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Catswas just nominated for a Golden Globe, did you hear?
Sadly not for Best Motion Picture, but for Best Original Song for Taylor Swifts Beautiful Ghosts.
Here, our staff discusses the highs and lows of the tune.
Its also written in the style of T.S.
Eliot, because as Taylor herself put it, If you cant get T.S.
Eliot, get T.S.
But are the beautiful ghosts any good?
Vulture cat andCats-lovers and haters, yo weigh in.
The stars fall … upward?
And there are what are probably supposed to be London-ish cityscapes.
Madison Malone Kircher: I cannot decide what is more haunting.
Rebecca Alter:CHONCES.
RA:A word most pleasing to mine ears.
The creativity that that has!
There is a Beautiful Ghost haunting Europe the Beautiful Ghost… of communism.
KV: Help me out just in a reading comprehension sort of way: What is this songabout?
Theres ghosts, and they are beautiful.
But also shes not going to be haunted anymore?
Therearememories, but also, no more memories?
JDF: Dead cats.
The songs about beautiful, dead cats.
And Victoria is expressing that as a young cat, she wishes she had those experiences?
She achieved the assignment.
Its like, I cant believe the song Taylor Swift wrote for the film version ofCatsis corny.
RA:Thank you, Jesse!
There are dozens of us.
MMK:There are two of you.
MMK:We taught a neural connection to write aCatssong!
MMK: What do you mean?Evitais totally singable.
JM: Patti LuPone wouldlikelove totalk tobelt atyou about that.
MKK: I wouldlikelove totalk tobelt at Patti LuPone about that.
Patti, call me.
RA:Tay is competing in an age of risky high notes, sometimes yougotta get cocky.
I think the Ghost is her leaping for that note and falling off a cliff.
And the trying and failing?
Thats what makes the ghost Beautiful.
MMK:Sometimes anything resembling a vibrato helps, in the absence of cockiness.
ALW, write a high E flat into Beautiful Ghosts!
MMK:To get very particular this taps out around a … B I think?
RA:Let it ghooooooost, let it ghoooooooost!
We have to assume thisll at least be in contention, right?
JDF: Just played it for my cat.
Her review: She doesnt sing about dry food enough.
To be fair, thats her review of all music.
RA:Problem here is youve gotta grade this song on a curve.
The curve being songs fromCats.
Thats not the highest bar to clear, but I dont think Beautiful Ghosts passes it.
ALW has already gotten that Oscar, so maybe the ambition isnt there.
So its not justchonces!
RA:Bwahhwn into nothing …
The accent really makes it a spiritual successor to London Boy, uh,innit?
MMK:Cats, dont threaten me with a good time!
Is Taylor trying to make Francescas accent?
Will Francescas version be even better?
Is it a Demi Lovato Let It Go and Idina Menzel Let It Go situation?
We have to wait until were let into theextremely delayedCatspress screeningsto know.
Demoting it to a B- because its not as good as what Jesse McCartney would have written.
