Taylor Swift dipped a toe in modern popcraft on 2012’s Red and clearly liked the way it felt because she goes all in on 1989.
Released to much fanfare and scrutiny in October of 2014, Swift’s fifth album successfully launched her towards the total world pop domination she’d clearly been coveting. Five of 1989’s singles reached the Billboard Top 10, with “Shake It Off,” “Bad Blood” and “Blank Space” climbing all the way to the No. 1 spot. The album itself spent 11 weeks at the top of the albums chart, too, and has since moved more than 14 million copies around the planet. The 1989 tour, meanwhile, became the highest-grossing of the year and sped Swift on her way to becoming the cultural phenomenon she is today. Going “pop” was clearly not a mistake.
Tracklist
A1 Welcome to New York
A2 Blank Space
A3 Style
B4 Out of the Woods
B5 All You Had to Do Was Stay
B6 Shake It Off
C7 I Wish You Would
C8 Bad Blood
C9 Wildest Dreams
D10 How You Get the Girl
D11 This Love
D12 I Know Places
D13 Clean