I don’t like it. The most underwhelming song from this album so far.

Oh look, another pop song. Oh joy…

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The production of this song reminds me of Coldplay…which if I recall, isn’t country ;)

EDIT: Oops, I meant to reply to waitingforthe1 lolz

This song is a dead ringer for female alt-rock acts I was listening to in the very early 1990s.

Obviously, I liked them enough to own the CDs… and I’ll grant that although alt-rock stations seem to play an awful lot of 20-year-old recurrents, women tend to be sadly under-represented… but it still wouldn’t occur to me to turn to country radio for my fix.

I’d like “country” to remain recognizable as a musical form. Not inflexible, but recognizable. And I’d like the major crossover with alt-rock to be Americana/alt-country, where there exist common musical threads, rather than straight-up alt-rock. 

It’s not that I’m closed-minded about what genres I listen to, but that if we’re going to have radio format genres at all, I’d like to be able to count on those genres as an organizing principle in deciding what station I want to hear right now. Otherwise, I might as well stick tightly to the Jack station.

I really like it, and I’m not too concerned about whether it’s country or not.  My i-pod probably includes just about every genre with the exception of metal.  My metal days are long over. ;)

I like Taylor, too, and she has a much more grown up sound on this type of song.  People have been saying a LOT that she needs to get away from the teenage love song, so maybe that’s why she is releasing so many different genre-sounding type songs…testing the waters so to speak, and trying to decide which direction to go.

Anyway, she strikes me as a confident, strong young woman, and I love to support that type, but yeah, I like the music enough anyway so I’ll be buying it.

I have to say, I’m liking Taylor now that she’s not doing the country thing. I knock country down alot, but when you live in a rural community down in Arkansas like I do, you will understand. It is all people listen too. And my friends are obsessed with country music.

This will be her strongest album I think; her experiment is paying off.

Luke’s mentioned he’s headed into the studio in November I think. 

As far as the Taylor/country thing, I’m at the point where I don’t get why it’s even an argument anymore. IMO it’s very clear Taylor’s getting her biggest inspirations for her last couple of albums from outside the country world. If that’s how she’s going to grow as an artist, then good for her because at least she’s growing as an artist! Too, when you listen her voice and phrasing, you can tell she’s best suited to the coffeehouse pop stuff where she can sing lighter. 

The new EW has a review up of Red the album and gives it a B+. I didn’t know 22 is also produced by Max Martin (that’s what the review says). The review describes it as a fizzy pop song about girlfriends getting together and dancing away their memories of exes and it’s apparently really catchy. The review also mentions All Too Well which Taylor cowrote with Liz Rose as a highlight. It’s apparently a really sad acoustic ballad where Taylor reminisces and mourns about a relationship. That doesn’t sound new but, some of the details mentioned seem well observed, like a scarf she left with the ex’s sister that he hasn’t returned. The review also mentions Treacherous which apparently has a line that goes “I’ll do anything you say if you say it with your hands”. I think that’s the song she wrote with Dan Wilson. 

All Too Well sounds like it’ll be that song that I find on each of Taylor’s albums that IMO’s worthy of the fuss. Most of her stuff isn’t for me but there’s usually a track or two on each album I dig.