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A lot of her songs have this tone of anxiety and need for privacy, it's cool hearing you talk about noticing it here. But her songs feel very personal like this is *our* memory, this is *my* memory, this is how *I* remember feeling. As if she really treasures (and maybe overthinks) memories because even if someone finds and twists something about her she'll always have *her* truth and the truth of those who know the truth in lyrical form.
I also recommend her rock version of we are never ever getting back together(live in 4k). It was a full band performance, but she played the electric guitar there. Also gotta agree, her lower registers are so underrated.
@Rich Max McHalliwchester I used to think that Taylor was a soprano because at the begining, she used to sing with a lot of twang (country's influence) which makes the voice sound a little bit more strident but I definitely think she is a mezzo now, a soprano wouldn't sound like that singing so low. I am a mezzo and I can sing her songs.
I really love that you are able to hear how she uses her voice and emotion as part of what makes the song what it is. A lot of people who are self proclaimed “music snobs” only listen to the production and instrumentation of her songs and dismiss them as being simple or repetitive but ignore her lyrics and the way she uses emotion in her vocal melodies to create the story coupled with the music. She’s said she wants her songs to sound like the emotion she felt when she wrote them and it’s great to see you understanding that when you’re not even listening to the fully produced version and just her and an instrument (which is arguably when she is the most vulnerable)!!! Thanks for the great reactions. I agree with everyone saying the rest of the tiny desk concert and Grammys concert and the rock version of we are never ever getting back together!! All fantastic choices. But ALSO if you can watch the Folklore long pond sessions (the stripped back versions) or just listen to the Folklore album I’d be really interested in hearing your thoughts since it’s her biggest hit with the critics and as you put it in another video “boring middle aged people” lol
You surely are so tall and handsome as hell. Haha. You should check out "we are never getting back together" live on 1989 world tour. It's a completely different version of song. And her voice is so powerful there. I think you'll love that.
"Your last few comments are really nice to hear. She's a great songwriter. I think she's been famous for so many years and people keep coming back to her because she's so genuine. Her songwriting is so relatable and honest in a way that most pop stars are not. I think the media tends to portray her as they do with most women, a lot of people don't get to see what's behind her reputation, which is incredible talent. If you want to listen to good music and great songwriting you should listen to folklore/evermore. Those are her last 2 albums she released, it's not pop music.
Your comments make perfect sense and it's interesting what you notice despite it being your first time hearing her songs. Taylor has said herself that she uses songs like photographs. And I just find it telling of your musicianship that you notice because I think non-writers (singer or not) wouldn't, and those who don't listen to a lot of her music wouldn't. She has quite a few lyrics about remembering: "hold on to the memories they will hold onto you" (new years day) "I say remember this moment in the back of mind" (long live) "I remember you took a polaroid of us, then discovered the rest of the world was black and white but we were in screaming colour"(out of the woods), "it was rare I was there I remember it all too well, wind in my hair you were there you remember it all"(all too well). It always feels as if she holds onto memories, good and bad. Her songs are like snapshots of one story or moment though this rose coloured poetic hindsight sort of view, and it's as if she's asking the person/listeners she's singing to(directly in "wildest dreams"), to do the same "I hope you remember this moment vividly, this is how I remember it, and for better or worse it's *our* memory alone". Her lyrics always feel so romantic because it feels like a detailed romantic narrative of a real story/memory without judgement. It's cool that you notice and I love hearing your thoughts!!
at 17 minutes you unlocked something that people don't realize about taylor swift: why is everyone so obsessed with her writing about her relationships?? it's very sexist and misogynistic when in fact her songwriting is immaculate.
The Man live in Paris. I love that performance. Thanks for the reaction. Also, I appreciate your take on her lyrics. I don't care if people come at me for this, but she is the best songwriter in this generation.
This performance is why I bought and started playing with an electric guitar. I still cover this song at my shows but I do it with an acoustic. Now I want to bust the electric back out haha. Thank you!
This is one of my favorites of hers, it was really nice hearing you explain some of it! You should react to Death By a Thousand Cuts and Cornelia Street live in Paris. Also... I saw you're a John Mayer fan... YOU NEED TO LISTEN to "Dear John" by Taylor Swift. She "stole" his guitar playing technique to diss him, and it's gorgeous. They dated when he was 32 and she was 19...so he definitely deserved the diss.
Its so interesting because this song (in its album form) has her heartbeat as one of the main driving percussive elements. It adds to the feeling of anxiety that's driving the song. I'm really enjoying you going through Taylor's music.. I recommend anything from the folklore/evermore era- I think you'd enjoy 'invisible string' or 'peace' based on the guitars used. The rock version of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together from the 1989 tour is spectacular too.
It's interesting how she reflects the message/lyrics of the song with the melody/singing/production. She does this in many songs but the example that comes to mind is in The Archer - the melody is liniar without any beat drop, it just builds similarly to an archer stretching a bow, mirroring the anxiety spoken about in the lyrics.
Great reaction and commentary! love hearing about the differences between acoustic and electric and little things like that as you watch etc I recommend reacting to Taylor Swift the Making of a song: King of my heart which shows a bit of her song writing process, she starts out writing on electric guitar, would love to hear your thoughts on it
I'm not sure if you know much about her having to re-record her first 6 albums but she just early released Widest Dreams, which amazingly includes her own heartbeat as the bass beat for the song, so she now owns her own heartbeat! Just thought you'd like to know & maybe take a listen! Thanks for the always great reaction!
There was a museum exhibit called "The Taylor Swift Experience" that toured different museums across the country in 2015. Costumes, photos, videos, instruments, recordings, etc. It was curated and put together by the Grammy Museum, which was the final tour stop; I think it started in NYC. There was an earlier show at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, in 2012, celebrating her music bringing millions of people around the world to listen to country music; cashing in on her fame. Her 3d album sold over a million copies in the first week in the US; she was already a phenomenon before she went "pop." She spent $4 M on a music education center at the CMHOF about that time. Her hairstyle will tell you roughly when a performance takes place; she cut her hair to shoulder length for her 1989 album in 2014. Her hair changes a bit with every album; so does her sound. She doesn't believe in genre.
it stuff like this thats puts her at the top of pop artists and artists in general. Most pop artists are just a face and vocals these days. All engineered success
I'm not sure how many artists do a Grammy Museum thing, but for Taylor, it was essentially part of her campaign for the Grammy Awards for that album ("1989"). The Grammys didn't make the whole thing public, but we do have a 30 minute presentation on the making of the album including a bit of behind the scenes studio footage, as well as 4 performances. There were apparently 2 other songs performed but those weren't released.
You are very good at analyzing lyrics, and quick too. You might like her recent body of works folklore and evermore cause of their complex lyricism. You don't need to react to them, but they really show how much she has grown as an artist.
I love this so much!! Your reactions to her songs have been so good! I hope you also do Blank Space from this very same performance at the Grammy Museum. It has an intro where Taylor explains the song a little and you'll like it too. Also "Betty".
I personally find a lot of her songs weird. I'm like that is a weird song but I either like the music of it or her vocal on it. It sometimes seems that a song you did not like comes back a few days latter playing in your head. That's how she gets you.lol... Actually i really like this song and don't know why it never really gained any traction. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ePjcjLRHPOo.html Nobody has mentioned it but her performance of better man at the bluebird. Wow she really knocked it out of the park, like way over the fence and kind of knowing what she did, how she did it and that is where she kind of started with Big Machine and she, I mean kind of took him back there and played him better man knowing that she was going to leave. I was in tears. I mean dirt in my eye, wind blew some dirt in my eye.
I am a new swiftie myself and fell in love with her songwriting on Folklore and Evermore. Lyrically they're masterful songs. And Tolerate It on Evermore is in a weird time signature- it's like in 5 or something. There's a magic in Taylor where she can translate emotion into catchy songs that I'm wowed by. Please do more of her stuff!
Love your analyses. Yes to Betty below. I like Delicate live in Chicago.better man live in bluebird cafe. I really want you to do folklore and evermore but she doesn’t play most of the instrumentals. But…. The instrumentals and production are sooooo amazing…. As a musician I think you’d love it. Very layered snd complex instrumentals. Try Tis the Damn Season and see if you like that guitar riff. Then August, see if you like those instrumentals. I think you will.
Fantastic guitar playing and singing of your own on these videos. I am also really enjoying your musical reaction and analysis to both her musicianship and to her vocal sounds. I know you get a ton of reactions and suggestions on these, but one more I would love to hear your thoughts on is an old kind of metal song by another band which she redid in acoustic style. I'd love to see and hear your reaction to the original band's rock version and then her rendition of it. The band is called Luna Halo and the song is called Untouchable. The version she did which Is recommend was her very first performance of it 12 years ago, called Taylor Swift Stripped version of Untouchable. Here is a link it works ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yjetFVpVYYs.html And here is the original Luna Halo version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6vmVhaFDe4A.html
@@chermanentpalk thanks for your agreement with my comment! I really enjoy the thoughtful, intelligent reactions that people like Andy share on here and love to have good folks like yourself and others that support them with views and comments. I also hope at some point he is able to at least watch the Long Pond Sessions, I think he'd love the guitar skills and musicianship of Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff and Taylor on August as well as the whole thing.
You should see her music video for this song, the guy in the video is Clint Eastwood's son, also part of the video was shot in Africa. Taylor donated the proceeds of this MV to the African parks foundation.
There was a performance she did on SNL with her guitar not in standard tuning - would be great if you could react to that. The song was “Call it what you want”
Rock metal guitar player comments: It seems like Andy should have 1st watched the Wildest Dreams video: Taylor Swift plays a 1950s actress onset making a new movie and she becomes infatuated with her costar (Scott Eastwood). It's sad, it's emotional, it's a great song and companion video. This intimate live performance with just a guitar and microphone is very good, she doesn't have the benefit of vocal doubling panned left and right for the chorus like in the video, etc. but this simple production and performance is quite excellent. Andy basically "gets" the song and the sad story that the lyrics are about. I'm just saying he should watch the video, he would find it very interesting.
Loving these videos! If you like reacting to electric you might like Chloe x Halles ROYL Performance (specifically the guitar solo Halle does) or H.E.R.’s fender concert!
Like I like the song. Seven. I think it's a weird song. But I love what the piano is playing and love her vocal on it. I capo 4 and play D, C, FM7/C,G use all down strums and just match the rhythm of the piano. I can't stop once I start.
How have I never seen that performance before?! I really hope you give folklore and evermore a listen. Or if you’d prefer live performances there’s the long pond studio session on Disney+ but I’m pretty sure it’s on youtube too.
She writes most of her songs acoustically on a guitar and/or piano and wants them to be enjoyable stripped down to a single instrument which is why she incorporates the dynamics with an instrument and her vocal delivery the way she does.
The song is about a brief affair. (It is alleged she had a fling with a married man she was in a film with). Hence "no one has to know what we do". She is ok letting go and remembers and carries the passion and hope he does the same.
As far as her Guitar playing goes the bottom line is how does it sound and does it fit the song. I'd say sounds fantastic. I also think when you really think about it if you are playing a C Major and lift your middle finger you no longer are playing a C Major chord. Same thing with a F . When she Plays a G chord and moves her finger around . GM, G6,G7 ect even a few Like G 6add11. Most time a F Major7 and a F Major two different chords. So Many chords in that First position by just moving a finger or two. B11. Ah the one where you play bottom two notes of a A Major and add 3rd Fret B string There are so many Chords there I forget their names and sometimes forget they even exist. I here a lot of them in her playing. that creates the dynamics. by keeping it simple. As far as her strumming sounding the same. I hear it BUT it is her rhythmic style. I have a good friend who is a good player/singer but everything he plays sounds like the song but you here a similar rhythmic style to everything he plays.. So if you really think about to be able to come up with a accompaniment that works with a song and stay in the first position and keep it simple and make it sound so GOOD is no easy task. Most Guitar players trying to come up with a accompaniment have to move out of the Money hole to make something. She just doesn't. Her right hand rhythm is out of this world. One of the best accompaniment Acoustic player's out there. Keeping it clean and simple sounds good. Many great Guitar players can make things that a too busy and complex and loose something in that. I mean i'm just saying. What do You Think ?
I can vouch for clinging on to tall and handsome. It's kind of flattering when your university aged students crush on your husband. Bless him. He hates it
I can see how people say her songs can be repetitive, but she does it for a reason, whether it’s because she’s showing anxiety in the melody and lyrics or she will repeat something over and over but by the end she flips the narrative to complete the story or to change perspective, or she does it just to annoy an ex. 😂
Andy this is a fun one. It's a beautiful song. a must watch. So she is engaging with the audience and reading the signs they are showing her from the balcony. Then she fully engages the camera that comes in for a close up. Then she is talking to the audience and never stops playing a picking pattern. So she is doing all this while playing and singing. Everyone in the audience is shitting their pants by this point, except the one woman who is texting on her blackberry. Yea it's amazing and funny at the same time. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cQ5tlnGg4wc.html
I just liked and subscribed. Btw, if you are into indie stuff, you should check out Folklore and Evermore. They are Taylor's best albums in my opinion.
The reason you think you're having a hard time with hitting those low notes is you're trying to sing it a whole octave lower. :P But still for a mezzo soprano, hitting those notes with that kind of control is pretty great.
Btw I was HOWLERING at the 16:20 part, mainly because the characterization you did of your typical fuckboy was too on point lol Ladies if you are reading this, they always tell you nobody needs to know about you so he can keep his options open on other fronts, believe us older folks who have seen it unfold
Thanks, here's one! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qRz7Cnv5oFs.html here's a playlist of them :) ru-vid.com/group/PLMtXTG8jggdei4dohYm361Ulv3IDZyZ1q
Great video, love you vibe! Taylor Swift is definitely the reason I learnt to play guitar. I think you would like her acoustic performance of Call It What You Want on SNL: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XUfEkO5Y48I.html From her album Reputation which is bit darker and more intense than her other albums. Her guitar is in a none standard tuning in this video too ⚡️
Please react to her acoustic performance of shake it off!!! She makes this ultra pop song have a completely different feeling. Here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bt47MggFiAs.html
Wait - how is it that you "don't know anything about the Grammys"? The Grammys have only been around for 63 years - jeez! I understand that guys our age may not relate or even heard of some of the winners these days, but c'mon!
