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I don't think I Knew You Were Trouble got its own thread, but this is my favourite song of the year and it deserves one. PERFECT.

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This needs to be massive. It's every bit as catchy as WANEGBT and it's euphoric. Clubs are finally starting to play it and the reaction is incroyable. Everyone loves it, whether you're twenty-two, twenty TOO or just plain anything.

If the 90s had Smells Like Teen Spirit, we have 22.
 
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I find it unbearable. The 'hipster' references are getting so old now.

But then I came across THIS:
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I love it so much! :D
 
This little slut got very old very quickly. I can imagine her at the age of 50 still singing about how she waved to a guy and he didn't wave back.
 
I don't think that's the case of all. Red (the album, and the song) proves that she's perfectly capable of progressing beyond the teeny girl-who-sings-about-her-crushes image. State of Grace is worlds away from We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, although both are obviously fantastic in their own way.
 
It feels like a song I would love if I was still 16.

Now, it's like nails on a chalkboard. Her vocals with the vacuously schmaltzy tone/lyrics is not a good combination.
 
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It's a song I imagine you would love if your favourite film is Juno, and you enjoy throwing pajama parties and watching endless reruns of Friends.
 
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can everyone please refer to her as "that little cameltoe" from now please?

i have yet to hear a taylor swift song and remember it apart from wanegbt which i pray to forget

i'm actually perfectly prepared to like her but haven't really had anything to clutch at
 
Someone tell this boring bitch that its 16, 18 and 21 that are supposed tombe significant and not 22, she cant just go around inventing shit. But that s beside the point because the song is terrible.
 
Is she ACTUALLY 22?! I thought she was 14

Anyway, I have no time for this bitch as a pop star, but this is the second song I can actually hum of hers after that last one she did that sounded similar. It's not a bad song. 7/10 and I am feeling generous
 
Despite the fact that it sounds like the 4th single from a not-very-good Avril Lavigne album (ie. all of them apart from 'Let Go'), I really quite like it.
 
I thought that last one about never ever ever ever ever, like everrrr getting back together sounded more Avril
 
awful in every way

Low rate crap pop song which is just "Raise Your Glass" with different lyrics, and WHAT lyrics! She should be above this TRITE. Absolutely the worst single released from this era so far. It's a DISGRACE she released this and now wants that Ed Sheeran duet as singles while Stage Of Grace and Red remain as album tracks. STUPID COW.
 
It's typical of her really - she always spunks the best song first and its diminishing returns from there. She's still a lot more fun than a country pop waif has any right to be but her albums are patchier than a spaniel with alopecia.
 
chlamydia92 said:
If the 90s had Smells Like Teen Spirit, we have 22.
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:D

This reminds me of the time I described Honey to the Bee by Billie Piper as "The sound of pure SEX".

If ever there was a giveaway that I hadn't actually HAD IT...
 
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Anyway this song is terrible. I still don't get this girl. A couple of clever-than-average lyrical couplets and people who really should know better come over like she's some kind of songwriting genius for our times.

More like an IDIOT SAVANT at BEST.
 
I don't really know anyone that RAVES about her. I don't think there's anything more to it than she's released a few catchy pop songs and she's pretty much got the teen pop female market to herself. She really has no rival to speak of...
 
She definitely gets a few good reviews from (ironically) hipster-ish press outlets that wouldn't normally give a fairly basic, transient pop star the time of day.
 
Well, she IS quite a good songwriter and very self-aware (hasn't she derided herself in two of her last three singles?) - that sort of stuff always goes down well with people who'd generally turn their nose up at her. Admittedly on the basis of the last few singles you wouldn't think she's anything special from a lyrical point of view, but generally I think she has that very good country music sense of being able to tell a vivid story through her songs.
 
Yeah well Taylor may be all cocky about being 22 NOW, but let's not forget what comes next...

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VoR said:
She definitely gets a few good reviews from (ironically) hipster-ish press outlets that wouldn't normally give a fairly basic, transient pop star the time of day.
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I think that's because she is that bit better than the usual fairly basic, transient pop star. She writes/co-writes all her songs which disallows certain critical tropes. And, 4 albums in, can she be called transient?

I'm waiting for the return to the acoustic/country roots and I expect it'll happen as soon as the sales start to wobble a little; it's the perfect strategy for getting out of the marketplace with some credibility, one that, just as an example, Katy Perry doesn't have.
 
Still think that this is crap and feel somewhat vindicated that it stalled at #20 in the States and outside the top ten at pop radio. WANGBT worked because it was kitschy, self-aware and a pop culture moment. IKYWT had an accessible hook yet its own idiosyncrasies to make it a distinctive, catchy pop record. 22 is just a flat, by-the-numbers Max Martin track.

Bring on "Red" or "State of Grace" for single #4, please.
 
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VoR said:
:D

This reminds me of the time I described Honey to the Bee by Billie Piper as "The sound of pure SEX".

If ever there was a giveaway that I hadn't actually HAD IT...
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And now?
 
State of Grace should not be a single. It's perfect and doesn't need to be tainted by a low chart performance which will inevitably happen if they release it.

They should push 22 hard, make it a megahit and then release Red or Starlight.
 
Surely the top score should have been 22.

The chorus is fine if you like that sort of thing, but she's so irksome, bless her.
 
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