1989

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How You Get the Girl" is the most sunny, upbeat song on the album, and that's not saying much since there's nothing that's quite on the level of "You Belong with Me,""Mean," or "Picture to Burn. It was this approach that led Taylor to her amazing success, and abandoning it is a risk that will only pay off from her prior fans all eating it up. Honestly, I only have a problem with the production and how Martin feels the need to give a modern, glossy pop feel to every song he touches. Style" is one of the better Max Martin tracks on the album since it lets Taylor be herself, complete with the lyrics you'd expect.

Although she had been known as "America's Sweetheart" because of her wholesome and down-to-earth image, [10] her serial romantic relationships blemished her reputation, and a short-lived romance with English singer Harry Styles during promotion of Red generated much media gossip.

The album opener "Welcome to New York" is a Ryan Tedder trademark track that is catchy in the way that you'd expect from him, and it fits the album perfectly as there are numerous references to a "new soundtrack. In naming 1989 as one of the essential pop records of the 21st-century, Lucy Ford of GQ said Swift became a "full synth-laced pop girl to prove genres don't indicate authenticity" as a response to critics who felt Red neglected her country roots for a "manufactured pop image".

This is the kind of track I expected from the album, since it has an authentic throwback feel while still being personal. The album reached number one on the record charts of various European and Oceanic countries, including Australia, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland.Here, the songs do at times have those traits, but the repetitive feel to it is the most different thing Taylor is doing on this album, making it her weakest release since her debut. Mikael Wood, in his review for the Los Angeles Times, found the album inauthentic, but acknowledged her effort to emulate the music of an era she did not experience. The album's liner notes, which include a one-sentence hidden message for each of the 13 songs, collectively tell a story of a girl's tangled relationship.