Taylor Swift Red

As the world’s spotlight shines on Taylor Swift’s recent pop album 1989, people tend to bypass the record that helped paved her success. Swift’s 2012 album Red set the stage for her transition into a pop artist. The album smashed chart records, earning Taylor her third No.1 album on Billboard’s Top 200. With her first self-titled debut and her 2008 album Fearless, she became known for her confessional songwriting skills. Then came Speak Now, combinations of the two previous albums with ballads of innocence and heartbreak. But the transition from high school sweetheart to a mature 22 year old was depicted in the 16-track pop/rock/country album Red. The album pulsates with the emotional roller coaster of adulthood, and the insights of what any twenty something year old might endure. The outcome was an ultimate take on feelings of happiness, rejection, and love . With the opening track “State of Grace” the song painted a new portrait for Taylor’s country persona, and her effort to be heard by a
Playing the same upbeat tune for the hit “22”, where Taylor sings about making fun of exes and dressing up like hipsters with her friends. The top charting pop song “ I Knew You Were Trouble” becomes a confession of her foolish tendencies to fall for the bad boy, and is perfectly put together with electro-country sounds. She does not only compose memorable upbeat songs on the album, but creates stripped-back ballads like my personal favorite “All Too Well.” Taylor goes back to her emotional recollection of a lost love that makes her try to find herself again, and somehow makes listeners feel like they were apart of the relationship. The affairs of the heart are undeniably shown in “ Sad Beautiful Tragic” with a melody accompanied by an acoustic guitar and