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90
Swift, like anyone, is a hostage to her own experience, but she’s also capable of being a witness to it, able to see a relationship—even as it shrinks further and further away in her vision—for what it was rather than what it couldn’t be.
83
Musically, it’s bigger and bolder than anything she’s ever done in the pop world.
70
The great hook, the reason Swift’s new sounds and energies rarely if ever fall flat, is that the album’s biggest pop release may as also be its saddest song.
70
For all its manufactured essence, Red remains firmly grounded at the crossroads between innocence and experience.
70
It shows an artist who continues to gain in confidence and ability and excitingly suggests that Taylor Swift’s best work is yet to come.
60
At 16 songs long, Red could use more editing and streamlining with a less-is-more mindset as a guiding principle, particularly since the quieter numbers—which also happen to be some of the album’s strongest moments—get lost in the sound and fury of Swift’s grand gestures.
As many of you might know, I’m a Swiftie, and have been for almost a decade. Taylor’s work has touched me more than any other artist has. Her songs are fun and catchy, but not without her signature descriptive imagery unlike any other pop artists of our time. Before Red, she was widely known as a country star, an extremely successful one at that. Selling millions of copies with each album, loads of hits under her belt (‘Tim McGraw’, ‘Love Story’, ‘You ... read more
A estrela country mantém sua essência enquanto se aventura no mundo pop na fórmula mais pura que ela já experimentou, Red é um retrato interessante de uma artista em transição.
Red é o quarto disco da cantora e compositora americana Taylor Swift, é um disco que marca a transição da estrela para o pop, mesmo que o pop sempre esteve de certa forma nítido em suas canções, em Red ela faz uma excelente ... read more
Red é o quarto disco da cantora e compositora americana Taylor Swift, é um disco que marca a transição da estrela para o pop, mesmo que o pop sempre esteve de certa forma nítido em suas canções, em Red ela faz uma excelente ... read more
Taylor Swift did it before it was cool, Carti
Gunna made that rather lovely young woman famous
Gunna made that rather lovely young woman famous
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| #19 | / | Stereogum |
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| #31 | / | Rolling Stone |
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Track List
- State of Grace
- Red
- Treacherous
- I Knew You Were Trouble
- All Too Well
- 22
- I Almost Do
- We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
- Stay Stay Stay
- The Last Time (featuring Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol)
- Holy Ground
- Sad Beautiful Tragic
- The Lucky One
- Everything Has Changed (featuring Ed Sheeran)
- Starlight
- Begin Again
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Added on: September 28, 2012