It WILL happened my friend, just a matter of time. Speak Now is at least the closest thing to a pop-punk T-Swift album. Make sure to check out her re-recording album, Speak Now Taylor's Version comes out July 7th.
She has said a few different times that Fall Out Boy were one of her biggest lyrical influences and has done some fall out boy covers at her concerts. Also there's a song with them on her next album as well as a song with Hayley williams
she is arguably one of the best lyricists to ever do it, and i think that really resonates with the punk vibe and sound. 100% goes with any beat and style!
Yeah you can hear the emo influences in some of her stuff, for sure. This one is especially Dashboard-ish, she's even got a line about spinning in your highest heels, which is directly lifted to from a DC song! Love it
This is extra funny because when the new FOB album came out and had a song called “Hold Me Like a Grudge” my immediate thought was “isn’t that a TSwift line?” (No, I was thinking of “keep you like an oath” from All Too Well)
@@peterblombergmusic it's common knowledge to the people I've talked to who aren't hardcore Swifties, but most of the Swifties I've talked to really don't care for them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@connorrouillard3873 I can totally see that, since I am kind of in that realm - kind of a passive fan until I listened to Folklore. On the other hand, the Swifties I know LOVE folklore..but I don't know many.
Bro you can't do this... I'm trying to be a responsible successful adult, approaching 30. This song cover just regressed my emotional state 15 years. Suddenly i'm a heart broken teenager in emotional distress again. My wife is like, "babe are you okay?"... No I'm not okay and nobody understands me! You got me reliving my "its not a faze" faze 5 minutes at a time. 😂 Got me needing Jesus when I already got him!🤣 100% Great song cover! One of your best works to date! P.S. when people ask me who my favorite current secular artist is, I say Alex Melton. Thanks for all the great work bro!
Honestly when I first heard this song on Folklore I was immediately getting Dashboard Confessional vibes, especially the chorus and the “spinning in my highest heels” line with that melody. This just solidified it in my mind. This was an amazing cover
This is so Mayday Parade imo and, having once been a 12 year-old who listened to Taylor Swift and pop punk bands interchangeably, this is absolutely giving me life
i didn't realize i needed this until i listened to it. you made me realize just how emo this song can be and i absolutely love it. my teenage self is screaming
Folklore is her best album, I agree. She does her best work lyrically when she’s crafting stories and it was so cool to see a whole album of just that.
As a Taylor Swift fan and a fan of Alex Melton pop punk covers...I need more like this in my ear holes stat! I mean, in honor of the eras tour why not do one from each era. 😁
In another universe Taylor Swift is an emo/pop punk artist. The majority of songs on her album 'fearless' could easily be songs made by bands like MCR, The Used, Dashboard Confessional, just to name a few. Taylors songs just have that vibe.
I had literal goosebumps 😍 Being a Taylor Swift fan since her second album her songs own a special place in my heart🖤 And your versions are always so well crafted, I really admire your work🙏
So sick. Your covers always drop while I’m in my music theory class and I always go to the bathroom in the middle so I can bump them. Love this song and this cover
This is the song that plays in one of those early 2000's American Pie genre rom-coms, during the "going about our separate lives" montage after the big mid-movie breakup.
Mirrorball has always reminded me of Stolen by Dashboard Confessionals. So this cover just makes logical sense. I could totally see this version on Gossip Girl or The OC.
I already said this on another Taylor cover but another great T-Swift song that would shine with the pop-punk treatment is "You Are in Love" from 1989. It's begging to have some heavy guitar backing it. Hope to hear it from you some day, Alex!
She’s getting there though, after Evermore I knew her arc was swinging around to Pop Punk and I’m so here for it! Maybe one or two more albums and we’ll get one 🥰
On TT yesterday I saw an early-ish video of Taylor Swift playing an electric guitar and doing one of her songs (I can't remember, it was 2 am & I was marinating in benadryl and melatonin) & ever since, my millennial soul is BEGGING for her next era to be dripping with 90s grunge/early 00's pop punk.
Midnights and Folklore and definitely my favorite albums of hers and I wasn't even a Taylor Swift fan until before this year when I discovered them lol
@@adamnicholson1839 I am actually listening to evermore right now but so far only 3-4 songs are ones I actually like (the actual evermore song is actually on replay for me right now). But it's to each their own. I do like evermore but not as much as I like Midnights and Folklore lol
came from tiktok because this is just sooooo good and i can't get enough of it!!!! i hope it'll be on spotify soon!!! this is just so good and the younger me who was raised listening to emo songs but is a huge swiftie too is soooo happy 😭😭😭
Full disclosure, I've been standing 10 toes down on Mirrorball being the best folk era Taylor song, and this cover has re-routed in my head to it being a PP song. This is the best version of this song full stop to me lol.
I just went back and watched all of your Taylor covers - my mid-'00s high school emo self is LIVING. I would fr buy every album if you ever did full album covers
I heard this cover before even hearing the original song and it’s now one of my favorite Taylor swift songs. But to your credit I still like your version even better 😎
Woah that intro made me think of 2000s OPM (Original Pinoy Music) and it just hit me with such a strong wave of nostalgia from my childhood listening to those type of songs on the radio. Thank you :>
I recently realized that Taylor swift is literally just pop punk music without the crunchy instrumentals…or vice versa. And you keep proving it by covering all her songs as pop punk songs and I’m instantly like “oh well yeah I like this” haha. Another home run man.
This is awesome! Mirrorball is one of the songs that I liked the concept of, but it failed to connect with me production-wise. This version does it for me though!
The lyric was here: I want you to know I'm a mirrorball I'll show you every version of yourself tonight I'll get you out on the floor Shimmering beautiful And when I break it's in a million pieces Hush When no one is around, my dear You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes Spinning in my highest heels, love Shining just for you Hush I know they said the end is near But I'm still on my tallest tiptoes Spinning in my highest heels, love Shining just for you I want you to know I'm a mirrorball I can change everything about me to fit in You are not like the regulars The masquerade revelers Drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten Hush When no one is around, my dear You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes Spinning in my highest heels, love Shining just for you Hush I know they said the end is near But I'm still on my tallest tiptoes Spinning in my highest heels, love Shining just for you And they called off the circus Burned the disco down When they sent home the horses And the rodeo clowns I'm still on that tightrope I'm still trying everything to get you laughing at me I'm still a believer but I don't know why I've never been a natural All I do is try, try, try I'm still on that trapeze I'm still trying everything To keep you looking at me Because I'm a mirrorball I'm a mirrorball I'll show you every version of yourself Tonight
Goddamn this is so good. I listen to all your TS covers a lot but Cardigan and The 1 in particular. I'm now trying to imagine in my head how you'd do the other Folklore songs.
With songs like haunted, story of us, should have said no and better than revenge, taylor swift could definitely make a rock influenced album. It would be really cool to watch her fully embrace the rock genre.
I love covers like this anyone could have done a popular Taylor song but you picked a lost gem of a track that doesn’t get enough love you killed it!! 🤘🏼
Even though I love pop punk, I love TS, and didn't expect to like this, but I do! Nice job. This song is one of her best, for me. But, I love so many of her songs. She's an incredible songwriter.
I always come back to this video... This cover of Mirrorball is probably your best Taylor Swift cover ever! I hope you do the whole folklore/evermore album, that would be fucking amazing. Love all of your works
I really think she could do it and do it well. I mean better than revenge, haunted, and her performance of we are never getting back together on the 1989 world tour show that she could do rock with ease. I want a pop punk album from Taylor so badly
I feel like this would have been even better and somehow even more pop-punk if it had been in second-person POV from the dude's perspective of the girl. It's very "I'm an observant quiet punkboy with a soft side and I see how you are shining but also I get you on a ~deeper level" Like look at this he said/she said chorus... I said "Hush, when no one is around, my dear" I'd find you on your tallest tiptoes Spinning in your highest heels, love Shining just for me You said "Hush, I know they said the end is near But I'm still on my tallest tiptoes Spinning in my highest heels, love Shining just for you."
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This was so good that I am now demanding the whole album.
I thought that was the plan at one point
Seconded
I am demanding it too. Like, he can't not do it!!!
I cannot emphasize enough how much I agree 😊
Yes!!! It’s a NEED!!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
Guess who's gonna be listening to this on repeat for a while now?
Exactly, my neighbors
🤣🤣🤣
LOL
If I where your neighbor, I would dig this.. coming over for a beverage 💪, asking for a dance 😂😂😂
been here for an hour bro. so good.
😂😂😂😂😂
I still have hopes that she’ll put out a pop-punk album some day.
so much of her music is so pop punk, i’m praying for the day
Majority of the fandom does.
It WILL happened my friend, just a matter of time. Speak Now is at least the closest thing to a pop-punk T-Swift album. Make sure to check out her re-recording album, Speak Now Taylor's Version comes out July 7th.
Was listening to Betty the other day and thought the chord progression and melody sounded like it could easily be pop punk
That would have been Karma Album
Taylor Swift low key writes some of the best pop punk songs. There is arguably more pop punk covers of her songs than any other individual artist
I think she just writes greatly structured songs, that can probably be covered in any way and sound amaing
She has said a few different times that Fall Out Boy were one of her biggest lyrical influences and has done some fall out boy covers at her concerts. Also there's a song with them on her next album as well as a song with Hayley williams
she is arguably one of the best lyricists to ever do it, and i think that really resonates with the punk vibe and sound. 100% goes with any beat and style!
I hope she hears this, because she would love it.
Send it to her
Okay but I need "folklore (Alex's pop punk version)" immediately
Fun fact: One of her biggest songwriting inspirations is Pete Wentz! Also yes, Mirrorball is a top 5 track for me on Folklore.
Yeah you can hear the emo influences in some of her stuff, for sure. This one is especially Dashboard-ish, she's even got a line about spinning in your highest heels, which is directly lifted to from a DC song! Love it
@@CurtisKlope She also loves Dashboard Confessional lmao.
This is extra funny because when the new FOB album came out and had a song called “Hold Me Like a Grudge” my immediate thought was “isn’t that a TSwift line?” (No, I was thinking of “keep you like an oath” from All Too Well)
@@n.o.9838 I think it's from reputation "I keep him foreva (lol), like a vendetta"
@@CurtisKlopeshe loves it, i remember her dueting with the rock band vocalist of the song love and hate collide, it was beautiful
Calling Folklore her best album is the kind of hot take I can 100% get behind. Great cover as always!
It was exactly now that Hyperion realized this was not simply fact.
definitely her best album. Isn't that common knowledge?!
I consider Folklore/evermore to be sister albums, both masterpieces, both her top albums.
@@peterblombergmusic it's common knowledge to the people I've talked to who aren't hardcore Swifties, but most of the Swifties I've talked to really don't care for them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@connorrouillard3873 I can totally see that, since I am kind of in that realm - kind of a passive fan until I listened to Folklore. On the other hand, the Swifties I know LOVE folklore..but I don't know many.
Bro you can't do this... I'm trying to be a responsible successful adult, approaching 30. This song cover just regressed my emotional state 15 years. Suddenly i'm a heart broken teenager in emotional distress again. My wife is like, "babe are you okay?"... No I'm not okay and nobody understands me! You got me reliving my "its not a faze" faze 5 minutes at a time. 😂 Got me needing Jesus when I already got him!🤣
100% Great song cover! One of your best works to date!
P.S. when people ask me who my favorite current secular artist is, I say Alex Melton.
Thanks for all the great work bro!
i absolutely would’ve been a basket case if this would’ve dropped during my formative years
It was never just a phase
You’re my second favorite non-non-secular cover artist.
You sir are a national treasure.
Being from England, I'm going to make that international treasure.
International* treasure 🍁
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Honestly when I first heard this song on Folklore I was immediately getting Dashboard Confessional vibes, especially the chorus and the “spinning in my highest heels” line with that melody. This just solidified it in my mind. This was an amazing cover
SAME i think they influenced her song writing style a lot
I definitely hear it, but it was actually Illicit Affairs that gave me the strongest Dashboard vibes. Still wishing for Chris to cover it
this makes me feel like i'm listening to punk goes pop again back in 2009 ❤️ the emo kid grows up but the emo never leaves
you can take the kid out of the emo but you can’t take the emo out of the kid
This is so Mayday Parade imo and, having once been a 12 year-old who listened to Taylor Swift and pop punk bands interchangeably, this is absolutely giving me life
i fucking love mayday parade
i didn't realize i needed this until i listened to it. you made me realize just how emo this song can be and i absolutely love it. my teenage self is screaming
Folklore is her best album, I agree. She does her best work lyrically when she’s crafting stories and it was so cool to see a whole album of just that.
The "hush" goes so hard!
i need whole folklore in this pop punk era PLEASE it is her best album and it was made for pop punk
i second that.
As a Taylor Swift fan and a fan of Alex Melton pop punk covers...I need more like this in my ear holes stat! I mean, in honor of the eras tour why not do one from each era. 😁
In another universe Taylor Swift is an emo/pop punk artist.
The majority of songs on her album 'fearless' could easily be songs made by bands like MCR, The Used, Dashboard Confessional, just to name a few.
Taylors songs just have that vibe.
I listened to this at 1.25 speed by accident, and I think that tempo rips just a bit harder
I did this too, yeah, it RIPS
Totally agree. I might have to throw it in Ableton to speed it up with less artifacting.
Why not just commit to the 2x speed? 😅
@@AaronCano1 because then it sounds bad (in my personal opinion)?
Uh wow good point! High tempo is the way to go
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! As a hardcore swiftie, I really want Taylor to release a pop-punk album someday. I love this cover
As a pop punk girlie who loves Taylor Swift, I want more please!!! You guys are gold✨🤍
I really didn't expect this style to suit this song so well omg
Pop punk has always been my jam, and for some reason Taylor songs fit that genre really well. She has really good lyrics and melodies.
Amazing work
She’s an amazing song writer
This is freaking amazing.
This is so sick!! i´m a Swiftie and love punk rock too. Please do all Folklore and Evermore albums. I need it!!! Amazing job !!
I had literal goosebumps 😍
Being a Taylor Swift fan since her second album her songs own a special place in my heart🖤 And your versions are always so well crafted, I really admire your work🙏
So sick. Your covers always drop while I’m in my music theory class and I always go to the bathroom in the middle so I can bump them. Love this song and this cover
Dave, I need you to analyze this and report back
This is the song that plays in one of those early 2000's American Pie genre rom-coms, during the "going about our separate lives" montage after the big mid-movie breakup.
Mirrorball has always reminded me of Stolen by Dashboard Confessionals. So this cover just makes logical sense. I could totally see this version on Gossip Girl or The OC.
My teenage daughter and huge TS fan loved this. That's pretty high praise! Awesome version, you are amazing!
I'm OBSESSED omg. Haunted would also be so dramatic as pop punk!
I recently re-listened to Folklore and I had the exact same thought of how good mirrorball is. You did an amazing job with this cover!
I already said this on another Taylor cover but another great T-Swift song that would shine with the pop-punk treatment is "You Are in Love" from 1989. It's begging to have some heavy guitar backing it. Hope to hear it from you some day, Alex!
I'm a Swiftie and I low-key like this one more than the original. Keep it up, you're talented!
She’s getting there though, after Evermore I knew her arc was swinging around to Pop Punk and I’m so here for it! Maybe one or two more albums and we’ll get one 🥰
On TT yesterday I saw an early-ish video of Taylor Swift playing an electric guitar and doing one of her songs (I can't remember, it was 2 am & I was marinating in benadryl and melatonin) & ever since, my millennial soul is BEGGING for her next era to be dripping with 90s grunge/early 00's pop punk.
This is one of my favorite songs from the album and you just made it even better. I'm amazed, keep doing your excellent work!
Yes please more deep cut Taylor swift covers!
I love how this is in my playlist but not the original version. Well done Alex!
Midnights and Folklore and definitely my favorite albums of hers and I wasn't even a Taylor Swift fan until before this year when I discovered them lol
How are you missing evermore? On a par if not better than folklore in parts. Midnights is quite disappointing I think
@@adamnicholson1839 I am actually listening to evermore right now but so far only 3-4 songs are ones I actually like (the actual evermore song is actually on replay for me right now). But it's to each their own. I do like evermore but not as much as I like Midnights and Folklore lol
I think I actively dislike midnights as much as I was expecting great things
@@adamnicholson1839 if it was a rock album I would've liked it more probably too
SHES LONG OVERDUE A ROCK ALBUM LMAO.
came from tiktok because this is just sooooo good and i can't get enough of it!!!! i hope it'll be on spotify soon!!! this is just so good and the younger me who was raised listening to emo songs but is a huge swiftie too is soooo happy 😭😭😭
Full disclosure, I've been standing 10 toes down on Mirrorball being the best folk era Taylor song, and this cover has re-routed in my head to it being a PP song. This is the best version of this song full stop to me lol.
Finally! This is how the whole album should be. Need a bassist/backing vocals? 🎸
And, nice 💎 that it ended at 04:09 too!
This is literally INSANE. You’re my new favorite band.
I've been binge-listening to songs from the channel for the past day since discovering it. Still in awe.
Man, this is high on the list of the best songs you've covered. This is a banger
I've had this on repeat for an hour now. I could listen to a whole album of your Taylor Swift covers!
This is so good! I have goosebumps. As a mirrorbal stan, a swiftie, someone who grew up with pop punk, and now a folk girlie, this is amazing! 💜🖤
I just went back and watched all of your Taylor covers - my mid-'00s high school emo self is LIVING. I would fr buy every album if you ever did full album covers
I heard this cover before even hearing the original song and it’s now one of my favorite Taylor swift songs. But to your credit I still like your version even better 😎
The fact that this showed up in Recommended 13 days after it was first uploaded is fate.
Woah that intro made me think of 2000s OPM (Original Pinoy Music) and it just hit me with such a strong wave of nostalgia from my childhood listening to those type of songs on the radio. Thank you :>
I recently realized that Taylor swift is literally just pop punk music without the crunchy instrumentals…or vice versa. And you keep proving it by covering all her songs as pop punk songs and I’m instantly like “oh well yeah I like this” haha. Another home run man.
1:04 mannnnn i just got chills
Mirrorball - an underrated song. Thanks for giving justice to this song 🥰
Love it. Gotta give a plug for speeding up to 1.25 speed tho. Feels just a bit more pop punk-y
Ridiculously good! Getting some Dashboard vibes.
This is awesome my dude!
Omg!! I've been waiting for you to post this on Spotify and the algorithm blessed me on UA-cam!
2:35 mirrorrrr hanging onto it perfectly
This is awesome! Mirrorball is one of the songs that I liked the concept of, but it failed to connect with me production-wise. This version does it for me though!
The lyric was here:
I want you to know
I'm a mirrorball
I'll show you every version of yourself tonight
I'll get you out on the floor
Shimmering beautiful
And when I break it's in a million pieces
Hush
When no one is around, my dear
You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes
Spinning in my highest heels, love
Shining just for you
Hush
I know they said the end is near
But I'm still on my tallest tiptoes
Spinning in my highest heels, love
Shining just for you
I want you to know
I'm a mirrorball
I can change everything about me to fit in
You are not like the regulars
The masquerade revelers
Drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten
Hush
When no one is around, my dear
You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes
Spinning in my highest heels, love
Shining just for you
Hush
I know they said the end is near
But I'm still on my tallest tiptoes
Spinning in my highest heels, love
Shining just for you
And they called off the circus
Burned the disco down
When they sent home the horses
And the rodeo clowns
I'm still on that tightrope
I'm still trying everything to get you laughing at me
I'm still a believer but I don't know why
I've never been a natural
All I do is try, try, try
I'm still on that trapeze
I'm still trying everything
To keep you looking at me
Because I'm a mirrorball
I'm a mirrorball
I'll show you every version of yourself
Tonight
this is SO pop goes punk! and I am living for it, so good! the prechorus was my favorite part holy shit
I just came back to this! You need to do the whole album! This is so good!
Your voice is so good!!
Goddamn this is so good. I listen to all your TS covers a lot but Cardigan and The 1 in particular. I'm now trying to imagine in my head how you'd do the other Folklore songs.
Holy crap… this is FIRE. Will defo be playing this on repeat from now on! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I’m a fan!
I will forever love your work on these. I hope it’s as fulfilling creating these as it is to hear them. Nicely done brother.
Did Taylor time travel to my high school years and give my favorite bands these lyrics? 😭 Please do more!
With songs like haunted, story of us, should have said no and better than revenge, taylor swift could definitely make a rock influenced album. It would be really cool to watch her fully embrace the rock genre.
You simply do not miss. Insane.
I love covers like this anyone could have done a popular Taylor song but you picked a lost gem of a track that doesn’t get enough love you killed it!! 🤘🏼
Wooowww!! Never thought it fits perfectly!! 🤩✨✨ we want more please!
Even though I love pop punk, I love TS, and didn't expect to like this, but I do! Nice job. This song is one of her best, for me. But, I love so many of her songs. She's an incredible songwriter.
I love this so much! The vocals are great and the instrumentals are on a whole another level!
Its also my fav song from the album! Theres something magica about it
This goes unnaturally hard
I always come back to this video... This cover of Mirrorball is probably your best Taylor Swift cover ever! I hope you do the whole folklore/evermore album, that would be fucking amazing. Love all of your works
Your mixes are freaking great dude. Cheers from Memphis
Dude, you're awesome! I love your Taylor Swift Punk rock versions! Thank you for sharing your talent!
Loving all the Pop Punk remakes!
this is so sick! its on repeat! mirrorball is my fave song on folklore im sobbing so hard rn
I really think she could do it and do it well. I mean better than revenge, haunted, and her performance of we are never getting back together on the 1989 world tour show that she could do rock with ease. I want a pop punk album from Taylor so badly
The other day, the original "Mirrorball" came on, and My initial reaction was "oh cool, a cover of an Alex Melton song!" This rocks!!!
Yey new upload! Love ittt!! 😍😍😍
Such a great cover! Praying she’ll get to hear it.
This is actually my favourite Taylor Swift song !! Love your covers sm 💕
ok im gonna be obsessed with this for the unforseable future
UPDATE: ive listened to this so much i can't listen to the original anymore. perfection !
I have goosebumps. This is one of my favorites from blondie and I am obsessed with this cover!! I need more!!
THIS IS SO GOOD i love how you arrange the bridge part!!!
Perfection! Wish you could cover more of hers.
You know, if Taylor had been born just 5 years earlier, she probably would have had a pop punk era.
This is one of my top 3 TS songs and this is an INCREDIBLE cover. I think I love this more than the original. Damn.
Dude this is an absolute banger. Well done mate!!!
Always love to see a tswift cover
Folklore is no Red/1989 but I do love Folklore. Great reimagining though, Alex. Loving all your shit lately.
What an incredible version….! Continue like this! ❤
I feel like this would have been even better and somehow even more pop-punk if it had been in second-person POV from the dude's perspective of the girl. It's very "I'm an observant quiet punkboy with a soft side and I see how you are shining but also I get you on a ~deeper level" Like look at this he said/she said chorus...
I said "Hush, when no one is around, my dear"
I'd find you on your tallest tiptoes
Spinning in your highest heels, love
Shining just for me
You said "Hush, I know they said the end is near
But I'm still on my tallest tiptoes
Spinning in my highest heels, love
Shining just for you."