But of course, Taylor Swift is here to the rescue. With the release of her latest album, 1989, many people including myself were excited for what she has to offer. She announced that she was going on a full-pop record this time around.This isn't new since her previous albums had a tinge of pop, but this time, she is doing it completely.
Some say this would alienate her country fanbase and damage her sales. Some were very supportive of her move and sees it as an opportunity widen her fanbase.
Regardless of the move,the latest news reports claim that the latest album is confirmed to have sold a million copies already,and if she's lucky, she's on track to break a record for the highest selling album in the first week for a female.The current highest female album who has the album sold around 1.3 million. The latest news says 1989 is projected to sell around 1.25 million copies. It's going to be close for sure and it got the whole music industry excited. Her previous two albums have also sold more than a million in the first week so she already made history by selling three consecutive albums with a million first week sales.
I haven't got my physical copy of the album yet, but I already downloaded it and have been listening to it for the past week.
The album has 13 album tracks with 3 bonus tracks included in the deluxe edition plus 3 voice memos of her explaining her song writing process.
I'm not really supportive of Taylor going full-on pop despite being a huge fan, which explains my distaste for her previous album, Red.
The lead single, Shake It Off, was very generic but it was a success. Spent at least 2 at the top of the charts and it is still getting a lot of airplay. It was pretty much an in-your-face song dedicated to all those who are criticizing her every time. A little refreshing to have a lead single not about love or break-up.
I actually liked this pop effort from Taylor. Though not exactly what I wanted, it's still better than Red.
Style is supposedly about her ex-boyfriend, Harry Styles, and it is one of my current faves from the album.
Blank Space seems to be an early fan-fave based on the iTunes chart and I'm not surprised why. It has a fun beat and the song is directed at the media who always sensationalize her private life as well as her love life.
This Love and Wildest Dreams have this ethereal feel to it and can be soothing. Out Of The Woods is a song which she made together with Jack Antonoff. The production and verses are great but the lyrics are very repetitive. It also includes a track reportedly a diss at fellow singer,Katy Perry,called Bad Blood which was very hyped prior to its release. Katy is the last person I'd expect Taylor to have a feud with but the result is not that great. The song doesn't have direct attacks where you can identify who she is talking about. The song underwhelms but it's not necessarily a badly written song.
As a pop album, it has a lot of head bopping tracks including How You Get The Girl,I Wish You Would and the bonus tracks like New Romantics and Wonderland.
It also has its cheesy moments like Clean and Welcome To New York. But what I am definitely missing is the lack of a powerful ballad. There's really no track that can match with the epicness of All Too Well or Enchanted.
Overall, it's better than other pop albums from her peers and she deserves the success. This isn't really the Taylor that the world deserves but it's what it needs right now.
Top Tracks: Style, All You Had To Do Was Stay, and I Wish You Would
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