Wow. Just wow. Taylor SWIFT piano ballad version of Out of the Woods

[UTUSN]

I've never heard more than a couple of snippets of a song of hers. This (and this version) is SMASHING. One of the comments by a fan was "a lot of hype. The best is 'Wonderland' " which led me to hear out Wonderland, not to be one of MY choices albeit quality by a quality artist, but the little fly in the soup for me/Navy, was the five synchronized syncopated EH-EH-EH-EH-EH(s), neat little gimmick that works, but the video had the lyrics written and spelled as "Aye-Aye-Aye-Aye-Aye" which we all know is pronounced "EYE"!1

Now, WOW:

[UTUSN]

1. So this wonderful thing is not the album/band version. How can I get it?

This led me to look up the wide version, which is still a great thing, but the intimate, piano version is WAY my obsession (along with its own obsessiveness). So if this is a YouTube performance, it's not available on a CD? (I don't "do" iPods or MP3 or whatever all those other things are.)

This Ms SWIFT is really something (I've discovered)!1 I claim to love what is MELODY-driven, but she brings the whole package of music + LYRICS + intense/obsessive emotion. But "Blank Space" gives me a creepy vision of what scary person she might become in her older age!1

Band/album version, OUT OF THE WOODS:

Blank space:

[SwissTony]

2. i've only been vaguely aware of Ms Swift's work.

But that piano version is simply stunning.

Thank you.

[UTUSN]

3. Glad to hear a good word about it. I sent it to my e-mail pals, one of whom

is a hyper-critical, negative, hard-on-everybody-but-especially-other-women, and she replied mockingly, "I thought you liked 'melody'! I listened to the whole thing and only heard simple chords on the piano."

Perhaps the verbal introduction and the lyrics cut too close to the bone for this negative person. I find it incredible that she claims not to see the artistry of the whole thing -- the composition, the emotion, the insight, the performance.

By the bye, in looking up the Wiki on it, I found that the composer of the music was one of the dudes from the group fun., which explains a lot for my particular liking. But that he gave SWIFT the music bare bones and she wrote the lyrics like in *nothing flat*. Wow, again.

[Frank Cannon]

4. This song made me a TS fan.

That whole album is great. There's not a bad song.

People underestimate Taylor. She's actually VERY talented. And she seems like a nice person.