Guest Blogger: Allyson S1

When someone asks me who my favorite artists there is one name that pops into my head, Taylor Swift. Why I like here is because of the way she mixes between pop and country. How she mixes pop with country is that a few songs on her albums will sound a lot like a pop song that you can hear on the radio and then she has a few country-er sounding songs. She even has mixed both genres before in a song. A good example of this would have to be “We are never ever getting back together” of her new album Red. In the song “We are never ever getting back together” the emotions that you can hear in the song are happy because it’s over and that there are no being together and then not, anger because of who ever this guy was talking to his friends about the relationship, from his friends talking to her friends who in the end talk to her, and the last emotion that the song has is some sadness to it because of how much the relationship changed and that it dragged on for how long it did. There is a difference between Taylor Swift and Psy. Psy song “Gangnam style” is a song you dance to. It has an upbeat tempo and high energy. An artist that is like Taylor Swift is Carrie Underwood. How these two are similar are that there songs are songs that you can relate to, both are country stars, they have the strong emotions in their songs.I would have to agree with Andrew Hampp and Jason Lipshutz in their article “Taylor Swift, ‘Red’: Track-to-track review” when they say that “Red puts Swift the artist front and center with big, beefy hooks that transcend her country roots for a genre-spanning record”. This album really does show that she has many different styles she can do. My overall opinion about Taylor Swift and her new album Red is that it is a great album! Why I say that is because there are songs that you can connect to. Whether is a bark up, crush, friends, and life. Allyson S.