![]() ![]() ![]() The third album to be re-recorded by Swift, the Taylor’s Version of ‘Speak Now’ also allows us a trip back in time to the vault, with six previous unreleased songs added to the record, including collaborations with Fall Out Boy (on ‘Electric Touch’) and Hayley Williams (‘Castles Crumbling’). It also boasts some of Swift’s best ever lyricism – for example its title track, where Swift vividly describes the wedding of an ex-lover: “I sneak in and see your friends / And her snotty little family, all dressed in pastel / And she is yelling at a bridesmaid / Somewhere back inside a room / Wearing a gown shaped like a pastry”. The Grammy-winning ‘Mean’ is amongst Swift’s most underrated songs, ‘Sparks Fly’ is a toe-tapping anthem and slow-burner ‘Back to December’ is a karaoke classic. Whilst it has less T-Swiz classics than other releases, across the board it’s one of Swift’s strongest albums, bursting with catchy morsels. After the runaway success of country-pop second record ‘Fearless’, for ‘Speak Now’ elements of pop rock, bluegrass and soft rock were added into the mix. And then there’s the title track, a gorgeous slow-dance, that acts as a reminder to why the world fell in love with Swift in the first place.īy album three Swift was a certified Big Deal. Meanwhile, the tongue-in-cheek ‘I Forgot That You Existed’ is a strutting reminder of Swift’s skills as a lyricist. Vincent, is a euphoric three minutes of exhilarating ‘80s synth-pop which recently got its rightful moment in the sun: after viral success and inclusion on the setlist of Swift’s Eras Tour it was released as a single, almost four years on from ‘Lover”s initial release – climbing to Number One in the US in late October. ![]() Although the first glimpses we heard from it (the musical theatre-style ‘Me!’ and the stomping ‘You Need to Calm Down’) didn’t do the record justice, listen to ‘Lover’ in full and you’ll find moments of pure joy. Swift’s seventh ignores the bombastic electro-pop of its predecessor, and instead embraces the sleek stylings of ‘1989’. How do you follow-up ‘Reputation’, a revenge album filled with vengeance? With a record that’s “a love letter to love itself”. Where Swift has re-recorded an album, we have included only the new, re-recorded version of the record in the ranking. In recent years, she’s also become a music business game-changer: most notably for re-recording her first six albums in order to regain control of her masters, which has seen Swift release the ‘Taylor’s Version’ of ‘Red’, ‘Fearless’, ‘Speak Now’, and most recently, ‘1989’Īs we dive back into the world of the stunning, pure-pop of ‘1989’, complete with five previously unreleased tracks plucked from the vault, here we take a look back on Taylor Swift’s entire career and rank her ten albums in order of greatness. First emerging as a country-crossover artist, she’s since embraced glossy pure pop and indie-folk but while her sound may have changed, Swift’s brilliantly honest lyricism and songwriting talent has remained a keystone in her tunes. Ten albums, a mantelpiece of awards and over a decade later, Swift has become one of the biggest popstars on the planet. It was the first taste the world got of Swift’s deeply confessional songwriting, and from that moment, we were hooked. Written when she was a high school freshman, it saw Swift dissect her relationship with a senior who she knew would break up with her when he went off to college. Back in 2006, a little-known country singer called Taylor Swift released her debut single ‘Tim McGraw’. ![]()
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