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Discussion: 1989: Metacritic: 77/100 (25 critics)
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Imma cry.
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75 based on 18 critics. 
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Imma cry.
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OMG  Sputnik stanning
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75 based on 18 critics. |
So glad She's not joining the 61 club.
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I'm so happy this is getting great reviews.
She deserves it.
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So many great reviews 
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Originally posted by bluth
it's amazing how people like gaga, britney and katy tried to dress up their albums behind marketing white noise by calling them 'spiritual', 'personal' and 'artistic', and yet Taylor swooped in unabashedly labelling her album as nothing more than 'pop' - the bane of the critic's existence - and yet she's emerged on top critically
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The scalding hot tea, even as a monster.
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This is amazing Even with a more pop sound and a slight decrease in her lyrics, she can still impress critics and come close to the scores her other releases received. She really can't lose this era.
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 Now WHICH one of y'all was this? Not someone trying to frame me with a 1/10.
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Originally posted by bluth
it's amazing how people like gaga, britney and katy tried to dress up their albums behind marketing white noise by calling them 'spiritual', 'personal' and 'artistic', and yet Taylor swooped in unabashedly labelling her album as nothing more than 'pop' - the bane of the critic's existence - and yet she's emerged on top critically
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I've never heard of Line of Best Fit, but their 85 score just got counted.
I'm guessing Metacritic weighed it very lightly since the average is still the same...still, it could counteract possible haters to come a bit.
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it looks like she won't be joining the 61 club. i hope she can somehow get above 78
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Thanks
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I need them to count this spin review.
I'm interested in what Consequence of Sound will think of the album. They included it in their anticipated albums of Fall 2014 list, so I assume a review is coming.
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The West Australian gave a review for 1989.
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Born in 1989, Taylor Swift moved to Nashville in 2003 to crack the country music scene but 2014 is the year of her rebirth as fully fledged pop artist.
This once-in-a-generation star has taken her fans with her, creating regular social media frenzies and making the release of an album - that poor, dumb dodo of today's popular culture - once again feel like an event.
This 13-track collection of perfectly polished pop is the closest thing in years to Michael Jackson's Thriller, and that's thrilling.
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/en...ing-it-all-up/
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The Melbourne Paper, The Herald Sun gives 1989 4.5 stars out of 5.
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If this is her album about Harry Styles (try the anti-pap line “they are hunters, we are the foxes” in I Know Places) then he’s the most successful muse since the bloke who broke Adele’s heart
But who banished the stunning New Romantics to the deluxe edition? It’s Taylor recklessly dancing with Lorde and Lana in the prom scene from Pretty In Pink. It’s the best thing she’s done since dumping John Mayer, but way more fun.
So the biggest pop album of 2014 is also likely to be the best.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyl...21d6bc1b2ddbe1
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Taylor Swift conquers a new genre on ‘1989
Swift is still strikingly adept with small turns of phrase (describing the happiness of a relationship as “pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks”), and elsewhere her lyrics are as brilliantly evocative as ever. “Blank Space” is a devastatingly self-deprecating catalog of Swift’s romantic failings (“I can make the bad guys good for a weekend”), and “Out of the Woods” accomplishes her signature trick of transforming hyper-specific details into something universal. They’re also, not coincidentally, the best songs on the album, distillations of her talents just as potent as anything she ever recorded as a country artist.
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http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/ae/mus...new-genre-pop/
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When music sounds amazing and the lyrics are perfect, I don’t care about who it’s about. All I care about is how I can relate to the songs, how it makes me feel, and how long I’m going to have it on repeat. I can truly say that “1989″ is the first album of any artist’s albums that I’ve liked in my life time where I wouldn’t skip over any song and there isn’t one that I don’t like. They are amazing and give us a new side of pop that no artist has been able to give us.
This is a new sound for pop music and Swift is shaking off all of her ex’s and rude critics who hate her music and surprising everyone with something new, different and bold.
I’ve missed every tour she’s had but with this amazing album that I can’t skip any song on, I can assure you I won’t be missing the next one.
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http://www.solanotempest.net/top-sto...th-1989-35325/
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THOUGHTS ON POP MAGIC
Taylor's 1989 Is a Cure for What Ails Us
But do not mistake its high gloss for disposability; Taylor’s aptitude for hitting the emotional mark is undimmed. 1989 is a knockout.
It’s scarcely a bombshell that she’s penned another batch of canny, catchy songs—even hipster musicians who only listen to The Beatles in mono have long acknowledged that Tay’s Kung Fu is strong.
What’s startling to me is that she re-envisions the sonic universe once ruled by Madonna, Pat Benatar, Janet Jackson, Roxette and, I dunno, T’Pau and finds such contemporary bliss—much the way Quentin Tarantino can transform the tropes of drive-in shoot-em-ups and Shaolin battles into something urgently, boisterously now.
Yeah, I just compared TS to QT. Deal.
My “critical assessment” of the album doesn’t matter much, even to me. But goose bumps don’t lie. Pop music at its absolute best is a tonic for ****** times, a bright, ear-pleasing refuge from the bad-news feed and its attendant toxic commentary.
Zooming down the freeway and into the jittery arms of another deadline day, blasting the new Taylor Swift record, I—an ostensibly jaded, arguably male trade-magazine hack of a certain age—felt something. If I’m not mistaken, that’s what it’s all about.
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http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi
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