1989

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Bad Blood" is overproduced too, and though it has some lyrical gems, it becomes hard to get through - even for someone who enjoyed almost every single song Taylor had sung in the past - upon future listens due to the convoluted chorus, a similar issue to what I said about "I Knew You Were Trouble" two years ago. It was the second album to spawn five or more US top-10 singles in the 2010s decade, [note 4] and made Swift the second woman to have two albums each score five US top-10 hits. This is the kind of track I expected from the album, since it has an authentic throwback feel while still being personal.

won industry awards, including Favorite Pop/Rock Album at the American Music Awards [147] and Album of the Year (Western) at the Japan Gold Disc Awards in 2015, [148] and Album of the Year at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in 2016. Style" is one of the better Max Martin tracks on the album since it lets Taylor be herself, complete with the lyrics you'd expect. She titled 1989 after her birth year as a symbolic artistic rebirth and enlisted Max Martin, who produced Red 's electronic-influenced pop tracks, as co-executive producer. The pictures portray Swift in different settings such as backdrops of New York City and recording sessions with the producers. Her fourth re-recorded album, [note 7] the standard track-list contains 21 tracks, which consists of re-recorded versions of all the songs from the original's deluxe edition and five new "From the Vault" tracks.

AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the album as "a sparkling soundtrack to an aspirational lifestyle" that fails to transcend the "transient transparencies of modern pop".

I know that’s pretty vague, so I really didn’t know where it was going to go, but I knew that I wanted to work with the collaborators I had such crazy electricity with on Red, like Max Martin. V. Club 's Marah Eakin, [37] argued that Swift had always been more pop-oriented even on her early country songs. The final song's title, " New Romantics", refers to the cultural movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The synth-pop production is characterized by pulsing synthesizers, programmed drum machines, and processed backing vocals with electronic elements, a stark contrast to the acoustic arrangements of Swift's past albums. Swift became the first female solo artist to win Album of the Year twice—her first win was for Fearless (2008) in 2010.Although she had been known as "America's Sweetheart" because of her wholesome and down-to-earth image, [10] her serial romantic relationships blemished her reputation, and a short-lived romance with English singer Harry Styles during promotion of Red generated much media gossip.

The dance-pop track " Shake It Off", sharing a loosely similar sentiment with "Blank Space", sees Swift expressing disinterest in her detractors and their negative remarks on her image. There are no standouts here in the same catchy vein as some of her best songs, such as "You Belong with Me" and "Mean. Swift and her then-label Big Machine promoted Red to country radio, and she appeared at country-music awards shows. topped the Billboard 200 for 11 non-consecutive weeks [121] and spent the first full year after its release in the top 10 of the Billboard 200. was supported by a string of commercially successful singles, [90] including Billboard Hot 100 number ones "Blank Space" and "Bad Blood" featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar, and top-10 hits "Style" and "Wildest Dreams".The photos are out-of-focus, off-framed, with a sepia-tinged treatment, and feature the 1989 songs' lyrics written with black marker on the bottom.