]]>Album review: Taylor Swift, “Speak Now”
Taylor Swift settles many scores on her excellent new album.
By Allison Stewart
Taylor Swift’s ridiculously entertaining new album, “Speak Now,” is a lengthy, captivating exercise in woo-pitching, flame tending and score-settling — with a heavy emphasis on the latter.
The song “Innocent,” written in response to last year’s Kanye West contretemps on the MTV Video Music Awards, may be the most telling. It is a small masterpiece of passive aggressiveness, a vivisection dressed up as a peace offering: “It’s okay, life is a tough crowd,” Swift faux-consoles West, who is, apparently, “32 and still growing up now.”
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ — Taylor Swift, who The New York Times
described as “one of pop’s finest songwriters, country’s foremost pragmatist,
and more in touch with her inner life than most adults,” has surpassed the 10
million milestone for record sales. This 10 million number represents actual
full albums sold – in addition, Taylor has sold over 20 million paid song
downloads, more than any artist in country music history.19-year old Taylor, who writes all of her own material, released her now
quadruple-platinum self-titled debut CD in October of 2006 on Big Machine
Records, and followed it up with the Fearless album two years later. Fearless
was the country’s top selling album for the first 33 weeks of this year, and
now has sales of more than 4 million copies in the US and Gold and Platinum
certifications in fourteen countries spanning five continents.Taylor’s 10 million albums sold include the following:
Taylor Swift 4,369,749 units US
Fearless 4,020,725 units US
Taylor Swift & Fearless 1,297,059 units International
Beautiful Eyes 256,822 units (Wal-Mart only)
The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection 151,844 units
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