Yess she says that she dreamt that her ex knocked on her door and the only thing she could say was that high pitched 'staay'. Pretty iconic for her to put that into a song tbh
Of course, lets not forget, 1989 is still the most awarded pop album of ALL time. And its unique because the "theme" really was just her freedom now- not being confined to a single genre.
I think that knowing taylor molded 1989 based on the "flaws" of her previous album, Red - which was considered her best album yet but veeeeery critized by the critics for being messy and not knowing where to stand - really makes you look at it differently like, there were other pop girlies back then who were doing good and subjectively even better than taylor, but for her, who was already estabilshed as a country singer, full transition to another genre really makes it even more special, because she got the whole world on their knees thinking "tf this girl is doing" lol i wouldn't say this is her best work, but it's a very important album in her carrier for presenting Taylor to a much wider audience. like, if THIS was taylor's first impression to manyyy many people, think of how many people started to tune in to see what else she had in store. used to be my favorite album until folklore came and stabbed me in the back :'))
@@Fucorii i said that more based on when she lost the AOTY for Red and said she immediatly jumped into the 1989 idea an wanting to do a more cohesive project (which was what red was most critized about)
@@thrsdayschld yes. That was the only flaw of RED. But the critics also liked the fact that it was not cohesive. Cause it resembles the fact that love and break up is just as messy as RED. While 1989 is more cohesive, catchier and digestible than RED, it was nowhere near acclaimed as RED.
New Romantics is definitely my favorite Taylor song. It was the one that I heard that has always kinda stuck to me. I personally think it’s one of her best pop songs due to the lyrics and how different it feels to the rest of the singles she’s produced. I always come back to it.
You talked about how consistent this album is, so I'll share a piece of information that for some reason a lot of reactors don't know Maybe it's bc I'm a veteran swiftie but i think this is important: In all of her albums up until Reputation, Taylor hid secret messages in the lyric booklets for each song. The special thing about the 1989 secret messages is that they form a story. Here it is: Welcome to New York : We begin our story in New York. Blank Space : There once was a girl known by everyone and no one. Style : Her heart belonged to someone who couldn't stay. Out of the Woods : They loved each other recklessly. All You Had to Do Was Stay : They paid the price. Shake It Off : She danced to forget him. I Wish You Would : He drove past her street each night. Bad Blood : She made friends and enemies. Wildest Dreams : He only saw her in his dreams. How You Get the Girl : Then one day he came back. This Love : Timing is a funny thing. I Know Places : And everyone was watching. Clean : She lost him, but she found herself and somehow, that was everything
The right mood = goofy. Sometimes I'll be blasting that silly ass bridge like the it's the best thing I've ever heard and having the time of my life. MY EX MAN BROUGHT HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND SHE'S LIKE OMG I JUST WANNA SHAKE AND TO THE FELLA OVER THERE WITH THE HELLA GOOD HAIR WOULD YOU COME ON OVER BABY AND JUST SHAKE SHAKE💃💃💃
This was my FAVORITE album ever around the time it came out, and for a long long time it was my favorite Taylor Swift album. Now my fav is prolly folklore, but I have such an attachment to this album that'll never go away. Every time I come back to it I always feel so happy and nostalgic because it reminds me of sitting on my bedroom floor with my CD player listening to it and then watching all of the music videos on repeat. I just love this album! Right now my fav song on it is prolly Clean, Wildest Dreams, or All You Had To Do Was Stay, but back in 2014 it was prolly Blank Space or Style. But tbh, I've always loved them all :)
My favorite off the album is this love. This Love is something different to the rest of the album. While Clean probably has the best lyrics, This Love ties really close to it. It is definitely the most emotional. Idk which version you listened to but This Love got rerecord and has much better vocals. If you can't tell, this is me trying to persuade you to listen to this love again and fall in love with it 🧍
I tried to comment on another video of his that This Love was re-released right before The Summer I Turned Pretty was released on Netflix, it’s actually on her IG post at the time last year.
you are in love is like one of my favorite taylor/jack songs and i never see anyone mentioning how good it is LOL also i just recently realized out of the woods might be one of her best pop songs???
I agree with everything you said. I understand why this album is so popular because it’s simple. Other than Clean, You Are In Love, and New Romantics none of the other songs have very good “bars”. Very easy and digestible. Clean is a top 5 song by her in my opinion though. “You understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars and why I’ve spent my whole life trying to put it into words” for me is her epitome of music put into a single lyric which is amazing.
1989 is #4 on my album rankings and these are my ranking of the songs: Out Of The Woods Clean Style This Love New Romantics You Are In love All You Had To Do Was Stay Blank Space How You Get The Girl I Know Places Wildest Dreams Welcome To Knew York Bad Blood I Wish You Would Wonderland Shake It Off It is really difficult to rank these albums when the singles are such a big part of my childhood/teen years but I love the album tracks so much as well😭
@@Cloclo1125 folklore, Rep, and Speak Now are my top three in order😌 then of course 1989, evermore is next and she’s giving 1989 a run for her money🫣 then Red, Lover, Fearless, Debut. I cannot rank midnights yet I need like two years with her. (Also I am not a debut hater despite debut being last in my ranking)
I'm here again, because I will strongarm the algorithm to get you to the eras tour all by myself! Over all I agree with your take on the album, the high school grades metaphor was solid. I think it's both her most polished and most commercial work, and it did exactly what she intended. It's also the most consistent (besides folklore). I respect it a lot and it's full of bangers, but maybe lacking a little in soul. I also can't quite divorce the album from the tour in my head, she was killing it but also clearly dealing with eating disorders and her life just seemed really stressful. I think that colors my experience. I am a Blank Space girl though, always have been, so there is that. My top five: 1. Blank Space 2. Clean 3. Style 4. Wildest Dreams 5. I Wish You Would The one song I dislike is All You Had To Do Was Stay, which again proves that this album is less about the feels, since I'm normally a track five stan. Shake It Off is fine. Not great, not terrible, just very overplayed, I don't know what to tell ya.
@@jasonpaulkim The arrengement is why I don't like it, all of those high pitched stays are too loud for my delicate ears. There's a pattern in my top five that I go for her ballads and midtempo stuff, I can't handle to much noise. But each to their own!
I think the disaster from musical critics that she received during RED really pushed her to the edge. That album was ahead of its time. Glad people and critics now look at RED in a different landscape. But yeah 2013/2014 was an F moments from Taylor to the whole public. Like starting in earlier 2010s, country radio stations were starting to banned female artists, and it effected to Taylor's singles. Speak Now singles didn't perform better than Fearless singles and RED country singles as well. But interestingly since the beginning of her career, Pop market always take Taylor's Pop mix singles and she got massive hits with it. So yeah instead of making another country album to her yeehaw audience and know the singles most likely would flop, she was taking the risk to move to Pop market completely, which was always waiting for her. 1989 was definitely the clap back from Taylor to everyone who questioned her range of making music. She really said enough of the fake country accent and it was time for Cowboy Swift stormed the whole world.
@@hassanmansour9857 thank you. It was really the issue back then. Like Taylor's career took over and changed how people viewed country music. And some of it in such a horrendous way. But basically it was misogynistic reason. Male country singers were terrified that their careers are going to be compared to the Taylor swift. And they never look at her in the same way like Pop style idolised her. The country bros even made fun of her country music. The rumours from the streets were also saying they were afraid if another Taylor Swift show up all of a sudden. So yeah they decided to give the female country singers less airplay than the male country artist. It was nothing new that country music is always kinda straight and old fashioned to their artists and audience.
@@hassanmansour9857 Country music industry would find anything to demolish Taylor's country legacy. They've been questioned if her accent was real from the first. But they forgot that Taylor was a lil girl move to Nashville and she got bills to pay. So yeah Taylor needed to do what she did. They also been questioned her music if it's country enough. But miss blondie was smart and knew how to capture every room that she entered. The masses can't take her no more and pushed her to the edge when she released RED. She knew she had to leave them. FYI, they erased Taylor's spot in the honourable murals for legends/icons in county music. It just happened like 1-2 years ago.
I think the reason this album got so much hype was because Taylor was fully embracing the pop side of her and the promotion of this album honestly. I arguably do think it’s her best mainly because her best pop songs are on this album… New Romantics, style, out of the woods, clean, you are in love (one of the best lyrically on the album), wildest dreams and blank space are all genuinely good pop songs regardless of the fact that they where overplayed
sorry but you did NOT just say wonderland and new romantics are JUST OKAY. I AM APPALLED (with all respect ^u^). Also, I didn't appreciate this love enough but once I listened to this love taylor's version I have now seen the light!!! Really love these videos, keep it up^^
i'm gonna need a whole video on why New Romantics is alr 🤣 rob sheffield hit it on the head imho: it's urgent and glittery. It's where she really indulges all that Eighties synth-pop she warned us about, with a mascara-smudged nod to the New Romantic scene that gave us Duran Duran and Adam Ant. It’s the best song the Pet Shop Boys never wrote. When that chorus hits, she’s inside the mirror ball, on a floor where the lights and boys are blinding and playing cool won’t cut it anymore.
I think 1989 deserved all the love it has. First of all, it brought many new swifties at the time. The era slayed HARD. and ofc, its a big transition from her going country to full pop (u nailed it with the outfit my guy)
I had very mixed emotions when Shake It Off came out, and for a while just thought of it as an ear worm. BUT then I saw a clip of Taylor talking about how it was being played in a club & everyone was dancing to it - and that was the dream she was chasing. She wanted to make a song that everyone would dance to 🥹 also I learned a line dance to it & now I LOVE it ❤
Before starting the video I already know the answer to this question which is YES this album is an iconic pop masterpiece and only gets better with time
OMG ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS STAY IS SO GOOD also there is too much shake it off hate 😭i get it can be annoying sometimes, but the bridge is so fun to scream
I feel that clean really works as a closer. Like maybe not as an individual song, but it’s a nice palette cleanser. I feel that after I listen to so much pop that is so loud and in your face and hits like a truck, I’m like pretty tired and kinda sick of it reaching the end of the album which made clean really refreshing. Also style is fucking amazing.
@@jasonpaulkim ALSO please do a Lana del Rey discography video, and a video about Ultraviolence I don’t know if you like Lana but Ultraviolence is such a good album
I feel like after the eras saga series is over, you should do one where you analyze and understand the meaning of all songs by asking swifties. Just a suggestion ❤
This is the album that made me into a Taylor Swift fan. I kept hearing Style on the radio and was like, "damn who is this singer, this is a good song." I still love the album, clean is incredible in particular. Although, evermore and folklore surpass every other album for me.
even if i'm not the biggest taylor swift fan (i mean i love some of her songs but i haven't listened to all of her albums yet), i can't escape to 1989. This album reminds me a lot of memories from my late middle school/early high school years somehow. i rediscovered the album in its whole pretty recently AND MY GOSH STYLE IS JUST A WHOLE DAMN VIBE (out of the woods is close second). hope you'll see Taylor in concert thanks to your RUclips channel, it's always such a moment to see one of your fav artists live :) love your work btw !!
To answer yer question: 1989 ranks 7th for me. I totally agree with all of your thoughts on the album. As for my favorite songs. - Blank Space (because of the 1989 Tour - "SYDNEYYYYYY!!!" ) - Style (the instrumentals!) - AYHTDWS (you explained why I love it) - This Love (TV - I love it more than the OG) - How You Get the Girl (pretty much a bangerrrrr and the tour made it 1000000 times better) - Clean (the tour version, I love it) It is really a hit or miss album but we cannot deny the impact of this album in the pop music industry. This is where it was confirmed that she will stay here longer than what is expected of female singers. Just imagine, all these years, new artists arrived but here she is, still thriving and is still popular. One of the few female artists that really made it.
1989 and Rep to me are two albums that people just had to be there to truly understand the impact they had. Taylor’s shift from country to pop changed the game. Her lyrics were good and now she could work with someone like Max Martin and give us pop perfection. It’s also important to know that she removed 1989 from Spotify around 1 month after it came out so a lot of the numbers it accomplished was *without* streaming.
Thanks for the video! I respect your honesty man, but 1989 will always be a banger for me. Just waiting on the TV 💛 My faves are Style, Out of the Woods, I Know Places and Clean 😚
i do think shake it off get's way more hate than it deserves lmao, but I agree with almost everything else you said, think this is my favoutrite review from the series so far lol. (also Wildest dreams is personally my favourite Taylor song, I always imagined a certain *someone* in my life singing that to me and vice versa when i was in middle school)
1989 is one of my favorites. Its one of the albums that got me liking taylor. If you ever do another listening to an artists whole discography you should listen to all of one directions albums and their solo albums
I remember in his previous taylor video he said something like "the setting really helps the music" or something like that and that is very true for 1989. I love this album but it hits so much harder in NYC especially at night and ofc welcome to new york.
It’s so hard to pick a top 5 from this one! Mine is probably: 1) Style 2) Blank Space 3) Wonderland 4) I Wish You Would 5) All You Had To Do Was Stay (honorable mentions Out of The Woods and Wildest Dreams)
i've been keeping up with every one of these videos just so you can hopefully see taylor live and live out my dream and hopefully eventually admit your a swiftie 🤭😊
there's an interview of taylor saying that the high-pitched STAY in all you had to do was stay came from a dream she had, where an ex showed up at her door and that was all she could say to him. the way the production captured that is amazing.
Am i the only one who actually likes shake it off? I used to dislike it to since many people said it was bad but I’ve grown to really like it. ESPECIALLY THE BRIDGE ITS SO CATCHY AA
Hi! I only started watching your videos a few days ago. I completely love your honesty and disagree with you most of the time, which is fine and it makes it even funnier 😂 I get why you don't love shake it off, I also won't listen to it in my daily life like ever but Taylor really loves to perform that song. If you watch Eras tour performance you can see how much she loves to perform that song, just to be able to dance awkwardly and be happy. So that song to her is not to make a masterpiece, just a song that you could have fun, dance and be your silly, goofy self. Same goes for Me! Also, I want to recommend you to watch live performances, sometimes she makes changes and it makes the song and the performance so much better.
A lot of swifties would gasp when i say i agree with your idea that its a solid pop record but nothing interesting 🙈 i love taylor, shes my favorite artist, been a stan since 2009/2010, and while i love and appreciate 1989 i just dont think its that interesting, compelling or revolutionary of a pop album 😶 like it's certainly bulletproof pop, but its statement was never that interesting to me. rep had a more interesting statement tbh. So while I think it definitely deserves the praise i also dont think its a life-changing pop record. Kind of reminds me of harry house-- easy listening, amicable pop, certainly has character and some major bops but overall its not that interesting lol, also liked this video n subscribed-- hope you get to make it to tour 🙌🙌🙌
This album, though not my favorite is very nostalgic for me since it’s the first Taylor album I ever listened to :) My fav song would be either Style or Wonderland
I agree that style is definitely S tier!!! also agree that I usually never listen to shake it off, but when she performed it on the eras tour? as soon as I heard the beat inside that stadium my body moved on its own.
1989 is so hard to place in my ranking because my brain lights up like a pinball machine whenever it's mentioned but it has the least amount of emotional impact, lyrically? but a lot of emotional impact just based off of nostalgia from that album. but every song SLAPS. like it MIGHT be top 3.
You are too funny! Don't feel bad if you don't make it to eras tour.I just went to a taylor swift party to win tickets ,dressed up like 1989( blonde wig, metallic skirt,black top outfit) with a poster.It was a raffle so I didn't win( felt like clown ).As a fan, I'm just wondering from this point on will going to her concert be like winning a lottery ticket!?😢
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uhhh so i forgot to change my "actual" top 5 move everything up and put i wish u would at 5 :)
my top 5 is your top 5, except all you had to do was stay is at 2 :)
@@onebell8497 How tf did you do that emoji?
@@calebhamlett yea bro what? lol
@@jasonpaulkim LMAOOO i use my computer and it comes up as a custom youtube emoji
@@onebell8497 I CANT EVEN FIND IT, I HAVE TO USE THE DEFAULT ONES 😱😱😭😭😢
She had a dream about her ex where he said with a high pitched voice STAY so that’s why she included it in the song All you had to do was stay
I think it was after the song came out
13th like
Yess she says that she dreamt that her ex knocked on her door and the only thing she could say was that high pitched 'staay'. Pretty iconic for her to put that into a song tbh
dude that's crazy
here's her talking about it ruclips.net/user/shortsFwCI9qgRP-0?feature=share
Of course, lets not forget, 1989 is still the most awarded pop album of ALL time. And its unique because the "theme" really was just her freedom now- not being confined to a single genre.
i suppose thts tru
Yep it was her symbol of rebirth!
give the deluxe tracks another chance!
Wonderland and New Romantics are more than just "alright"
they're actually my favorites off of the album 😭
nahhh i mean i respect ur opinion but i personally was not a big fan
Same! The best of all the album
@@jasonpaulkimtasteless
I love wonderland ❤
the YOU ARE IN LOVE slander???
Yessss finally someone who recognizes how good ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS STAY and HOW YOU GET THE GIRL are!
They are so underappreciated
they slapppp
how you get the girl is what turned me into a swiftie, like i was always a fan but that one just made me so happy i had to stan
I love All You Had To Do Was Stay! Wildest Dreams, Clean, Wonderland, and All You Had To Do Was Stay are my babies 😭
There my favouratessss
I think that knowing taylor molded 1989 based on the "flaws" of her previous album, Red - which was considered her best album yet but veeeeery critized by the critics for being messy and not knowing where to stand - really makes you look at it differently
like, there were other pop girlies back then who were doing good and subjectively even better than taylor, but for her, who was already estabilshed as a country singer, full transition to another genre really makes it even more special, because she got the whole world on their knees thinking "tf this girl is doing" lol
i wouldn't say this is her best work, but it's a very important album in her carrier for presenting Taylor to a much wider audience. like, if THIS was taylor's first impression to manyyy many people, think of how many people started to tune in to see what else she had in store. used to be my favorite album until folklore came and stabbed me in the back :'))
ahhh interesting yea tht makes sense
But the critics actually consider RED as her magnum opus.
@@Fucorii i said that more based on when she lost the AOTY for Red and said she immediatly jumped into the 1989 idea an wanting to do a more cohesive project (which was what red was most critized about)
@@thrsdayschld yes. That was the only flaw of RED. But the critics also liked the fact that it was not cohesive. Cause it resembles the fact that love and break up is just as messy as RED.
While 1989 is more cohesive, catchier and digestible than RED, it was nowhere near acclaimed as RED.
New Romantics is definitely my favorite Taylor song. It was the one that I heard that has always kinda stuck to me. I personally think it’s one of her best pop songs due to the lyrics and how different it feels to the rest of the singles she’s produced. I always come back to it.
i respect it
YES NEW ROMANTICS MY LOVE
You talked about how consistent this album is, so I'll share a piece of information that for some reason a lot of reactors don't know
Maybe it's bc I'm a veteran swiftie but i think this is important:
In all of her albums up until Reputation, Taylor hid secret messages in the lyric booklets for each song. The special thing about the 1989 secret messages is that they form a story.
Here it is:
Welcome to New York : We begin our story in New York.
Blank Space : There once was a girl known by everyone and no one.
Style : Her heart belonged to someone who couldn't stay.
Out of the Woods : They loved each other recklessly.
All You Had to Do Was Stay : They paid the price.
Shake It Off : She danced to forget him.
I Wish You Would : He drove past her street each night.
Bad Blood : She made friends and enemies.
Wildest Dreams : He only saw her in his dreams.
How You Get the Girl : Then one day he came back.
This Love : Timing is a funny thing.
I Know Places : And everyone was watching.
Clean : She lost him, but she found herself and somehow, that was everything
wow very interesting lol
1989 will always be iconic ❤
word
"Shake It Off" is GOOD. A little self-empowerment pop anthem never hurt anybody lol, you just gotta be in the right mood for it
The right mood = goofy. Sometimes I'll be blasting that silly ass bridge like the it's the best thing I've ever heard and having the time of my life. MY EX MAN BROUGHT HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND SHE'S LIKE OMG I JUST WANNA SHAKE AND TO THE FELLA OVER THERE WITH THE HELLA GOOD HAIR WOULD YOU COME ON OVER BABY AND JUST SHAKE SHAKE💃💃💃
nahhh never lol
As a Swiftie, I’ve grown to hate it so much, even in the right mood. 😭
Agreed.
This was my FAVORITE album ever around the time it came out, and for a long long time it was my favorite Taylor Swift album. Now my fav is prolly folklore, but I have such an attachment to this album that'll never go away. Every time I come back to it I always feel so happy and nostalgic because it reminds me of sitting on my bedroom floor with my CD player listening to it and then watching all of the music videos on repeat. I just love this album! Right now my fav song on it is prolly Clean, Wildest Dreams, or All You Had To Do Was Stay, but back in 2014 it was prolly Blank Space or Style. But tbh, I've always loved them all :)
i respect it!!
“9 years later” WHATTTT
ikrrr
New romantics is more than “alright” 😭😭
RT!
meh
FRRRRRRRRRRRR
My favorite off the album is this love. This Love is something different to the rest of the album. While Clean probably has the best lyrics, This Love ties really close to it. It is definitely the most emotional. Idk which version you listened to but This Love got rerecord and has much better vocals. If you can't tell, this is me trying to persuade you to listen to this love again and fall in love with it 🧍
I tried to comment on another video of his that This Love was re-released right before The Summer I Turned Pretty was released on Netflix, it’s actually on her IG post at the time last year.
i rlly enjoyed this love it's just the vocal doubling thing tht throws me off and both versions do it lol
you are in love is like one of my favorite taylor/jack songs and i never see anyone mentioning how good it is LOL also i just recently realized out of the woods might be one of her best pop songs???
yea ur in love is so good man
The fact that you can hear her heartbeat in the beginning of "Wildest Dreams" is such an amazing detail to me 🩷
damn lol
You creepy
you can hear it throughout the whole song, her heartbeat is the beat
I agree with everything you said. I understand why this album is so popular because it’s simple. Other than Clean, You Are In Love, and New Romantics none of the other songs have very good “bars”. Very easy and digestible. Clean is a top 5 song by her in my opinion though. “You understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars and why I’ve spent my whole life trying to put it into words” for me is her epitome of music put into a single lyric which is amazing.
damn lol
That lyric is from you are in love!
@@julianamartinez9737 i’m aware
@@julianamartinez9737 notice how i was talking about multiple songs
I don't remember anything from 2014 but the beginning was hilarious 😂
lol ty
Blank Space is a such fun song for the media criticsms she get and I love how she put them on their places thru that song.
i guess lol
1989 is #4 on my album rankings and these are my ranking of the songs:
Out Of The Woods
Clean
Style
This Love
New Romantics
You Are In love
All You Had To Do Was Stay
Blank Space
How You Get The Girl
I Know Places
Wildest Dreams
Welcome To Knew York
Bad Blood
I Wish You Would
Wonderland
Shake It Off
It is really difficult to rank these albums when the singles are such a big part of my childhood/teen years but I love the album tracks so much as well😭
wait your ranking is so valid!! except i would put welcome to ny much higher but other than that i respect it
@@Cloclo1125 omg I always look at wtny and wildest dreams being so low on my ranking and feel bad😭 I just love the other songs so much
@@ashleybrown8936 so real!!! what's your top 3 of her albums?? (cause you said 1989 is #4 👀)
@@Cloclo1125 folklore, Rep, and Speak Now are my top three in order😌 then of course 1989, evermore is next and she’s giving 1989 a run for her money🫣 then Red, Lover, Fearless, Debut. I cannot rank midnights yet I need like two years with her. (Also I am not a debut hater despite debut being last in my ranking)
lol i hope it's from best to worst
Bro ur actual top 5 still has shake it off on it I- 😭😭😭
omg i forgot to change it lol
Thanks for the laugh tho 🤝
I'm here again, because I will strongarm the algorithm to get you to the eras tour all by myself!
Over all I agree with your take on the album, the high school grades metaphor was solid. I think it's both her most polished and most commercial work, and it did exactly what she intended. It's also the most consistent (besides folklore). I respect it a lot and it's full of bangers, but maybe lacking a little in soul.
I also can't quite divorce the album from the tour in my head, she was killing it but also clearly dealing with eating disorders and her life just seemed really stressful. I think that colors my experience. I am a Blank Space girl though, always have been, so there is that.
My top five:
1. Blank Space
2. Clean
3. Style
4. Wildest Dreams
5. I Wish You Would
The one song I dislike is All You Had To Do Was Stay, which again proves that this album is less about the feels, since I'm normally a track five stan. Shake It Off is fine. Not great, not terrible, just very overplayed, I don't know what to tell ya.
honestly i love all you had to do was stay because of the arrangement
@@jasonpaulkim The arrengement is why I don't like it, all of those high pitched stays are too loud for my delicate ears. There's a pattern in my top five that I go for her ballads and midtempo stuff, I can't handle to much noise. But each to their own!
I think the disaster from musical critics that she received during RED really pushed her to the edge. That album was ahead of its time. Glad people and critics now look at RED in a different landscape. But yeah 2013/2014 was an F moments from Taylor to the whole public. Like starting in earlier 2010s, country radio stations were starting to banned female artists, and it effected to Taylor's singles. Speak Now singles didn't perform better than Fearless singles and RED country singles as well. But interestingly since the beginning of her career, Pop market always take Taylor's Pop mix singles and she got massive hits with it. So yeah instead of making another country album to her yeehaw audience and know the singles most likely would flop, she was taking the risk to move to Pop market completely, which was always waiting for her. 1989 was definitely the clap back from Taylor to everyone who questioned her range of making music. She really said enough of the fake country accent and it was time for Cowboy Swift stormed the whole world.
Wow this is so well put. I just have a question? Why were country radio stations banning female artists? Wtf
lmaooo
@@hassanmansour9857 thank you. It was really the issue back then. Like Taylor's career took over and changed how people viewed country music. And some of it in such a horrendous way. But basically it was misogynistic reason. Male country singers were terrified that their careers are going to be compared to the Taylor swift. And they never look at her in the same way like Pop style idolised her. The country bros even made fun of her country music. The rumours from the streets were also saying they were afraid if another Taylor Swift show up all of a sudden. So yeah they decided to give the female country singers less airplay than the male country artist. It was nothing new that country music is always kinda straight and old fashioned to their artists and audience.
@@hassanmansour9857 Country music industry would find anything to demolish Taylor's country legacy. They've been questioned if her accent was real from the first. But they forgot that Taylor was a lil girl move to Nashville and she got bills to pay. So yeah Taylor needed to do what she did. They also been questioned her music if it's country enough. But miss blondie was smart and knew how to capture every room that she entered. The masses can't take her no more and pushed her to the edge when she released RED. She knew she had to leave them. FYI, they erased Taylor's spot in the honourable murals for legends/icons in county music. It just happened like 1-2 years ago.
My favorite album! New Romantics is my favorite song, such a bop!
it's alr
I think the reason this album got so much hype was because Taylor was fully embracing the pop side of her and the promotion of this album honestly. I arguably do think it’s her best mainly because her best pop songs are on this album… New Romantics, style, out of the woods, clean, you are in love (one of the best lyrically on the album), wildest dreams and blank space are all genuinely good pop songs regardless of the fact that they where overplayed
sorry but you did NOT just say wonderland and new romantics are JUST OKAY. I AM APPALLED (with all respect ^u^). Also, I didn't appreciate this love enough but once I listened to this love taylor's version I have now seen the light!!! Really love these videos, keep it up^^
i highly recommend giving the performances of wonderland and new romantics live from her 1989 tour (on youtube) a watch please they are so amazing
New Romantics is my favorite song, such a bop!
i feel like they're just alright lol but thank u i'm so glad u like them :)
i'm gonna need a whole video on why New Romantics is alr 🤣 rob sheffield hit it on the head imho: it's urgent and glittery. It's where she really indulges all that Eighties synth-pop she warned us about, with a mascara-smudged nod to the New Romantic scene that gave us Duran Duran and Adam Ant. It’s the best song the Pet Shop Boys never wrote. When that chorus hits, she’s inside the mirror ball, on a floor where the lights and boys are blinding and playing cool won’t cut it anymore.
that's a great explanation...i just don't like the song tht much point blank
@@jasonpaulkim understandable but jail time for u
I think 1989 deserved all the love it has. First of all, it brought many new swifties at the time. The era slayed HARD. and ofc, its a big transition from her going country to full pop (u nailed it with the outfit my guy)
i totally agree
I had very mixed emotions when Shake It Off came out, and for a while just thought of it as an ear worm. BUT then I saw a clip of Taylor talking about how it was being played in a club & everyone was dancing to it - and that was the dream she was chasing. She wanted to make a song that everyone would dance to 🥹 also I learned a line dance to it & now I LOVE it ❤
Your thumbnail had me shook, lol, but tbh, I actually agree with your sentiments very much.
thank u!
Style and Out of the woods are the timeless work of art. Style is the pop perfertion 😎
might have to agree
I got the biggest serotonin boost getting the notification that you posted 😭
haha i'm happy ur happy
Before starting the video I already know the answer to this question which is YES this album is an iconic pop masterpiece and only gets better with time
i wouldn't say it only gets better but it's good
hope you get to see the queen herself!!!
thank u!!
Please give Wonderland another chance 😭 it’s my fav song from the album lol
Get him to the eras tourrrrrrr
hmmm i mean i guess i'll take a look lol
OMG ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS STAY IS SO GOOD
also there is too much shake it off hate 😭i get it can be annoying sometimes, but the bridge is so fun to scream
noooo the bridge is the worst part man
I feel that clean really works as a closer. Like maybe not as an individual song, but it’s a nice palette cleanser. I feel that after I listen to so much pop that is so loud and in your face and hits like a truck, I’m like pretty tired and kinda sick of it reaching the end of the album which made clean really refreshing. Also style is fucking amazing.
1989 is so iconic, you should do midnights, reputation, red Taylor’s version, speak now, fearless Taylor’s version and her debut
yea i'll definitely do at least one of those next week
@@jasonpaulkim ALSO please do a Lana del Rey discography video, and a video about Ultraviolence I don’t know if you like Lana but Ultraviolence is such a good album
I wish you also gave the 1989 world tour a chance huhu it's up on RUclips ✨
i'll have to check it out lol
BEEN. WAITING. FOR. THIS. ONE. AH! 1989 is my all-time favorite album as a swiftie
wooooo!!
Style is pop perfection 🤩
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You ate this thumbnail up
thanks man
I feel like after the eras saga series is over, you should do one where you analyze and understand the meaning of all songs by asking swifties.
Just a suggestion ❤
This is the album that made me into a Taylor Swift fan. I kept hearing Style on the radio and was like, "damn who is this singer, this is a good song." I still love the album, clean is incredible in particular. Although, evermore and folklore surpass every other album for me.
It will always slay❤
tru
im so loving the series so far. Im a minute in a know this video will be amazing
haha thank u
even if i'm not the biggest taylor swift fan (i mean i love some of her songs but i haven't listened to all of her albums yet), i can't escape to 1989. This album reminds me a lot of memories from my late middle school/early high school years somehow. i rediscovered the album in its whole pretty recently AND MY GOSH STYLE IS JUST A WHOLE DAMN VIBE (out of the woods is close second).
hope you'll see Taylor in concert thanks to your RUclips channel, it's always such a moment to see one of your fav artists live :) love your work btw !!
LMAO the frozen slander. i will always be a "Clean" girllll💘💘rooting for u to get those tickets!!!!
ofccc i respect it and thank u!
I’m commenting AGAIN because I hope you can go to the eras tour!!!!!
ty ty :)))
I know places is one of my favorite Taylor songs and is my favorite from 1989
respect
My favorite song is New Romantics and Clean. You should review Midnights next, I would love to see what you think of it 😊
I love your analysation, you’re very well spoken
thank u :)
1989 was for sure her most iconic album. she did a complete 180 in genres, and if we’re ignoring shake it off, it’s such an incredibly written album
yea i mean it's not like a complete 180 but i get what u mean
OMG YOU NEED TO MAKE A VLOG IF YOU GO TO THE ERAS TOUR
that's the plan!!
helping w the eras tour savings hereee
thank u!
finally another you are in love stan :D i love that song
it's a banger
@@jasonpaulkim ikr!! people fail to appreciate it
To answer yer question: 1989 ranks 7th for me. I totally agree with all of your thoughts on the album.
As for my favorite songs.
- Blank Space (because of the 1989 Tour - "SYDNEYYYYYY!!!" )
- Style (the instrumentals!)
- AYHTDWS (you explained why I love it)
- This Love (TV - I love it more than the OG)
- How You Get the Girl (pretty much a bangerrrrr and the tour made it 1000000 times better)
- Clean (the tour version, I love it)
It is really a hit or miss album but we cannot deny the impact of this album in the pop music industry. This is where it was confirmed that she will stay here longer than what is expected of female singers. Just imagine, all these years, new artists arrived but here she is, still thriving and is still popular. One of the few female artists that really made it.
totally agree and respect ur picks!!
1989 and Rep to me are two albums that people just had to be there to truly understand the impact they had. Taylor’s shift from country to pop changed the game. Her lyrics were good and now she could work with someone like Max Martin and give us pop perfection. It’s also important to know that she removed 1989 from Spotify around 1 month after it came out so a lot of the numbers it accomplished was *without* streaming.
Thanks for the video! I respect your honesty man, but 1989 will always be a banger for me. Just waiting on the TV 💛
My faves are Style, Out of the Woods, I Know Places and Clean 😚
Watching all these videos! Tryna help u out bc i never got tickets!
"wildest dreams" and "blank space" fire
Lol fun video. You should keep the video length to 13min, it attracks swifties lol
i do think shake it off get's way more hate than it deserves lmao, but I agree with almost everything else you said, think this is my favoutrite review from the series so far lol. (also Wildest dreams is personally my favourite Taylor song, I always imagined a certain *someone* in my life singing that to me and vice versa when i was in middle school)
idk i feel like it just aged rlly poorly and is kinda cringe but i respect ur opinion!
Justice for I know places and New Romantics 🥴
lol
this was your best outro yet, put that shit on spotify xD
lmaooo ofc i will
top 5
1 out of the woods
2 widest dreams
3 blank space
4 all you had to do was stay
5 WTNY
respect
absolutely loving this series
The best feeling is when your favorite RUclipsr becomes a Swiftie 👁️👅👁️
lol i'm not a swiftie tho
Listen to this love (taylors version)!! It makes the OG version look pathetic in comparison. Its now one of my favourite tracks on the album/ever
i've heard lol it slapss
I love Taylor Swift 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
same
YOURE IN LOVE IS MY FAV SONG EVER
1989 is one of my favorites. Its one of the albums that got me liking taylor. If you ever do another listening to an artists whole discography you should listen to all of one directions albums and their solo albums
yea that's definitely a vid i plan on making at some point!
YOU SAYING I KNOW PLACES IS OK FELT LIKE A DAGGER TO MY CHEST. PLEASE WATCH HER 1989 TOUR PERFORMANCE OF THE SONG ITS SOOOO GOOOD
alr fine lol
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this is such a criminally underrated channel
thank u :)
liked and watched ad all the way through again to support you going to eras & posting a vlog
apologize to you are in love now
you need to tier rank all of her songs after the album deep dives
thank u!
wdym tht songs in my top 5
@@jasonpaulkim didn't get the "it's a banger" button
him saying wonderland is just alright is a CRIME 😭😭
it's alr lol
I remember in his previous taylor video he said something like "the setting really helps the music" or something like that and that is very true for 1989. I love this album but it hits so much harder in NYC especially at night and ofc welcome to new york.
lol i can see tht
It’s so hard to pick a top 5 from this one!
Mine is probably:
1) Style
2) Blank Space
3) Wonderland
4) I Wish You Would
5) All You Had To Do Was Stay
(honorable mentions Out of The Woods and Wildest Dreams)
great picks!!
Very well done video! Can’t wait for the next installment and as always, I hope you’ll get tickets!
i'm glad u enjoyed thank u!
I swear the second I saw this video in my recommended I clicked so fast I can't even explain. Seriously sooo obsessed with this series
yea def very nostalgic!!
i've been keeping up with every one of these videos just so you can hopefully see taylor live and live out my dream and hopefully eventually admit your a swiftie 🤭😊
there's an interview of taylor saying that the high-pitched STAY in all you had to do was stay came from a dream she had, where an ex showed up at her door and that was all she could say to him. the way the production captured that is amazing.
yea i saw that it makes me like the song more tbh
Am i the only one who actually likes shake it off? I used to dislike it to since many people said it was bad but I’ve grown to really like it. ESPECIALLY THE BRIDGE ITS SO CATCHY AA
LITERALLY!!! I LOVE shake it off so much! I guess people just have different tastes in music 😟
Hope you get those tickets man! 1989 is a banger!
thank u!
@@jasonpaulkim No worries mate.
Love this series! Good luck to get to the show!
I'm loving this eras saga thing
glad u like it :)
PLS DO THIS SORT OF SERIES W CONAN GRAYYY!!!!!!!!!! ILY I HOPE U GET TO SEE TAYLOR
New Romantics is a lot more than alright it’s simply the best song ever made
meh
Hi! I only started watching your videos a few days ago. I completely love your honesty and disagree with you most of the time, which is fine and it makes it even funnier 😂 I get why you don't love shake it off, I also won't listen to it in my daily life like ever but Taylor really loves to perform that song. If you watch Eras tour performance you can see how much she loves to perform that song, just to be able to dance awkwardly and be happy. So that song to her is not to make a masterpiece, just a song that you could have fun, dance and be your silly, goofy self. Same goes for Me! Also, I want to recommend you to watch live performances, sometimes she makes changes and it makes the song and the performance so much better.
haha yea i mean i get the idea but i just cringe so hard listening to it
1989 IS MY CHILDHOOD
A lot of swifties would gasp when i say i agree with your idea that its a solid pop record but nothing interesting 🙈 i love taylor, shes my favorite artist, been a stan since 2009/2010, and while i love and appreciate 1989 i just dont think its that interesting, compelling or revolutionary of a pop album 😶 like it's certainly bulletproof pop, but its statement was never that interesting to me. rep had a more interesting statement tbh. So while I think it definitely deserves the praise i also dont think its a life-changing pop record. Kind of reminds me of harry house-- easy listening, amicable pop, certainly has character and some major bops but overall its not that interesting lol, also liked this video n subscribed-- hope you get to make it to tour 🙌🙌🙌
Agree. I'd say it's the album with the least personality in her discography, it has no idendity
i think it was big for it's time but looking back on it compared to all the music we've gotten since it's just pretty good
pls new romantics is more than just okay. my favorite on 1989 is clean
nahhh it's kinda mid lol
another amazing video go king!!!
thanks bruh
This album, though not my favorite is very nostalgic for me since it’s the first Taylor album I ever listened to :)
My fav song would be either Style or Wonderland
i get tht
I agree that style is definitely S tier!!! also agree that I usually never listen to shake it off, but when she performed it on the eras tour? as soon as I heard the beat inside that stadium my body moved on its own.
1989 is so hard to place in my ranking because my brain lights up like a pinball machine whenever it's mentioned but it has the least amount of emotional impact, lyrically? but a lot of emotional impact just based off of nostalgia from that album. but every song SLAPS. like it MIGHT be top 3.
Now please my friend watch the 1989 world tour😩😩😩😩
LMAO THAT INTRO WAS AWESOME
the thing I like about this album is that the beat is too strong that I cant even notice the deep lyrics inside it
You are too funny! Don't feel bad if you don't make it to eras tour.I just went to a taylor swift party to win tickets ,dressed up like 1989( blonde wig, metallic skirt,black top outfit) with a poster.It was a raffle so I didn't win( felt like clown ).As a fan, I'm just wondering from this point on will going to her concert be like winning a lottery ticket!?😢