She has moved on from country music, moved on from the albumâ€™s subject, relocated to New York City, and written a song about that too.

Win-win.Â*Īlthough 1989 tells the story of a failed relationship, itâ€™s really about Swiftâ€™s newfound independence. And then, all of the people who enjoyed the lead single will buy the album too. (Think â€œWe Are Never Ever Getting Back Togetherâ€ from RED.) This way, everyone tunes in for the full album release to make sure she can still write a song with depth. Swift releases the most radio friendly, pop-oriented song to promote a record. But this is a scare that happens with all Swift albums. â€œCherry lips, crystal skies,â€ she sings, detailing the honeymoon part of a relationship that, according to the media, inevitably leads to Swift revealing sheâ€™s a â€œnightmare dressed like a daydream.â€ At first, 1989 seemed like it would be a nightmare dressed like a daydream as well, when the bubbly lead single â€œShake It Offâ€ came out. Swift transcends existing narratives especially on â€œBlank Spaceâ€ where she parodies the â€œcrazy ex-girlfriendâ€ character the media assigned to her. â€œAnd thatâ€™s how it works, thatâ€™s how you get the girl,â€ Swift sings. â€œHow You Get the Girlâ€ is quite literally a song about relationships about relationships.

Rhyming â€œbad bloodâ€ with â€œmad loveâ€ is probably something Swift did with a chuckle, and that people who arenâ€™t totally mindless will sing along to with a chuckle. (Except for the paper airplane necklace on â€œOut of the Woods.â€) â€œBad Blood,â€ which Swift confessed isnâ€™t about a relationship, knows itâ€™s a campy chant about a one-dimensional emotion. This unique quality substitutes for Swiftâ€™s journalistic detail, mostly absent on this album. Final track â€œCleanâ€ shows her moving on from an ex, but not into the arms of someone else, like on REDâ€™S album closer â€œBegin Again.â€ Although most of 1989â€™s songs are about a typical on again-off again relationship, they feel meta. The album named for Taylor Swiftâ€™s birth year signals a rebirth, both genre-wise and as a person. She told Rolling Stone, when asked about her decision to write a full pop album: â€œIf you chase to chickens you lose them both.â€ The â€œsonic cohesionâ€ of 1989 was inspired by Swiftâ€™s loss at the Grammys in 2014 (Album of the Year for RED). RED experimented with pop, country, soft rock, and dubstep. Swift is prone to experimenting with many different styles. 1989 is the most sonically cohesive- to use her own words- album Swift has created thus far, which shows her ambition for the project. They make â€œStyleâ€ feel like a tense midnight drive with an ex, and â€œWildest Dreamsâ€ feel like youâ€™re teetering on the edge of an emotional high dive, but still admiring the view. Swift noted in an interview with NPR that Peter Gabriel was ahead of his time by using synth beats and snare drums- something she and producers Max Martin and Shellback employ heavily on 1989. But weâ€™ve never seen Taylor Swift rise above in this way before.ġ989 was named for the year Taylor was born, and itâ€™s inspired by the music of that decade. Itâ€™s one of the reasons she gets so much critical attention despite the fact that her biggest audience is teenagers. She has always risen above her peers in terms of songwriting. The New York Times said that by making pop without any contemporary references, Swift aimed higher than her peers. A pop album didn't surprise anyone coming from Taylor Swift, but she embraced a mainstream sound in an off-center, novel, yet knowingly conventional way. Review Summary: 1989 is Taylor Swift's Meta Pop Triumphġ989 announced itself on the pop scene like an explosion.

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