Album

1989 Taylor

🇺🇸 Taylor Swift

📅 2014 Pop

⭐ 8.9/10

📖 About this album

The album that completed Taylor Swift's transition from country star to global pop icon. With Shake It Off, Blank Space and Bad Blood, she built a strand of 1980s-inflected pop with real sophistication. It won the Grammy for Album of the Year for a second time, confirming her grip on commercial pop.

📝 Our review

1989 was Taylor Swift's most calculated reinvention: leaving country behind, embracing eighties synth-pop and conquering the global mainstream. Max Martin and Shellback's production dominates the album with impeccable hooks. "Shake It Off," "Blank Space" and "Style" are high-level pop engineering. The album has a coherence of sound and purpose her previous work didn't always achieve. Swift as author is here more ironic and more aware of her own public image.

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