Demi Lovato - Anyone (Lyric Video) jW3aJ-3SEVU. Love – especially when it cools – changes everything.158 likes. When she gets to end of it, you hear her lost to her heartbreak: “I'd like to be my old self again/But I'm still trying to find it”. It’s little surprise the original cut was 10 minutes long the song is cinematic, with a touch of Raymond Carver in the sparse, classically American lyrics. Her voice trembles with pain, and the song, which starts sparse, swells and hardens up like a lump in the throat. Jake Gyllenhaal, you realise, really broke her heart. Having it on doesn’t feel so much like listening as eavesdropping: other ruminations in her back catalogue are broader, relatable, but here we’re hearing her specific turmoil. She sounds like she’s singing right from the bones and it’s searingly, uncomfortably intimate. Though it takes a handful of listens at least to ‘get’ this track, it’s worn out and weary and the hurt goes deep.
If you want another fill of the good stuff, put on Fearless, which is just a little less catchy but with a better guitar solo.Įveryone jokes about the lost scarf, but this is Swift’s most sincere tale of heartbreak. But, in the end, it’s catchy, sweetly endearing and you’ll be singing along merrily. It’s far from perfect: the lyrics are her corniest, the premise is cliched and the country embellishments have been tactlessly tacked on as if purely to placate the country audience. There are all the elements needed: crashing guitars, unrequited love, a little teenage angst.
It’s also wonderfully full Taylor: she plays the self-deprecating dork in love with her best friend, and the video is completely, brilliantly hysterical.
It’s sometimes criticised for being too similar to her other early hits but in truth, it’s just the best example of them. On Red, there’s Holy Ground, before that was Speak Now’s girl-breaking-free-to-rule-the-world Long Live and before that was You Belong With Me on Fearless. Taylor has a long-standing love affair with power chords a& pop-punk goodness. Oh, and look out for her slip up at 3.40, it’s hilarious. The video is a work of art too, introducing the world to the ‘new Taylor’ – before the new Taylor became the old, dead Taylor. Hilariously, the key line (“Got a long list of ex-lovers/They'll tell you I'm insane”) has often been misheard – including by her own mother – as “all the lonely Starbucks lovers”, which rather changes the point somewhat. Blank Space also marks the beginning of Swift sending herself up in it, she satirises her media image as a man-obsessed, relationship addicted nightmare who serially dates for songwriting material. The genius here in is Swift’s vocals, which are catchy enough that the whole thing seems to be one long chorus. The song in itself is actually surprisingly slow-moving chords are long, drawn-out and the drums snap but are unhurried. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTīlank Space is a minimalist masterpiece that paradoxically is crammed with hooks (something she manages again, like a magic trick, on Clean).Save The Children BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.