Taylor Swift has a good week

Once upon a time there was a little girl with hair the colour of the sun. She was precocious, as little girls often are. She was determined, passionate, and talented. One thing lead another and yadda yadda yadda she’s Taylor Swift.

1989, Taylor Swift’s fifth studio album, was released this week. It’s done preeeety good. The album went straight to #1 on iTunes in 80 markets globally (including NZ, because we love Taylor), and it has kept growing from there.

The album, featuring the ubiquitous ‘Shake It Off’, has become an event record of 2014. Coverage of the release, and the public’s reception has been second to none.
Taylor Swift has been EVERYWHERE.

On The Ellen DeGeneres Show:
Talking about 1989:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7EHtxnuVEs#t=31

What they’re saying about 1989:

“Deeply weird, feverishly emotional, wildly enthusiastic, 1989 sounds exactly like Taylor Swift, even when it sounds nothing like she’s ever tried before. And yes, she takes it to extremes. Are you surprised? This is Taylor Swift, remember? Extremes are where she starts out.” – ROLLING STONE

“[1989]’s got a truth and power rare in commercialised pop.” – THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

“The really striking thing about 1989 is how completely Taylor Swift dominates the album: Martin, Kurstin et al make umpteen highly polished pop records every year, but they’re seldom as clever or as sharp or as perfectly attuned as this, which suggests those qualities were brought to the project by the woman whose name is on the cover." – THE GUARDIAN

“By making pop with almost no contemporary references, Ms. Swift is aiming somewhere even higher, a mode of timelessness that few true pop stars — aside from, say, Adele, who has a vocal gift that demands such an approach — even bother aspiring to. Everyone else is striving to sound like now will have to shift gears once the now sound changes. But not Ms. Swift, who’s waging, and winning, a new war, one she’d never admit to fighting.”- THE NEW YORK TIMES

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘SHAKE IT OFF’ HERE