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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 5:50:03 GMT -5
Billboard Music Awards Ratings Reach 14-Year High!
Never ever underestimate the thrall of Taylor Swift. Sunday's 2015 Billboard Music Awards, which featured the singer cleaning up eight kudos and debuting her latest music video, grew yet again for ABC.
The three-hour telecast averaged a preliminary 11.1 million viewers and a 3.7 rating among adults 18-49 according to Nielsen’s Fast Affiliate Ratings. Both modest increases from the last go-around, the numbers mark a third consecutive year of growth for the show — and, in the case of the total viewership, a 14-year high.
ABC easily topped the broadcast competition for the night. While some viewers were no doubt lured away by AMC's series finale of Mad Men, Fox scored the No. 2 ranking for Sunday with several season finales. Bob's Burgers aired its in two parts, with a respective 0.9 and 1.1 rating among adults 18-49, while The Simpsons (1.2 adults) held steady. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (1.1 adults) and Family Guy (1.3 adults) were down a respective two- and four-tenths of a point.
The Billboard Awards also held up compared to other recent music awards shows, including April’s Academy of Country Music Awards on CBS (15.7 million total viewers and a 3.6 18-49 rating) and March’s iHeartRadio Awards on NBC (5.2 million viewers and a 1.7 18-49 rating.)
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 5:50:45 GMT -5
BTW...I still don't really understand what is going on in the video.
That is the reason people will have to watch it many times...genius!
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 5:59:08 GMT -5
Band aids may not fix bullet holes, but Taylor Swift's latest video, for 1989 track "Bad Blood," showed that sometimes, friends make the best enemies.
In a star-studded video for the track, Swift regulars such as Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham, and -- in the largest non-Swift role, Kendrick Lamar -- all appeared as various alter egos out to do a little damage. Playing like a high-octane scene from a summer blockbuster, the ambitious video was a new look for Swift, and naturally, we've got a ton of questions and thoughts upon our first few viewings.
1. We begin in a corporate office. Is this the same Women Out For Revenge (But Only During Office Hours) workspace that Britney Spears was running through in her "Womanizer" video?
2. Actually, there were several nods to the Spears video oeuvre. Another example? Taylor's red hair with flames behind her just like a red-headed Britney Spears rocking out in the "Toxic" video. (Not surprisingly, "Bad Blood" director Joseph Kahn is responsible for many of Spears' most iconic videos.)
3. It's been stated that Swift is ruling pop culture so completely in a way that hasn't been seen since Spears' early 2000 hold. Swift's work with "Bad Blood" director Joseph Kahn seems to point to her accession of the pop title.
4. HOLD UP. Is Taylor Swift a Mad Men fan? Is she watching the finale later? Taylor, tweet your predictions! Taylor Swift Bad Blood
5. "All my life I got money and power/ and you got to live with the bad blood now." Is Lamar quoting his own "Backseat Freestyle" here?
6. Related: Can we please just take a moment to enjoy the fact Swift is using her substantial power to push Lamar -- clearly already famous in his own right -- to a whole new level of celebrity? The fact that the two seem to get a genuine kick out of each other (check chilling side by side in a futuristic getaway car) is such an unexpected treat.
7. SPEAKING OF, how do we think the conversations for participation in this video went? Obviously, everyone wants to be in a TSwift production, but how did that play out? Taylor: I want you to be in my new video. Selena: Love it. So are we going to be frolicking on the beach, or dancing in a car, or...? Taylor: We're going to be international badasses and I'm going to take each one of you on at once. Selena: I'm there.
8. Taylor's hair game briefly channeled the most badass of them all: Katniss Everdeen. Taylor Swift Bad Blood
9. Speaking of superheros and powers, how did they decide who got do what? Did Selena demand to push (via makeup) Taylor out of a building? Did Cara Delevingne just really want to shoot something? Does Karlie Kloss secretly box in her off hours?
10. Hear me out, Hollywood: A Freaky Friday remake between two friends. Consider it! Taylor Swift Bad Blood
11. That thing where you fall out of a building but your hair game is still flawless.
12. Started from the bottom now we here?Taylor Swift Bad Blood
13. Coming this fall to NBC. Taylor Swift Bad Blood
14. All those cameos, and yet not even a split second of an evil cat played by Olivia Benson???
15. Her squad > your squad. Taylor Swift Bad Blood
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 8:28:42 GMT -5
Folks there is so much Taylor news that it even makes a Taylorholic like myself ...feel as if I have had enough.
That can't be true...
The rock scene was tough as Taylor wanted to do it herself...a few times.
That musta hurt.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 8:29:51 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 9:22:09 GMT -5
Michael,
I thought about Shania's "Gonna Get You Good" video when I watching Taylor's new video....same motorcycle and a take off of the style of clothing Shania wore in it. I loved Shania's "Gonna Get You Good" too...still do.
Your right, those two albums did mark a downturn in Garth's and Shania's music careers. But they both had personal things going on in their lives that were pulling them away from the music world. Garth's marriage was in crisis and he wanted to watch his kids grow up. Shania's voice had more and more problems and then her marriage wasn't doing well either. With her marriage breaking up, Mutt was gone from her music too.
Taylor is younger, isn't having a midlife change and is true to her core message once again. It's just updated and more adult. In a cool way. She's still singing about not settling for a bad relationship...about not losing yourself in the mess of life. It's powerful.
It also matters that Taylor said, before she did this, that she's a pop artist now. It really does matter.
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Post by jeff2k6 on May 20, 2015 22:34:31 GMT -5
Are you guys a fan of the BB remix?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 5:43:34 GMT -5
Michael, I thought about Shania's "Gonna Get You Good" video when I watching Taylor's new video....same motorcycle and a take off of the style of clothing Shania wore in it. I loved Shania's "Gonna Get You Good" too...still do. Your right, those two albums did mark a downturn in Garth's and Shania's music careers. But they both had personal things going on in their lives that were pulling them away from the music world. Garth's marriage was in crisis and he wanted to watch his kids grow up. Shania's voice had more and more problems and then her marriage wasn't doing well either. With her marriage breaking up, Mutt was gone from her music too. Taylor is younger, isn't having a midlife change and is true to her core message once again. It's just updated and more adult. In a cool way. She's still singing about not settling for a bad relationship...about not losing yourself in the mess of life. It's powerful. It also matters that Taylor said, before she did this, that she's a pop artist now. It really does matter.
She certainly is a strong woman now...country music men are afraid of a strong woman!
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 5:46:13 GMT -5
Are you guys a fan of the BB remix?
Jeffery...Once I figure what's going on there I am sure I will love it.
Sometimes the video that I play in my mind for a song is better than the original.
Though she has broke away from the norm...that I do like!
What about your take guys?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 9:27:30 GMT -5
It's finally Friday on this Thursday morn...now onto my staycation...
It seems as if you devote more time to your work...your loved ones suffer...
not to mention yourself...man those hours are tough...2.5 more years!
Heck...I think I am going to retire early by golly...enjoy some living.
I could be Taylors Roadie...I can out work 10 ~ 20 year old any day.
Maybe I can't outwork them...I'll give you that...but...
I am pretty sure I could get the job done faster and better!
But hey...who wants to lug around big heavy equipment anyway?
It is nice to have options though.
I would not want to back to 20 years old anyway...even if I could.
I am fine right here and now...right where I'm at!
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 9:36:08 GMT -5
Did I ever tell you guys about this cat from Texas coming in and buying up everything?
Seems he was from this little burg...known as Boonsboro in the Civil War.
Places that we thought were lost to time...is being restored...lots and lots of money.
I don't know whats up...but he is trying to buy the old abandoned Earle home across the creek.
I have and always had first dibs on the place...but I am afraid money talks in this world.
Now if he gets it...they may turn it into a park...but I'll lose privacy.
I know that he wants my place...whats not to want...it is beautiful...it's what people say.
I really get tired of people complementing me on my place...I wonder if Taylor feels the same?
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 9:39:52 GMT -5
I wish we could all go have some coffee with these folks!
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 9:43:10 GMT -5
I think I'll have another cup!
How do y'all like your Jo>
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2015 9:46:48 GMT -5
^^^Lacy saying "God bless the Girls on 16th Avenue" was awesome!
Listen to Bill talking at the end!
That is the exact point as to why I am such a fan of strong women!
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Post by jeff2k6 on May 21, 2015 22:02:03 GMT -5
Are you guys a fan of the BB remix? Jeffery...Once I figure what's going on there I am sure I will love it.
Sometimes the video that I play in my mind for a song is better than the original.
Though she has broke away from the norm...that I do like!
What about your take guys?
No bro. Unfortunately I can't say I am a fan. You know, I love T with all my heart as a person and I think she's a musical genius and angel in this world. But for me, it just misses the mark completely musically. I loved watching the video itself. I think its beautiful visually, completely original, and just unique overall * even though, I had a hard time understanding the concept because it didn't make sense to me. As for the remix itself? I think it's not.. good. I love the regular version of BB and I thought it told a story, just as T always does so masterfully, but the remix takes that away in my opinion. She doesn't even get to sing it.. it keeps getting cut off by the rapper. I just don't get it and that makes me sad. I really miss just seeing Tay and her guitar sometimes..
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