Our look at the closing lines of reviews of the week’s biggest new music continues with a look at reactions to Taylor Swift’s Fearless, which arrives in stores tomorrow:
• “‘The Best Day’ also happens to be the best song. A musical valentine about how great Mom and Dad are, it’s understated enough to go unnoticed, but then you realize it sounds like nothing else on Fearless. After an entire album of wide-open choruses, it’s refreshing to hear Swift tell her story simply. If the melody doesn’t stick in your mind, the message at least speaks to the heart.” [Boston Globe]
• “When she sings about sexuality, she sounds like a real teen, not some manufactured vixen-Lolita, as on the beautifully crafted ‘Fifteen’ (‘Abigail gave everything she had/To a boy who changed his mind’). For now, her primary fan base will probably remain the young girls she speaks to so well—but it will be exciting to watch her precocious talent grow.” [EW]
• “In ‘Fifteen,’ Swift confides, ‘Abigail gave everything she had to a boy/Who changed his mind/And we both cried.’ Swift’s real-life best friend is a girl called Abigail—the singer’s not afraid to name names. It’s safe to assume that the titular love object in the lilting ‘Hey Stephen’ is, well, some dude named Stephen that Swift has a crush on. And she has a question for him: ‘All those other girls, well, they’re beautiful, but would they write a song for you?’” [RS]
• “On one level there’s something refreshing about Swift’s literalism, and her willingness to play the righteous loser. Ever since hip hop made ‘hit the road, jack’ songs mandatory for nearly all women, we’ve missed the old-fashioned tear queens of the prefeminist era. Would that pop celebrated a more engaging one than Swift.” [NY Daily News]
Are we taking bets yet about how this is going to sell? I’d say 500K-plus is in the realm of possibility.
@Chris Molanphy: In it’s first week, for real? Boo.
Since you are Ms. Swift’s producer I hope you can get this letter to her. Have a Merry Chirstmas 2009. Nichole and Brenda Maggard.
My name is tabor brown i love your songs and i am seven. My favorite song is love story i listen to it more offten. My mom and me sing your songs in the car every day on the way to gymnastics. I am level 4 and i like bars best! and i love the dark. I am learning to play ukelele and harmonica i love the music. and the last thing is fifteen is the second best song then forever and always then you belong with me then white horse then breath then tell me why then teardrops on my gutar then fearless then change. I write my mom songs about being seven and cleaning her dirty and dusty van and cusins.
From, Tabor Amanda Brown my aunts name is Amanda too
i love you taylor i live in kadoka sd and my b day is in feb and i want to adopet a dog for the pound my family has 2 dogs they think i wount take care of it but i will so i sat down at dinner and we talked about it they said maby i mean it will be my b day
hi taylor swift your awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i like your songs.
taylor is a ghost
you are wierd shes not a ghost
hey im your biggest fan im your #1 fan
hi this is your number one fan,victoria.i love the song shoulda said no. your so pretty.
hi taylor i love you i love you alot im your BIGGEST #1 FAN in the whole world i love your songs they light up my heart. my crying now because i cant believe that im sending this to you. oh ok. i love you please come to canada someday like come to golden is great here it is north please come please.
i have alot of things of u. i have 100 posters and 5 CDs and 20 books of you. 15 magazins about you. 13 shirts 5 pars of pants that have you on them. ya im a huge fan of you alot and i know like mostly all your songs like ya. well i love you like im your collsall fan. please come to gloden please please.
taylor you are cool and pretty and awsome i love you please come to golden please hope to see you live if i do i with faint please come to golden please im begging you please come to golden please i really want to see you cause i havent seen any one famous and every one in my family did sooo please come to golden please i would love to see you please come please please please please please please please please please please please come comce come come come! i love you alot see ya i hope bye
your my bff
bye
what is your phone number?
yeh whatever taylorswiftfan1lexie
we love you more than eny body else do you think its time to make a new song with our names init please?
what is your phone number