So that thing about Taylor Swift going dubstep? It’s true, and the proof is here. This morning on Good Morning America, Taylor previewed a snippet of “I Knew You Were Trouble,” a song that she says this is one of her favorites on the album, because “It sounds just as chaotic as the feeling was when I wrote it. It’s a song about kind of being frustrated with yourself, because here you are heartbroken, and you knew when you first saw that person, you saw all these red flags and you just went for it anyway.” And that chaos is palpable in even these first twenty seconds of the song, as her gut-wrenching confession gives way to a big ole’, gut-punching bass drop. No shame, Taylor, your dubstep game is so real.
“I knew you were trouble when you walked in, so shame on me know,” she sings, the piano line growing bigger and more industrial until — boom, it all drops and through the quiver of autotune she sings: “Now I’m lying on the cold hard ground, trouble trouble trouble.” This sort of emotionally manipulative drop is something we’ve come to expect from pop stars these days (think Britney Spears‘ “Till The World Ends,” think Justin Bieber‘s “All Around The World”), and while we hadn’t exactly anticipated it from a country princess, it definitely works here to highlight the devastation Taylor was feeling after whichever breakup (Jake? John?).
We will reserve full judgment until the song is made available on iTunes tonight at midnight. But until then, what do you think of Taylor’s dubstep game?
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