Is it about a real experience, or is it fiction? “Blank Space” weaponizes Swift’s newfound romantic skepticism: In the accompanying music video, an aristocratic romance deteriorates catastrophically, poisoned by her jealousy and need to control her partner.
TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 FULL ALBUM TRACKLIST MOVIE
The polished, propulsive synth-pop of album highlight “Style” showcases it best, with lyrics that celebrate a lustful relationship between people whose most revealing traits are that they would look good together on a movie poster. Now the dramas of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet ( Fearless’ “Love Story”) or 1945 Americana ( Red’s “Starlight”) come with lower stakes her new fantasy world allows for broken hearts to be stored away safely in a drawer. Still, there’s an allure to 1989’s escapism. Yet 1989 is the album that feels least like spending quality time with your best friends. At the time, Swift temporarily disavowed dating to instead celebrate the power of female friendship and flaunt her celebrity “girl squad” with extravagant 4th of July parties and a different guest appearance every night of her tour. Where liner notes of previous albums offered hyper-specific hints about each song’s subject, these tell the story of a generic on-again off-again romance. fights and dancing in refrigerator light are replaced with glossy odes to big cities and weekend flings. The album, named after the year she was born, treats heartbreak as if observing a painting on a wall, rather than a feeling she desperately needs to articulate. She has said that she would work in marketing if she didn’t work in music but, really, she has already been doing both simultaneously and spectacularly.įor those who might openly cry while listening to Red, the first listen of 1989 stings of indifference. On the album, Swift loses her naïveté, dons a sense of unfazed nonchalance, and learns to navigate a world that underappreciated her lyricism and shamed her for dating too many men.
1989 is in part Swift’s response to the negative, often sexist, press she’d received. The media surrounding that album critiqued Swift as clingy, boy-obsessed, and vindictive. Its predecessor, Red, was the pinnacle of diaristic specificity, an album that blew up the tiny intimate details of her romances into public eulogies. “1989” foi o terceiro disco de Taylor a vender mais de 1 milhão de cópias em sua semana de lançamento, a consagrando como única artista da história a conseguir este feito com 3 álbuns.That changed with 1989. Mas diferente dos trabalhos anteriores, neste álbum o tema amor foi abordado com uma nova visão mais realista. Liricamente, Taylor manteve a qualidade dos trabalhos anteriores, porém mostrando amadurecimento ao escrever sobre uma nova fase de sua vida, cantando sobre temas como autodescoberta, liberdade, o assédio da mídia e, é claro, amor. Taylor descreve o álbum como o seu “renascimento”, por isso resolveu chamá-lo de ‘’1989’’, pois foi o ano que nasceu e também pela influência do pop do final dos anos 80 em boa parte do disco.
“1989” apresenta o notável afastamento dos trabalhos anteriores da cantora, trocando as influências country por synthpop, pop alternativo e o bubblegum pop. Se no seu antecessor, o “Red”, Taylor havia apenas experimentado trabalhar com o hitmaker Max Martin em apenas 3 faixas, desta vez ela Se no seu antecessor, o “Red”, Taylor havia apenas experimentado trabalhar com o hitmaker Max Martin em apenas 3 faixas, desta vez ela resolveu colocá-lo à frente do que viria a ser o “1989”, o tendo como companheiro na produção executiva do disco que foi descrito por Taylor como seu "primeiro álbum oficialmente pop".
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