Taylor Swift - 1989 (2014) {Big Machine Records Deluxe Edition}
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Pop / Adult Contemporary / Dance Pop
When she
announced 1989 a few months prior to its October 2014 release, Taylor
Swift called her sixth record her first "documented, official" pop
album, explicitly severing herself from her country roots. Truth be
told, Swift already made the leap from country to pop with 2012's Red, a
nominally country LP distinguished by three songs co-written and
produced by Max Martin and Shellback, a team that returns for twice that
number on 1989 (Martin has one additional non-Shellback co-write with
Swift). Taylor is rarely without co-writers here: only "This Love"
belongs to her alone, with the other major collaborators being
OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, fun.'s Jack Antonoff, and Imogen Heap. This
busy kitchen is typical of modern pop albums, as is the incessant gleam
of 1989's steely productions, every element of which blinds when caught
in the sun.
Swift claims she patterned the album's sound after the MTV-ready sound
of the year 1989, and while some cuts are conceivably anchored in the
era of Debbie Gibson and George Michael -- "Shake It Off" is giddy on
the momentum of its own pom-poms, the bonus track "New Romantics"
effectively conjures the ghost of 1983 new wave, "Out of the Woods"
veers into territory previously pioneered by one-video wonder T'Pau
(their big hit "Heart and Soul" arrived in 1987, two years before
Taylor's year zero) -- this is a modern album through and through. The
heavy presence of Martin, who wound up producing all the vocals along
with half the record, is something of a feint. Swift tailored 1989 after
Tedder's patterns, constructing nearly every one of the album's 13
tracks as a glassy, imposing skyscraper that deliberately casts its
shadow upon on its predecessor. Considering that this album begins with
the fanfare of "Welcome to New York," an anthem for carpetbaggers
reaping the spoils of rampant gentrification, that progressive
escalation in size is something to behold, even if the towering scale
winds up slightly overwhelming. Warmth, which previously was a hallmark
of Swift's, has largely been substituted by belligerent ice: 1989
emphasizes its reflective surfaces, the hyperactive rhythm tracks --
dance by definition but rarely danceable in practice (the effervescent
"How You Get the Girl" is an exception) -- functioning as an aural
accent to the surging synthesizers and processed vocals. Underneath the
digital clatter lie some sturdy songs because, at her core, Swift is a
canny songsmith, but 1989 isn't a record about songs, it's all about
sonic style. Taylor telegraphed as much when she called it an "official
pop record" and its problems lie in the details, not the big picture.
Undoubtedly, she has the charisma and chops to be convincing on both
bubblegum and ballads but 1989 is something else entirely: a cold,
somewhat distant celebration of all the transient transparencies of
modern pop, undercut by its own desperate desire to be nothing but a
sparkling soundtrack to an aspirational lifestyle.
tracklist:
01. Welcome To New York
02. Blank Space
03. Style
04. Out Of The Woods
05. All You Had To Do Was Stay
06. Shake It Off
07. I Wish You Would
08. Bad Blood
09. Wildest Dreams
10. How You Get The Girl
11. This Love
12. I Know Places
13. Clean
Bonus Tracks:
14. Wonderland
15. You Are In Love
16. New Romantics
My Songwriting Song Memos:
17. I Know Places (Piano/Vocal)
18. I Wish You Would (Track/Vocal)
19. Blank Space (Guitar/Vocal)
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