"One minute I'm done with you / the next one I be running back," he confesses. But it's a constant cycle of yearning and being burned. The thing is Moneybagg Yo knows his thug passion for Wockesha is problematic. "I hope I don't OD / she keep saying po' me," Yo melodically raps over the same DeBarge sample that made Biggie's "One More Chance/Stay With Me (Remix)" a hit Bad Boy ballad 26 years ago. Needless to say, it's a toxic relationship. There's a lot to be said about men gendering carnal weakness as feminine temptation, but Moneybagg Yo takes it a step further by giving his dependency a pet name: Wockesha is his lover, his therapist, his crutch - but mostly she's the lean in his styrofoam cup. Pac relied on his trigger-happy "girlfriend" in this life of sin.
Rappers have been personifying their vices as love interests since the beginning of rhyme. Even as moored as it is in Swiftian fanlore, "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)" proves itself to be Swift's most authentic song, a significant credit to her vast discography that sets the record straight once and for all. The edited five-and-a-half-minute version is blame-free and even nostalgic, but the 10-minute version of "All Too Well" is a seething, scorched earth tragedy as Swift, rightfully so, transforms into the crazed woman she's been made out to be all along. New, meticulous lyrical details reveal that from the inside, the highly publicized and theorized relationship in question was unequal. In returning to a past relationship that left her with outsized discomfort, she bridges youthful grief with mature perspective. The most powerful weapon in Swift's arsenal is her ability to deploy a collective memory of her romantic life. With this 10-minute version of cult classic "All Too Well," Swift extends compassion to her vulnerable younger self through damning, targeted lyrics - "And I was never good at telling jokes, but the punch line goes, 'I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age' " - and studious observations. At 31, Swift has now released Red (Taylor's Version), revisiting some unprocessed wounds with nine years of distance, freeing her to relish an anger she once restrained herself from expressing. Or listen on the streaming platform of your choice.Īt 22, Taylor Swift released 2012's Red and came of age in the interstices between country and pop, heartbreak and freedom. "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)" There are two other compilations available to consider: 'Sultans of Swing - The Very Best of Dire Straits' is a collection that strictly has Dire Straits work. Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / Amazon Music / YouTube Music The collection 'The Best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler - Private Investigations' provides a single collection of Knopflers work - with Dire Straits and as a solo artist. Stream NPR Music's 100 Best Songs of 2021:
If you find yourself losing steam or feeling down or wondering when things will finally turn around, feel free to skip the rest of "All Too Well." (Jk, Taylor!) (Oh, and you can find our 50 Best Albums of 2021 here.) It's our sincere hope that as you make your way through our 7-hour playlist of the year's 100 best songs, you'll feel the same. In other words, we could be human again, and it felt good to be back. Perhaps we kept some truths concealed during dire straits, so as not to appear frivolous (or feral) in the face of unforgiving circumstance. Maybe, after 20 months behind masks, we felt like revealing ourselves again. Perhaps the crowning of Cardi and Megan's "WAP" last year signaled a transgressive sea change. It does not store any personal data."Only here to sin." That admission from NPR Music's song of the year lies at the heart of many of the stories told across these 100 tracks. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
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