Who knew Taylor Swift would bring me back to this site

Album Rating: 4.5

I think she should only release 10-minute songs from now on. Swifties have no rush.

Album Rating: 3.0

Is it just me or is the redone chorus on We Are Never Ever... really grating?

I remember saying on an old account I had on here around the time of 1989 that Red was her best and people got really mad at me lol

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah the second “weee” in that song is mixed way too high. I laughed the first time I heard it

Album Rating: 4.0

Original ruled and so does this

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

“ Maybe unpopular opinion, but I definitely prefer the original version of All Too Well.”



Yeah seriously, it’s the only reason I didn’t 5 this. The part where she belts YOU CALL ME UP AGAIN JUST TO BREAK ME LIKE A PROMISE has so much impact and passion behind it, but the new versions are meh and totally anticlimactic

Album Rating: 4.0

"Who knew Taylor Swift would bring me back to this site"



Oh shit, definitely didn't expect to see you here

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"Is it just me or is the redone chorus on We Are Never Ever... really grating?"
I mean... Wasn't it always?

original was probably her best pop song, so no fuck off

No no fuck YOU Johnny her best pop song is uhhh

You know what this isnt my thread good review Sowing goodbye everyobe

NO come back and FINISH THAT THIRD COMMENT literally how dare

shaking

Alright you little dingleberry you you wanna know ok you wanna fucking know it's-

Album Rating: 4.0

-You Belong with Me



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Incredible review sow. That first paragraph is super interesting. I had no idea

Album Rating: 2.0

original we are never... was awful

this one is even worse !

"I mean... Wasn't it always?"

Yes. Yes it was.

Great review. I'm looking forward to hearing the whole thing, but I must say I was rather disappointed in the 10-minute version of All Too Well. I've read comments of people praising it saying that it sounds like a journal entry, but that's the problem. The art of music (or poetry, for that matter) isn't just about writing the thoughts in your head and setting it to repetitive music--OK, Bob Dylan can do that, but he's won a Nobel... he can get away with it--but it's about crafting the music in such a way that it enhances it. The 5-minute version of All Too Well does that masterfully, especially in how it deftly handles the slow dynamic build and the addition of instrumental and harmonic ideas. The 10-minute version just sits in the mood created by the intro and just stews and meanders and really doesn't go anywhere musically. Even lyrically I'd argue that it arguably does less with more, while the original feels like such expertly-written sketches of a relationship and breakup, with each scene being so indelible because of what is (and isn't) surrounding it.

Still, I won't let my disappointment about that color my appreciation of the re-recordings and new tracks. I haven't even heard the Fearless re-recordings in full yet, but of the tracks I have heard I've been rather ambivalent. It's obviously too much to expect them to be exactly the same, but I think most of the changes have been for the worst, if only because Swift's voice, and undoubtedly herself/personality, has changed since then and there are some songs with some sentiments I just don't think she really do any more with the same youthful conviction, but that's probably to be expected to an extent.