Talk:Mean (song)

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Date	Process	Result
December 31, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
May 23, 2015	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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https://www.villagevoice.com/live-taylor-swift-sparkles-and-survives-at-the-prudential-center/

This a side thing

Whoever read this read it wrong this is from the reference that started the whole thing:

Swift and her keepers have been careful to nurture her original country base, perhaps mindful of how Twain's pop stardom lost her some support at country radio. Until recently, they'd never released two different singles simultaneously to separate markets. But this spring, they took a chance and went with the neo-bluegrass "Mean" for country, and the guitar-charged "Story of Us" for pop radio.

"'Mean' tells a story about the fact that no one gets to go through life without getting picked on," says Swift. "That was a song that I wrote when I felt completely powerless." That word would hardly seem to describe Swift, but she took comments from critics who were saying she "can't sing" -- like industry blogger Bob Lefsetz, who turned on her -- and responded with an upbeat, banjo-inflected stomper that became a rallying cry for the national anti-bullying movement.

"I don't feel like I necessarily have to win over every last person," she says. "Knowing that Kris Kristofferson's opinion [of me] is a positive one is going to have me floating on a cloud for weeks and months."

On the pop side of Swift's dual format assault, "Story of Us" is believed to be about nearly encountering Mayer at the Country Music Television Awards last year. "It's a moment I'm glad I was able to represent in a song, when you run into someone that you used to be in love with, but now that's gone, and all that you have is drama and the desperation and the horrible feeling of awkwardness and not knowing what to do or where to stand or how to act natural." She pauses. "That, as well as that I just like seeing how the crowd jumps up and down when I play it."

Let me point out here that it didn't say when they were being released as one whole single, it said that the singles were being released as separate singles to two separate stations. "Mean" was released for country radio while the "The Story of Us" was released for pop. If you read this carefully anyone can see that this is talking about releasing two different songs as a single to two separate types of radio stations. I think the whole "dual format assault" was what caused all this. That doesn't mean double sided singles it's just a way of phrasing that she's release two separate songs to two different radio stations.

Here is the link that came from: http://www.billboard.com/#/features/taylor-swift-top-artist-finalist-interview-1005179542.story?page=2

I read this article over several times and that's what it says to me. I think people need to not go so in depth in these things and quote stuff that isn't actually true. JamesAlan1986 (talk-Contributes) 13:50, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Genre?

It doesn't sound anything like pop to me. lyriclegendlover (talk) 23:20, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

lyriclegendlover, yeah, it kind of sounds like country, or at least more country than pop. Spinelli Nutelli (talk)

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