Amazon.co.uk Review
18-year-old singing sensation Taylor Swift presents the listener with a conundrum. Her music isn’t particularly inventive--indeed it’s built largely on what you could call country music clichés--yet she does what she does so well you have to work really hard not to like it. With her blond hair, blue-eyes and pretty face, it’s easy to write Swift off as yet another "tweenie". But beneath the glossy exterior lurks some genuine talent: she writes her own tunes, plays (some of) her own instruments and even though she sings about the inevitable pop themes of love and heartbreak, she doesn’t rely on any "sex-sells" cynicism to shift her records. All of which is to say that Swift’s second album,
Fearless, while it won’t win any awards for innovation, makes for pleasurable--if highly predictable--listening.
--Danny McKenna
CD Description
At just 19 years of age Taylor Swift has united millions of admirers and bridged the gaps between musical genres, becoming a multi-platinum teenage sensation in the process. The album
Fearless has been hugely successful in the USA, and she’s now preparing to unveil it in the UK. “It’s really cool to come over to Europe and have a fresh start and introduce myself for the first time”, she says. “I’m really excited about it. And I hope that my music knows no boundaries, borderlines or genres”. The album provides an irresistible introduction to Taylor’s exquisite songwriting prowess, featuring title track "Fearless", "You Belong With Me" and "You’re Not Sorry", as well as "White Horse" (recently featured on hit US TV show
Grey’s Anatomy) and her latest smash and debut UK single "Love Story". The UK version of
Fearless also features earlier hits "Our Song", "Teardrops On My Guitar" and "Should’ve Said No", all taken from her first album
Taylor Swift.