This album is WAY better than Sale El Sol, I don't get the hate.
There is actually no hate.
That the Independent reviewer always gives bad scores (They gave BEYONCE a 60 as well and it is one of the most criticcaly acclaimed albums of last year).
Swift is the unlikeliest of specters. But, if only because she is one of Shakira’s few rivals who can credibly deliver a slender love song backed by an acoustic guitar, she also haunts the folk ballad “23,” one of the album’s starkest and best songs. Shakira has never been much of a lyricist, but “23” is clunkier, and braver, (“I used to think that there was no god / But then you looked at me with your blue eyes / And my agnosticism turned into dust”) than Swift would ever dare to be.
Taylor influencing on of the album's best songs.
I think 'Broken Record' may be the most "Taylor sounding" song here though.
. Will update the OP soon
