

Posted by: gooddelta 14th October 2014, 10:39 PM

I know she has no say over it but I don't see how holding music back can ever be a good strategy/experience for the fans? What do they gain from waiting for ages for a song to be released, the joy of seeing it chart a few places higher - do more than 1% of an act's fanbase even care where an album track/instant grat charts?

I long for a time when we don't have to wait weeks or more often months after EVERY other country in the world to get hold of certain songs.[/steve201stylerantover]

Posted by: Jonjo 14th October 2014, 10:41 PM

'Out Of The Woods' is absolutely brilliant! Quite possibly my favourite of hers already! If this is supposed to be the song that best represents the album... consider me as a new STAN! FUUUUUCK. SO GOOD.

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 10:43 PM

It sounds a bit like her record label suggested it and Taylor has reluctantly agreed, or is happy to try something different for a change (as we know she hasn't held anything back since 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' which was only held back a few days of course), but is very prepared to cancel the change if her fans aren't happy. I believe Taylor when she says she'll be watching closely to make sure us fans are happy, although I do agree that it does seem like there isn't going to be any sort of benefit. We'll see!

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 14th October 2014, 10:44 PM

I am so stuck whether to buy the album on ITunes or physical copy
The problem with ITunes is I love physical copy albums and I want the booklet and messages that Taylor puts in albums and the problem with physical copy is that it will probably only be the standard version and not deluxe.

Should I get ITunes now + physical for Christmas? Should I just get physical? Should I just get ITunes? Should I just get physical and buy the deluxe songs I like on ITunes?
I am so stuck

Posted by: Jonjo 14th October 2014, 10:47 PM

I can see stores stocking both the standard and deluxe versions of her album (especially with it being Taylor). Unless you're talking strictly supermarkets (who rarely (if ever) stock deluxe versions of any album.) They should just make it the deluxe version only for the UK fans, like Kelly C did for 'Stronger'!

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 10:48 PM

I always favour physical copies over digital copies, I've only ever bought 1 or 2 full-length albums digitally. And like you say, Taylor physical copies are special regarding the booklet messages and of course this time we get the special set of 13 photo prints!

Is there a reason you can't get the deluxe physical album, is it the extra cost?

Posted by: Juranamo 14th October 2014, 10:51 PM

I'm sure most artists release both a standard and deluxe physical copy these days too? Could you not purchase the deluxe CD? (Or is Taylor not releasing the deluxe as a CD?)

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 14th October 2014, 10:51 PM

QUOTE(Jonjo @ Oct 14 2014, 11:47 PM)

QUOTE(Ryan. @ Oct 14 2014, 11:48 PM)

Posted by: Ryan. 14th October 2014, 10:55 PM

QUOTE(Ultraviolence1989 @ Oct 14 2014, 11:51 PM)

Posted by: Jonjo 14th October 2014, 11:48 PM

I would possibly suggest ordering it online from somewhere. Not only do you get the deluxe CD, but more often than not, they ship it out early and you end up getting it the Friday or Saturday before release! (Happened a fair amount of times for me!) They won't charge you for the CD until they have shipped it out to you, either!

Posted by: Ryan. 15th October 2014, 12:02 AM

Taylor will be posting a lyric from all 13 tracks over the next 13 days and she has just revealed the first!

taylorswift
Track 1 #1989lyrics



http://instagram.com/p/uJugfTDvBd/

Posted by: Ryan. 15th October 2014, 12:07 AM

Also, I don't think this has been posted yet but this leaked just after the album pre-order was put up, I think it was found through iTunes somewhere. I assume it's true, well it was right regarding track 4 anyway!

Posted by: jase. 15th October 2014, 12:22 AM

I'm no Taylor fan but Woods is incredible

Posted by: *Tim 15th October 2014, 10:01 AM

Out Of The Woods is #1 and #2 in Canada

Posted by: Cremey 15th October 2014, 10:15 AM

Imogen Heap!

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 15th October 2014, 11:17 AM

I really hope sweeter than fiction is track 7 or 15

Posted by: Ryan. 15th October 2014, 01:34 PM

A preview of 'Get The Girl' can be heard in the new Diet Coke advert below that features Taylor! Sounds really cute

Posted by: THEO. 15th October 2014, 01:43 PM

"Out of the Woods" is so good! I'm loving the direction of the album, it was a bold move for Taylor to label this her "first documented pop album" but it's clearly not backfired on her. The sound works so well with her (not that Red was particularly un-pop, but the country influences were still there). I can't wait to hear the full album!

Is the standard edition 13 tracks and the deluxe 16 then?

Posted by: J▲hq 15th October 2014, 02:17 PM

The Diet Coke advert is so cute! Song sounds decent too.

QUOTE(Ultraviolence1989 @ Oct 15 2014, 12:17 PM)

I really hope sweeter than fiction is track 7 or 15

QUOTE(THEO. @ Oct 15 2014, 02:43 PM)

Posted by: Jack 15th October 2014, 08:19 PM

Out Of The Woods is one of her best already

Posted by: DonaldDuck 16th October 2014, 12:03 AM

Her album is #02 in the United Kingdom on iTunes for almost 24 hours, I've never seen a pre-order hold up so well . Could we be expecting better opening sales than Red? .

'Taylor is also 8% ahead of One Direction, hopefully that increases to around 15 tomorrow in order for her having a chance of getting a new peak which I'm quite confident she should be able to.

Posted by: Ryan. 16th October 2014, 03:45 PM

So the song length for Track 1 has now been changed on iTunes, so this should be the next promo single as the same happened with 'Out of the Woods' last week! As far as we are aware it's the Ryan Tedder collaboration that is apparently about Taylor moving to New York. ATRL are speculating that it is even called 'Welcome to New York' but we'll see.

Also we now have lyric teasers for...

Track 2: http://instagram.com/p/uMC8GXjvN6/
Track 3: http://instagram.com/p/uM4hfyDvGA/

Posted by: •CDC• 16th October 2014, 04:58 PM

QUOTE(DonaldDuck @ Oct 16 2014, 01:03 AM)

Her album is #02 in the United Kingdom on iTunes for almost 24 hours, I've never seen a pre-order hold up so well . Could we be expecting better opening sales than Red? .

'Taylor is also 8% ahead of One Direction, hopefully that increases to around 15 tomorrow in order for her having a chance of getting a new peak which I'm quite confident she should be able to.

Posted by: Liаm 16th October 2014, 04:59 PM

QUOTE(•CDC• @ Oct 16 2014, 05:58 PM)

Posted by: Ryan. 16th October 2014, 05:01 PM

I'm expecting around 750k in the US and maybe 60k again in the UK, but both will have great longevity. It'll definitely be Taylor's most successful first week worldwide though!

Posted by: *Tim 17th October 2014, 06:51 PM

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 17th October 2014, 06:52 PM

So so excited

Listening to You Belong With Me on repeat at the moment- in my top 3 Taylor songs ever

Posted by: Ryan. 17th October 2014, 10:35 PM

Posted by: billy. 17th October 2014, 10:43 PM

out of the woods is so incredible.

out of sheer boredom, my top 5 taylor songs are:

01. mine
02. stay stay stay
03. love story
04. fearless
05. red

Posted by: _Nīck_ 18th October 2014, 10:13 AM

Can't even believe how good Out Of The Woods is, really igniting a love for Taylor I never knew I had!

Posted by: *Tim 18th October 2014, 11:03 PM

Apparantly Welcome To New York is the next promo single

Posted by: Ryan. 18th October 2014, 11:08 PM

Indeed! By the way Taylor posted on Tumblr that the above track listing isn't accurate.

Posted by: *Tim 18th October 2014, 11:17 PM

Yeah i read that on twitter as well, but she konda denied it in a way that'd suspect it being true

Posted by: Jonjo 18th October 2014, 11:40 PM

She says it's coming on Monday, World Wide.

I presume not the UK again? if not I guess OOTW will be the chosen instant grat for the UK? Oh man. I just wish she'd hurry up and make it available for the UK!

Posted by: Ryan. 19th October 2014, 12:06 AM

'Shake It Off' is the UK instant grat so I'm assuming her plan is just to not make them available at all in the hope they will chart highly on album release? I'm not sure what this "UK strategy" is but I can't see it being an improvement on just making them available and having them ineligible for a week or two.

Posted by: Conderella 19th October 2014, 01:29 PM

QUOTE(*Tim @ Oct 19 2014, 03:17 AM)

Posted by: *Tim 19th October 2014, 02:55 PM

QUOTE(Conderella @ Oct 19 2014, 01:29 PM)

Posted by: JVSH 20th October 2014, 01:28 AM

I've got a feeling she's waiting until she can release an instant grat-a-day to fill up the top 10 just like Ed did the week before release.

Posted by: J▲hq 20th October 2014, 12:37 PM

Here's the preview for "Welcome To New York"



And the video of her talking about it



Sounds alright, I prefer the sound of the song in the Diet Coke advert though.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 20th October 2014, 08:47 PM

Is welcome to New York available in the UK?
It looks like it when you click on the album

Posted by: J▲hq 20th October 2014, 08:52 PM

Yep! This is a link to listen on tumblr:

http://theluckyonestuff.tumblr.com/post/100522097995/taylor-swift-welcome-to-new-york-it-is-already

I'm not really feeling this one and the use of autotune. Find it fairly annoying.

Posted by: Neil 20th October 2014, 08:59 PM

It's alright I guess... I feel like it sounds more like an extended album into than a song in it's own right, if that makes sense.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 20th October 2014, 09:11 PM

I wasn't sure when I heard the 1 minute clip but I loved the full song- the third 10/10 for me on this album (well tbh 2nd because SIO is 11/10)

Posted by: Jonjo 20th October 2014, 09:18 PM

'Welcome To New York' is wonderful, also! Loving the electro, pop synths!

Posted by: Liаm 20th October 2014, 09:21 PM

Omg I LOVE it, wonderfully 80s and fun <3 I was unsure and worried when I heard the clip but it's so so good! It puts me slightly in mind of a more polished and retro rework of Starlight.

Posted by: Noahspike 20th October 2014, 09:37 PM

This is interesting. She's certainly pushing herself sonically with this album. Not quite sure what to make of it as of now but I'm pretty sure areweoutofthewoodsyet areweoutofthewoodsyet areweoutofthewoodsyet areweoutofthewoods areweintheclearyet areweintheclearyet areweintheclearyet intheclearyetGOOD's crown will be safe for the time being.

Posted by: jase. 21st October 2014, 12:26 AM

'New York' is also really good, WHAT IS HAPPENING I'M BECOMING A SWIFT FAN

Posted by: Liаm 21st October 2014, 09:54 AM

Track 3 was accidentally released in Canada but it's just 8 seconds of white noise (obviously not in reality, just because of the error) but still got to #22 on itunes, only Taylor could slay that bad tbh.

Posted by: *Tim 21st October 2014, 04:44 PM

It even topped the chart with a 0.8 lead

Slaying so effortlessly

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 21st October 2014, 10:22 PM

You can create your own 1989 cover on this link
http://taylorswift.com/1989photobooth

I have done a bunch of Taylor pics inside them and posted them on my instagram

Posted by: #IMPACT!! 21st October 2014, 10:24 PM

QUOTE(*Tim @ Oct 21 2014, 04:44 PM)

It even topped the chart with a 0.8 lead

Slaying so effortlessly

Posted by: Cameron 21st October 2014, 10:36 PM

QUOTE(Ultraviolence1989 @ Oct 21 2014, 11:22 PM)

You can create your own 1989 cover on this link
http://taylorswift.com/1989photobooth

I have done a bunch of Taylor pics inside them and posted them on my instagram

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 21st October 2014, 10:40 PM

QUOTE(Cameron @ Oct 21 2014, 11:36 PM)

Found you on Instagram randomly

Posted by: Cameron 21st October 2014, 10:42 PM

QUOTE(Ultraviolence1989 @ Oct 21 2014, 11:40 PM)

No way
And I have also found you

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 21st October 2014, 10:44 PM

QUOTE(Cameron @ Oct 21 2014, 11:42 PM)

Don't stalk me

Posted by: J▲hq 22nd October 2014, 08:58 AM

Here is a Target commercial which previews a song called "Never Go Out Of Style"

Posted by: *Tim 22nd October 2014, 01:56 PM

QUOTE(#IMPACT!! @ Oct 21 2014, 10:24 PM)

Wait she topped the chart with 30 seconds of silence?

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 22nd October 2014, 10:25 PM

QUOTE(*Tim @ Oct 17 2014, 07:51 PM)

Posted by: Conderella 23rd October 2014, 07:50 AM

omg that Track 3 is even in the Top 10 of last day downloads on one private torrent tracker I use. lmao

I think she needs to release it as a bonus track or something

Her eventual transformation into a major indie artist will get much smoother

Posted by: J▲hq 24th October 2014, 04:16 PM

leaky

Posted by: *Tim 24th October 2014, 04:28 PM

QUOTE(J▲hq @ Oct 24 2014, 04:16 PM)

leaky

Posted by: Dobbo 24th October 2014, 05:43 PM

Would have been so fitting had the infamous Track 3 been called Blank Space, but that's track 2!

Posted by: Cremey_SZN 24th October 2014, 07:38 PM

'Wildest Dreams' is so Lana del Rey but I love ittt.
+ 'I Know Places' is v good.

Posted by: Calum Hood 24th October 2014, 08:30 PM

On the whole, it's better than I expected but that's not really saying much. It's all pretty average minus a couple of songs.

08.0 Welcome to New York
04.5 Blank Space
09.0 Style
10.0 Out of the Woods
08.5 All You Had to Do
06.5 Shake It Off
07.0 I Wish You Would
06.0 Bad Blood
08.0 Wildest Dreams
07.0 How You Get the Girl
06.5 This Love
09.0 I Know Places
07.0 Clean

11.0 Wonderland
07.0 You R In Love
07.5 New Romance

'Wonderland' slays everything though, so so good

Posted by: Liаm 25th October 2014, 12:01 AM

I tried to wait for Monday but caved and listened to the leak less than 12 hours after I saw it had leaked Willpower is definitely not my strong point

11 Welcome to New York (I can't at people saying it's the worst track on here... It's just amazing, I love the 80s synths so much - they just overwhelm me with joy and euphoria <3)
08 Blank Space
10 Style (FAB. Reminds me a bit of a more fun sounding Love Me Harder)
10 Out of the Woods (it really grew me since last week, when I would have "only" given it a 9)
08.5 All You Had to Do Was Stay
10 Shake It Off
08 I Wish You Would
08 Bad Blood
08 Wildest Dreams
09.5 How You Get the Girl
06 This Love
10 I Know Places
07.5 Clean

10 Wonderland
05 You R In Love
09.5 New Romance

It's very close between Shake It Off, Wonderland, Style and Welcome To New York for my favourite track but it has to be the latter <3 Rhe album isn't as joyously 80s but the influences are most definitely there subtly. Very very good overall, not disappointed at all and this is why she's my fave The fact there are two big filler tracks - You R In Love and This Love - is my only qualm but I guess most albums have that

Posted by: JosephStyles 25th October 2014, 12:13 AM

10.0 Welcome to New York
09.0 Blank Space
08.5 Style
09.0 Out of the Woods
09.0 All You Had to Do Was Stay
11.0 Shake It Off - has the benefit of time though
08.0 I Wish You Would
10.0 Bad Blood
10.0 Wildest Dreams
10.0 How You Get the Girl - this run of three tracks is absolutely FLAWLESS.
07.5 This Love
09.0 I Know Places
08.0 Clean

10.0 Wonderland
09.0 You R In Love
09.0 New Romance

SO STRONG. Such a loony rate but it's more consistent than Red for me (that had a few duds on first listen although now I'd only call Sad Beautiful Tragic and Treacherous "duds" as such), not a single dud and it all works so well together. Was very surprised at no WANEGBT/22 style pop tracks, especially when she called this her first proper "pop" album, but not complaining at all as what we got was AMAZING.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 25th October 2014, 12:22 AM

My rate

10 Welcome To New York
10 Out Of The Woods
11 Shake It Off

Now it's time for me to not give in and wait to hear the album on Monday

Posted by: Liаm 25th October 2014, 12:26 AM

Christ, most Swifties are going MENTAL over the leak If you listen you have "betrayed Taylor's trust" and you "can't be forgiven"... I get why people are anti-leaks and I know Taylor is really proud of this and is probably a little pissed it leaked but virtually all big pop albums leak, it's just so annoying they're all on their high horse about it. It's like "wow I can wait two days longer than you for an album I'm the height of morality" I am still buying the album, I am still supporting the era and I still adore Taylor with all my heart - that doesn't change because I listened to some tracks early.

This is why I can never be part of a proper "fanbase" in the way most are, even for those artists I adore who are my faves they're usually just too much...

Posted by: Jonjo 25th October 2014, 12:58 AM

It hasn't "leaked" though, has it? It got released in other countries didn't it?

Posted by: Ryan. 25th October 2014, 01:09 AM

I don't think so, the worldwide iTunes release date is October 28th - at least it is for Australia where it is yet to be released.

So so excited to listen to this album, 'Welcome To New York' is fantastic - the way Taylor sings the "dance to this beat forever more" lyric in the chorus in particular is just incredible.

Posted by: Liаm 25th October 2014, 01:11 AM

It seems to be the 27th/28th everywhere despite the fact loads of countries (Australia for one) usually have their release dates on a Friday, hmm... So yes it does seem to have leaked in the "true" sense.

Posted by: Ryan. 25th October 2014, 01:24 AM

I guess the physical CD release could still have been today, I'm sure someone will have posted whether it was somewhere on the web.

Posted by: Jonjo 25th October 2014, 01:36 AM

QUOTE(Ryan. @ Oct 25 2014, 02:09 AM)

QUOTE(Liаm @ Oct 25 2014, 02:11 AM)

Posted by: Liаm 25th October 2014, 01:37 AM

I did see loads of stuff on twitter about a girl who apparently bought 1989 from a store who mistakenly released it early (didn't actually see her tweet, just people talking about it), if they did then other copies would have been sold obviously and it's not too far outside the realms of belief that someone would upload it online! I think this was in America but idk.

There could be physical copies released WW I guess given that so many countries have Friday as their release day.

Posted by: Jonjo 25th October 2014, 01:59 AM

Performance of 'Out Of The Woods' on Jimmy Kimmel...



Such a STAR *.*

Posted by: JosephStyles 25th October 2014, 10:20 AM

Re. The release date, I'm fairly sure Red's release got held back until at least Monday everywhere!

Posted by: Neil 25th October 2014, 10:28 AM

But 1989 is out on Monday in America, so why isn't it out here on iTunes until Tuesday? :/

Posted by: Jack 25th October 2014, 02:22 PM

Struggling to see why Wonderland is only a bonus track, it is incredible.

Other favourites are I Know Places, Wildest Dreams and Style.

Posted by: ░░░░ 25th October 2014, 04:12 PM

this album is so much fun. it's an invariable pastiche of other very blog friendly musicians but max martin as we all know writes an excellent chorus and produces excellent music. the best euphoric pop producer.

'out of the woods', 'all you had to do was stay', 'how you get the girl' and 'wonderland' are early favs.

NOT BEING FUNNY but 'bad blood' sounds like karaoke avril and 'wildest dreams' sounds like a lana tribute act.

Posted by: Garyy 26th October 2014, 01:46 PM

Not heard the album yet, going to buy it. But 'Out Of The Woods' is FCUKING amazing. Anthem tbh.

Posted by: zeze88 26th October 2014, 06:26 PM

Since I listened to the entire album, I will leave my two cents about it.

Her new album is great, even if it is pop. This isn't drastically different than Red, that album was more pop than country so I don't know why so many are shocked by her decision. There are songs like Wildest Dreams, This Love, Clean, How You Get The Girl and You Are In Love which could have easily been on Red, those songs aren't so different. However, even if the songs like Blank Space and I Know Places which are melodically very different, they are lyrically still very interesting and strong, especially Blank Spaces because she basically makes fun of the media and the image she has (writing about ex-boyfriends).

My point is, this is still Taylor, even if she changed her style because most of her songs are still lyrically interesting and strong - I mean, You Are In Love is a beautiful love song. In fact, ONLY Shake It Off is catchy fun pop song, the rest is more deeper than that.

Also, who cares if the songs are about Harry Styles? Some people are really too worked up about it. She always wrote songs about her ex-boyfriends, nothing new about that. I actually think only Out Of The Woods and Style are directly about him. However, I always hated that people analyzed her songs just so they could figure about who is the song about - it doesn't matter whom the song is about, not really.

Honestly, if people could just ignore the fact that she went from country to pop, they would see it is a very good album. It actually annoys me that many are acting like she did some crime just because she went pop. So what? She has the right to do so, its obviously something she wanted to do for a while since Red was more pop and country anyway. Artist has the right to do what he/she wants, who says she will never do country again? People are just exaggerating, she still is making good music even if it isn't country.

And you know what? I also commend her for truly embracing the 80s sound. Because when I heard Shake It Off, I was thinking she doesn't know what she is talking about if she thinks this represents 80s music. But truly, every other song in its melody is heavily influenced by 80s music. In fact, this album is more cohesive and consistent than Red, everything is put together nicely.

This is not country, BUT I will defend Taylor on her decision because she still made good music. At least this time she said she is going pop, unlike Red which was a mixture, but it was mostly pop.

Posted by: Ryan. 26th October 2014, 07:08 PM

I listened to the album for the first time late Friday night and thought it was pretty good, although I was so tired at the time I couldn't really enjoy it as much as I wanted to as I'd just got back home after travelling all day on flights, buses and trains! Now I've finally had chance to listen to the album again and it is absolutely fantastic. Every song is so catchy, the production is just so full and interesting and I just want to keep listening to it. My stand-out track from my first (half-asleep ) listen was 'How You Get The Girl', and that is still one of the stand-outs but there are so many good tracks its hard to choose. Can't wait to get the CD tomorrow (assuming the CD isn't held back till the 28th) so I can listen to that!

Also, the Voice Memo tracks are so so interesting - I'd love to listen to a whole album of the voice memos and Taylor talking about them - a fantastic unique idea from her.

Posted by: ░░░░ 26th October 2014, 07:23 PM

QUOTE(zeze88 @ Oct 26 2014, 06:26 PM)

Posted by: zeze88 26th October 2014, 09:30 PM

QUOTE(░░░░ @ Oct 26 2014, 08:23 PM)

Posted by: barbaric_dan 26th October 2014, 10:15 PM

To be fair she really has never been a country singer but a pop star with country influences.

Posted by: Ryan. 26th October 2014, 10:21 PM

Taylor's first album was definitely a country album, and she was definitely only a country singer then. 'Fearless' was still country but a couple of the singles did start to have pop influences. I'd also say 'Speak Now' was just about a full country album as well - probably more country than 'Fearless'. Only with 'Red' did the pop start to become a very significant influence in some of the tracks.

Posted by: Cremey_SZN 26th October 2014, 10:39 PM

After a couple of listens I'd say this is a far stronger album than the mess that was 'Prism'.

'Welcome to New York', 'Out of the Woods', 'All You Had to Do Was Stay', 'Wildest Dreams' and 'I Know Places' are the standouts for me at the moment. A few duds in 'I Wish You Would', 'This Love' and 'You Are in Love' but I'd say it's a pretty strong album for what it is.

Still nothing as good as 'I Knew You Were Trouble' though!

Posted by: billy. 26th October 2014, 10:45 PM

I think this album is amazing <3

Posted by: M¤th 27th October 2014, 02:50 PM

I dragged my mom to a US chain called Target (the only place to get the deluxe edition of 1989) right at opening and snagged the first copy available! The album is my favorite this year, by far.

Posted by: gooddelta 27th October 2014, 02:51 PM

It's been a strong year for albums actually, and this is another to add to the list. Really strong and I've just bought the standard (Sainsburys naturally didn't have the deluxe and I live near nothing else!)

Posted by: Liаm 27th October 2014, 03:03 PM

This is probably my album of the year too after a few days of it sinking in <3 The holy trinity of 2014 is this, The New Classic and x tbh.

Posted by: xlifeisasongx 27th October 2014, 04:49 PM

I listened to this album for the first time this afternoon and on first listen, I like the album but I don't think it's as good as Red. At the moment, stand out tracks for me are:
- Welcome to New York
- Blank Space
- Style
- Out of the Woods
- Wildest Dreams
- Wonderland

Hoping more will grow on me with another listen.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 27th October 2014, 05:04 PM

QUOTE(gooddelta @ Oct 27 2014, 02:51 PM)

Posted by: Sociopath 27th October 2014, 05:45 PM

I went into listening to a few tracks as someone who dislikes Taylor lmao I know wtf but apart from her personality, her music can be incredible! I've only listened to a few tracks but Welcome To New York and Wildest Dreams are great! Whoever chose Shake It Off to be lead single when those tracks are levels ahead is an idiot but I guess it's worked well for sales and whatever but Wildest Dreams is amazing, sounds like a Lana Del Rey song!

Out Of The Woods doesn't live up the speculation unfortunately and Bad Blood's chorus is terrible/cheesy but the verses are insanely good and the bridge is the best bit, feels like Ella's Ghost (with the chorus being insane and the verses not feeling right) I can't wait to hear more tracks tbh (especially Style and Clean)

Posted by: Neil. S 27th October 2014, 05:48 PM

Solid album actually but Welcome To New York is dire Out Of The Woods though

Posted by: •CDC• 27th October 2014, 06:06 PM

QUOTE(Sociopath @ Oct 27 2014, 06:45 PM)

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 27th October 2014, 06:11 PM

FIRST LISTEN (giving 11's to any track that is worth 11)

10 Welcome To New York
10 Blank Space
10 Style
11 Out Of The Woods
10 All You Had To Do Was Stay
11 Shake It Off
09 I Wish You Would
10 Bad Blood
11 Wildest Dreams
11 How You Get The Girl
10 This Love
09 I Know Places
10 Clean

Just stunning

Posted by: Ryan. 27th October 2014, 07:53 PM

The iTunes success for this is astounding, she has 6 (soon to be 7) tracks in the US top 10, the entire album in the Canadian top 20. And the album is #1 just about everywhere - Taylor is definitely the biggest star in the world!

Posted by: gooddelta 27th October 2014, 07:55 PM

QUOTE(Liаm @ Oct 27 2014, 03:03 PM)

Posted by: Liаm 27th October 2014, 08:00 PM

QUOTE(Ultraviolence1989 @ Oct 27 2014, 06:11 PM)

Posted by: Sociopath 27th October 2014, 08:00 PM

QUOTE(•CDC• @ Oct 27 2014, 07:06 PM)

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 27th October 2014, 08:04 PM

QUOTE(Liаm @ Oct 27 2014, 08:00 PM)

I think not, you missed one

Also, not that 10 is hate but in general I seriously cannot at the hate for it it's incredible! I thought she couldn't beat Shake It Off on this album.

Posted by: Regina 27th October 2014, 08:06 PM

QUOTE(Ultraviolence1989 @ Oct 27 2014, 07:11 PM)

FIRST LISTEN (giving 11's to any track that is worth 11)

10 Welcome To New York
10 Blank Space
10 Style
11 Out Of The Woods
10 All You Had To Do Was Stay
11 Shake It Off
09 I Wish You Would
10 Bad Blood
11 Wildest Dreams
11 How You Get The Girl
10 This Love
09 I Know Places
10 Clean

Just stunning

Posted by: gooddelta 27th October 2014, 09:17 PM

Random comment but the album booklet is the nicest I've seen this year. Lovely paper (sorry, print geek observation), clear text, soft but effective colours, great pictures and the foreword is really interesting to read too. Love the included wallet of photos too. This is definitely an album worth buying physically.

Posted by: Cremey_SZN 27th October 2014, 10:37 PM

'Blank Space' is apparently the next single. Good choice.
She's not exactly short of hits on the album though, could go with any of them really!

Posted by: jase. 27th October 2014, 11:27 PM

Out of the Woods NEEDS to be a single. God it's good

One of the best pop albums of the year, easily.

'Blank Space' has been confirmed as the second single

Posted by: Outcast 28th October 2014, 06:14 AM

QUOTE(gooddelta @ Oct 27 2014, 05:51 PM)

Posted by: gooddelta 28th October 2014, 02:38 PM

QUOTE(Outcast @ Oct 28 2014, 06:14 AM)

Posted by: LexC: TheRe-Up 28th October 2014, 02:58 PM

I fully endorse the concept of this album ('screw the personal emo bull and stuff each song with about 10 hooks' realness). Based on a few listens;

09 Welcome To New York
09 Blank Space
09 Style
10 Out Of The Woods
08 All You Had To Do Was Stay
10 Shake It Off
09 I Wish You Would
07 Bad Blood
09 Wildest Dreams
08 How You Get The Girl
06 This Love
07 I Know Places
11 Clean
08 Wonderland
06 You R in Love
06 New Romance

Clean is my clear favourite <3 (single please!).

Posted by: Outcast 28th October 2014, 03:23 PM

QUOTE(gooddelta @ Oct 28 2014, 05:38 PM)

Posted by: Joe. 28th October 2014, 04:04 PM

This is the best mainstream pop album since Teenage Dream.

Posted by: Cremey_SZN 28th October 2014, 06:04 PM

I'm not sure it's as strong as 'Bangerz' for me, but I guess time will tell. Certainly the second best mainstream pop album since 'Teenage Dream' at least though, although to be fair, that's not that hard when Britney, Gaga, Katy and Rihanna have all been releasing sub-par albums. Ready for Rihanna's next album to truly BRING IT.

Posted by: Rossco 28th October 2014, 08:36 PM

Love this album! Style should definitely be a single

Posted by: •CDC• 28th October 2014, 09:05 PM

Wildest Dreams would slot perfectly onto Born To Die, no question; she had to be listening to a lot of Lana around the time of writing this, I mean it's Lana to a T. Even the opening line matches the "let's get out of this town baby we're on fire" opening line to Lana's The Lucky Ones.

Although it should be sued for plagiarism () it's so Lana that I ADORE it, by far my favourite of the bunch yet.

Posted by: J▲hq 28th October 2014, 09:14 PM

07.0 Welcome to New York
08.0 Blank Space
08.5 Style
10.0 Out of the Woods
09.0 All You Had to Do Was Stay
09.0 Shake It Off
09.0 I Wish You Would
09.0 Bad Blood
09.0 Wildest Dreams
09.0 How You Get the Girl
09.0 This Love
09.5 I Know Places
08.0 Clean

10.0 Wonderland
08.5 You Are in Love
10.0 New Romantics

The two Tedder tracks couldn't be more different. I think "Welcome To New York" is one of the most basic songs on the album (and my least favourite) whereas I find "I Know Places" to be one of the most intriguing. "Wonderland" and "New Romantics" are battling hard to displace "Out Of The Woods" as my top track.

Disappointed that "Blank Space" is seemingly the next single as I prefer the majority of the other songs. The verses don't really live up to the chorus for me.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 28th October 2014, 09:15 PM

QUOTE(•CDC• @ Oct 28 2014, 09:05 PM)

Wildest Dreams would slot perfectly onto Born To Die, no question; she had to be listening to a lot of Lana around the time of writing this, I mean it's Lana to a T. Even the opening line matches the "let's get out of this town baby we're on fire" opening line to Lana's The Lucky Ones.

Although it should be sued for plagiarism () it's so Lana that I ADORE it, by far my favourite of the bunch yet.

Posted by: jsilv 28th October 2014, 09:19 PM

09.0 Welcome To New York
10.0 Blank Space
08.0 Style
11.0 Out Of The Woods next single pls after blank space
10.0 All You Had To Do Was Stay
09.0 Shake It Off
08.0 I Wish You Would
10.0 Bad Blood or this
08.0 Wildest Dreams
09.5 How You Get The Girl
07.0 This Love
07.5 I Know Places
07.5 Clean

SOLID. (maybe a bit of filler towards the end)

Posted by: billy. 28th October 2014, 09:28 PM

genuinely a fantastic album!

Posted by: Jack 28th October 2014, 09:59 PM

I am surprised she isnt going with Out Of The Woods next, surely it is the most logical choice?! It easily has the most hype around it right now. It is like when Katy Perry decided to not release Dark Horse after Roar.

Posted by: Garyy 28th October 2014, 10:09 PM

'Style'' 'Black Space' and 'Wonderland' are GODLY

Posted by: jark 28th October 2014, 10:11 PM

QUOTE(Jack @ Oct 28 2014, 09:59 PM)

Posted by: Jack 28th October 2014, 10:14 PM

Yeah I suppose that makes sense actually.

I agree on the Wildest Dreams love, it is stunning. I adore I Know Places and Wonderland too .

Posted by: Timmy SZN 29th October 2014, 09:11 AM

600k of this sold in the first day
Taylor Unstoppable!

Posted by: J▲hq 3rd November 2014, 02:33 PM

She's announced a bunch of US and Canadian tour dates for next summer along with a couple for the UK!

Tuesday 23rd June - SSE Hydro, Glasgow
Wednesday 24th June - Phones 4u Arena, Manchester
Saturday 27th June - Hyde Park, London [headlining British Summer Time]

Posted by: Neil 3rd November 2014, 06:51 PM

Aah so excited! I went to her Fearless Tour but wasn't able to make the last 2, will definitely be going to the Manchester show.

Posted by: Ryan. 4th November 2014, 12:15 AM

I really want to see Taylor live so I may look into going to the Manchester show, but I guess tickets will be snapped up in a matter of minutes once they are on sale! Hopefully she'll add a few more dates too.

Also, Spotify seem to be desperate to get Taylor back on their service - they've been tweeting her, starting a Twitter campaign and even created a playlist called "What To Play While Taylor's Away"!

Posted by: Ryan. 4th November 2014, 09:55 PM

Hits Daily Double have revealed that Taylor sold 1.316 million copies in the US last week, just 3,000 less than Britney's record! Although there are often differences between HDD's totals and the final Billboard totals (Slipknot's album sales increased by 5,000 last week) so could there still be a chance?

Whatever happens, absolutely phenomenal sales from Taylor!

Posted by: #IMPACT!! 4th November 2014, 10:12 PM

Such a flop

Wanted her to snatch that record!

Posted by: Cameron 4th November 2014, 10:54 PM

Out Of The Woods is by far my favourite track on the album!

Posted by: -Jay- 5th November 2014, 03:38 AM

Billboard have revealed that '1989' has debuted with 1.287 million sales: https://twitter.com/billboard/status/529835026008244225 so Taylor hasn't broken Britney's 'Oops!... I Did It Again' record. Still, tremendous sales in this day and age!

Posted by: Timmy SZN 5th November 2014, 05:50 AM

Wow amazing sales! I didn't quite expect her to break the record,but DAMN she was close

Posted by: Liаm 5th November 2014, 01:11 PM

Wow that's phenomenal even if she didn't break the record! I didn't quite think she would as nobody can reach the euphoria and hysteria of Britney mania as was said a page or two ago, although she was hella close Especially given that not one album up to now has gone platinum, she's by far the best seller of the year just in one week!

Posted by: -Jay- 26th November 2014, 02:42 AM

I'd say this was my album of the year! Never bothered to listen to any Taylor album before this one, having only liked a handful of her singles - so this is quite a turnaround! So many fantastic tracks.

Kind of surprised to see some negativity towards 'Welcome To New York' from some, that's easily one of my favourites. 'Style', 'Out Of The Woods', 'All You Had To Do Was Stay' and 'Wildest Dreams' probably make up the rest of my Top 5 album tracks.

'Wonderland' and 'New Romantics' are way too good to be bonus tracks. Weaker moments on the album for me are 'How You Get The Girl', 'This Love' and 'I Know Places', but still 7/10 moments. I'd have demoted a couple of those to be bonus tracks instead.

Posted by: JosephStyles 26th November 2014, 08:15 AM

How You Get The Girl is one of my favourites Totally agreed on Wonderland though, that deserves single treatment

Posted by: -Jay- 26th November 2014, 12:40 PM

QUOTE(JosephStyles @ Nov 26 2014, 08:15 AM)

How You Get The Girl is one of my favourites

Posted by: JosephStyles 26th November 2014, 12:41 PM

QUOTE(-Jay- @ Nov 26 2014, 12:40 PM)

Is that because it sounds like it could be on a Bean album?

Posted by: ClausofKubrick 3rd December 2014, 12:40 PM

This is the first time i have given a Taylor Swift album a listen and i'm very very impressed.

My highlight is easily 'Wildest Dreams', what a beauty

Posted by: Timmy TheSnowman 3rd December 2014, 01:48 PM

You missed out with Red big time then!

Posted by: Jonjo 3rd December 2014, 01:49 PM

Mehhhh. This album >>>>>>>>>>>> 'Red' (and I really like 'Red'!)

Posted by: Timmy TheSnowman 3rd December 2014, 01:51 PM

Red is still rather flawless tho, so he missed out regardless

Posted by: Conderella 3rd December 2014, 02:20 PM

is Red like deleted from the internet entirely and all physical copies in existence self-destructed or something? because, you know, albums can still be listened to years after their release. I KNOW this theory sounds like the whole earth is not flat!!1 thing but i swear it's true

Posted by: Timmy TheSnowman 3rd December 2014, 02:53 PM

Yes.



(Imeant that he missed out big time for the past 2 years bye)

Posted by: ClausofKubrick 3rd December 2014, 11:23 PM

I will get onto checking out her earlier stuff for sure! Starting with 'Red'.


Can't quite get over 'Wildest Dreams' for now though. It's everything i want in a song - the right amount of pain, vulnerability, optimism and beauty. Absolutely stunning.

Posted by: ClausofKubrick 6th December 2014, 04:21 PM

07.0 Welcome to New York
10.0 Blank Space
08.0 Style
09.0 Out of the Woods
08.0 All You Had to Do Was Stay
09.0 Shake It Off
09.0 I Wish You Would
06.0 Bad Blood
11.0 Wildest Dreams
09.5 How You Get the Girl
08.5 This Love
08.0 I Know Places
08.0 Clean

09.5 Wonderland
09.0 You Are in Love
09.0 New Romantics

So good.

Posted by: Liаm 6th December 2014, 04:22 PM

QUOTE(ClausofKubrick @ Dec 6 2014, 04:21 PM)

Posted by: ClausofKubrick 6th December 2014, 04:24 PM

Don't pick out the two slightly low scores out of the heap of good ones

('Welcome to New York' is annoying though :S 'Style' i can't even remember - and anyway it's all relative to the insane high points!!)

Posted by: ClausofKubrick 6th December 2014, 04:25 PM

OK maybe i was too harsh on 'Style' listening back. Edits

Posted by: Liаm 6th December 2014, 04:27 PM

Slightly better but WTNY is the best

Posted by: mr_aly 6th December 2014, 04:47 PM

'Welcome To New York' is pretty lame IMO.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 6th December 2014, 04:59 PM

QUOTE(ClausofKubrick @ Dec 6 2014, 04:21 PM)

Posted by: Jonjo 6th December 2014, 05:22 PM

WTNY is so good! I don't get the lukewarm reception to it at all. I mean, it's of course no 'Out of the Woods', but it's pretty great!

Posted by: Jayeux Noël 7th December 2014, 03:32 AM

QUOTE(Jonjo @ Dec 6 2014, 05:22 PM)

Posted by: ClausofKubrick 7th December 2014, 11:56 AM

QUOTE(Jayeux Noël @ Dec 7 2014, 03:32 AM)

It's one of my highlights! Such an uplifting track.

Bal we need to talk about you regarding Bad Blood as the worst on the album - it isn't. We also need to talk about those high marks for This Love and You Are In Love - gurl, please reassess. (0 )(0 )

Posted by: Slayberry In C 15th December 2014, 07:48 AM

There's a version of "Blank Space" with Pitbull of all people on it...

All right, who put Buzzjack on Santa's naughty list?

Posted by: Conderella 15th December 2014, 07:52 AM

okay so I listened to this for the first time and it was rather nice and fun for a Taylor Swift album. Welcome to New York and Shake It Off >>>>>>>>>> tho

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 15th December 2014, 09:47 PM

Confirmed for Brit Awards

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 15th December 2014, 11:00 PM

This website lets you rank all 93 Taylor songs through battles. Here is the link if you want to:
http://jesseepinkman.tumblr.com/tswiftsong

My Results

Rank Song
1 Mine
2 Shake it Off
2 Wildest Dreams
2 You Belong With Me
5 All Too Well
5 Enchanted
7 Out of the Woods
7 Sweeter than Fiction
7 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
10 Love Story
11 Better Than Revenge
11 Blank Space
13 Haunted
13 I Knew You Were Trouble
15 Everything Has Changed
16 Mean
16 State of Grace
16 The Story of Us
16 Style
20 Red
21 I Know Places
22 Teardrops on My Guitar
23 22
23 All You Had To Do Was Stay
23 Bad Blood
23 Beautiful Eyes
27 Sparks Fly
27 Speak Now
29 Back To December
30 Stay Stay Stay
30 Welcome to New York
32 Safe & Sound
33 This Love
33 Tim McGraw
33 Today Was a Fairytale
36 Never Grow Up
37 Fearless
37 Fifteen
37 Forever and Always
40 Last Kiss
40 Long Live
40 The Lucky One
43 White Horse
44 Should've Said No
45 Our Song
46 Begin Again
47 Forever and Always (Piano Version)
48 How You Get The Girl
49 Clean
50 Dear John
51 Picture To Burn
52 Hey Stephen
52 Holy Ground
52 I Almost Do
52 If This Was A Movie
56 Ours
56 A Place in This World
58 Starlight
59 Sad Beautiful Tragic
60 Breathe
60 Change
62 Eyes Open
63 Jump Then Fall
63 The Last Time
65 Superman
65 Superstar
65 Treacherous
68 You're Not Sorry
69 The Best Day
69 Cold As You
69 Come Back...Be Here
69 Come In With The Rain
69 Crazier
69 Girl at Home
69 I Heart ?
69 I Wish You Would
69 I'm Only Me When I'm With You
69 Invisible
69 Mary's Song (Oh My My My)
69 The Moment I Knew
69 New Romantics
69 The Other Side of the Door
69 The Outside
69 A Perfectly Good Heart
69 Ronan
69 Stay Beautiful
69 Tell Me Why
69 Wonderland
69 You Are in Love
90 Tied Together with a Smile
90 The Way I Loved You
92 Untouchable
93 Innocent


These results turned out so good for me Mine is my favourite the other 5 in my top 6 are all in my top 7. The other 4 in my top 10 are also all in my top 11. The only one that isn't where it should be is I knew you were trouble as that should be 10 places higher And innocent is where it easily belongs

Posted by: mr_aly 15th December 2014, 11:11 PM

My top 15 came out as...

1 Blank Space
2 I Knew You Were Trouble
3 Out of the Woods
4 22
5 The Story of Us
6 Style
7 Shake it Off
8 I Know Places
9 State of Grace
10 Wildest Dreams
11 You Belong With Me
12 Bad Blood
13 Starlight
14 Red
15 Better Than Revenge

Posted by: JosephCarey 15th December 2014, 11:46 PM

1 Enchanted
2 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
3 Better Than Revenge
4 Starlight
5 Speak Now
6 Back To December
7 Haunted
8 Wonderland
9 I Knew You Were Trouble
10 Innocent

11 Never Grow Up
12 Love Story
13 Stay Stay Stay
13 The Story of Us
15 All Too Well
16 Wildest Dreams
17 Blank Space
18 Mean
19 Should've Said No
20 Shake it Off

21 How You Get The Girl
22 Mine
23 You're Not Sorry
24 Red
25 Welcome to New York
26 Jump Then Fall
27 Breathe
28 Everything Has Changed
29 Sparks Fly
30 State of Grace

31 Bad Blood
32 Today Was a Fairytale
33 I Almost Do
34 Out of the Woods
35 New Romantics
36 Fifteen
37 All You Had To Do Was Stay
38 You Belong With Me
39 Picture To Burn
40 Our Song

41 The Lucky One
42 Girl at Home
43 Fearless
44 22
45 The Moment I Knew
46 Come Back...Be Here
47 Forever and Always
48 The Last Time
49 I Know Places
50 I Wish You Would

51 Long Live
52 Forever and Always (Piano Version)
53 Holy Ground
54 Clean
55 Begin Again
56 This Love
57 Teardrops on My Guitar
58 The Other Side of the Door
59 Style
60 Ours

61 Sad Beautiful Tragic
62 The Way I Loved You
63 Eyes Open
64 You Are in Love
65 Ronan
66 Dear John
67 Come In With The Rain
68 Tim McGraw
69 Last Kiss

70 The Best Day
70 I'm Only Me When I'm With You
70 Mary's Song (Oh My My My)
70 The Outside
70 A Perfectly Good Heart
70 A Place in This World
70 Stay Beautiful

77 Change
78 If This Was A Movie
79 Beautiful Eyes
79 Invisible

81 I Heart ?
82 Tell Me Why
83 Sweeter than Fiction
84 Superstar
85 Untouchable
85 White Horse
87 Treacherous
88 Superman
89 Tied Together with a Smile
90 Hey Stephen

91 Safe & Sound
92 Crazier
93 Cold As You

A lot near the bottom that I'm not too familiar with and I'd have Shake It Off above Blank Space but other than that, this is pretty accurate! Perfect top 10

Posted by: _Nīck_ 15th December 2014, 11:52 PM

1 Mine (Speak Now)
2 Love Story (Fearless)
3 Blank Space (1989)
4 You Belong With Me (Fearless)
5 Out of the Woods (1989)
6 Teardrops on My Guitar (Taylor Swift)
7 Speak Now (Speak Now)
8 Fifteen (Fearless)
9 Picture To Burn (Taylor Swift)
10 Haunted (Speak Now)
11 How You Get The Girl (1989)
12 Sparks Fly (Speak Now)
13 The Best Day (Fearless)
13 Better Than Revenge (Speak Now)
15 Back To December (Speak Now)
16 Hey Stephen (Fearless)
17 Forever and Always (Piano Version) (Fearless)
18 Tim McGraw (Taylor Swift)
19 Style (1989)
20 The Story of Us (Speak Now)

Taylor Swift - 3
Fearless - 6
Speak Now - 7
Red - 0
1989 - 4

Probably slightly under represents 1989 which I feel like is her most consistent album - not quite sure I'd put Picture to Burn in my top 10 although that said I do love it!

Posted by: Calum Hood 15th December 2014, 11:57 PM

1 Wonderland
2 22
2 All Too Well
2 All You Had To Do Was Stay
2 Back To December
2 Bad Blood
2 Beautiful Eyes
2 Begin Again
2 The Best Day
2 Better Than Revenge
2 Blank Space
2 Breathe
2 Change
2 Clean
2 Cold As You
2 Come Back...Be Here
2 Come In With The Rain
2 Crazier
2 Dear John
2 Enchanted
2 Everything Has Changed
2 Eyes Open
2 Fearless
2 Fifteen
2 Forever and Always
2 Forever and Always (Piano Version)
2 Girl at Home
2 Haunted
2 Hey Stephen
2 Holy Ground
2 How You Get The Girl
2 I Almost Do
2 I Heart ?
2 I Knew You Were Trouble
2 I Know Places
2 I Wish You Would
2 I'm Only Me When I'm With You
2 If This Was A Movie
2 Innocent
2 Invisible
2 Jump Then Fall
2 Last Kiss
2 The Last Time
2 Long Live
2 Love Story
2 The Lucky One
2 Mary's Song (Oh My My My)
2 Mine
2 Mean
2 The Moment I Knew
2 Never Grow Up
2 New Romantics
2 The Other Side of the Door
2 Our Song
2 Ours
2 Out of the Woods
2 The Outside
2 A Perfectly Good Heart
2 Picture To Burn
2 A Place in This World
2 Red
2 Ronan
2 Sad Beautiful Tragic
2 Safe & Sound
2 Shake it Off
2 Should've Said No
2 Sparks Fly
2 Speak Now
2 Stay Beautiful
2 Starlight
2 State of Grace
2 Stay Stay Stay
2 The Story of Us
2 Style
2 Superman
2 Superstar
2 Sweeter than Fiction
2 Teardrops on My Guitar
2 Tell Me Why
2 This Love
2 Tied Together with a Smile
2 Tim McGraw
2 Today Was a Fairytale
2 Treacherous
2 Untouchable
2 The Way I Loved You
2 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
2 Welcome to New York
2 White Horse
2 Wildest Dreams
2 You Are in Love
2 You Belong With Me
2 You're Not Sorry

basically.

Posted by: Jayeux Noël 17th December 2014, 05:01 AM

All of these listed as 1!

1 All You Had To Do Was Stay
1 Bad Blood
1 Blank Space
1 Clean
1 Everything Has Changed
1 How You Get The Girl
1 I Knew You Were Trouble
1 I Wish You Would
1 The Last Time
1 Love Story
1 Shake it Off
1 Style
1 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
1 Welcome to New York
1 Wildest Dreams
1 Wonderland

Then Out Of The Woods in 17th with quite a few others... which is inaccurate for me. I prefer OOTW to most of the songs listed above!

Posted by: Acoustic 17th December 2014, 03:22 PM

01 Enchanted
02 If This Was A Movie
03 Style
04 Wildest Dreams
05 Shake it Off
06 I Knew You Were Trouble
07 Blank Space
08 All Too Well
09 Back To December
10 You Belong With Me
11 All You Had To Do Was Stay
12 This Love
13 Sparks Fly
14 Out of the Woods
15 Mean
16 How You Get The Girl
17 Treacherous
18 Mine
19 Everything Has Changed
20 You Are in Love

Still quite a new fan, so I'm not that familiar with her older stuff.
1989 and Speak Now are clearly my favourite Taylor albums.

Posted by: Timmy TheSnowman 17th December 2014, 03:30 PM

Okay this is a fake, I Knew You Were Trouble came 23rd at mine... BYE it's top 10 at LEAST

Posted by: MerryM¤th 17th December 2014, 04:01 PM

1 You Belong With Me
2 Shake it Off
3 Mean
4 Love Story
5 Back To December
6 Mine
7 Wonderland
8 I Knew You Were Trouble
9 Crazier
10 Blank Space
11 Style
12 How You Get The Girl
13 Stay Stay Stay
14 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
15 Starlight
16 Teardrops on My Guitar
17 The Story of Us
18 New Romantics
19 Red
20 Sparks Fly

--

21 Today Was a Fairytale
22 Picture To Burn
23 Should've Said No
24 Ours
25 State of Grace
26 Speak Now
27 Out of the Woods
28 Never Grow Up
29 Our Song
30 If This Was A Movie
31 All You Had To Do Was Stay
32 Fifteen
33 Begin Again
34 Jump Then Fall
35 Fearless
36 Haunted
37 Better Than Revenge
38 All Too Well
39 Sad Beautiful Tragic
40 Bad Blood
41 22
42 Treacherous
42 Untouchable
44 White Horse
45 Welcome to New York
46 You're Not Sorry
47 Wildest Dreams
48 Eyes Open
49 Enchanted
50 Everything Has Changed
51 Long Live
52 Holy Ground
53 I Wish You Would
54 Change
54 Sweeter than Fiction
56 This Love
57 The Last Time
58 You Are in Love
59 The Other Side of the Door
60 Breathe
61 I Almost Do
62 I Know Places
63 The Lucky One
64 Clean
65 Dear John
66 Safe & Sound
67 Forever and Always
68 Come Back...Be Here
68 Superstar
70 Tim McGraw
71 Innocent
72 The Moment I Knew
73 Ronan
74 Hey Stephen
75 Beautiful Eyes
75 The Best Day
75 I'm Only Me When I'm With You
75 Stay Beautiful
79 Come In With The Rain
80 Cold As You
81 Mary's Song (Oh My My My)
82 Invisible
83 Last Kiss
84 A Perfectly Good Heart
84 A Place in This World
84 Superman
87 The Way I Loved You
88 Forever and Always (Piano Version)
88 The Outside
90 Tell Me Why
90 Tied Together with a Smile
92 Girl at Home
93 I Heart ?


Very accurate, I'd say!

Posted by: Alex.N 19th December 2014, 08:42 PM

for that style of music (Taylor Swift)?

Posted by: NellyXmas. S 21st December 2014, 09:14 PM

Just had a listen to Wildest Dreams out of curiosity and yes it sounds quite similar to 'Without You' by Lana Del Rey I still retain that Out Of The Woods is the best f***ing pop song this year though

Posted by: RebelHaus 21st December 2014, 09:27 PM

QUOTE(NellyXmas. S @ Dec 21 2014, 09:14 PM)

Just had a listen to Wildest Dreams out of curiosity and yes it sounds quite similar to 'Without You' by Lana Del Rey I still retain that Out Of The Woods is the best f***ing pop song this year though

Posted by: ░░░░ 23rd December 2014, 01:22 AM

this albuma has gotten better with repeated plays, a truly amazing pop record that'll go down as a classic.

p.s. 'wonderland' and especially 'new romantics' are my favourites. nr is as good as pure song gets pretty much

Posted by: مدهش* 23rd December 2014, 01:26 AM

I'm actually listening to this album as you posted that and have to agree it's a really strong album. I never thought I'd be so on board with Taylor.

BTW New Romantics and Wonderland were the only two of the bonus tracks I bothered with and agree they're among the strongest on the record, am I missing anything with the other?

Posted by: ░░░░ 23rd December 2014, 01:32 AM

QUOTE(مدهش* @ Dec 23 2014, 01:26 AM)

I'm actually listening to this album as you posted that and have to agree it's a really strong album. I never thought I'd be so on board with Taylor.

BTW New Romantics and Wonderland were the only two of the bonus tracks I bothered with and agree they're among the strongest on the record, am I missing anything with the other?

Posted by: Ryan. 23rd December 2014, 01:36 AM

Definitely one of my favourite albums ever, and I agree that 'New Romantics' in particular is one of the best deluxe bonus tracks ever surely? And yes you should make sure you nominate 'New Romantics' (and 'Wonderland' too I suppose) in the Pop Forum Awards for best song relegated to a deluxe bonus track

I said earlier in the thread that I thought that this era could be as big as 'Teenage Dream' and while many disagreed and I was being pretty optimistic myself although I did have faith it could do it, it does look like this could be even bigger than the 'Teenage Dream' era! And I really believe 'Style', if that does become the next single as rumoured, could be her first UK #1 depending if there's a quiet week or two with no big releases in Q1 next year!

Posted by: ░░░░ 23rd December 2014, 01:39 AM

QUOTE(Ryan. @ Dec 23 2014, 01:36 AM)

I said earlier in the thread that I thought that this era could be as big as 'Teenage Dream' and while many disagreed and I was being pretty optimistic myself although I did have faith it could do it, it does look like this could be even bigger than the 'Teenage Dream' era! And I really believe 'Style', if that does become the next single as rumoured, could be her first UK #1 depending if there's a quiet week or two with no big releases in Q1 next year!

Posted by: mr_aly 23rd December 2014, 01:50 AM

I think as long as she's refusing to put her music on streaming services, she's not going to get a UK #1 single to her name (unless she unleashes a monster lead single for the next era). 'Style' would be fully deserving of being her first #1 though, it's just a pure pop gem that keeps improving on further listens.

I think this should definitely push for top 5, but she's arguably the biggest name in the world right now so none of this matters in the grand scheme of things.

Posted by: Ryan. 23rd December 2014, 01:56 AM

QUOTE(░░░░ @ Dec 23 2014, 01:39 AM)

Posted by: NellyXmas.S 23rd December 2014, 02:59 PM

Is it just be who thinks every song would make a good single? Welcome to New York has grown on me monstrously too (which was the only track I didn't like)

Posted by: Liаm 23rd December 2014, 03:01 PM

QUOTE(NellyXmas.S @ Dec 23 2014, 02:59 PM)

Is it just be who thinks every song would make a good single? Welcome to New York has grown on me monstrously too (which was the only track I didn't like)

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 23rd December 2014, 03:07 PM

I'm happy for any of them to be a single apart from I wish you would have put this song on the deluxe or left it off the album

I'd prefer the singles to be out of the woods/ all you had to do was stay/ bad blood/ wildest dreams and I know places

Posted by: Timmy TheSnowman 23rd December 2014, 03:11 PM

Bad Blood may never become a single
That is the only song I deleted off my iTunes, I have such hate for it ugh

Posted by: مدهش* 23rd December 2014, 03:34 PM

Bad Blood is the low point for me too, that and How You Get The Girl were removed from my playlist of it.



Oh and thank ye Jake for the offer... I downloaded it last night before I noticed your response... but, as you say, it's a kinda safe ballad thing really, okay but not a stand out.

Posted by: SevenSleighz 23rd December 2014, 04:07 PM

this album is rather good. Style getting a single push would be fabulous, easily the highlight here. the others being I Wish You Would, Out of the Woods + the 2 singles

(as long as they don't give bloody Welcome to New York a single release then all shall be fine~)

Posted by: ░░░░ 23rd December 2014, 04:11 PM

QUOTE(مدهش* @ Dec 23 2014, 03:34 PM)

Posted by: mr_aly 23rd December 2014, 07:23 PM

I listened to the bonus tracks, in full agreement that 'Wonderland' and 'New Romantics' should've had a place on the main album. What the hell?! 'You Are In Love' is boring, I have that same opinion of 'This Love' so I guess I'm not feeling the love.

Those two should replace the aforementioned 'This Love' and 'All You Had To Do Was Stay' on the main tracklist.

'I Know Places' is also properly hitting me now.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 23rd December 2014, 10:41 PM

I have finally listened to the bonus tracks in full. I just never ever listen to the bonus tracks unless I can buy the deluxe physical version of the album

First thoughts:
Wonderland- First listen: Overrated, Second Listen: Really good
New Romantics- why is this only on the deluxe, so so stunning
You Are In Love- Very nice

W and NR should be on main album over I wish you would and clean while you are in love is where it deserves to be or it can replace this love, I'm not sure

EDIT: I need New Romantics in my life right now. Purchased on iTunes

Posted by: Jayeux Noël 24th December 2014, 03:01 AM

Still makes me sad to see people drag Welcome To New York. It's one of my ultimate favourites on there. What is it that people don't like about it?

Liam knows where it's at though.

Posted by: ░░░░ 24th December 2014, 03:40 AM

i find it often gets stuck in my head but idk it feels like an intro and a kind of tacky one at that...

Posted by: Liаm 24th December 2014, 04:56 AM

QUOTE(Jayeux Noël @ Dec 24 2014, 03:01 AM)

Still makes me sad to see people drag Welcome To New York. It's one of my ultimate favourites on there. What is it that people don't like about it?

Liam knows where it's at though.

Posted by: Michael Bubré 29th December 2014, 12:00 AM

Past me would be ASHAMED but I have given in and listened through this ('Blank Space' is just incredible and I really liked 'Shake It Off' too). Time for another hyperbolic rating:

6.0 Welcome To New York
11.0 Blank Space
10.0 Style
8.5 Out Of The Woods (9.0 for the middle 8 and chorus alone, the rest slightly drags it down but still v good)
9.0 All You Had To Do Was Stay
9.5 Shake It Off
8.0 I Wish You Would
10.0 Bad Blood
7.5 Wildest Dreams
8.0 How You Get The Girl
9.5 This Love
7.0 I Know Places
6.5 Clean

9.5 Wonderland
6.5 You Are In Love
9.5 New Romantics

'Welcome To New York' is such a MEH opening, not a bad song per se but it just sounds like a bad attempt at being Katy Perry. After getting through that however this album sounds practically like a greatest hits, she's really got this whole POP MUSIC thing down to a T hasn't she Nearly every song here sounds like it could be a big hit if released as a single. Dare I compare it to 'Thriller', as I genuinely get that sort of feeling from it. Last 2 tracks of the standard edition are a bit of a comedown from the rest though, they'd be decent enough as bonus tracks I guess so swap them out for 'Wonderland' and 'New Romantics' and just cut 'Welcome To New York' entirely and this would be pretty much a perfect album. V impressed.

If 'Style' is the next single I could see myself growing to love it just as much as 'Blank Space'. 'Bad Blood' is my other massive highlight if you couldn't figure that out from the ratings ~ And 'This Love' is like 10x better than the rest of the slower tracks Glad there weren't too many of those as she doesn't seem quite as good at them as she is at big pop songs.

Posted by: Liаm 29th December 2014, 12:47 AM

My updated rating after a couple of months of sinking in, because I'm bored:

10 Welcome To New York (still adore this, I don't get the hate it is quite cheesy I guess but the synths are so joyous!)
10 Blank Space
11 Style (really set on this on the next single now <3)
09 Out Of The Woods (it feels weird to say a song that's 9/10 is overrated but this is, it's just that this is far from her best even though it is a 9 because I love so much of her material)
08.5 All You Had To Do Was Stay
10 Shake It Off
08.5 I Wish You Would
09 Bad Blood (for all the Avril Lavigne comparisons, I'd say Avril done well Which Avril herself can't even do most of the time)
10 Wildest Dreams
09 How You Get The Girl
09 This Love (huge grower from my first impressions!)
09 I Know Places
08 Clean

10 Wonderland
06 You R In Love
10 New Romantics

That is genuinely my rating given that this is two months after release, that's a testament to how amazing it is, it's not wearing off at all <3 Because of the high quality I find it hard to pin down a favourite from Blank Space, Style, Shake It Off and Welcome Yo New York, but right now I'd say Style

Posted by: Jayeux Noël 29th December 2014, 07:20 AM

My loony looking rating:

10.0 Welcome To New York (Oh Bré you nincompoop x)
11.0 Blank Space
10.0 Style
10.0 Out Of The Woods
9.5 All You Had To Do Was Stay
10.0 Shake It Off
9.0 I Wish You Would
9.0 Bad Blood
10.0 Wildest Dreams
7.5 How You Get The Girl
8.0 This Love
8.5 I Know Places
8.0 Clean
10.0 Wonderland
7.0 You Are In Love
10.0 New Romantics

... goodness me! The album is pretty incredible, easily one of the best pop albums of the 2010s. Dare I say *the* best? This time last year I wouldn't have thought I'd ever bother to check out a Taylor Swift album, let alone that I'd really love one. I need to check out 'Red' asap.

The heavily slated 'Welcome To New York' is such an easy highlight for me. I can't help but feel a little "oh " when I see mass dislike for something I really love, but I will have to put this down to different strokes for different folks. Like Liam said, those synths are irresistible to me and as a whole the track has a euphoric, hopeful feeling to it. Such a great opening to the album.

'Style' is the perfect choice for next single - it's my second favourite track on the album.

I had considered 'How You Get The Girl' through to 'Clean' as a noticeable lull on the album, but those tracks have all grown on me considerably. I found 'HYGTG' to be a bit saccharine at first, but I can't deny how catchy it is. It was verging on an '8.0'.

'You Are In Love' is the only relatively weak moment, but still worthy of a 7 and more than passable as a deluxe track. Speaking of which, 'Wonderland' and 'New Romantics' seriously deserved a place on the standard album! Although they definitely make purchasing the deluxe super worth it.

Posted by: Ellis 29th December 2014, 09:32 PM

When I read that most of the tracks were produced by Max Martin and Shellback I knew this was going to be a monster of an album; it's definitely one of my favourite ever.

7.0 Welcome To New York
10.0 Blank Space
11.0 Style
9.0 Out Of The Woods
8.0 All You Had To Do Was Stay
9.75 Shake It Off
7.75 I Wish You Would
10.0 Bad Blood (definitely a '*.*' last chorus moment)
8.0 Wildest Dreams
8.0 How You Get The Girl
8.0 This Love (a solid 12.5 for the middle 8 though)
8.5 I Know Places
5.5 Clean

9.5 Wonderland
8.5 You Are In Love
10.0 New Romantics

I am SO rooting for Style as the next single (even though it's pretty much a cert). I would very much like to see Bad Blood released, I think that will be the moment that she solidifies her pop move. It seems very unlikely from Taylor, but if she released a rapper remix of it (JAY Z or Iggy?) specifically for US Rhythmic radio, I could see Bad Blood becoming one of, if not her biggest radio hit to date in America. New Romantics seems like a fitting late-summer-early-autumn follow up to Bad Blood with Wildest Dreams (and that X Factor final performance) seeing her and her album sales through Q4 2015.

I will never understand why those three bonus tracks were ever put as bonus tracks; I ideally would replace HYGTG, This Love and Clean for all of them. Welcome to New York has grown on me but it's still a very dull opening. That being said, it seems fitting for her fairly-publicised move to New York between Red and 1989; so imo it's a fitting concept backed up by a mediocre song. That and "Clean" aside, this is most definitely her Teenage Dream. I mean that in both senses in that it's a STELLAR pop album and will almost certainly produce a number of hit singles, keeping her ubiquitous in 2015.

Posted by: ░░░░ 30th December 2014, 01:50 AM

06.0 Welcome to New York
10.0 Blank Space
07.5 Style
09.0 Out of the Woods
10.0 All You Had to Do Was Stay
09.0 Shake It Off
07.0 I Wish You Would
06.0 Bad Blood
09.5 Wildest Dreams
08.0 How You Get the Girl
07.5 This Love
07.0 I Know Places
06.5 Clean

10.0 Wonderland
07.5 You Are In Love
11.0 New Romantics -- pop songs don't get more perfect than this, excellently written, produced and just *.*

Posted by: dhwe 30th December 2014, 07:18 PM

That "ah-ah-ah" vocal hook in "New Romantics" is seriously breathtaking. I hope it becomes a late-era single. And yeah, this really is shaping up to be the biggest era in a couple years.

Posted by: JosephCarey 30th December 2014, 07:31 PM

My new rating:

09.5 Welcome To New York - also amongst the lovers of this track, gets way too much hate!
10.0 Blank Space - I always liked it but it's properly HIT me now.
09.0 Style - also only just hit me, didn't really see the fuss before but I can just see it growing and growing
09.0 Out of the Woods
09.5 All You Had To Do Was Stay
10.0 Shake It Off
07.5 I Wish You Would
10.0 Bad Blood
10.0 Wildest Dreams
10.0 How You Get The Girl - the holy trinity in this tracklist
07.0 This Love
08.5 I Know Places
07.0 Clean

11.0 Wonderland - absolutely incredible and one of the best deluxe tracks I've ever heard.
06.5 You Are In Love
10.0 New Romantics

Gets better and better with every listen. Still prefer Speak Now but this is above the other three for me.

Posted by: mr_aly 30th December 2014, 09:55 PM

05 Welcome To New York
11 Blank Space
10 Style
10 Out of the Woods
06 All You Had To Do Was Stay
08 Shake It Off
07 I Wish You Would
08 Bad Blood
09 Wildest Dreams
07 How You Get The Girl
05 This Love
09 I Know Places
06 Clean

09 Wonderland
05 You Are In Love
09 New Romantics

Nothing really below a 5 for me, but this album has clear highlights and clear lowlights.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 30th December 2014, 10:15 PM

10 Welcome To New York
10 Blank Space
10 Style
10 Out of the Woods
10 All You Had To Do Was Stay
11 Shake It Off
04 I Wish You Would
10 Bad Blood
10 Wildest Dreams
10 How You Get The Girl
09 This Love
10 I Know Places
09 Clean

10 Wonderland
08 You Are In Love
10 New Romantics

Definitely one of my favourite albums ever.
Wildest Dreams, Out Of The Woods, Blank Space, I Know Places, New Romantics, Bad Blood, Wonderland. All You Had To Do Was Stay and Welcome To New York are all deserving of an 11

Posted by: Jayeux Noël 30th December 2014, 10:39 PM

^ Poor 'I Wish You Would'!

Posted by: Calum Hood 31st December 2014, 01:16 AM

05.0 Welcome to New York
08.5 Blank Space
07.0 Style
09.0 Out of the Woods
10.0 All You Had to Do Was Stay
05.0 Shake It Off
07.0 I Wish You Would
07.5 Bad Blood
08.5 Wildest Dreams
07.0 How You Get the Girl
07.0 This Love
06.5 I Know Places
08.0 Clean

11.0 Wonderland
08.0 You R in Love
07.0 New Romantics

Nothing comes close to 'Wonderland'. By far and away the best thing she's done.

Posted by: Jamesus 2nd January 2015, 10:00 AM

7.5 Welcome To New York - catchy but I just don't understand why the song is on the album
10 Blank Space
10 Style
9 Out of the Woods
8 All You Had To Do Was Slay
11 Shake It Off - timeless classic!
8.5 I Wish You Would - giving me those 1975 teas
8 Bad Blood - AVRIL LAVIGNE REALNESS YAS
10 Wildest Dreams - perfection
10 How You Get The Girl
10 This Love
8 I Know Places
7 Clean

9 Wonderland
7.5 You Are In Love
11 New Romantics - YAAAAAAS

Clearly the best album of the decade and the most successful era in a long while. Slay me Taylord!!

Posted by: Hemtex 4th January 2015, 07:31 PM

06.0 Welcome to New York
10.0 Blank Space
07.5 Style
09.0 Out of the Woods
10.0 All You Had to Do Was Stay
09.0 Shake It Off
07.0 I Wish You Would
06.0 Bad Blood
09.5 Wildest Dreams
08.0 How You Get the Girl
07.5 This Love
07.0 I Know Places
06.5 Clean

Posted by: gooddelta 6th January 2015, 11:59 AM

08.0 Welcome To New York
09.0 Blank Space
09.0 Style
09.5 Out of the Woods
08.5 All You Had To Do Was Stay
09.0 Shake It Off
08.5 I Wish You Would
08.0 Bad Blood
08.5 Wildest Dreams
09.0 How You Get The Girl
07.5 This Love
09.0 I Know Places
06.0 Clean

09.0 Wonderland
07.0 You Are In Love
09.0 New Romantics

It's a thoroughly consistent album, and definitely her best yet (although I still prefer Love Story and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together to anything on here). Not sure how Clean made it on though, it sounds like a filler from her first album, albeit in less of a country style.

Posted by: barbaric_dan 6th January 2015, 02:37 PM

10 Welcome To New York
07 Blank Space
09 Style
07 Out of the Woods
06 All You Had To Do Was Stay
09 Shake It Off
07 I Wish You Would
08 Bad Blood
08 Wildest Dreams
07 How You Get The Girl
09 This Love
07 I Know Places
06 Clean
06 Wonderland
07 You Are In Love
08 New Romantics

Posted by: M¤th 6th January 2015, 03:36 PM

a bit late to the party but here are my rankings ~

08.0 Welcome To New York
09.5 Blank Space
09.5 Style
08.5 Out of the Woods
08.0 All You Had To Do Was Stay
11.0 Shake It Off
08.5 I Wish You Would
07.5 Bad Blood
09.0 Wildest Dreams
09.5 How You Get The Girl
07.0 This Love
07.5 I Know Places
07.0 Clean

10.0 Wonderland
07.5 You Are In Love
10.0 New Romantics

despite a few low(er) points this is definitely my favorite album of hers!

Posted by: Nelly. S 6th January 2015, 04:00 PM

09.5 Welcome to New York
10.0 Blank Space
09.0 Style
07.5 Out of the Woods
08.0 All You Had to Do Was Stay
09.0 Shake It Off
07.5 I Wish You Would
10.0 Bad Blood
09.5 Wildest Dreams
06.5 How You Get the Girl
07.0 This Love
07.5 I Know Places
08.5 Clean

08.0 Wonderland
06.0 You R in Love
07.5 New Romantics

Posted by: Jonjo 6th January 2015, 08:27 PM

09.0 Welcome to New York
10.0 Blank Space
09.0 Style
11.0 Out of the Woods
08.5 All You Had to Do Was Stay
09.0 Shake It Off
08.0 I Wish You Would
08.0 Bad Blood
09.5 Wildest Dreams
07.5 How You Get the Girl
08.0 This Love
08.0 I Know Places
07.0 Clean

08.5 Wonderland
07.0 You R in Love
10.0 New Romantics

Posted by: Simon. 9th January 2015, 05:49 PM

Arghhhhhhh I totally slated her when she came back with 'Shake It Off' which I stand by as I think it's just awful.

But the rest of the album is I can't turn it off.

Posted by: GagaInParis 12th January 2015, 11:35 AM

Warming up to this record

Posted by: Rob S 20th January 2015, 12:29 PM

So I'm listening to this for the 2nd time at last in my sisters car and I honestly don't know what planet I was on when I found it a bit meh at first but my god it's absolutely wonderful. Out of the woods and How you get the girl have grown on me hugely too.

08.5 Welcome to New York
11.0 Blank Space
09.5 Style
09.0 Out of the Woods
09.5 All You Had to Do Was Stay
10.0 Shake It Off
09.0 I Wish You Would
08.5 Bad Blood
08.5 Wildest Dreams
10.0 How You Get the Girl
09.0 This Love
07.5 I Know Places
06.0 Clean

09.5 Wonderland
03.5 You R in Love
09.5 New Romantics

Posted by: HausofKubrick 17th February 2015, 11:46 AM

The deluxe album tracks are being released to iTunes one by one.

The first is 'Wonderland' which is out now and currently top 40 on US iTunes. They should all do very well once released.

Posted by: yosef nra 17th February 2015, 11:50 AM

omg i love her

Posted by: Beaverhousen 17th February 2015, 12:13 PM

09.5 Welcome To New York - one of the best on a poor cheesy albun
9.0 Blank Space overplayed but good
10 Style - beauty of a song, secpnd best after Shake Ot Oot
08 Out of the Woods bit weird tbf
06 All You Had To Do Was Stay. Bland n boring
11.0 Shake It Off
05.0 I Wish You Would
[b]10.0 Bad Blood
-1. Wildest Dreams TRASH!!! Sooo indipid boring tuneless unexciting and meaningless. LDR this is not.
00 How You Get The Girl bland boring cheesy tuneless
00.0 This Love lol at that Hollywood this love concept. Tuneless cheese.
02 I Know Places
00.0 Clean

0.0Wonderland
0.0 You Are In Love
0.0 New Romantics


Second half of album is terrible and tuneless. Wonderland is acapells guitar dirge!!

Posted by: JosephStyles 17th February 2015, 12:14 PM

QUOTE(Beaverhousen @ Feb 17 2015, 12:13 PM)

Posted by: Beaverhousen 17th February 2015, 12:16 PM

No!! Red shits all over this album. Really poor effort. The next album sales will collapse as casual fans like me won't be gettin it after this mess.

Posted by: JosephStyles 17th February 2015, 12:17 PM

Can we please Buffy/Charmed you off the site for these wrong opinions?

Posted by: Beaverhousen 17th February 2015, 12:19 PM

I was seriously disappointed listening to it after Ted was so good too.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 17th February 2015, 12:35 PM

QUOTE(Beaverhousen @ Feb 17 2015, 12:13 PM)

Posted by: dhwe 17th February 2015, 08:29 PM

QUOTE(HausofKubrick @ Feb 17 2015, 06:46 AM)

Posted by: dhwe 20th February 2015, 09:38 AM

Never did a rate for this:

05 Welcome to New York
08 Blank Space
11 Style — The 11 might just be an effect of Current Single Syndrome but I loved this from the moment I heard the snippet in the Target commercial. It's very much of a piece with "Love Me Harder" and "Jealous" (both of which I love) as far as recent hits go.
10 Out of the Woods
08 All You Had to Do Was Stay
05 Shake It Off
06 I Wish You Would
08 Bad Blood
09 Wildest Dreams
07 How You Get the Girl
06 This Love
07 I Know Places
09 Clean — Never fully appreciated this until now, it's gorgeous. Imogen's background vocals *.*

I'll do the bonus tracks later on.

Posted by: ¡bré! 25th February 2015, 03:41 PM

http://www.noise11.com/news/taylor-swift-and-kanye-west-record-bad-blood-with-ariel-rechtshaid-20150225

Remix of 'Bad Blood' with Kanye West confirmed apparently! Really hope that means it's the next single and it's not just a random remix, 'Bad Blood' would be a perfect choice.

Posted by: *Tim 25th February 2015, 04:20 PM

Bad Blood is trash compared to the rest of the album (especially Wildest Dreams and This Love )

She better not Katy Perry us () with 3 amazing single and then releasing the worst on the album

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 25th February 2015, 04:39 PM

Bad blood would be a great single (though would prefer widest dreams, I know places, OOTW or New Romantics but BB is better than style)

Posted by: toxic_air 26th February 2015, 02:28 AM

06.5 Welcome to New York
10.0 Blank Space
09.0 Style
07.0 Out of the Woods
11.0 All You Had to Do Was Stay
08.0 Shake It Off
03.0 I Wish You Would
09.5 Bad Blood
08.0 Wildest Dreams
05.0 How You Get the Girl
07.0 This Love
05.0 I Know Places
06.5 Clean

Posted by: Cody Slayberry 26th February 2015, 02:33 AM

Rates, yeah, let's.

08.5 Welcome to New York
10.0 Blank Space
11.0 Style
10.0 Out of the Woods
09.5 All You Had to Do Was Stay
10.0 Shake It Off
08 I Wish You Would
10.0 Bad Blood
10.0 Wildest Dreams
10.0 How You Get the Girl
07.5 This Love
07.5 I Know Places
08.5 Clean

07.0 Wonderland
07.5 You Are In Love
10.0 New Romantics

Also, can the mods give Michael a warning for the "Wildest Dreams" shade?

QUOTE(¡bré! @ Feb 25 2015, 07:41 AM)

http://www.noise11.com/news/taylor-swift-and-kanye-west-record-bad-blood-with-ariel-rechtshaid-20150225

Remix of 'Bad Blood' with Kanye West confirmed apparently! Really hope that means it's the next single and it's not just a random remix, 'Bad Blood' would be a perfect choice.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 11th March 2015, 10:55 PM

My album rank:
1. Shake it off
2. Wildest dreams
3. I know places
4. Blank space
5. Out of the woods
6. New Romantics
7. Bad Blood
8. All You Had To Do Was Stay
9. Wonderland
10. Style (Oops)
11. Welcome To New York
12. Clean
13. How you get the girl
14. This love
15. You are in love
16. I wish you would


And on another Taylor related note- after two and a half years, I have finally fallen in love with starlight

Posted by: JVSH 11th March 2015, 11:24 PM

QUOTE(Ultraviolence1989 @ Mar 11 2015, 10:55 PM)

My album rank:
1. Shake it off
2. Wildest dreams
3. I know places
4. Blank space
5. Out of the woods
6. New Romantics
7. Bad Blood
8. All You Had To Do Was Stay
9. Wonderland
10. Style (Oops)
11. Welcome To New York
12. Clean
13. How you get the girl
14. This love
15. You are in love
16. I wish you would
And on another Taylor related note- after two and a half years, I have finally fallen in love with starlight

Posted by: THEO. 30th March 2015, 12:08 PM

This album is still so good! It's approaching 600,000 sales in the UK and is already Taylor's highest-selling album here!

She performed at the iHeartRadio Music Awards last night, winning three of the four awards that she was nominated for, and played guitar during Madonna's performance of "Ghosttown":

Posted by: HausofKendrick 30th March 2015, 12:15 PM

QUOTE(THEO. @ Mar 30 2015, 01:08 PM)

Posted by: THEO. 30th March 2015, 01:25 PM

QUOTE(HausofKendrick @ Mar 30 2015, 12:15 PM)

Are you a fan of 'Ghosttown', Theo?

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 5th May 2015, 09:17 AM

Itunes Update
Random update as ill and bored

Top 1500:
25. Style
52. Blank Space
56. Shake It Off
223. Shake It Off
225. Style
252. Blank Space
331. Love Story
338. I Knew You Were Trouble
409. 22
481. Everything Has Changed
485. You Belong With Me
730. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
863. Wonderland
1072. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
1187. Bad Blood
1253. I Knew You Were Trouble
1291. Welcome To New York
1322. Wildest Dreams

Pop top 150:
9. Style
19. Blank Space
22. Shake It Off
92. Shake It Off
94. Style
105. Blank Space

Country top 150:
2. Love Story
3. I Knew You Were Trouble
4. 22
5. Everything Has Changed
6. You Belong With Me
9. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
13. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
15. I Knew You Were Trouble
20. Everything Has Changed
31. 22
33. Mean
53. Red
54. You Belong With Me
72. Love Story
87. Our Song
89. Picture To Burn
90. Ours
92. The Story Of Us
94. Teardrops On My Guitar
97. Red
108. Mean
130. Mine
134. Back To December
137. White Horse
139. Fifteen
147. Teardrops On My Guitar

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 5th May 2015, 06:33 PM

OMG she did an enchanted/wildest dreams mash up on the 1st of her tour- gosh this is so amazing and beautiful
Two of my favourite ever Taylor songs and it works so well

Posted by: paul_pdc 6th May 2015, 10:19 AM

Hope she releases tour dvd as not able to get to see her this time

Posted by: ┌ ╫ ┘ 12th June 2015, 10:08 AM

this has appeared under the 'new arrivals' section on her label's website. very good indicator it looks likely to be the next single.

thoughts?

Posted by: JosephStyles 12th June 2015, 10:15 AM

Taylor's denied that this is a single and I expect she'd go for something off the standard album really (although she did release Ours from Speak Now which was a deluxe track so you never know!). It'd be a great single anyway and a nice change in pace and vibe from the last couple of singles.

Posted by: Jack 12th June 2015, 05:39 PM

Strange choice of single but I love the single so I would be happy with it! Out Of The Woods seems like an obvious snub though.

Posted by: Cody Slayberry 12th June 2015, 05:41 PM

She also released the bonus tracks from her album as separate singles in the US.

Personally, I'd be cheering for this, but nothing's official until Taylor or someone from her team announces what it is.

Posted by: Ryan. 12th June 2015, 05:44 PM

This 99% won't be a single I don't think, as much as I'd love it. As someone on ATRL pointed out, apparently it's been there for a while - since they released the bonus tracks as singles in the US a few months ago. 'New Romantics' was the last of these and was tagged as 'New Romantics - Single' so that's where it will have come from!

I'll merge it back with the album topic for now, if it does turn out to be a single I'll split it back but I doubt it will be.

Posted by: *Tim 12th June 2015, 10:39 PM

She better release Wish You Would as the summer single, followed by Wildes Dreams or This Love in october or something

Posted by: jark 12th June 2015, 10:44 PM

Why would you say such a thing?

ARE WE OUT OF THE WOODS YET?!

Posted by: Ryan. 12th June 2015, 10:45 PM

I'm not sure what they'll choose as the next single, I think the likes of 'All You Had To Do Was Stay' and 'How You Get The Girl' would be solid successes yet won't get into many worldwide top 10s - along the lines of 'Style' perhaps. I think they'll probably go with 'Wildest Dreams', with a fabulous music video that could do very well! 'Out Of The Woods' is probably the obvious smash, but for some reason I feel it will be ignored.

Posted by: Liаm 12th June 2015, 11:27 PM

New Romantics would be an AMAZING single OOTW is probaby objectively the best choice but personally I'd love New Romantics, All You Had To Do Was Stay, I Wish You Would or Wildest Dreams <3

Posted by: barbaric_dan 13th June 2015, 01:07 AM

OOTW plz

Posted by: *Tim 13th June 2015, 11:23 AM

QUOTE(jark @ Jun 12 2015, 10:44 PM)

Posted by: Mackenzie 13th June 2015, 01:10 PM

Wildest Dreams <3

Posted by: techie 17th June 2015, 10:08 AM

heheh....best track is bad blood ft Kendrick lamar ,, number 2 on chart now

Posted by: Nelly. S 17th June 2015, 10:36 AM

Out Of The Woods would make a really nice final single to end the era! I'd like to see another one or two more singles released before it

Posted by: Joe. 17th June 2015, 10:39 AM

I have a feeling it'll be re-release time for Christmas now, with the Bad Blood remix and possibly a few new singles. I'd prefer 'Out Of the Woods' though, I don't think it'd do much more than Style did, but it's a lovely song.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 24th June 2015, 09:03 AM

New Romantics, OOTW, IKP and WD would be the ideal singles

Posted by: Regina 22nd August 2015, 03:33 PM

SO apprantly Ryan Adams is covering and releasing every track on the album

Posted by: Cameron 22nd August 2015, 05:05 PM

Why?

Posted by: Regina 22nd August 2015, 05:46 PM

He wants to make them better. You can hear snippets here. http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/08/19/ryan-adams-1989-clips/

Posted by: dhwe 22nd August 2015, 06:00 PM

Did he really say he wants to "make them better"? Because lol.

Posted by: Liаm 22nd August 2015, 06:05 PM

Dear Reginald is just being a shady hoe

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 22nd August 2015, 06:18 PM

Heard about this a few weeks ago and hope it will be quite good

Posted by: Regina 25th August 2015, 06:54 PM

Ligina faves coming together *.*

Posted by: Liаm 25th August 2015, 06:58 PM

SHAKING ANC CRYING STILL @ THAT

Posted by: Regina 26th August 2015, 10:48 AM

Alanis called her an "an alive warrioress" *.* DUET, the ultimate break up anthem pls.

Posted by: Regina 18th September 2015, 02:58 PM

The Ryan Adams cover version comes out on Monday *.*

Posted by: Liаm 18th September 2015, 03:07 PM

His cover of Bad Blood is painful

Posted by: Regina 18th September 2015, 03:11 PM

It's better than the original tbh. Also shows off how poor the lyrics are

Posted by: Liаm 18th September 2015, 03:14 PM

lolno

I think Clean will work well, also maybe Out Of The Woods will be good to hear interpreted in that way. Maybe I WIsh You Would/All You Had To Do Was Stay/This Love/You Are In Love too but the latter is painfully dull in the first place anyway.

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 18th September 2015, 03:43 PM

The bad blood cover is great *.*

Posted by: HenEveryTuesday 21st September 2015, 05:15 AM

I like this Ryan Adams' album. Taylor's covers aren't very good. Get yo own material Taylor

Posted by: Joe. 21st September 2015, 08:00 AM

I find Ryan Adams' covers album so limp. I listened to Shake it Off, Welcome to New York and Bad Blood...He sucked the life from the the songs sound so uneventful, and it sounds like it was recorded in his basement. I've liked his music in the past but this...

Posted by: Regina 21st September 2015, 08:40 AM

He was never gonna recreate them in the same way though his music nowadays has that stripped back and retro feel to it. I love the new take on the songs,
many of them are better than the originals.

Posted by: J▲hq 21st September 2015, 05:21 PM

Checked the whole thing out and think he does good versions of "Style" and "Wildest Dreams".

Posted by: Ryan. 12th October 2015, 10:07 PM

An absolutely fascinating mini-documentary type series about the creation of 1989 including never seen before videos and voice memos!

https://www.grammypro.com/professional-development/video/listening-session-taylor-swift-1989-part-1
https://www.grammypro.com/professional-development/video/listening-session-taylor-swift-1989-part-2
https://www.grammypro.com/professional-development/video/listening-session-taylor-swift-1989-part-3

I could listen to Taylor explaining all the tiny details in each of her tracks all day, her musical knowledge is incredible!

Posted by: Adam's Stories😍 13th October 2015, 07:55 AM

Very pleased with this album! Red was great but this one blew me away

Posted by: HonkyBonkXMAS 23rd November 2015, 01:29 PM

Out of the Woods is getting released as the follow up to 'Wildest Dreams'. Perfect way to round of the era I'd imagine for most of you

Posted by: Joe. 23rd November 2015, 01:34 PM

Yessss! I wish it was released earlier though, as it's very unlikely to do anything this far into the campaign. Unless its a Calvin Harris remix. It's better than Style and Bad Blood for me and SO much better than Wildest Dreams.

Can't wait for a video <3

Posted by: Shivering Adam❄️ 23rd November 2015, 01:37 PM

YESSSSSS

I wonder if she's been reading the forum

Posted by: mr_pmt 23rd November 2015, 01:53 PM

I am so over the moon about this. Of course it's at least two singles later than it should have been but better late than never.

It wouldn't have been right for this not to have single status.

Posted by: SeanGrey 23rd November 2015, 01:54 PM

Really milked this era haven't they?

Posted by: Joe. 23rd November 2015, 01:58 PM

QUOTE(SeanGrey @ Nov 23 2015, 01:54 PM)

Really milked this era haven't they?

Posted by: Jonjeur East 🎷 23rd November 2015, 02:08 PM

Absolutely ecstatic at OOTW being announced as the next single. Really hope we get another brillkant video for it and not just some lazy tour footage video. I agree that it's possibly a bit too late into the era for it to have any real effect, but at this point I'd be happy with top 40.

Posted by: Cameron 23rd November 2015, 02:15 PM

Best song on the album for me. Over the moon! I hope the video doesn't disappoint! (although I can see it being similar to Style)

Posted by: Scherz 23rd November 2015, 04:01 PM

I won't hold my breath but imagine a Calvin Harris remix of OOTW?

Posted by: UltraChristmas 23rd November 2015, 04:27 PM

Thank gosh for that, one of the three standouts on the album that hasn't been released as a single yet so great choice
Hopefully she can get an X-Factor final performance with this!

Posted by: Juliano 30th November 2015, 12:00 AM

To be honest I still wouldn't mind if All You Had To Do Was Stay, Wonderland, How You Get The Girl and New Romantics were all released... I'm sure the radios probably would mind though.

Posted by: jark 30th November 2015, 08:30 AM

How You Get the Girl should've been released ages ago. Absolute tune.

Posted by: Juliano 2nd December 2015, 12:39 AM

QUOTE(jark @ Nov 30 2015, 09:30 AM)

Posted by: UltraChristmas 13th December 2015, 10:09 PM

The 1989 world tour is premièring on Apple Music on December 20th
So happy I renewed my account by accident now!

Posted by: toxic_air 13th December 2015, 11:24 PM

"New Romantics" should have been released. OOTW is blegh and repetitive.

Posted by: Liаm 14th December 2015, 02:18 AM

QUOTE(UltraChristmas @ Dec 13 2015, 10:09 PM)

The 1989 world tour is premièring on Apple Music on December 20th
So happy I renewed my account by accident now!

Posted by: Jacob S 17th December 2015, 08:16 PM

i must be in a piss-poor mood today. Listen! Kelly Clarkson had, and still has, better pipes than the highly-overrated Taylor Swift.

Posted by: 🌚🌚🌚 18th December 2015, 02:15 PM

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Posted by: True Qween 18th December 2015, 06:55 PM

Taylor can sing?

Posted by: Ryan. 20th December 2015, 07:13 PM

Just watched the 1989 World Tour on Apple Music, what an absolutely fantastic show it was! The way it was filmed was absolutely fantastic, visually stunning. With lots of mini-interviews and clips of special guests from other tours included too, the film runs at over 2 hours but it went so so quickly!

Taylor was incredible as expected, there were lots of highlights and I can't list them all but a few of the surprises were the performances of I Know Places (this had such a great production and concept, I can now envisage this as a hit single!), You Are In Love (the involvement of the crowd was mesmerising) and Wildest Dreams/Enchanted (I'd forgot these two were mashed up, and it was fantastic). And Out of the Woods at the end was a major goosebumps moment, and Shake It Off in the encore was insanely good.

All the performances combined with what was like a mini documentary makes this so so worth the £9.99 Apple Music membership for a month, so I'd really recommend you do so and give this a watch. I hope it gets released on DVD too next year as I'd love to have it to keep!

Posted by: FrostytheBeaver 20th December 2015, 08:25 PM

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Posted by: Jaspine Thompson 19th February 2016, 04:29 PM

Apparently New Romantics is the 7th single to be released from 1989, according to https://twitter.com/javajoel/status/700486002683441153. Not sure how accurate this is so I've hesitated on making a thread for it. Would be good if it's true though, as it's my favourite AT along with All You Had to Do Was Stay

Posted by: Ryan. 22nd June 2016, 01:39 AM

With it being summer 2016, I've been thinking about what to expect from Taylor in terms of new music. Of course long-time fans know that in the past she has stuck to a consistent release strategy with a lead single in July/August and an album following in October/November on every even numbered year since 2006. That would of course mean that sticking to that strategy would mean a new single within the next 2 months.

As 1989 was such a massive era and the longest era she has had, I can't see her sticking to that strategy this time round unfortunately. I think the next studio album will probably appear in late 2017 with a lead single in the summer, so the same strategy but just a year late.

But, after reading other forums too, I think it would be absolutely perfect for Taylor to release a Greatest Hits album for this year. She could still give us a new single in August/September and a Greatest Hits album seems like the perfect way to celebrate 10 years since her first album release seeing as she won't have time for a full album. Rumour has it that her original contract with Big Machine was either five or six studio albums AND a greatest hits album, so what better time to tick that greatest hits album off this year?

I really hope this happens, I can't go an even numbered year without a single new Taylor song and with her at the peak of her popularity (probably ever, 1989 was a once-in-a-career album era like Teenage Dream was for Katy) it would be the perfect time to introduce her country songs to an audience that won't be as familiar with them bar the Love Storys and the You Belong With Mes of course. Go on Taylor you know you want to!

Posted by: mr_pmt 22nd June 2016, 10:55 PM

I was half expecting another single announcement with the topic bump!

Posted by: Regina 23rd June 2016, 01:04 PM

I'm sure once she's humped and dumped Hiddles she'll have enough material for a new album, especially with the Calvin drama.

Posted by: UltraReputation 5th November 2017, 04:58 AM

I finally watched the 1989 tour documentary after finding it on YouTube!!! (When I had my Apple Music subscription it would never work despite trying at least over 20 times to watch it ). SO SO GOOD <3 every performance was incredible (bar love Story, that new version was not the tea x) and I loved it *.*

Also HOW TF did I not know or forgot Taylor & Idina performed Let It Go together!!!! And her vocals slayed the see you again performance, I would love to hear Taylor do the chorus in studio form *.*

Posted by: ikaraoke 13th November 2017, 09:14 AM

[ Karaoke instrument ] Call It What You Want - Taylor Swift

Posted by: UltraReputation 10th August 2018, 03:42 PM

4x platinum 💗💗💗💗

Posted by: HausofTove 25th March 2019, 08:36 PM

Relistening to this again after a while away from it and honestly, still one of the best pop albums of recent time. Near perfection.

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 27th April 2019, 03:40 PM

Listened to Style a few times today. So catchy, used to always skip this

Posted by: HausofTove 28th April 2019, 08:39 PM

It's the best song on the album for me! Overtaken Wildest Dreams x

Posted by: Jordan Lee 24th August 2019, 12:39 AM

#97 this week in the UK. Amazing to see it top 100 again it was #99 last week too.

Hopefully it should rise this week too with the release of Lover.

Really need to listen to this as a whole again to do a proper rate of it.

It’s definitely one of my favourite albums of the decade though and the era where the singles were picked fantastically.

One of the best pop eras for singles.

Posted by: Jade 24th August 2019, 12:43 AM

There's not a single dud on this album. Her magnum opus forever and ever

Posted by: Cornelia Street 24th August 2019, 12:45 AM

A classic 💗💗💗 I still go back to SIO, wildest dreams, I know places, New Romantics, blank space, bad blood remix, OOTW and Yh pretty much the whole album all the time <3

Posted by: Jordan Lee 15th May 2020, 04:12 PM

Listened to this in full today and it still sounds very very good!

Wonderland really hit me on today’s listen

Posted by: jlj 21st October 2020, 12:16 AM

#63 on UK iTunes! The deluxe is currently £5.99

Posted by: ...ready for it 21st October 2020, 02:58 AM

I just got the vinyl for this today.

Posted by: ...ready for it 22nd October 2020, 07:44 PM

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Posted by: ...ready for it 24th October 2020, 02:45 AM

1989 won Buzzjack's Ultimate Album!

Posted by: Fallin' Folklore 24th October 2020, 10:52 PM

Iconic The way Taylor keeps slaying on here this year

Posted by: ...ready for it 7th November 2020, 10:07 PM

1989 is six years old!

Posted by: UltraEvermore 8th January 2021, 07:00 PM

Out Of The Woods and Welcome To New York both certified silver today!!

Posted by: LondonN11 9th January 2021, 01:00 AM

This is still my favourite album... just...❤️

Posted by: ...ready for it 8th May 2021, 07:36 AM

10 facts about the Shake It Off video: https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2566381/taylor-swift-shake-it-off--behind-the-scenes-facts-about-music-video-1989-album

Posted by: Run_For_Cover 28th December 2021, 10:48 AM

Second album done.

I went into 1989 expecting it to be a fully fledged pop record and I don’t think I was wrong.

It sure is a departure from Speak Now (and her first two albums which I haven’t heard for about a decade).

Overall I really enjoyed it and I even like Shake It Iff more than I did before.

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Posted by: Run_For_Cover 28th December 2021, 10:20 PM

I think 1989 is her highest selling in Australia. I’m pretty sure it’s certified Diamond.

Posted by: Run_For_Cover 28th December 2021, 10:22 PM

It’ll be either Fearless TV or Red TV next I can’t decide. Will probably,y wait til the new year to start though.

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Posted by: DanielSwift 15th September 2023, 05:02 PM

"Style" has re-entered this week's chart at #93. Its first appearance in the chart since July 2015.