1989

It feels like Taylor Swift has been on the pop seen since I’ve listened to the radio. “Love Story” became really popular back when it was first released, and since then we’ve had really good tunes come from Taylor, some of which include songs off this album. She is a proper Princess of Pop, and maintained a squeaky-clean image (up until Reputation, but another time). 1989 was her first fully pop album, with some pop singles like “I Knew You Were Trouble” and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” coming off her album Red and being a big success, I think writing a full pop album was a great move on her part.

The album "1989" is the fifth studio album recorded by the pop singer, Taylor Swift through her record label- Big Machine Records. The album title depicts her year of birth which is 1989 and this has a lot to say about her music and personality, being that her music had the touch of sensation from the ‘90s. The album is a pop-synth record with processed vocals and heavy musical instruments that has no ounce of country style in it. 1989, like the Fearless album, was written by Swift when touring for her previous album and was released on October 27, 2014, with a total number of 13 songs in the standard edition. A deluxe edition was later released with 3 additional bonus tracks to the original edition all made of voice memos – The muse for this groundbreaking record according to the singer was listening to lots of pop music from the late ‘80s since revolution is key in the industry, Swift has always brought a twist to each successive album. Thereby making the evolution “poco a poco” and at the same time not being greatly noticed. 1989 edges towards an all pop sound which will broaden the scope of the artiste and bring a new audience to her sound – Taylor did a great job singing country music but felt a need to switch from country music to pop if she really needed to reach the peak of her career. The departure from country music was noted by prying critics. She recalls being told by people to include a handful of country music in the album to remind the world of her background but she did not budge. "Making two genres of music in the same album is not an idea of an album" says Swift. "It portrays the singer as being confused of her sound or where she stands". Swift matured in age and never left her music lagging but carried it along with her. 1989 features Swift as a grownup that has experienced her first break-up and fears and is ready to face whatever the world has left to give. She made the album 1989 formidable by teaming with the constellation of high-classed music artiste; the likes of Kendrick Lamar whom she collaborated with and Jack Antonoff who shaped her music to fit her new audience – The album won Album of the Year and 3 Grammy Awards at the 58th Grammy Awards for Taylor Swift. 1989 outsold Swift’s fourth album Red in just 19 weeks after release, although, Red had been on sale for 228 weeks.