[Shaun]

oh I posted a new thread for it sorry didn't know this existed lol

[Jarrod]

Originally Posted by Shaun

oh I posted a new thread for it sorry didn't know this existed lol

Ah, that's okay! Shall I ask them to be merged?

[Shaun]

yeah if you want! but if it goes to #1 i'm getting the credit

[Jarrod]

Originally Posted by Shaun

yeah if you want! but if it goes to #1 i'm getting the credit

I've pre-ordered the album

[Jarrod]

Small bump.

[Jarrod]

It's just amazing every time I listen

[Jarrod]

It's still as catchy as the first time I heard it.

[Jarrod]

5 Things to expect from 1989

1. A New York state of mind
The leadoff track on 1989 tries to capture the excitement of someone who just moved to New York, as Swift did earlier this year. "I was so intimidated by this city for so long," she says. "It's so big, with so many people. I thought I would never be able to make it here, because I wasn't something enough — bold enough, brave enough to take on this huge city in all of its blaring honesty. And then at a certain point I just thought, 'I'm ready.'"

2. Lots of Max Martin
The Swedish pop giant, with help from his protege Shellback, produced almost half the songs on 1989, and is also, along with Swift, the executive producer of the album as a whole. Swift has worked with him before, on 2012's Red, but he plays a much bigger role this time around. "I used to talk about Max Martin like he was this sorcerer who lived in a castle on a hill," says Swift. "And then one time Scott [Borchetta, the head of her label] said to me, ‘You know...you can work with him if you want to.' I was like, What?!"

3. A Fine Young Cannibals vibe
Swift's pal Jack Antonoff, who co-wrote and co-produced two songs on her album, says he and Swift shared a serious bonding moment over the Eighties pop group that had their biggest hit in 1989. "The moment when we shifted from friendship into working together was when we were talking about the snare drum on Fine Young Cannibals' ‘She Drives Me Crazy,'" Antonoff says. "Taylor brought it up first, and I was like, 'Holy ****, you're not going to believe this: I just sampled that snare in a track.' I played her one second of it on my iPhone, and she was like, ‘Send me that track.' That became a song called ‘I Wish You Would.'" "I really think 'She Drives Me Crazy' could be on the radio now," says Swift. "It's that timeless."

4. Some classic T-Swift journaling
One song was taken straight from the pages of Swift's journal, and another, "Out of the Woods," sounds like it could have been. "The thing I love about that song," says Antonoff, who co-wrote it, "is parts of it reads like a diary, and parts of it read like something 100,000 people should be screaming all together. It's got these very big lines that everybody can relate to, which are given weight by her being really honest about personal things."

5. A spirit of discovery
Maybe the biggest influence that 1989 had on 1989 was what Swift, who was born that year, describes as a feeling of freedom. "It was a very experimental time in pop music," she says. "People realized songs didn't have to be this standard drums-guitar-bass-whatever. We can make a song with synths and a drum pad. We can do group vocals the entire song. We can do so many different things. And I think what you saw happening with music was also happening in our culture, where people were just wearing whatever crazy colors they wanted to, because why not? There just seemed to be this energy about endless opportunities, endless possibilities, endless ways you could live your life. And so with this record, I thought, 'There are no rules to this. I don't need to use the same musicians I've used, or the same band, or the same producers, or the same formula. I can make whatever record I want.'"

[Jarrod]

Taylor has released a countdown song from 1989, called Out of the Woods

http://www.justjaredjr.com/2014/10/1...ds-listen-now/

[Jarrod]

Track 1 of 1989 will be available to everyone who has pre-ordered 1989 from midnight!

[andybigbro]

I've heard the album, and tbh I'm disappointed.

I miss her older sound she too "pop" now.

[Jarrod]

The fantastic new album has been released!

[LukeB]

i love the album

[Jarrod]

Taylor has released the video for Blank Space!

Youtube video

[Jarrod]

Not here for the lack of love for Blank Space

[LukeB]

1989 = Best Album of the year

[Black Dagger]

Blank Space

[Jords]

Bad Blood

[LukeB]

I want Taylor Swift back on Spotify </3 it sucks when I put shuffle mode on I won't hear any of her songs

[Jarrod]

I'm so so excited because this is my favourite song on 1989... Taylor's third single will be STYLE! I cannot wait for the music video!

I actually think it's got the potential to be Taylor's first UK #1 single.

[Shaun]

I heard this a few days ago. Great decision

[Smithy]

I was gonna post it the other day, but it's literally nowhere online, it's not on youtube or tumblr, her team are on poinT taking down unauthorised streaming

[Jarrod]

Originally Posted by Smithy

I was gonna post it the other day, but it's literally nowhere online, it's not on youtube or tumblr, her team are on poinT taking down unauthorised streaming

The music video should be due very soon considering it's released as a single on Feb 9th.

[LukeB]

Style is my fav

[Jarrod]

Anyone else agree with me that this could be her first UK #1?