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Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

Taylor swift's "Love Story" is the radio 2 record of the week.
Gorgeous
WhaT do you guys think of it?

Ian Robinson · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:31 am Post subject:

I really like it. I've got her first album, which is enjoyable enough. Sounds a bit like early Avril Lavigne tinged with a bit of country. Which is no bad thing!

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

"It's country, Hank, but not as we know it"

Another run-of-the-mill country/pop singer, formula song, key change three quarters of the way through. It has been No 1 in the US country chart for 14 weeks.

It's OK, but if they couldn't break Carrie Underwood in this country with this sort of stuff, there's no chance for Taylor Swift.
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Ian Robinson · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject:

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John H · Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Posts: 36

Taylor's CD Fearless is another album I have acquired recently and I like it a lot.I was sold on it by the TV ad-up till then I had never heard of her-but now I have the CD and recognise her for the major talent that she is.I hear she will be making a big screen appearance soon in the forthcoming Hannah Montana movie.

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Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

Taylor Swift is doing a couple of gigs at the shepherds bush empire in May/ I look forward to seeing her live (again) Very Happy

John H · Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Posts: 36

If she is touring in addition to those London gigs then I would certainly be interested in checking out her live show.

John H

Briant · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:06 pm Post subject: Taylor or Norah?

Taylor is not my cup of tea from what I have heard of her, but she is featured in this months CMP magazine (or 'Country' as it is now called), with a big article and photo spread for anyone who may be interested.
Meanwhile, back to my DVD of Norah Jones 'Live in Nashville.' Now that's what I call a talent! What a sublime band she has too in The Handsome Family. Dolly Parton joins Norah for one number as do Gillian Welch and David Rawlings for a later song in the concert. Laughing

colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

Briant · Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject:

That should be the Handsome Band with Norah. Yes she is a beautiful lady too! I saw her in Manchester a year or three back . She surprised us by playing guitar for the first part of the concert before playing the piano after a short interval, for the rest of the show. I first saw her on TV in Jools Holland's programme in 2002. I was knocked out by her Peggy Lee like vocals and her performance of the Hank Williams song 'Cold cold heart.'

colby · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 1216

She's very, very talented. Isn't she married to Elvis Costello?
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Briant · Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:44 pm Post subject:

Elvis Costello is married to Diana Krall, I believe.

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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

This thread appears to have sprouted offshoots Smile

For what it's worth, and purely personal observations...

Diana Krall, who is married to Elvis Costello, has a lovely singing voice and produces highly polished CDs, the latest of which, Quiet Nights, out on June 1st, sounds very lounge and latino.

Norah Jones has a lovely singing voice and is the daughter of Ravi Shankar. She produces nice but sleep-inducing records.

To bring us back to topic, Taylor Swift has no famous lineage that I know of, looks very photogenic and is a triumph of marketing over substance. Her current album is a bestseller in the USA and her record label, Universal, have made sure that its release in this country has been accompanied by high profile exposure in all the music magazines and some of the broadsheets. Love Story is an annoyingly catchy single which has been played to death on both Radio 1 and 2; there is nothing else on the album to come anywhere near it - in fact the album is full of boringly homogenous pop only partially redeemed by the inclusion of three more country-sounding tracks transplanted from her first album.
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