Speak Now (Taylor Swift Album Review)

Taylor Swift, is a recording artist I can dig. She writes her own music, and for better or worse, its something a lot of people in pop music don't do! I really enjoyed MOST of her sophomore attempt, Fearless, and I thought her first self titled album was...okayish. So I didn't really know what we were going to see from Speak Now.

The song writing on this album is weird as hell. Some songs with very strong/simple premises fall apart in the lyrical development until they become cluttered story songs, that your not quite sure what the story was about in the end. Then songs like the revenge song "Better Than Revenge", where normally that idea is hard to work off comes off GREAT! Its my favorite track off the album even. It's just a shame that songs like the rambling "Never Grow Up" or the overly dramatic "Dear John" muck this album down a TON.

I am not gonna surprise anyone by saying this...but this album sounds like the other two Taylor Swift albums! Every Taylor Swift song on every album is exactly the same. With exception of maybe one or two tracks. Adding to the bland sounding Taylor Swift music, you also have overly long songs. Counting in at an average of 4 minutes 30 seconds a song, 53 minutes for the whole album, its nearly unlistenable with how much some songs drag on. Their is some silver in the lining of these clouds though, the song "Haunted", is just amazing and beautiful, the layering of drums and guitars just fits it perfectly with swifts voice. Then theres the song "Better Than Revenge", which is the ultimate fuck off song to someone who stole your lover. The song's: Speak Now, Enchanted, and Sparks Fly are pretty good as well! While the rest of the album runs the line of meh, and bad.

To conclude, Speak Now, is a good attempt at a third album from Ms. Swift but it sadly falls apart due to more of the same music, and some dull lyrics! I give Speak Now a 3 out of 5!

I will leave you with the video for the lead single off of Speak Now, "Mine"