TAYLOR SWIFT - Tiny Desk Concert
Added 2024-02-17 00:00:05 +0000 UTCShort, Intimate Show with a wonderful look into her process and her fun stylings... Great Show!!
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LOL!! I actually agree 100%.. She does make things look effortless, and that is the beauty of true artists, you make it work..
LK Robinson
2024-02-18 13:06:31 +0000 UTCTo clarify—“State of Grace” is A favorite of mine, not my ultimate favorite. That would be “Forever Winter”…which is also on Red…haha. It’s one I’m always reluctant to request, though, because it needs some trigger warnings on it for suicide and substance abuse. It’s about a friend she lost to a drug overdose (possible suicide). The comments on it are full of people saying the song snapped them out of it and made them realize there are people who would miss them if they were gone. So Red has some INCREDIBLE songs… but it’s a 30-song album full of different styles and moods and such. And it’s really, REALLY interesting… But the people who LOVE “All Too Well” often absolutely hate “Stay, Stay, Stay” (which I actually like…it’s silly and fun). It’s got some of those country songs to croon into your cup at the bar that you hate, but it’s also got “Red” and “State of Grace” which you seemed to really enjoy. One of those albums where it’s really a grab bag, y’know? Sometimes you’ll pull out “The Last Time” and sometimes you’ll grab “Girl At Home”, and both are some fan’s favorite…AND someone else’s least favorite. That’s my experience, anyhow.
Morgan Bauman
2024-02-18 01:16:33 +0000 UTCAlso, I love how Taylor made the tech limitations of the tiny desk work for her so effortlessly. You can tell if you watch close that she tries belting into the mic once and realizes it can't handle the volume without flattening the sound, so on the fly she changed all her belting notes in the songs into this soft, tender thing that makes it feel really unique and intimate. I've heard that this is an ongoing problem for tiny desk and most artists just push through it instead of changing their song arrangements on the fly. But Taylor does a LOT of different arrangements for her songs, so she made it look so dang easy. Made it into a feature instead of a bug, y'know? I get the feeling also that the mics are ones optimized for lower voices; every mic has a different skillset, so to speak. I was just researching that today while debating whether I ought to actually take a crack at making music, haha. But she made it work for her! I also love her humor about things. At one point, technical difficulties on the Eras Tour meant nobody in the audience could hear her piano. She didn't want everybody bored while they fixed it, so she started telling terrible jokes. (I thought they were hilarious, personally.) She also makes fun of herself in songs and doesn't take herself too seriously. Some people can't take it as tongue in cheek, though, and think she means it (despite the eyerolls and winks and stuff in performances...) so they say she's a narcissist. Sigh. Anyhow. I just realized I never hit send on this. Whoops! Haha,
Morgan Bauman
2024-02-17 02:51:10 +0000 UTCRed is an AWFULLY long album, too. It's a great album, but it's also very...hit or miss throughout the album? It's super experimental, comparatively, since she REALLY wanted to move on to pop, but her label was insisting on a country album... So it's about half country, half pop, half don't-know-what (three halves since some songs are a mix of two or even all three). It's a good one, but I don't think anybody likes every song on it, you know? But everybody seems to come away with something they LOVE, despite that? So it's like... One of those albums with something for everyone, a trove of hidden gems, but since it's got songs for every stripe, it's not sonically cohesive, and it has skips for everybody, too. In fact, the only skip I have in Taylor's whole discography is on Red (because I cannot STAND the voice of the person doing a duet with her, honestly, nails on a chalkboard to me, personally, no offense to the man or anything, just not my style). But it means that most fans have a favorite on Red no matter which album is their favorite, I think? So it means if they're suggesting songs, most of them will have a song off Red that they love. (I sent one to you way back when that you did, actually; "State of Grace" after you said you liked the groove of "Red".) Does that make sense?
Morgan Bauman
2024-02-17 02:03:59 +0000 UTC
