Taylor Swift singing "Tonight"... — Page 2

Taylor Swift basically did what she could with it. I'm not mad at her. She's just...a very poor singer, so it was doomed to sucking from its very inception. (Gabe Saporta is also a poor singer, but it doesn't matter because he's not earnestly belting a ballad from a Taxi cab. I mean, I'd love to see it, but I don't think it'd come off very well. brb, listening to Hot Mess now.)

Taylor only sounds good on her cds. Even when she performs her songs live, it's shaky.

Here's the Cobra Starship one:
It's not half bad.

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Amen BettyBoy!

The Cobra Starship/Leighton Meester promo is actually really awesome.

Taylor Swift's is eh, but I'm not a fan of hers.

I'm more happy that the theme of the awards advertising campaign is inexplicably WSS.

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I can't stand the new, poorly written lyrics. What's up with the random "don't stop at any red lights" lyric? I know it's saying she wants to get there fast, but it's just too random. The first time watching it, I was too distracted by her annoying voice to notice lyric changes, if that says anything. And to the people saying everybody knows WSS, in Spanish class last year, we watched a very stupid video involving somebody asking people in Mexico for their names, and he had to find four Marias. Of course, he started singing "Maria" when he couldn't find anybody. I was the only person in my whole class who got the reference. Most people I know have heard of very few musicals, and although they probably heard of WSS, a lot of them haven't seen it. My main suggestion for her would be if she has no vibrato, not to hold notes out for longer than they need to be held. I know the last "Tonight" needs to be held out, but if she just shortened the rest of the notes a fraction of a second, it would be much more pleasant. If only the lyricist for the closing song at the Tony's did these, then the lyrics wouldn't be as annoying.

"Each artist collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights) to rework the lyrics to make them more VMA-specific."

I agree the Cobra Starship promo is wonderful. Too bad Lin-Manuel crapped the bed on the re-writes for Taylor Swift. Hers were awful! He got paid for that? Yikes.

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Up next is Katy Perry.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay.cfm?colid=65045

ETA: She seems kind of stupid...

Updated On: 8/18/09 at 01:51 AM

She did the best she could do with that song. When it comes down to it the song is just to big for her little voice. They should of had her sing something more flattering for her voice. It kinda bothered me that she has no vibrato at all. It wasn't horrible by any means tho. I'm glad they actually took the risk of using show tunes tho!

Updated On: 8/18/09 at 01:41 PM

I'm very excited to see the Katy Perry as Anita promo, love her.

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Yucky.

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