Miranda is amazing. I met her once and she's just super sweet and badass and I love her. And she's obviously very proud to have Taylor in the country genre. There's room for a lot of different sounds in country music and Miranda gets it unlike some.
And on that note I listened to most of RED. There's some that I just couldn't get through and some I couldn't get past the first couple of lines so I skipped. But I've heard parts of every track. And I can honestly say, as someone who's listened to country music all her life, and has listened to more than just the singles of most of the major country artists over the last decade 1. This album is way more country than Speak Now and 2. There shouldn't be any issue with it being classified as country. Yeah it has some pop songs on it, but so do a lot of other county artists album (I'm looking at you Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Lady A) I think people who say otherwise are either 1. haters. 2. dont listen to country radio/the album tracks 3. fans of other country artists who are ridiculously obsessed with Taylor for some reason 4. Don't realize that Taylor is a 22 year old woman not a 35 year old man. OFC she's going to have a different sound. 5. Think country music needs a banjo or fiddle or beer or jesus 6. Won't accept anything except the resurrection of Johnny Cash and Kitty Wells 7. Are living in 1965.
It's not the most twangy album out there but neither is half of what's on country radio. I fact the number one song this week is Lee Brice's How To Love and that's not "cousin marry super banjo picking twangy" either. The production isnt that much different than some of Taylor's. Nor is Jake Owen's The One That Got Away. The difference is Taylor doesn't have a southern accent and her target audience isn't middle aged women or young dudes in jacked up trucks. But a southern accent doesn't automatically make a song country. In fact All To Well is probably the best country song in the last several years.
Anyways I'm babbling. Yeah there's some pure pop songs on there and some embarassing pop songs on there. I dont even like half the album TBH. But the rest is country enough. Plus its way more country than Speak Now. Miranda gets it. Everyone else should too.
And a side note if All To Well doesn't become a massive crossover single and her biggest hit to date and that hot ke$ha mess that is 22 does I will cut someone. Seriously it'll be a tragedy if all that comes from this era is some vapid pop songs.
Miranda is amazing. I met her once and she's just super sweet and badass and I love her. And she's obviously very proud to have Taylor in the country genre. There's room for a lot of different sounds in country music and Miranda gets it unlike some.
And on that note I listened to most of RED. There's some that I just couldn't get through and some I couldn't get past the first couple of lines so I skipped. But I've heard parts of every track. And I can honestly say, as someone who's listened to country music all her life, and has listened to more than just the singles of most of the major country artists over the last decade 1. This album is way more country than Speak Now and 2. There shouldn't be any issue with it being classified as country. Yeah it has some pop songs on it, but so do a lot of other county artists album (I'm looking at you Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Lady A) I think people who say otherwise are either 1. haters. 2. dont listen to country radio/the album tracks 3. fans of other country artists who are ridiculously obsessed with Taylor for some reason 4. Don't realize that Taylor is a 22 year old woman not a 35 year old man. OFC she's going to have a different sound. 5. Think country music needs a banjo or fiddle or beer or jesus 6. Won't accept anything except the resurrection of Johnny Cash and Kitty Wells 7. Are living in 1965.
It's not the most twangy album out there but neither is half of what's on country radio. I fact the number one song this week is Lee Brice's How To Love and that's not "cousin marry super banjo picking twangy" either. The production isnt that much different than some of Taylor's. Nor is Jake Owen's The One That Got Away. The difference is Taylor doesn't have a southern accent and her target audience isn't middle aged women or young dudes in jacked up trucks. But a southern accent doesn't automatically make a song country. In fact All To Well is probably the best country song in the last several years.
Anyways I'm babbling. Yeah there's some pure pop songs on there and some embarassing pop songs on there. I dont even like half the album TBH. But the rest is country enough. Plus its way more country than Speak Now. Miranda gets it. Everyone else should too.
And a side note if All To Well doesn't become a massive crossover single and her biggest hit to date and that hot ke$ha mess that is 22 does I will cut someone. Seriously it'll be a tragedy if all that comes from this era is some vapid pop songs.
Miranda is amazing. I met her once and she's just super sweet and badass and I love her. And she's obviously very proud to have Taylor in the country genre. There's room for a lot of different sounds in country music and Miranda gets it unlike some.
And on that note I listened to most of RED. There's some that I just couldn't get through and some I couldn't get past the first couple of lines so I skipped. But I've heard parts of every track. And I can honestly say, as someone who's listened to country music all her life, and has listened to more than just the singles of most of the major country artists over the last decade 1. This album is way more country than Speak Now and 2. There shouldn't be any issue with it being classified as country. Yeah it has some pop songs on it, but so do a lot of other county artists album (I'm looking at you Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, Lady A) I think people who say otherwise are either 1. haters. 2. dont listen to country radio/the album tracks 3. fans of other country artists who are ridiculously obsessed with Taylor for some reason 4. Don't realize that Taylor is a 22 year old woman not a 35 year old man. OFC she's going to have a different sound. 5. Think country music needs a banjo or fiddle or beer or jesus 6. Won't accept anything except the resurrection of Johnny Cash and Kitty Wells 7. Are living in 1965.
It's not the most twangy album out there but neither is half of what's on country radio. I fact the number one song this week is Lee Brice's How To Love and that's not "cousin marry super banjo picking twangy" either. The production isnt that much different than some of Taylor's. Nor is Jake Owen's The One That Got Away. The difference is Taylor doesn't have a southern accent and her target audience isn't middle aged women or young dudes in jacked up trucks. But a southern accent doesn't automatically make a song country. In fact All To Well is probably the best country song in the last several years.
Anyways I'm babbling. Yeah there's some pure pop songs on there and some embarassing pop songs on there. I dont even like half the album TBH. But the rest is country enough. Plus its way more country than Speak Now. Miranda gets it. Everyone else should too.
And a side note if All To Well doesn't become a massive crossover single and her biggest hit to date and that hot ke$ha mess that is 22 does I will cut someone. Seriously it'll be a tragedy if all that comes from this era is some vapid pop songs.
Yes Skittles great post. I certainly think its got more country songs then Speak Now. I think the biggest reason why people say its more pop is because of the pure pop songs on it but really its not even close to a pure pop album.
Haha thanks! If everyone in country music was held to the same standard as Taylor was then country radio would pretty much be Alan Jackson on repeat and some dead air. And even he has songs that aren't by their definition country.
I just don't think they quite know how to handle a young female artist who writes her own music and plays to an audience around her own age.
