By Shelby Clemons, Staff Writer
America’s sweetheart Taylor Swift has come out with a new album, Red, and you know what that means: 16 new break-up songs! That may sound like an exaggeration, but really, every one of her new songs has something to do with love, whether it’s heartbreak, ending a relationship or any other way to say break-up.
Now, this is Swift’s fourth studio album, so she deserves some credit. She has come a long way since her “Teardrops on My Guitar” days, developing more into a pop star (apparent in songs like “I Knew You Were Trouble“) from the pop/country singer she started out as. She has clearly made a transition, but her subject matter is exactly the same. She’s certainly not a one-hit-wonder, but she is a one-topic wonder.
Let’s be clear—Taylor Swift has a good amount of talent as a singer and a songwriter. But as a millionaire pop-superstar who has traveled the world, has millions of fans and has dated famous men teenage girls swoon over, all she does is complain about break-ups that inevitably happen. Someone sounds ungrateful.
I will say that Red is very good for guilty-pleasure songs, and that is not necessarily a bad thing. Plenty of us are shamelessly guilty of belting out Red’s hit single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” but guilty-pleasure songs do not make an album worth buying.
Her duet with up-and-coming singer Ed Sheeran, “Everything Has Changed,” may draw in a new group of fans, but Swift seems very hit-or-miss. You either love her or kind-of-sort-of like singing her songs in your car ironically or when no one can hear you.
If you’re ever in need of a sappy break-up song, Taylor Swift is your gal. But, if you’d rather not listen to immature songs about Swift’s poor, famous ex-boyfriends, Red is not the album for you.
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