4/5 Stars

 Taylor Swift’s Red Album was definitely a blockbuster.  Taylor sold 1.21 million copies of her album in just one week which is more than any album since 2002. Red has the second largest sales for any female artist.  Swift’s 16 song album statistically blew me away.

                Before her actual song came out, her song, We Are Never Getting Back Together rocketed the top charts so there was much anticipation for her album.  Red had about the same amount when it came to fast and slow songs. There were nine fast or catchy songs and there were seven slow songs on her album.  The first two were catchy to get the listener hooked and then it basically went every other song was catchy or slow creating a well mixed album.

                There was some meaning behind all of her songs, because “If you’re horrible to me, I’m going to write a song about it and you won’t like it. That’s how I operate,” Taylor said.  All of her songs have to do with the “… intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of those in my mind, all of those are red.”  Taylor’s saying that all these songs are about the good and bad that she has experienced in love.  Ironically, Swift’s thirteenth song the Lucky One and thirteen is her lucky number.  What is also ironic is that her last song is “Begin Again.” You could interpret this as start the track all over again and experience it. It could also mean that since the relationship is over you still have to get up and learn to fall in love all over again.

                Lots of people said they like Swift’s new look, going from country to pop. Some people said they miss the real country but mainly everyone still agrees it is amazing.  This is obviously proven that within minutes fourteen arenas were sold out, including Foxboro Massachusetts’ Gillette Stadium.  She got tons of raves with sayings like “An Inc(RED)ible Album!!”  “Beyond flawless, this is fearless.” But on the other hand a few people didn’t like it saying statements like “Not goodL” and “I miss the old Taylor.” Even with this negativity she spent a hard two years working on this album and is Billboard’s youngest female of the year, which is something to be cheerful about