Red Reviews

This is going to be an experiment in me being a modest music critic, not trying to dazzle anyone, and, for once, without the need to do verbal therapy on myself, if that makes sense.

This is a good album, and Taylor Swift is a good artist. I would call her the greatest ever, but, it's just as good as James Taylor, say. And I personally am glad of this-- that alot of female artists, to me, come across with this whiney sound which distresses me.... but she does not. Maybe there are just too many 'punk' people in the world, but, again-- she is not.

She's good.

P.S. One Direction is fun, too. Actually, I think that "Take Me Home" is probably as fun as some of the Beach Boys stuff, but.... how can I explain this?

P.P.S. Do you remember the Byrds, and their song, "So You Want To Be a Rock And Roll Star", about being the Beatles or trying, so to be, and "Renaissance Fair"-- I think that maybe I'm dreaming, except maybe it's a nightmare sometimes, and the Byrds being themselves, it was all about that one song, and, was it okay.... This is what we want.... Is it, Okay....

It's Okay. It Is Okay. ("WHY", right. "why".)

P.P.P.S. And I do wish that I had written something about "Take Me Home", lol, but, but-- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is just a great song. Best part of not being indie or 'punk'-- when you really really need to say it, you.... just can.

N.B. I hope that this isn't getting excessive, but, I'd just like to note, that now that I've come to try to tag my music finally, that I understand the difference between indie rock and just rock, better than the difference between rock and pop.... Rock and roll.... Pop, ular?

I just don't understand labels as well as I do people.

Ah, see. James Taylor reference. I'm a genius.

After all, fucking Parlophone is a label, right.

~ And, for what it's worth, my researches tell me that even Paul McCartney wants to be as good as The Beatles, lol.... (Excessive: Although, the 70s were a trippy time, maybe some of those bad reviews for the early Wings stuff and solo stuff was, "obliging"-- oh, you're right, we *shouldn't* let Music be, all about *you*.... But, who can understand even the Byrds or Wings or something-- better to stick with what we actually can figure out, sometimes-- our own contemporaries, I think....)

OH AND BY THE WAY-- "Stay Stay Stay" following "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together".... and with all the ambiguity that's in it.... is a good example of the sort of arrangement that makes a good album good.... Kinda like "Turn! Turn! Turn!" which has a *splendid* arrangement.... but now, look, hahahaha.....

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And, you know what-- I need both of that. Just like alot of the songs from "Younger than Yesterday".... love's not only pleasant, and you actually learn to respect it alot more, when you don't always expect it to be like it is on Ed Sullivan's show....

Like "Girl Without a Name", or, like when they say in that intentionally-annoying studio voice, "Masterpice."

"Red" is actually more complimentary, hahaha.

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And the suck-y part about being any kind of musical critic is, that it's easier to tell people about how the Beach Boys (or One Direction, or.... Taylor Swift, or.... lots of people, actually) counsel that a bad love can bring pain, {"Here Today"}, rather than to-- just listen, and just, get it.

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Uncertainties aside, however, this is a very good album.

(9/10)

Other than red. This disc is chameleon. Indeed, it is her chameleon-like Taylor Swift
The (former) queen of country pop. "Ex" in the sense that the country might seem a thing: if one feels the single "We are never ever getting back together", the impression is that girl from water, soap and acoustic guitar was transformed overnight into the new Rihanna or new Katy Perry. Why, do not forget, his championship is. And there is a seeded. Indeed, it is THE seeded.
Instead, the transformation is inevitable but partial. It 's the obligatory path for singers who come from the country and who want to consolidate their rule outside that fence huge in America but elsewhere baby. Taylor Swift that road has taken some time, and in a few moments un'accellerata gives very precise. The dance-pop of "I knew you were trouble," so to speak. Then take a step back and go back to doing his romantic songs such as "All to well." Then change again in "The Last Time" sings Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and - guess what - the song sounds exactly like Snow Patrol. Sing with Ed Sheeran and the two shove quite a few songwriting in "Begin again" turns up the violin that does so much country. And so on.
The fact is that "Red" is an album intentionally ecumenical perfect (too much) as the perfect must be a record of this level, which generates these expectations: The U.S. is the most anticipated album of the year; marketing plans in place for months the highest safety barriers - so that the disc is not over the network in advance, if now rare if not unique, it is not on Spotify, as it was not done listening to journalists - so people will buy the same, and must do so in the "old" way. Paying.
She has "22" years, as the song says. To paraphrase Dylan (God forgive me for using his words to explain an album of Taylor Swift): She was so much older then, she's younger Than That now. Ie: pop songs sound like those of a girl of that age who thinks to have fun, so the video showing well, away a bit '- but not too-clean from the image and too adult who had teenage novice.