Swift, Taylor: 1989 LP

1989 (Big Machine Records) is the highly anticipated fifth studio album from global superstar and seven-time Grammy award winner Taylor Swift. 1989 is a touchstone; Taylor’s songwriting and sonic evolution surprises us more than ever before. Heavily keyboard and beat driven, the pop sensibilities that have always been the hallmark of Taylor’s music now move front and center. 

 

“I spent two years making 1989. Two years gives you enough time to grow and change and let things inspire you" said Taylor. "I was listening to a lot of late 80′s pop music and how bold those songs were and how that time period was a time of limitless possibilities. In thinking about that, this album is a rebirth for me. This is my very first documented, official pop album. 1989 is the most sonically cohesive album I have ever made and my favorite album I have ever made."

 

"I started the album with “Welcome To New York” because New York has been an important landscape and location for the story of my life in the last couple of years,” she explains. “It’s like an electric city, and I approached moving there with such wide-eyed optimism. I saw New York as a place of endless potential and possibilities and you can hear that reflected in this music and in this song.”

 

“Out Of The Woods" is one of my favorite songs on 1989,” adds Taylor. “A goal of mine on this album was to set a sonic landscape and have the music sound exactly the way the emotions felt. This song is about the fragility of some relationships. Musically, I wanted to convey that kind of frantic feeling of wondering. This song stresses that even if the relationship is breakable and fragile, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile and beautiful and all the things we look for.”

 

"Swift’s best work - a sophisticated pop tour de force that deserves to be as popular commercially as with Robyn-worshipping bloggers; an album that finds Swift meeting Katy and Miley and Pink on their home turf and staring them down.” - Jem Aswad, Billboard