When was both of us release

Though her backing vocals are very pleasant, this is percent a Tim McGraw song. Olympic team to greatness. They won 36 gold medals! Would she come out? Would she come out and reveal she had once dated Karlie Kloss? Cut to the fateful day, and the news was … Swift, who is a pop singer, was releasing a new pop song.

The only silver lining? On brand! With only one take to get it right, she did not let the people of Haiti down. The crowd, not being idiots, responds with an enthusiastic yes. A spirited vocal performance in the outro saves the song from feeling like homework.

Or was she a white woman playing the victim to demonize an outspoken black man? Most of them work. He produced her early demos, and she fought for him to sit behind the controls on her debut; the two would work together on every Swift album until , when his role was largely taken over by Max Martin and Shellback. Listen to the screams during the chorus and try to guess where this one was recorded. If you had forgotten that this song came out in , she keeps the line about Tae Bo.

Max Martin and Shellback pack the track with all sorts of amusing audio doodads, but the melody is a little too horizontal to stick, and the lyrics have a touch of first draft about them. Perhaps too much — you get the sense it might work better as a Bleachers song.

As if to reassure nervous country fans, the fiddle goes absolutely nuts. Swift often plays guessing games about which parts of her songs are autobiographical, but this one is explicitly a fantasy. The slangy Trump jabs to say nothing of the slight West Indian accents in the chorus may read as a few years behind the times, but when it comes to straight pop stars penning gay-rights theme songs , you could do a lot worse.

Inspiration works in mysterious ways. Despite the extravagant title, the date described here is charmingly low-key: The dude wears a T-shirt, and his grand gestures are showing up on time and being nice. The production and vocals are appropriately restrained — sometimes, simplicity works. Turns out, adolescent self-mythologizing is the same no matter where you are — no surprise that Swift could pull it off despite leaving school after sophomore year. The high point comes when she contemplates forgiving a hater, then bursts into an incredulous guffaw.

Reader, I laughed out loud. The key to a good apology has always been sincerity, and whatever faults Swift may have, a lack of sincerity has never been one of them. No matter.

As a slice of gothic pop-star paranoia, it gives a much-needed bit of edge to Bumped up a couple of spots for the line about vultures, which I can only assume is a shout-out. Finally, at a pivotal moment she stands up in front of everyone and protests the impending union. Luckily the guy is cool with it, so we get a happy ending! Mostly for better. The way the whole song starts and stops is an obvious trick, but I like it. In just her second album, she and Rose gave us this clear-eyed look at the emptiness of symbolic gestures, allegedly finished in a mere 45 minutes.

Almost left off the album, but saved thanks to Shonda Rhimes. Here, we go from Kelly Clarkson verses to a roller-coaster chorus to a dubstep breakdown that dates the song as surely as radiocarbon — then back again. Good to see you? Never mind that Red had its own sugary singles.

Docked ten or so spots for the spoken-word bridge and cheerleader breakdown, which might be the worst 24 seconds of the entire album. The exuberance of the lyrics is matched in the way she tumbles from line to line into the chorus.

Accidents happen. But careers take hard work. Even as a teenager, Swift was savvy enough to know that country fans love nothing more than listening to songs about listening to country music. Are those fucking gunshots? The boys in the debut were just Nashville randos; this one was about a Jonas Brother, back when that really meant something. However, by the band's own admission, "Black Magic" was offered up just as they were looking for a hit — and the then-head of their label, Sonny Takhar, believed in the song so much that he threw a huge budget and campaign behind it.

It was a two-day shoot. And it did. It catapulted us more internationally. It was No. In hindsight, Glory Days is aptly named. It was just nice times. Even though it seems impossible, I ask if the whirlwind surrounding Little Mix at this time brought the band closer together.

Even though I thought that before, it really cemented it then. But Perrie also points out that they were there for each other through the hard times too. Everything just meant so much to us. It was obvious that previous breakups had been an inspiration for the record. Am I gonna hit it? Just fucking go for it. Up until that point, the band had been happy to just dress for comfort, something which actually got them in trouble with their record label. We got told that basically we looked a little bit on the scruffy side so we had to make more of an effort.

All three women note that their stylists have an incredibly hard job, not least because they somehow have to cater to each of their individual tastes while also making sure that they look cohesive as a band. But, regardless, they seem to pull it off every time. While Glory Days was young, carefree pop perfection, LM5 was sleek and cool, with its lead single, "Woman Like Me," establishing the band as grown, independent women.

However, while Little Mix were ready to enjoy another big-budget promotional campaign, things soon changed when they left their label days before LM5 's release. The concept was amazing. But one thing that stands out most about LM5 is the way its sound diverged so dramatically from its predecessor, Glory Days.

It's proof once again that Little Mix are always attempting to move the dial rather than playing it safe. Unfortunately for Little Mix, the campaign for their next album would also be out of their hands, with their sixth offering, Confetti , caught in the pandemic crossfire. Little Mix are so extra.

Now, the band is happy that things played out the way they did, not least because it ended up gifting them their next No.

This may have been a joke, but it's clear she loved the track from the beginning — even if others didn't. Jade maintains, however, that she had the "same feeling" as she did with "Wings" and "Shout Out," where she instantly knew the song was a hit. So that brings us to the current day, as Little Mix prepare to release their greatest hits album, Between Us , marking their first era as a trio.

The fans are gonna be sobbing. Yeah, get the tissues out for that one. Just all of it, I just miss it so much. We just want it to be the best show ever.