1989

Only heard two most recent Taylor albums in full but never this one except for the singles. The title of the album is so funny considering how 2014 it sounds (and looks when it comes to the album cover). This particular brand of pop music is not something I like, it just sounds so juvenile. I don't want it to look like I hate the album just because it's Taylor (hell, I thought Midnights was an OK album) but she really just doesn't make music that appeals to me in any way 1/5

Ugh. I guess I have to listen to an entire TSweezy record finally? This is the worst kind of disposable pop music. Produced by committee, enjoyed by masses of drooling children. Engineered to the lowest common denominator. The beats are catchy of course. They’re perfectly calibrated to sound good over the speakers in a Starbucks or in a VW ad or some fucking place. This isn’t music. It’s a commercial project to turn people into millionaires and millionaires into billionaires.

I don't want to listen to or hear this album again.

Ehh not for me

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

See, now, should I be listening to the version of the album this website is directing me to? Or should I listen to Taylor's version? I'm sure there's some sort of moral quandary there that I can't be bothered to research. In any event, I'm going to record my own version of this album, Sean's Version if you will, where I take two ordinary carrier bags, and in one quick yelp, scream the words to all the songs into the first bag, tie it up and throw it into the ocean for a kindred spirit to find one day, or for a guppy to become fatally entangled with. Then I'll defecate into the second bag and ask a Big Machine Records executive to fasten it over my head until I suffocate in pooey carbon dioxide. I'll record all of this bag action and ask my executors to upload the results to all good streaming platforms.

ever since i signed up this algorithm has been giving me rather bad albums but this has got to top it PLEASE NO 😫😫😫 i can imagine people enjoying this i guess but this is SO bland i cant deal with it anymore there’s nothing remotely interesting or different like why should i listen to this when i can just listen to something else that’s more authentic and actually interesting ?? as much as i want to like something about it it’s so boring i just can’t, it’s catchy but not in a way that’s even pleasant or enjoyable for me, maybe it’s just not my type of thing sorry

Awful

Not for me

1989 ends with the song Clean. I know another album that ends with a song called Clean, Depeche Mode's Violator (also on this list). Guess when Violator was released? You guessed it, 1989. Coincidence??? I know this was popular, but I don't think I've ever heard an album so devoid of any soul. Somebody tell Swift that basslines can consist of more than 8th note roots. Oy.

Good for her.

Doom

What a bland and inoffensive album. I don't hate everyone for liking it, but to me it felt like a bag of unsalted chips (or fries). You go through it, on the moment there's nothing that makes you particularly stop, but by the time you're done with it you feel at best ok and at worst wondering why you spent time on it. Maybe it needs a decade more in the fridge before it becomes charmingly cheesy and retro, but right now I really don't get why people would spend life savings to see her live.

Hilariously nepotistically terrible. The Mary sue of pop songs. Imagine having all these words and nothing to say.

I couldn't even last 1 song. Fucking awful person, even worse as an artist. No musical merit whatsoever. Her unbelievable popularity is one of the most damning indictments of her generation. One of the few times I have wished that this site allowed zero stars!!!!

1 might be slightly harsh, but also unfair to score this as high as others I have rated 2. The failings of an out-of-five rating system...

I got this for day 89. I just wanted to share how cool of a coincidence that is. Unfortunately, this absolutely blows and worse, this is the second Taylor Swift album I've gotten in 89 days. At its best it reminded me of Carly Rae Jepsen but with less personality. This didn't change my perception of Taylor Swift, I already knew she was a competent songwriter with not an ounce of personality to her. Musical chicken tendies, music for people who don't really like music.

Fav: Style Least Fav: Bad Blood Nothing against Taylor Swift or her fans but this just bored me. Style was the only song I genuinely liked

First listen. Well not entirely true, because these songs have been played on the radio about a million times a day. Dogshit.

Bland, monotonous, overproduced, indistinguishable from her competitors. Why all the fuss?

I would never

They say that hate engages. Here I am doing a negative review of this album. Hearing this only brought me bad feelings. I've never seen anything more generic about this in all of pop music. Nothing rings true in these songs. Everything sounds like a sure formula for success. The only thing true about this is the feeling of heartbreak. Easy music for little girls suffering for love. This singer uses the music market at her pleasure. It's not for nothing that she became who she is in this field.

go AWAYYYYYYYYYYYY. if this has shake it off on it im gonna vomit welcome to new york- 1 blank space- 1 style- 2. target ad music out of the woods- 2 all you had to do was stay- 1 or 2 shake it off- -1000 aura. im gonna throw up i wish you would- 2 or 3 bad blood- -1000 wildest dreams- 2 or 3 how you get the girl- please get this away from me. 1 or 2 this love- 2 i know places- me too bitch. i know all sorts of places. 1 or 2 clean- 2 or 3 because i like drugs. otherwise this is a sonically terrible song wonderland- 1 or 2 you are in love- 2 new romantics- 1 id give her and whoever allowed this to happen the electric chair

Yeah, no This is more of a product than art, for me The lyrics are okay, as I like the expressiveness of Taylor, but since almost all songs are about her relationships, it gets stale Not a big fan of the pop sound, it's artificial and is made for charts and radio play Nothing wrong with that, but it's not for me. Wildest Dreams is a good shakeup, like the subtle production. Not something that I'm gonna go back to probably, but it's a standout for sure Favorite track: Blank Space

Oh, no. It’s unbearable

It’s a pop record. I am not the intended audience for this album, nor will I ever be. It’s clearly a good album from a production standpoint. It’s also fun, I guess. That’s about all the nice things I have to say about this album. Its lyrics are unapologetically self obsessed and strike me as being taken straight from the diary of a high school girl, which I guess is half the point? There’s not a single profound idea spoken, but clearly swifties aren’t on the hunt for anything novel. I wasn’t looking forward to the album, but I listened to it with open ears. If I never hear it again, it will be too soon. 1 star. Yawn.

never cared for Taylor Swift, this shit is overhyped at best and annoying at worst

Nagyon szívesen _leráznám_ magamról ennek az albumnak a létezésének a tudatának az írmagvát is, de tartok tőle, hogy ez nem ilyen egyszerű. Ez a csaj egy buborék. Egy kurrrrrrvanagyra felfújt buborék, azzal a fajta posztmodern blöffel, ahol a marketinggépezet elhitette a rajongókkal, hogy ennek az egésznek van értelme, pedig nincs. Csillivilli szappanmáz + nagy büdös semmi, patikamérlegen kimért arányokkal. És ez FRUSZTRÁL.

Wrong demographic

Sorry Taylor… I just really really don’t like your music. Best of luck though.

Shit. Taylor Swift music is a joke. She's smart and successful and killing me slowly.

Disturbing. I can't quite point to what I don't like about it and I really tried to be positive and listen without prejudice. But something about the perfect pop sensibility, the crystal clear vocals, and most of all the inoffensiveness really bugged me and I hate every note of it. But so many people love it. It makes me think about some 60's sci-fi horror film where the world has gone slightly mad about the latest demagogue and only our hero can see through them. 'Can't you all see? There's nothing there! There's nothing there!'

Nah. Catchy sure but so is row row row your boat.

I was honestly quite interested to listen to this one. She’s the biggest pop star in the world and I’d never sat down and listened to a full album of hers before. I was really disappointed. It just sounded like such lazy songwriting. The unimpressive synths and computer drumbeats were so boring. Very safe music which didn’t do anything for me

I gave it a fair shake, but this just ain’t for me

Bland boring fluff indistinguishable from any other industry female shoved down our top 40 throats. The tone of her screeching really grates on my ears!!

No. Can’t do it.

Awful pop

Why is this so hyped? It’s just generic modern pop music.

I don’t want to be a Taylor Swift hater, but… It’s just BAD. Lyrically, rhythmically, vocally bad. Sorry, but not sorry.

No

How will poor Taylor make it from one show to the next, and also make it back in time to see TK play sportsball? And also promote that we need to decrease carbon emissions? Good thing she is one of our overlords and would never be hypocritical and has our best interests in mind, im so thankful for you TS

Her country albums were waaaay better!

I was actually excited to give a Taylor Swift album a proper listen, but dear god did it dissapoint. Not only it is mediocre and repetitive, it is more than one hour long! What for? Its all the same! There are a couple of nice bangers here and there, but they definitely are not anything groundbreaking. This album is equivalent to chewing gum in nutritional value. Boring, average instrumentals to support Taylors voice, which is great, but every song is about the same thing, I stg Taylor needs a therapist ASAP. Anyway, this is nothing interesting for 2014, its like the safest, mass-consumtion-largest-target-audience PRODUCT, not art. Completely unsignificant in terms of larger artistic landscape. And its not bad, but its nothing special. NNN

It's just not good. I'm not the demographic, etc, etc. But this is just a music-style vampire record with worse versions of different genres behind lyrics shallower than a baby pool.

Artiste connue de nom seulement, jamais écoutée. Son très synthétique inspiré des 80's, mais très basique et pas très créatif, avec quasiment systématiquement les 3 ou 4 mêmes accords dans tous les morceaux. Le chant ne me touche pas, j'ai entendu bien mieux. Je me suis forcé pour aller au bout des 13 morceaux de l'album standard, mais je n'ai pas eu le 'courage' d'aller plus loin. =>1/5

fuck off.

Refused to listen.

I don't fucking think so

Sorry………

Would I listen to it again: no Is it a no-skip album: no Favorite song: - Least favorite song: - Do I like it: no

No thanks.

toxic and awful. Never again

pop de baixíssima qualidade musical. Nada de novo. Completamente descartável. Sem graça de tudo.

I was listening this on Spotify and got a message from my best buddy: "Why the fuck are you listening an entire Taylor Swift album" and now I feel embarrassed. Thanks a lot.

Jag överdriver inte. Jag trodde inte att det skulle vara så dåligt. Detta bidrog nog till början av The downfall of pop. Vissa låtar funkar bara av den anledningen att jag hört dem på radion när jag var mindre. Annars hade det varit skit rakt igenom.

Gear: Focal Clear Mix: gar nicht so scheiße Musik: ganz schön scheiße Wertung: 📸(📸)/5

trash. unoriginal and talentless

Not interested

Meh

just not a T swift fan. Respect that she has built the following she has, just not for me.

I am not a Swiftie.

no

Didn’t listen

Not my jam!

No

I was surprised at how bland this was. There were no dynamics and it sounded autotuned, whether it was or not doesn't really matter. I thought perhaps it was the system I was listening on, but listening to other music proved that to not be the case. beige

Oh boy.... I don't know if I can do this album. I'll give it a try but not promising anything. Especially after the whole Super Bowl news. Okay, this first track is kinda catchy. Yeah sorry can't do this. 1 star. Gonna put on some real 80s music.

I will not

It's mediocre pop music written by an adult teenager for teenagers and other middle-aged teenagers who never grew up past high school boys and crushes. I will NEVER understand why people think she's such a genius lyricist... Bob Dylan is an incredible lyricist, Taylor is just a product and nothing further. She's doing more planet to the damage than probably all of us on this site combined, but her "stans" don't care. They'll continue harassing Joe Alwyn while defending her dating a racist, bigot.

Not my cup of tea

Das ist also Taylor Swift?! Hatte schon von ihr gehört, aber noch nichts von ihrer Musik - warum auch?

Asexual garbage

Not a Taylor fan.

Pass

Yuk

No.

Not my cup of tea (fully realizing that this 60+ dude is not exactly the target audience.

Just not for me. Much prefer CRJ or Charli XSX and other pop artists.

Very poppy

I just don’t get the hype. There are far better pop artists out there, but for some reason Taylor is the one that gets the push. Whatever I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I will just continue to keep on keeping on.

Her voice is genuinely unpleasant to me. She gives these shrill belts that make me cringe and sound unskilled. The song structures and production sound incredibly generic. The lyrical content is basic and heavy handed. There’s not much redeeming here. I think she does have some better material than this.

There's nothing objectively "wrong" with it, but I think that's the problem. It's very sterile music. The lyrics are vapid at best. There's no soul to it. Every single note seems like it belongs in a collector's case...to be preserved rather than enjoyed. Like most pop music, it seems like these songs were composed to appeal to the masses and that does absolutely nothing for me. Stand out tracks: Style, Shake It Off

Obviously a lot of people love this but I do not.

ye made that bitch famous

I don’t think I’ll ever be in the mood for listening to this so I may as well get it over with. Bland bland boring yawn The only thing remotely interesting on it is Shake it Off. The whole thing sounds the same all the way through 1/5

Boo

I hated Taylor Swift because of so many stories telling she’s the worse person, so I was not listening to what she’s doing. And fuck, I did well, that’s all I hate in music, bad lyrics, high pitched voice and some bad electronics in the background. Pop is probably the genre that I enjoy the less but I can enjoy some Madonna or Britney. Taylor Swift is just impossible. Although I can understand that some people enjoy it

Not good

As Kanye West famously said "I made that bitch famous", just super basic pop music that is really shit.

This album/ artist does not deserve to be in this list. The songs are pure hot garbage. All the tracks sound like instrumentals made using a free trial of fruity loops and the lyrics delivered are cliche love references and completely meaningless. I pushed through the entire album but it wasn't enjoyable in the slightest.

🫥

this is not better than to pimp a butterfly. not even close. now thats a reference only the true music enthusiasts will get.

"Shake it Off" is great to play when your wet dog comes in from the rain. But the album on the whole is about as timeless and perseverant as 1989's horoscope. 🌌

Not a fan of Taylor Swift but did listen to this, good pop music but not my music I would go to. Shake it off was ok I suppose and the only thing I recognise.

There is nothing significant about this at all; it’s a cleverly manufactured money grab which somehow appeals to seemingly everyone on Planet Earth. Absolutely no variation in song length, lyrical theme, or musical technique which might make it interesting. The heavily autotuned singing and perfect production rips this album of all soul and human-ness, creating a product rather than a piece of art. The incredibly simple lyrics result in zero thought required to interpret what the song may be about and offers no chance at a thoughtful discussion. This is undeniably a boring experience. Thoughts and prayers go out to all those albums which are filled with talent and musicality and didn’t make the list because the writer of this book probably felt obliged to include a Taylor Swift album to lower the risk of getting attacked by Swifties.

I COULD NOT, WOULD NOT, ON A BOAT. I WILL NOT, WILL NOT, WITH A GOAT. I WILL NOT HEAR IT IN THE RAIN. NOT IN THE DARK! NOT IN A TREE! NOT IN A CAR! YOU LET ME BE! I DO NOT LIKE IT IN A BOX. I DO NOT LIKE IT WITH A FOX. I WILL NOT HEAR IT IN A HOUSE. I DO NOT LIKE IT WITH A MOUSE. I DO NOT LIKE IT HERE OR THERE. I DO NOT LIKE IT ANYWHERE! I DO NOT LIKE TSWIFTS OEUVRE!

TS sucks.

онееееет только нееее

It is shit, but also strangely uplifting in a way that makes you feel like you're being constantly lied to. I hate it.

Brauchte diese Liste wirklich 2 Taylor-Swift-Alben aus den letzten zehn Jahren? Noch dazu dieses? Schrott.

Nope.

This album is just really unoffensive music that doesnt really take risks at all, a call back to 80s music but without really the flavour. Imo its just a really boring album that is massly over produced for the charts. I cant really stand this album. Heck it aint even the good type of synth heavy 80s music, this just feels misplaced imo idk how it made it

Taylor Swift seems to be a pretty decent human, but this album...it's a no. Poetry that sounds like it was written by a lovelorn twelve year old... Lyrically simplistic, boring, trite; plus nothing of interest musically. Reliant on a really samey drum beat for every song, rather than melodies. Really generic. The kind of lyrics I can imagine a grumpy tweenager quoting on her MSN messenger id in the late nineties. Making an effort to sound profound. I get it, you wear red lipstick. Just not for me. Ugh I sound old!

I'm sorry, women. I thought I might end up appreciating her music a bit more, but this just solidified that I do not like Taylor Swift. I found this to be pretty boring and grating on the ears. I don't even have much to say about it. It just made me groan. I guess my favourite song was Black Space, but none of them were good, in my opinion.

Really not my style

Not a big fan very cheesy and not interesting, the drums are as bland as tofu, it’s all very boring and dosent have anything interesting musically, at least Taylor’s voice isn’t saturated with autotune and the vocals aren’t bad. In terms of lyrics it’s pretty awful, singing about poppy romance and being the bad girl ain’t very great. Listening to it makes me hate Taylor swift cause it’s just repetitive and lacks and value to me One isn’t a small enough number to accurately describe how bad this is Probably .5/10

Very commercialised pop music without any surface, it is simple music with simple lyrics. It isn't horrible in a way that it is completely unlistenable but this album is a good example why I can't stand commercial pop music from the past years.

No

Hell no. This is absolute noodles. Total bag of shite. Like being made to have sex with two tightly packed cheesegraters lubed up with pickled onion vinegar. Absolutely god awful.

Hindsight is 20/20, and I'm feeling that now that I look back on my 2-star rating of Swift's 'evermore' a while ago. Compared to this LP, 'evermore' is a Nobel Prize in Literature winning, 5-star work of genius and creativity. Repetitive choruses written at the schoolyard-chant level, bland instrumentals born straight out of a sterile DAW with no human hand, classic Max Martin production that sucks the air out of every ounce of soul or humanity left – the awful but understandable ingredients of an LP that dominated the airwaves and zeitgeist so thoroughly it hasn't quite been matched since. This lab-grown, genetically-engineered organism of an album has no other purpose but to seek and destroy entire blocks of radio play, to still dominate house-party and club playlists, to worm its way so thoroughly into your brain you can't help but tap along to the stupidly simple saxophone accents in 'Shake It Off.' There's not one entire genuine expression of artistic merit or flair on this thing; instead, it's a scientific study in how to combine the most dull and minimal of musical elements to maximize the fittingly named Big Machine Records and Swifts' bottom line. And before you accuse me of being a hater, please compare her debut (that forgotten country relic which features Swift playing a real instrument and swinging above her weight with some pretty impressive narrative lyricism) to this album, one that can rarely be bothered to find a different set of lyrics for the second verse instead of just aping the first one again. It should be abundantly clear by now but this album, to me, represents the absolute nadir of big-money, label-made music and the homogenization of pop culture as a whole. This is what happens when you pursue a 100% capital-oriented pursuit to music in the interest of inflating your profits - and it worked! It worked so well that Max Martin gets to produce anything and everything nowadays, leading to popular music which sounds melodically similar (there are YouTube compilations out there if you don't believe me) and lifeless, music that has no soul because no one involved had actual music in mind. I guess this is /truly/ one of the 1001 albums to listen to before you die in that it provides a tripping hazard in hell of bar for genuine artistry.

Pop de sábanas blancas, suave como un sol de Cancún en mayo, que te pega en los ojos mientras al lado tuyo baila una señora en sombrero y anteojos de sol; y delante, una instructora grita en espasmos, despertando de la siesta a un abuelo cuyos nietos juegan en la alberca. Qué sé yo, Blank Space más o menos zafa, si lo que querés es menoscabar la psiquis de tus empleados.

Only one track half grabbed my attention. Maybe on subsequent attempts I'd get mire from it, but Sw8ft has never been my cup of tea.

Yucky

Was very open minded before hand. Silly little me. Major poo poo album. Fave track - Shake It Off

Literally 1984 pakko on kuunnella.. heh.. siinä on albumin nimi väärässä.. pitäisi olla 1984.. KOSKA PAKKO KUUNNELLA... Lyriikat on välillä tuhmia..... Siitä tykkään... heh....

I'm being harsh, but the first song on this album made me want to immediately swerve into oncoming traffic. By some point I thought, alright, maybe there's a few hooks on here that work, and then Bad Blood started playing so traffic seemed alluring again.

Non

Not a fan

Shake it off is a good song. Everything else felt boring. My personal opinion but compared to her modern female pop star peers, she is kinda the lowest common denominator.

Beyoncé had the best music video of all time

Ewww nooo it had it’s time but I pass

Except for two songs that were commercial hits, this album really isn't worth a listen, in my opinion.

This is just awful...

Is this actually real or some AI generated nonsense?

I cant, this isnt for me. I tried.

Energetic, but boring. Every track sounds the same

Not for me. Anthemy feel good vapidity that doesn't connect

Better than Evermore (the album generated half a year ago)

Soo not my thing. Listened to half of the album and gave up. Nah. All same same and I just don’t care, sorry

Bizarrely, to me and my friends, I own not one, but TWO albums by Ms Swift. This is not, nor will it ever be, one of them. I guess if I was a 14 year old girl I'd like it, but I'm not. So I don't.

Dear god that was horrible!!!

It's genuinely offensive that this is included on this list.

olidligt

0/5, that was terrible in all possible ways. Just generic radio pop done in a bad way.

Not my jams

Låter så själlöst, ljudmässigt tomt, några helt funny lyrics men inte tillräckligt. Shake it off är bra men resten är så obeskrivligt tråkigt dude....

Dude this album beat To Pimp a Butterfly for Album of the Year at the Grammy's. HOW?!

Bubblegum pop that tires really quickly.

my ears are bleeding

Why????

Not a fan… a few good songs

Why is this on the list !?!? Dross without a rhythm section...

Taylor made music for a peado van. No thanks I swiftly skipped this one. Overall she’s pretty shit

"Bad Blood" is one of my least favorite songs of all time.

ну и хуйня

Yeah, not doing this one.

2/10

Any one artist I’m just absolutely not a fan of.. it’s Taylor Swift. Didn’t listen because I don’t want the algorithm to even suggest her.

Not my kind of jam. 1/5

1) Me dieron ganas de ir nuevamente a NY pero prefiero esperar a que me den la vacuna. 2) Canción para cualquier película de Disney donde la trama es de un pibe latino que se enamora de una yankie donde los padres piensan que él quiere casarse con ella por la visa pero descubren que los padres de él son diplomáticos multimillonarios. El se va del país en el avión privados de los padres. Ella lo mira llorando. Plot twist: El avión cae. El sobrevive, los padres no. El se queda con ella. 3) Idem 2. 4) Música para publicidad de Apple Watch. 5) Música para cualquiera película donde trabaje Katherine Heigl. La de Grey's Anatomy. 6) Shake it Off. No hace falta aclarar. Mega pegadizo. La base es bastante simpática. Me encontré cantándolo sin darme cuenta. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 7) Otro tema Disney. 8) Idem 7. 9) Me gusta 10) Meh 11) Anne Hathaway corriendo en slow motion por NY dándose cuenta que dejó el horno encendido y tiene que regresar a su depto de 1200mt2 atravezando miles de peripesias. 12) Horrendo intro diciendo 'I I I I I' pero el resto del tema está muy bien. 13) Me gusta. 3/10 ludomatics. Le doy un punto más porque la foto del disco está sacada con films de Polaroid/Impossible-Project. Ni remótamente lo volvería escuchar.

Compressed crap.

Me hace sentir adolescente enamorada. 4/5 Credens.