Album Review: Taylor Swift 1989

Taylor Swift: Shake it Off 

Artist:  Taylor Swift
Album: 1989
Point of Purchase: iTunes (pre-order baby!!)
Price: $12.99

Thoughts:  Okay, not even going to lie, I've been excited and on the edge of my seat for this album since I head "Shake It Off" awhile back... you know when Kelly Clarkson posted the link to the video on her Facebook page. I'm 33 years old and dancing in my seat like a tweenager.  Last night I watched an episode of the Graham Norton show simply because Tswizzle was a guest on his couch, and there's an InStyle magazine on my BF's couch that she graces the cover of. I feel like I should be embarrassed at the extent of my fangirlishness when it comes to Miss T, but really, I'm not.  I want to bake cookies and talk about boys with her... is that weird? Probably... I'm going to go ahead and embrace the fantasy. My name is Lauren, and I'm a Swifty. 

Track Listing/Favorite Lines:

1. Welcome to New York: Everybody here wanted something more
   Searching for a sound we hadn’t heard before
2. Blank Space: darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream
3. Style: Cause You got that James Dean day dream look in your eye
   And I got that red lip classic thing that you like
   And when we go crashing down, we come back in every time.
   Cause we never go out of style
4. Out of the Woods: The night we couldn’t quite forget
   When we decided
   To move the furniture so we could dance
   Baby, like we stood a chance
   Two paper airplanes flying
5. All You Had To Do Was Stay: people like me wanna believe you when you say you've changed
6. Shake It Off: Just think while you been getting down and out about the liars
   And the dirty dirty cheats of the world
   You could have been getting down to this sick beat
7. I Wish You Would: I wish you know that I miss too much to be mad anymore
8. Bad Blood: Band-aids don't fix bullet holes
9. Wildest Dreams: Say you'll see me again even if it's just in your wildest dreams
10. How You Get The Girl: I want you for worse or for better
11. This Love: This love is a life back from the dead
12. I Know Places: Lose lips, ships sink, all the damn time, not this time
    Just grab my hand and don't ever drop it
    My love, they are the hunters, we are the foxes
    And we run
13. Clean: And that morning, gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean

Bonus Tracks: Ms Swift is releasing more songs to iTunes 

1. Wonderland: In the end in Wonderland we both went mad

This album is so fun, and well worth the wait... It's not on Spotify yet, or I would have linked the whole album, but seriously, go drop the $13 and get your own copy. You too could be getting down to this sick beat. 

Album Reviews: Gary and Taylor

So I think I want to start reviewing the music I purchase (but only whole albums, not the singles I impulse purchase), I'll try to include where I bought them, how much I paid, links so that you can purchase one if you so choose, my favorite lines from each song, and of course what I thought of the album as a whole. I'll also include link's the the artist's homepage if you want more info on the individual/group reviewed.

 Gary Allan: Set You Free

Point of Purchase: iTunes
Price: $9.99
You can find Gary's album on Spotify if you want to preview it prior to purchasing. However if you're a GA fan it isn't necessary. I think most of my favorite albums have found me just at the right time. This is definitely one of the best "break up" albums ever. It has a good beat, great lyrics, and songs that I can listen to over and over again. This is one of the rarities where EVERY SINGLE SONG is fantastic, now I do love some more than others, but there isn't a bad one in the mix. I was impatient for a new Gary album and it was so worth the wait.

1. Tough Goodbye "I know I won’t find anyone better, I can’t keep runnin’ forever"
2. Every Storm Runs Out of Rain "Go find a new rose, don't be afraid of the thorns, 'Cause we all have thorns"
3. Bones "Well I've been out here diggin' a hole,
   I'm gonna push you in nice and slow, Well maybe you're thinkin' I'm your fool, Well maybe I'm diggin' this hole for you!"
4. It Ain't The Whiskey "I done all I could to drown this hurt inside, but I can't wash you off of my mind.."
5. Sand in My Soul "I hate to say I'm glad you broke my heart, And I hate to say it isn't tearing me apart, But I love the way this tiki bar is somehow never closed"
6. You Without Me "Don’t think you ever looked more beautiful, And you’ve never been more gone"
7. One More Time "Just wanna make sure, That I did it all right, I just wanna make sure, I loved and cared and gave with all my might"
8. Hungover Heart "don't get hung up on forever, 'cause there ain't no such, don't get strung out on on a woman because coming down is the hardest part"
9. No Worries "If life brings rain, we'll grow roses, It don't matter what life throws us"
10. Drop "Drop, raindrop fallin' from the sky like magic, Can you feel it in the air, Drop, you oughta drop on by 'cause it's warm inside, And there's a storm out there"
11. Pieces "We've all been lied to,  We've all been liars, Nothing's perfect in this world,  Everybody's been burned by the fire"
12. Good As New "Since I've met you, I'm good as new"
     

 

Taylor Swift: Red

Point of Purchase: Starbucks (yes, I was impulsed)
Price: $12.95
This is an album I've been looking at since it came out months ago. I really enjoy Taylor's music as much as I make fun of it. Most of the time it's just country poppy and a guilty pleasure. Again I feel like this one found it's way into my possession at the perfect time. It's also a bit of a break up album, but has songs you can laugh with, dance to, and just sing at the top of your lungs. A friend of mine asked me what I felt the genre of this album was, and I couldn't do it. The best I could come up with was "It's just Taylor" and I think that describes it perfectly. The song Red speaks to my heart in ways that not many songs do, I could listen to it over and over and it wouldn't get old...just ask my co-worker, I'm pretty sure he was ready to slap the Taylor right out of me by the end of the day on Friday (the day I bought it).

1. State of Grace "love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right"
2. Red "remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes, tell myself it's time to let go, but moving on from him is impossible when I still see it all in my head in burning red"
3. Treacherous "I can't decide if it's a choice, getting swept away, I hear the sound of my own voice, asking you to stay"
4. I Knew You Were Trouble "no apologies, he'll never see you cry, pretends he doesn't know that he's the reason why, you're drowning, you're drowning..."
5. All To Well "maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much, but maybe this thing was a masterpiece, till you tore it all up, running scared, I was there"
6. 22 "you don't know about me, but I'll be you want to"
7. I Almost Do "I confess baby, in my dreams, you're touching my face, and asking me if I want to try again with you, and I almost do"
8. We Are Never Ever (Getting Back Together) "like ever"
9. Stay Stay Stay "before you I'd only dated self indulgent takers, who took all their problems out on me"
10. The Last Time, featuring Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol "right before your eyes, I'm breaking, no past, no reasons why, just you and me"
11. Holy Ground "I don't want to dance, if I'm not dancing with you"
12. Sad Beautiful Tragic "time is taking it's sweet time erasing you"
13. The Lucky One "they tell you that you're lucky but you're so confused 'cause you don't feel pretty, you just feel used"
14. Everything Has Changed featuring Ed Sheeran "all I know is we said hello and your eyes look like coming home"
15. Starlight "we dream impossible dreams"
16. Begin Again "all love ever does is break and burn and end"