1989 - Deluxe Edition

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Feeney, Nolan (August 18, 2014). "Watch Taylor Swift Show Off Her Dance Moves in New 'Shake It Off' Video". Time. Archived from the original on January 30, 2019 . Retrieved February 4, 2019. a b c d e Christman, Ed; Caulfield, Keith; Gruger, William (November 7, 2014). "The Roadmap to Taylor Swift's Record-Breaking Week in 6 (Not So Easy) Steps". Billboard. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014 . Retrieved February 27, 2019. a b Geffen, Sasha (November 10, 2017). "Revisiting Taylor Swift's 1989 Album". Vulture. Archived from the original on July 24, 2020 . Retrieved June 29, 2020. Now, all that being said, I still like the overall direction of the album, but I think it would be better without Max Martin's presence on production and with more songs written by Swift herself; for the record, there were 8 on Fearless, 14 on Speak Now and 9 on Red and here, there's only one. All three of those albums were pioneering efforts with multiple 5-star songs that we still hear everywhere today for a reason: They were intimate, personal, relatable, catchy, and different from the last one. Here, the songs do at times have those traits, but the repetitive feel to it is the most different thing Taylor is doing on this album, making it her weakest release since her debut. was Swift’s official entrance to the pop music scene, and it cemented her status as a musical titan. It was the only album of 2014 to sell over a million copies in its first week, and spent five non-consecutive weeks at #1.

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Reviews

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Retrospective comments from GQ 's Jay Willis, [200] Vulture 's Sasha Geffen, [201] and NME 's Hannah Mylrea praised how 1989 avoided contemporary hip-hop and R&B crossover trends, making it a timeless album that represents the best of Swift's prowess. Mylrea praised it as the singer's best record and described it as an influence for younger musicians to embrace "pure pop", contributing to a growing trend of nostalgic 1980s-styled sound. [202] Geffen also attributed the album's success to its lyrics offering emotional engagement that is uncommon in pop. [201] In naming 1989 as one of the essential pop records of the 21st-century, Lucy Ford of GQ said Swift became a "full synth-laced pop girl to prove genres don't indicate authenticity" as a response to critics who felt Red neglected her country roots for a "manufactured pop image". [203] According to Clash, there would not be a Dua Lipa without 1989 because it normalized blending genres that "popstars do now." [204] For the BBC, critic Neil Smith said that 1989 "[forged] a path for artists who no longer wish to be ghettoised into separated musical genres", [205] while his colleague Rob Freeman described the album as a retrofuturist "pop music masterpiece". [206] Ian Gormely of The Guardian called Swift the forefront of poptimism, led by 1989 which replaced dance and urban trends with ambition, proving that "chart success and clarity of artistic vision aren't mutually exclusive ideas." [207] The Recording Academy credited the album with having "primed [Swift] for world domination". [208] a b c d Light, Alan (December 5, 2014). " Billboard Woman of the Year Taylor Swift on Writing Her Own Rules, Not Becoming a Cliche and the Hurdle of Going Pop". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 26, 2014 . Retrieved February 27, 2019. IRMA Best of Albums 2014". Irish Recorded Music Association. Archived from the original on February 3, 2019 . Retrieved February 25, 2016.Wilkinson, Maryn (2017). "Taylor Swift: the hardest working, zaniest girl in show business". Celebrity Studies. 10 (3): 441–444. doi: 10.1080/19392397.2019.1630160.