It’s safe to say that Taylor Swift has officially made the jump from country chick with a guitar to cultural phenomenon. No matter where you live or what you do, she’s as inescapable a pop star as there is these days. In an era when female singer and oversexualized images are almost synonymous, Taylor’s a throwback to a simpler time, sort of an Olivia Newton-John (kids, look her up) for the new millennium. Unlike ONJ, Taylor plays guitar and writes […]
Posts tagged "Speak Now"
Chart Stalker 11/3/10: Taylor to the Rescue!!
So much for me and my prognostication skills. When Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” album came out last week, I initially pegged the album to do a WAY more than respectable 750,000 copies in it’s first week-coming into close contention with Eminem’s “Recovery” as the biggest debut week in 2010. Well, reports immediately started flying around suggesting that Taylor would come close to the coveted million mark, and now the dust has settled for the week, and Swift scores the biggest […]
New Release Report 10/25-26/10: Taylor Saves the Music Industry??
Probably not, but there are a lot of people hoping that Taylor Swift’s third studio album turns out to be a blockbuster. “Fearless”, the young singer’s sophomore effort, was a certified phenomenon, selling over 6 million copies (“Thriller” numbers in today’s environment) and making Taylor the first country artist to win an MTV Video Music Award. It also won her an Album of the Year Grammy. This means that expectations are sky-high. Those sky-high expectations probably won’t be met, but […]
Taylor Makes a Swift Return to Country/Pop Goodness with “Mine”
Taylor Swift is officially middle-America’s squinty-eyed sweetheart. She keeps her clothes on, has a bit of “musical credibility” (i.e. she plays guitar and writes her own lyrics) and has a blandly appealing vibe that’s obviously worked wonders at the sales counter. Hell, I dig her and at first glance you wouldn’t figure me for a fan. Her first two albums have sold 10 million copies combined and she took home a Grammy Award for Album of the Year back in […]