#literally copy and paste the quote into google and you'll find multiple articles about it. it's not made up misinformation
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It comes up right away when you google it, but sure.
There's also other articles, like this one from Variety, that directly reference Hudson Thames interview with Collider.
“My biggest fear was that it was gonna be annoying and woke”
Oh brotherrr this guy STINKS. YOU'RE PLAYING SPIDER-MAN YOU DUMB FUCK. Have you EVER read a comic you absolute loser
#I wasn't annoyed with you before now. but like cmon.#literally copy and paste the quote into google and you'll find multiple articles about it. it's not made up misinformation#yfnsm
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I was trying to find out timelines for one of my favourite artist's songs(not taylor). So can you give some tips? What is the first things you do while trying to find a date? Anything I should remember?
oooh good question
so, first tip, there's various different ways to be useful--one of the reasons this project has kept my attention for so long is i can do it in so many different moods. some days i just want to organize everything, some days i want to compile a bunch of links, sometimes i want to read old interviews, and sometimes if i'm lucky i want to actually use my brain to connect all the clues. don't get in your own way, just follow your gut
step one: organization
i find my spreadsheet set up very useful and i wouldn't be able to keep track of everything without it-- i would say my must haves are track, title, written, recorded, writer(s), producer(s), misc credits, and location recorded (for example here's 1989).
you'll want to set up some sort of key for how certain you are of the date (i do white text if i only know the general timeframe, red highlight if i have no idea where the date comes from, yellow highlight if its a shaky source, and green highlight if it's certain). i also like to color code everything else so i can quickly see basic information but that's just me being extra
in my experience genius has a list of most credits, and if not this website is super thorough (kinda a beast to sort through tho)
i add also add comments to each song and copy paste any quotes from taylor or her collaborators that i think might be useful to figuring out when it was written
step two: interviews interviews interviews
youtube is a gift from god-- i have a folder for interviews from each year and it's so nice (a good place to start is literally typing like, taylor swift 2006 interview, and following that rabbit hole wherever it will lead you), and when i'm in the mood i'll watch them.
old print interviews are a bit easier to find in taylor's case-- taylorpictures.net has a whole section dedicated to it, and i've noticed a lot of other big pop girls have something similar. if not, i've literally google searched "taylor swift interview" gone over to tools, click "any time", change it to custom time frame, and just crawled month by month through target years.
i'd say start with articles around the release date of the album and then work backwards
if you get tired of crawling through a bunch of interviewers asking about literally anything other than the art at hand, search interviews with the producers about the artist, and they tend to be more on track
step three: social media
use twitter advanced search to search specifically your artist and words like "studio" "writing" "guitar" "piano" "song" "album"
i like to add relevant posts to my spreadsheet like this
but i also have a full sheet for just taylor's old posts
if your artist is also insane and deleted all of their old posts, then wayback machine is so helpful
step four: when and where
a fair amount of the work comes down to figuring out where the artist was and when they were there-- especially if your artist works out of multiple studios
location stuff can get a bit icky, so personally i don't track stuff until two years have gone by, and even if you want to steer clear of candids you can still gain a good amount of information from public events only-- most artists are constantly touring, doing interviews, maybe attending award shows, stuff like that, and its useful to keep track of all that
again, the wayback machine is super useful-- most artists have an events page on their website, and smaller artists especially will add almost every television show appearance they have to it
Misc tips
CITE AS YOU GO
get around paywalls by copy pasting the link into the wayback machine
in general, i've gotten so good at googling because of this project it's insane-- check out this article to get more specific search results
i've also gotten crazy good at creating and using spreadsheets-- check out conditional formatting if you don't want to manually color code stuff
go one album at a time, at least until you've gotten a feel for it
have one or more work sheet on your spreadsheet- you'll need to format/sort stuff without worrying about screwing up everything else
i do this all in one massive spreadsheet with little individual sheets inside of it for each thing i need to keep track of, but like. i've literally opened up the sheet and then used my computer as a heating pad for period cramps. so do what that what you will
A rough date is easier to organize than no date-- get something down, and then you can refine it
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