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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWow. Just wow. Taylor SWIFT piano ballad version of Out of the Woods
I've never heard more than a couple of snippets of a song of hers. This (and this version) is SMASHING. One of the comments by a fan was "a lot of hype. The best is 'Wonderland' " which led me to hear out Wonderland, not to be one of MY choices albeit quality by a quality artist, but the little fly in the soup for me/Navy, was the five synchronized syncopated EH-EH-EH-EH-EH(s), neat little gimmick that works, but the video had the lyrics written and spelled as "Aye-Aye-Aye-Aye-Aye" which we all know is pronounced "EYE"!1
Now, WOW:
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)This led me to look up the wide version, which is still a great thing, but the intimate, piano version is WAY my obsession (along with its own obsessiveness). So if this is a YouTube performance, it's not available on a CD? (I don't "do" iPods or MP3 or whatever all those other things are.)
This Ms SWIFT is really something (I've discovered)!1 I claim to love what is MELODY-driven, but she brings the whole package of music + LYRICS + intense/obsessive emotion. But "Blank Space" gives me a creepy vision of what scary person she might become in her older age!1
Band/album version, OUT OF THE WOODS:
Blank space:
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)But that piano version is simply stunning.
Thank you.
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)is a hyper-critical, negative, hard-on-everybody-but-especially-other-women, and she replied mockingly, "I thought you liked 'melody'! I listened to the whole thing and only heard simple chords on the piano."
Perhaps the verbal introduction and the lyrics cut too close to the bone for this negative person. I find it incredible that she claims not to see the artistry of the whole thing -- the composition, the emotion, the insight, the performance.
By the bye, in looking up the Wiki on it, I found that the composer of the music was one of the dudes from the group fun., which explains a lot for my particular liking. But that he gave SWIFT the music bare bones and she wrote the lyrics like in *nothing flat*. Wow, again.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)That whole album is great. There's not a bad song.
People underestimate Taylor. She's actually VERY talented. And she seems like a nice person.