If there’s nothing as grandiose as “All Too Well” or “Dear John” or “Enchanted,” that’s because there wasn’t meant to be. (The precise equivalent would be Bon Jovi’s “I’ll Be There for You.”) On the killer finale, “Clean,” English singer Imogen Heap adds ethereal backup sighs to Swift’s electro melancholy (“You’re still all over me like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear anymore”). “This Love” brings back her most simpatico producer, Nathan Chapman, for the kind of tune that they were just starting to call a “power ballad” in 1989. “How You Get the Girl” mixes up the best of her old and new tricks, as she strums an acoustic guitar aggressively over Martin’s expert disco surge. The best moments come toward the end, when Swift shakes up the concept. In “Welcome to New York,” she finds herself in a place where “you can want who you want/Boys and boys, and girls and girls.” She hits cruise mode on the floor in “Blank Space” (“I can make the bad guys good for the weekend”) and the hilariously titled “Style,” where she swoons, “You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye.”
Max Martin produced seven of these 13 songs, and his beats provide the Saturday-night-whatever soundtrack as Swift sings about the single life in the big old city she always dreamed about. So rather than trying to duplicate the wide reach of Red, she focuses on one aspect of her sound for a whole album – a very Prince thing to do. But as every Eighties pop star knew, you don’t follow one epic with another – instead, you surprise everybody with a quick-change experiment. Red, from 2012, was her Purple Rain, a sprawling I-am-the-cosmos epic with disco banjos and piano ballads and dubstep drops. Swift has already written enough great songs for two or three careers. And she still has way too many feelings for the kind of dudes who probably can’t even spell “feelings.” But she’s still Taylor Swift, which means she’s dreaming bigger and oversharing louder than anyone else in the game. 1989 is a drastic departure – only a couple of tracks feature her trademark tear-stained guitar.
So on her fifth album, when she indulges her crush on Eighties synth-pop, she goes full blast, spending most of the album trying to turn herself into the Pet Shop Boys.
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Keep it Capital every Monday-Thursday from 10pm and Sunday from 7pm for Max's show You may also like.When Taylor Swift decides to do something, the girl really knows how to overdo it. It's not long to go Swifties… Taylor drops '1989' on 27th October! Bring it on! "He has heard a lot of the new album, he's got the inside scoop. I said, 'no, we're not making this about my music today, it's all about 'Sing' today', so now he's finally heard it alongside the rest of the world," she added. "Ed has heard a lot of the songs on the album but he hadn't heard the first single, because the time that I was going to play it for him it was the day that 'Sing' had just come out'. Taylor Swift On Ed Sheeran's Reaction To 'Shake It Off'. "What ended up happening was we made an album that really sounds like an album, it's really sonically cohesive, and I'm really proud of it."Īnd it sounds like Taylor's BFF Ed Sheeran has already heard most of '1989', here's hoping he lets a few tidbits slip in the coming months! "We were really just playing around with this album and didn't limit ourselves," Taylor explained. 'When you get into the album there are a lot of late eighties sounds and vocal stylings and production elements. "One of the things you can expect is that I'm really trying to challenge myself in every single way possible to make music that doesn't sound like music I've made before," Taylor revealed to Capital's Max. Taylor Swift teases her NEW album '1989'. Last month Taylor opened up exclusively to Capital about what fans can expect from the record. The album launches later this month after the huge release of her lead single 'Shake It Off'.
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