Music Review: Taylor Swift - "Fearless"

Taylor Swift deserves some recognition for the work she has done, even if I am not a fan of the product. Just to make sure I really am not a fan of the product I decided to give an album a full test drive of a listen. Below you will find my song by song thoughts on the Taylor Swift album "Fearless."

"Fearless": Watered down Country Time lemonade. A little disjointed and her singing wasn't exactly pretty.

"Fifteen": Admirable in its message, way better than all of the teen pop hump each other and make babies on the dance floor music.

"Love Story": Nice simple, solid country song music opening, but her vocals wallowed over it and made me cringe. It gets a little better when the background singer's voice softens the blow and I can appreciate the lyrical creativity for what it is meant to be, but my gender and age both work against identifying with the fantasy.

"Hey Stephen": As a listener I am immediately alienated because never in my life am I going to need a romantic song to play for someone named Steven. I mean, I could alter the lyrics to serve a man after a woman purpose, but I could probably write something more original if I had such purposes.

"White Horse": Taylor Swift takes the realist approach to the little girl daydreaming and fantasy play, which is a good thing by me, but wish she could play in some other realms entirely with her lyrical content; more angels and fairy tale talk. I guess this is an age thing again and one has to get more life and weird crap happening to them before they can really make a universally emotional song. This song is not the worst, in fact, five songs in: it's the best offered up thus far.

"You Belong With Me": This is probably the Taylor Swift song I have heard the most prior to this album review. Her vocals are still more annoying than not to me, but her flow in the chorus is catchy. Ah, jealous teen lust, nice song fuel and on target for her market.

"Breathe": "People are people and sometimes we change our minds." People are people? Very insightful lyrics. I'm being sarcastic and for no good reason really other than I find this song dull because it is a soft ballad relying on Taylor Swift being a vocal delivering goddess and I'm not thinking she is earning my worship or emotional commitment.

"Tell Me Why": A faster, up tempo country song, but not really aiming for the square dancing crowd as the teen love angst, relationship drama clichés are layered on thick and whiny.

"You're Not Sorry": Another song that is simple and good at its basic musical construction, but her vocals make me cringe like fingernails scratching against a chalk board. It is when she goes for the power vocal sometimes after being whisper soft, it is annoying; it is a sound that should be her twang, but twings instead.

"The Way I Loved You": Her voice actually serves the purpose spot on for this song as her unsettling twing/twang talks about loving someone from a place of insanity. She made me picture a young girl on the edge, scissors out, ready to stalk her man down and cut out his eyes to play with in her bath.

"Forever & Always": She opens a big window into the teenage girl mind and lets some strong pop country winds blow through. If I were a jaded girl I could rock out to this I bet.

"The Best Day": This song tells memory based stories, following Taylor through a day at different ages, starting with age five. It is actually a very cute and interesting concept. It becomes too sappy specifically personal for just her and becomes a shout out to her own family and how much she loves them and how great they were for her growing up.

"Change": Hearing her sing the about walls falling revolution when I've just listened to song after immature song makes smirk sarcastically. I'm not buying what she is selling and one too many hallelujahs for my taste.