1989
by Taylor Swift
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8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 3333 Ratings

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  1. Remmyatrl
    Oct 27, 2014
    1
    So after hearing about how amazing this album was I decided to listen to it myself and boy was I surprised. Not only was it boring it was bloated with pointless filler that felt like a chore to get through. I was just waiting to be impressed yet I wasn’t, Taylor obviously needs to work on creating better pop music. She brought nothing new to the table, even Prism had more depth, she shouldSo after hearing about how amazing this album was I decided to listen to it myself and boy was I surprised. Not only was it boring it was bloated with pointless filler that felt like a chore to get through. I was just waiting to be impressed yet I wasn’t, Taylor obviously needs to work on creating better pop music. She brought nothing new to the table, even Prism had more depth, she should stick to her own lane. We already have enough half-baked pop albums coming out like clockwork, please Taylor don’t make us suffer more. Your lyrical content suffered massively while you attempted to be inspired by the dull and insipid beats supplied to you by pop music’s most generic producer. Don’t expect much from this album otherwise you’ll be sorely disappointed, but I’m sure her army of fans called the “swifties” will try to convince everyone this failed attempt was actually decent.… Expand
  2. calljohno
    Oct 27, 2014
    0
    Some albums are grossly overrated. Thus why I am giving this album a 0 although I believe it deserves about a 7. The albums is being overrated, so I am going to underrate it. I know Taylor Swift fans are either excited about this release, or are upset by the genre transition that is evident in this release. Frankly, I'm not too concerned with the genre of the album, but the timeless valueSome albums are grossly overrated. Thus why I am giving this album a 0 although I believe it deserves about a 7. The albums is being overrated, so I am going to underrate it. I know Taylor Swift fans are either excited about this release, or are upset by the genre transition that is evident in this release. Frankly, I'm not too concerned with the genre of the album, but the timeless value it presents. Every pop album released in the last decade has had several catchy hooks peppered throughout; so to simply have catchy hooks is not enough to call this album great. 1989 presents nothing new. It provides nothing for its listeners other than catchy hooks and new songs to bump with your girlfriends(or metro-sexual friends, as the case may be). The songs are nice and all; but its nothing ground breaking. I would like to see the critic score in the 60s and the user score around 7. Taylor just simply isn't an "artist," she's a singer--if you can even call her that.… Expand
  3. WadeVS
    Nov 1, 2014
    0
    My problem with Taylor is that she is so painfully generic, bland and annoying. People will sing her praises and she'll be America's sweetheart and only the few will recognize her for the vapid, vacuous, black hole of talent and interest that is is.
  4. longjetty7
    Feb 16, 2016
    3
    This album is so basic, I really don't understand all the hype. Taylor Swift apparently decided country wasn't making her enough money, so she hired big name producers to write generic pop songs so she could sell millions of records. Yawn. This album starts off alright, but after about 5 songs in the same ideas get recycled over and over again to the point where finishing this album wasThis album is so basic, I really don't understand all the hype. Taylor Swift apparently decided country wasn't making her enough money, so she hired big name producers to write generic pop songs so she could sell millions of records. Yawn. This album starts off alright, but after about 5 songs in the same ideas get recycled over and over again to the point where finishing this album was literally torturous for me. And to think this got Album of the Year over To Pimp a Butterfly. Ugh, the Grammys are a joke.… Expand
  5. F4t3d
    Nov 2, 2014
    2
    Extremely plain repetitive work. By far her worst album to date, highly over rated. There are plenty of other mediocre pop artists out there, Red was better then this.
  6. Sil3nt
    Jun 11, 2015
    1
    Good Tunes ? Yes. Easy lyrics ? Yes. Catchy music ? Yes. Good Music ? No. another mainstream effort by another mainstream artist and another horrific album. Songwriting abilities are zero. another " Uh-Uh Shake it off" or "I ve got bad blood I'm so cool" witch drives me mad. a very week voice that fails to carry any note without going high. I have listened to all of her albums. I didn'tGood Tunes ? Yes. Easy lyrics ? Yes. Catchy music ? Yes. Good Music ? No. another mainstream effort by another mainstream artist and another horrific album. Songwriting abilities are zero. another " Uh-Uh Shake it off" or "I ve got bad blood I'm so cool" witch drives me mad. a very week voice that fails to carry any note without going high. I have listened to all of her albums. I didn't love them but they were fine. There was guitar things and creative stuff. Now its just a series of another relationship sh*t songs covered with pop sh*t and catchy tunes. She is just getting that artist that is successful for no reason. Just media and everyone talking about her just because she is on headlines.… Expand
  7. jyo_tirmaya
    Nov 1, 2014
    3
    This girl has some great karma to become so rich and famous after releasing some seriously mediocre albums, but it's no secret that Taylor Swift has some faithful fans who will love whatever she releases - good or bad.
  8. DudeUnknown
    Jan 1, 2015
    0
    TERRIBLE. That's all I can say. It's just her usual overly emotional breakup complaints. But now she's just trying to hide it. It's still the same junk that Taylor Swift has always had.
  9. slippery
    Nov 1, 2014
    3
    I'm a huge Taylor Swift fan, and I have probably more songs by Taylor Swift than I have by almost any other artist. I'm also MUCH more a fan of pop and rock than I am of country (though there's a fair amount of CM I like), and I tend to like Taylor's pop influences.

    I was really excited about 1989 and was looking forward to buying a bunch of songs ... until I heard them. Vapid,    I'm a huge Taylor Swift fan, and I have probably more songs by Taylor Swift than I have by almost any other artist. I'm also MUCH more a fan of pop and rock than I am of country (though there's a fair amount of CM I like), and I tend to like Taylor's pop influences.

    I was really excited about 1989 and was looking forward to buying a bunch of songs ... until I heard them. Vapid, mindless, emotionally-empty lyrics set to droning, repetitive synthesizer music. It lacks the depth and complexity and raw emotion of previous albums, and the music, while not BAD for what it's TRYING to be, honestly is not trying to be very much. 1989 is an album whose songs lack ambition to be anything more than teenage slumber party sock-hop tunes.    … Expand
  10. TIBIAFOREER
    Apr 15, 2015
    0
    que album ruim, uma garota dessa idade ainda escrevendo esse tipo de musica como blank space??? parece que a taylor vem regredindo no seu trablaho, vai ter 30 anos e ainda falar sobre chifres e musicas como blank space??
  11. lgardient
    Dec 5, 2014
    0
    This album is COMPLETE garbage. At least she considers herself fully pop now. The whole country thing was a complete gimmick just to win awards in country categories. Anyways, Taylor Swift is a HORRIBLE singer. She was decent at best with country, but when it comes to pop... she struggles. She has the weakest, flattest voice in the industry that is auto-tuned/pitch corrected likeThis album is COMPLETE garbage. At least she considers herself fully pop now. The whole country thing was a complete gimmick just to win awards in country categories. Anyways, Taylor Swift is a HORRIBLE singer. She was decent at best with country, but when it comes to pop... she struggles. She has the weakest, flattest voice in the industry that is auto-tuned/pitch corrected like CRAZY. She almost sounds like a robot. Completely overrated, untalented artist.… Expand
  12. AdelebestTaylor
    Apr 24, 2015
    0
    Taylor already made things better than this thing we call "1989" but do what you have to accept their mimizentos fans, saying it is the best album of the decade, I just pity her promiscuous career :)
  13. aliha
    Sep 7, 2016
    0
    I was very excited to listen to the album, so I listened to the previews which is on app store. I was extremely disappointed, the album is overrated. It only won album of the year because it was the most successful album among the other nominees.
  14. Bringman
    Jan 5, 2016
    2
    this album is one of the worst of the year, all the songs sounds the same, it's not original, it's just boring, boring and the same boring sh*t, i really lost my time listening this.
  15. Duvcamacho
    Feb 11, 2017
    0
    Se vale de canciones de relleno, que no dejan ver la esencia real del álbum. Se esperaba mucho más de su entrada al pop, y no transmite lo suficiente.
  16. Minimagah
    Jan 10, 2015
    2
    Aside from Welcome to New York and Shake it Off, this album was about the same topic as all of Taylor Swift's other albums. It sells well, but lyrically, the album is very weak, generic, and boring. The only reason why the album got a score higher than a 0 is because of Shake it Off.
  17. gavink
    Jun 11, 2015
    0
    An absolutely brainless, soulless, heartless album! She's still got that middle school girl mentality that she can never shake off. Funny she writes a song called "Shake it off," while still doing all that crappy overproduced pop songs with extremely lame lyrics. Not to mention she has an awful voice that sounds like nightmare. Glad she's off spotify. Not even worth 1 cent. Next!
  18. iAzaleanDelRey
    Aug 19, 2015
    0
    Un Álbum tan repetitivo en cuanto a sus líricas, ¿acaso no hay otra cosa de laque pueda escribir? Las únicas canciones que son "recatables" son Welcome to New York y Bad Blood, y eso por que B'B fue escrita para KATY PERRY solo por el berrinche de una cantante AMBICIOSA y FALSA que piensa que esta por encima de los demás, no es más que un Pop básico, que hasta cualquier canción de losUn Álbum tan repetitivo en cuanto a sus líricas, ¿acaso no hay otra cosa de laque pueda escribir? Las únicas canciones que son "recatables" son Welcome to New York y Bad Blood, y eso por que B'B fue escrita para KATY PERRY solo por el berrinche de una cantante AMBICIOSA y FALSA que piensa que esta por encima de los demás, no es más que un Pop básico, que hasta cualquier canción de los Álbums "flop" de Katy le patea el culo a esta abominación, cuando 1989 gane un Premio al Mejor Álbum Pop podrá condierarse un cantante Pop, mientras que siga siendo la burla del Pop.… Expand
  19. Jspotter89
    Nov 6, 2015
    0
    I have to hand it to her. Taylor Swift, combining this album and the absolute artistic bankruptcy of modern corporate radio, has found a way to violate my ears in ways I never thought they could be violated.

    Let me be clear. I am here against my will. I have not had a desire to listen to a Taylor Swift song in my entire life. And yet, here I am, submitting a review for an atrocious    I have to hand it to her. Taylor Swift, combining this album and the absolute artistic bankruptcy of modern corporate radio, has found a way to violate my ears in ways I never thought they could be violated.

    Let me be clear. I am here against my will. I have not had a desire to listen to a Taylor Swift song in my entire life. And yet, here I am, submitting a review for an atrocious album I never wished to hear a single track of, and feeling entirely within my rights to do so because I know more than 50% of it's tracks better than I know some Led Zeppelin songs I've been listening to for 20 years. Why? Because it is not possible to work in any office setting, take a bus, take a cab, take a subway, walk through any mall or shopping plaza in America without hearing her shrill, whiney lyrics bombarding your ears.

    Perhaps you could say that I should not fault Ms. Swift for the overbearing omnipresence of her music. **** Taylor Swift has made millions (if not billions) of dollars by making exactly the music that corporate radio wants her to make. More than any of the pop queens out there, Swift is more than willing to make exactly the kind of music these devoid-of-any-talent hacks think will sell.

    Which brings me to 1989. This album is garbage in musical form. It is a pop princess who has never seen a day's worth of misfortune in her life trying (and succeeding) in making a generation of nitwits think she is a victim. It is a 25-year-old woman writing about boys and relationships as if she were 13. And above all, it is the same **** in every song!!! I can only think of two reasons for this, neither of which cast Swift in a good light: 1.) Either she is a terrible artist who writes horrifically bad, derivative, and immature lyrics because she genuinely feels those emotions and sees life in that twisted way, or 2.) She is a greedy, cynical fat-cat in league with corporate radio to manipulate millions of dollars out of the pockets of tweenage girls and their parents. But no, because Kanye West was mean to her at the Grammy's that one time, everyone should feel sorry for her forever.

    Sorry. I don't. Please go away Taylor.    … Expand
  20. miIeycyrus
    Sep 3, 2015
    0
    the world's worst songs, bad blood, yuck the world's worst songs, bad blood, yuck the world's worst songs, bad blood, yuck the world's worst songs, bad blood, yuck the world's worst songs, bad blood, yuck the world's worst songs, bad blood, yuck the world's worst songs, bad blood, yuck
  21. CrisSmiler
    Mar 26, 2016
    0
    It is a very bad album, really expected a better job of Taylor, for entry to Pop, as they could give many points in the criticism taylor hope the country back better
  22. biggeeg
    Sep 10, 2015
    2
    não entendo o sucesso dessa menina. Chata, musicas péssimas, esperando algo que me surpreenda. A unica coisa boa desse album é Style, mas fica nisso
  23. soulszn
    May 31, 2016
    0
    " Taylor Swift " an artist who makes albums and music just for the charts and the money. All the songs of 1989 album were made to be no.1 hits: dead beats, lame and childish lyrics, mediocre vocals. this is how i would describe this album.
  24. mcmelody
    Apr 15, 2015
    0
    .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................horrible
  25. minimaldead
    Jan 17, 2017
    0
    Taylor was inspired by the 80´s music, but she did an album that isn´t good, just an american trash product of 2014, "EMOTION" by Carly Rae Jepsen is what 1989 want to be.
  26. jerryalvarado
    Jun 8, 2017
    0
    Es un álbum malísimo, lleno de copias, temas clichés, nada innovador, ni buena voz, ni buena instrumentación. Lo peor que le pudo pasar al pop, una chica que nada bueno trae.
  27. Mannhorse
    Sep 30, 2015
    3
    1989 is not as good as her previous albums, and Taylor's songwriting edge is getting duller by the minute. There are some good songs in the record, but most of the tracks in 1989 are generic, bland and uninteresting. 1989 is also a very unoriginal album, yet it also does not improve upon its set template. It takes 80's music, puts a Taylor Swift sticker on it, and sells it for millions.1989 is not as good as her previous albums, and Taylor's songwriting edge is getting duller by the minute. There are some good songs in the record, but most of the tracks in 1989 are generic, bland and uninteresting. 1989 is also a very unoriginal album, yet it also does not improve upon its set template. It takes 80's music, puts a Taylor Swift sticker on it, and sells it for millions. There are quite a ton of horrendous and plain terrible tracks in 1989, like Wonderland with its "eh eh eh", or Style with its trite references to James Dean.

    Do not purchase this album if you are not a "Swiftie". It is not worth the money.    … Expand
  28. ThatOneReviewa
    Oct 29, 2015
    2
    At first Swift was a mediocre country star, and now she's trying to experiment with pop. Now, right off the bat, I have no problem with her as a person, and she's quite a nice person, but her experiment with pop failed. Terribly. The highlight is definitely "Blank Space", however other than that song, most of the songs are just plain annoying, and once again, the only subject mannerAt first Swift was a mediocre country star, and now she's trying to experiment with pop. Now, right off the bat, I have no problem with her as a person, and she's quite a nice person, but her experiment with pop failed. Terribly. The highlight is definitely "Blank Space", however other than that song, most of the songs are just plain annoying, and once again, the only subject manner touched in this album is pretty much love, even though I have heard "Shake It Off" is Swift's response to those who hate her.… Expand
  29. LupeHaynes
    Nov 1, 2015
    1
    Although catchy, Ms. Swift still plays the victim card to bring her lyrics to life. All the songs are the same thing, each and every album. She's recycling the same stuff and over again.
  30. themickeymose
    Dec 15, 2015
    1
    Extremely overrated. Very childish. I used to love swift, but I think she needs to get back with her old country vibe. Shake if off and bad blood are very cringe worthy and immature. I regret listening to her album. Good thing she's taking a long hiatus.
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  1. The Quietus
    Dec 1, 2014
    80
    With 1989 she has succeeded in leveraging the most cordial and familiar of pop music outpourings to something that feels like a statement, a work of note and the sinew of some kind of emotional connective tissue–binding tastemakers, rock critics, guys I work with and my 12 year old cousin; irrevocably and unexpectedly.
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  2. NOW Magazine
    Nov 6, 2014
    60
    What stands out more than the production is how consistently solid the album is, and how effective the lyrics and songwriting.
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  3. The 405
    Nov 6, 2014
    60
    1989 is full of cliches, but the truth is that we wouldn't expect them to not be present anyway.
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