Monday, November 16, 2009

Taylor Swift's Album Review



Known as one of youngest country singers to every make it big at the age of sixteen, Taylor Swift has been able to accomplish the unimaginable. Taylor Swift is a country singer-songwriter and a guitarist, who has become a triple platinum artist. Born on December 13, 1989 in Reading Pennsylvania Swift has always has a passion for music. Even though she is considered a recent musician to the American Public, Swift has been performing for almost her whole life.
Taylor Swift’s first album was a huge success and made its way to becoming a 3x Multi-Platinum record. Her second album which some would agree to be even better, has become to be an even bigger success. Fearless, her second album was released in November of 2008. The Nielsen SoundScan has rated Swifts album as the highest-selling album in the United States with net sales of more than four million albums. Writing all of her songs, Taylor Swift is considered to be one of the most successful country artists.
During the release of the album, Fearless spent eleven weeks on the Billboard top two hundred chart . Within this decade, Taylor Swift is considered the top female artists having produced over forty successful songs. Based on all of her album sales this year, Forbes names Taylor Swift the 69th most powerful celebrity, with earnings over $18 million.
Fearless has been one of Swift’s most powerful and inspirational albums she has made yet. Taylor called this album Fearless to express all of the doubts and fears that she has experienced, “To me fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts”. With songs like Fifteen, White Horse, You’re Not Sorry, and Tell Me Why, Swift sophisticatedly expresses the pain she has experienced from past memories. Along with the gloomy emotions expressed by Swift, the album also shows feelings of happiness and uplifting moments as revealed in Love Story and Forever and Always. Taylor Swift has come a long way from being a small town girl in Pennsylvania, and her success is expected to keep on rising.

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