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  • Better than taylor

  • ok seriously who cares about views? if you look at the views from knocking on heavens door, vs the avril cover, im sure she wins, but although its great, it cant beat the original...

  • this is my favorite song... even when it is a cover!

    LOVE YOU <3

  • holy crap this song gets better every time i play it

  • I luuvvvv taylor swift, but I have to say this version is better than hers. sorry tay :( I still like her cover though.

  • I wonder who Harold and Maude are. :) I love the line "You were writing backwards in a dusty windowpane." It's so heartbreaking. :'(

    Kudos to these guys for writing this song; it's incredible but I prefer Taylor's as it has the two sections of the bridge together. I just think that works better structurally. Sorry. :/

  • @05clarkn

    Harold and Maude is a classic movie from the early 70's.

  • Everyone keeps saying this one is better, and by no means am I agreeing or disagreeing, but Taylor's has many more views, so I'll that speak for itself.

  • @taylorlovesyou2232 justin bieber has 500 million views, are you saying he's better than everyone?

  • @Hanson032 Not everyone, but clearly his songs are more popular than others.

  • how can someone dislike this song?

  • Honestly, there's not really 2 'versions' if there's not 2 RECORDED versions. You can't really compare the two because this is the ONE and ONLY recorded song, and Taylor's is just a really good cover:) So really, there's no comparison because one is a non-recorded cover. Now, if Glee or something did their own version, that would be a different story because they would've recorded it. xD

  • fraternity dudes are lame. this band is cool though. but really nobody gives a shit about your gay frat

  • obviously, better than ezra's verison is WAY better than Taylor Swift's. THEY created the song, not her!

  • my fav song in the hole wide world

  • taylor still needs singing lessons so that she can completely let go and sound just as passionate as this. seriously, she's gotten better from when she first started out, but she still has a long way to go. auto-tune makes it too easy for artists in the studios these days, they dont have to do any learning until they're on stage and thats just horrible

  • i think taylor really helped get ppl to listen to this song! but, both versions are amazing!! its an amazing song that makes me cry everytime i hear it! amazing =*)

  • ONE M0:00RE TIME !!

    

  • I LOVE this version and Taylor's.

  • i am a huge taylor swift fan.. but this is one song that she really shouldn't have redone.. her version doesn't TOUCH this version.

  • i love this song...

  • omg this song is amazing :) beautiful lyrics! <3

  • umm fuck taylor. she didnt write it. she cann back the hell off

  • @Tedcowful she never said she wrote it. that's why it's called a cover :)

  • taylor swift helped me discover them, so thank you taylor! luuuuuuuuuv this song!!!

  • Well because of Taylor I have discovered this music, so I think thats good & i liked her cover and I like this :) Everybody should just chill &be thankful it wasn't covered by Ke$ha or something haha :)

  • Don't get me wrong, I think Taylor Swift is pretty cool and all. But she needs to stick to writing her own songs.

  • @JenneyIGotYourNumber She writes almost all her songs. But does amazing covers too ^^

  • Taylor Swift's cover is also nice. But this is better because it's the original.

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  • anyone else found this song through taylor swift but accept this version is amazingly they better? why haven't i ever heard of better than ezra before?

  • it doesn't matter who wrote the bloody song, the point is it's fucking awesome.

  • Taylor Swift brought me here tbh, love her, love this song, and now love better tha ezra! xo

  • "stars collide and the earths alive" :) beautiful lyrics xx

  • i just always thought that if you kept this rock tempo, lyrics that barely make sense but still sound beautiful can be so good; i love this song when it's played by better than ezra :))

    not saying that i dont love me my t-swifty but she's done better covers than this XD

  • @StevenM92 don't b dissing Tay!!! She is AMAZING and I bet that she has more talent than u!!! She is better live than most singers!! Like Selena Gomez, 4 example.

  • I like the Taylor Swift version better. This is still a good though.

  • @HaileyVerge good? this is the original. haha ur welcome to&entitled2ur own opinion of course&i actually havent heard TaySwifts version. but i bet its hard2compare the two. &the originals usually always win. haha sorry but im pretty sure i like this version better, but im gonna go look up tayswifts version just so i can hear it&reaffirm my opinion that this is better. haha the 90s rocked. &TaySwift is okay but i still think BTE is well, Better. :P haha just2let u no, this is the original.

  • @KDOGG331 I already knew this was the original. I am a HUGE Taylor Swift fan so I naturally like her version. I just like this song in general.

  • @HaileyVerge ohhh. yeah, i think TSwifts ok and shes actually pretty talented but i just dont really like that version. Im a huge BTE fan, so naturally i like this version. haha but yeah me too, i just like the song in general. and sorry, my last comment was kind of rude. haha im sorry. :( but i actually just listened to TaySwifts version and I still like this version better. haha but were all entitled to our own opinions i guess. :)

  • @KDOGG331 You don't need to apologize, I didn't find your comment rude. You explained your opinion in a very nice way and explained that, even though you disagreed with me, it didn't really matter. Plus I'm use to people not liking Taylor as much as I do. So not-so-nice comments about her music don't really bother me.

  • @HaileyVerge ohh ok. thats good. lol well still though, I just felt like it was better to appologize rather than get into a stupid YT fight just in case u were one of those people2get offended by my comment. lol but yeah, i guess i did do a pretty nice job explaining it, again, kinda felt like i should though. lol &yeah, ur right so many people hate on TaySwift&stuff. I dont see y, shes not even bad, shes actually pretty talented i just dont listen2her that much. but glad ur used to it lol. :)

  • @HaileyVerge oh and sorry it took me so long to reply, it was late here (like 2am lol). and my parents made me go to bed so i didnt have time to reply cause i had to go. haha

  • @KDOGG331 Nope, no yt fights for me. It was late here too when I last commented you, we're prob in the same time zone.

  • @HaileyVerge same, i hate getting into YT fights, theyre stupid. lol and maybe. lol im on the east coast of the USA so the time zones eastern time, EST. you?

  • @KDOGG331 I'm on the east cost of Canada.

  • @HaileyVerge ohh cool, so we probably are in the same time zone then. :) haha

  • @StevenM92 George Weasley's left ear got sectumsepra'ed off. Suck it up.

  • Honeslty, it's hard to compare the two versions. This one was professionally recorded, whereas the only version I can find of Taylor's is one of her live acoustic performances. I'd like to see what Taylor would do with it if she recorded it. I love them both, though.

  • @Queenieio7 well put :)

  • Absolutely incredible song.

  • does this sound like howie day to anyone else?

  • I just fir the 1st time heard this song...and it was Taylor's version. I really liked it but then I realized it was a cover. I searched Better Than Ezra's version, and its sooooo much better! This is THEIR song! : ) Love ittt!!!

  • This song is awesome :D I need to listen to more of BTE's stuff.. ♥

  • Better Than Ezra owns this song in like every way possible... so so so good

  • i perconally like taylor's version of the song better because i absolutely love taylor!! but this one (i know its the original) isn't bad either :-)

  • personally I like Taylor Swift's version better.

    but that's probably cause I heard her's first.

    I tend to like the first version I hear of everything.

  • What other songs are like this by better than ezra?

  • @love2laughlive2love try listening to A Lifetime and I Do... my personal favorites

  • @girlgotsgobbler She went out with Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob, the werewolf. You're entitled to your opinion, but don't be rude and get your facts right.

  • oh, thats the original version? xD his voice is strange in some parts, but its ok, too ^^ haha i thought Better Than Ezra's a girlband xD

  • @111Thi I thought his voice was iffy too! Having said that, I don't think Taylor's a particularly incredible singer, but she's still my favourite singer/songwriter. :L

  • this song is so good :) i like both versions taylor swifts and the original :) these guys should be bigger than they are they are really good :)

  • wait wtf the fucking beginning song was some shit by greenady

  • @magna378 greenady?

  • @mason6662006 yeah

  • taylor swift is amazing,

    everyone who's saying that she should stop singing or whatever you're all saying, it's like saying that you are not allowed to sing.. at all.

    pretty sure taylor swift has talent.

    and this song is really nice :)

  • I love this song so much.

  • I promised myself i wudn cry :( FU*CK LOVE ALL GUY DO IS LIE AND USE U

  • I actually like this version than Taylor's. Sorry, Taylor. : /

  • Just to make things clear, this is Better Than Ezra's song. Stop saying it's Taylor Swift's song. She's awful, and she needs to stay away from doing covers of songs by good bands.

  • @daigneaultc10 shes a lot more talented than you. i can promise you that.

  • @daigneaultc10 so true B.T.E owns

  • i like it..and i love taylor swift s her version is also very good

  • wow. i love it.

  • I LOVE THIS SONG,

    both the original and the cover by taylor!! :D

    they r both awesome <3

  • *.* this song it's amazing ..and this is an awesome cover

  • reminds me of jimmy eat worlds hear you me

  • ok now I see that there's a drum beat though out the whole song so maybe it's part of it but still kinda weird and still kinda confused... haha

  • wait, kind of confused... why are there drums in te very beginning and then it immediately stops, is that part of this song or did you have a different song playing before? it doesn't matter cause it's still a great song/band but I'm just wondering cause I'm a little confused by that... : / haha thanks

  • I like Taylor's cover, but this is amazing<3

  • i like both versions

  • Someone should tab the tab part of this song at the bridge at 0:43 - 0:51

  • Taylor Swift is my fav singer but this version is much better than Taylors! Its got more feeling in it and it touches your heart more than taylors version

  • hey guys, check out taylor swifts version, its really good :) this one is still awesome though, and just to let you know the songs about his girlfriend moved and he misses all the things that they did, he lost his faith in her after she left him :...(

  • both versions are good...taylors is better cos it suits her more.

    <3 taylor

  • I generally enjoy Taylor Swift's songs but she doesn't hold a candle to Kevin Griffin

  • Tylor Swift sucks! BTE is much better than her! for sure!!

  • DITTO!!! no argument there!

  • I thought this song was pretty good, and see that is was covered by Taylor Swift. I don't listen to country, but Taylor Swift looks super hot, so I figured she would rock this song. But, surprisingly, BTE, kicked her ass.

  • You know I've only heard about Better Than Ezra by Taylor Swift.

    Funny, huh?

    I think both versions are great.

  • @CreativeLouise45 samee....lol

  • lol:P

  • omg me too!! and i love them!

  • @paulina961 I think they're pretty good, just not something i'd listen to all day. i've bben a fan of TAylor Swift's for a long time :-B

  • @CreativeLouise45 the same xD

  • @daemonsk8 awesome!=]

  • Taylor Swift stop covering Better than Ezra. BTE is better. As a long time BTE fan, it hurts me to heart Taylor covering their songs.

  • @Philosophyuser if she enjoys their music she can cover them if she would like to!

  • WOW!

    5*

    <3

  • confused.

    who wrote this song?

  • better than ezra

  • @sk8rboy1091 i think taylor swift's one is so much better nut hey thats me and also to me she wrote it (even thought she didn't0 <3

  • @1011taylorswift ew, taylor swift sucks. dont get me wrong, i love her songs, but shes a bad singer. this version is a THOUSAND times better than hers

  • @kitimastr yeah this version is a lot better but you dont have the right to say EW 'cause you can't sing like she can...if you can outshine her, then that's the time you have the right to say EW! get it?!

  • @quEroNie i have every right to say ew, its my own opinion. dont get me wrong, i like her and all, just shes not very good at singing

  • @kitimastr I'm sure you're like 50 times better right? ... people with no talent shouldn't critisize

  • @SqnF i never said i have talent. and i can criticize all i want, but its just my own opinion. you dont have to get all hot and heavy about it.

  • @kitimastr couldnt agree with you more

  • @sk8rboy1091 yes better than ezra wrote this song. 

  • @charlieismadeofbrick its by better than ezra, but taylor swift did a cover of it.

  • ..im confused..i thought taylor swift made this song??

  • definitely not, she just sang a cover of it

  • I think artists would do better to quit all this covering crap. Be original with your music and quit riding on the coattails of someone better than you are. Perhaps you can use the song as inspiration for an original work, that's a little bit better. But I'm so sick of artists like Jason Derulo, Flo Rida, etc. taking other people's songs because they aren't creative enough to come up with their own.

  • hey now, sometimes covers are good... just not all of them

  • @sk8rboy1091 sooo tru!! like taylor's cover of this is good!!

  • actually, the part where i said "... just not all of them" was referring to taylors remake... but hey, different people have different tastes in what is and isnt good

  • taylors cover of this song sucks !

  • @glen245nc She sounds like she had a sore throat and if she wanted to PROPERLY cover the song she easily could have? It sounds like more of a tribute that she made when she a while ago with her camera than an official cover to be honest so :/

  • @crosscountrytc naw naw naw... aperfectcircle has an amazing album almost all covers, and none of the covers sound ANYTHING like the original.

  • @crosscountrytc i love this version of the song, but if you are saying that taylor swift isnt creative enough to come up with her own songs.... that is wrong in so many ways lol

  • sigh taylor swift is good at covering but no match for Better Than Ezra!!

  • i think taylor swift likes better then ezra.

    she does lots of covers of theres.

    but taylors is always better,i guess because i love her. <3

  • this version is better... why? Taylor's voice wasnt as soft in her version, the person singing this song has a much softer voice and can keep the notes...

  • your right.

  • Love this song ...love this version and the one Taylor Swift made :)

    <3

  • Anyone know any other songs like this?

  • @CameronpaigeX Try Semisonic "Closing time" ;)

  • @zaiboi, that sounds more like "good" by better than ezra.

  • or "Misunderstood" by Better than Ezra :)

  • I love this song, really do. It's amazing! The melody, the lyrics, the voice! Perfect really. Though I do really love Taylor, I think that her cover can't match up to the original here even though it does has it good points. =]

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  • i think both versions are great! each of them has their own style

  • i love the part when it goes:

    i was waving as you drove away,

    sunlight was fallin,

    you were

    writing backwards in a dusty windowpane.......

  • @iseriouslylovewaffel

    I actually dont get that part.. Lol

  • i dont get why @ the beggining, theres like drum beats then on a completely different note, they play something different. its like they didnt mean to play that and they wanted to start over---so they did haha

  • Lol, that's a good point.XD

    It's like "Your Beautiful" where he sings one line and then a bunch of music plays and then he finally continues with the rest of the song.XD

    Weard Al Yankovic made a good point when he made "you're pitiful"

  • i LOVE this song soooo much!!!!!! i cant decide who sings it better: taylor swift or better than ezra

  • i LOVE taylor swift...

    but nothing can touch this version!!!!

  • i love the lyrics. :)

    but i really dont mind who sings it.

    both are pretty good.

    taylor can just be the girl version

    like t-pain and jojo i think.

    both greattttt. :D

  • Both versions are goodd.

  • i love taylors verision but this has so much more depth love it

  • taylor swift did this song better? hello? there must be something wrong with your ears? or maybe you're just a die hard swift fan that you don't recognize what's good and what's better anymore? lol. the original versions better. no argument about that.

  • and someone should really do a piano cover of this.

  • I love the into with the guitar strumming and all.

  • it is awsome

  • i love this song!!

    taylor swift did an AMAZING cover but i still like this to! i love the lyrics!!

  • I lovez this song!!

  • I love this song...Thank You for sharing it <3

  • yea

  • yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this song isnt as like..meaningful..it sounds like a song in a church lol

  • awesome

  • i love this song! taylor swift did a really good cover of it ttoo

  • I love both versions <3

  • love this song!

  • this song has more emotion than taylors version

  • i lov both versions

  • love this song :)

  • just heard taylor swifts version, wow is it craptastic, totally unimaginative, did no justice or respec to BTE. BTE is by far the better, and they are the orignal so the saying holds true

  • what do you mean unimaginitive?

  • There's a second guitar in this...I wanna know the tabs to it.

  • i love this song - taylor seems to put more emotion into it somehow, so i prefer her version, though i love both

  • This song is soo good! I do prefer Taylors Version but nothing against BTE because their version is amazing!

  • can sommone putt it in karaoky plz plz lol butt very good song i love it !!!!

  • i like taylors :]

  • i love this song now i just like found it and it was really good and still is (:

  • their original , taylor did a cover but bte is still better, nothing againt taylor though i still luv her singing

  • original from them :)

  • is this an original from them? or taylor swift sung it first?

    xiXi =3

  • its theirs, taylor swift just did a cover on it

  • wow. thank you for the info. =3

  • some how thins song feels soo deep