You know how much a song means for someone when you go to its KZfaq video and see lots of comments of people saying how the song reignited their hearts as well as those of the beloved ones they lost. =,) Also, I miss my mom and dad. They're 3922 km away from me right now.

very honest and intelligent comment. I agree.

Johnny Cash: “Hurt” is … awright. I wept like a child first time I heard that. This is *almost* in the same league as MeatLoaf… in his dreams. I mean, it was a good cover, but give me MeatLoaf’s cover of Gershwin’s “Somebody Loves Me” on the Larry Adler album as a cover, any day. Setting the bar there, let me know if anyone can beat it.

He was very sick when he sang this on Conan. And he was classically trained.

I once saw an ice skater perform ( or actually compete) to this song. It was so powerful! I think the recorded version was a bit faster. I am old enough to remember the Simon and Garfunkel original, which I adored, but I find this very moving as well.

I mean... hard to beat the original. But I do love this version. They do have a couple of songs off the most recent album that do pretty much what you're asking for. I love SoaD and Linkin Park... and Disturbed. Not my favorite bands and there are definitely newer metal bands that are doing things better today... but I think that stuff had some merit to it.

I prefer Carolina too...but it most a negligent preference, they are both gorgeous. Carolina is just closer to her more mature work that I fell in love with first. I really love the collab with The Civil Wars here though. And it's really cool to note that even though they had gotten divorced in the meantime, both artists came back to rerecord this with Taylor in late 2021 😊

I don't think your mike is working can't hear you

Oh I FULLY agree with you! It's crazy to note, all those singles that kept so many of us away from her actual work were punted by her old music label that fked her over. Imagine promoting Look What You Made Me Do (I'm completely ambivalent about this song, don't hate it anywhere near as much as I hate Shake It Off) over songs like Don't Blame Me, Ready for It, or I Did Something Bad from that same album (Reputation). And why would you poison the bible of modern pop albums that is 1989 with a HORRIFIC single like Shake It Off when that album has BANGERS like Clean, Out Of The Woods, Style, Wildest Dreams, heck, even Blank Space on it? I also absolutely wouldn't have chosen Fortnight as the first single from TTPD... But the music video is so damn impactful that I can get over it. Yeah, the publicity machine is one aspect of the Swift brand that I don't love or even always understand. I highly suspect that she personally makes that compromise with the MASSIVE fluff pop hits so that she can literally do almost whatever the fk else she wants on the rest of the albums and her fans will still follow her.

Love your reactions! Agree with you, I knew some earlier more country songs of Taylor back in 2011 that I liked, but then didn't really listen to her for quite some time and she really got me when I listened to Folklore and Evermore

Very awkward but that tension created some great memory and killer performances. Life doesn’t imitate art it creates it

Taylor is a multi genre artist. This original song was a single back in 2012 2013 when The Hunger Games movies came out and had a music video. So, you can't say all her music singles are like look what you made me do. Cardigan and Willow and early on was Back to december and begin again were singles and videos. The problem with artsy kind of people, sometimes they are really pretentious and picky about what is considered good music and just judge something by one or two singles and then throw it away saying it is not worthy without going deeper into the catalog.

Brazil mentioned, we were summoned.

The Rage was their tip-of-the-hats to Simon and Garfunkel' Sound Of Silence. BTW, if you're not reading Neil's lyrics, you're missing fully HALF the experience!

Steve Gaines’ sister Cassie was part of the backing vocals and this is my favorite song for them. Really piercing and strong.

One thing the stones had that the Beatles didn’t was longevity. For me they stopped being relevant by the 80s but they changed multiple times in the late 60s and all of the 70s and still just made great rock and roll. some girls is one of my favorites and so is exile on Main Street, two totally different sounds.

If you can believe it, when they started out together the stones were poncey uni types and the Beatles were the drunk roughhousers. Lemmy Kilmeister famously tagged them as such and said the Beatles were the far harder group in the beginning. The stones caught up tho lol.

This type of song from her reminds me of that sultry songstress from the eighties 'Ricky Lee Jones'.

It's a shit

I'm sure someone may have mentioned but the 'clean' version of Down Bad is also a banger! She fully recorded a version with 'What if' in place of 'Fuck it,' and the meaning is just as interesting. 'What if I was in love... what if I can't have us' doesn't hit as hard, but it's much more powerful than bleeping it, like you said :)

This is basically one of her masterpieces as far as I'm concerned. Absolutely beautiful song!❤

Idbe interested in what you think about her song Marjorie. It's about her grandmother, who was an opera singer. It even includes a bit of her grandmother singing.

On a personal level, this came out shortly after my husband passed suddenly and I was left isolated on the farm he wanted with a baby. This haunting melody helped me emotionally and was beautiful to rock my son to. It holds a special spot in my broken yet healing heart.

Se voce souber, pq na sua lingua, isso é distante na tradução da musica. Ela é feita em proparoxitonas e em versos alexandrinos. Além da genialidade do que é contado, ela tem uma riqueza poética inigualavel. Chico Buarque é o maior do mundo, ele consegue juntar a critica no lugar mais infimo com a grandeza poética de Camões.

This has been one my favorite songs for years. Not just of Taylor's but in general. It gets slept on so much.

Taylor has a ton of range and even if someone doesn’t like ANY of her songs, I think she should be respected for that fact alone, and also for the way she has taken control of not just her own business (because she is a business and she absolutely runs it) but the way she has taken control of the entire entertainment business. She is incredibly strategic and has affected the back end of the media business for all artists.

I hate to be *THAT* person, but you're hatred towards her songs like "Shake it Off" seems very unwarranted and forced. It makes me wonder what you think a GOOD pop song is? Most pop music isn't lyrically complex because it's made for radio play. I get not liking that type of music, but it is pop-perfection as far as I'm concerned. Catchy lyrics with fun danceable production. However, Shake it off isn't as lyrically unprofound as you might think. Taylor Swift is probably the most ridiculed celebrity that there ever was. Shake it off was her first little dig at the media for how horribly they've treated her then and continue to treat her. Is it my favorite song? No. But songs like "Style" and "Wildest Dreams" are PERFECT pop songs and some of the best lyrically for radio-friendly pop music.

Notice that the worker aways end up dead.

Mark, I’m gonna be honest: I did not fucking like you. Pretty sure I’ve left at least one comment chewing you the fuck out. I wasn’t gonna watch anything from you ever again. And then I did when you did another Taylor video. And then another. And as you changed and slowly started seeing more than just her pop bullshit and started liking it, I started seeing you differently too. And actually grown to really like you back. Pretty sure I’ve also left a comment apologizing for that first comment. And I see that you really do appreciate her genuinely good songs and her songwriting, and find it’s totally cool if something of Taylor’s isn’t your jam or you have real constructive criticism. I actually appreciate the fuck out of that in reactors. And I just want you to know that you’re doing a good fucking job and I’ve been sitting here for the last 3 1/2 hours watching your videos back to back and am really, really enjoying it. Please keep going. Sorry for the rage comments. I promise if they stick around, they’ll feel the same as I do and come around to you too. I kind of fucking love you now. So please keep going and tune them out, because there’s far more of us that really like these videos and probably should comment more, but we’re busy just instantly clicking on the next one. So please accept this formal apology and too long of a comment in place of a small one on the last 8 videos that I didn’t comment on. ❤

Gracias amigo. El Flaco Spinetta es eterno.

I remember listening to this non stop on my mp3 player. This was also my introduction to the Civil Wars. I'm still mad about their break up

Gorgeous 🫶

Eyes Open from the same soundtrack is peak emo Taylor

I remember tears streaming down your face When I said I'll never let you go When all those shadows almost killed your light I remember you said don't leave me here alone But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight Just close your eyes, the sun is going down You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound Don't you dare look out your window, darling, everything's on fire The war outside our door keeps raging on Hold onto this lullaby even when the music's gone, gone Just close your eyes, the sun is going down You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now Come morning light, you and I'll be safe and sound Ooh (ooh) Ooh (ooh) Oh whoa (oh whoa) Oh whoa (oh whoa) Ooh (ooh) Ooh (ooh) Oh whoa Oh whoa Just close your eyes You'll be alright Come morning light You and I'll be safe and sound Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh

Oh yeah! This is a great one!❤

Great reaction.

The Civil Wars were not married to each other, they both were married to other people.

Taylor did two songs for the Hunger Games, this one, and Eyes Open.

haha 😅 Safe and Sound was the only song i actively listened to by her when i was still a "hater" back in the day. This year i fell down the rabbit hole and went through her whole discography. I LOVE Look What You Made Me Do. The music video is iconic, but moreso if you actually understand the backstory. The absolutely VILE things Kanye & Kim did, and then the response, social media cleared, replaced by snakes. 🐍 All the music videos from the Reputation album. The Reputation Tour!! 😍 absolutely amazing. Some of us just like it all. I listen to pretty much every genre imaginable. Top 40's pop was the one i avoided the most throughout most of my life. I grew up loving pop punk, hardcore/ postcore, musicals, and 40's - 50's music. I do like some pop from the 90's - 2000's but for the most part i still don't gravitate towards top 40's radio pop. I only started really listening to more pop this past couple years. Look What You Made Me Do is SO much better than Black Eyed Peas. I recommend people try listening to the Post Modern Jukebox cover of it. 🎶 i think Evermore is my fav album by her though.

I absolutely agree with your frustration, because I have it too. My least favorite songs of hers are usually what ends up being the poppy earworm singles. I think the people who say that she sucks are judging her and her work by those standards, and if that's all they know, they don't know Taylor Swift as a person or an artist at all. Great reaction as always!!! I do prefer Carolina over the two as well.

Agree and disagree. I love her songs like this but I also love the more pop ones. I understand if it's a taste thing, but I don't think it's fair to say the more pop songs are bad just because a few people don't like them. I love look what you made me do for different reasons why I like this one, because they bring different things to the table, and I think it's pointless to compare songs like that

⭐️ 100% agree and great reaction! I’ve been a new Swiftie for 1 year and have decided she’s the most misunderstood megastar in history. It’s fascinating and frustrating trying to explain her to non-fans, they just need to hear a few other songs besides Shake it Off. Fun to watch their brains explode though. 😆. Thanks again, Mark, great job.

You should watch her live performance of Safe & Sound on the eras tour in são paulo night 2! I was there and it was incredible

I’m not sure why this isn’t seen as one of her popular songs. It was in the Hunger Games movie and that was a very popular movie. There are also a ton of songs made famous by other singers that Taylor wrote.

Great review!!! I agree. She is so much more than her most popular songs. I’m not saying I don’t like a lot of her popular songs, but she is more talented and deep than I realized.

I might have liked Taylor Swift if she came out in the 60s but honestly she bores the crap out of me

I love seeing your reactions 🇧🇷❤

I absolutely adore this song especially this version

I totally agree with you, this is one of my favorites from her discography...and I enjoy her doing more songs likes this personally. Really enjoyed your reaction 😊

LOVE your reactions! I really enjoy your knowledge of music...inlearn a lot from you!