Taylor Swift to the Haters: 'If You're Upset That I'm Just Being Myself, I'm Going to Be Myself More' What's so different? Plenty. Sonically,1989is far more electronic than her previous work, driven by Martin's trademark drum programming and synthesizers, pulsating bass and processed backing vocals. The guitars, when they're there at all, deliver mostly texture; an acoustic is audible on just one song. The mandolins and violins were left back in Nashville, and there might not be a single live drum on the album.
Taylor Swift Sprints Forward on ‘Out Of The Woods’: Song Review The songwriting is still unmistakably Swift, with her polysyllabic melodies and playful/-provocative lyrics. But Martin and other key collaborators (including Shellback, Ryan Tedder andfun.'s Jack Antonoff) have helped hone her songs, which are more seasoned and subtle, less bubbly and bratty, than in the past. The self-referential change-of-scenery theme is set with the opening "Welcome to New York." Its new-wave hook and innocent lyrics -- "The lights are so bright, but they never blind me" -- make it the ideal anthem for an Anne Hathaway film, or any 24-year-old moving to the big city, as Swift recently has (albeit into a $20 million Tribeca penthouse
Surprisingly, the famous figure who gets the most elaborate attention isLana Del Rey: Swift flat-out mimics her on "Wildest Dreams," flitting between a fluttery soprano and deadpan alto, flipping lyrics so Lana -- "His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room" -- that it's hard to tell if the song is homage or parody
翻译: 而专辑里更出乎意料的存在感来自 Lana Del Rey,她在 “Wildest Dream” 里被近乎直白地模仿。当我们听到 Taylor Swift 唱出异曲同工的沉稳低音和飘忽高音,再配上 Lana 式的歌词——“His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room”——很难判断这是在致敬还是拙劣地模仿。