Taylor Swift – Back to December – remix
Yes, I know Taylor Swift’s music exemplifies all that’s wrong with pop music today including the heavy reliance of pitch correction software, the run-of-the-mill chord progressions and lightweight lyrical content but dang, her current hit, Back to December just sticks to your brain and won’t let go!!!
I’m so glad you made time to see me
How’s life, tell me, how’s your family?
I haven’t seen them in a while
You’ve been good, busier than ever
We small talk, work and the weather
Your guard is up and I know why
Because the last time you saw me will still burn in the back of your mind
You gave me roses and I left them there to die
So this is me swallowing my pride,
standin’ in front of you, sayin’ I’m sorry for that night
And I go back to December all the time
It turns out freedom ain’t nothin’ but missin’ you
wishin’ I’d realized what I had when you were mine
I go back to December, turn around and make it alright
I go back to December all the time
These days I haven’t been sleepin’
Stayin’ up playin’ back myself leavin’
When your birthday passed and I didn’t call
And I think about summer, all the beautiful times
I watched you laughin’ from the passenger side and
I realized I loved you in the fall
Then the cold came, the dark days when fear crept into my mind
You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye
So this is me swallowing my pride,
standin’ in front of you, sayin’ I’m sorry for that night
And I go back to December all the time
It turns out freedom ain’t nothin’ but missin’ you
wishin’ I’d realized what I had when you were mine
I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind
I go back to December all the time
I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile
So good to me, so right
And how you held me in your arms that September night
The first time you ever saw me cry
Maybe this is wishful thinking, probably mindless dreaming
If we loved again I swear I’d love you right
I’d go back in time and change it but I can’t
So if the chain is on your door, I understand
This is me swallowing my pride,
standin’ in front of you, sayin’ I’m sorry for that night
And I go back to December…
-Taylor Swift
Here’s the remix of Back to December (8BarZ remix) [via mediafire]. It’s a pretty creative remix, I must say.
. It’s easy for anyone to categorize Swift as an over-glamorized cross-over princess, hyped up and marketed by the big corporate machine. In fact, her record label is even called “Big Machine”. heh. And yes, she’s only nineteen and her vocals on the album are auto-tuned to death. So, as you can see there’s a lot going against her at least on the surface. But interestingly enough, it turned out that I really enjoyed listening to her album these last few weeks. Forget for a minute that the corporate big-wigs are running the show and that her heavily processed vocals make her sound like all the other female pop acts on the charts. Even with all that, there still remains some credibility since she writes her own songs, plays guitar (and you know how I have a soft spot for girls with guitars!!) and is even a co-producer on her latest album.
