Taylor Swift - Love Story
By: Matt Bjorke
After the multi-platinum success that was her debut album, Taylor Swift has a lot to live up to with her sophomore album release. “Love Story” is the first single from “Fearless” and it actually sounds as if Taylor’s growing up as she sings a lyric about a young couple sneaking away for love and finding a story book ending in the process.
Using the images that little girls always love to envision (fairy tales) for love, Taylor and her producer Nathan Chapman have wrapped smartly-written lyrics up in a massively hook-filled, sugary confection of pop music. Whereas Taylor Swift had to remix her songs for pop radio before, “Love Story” only has a banjo to mask it as a country song. The thing that strikes me about the song is that it’s so sugary and Disney-like, with Taylor delivering a Leigh Nash-like vocal, that it reeks of a soundtrack song yet it will hit home with female (and many male fans) with its sweet story of young love.
Taylor Swift has delivered a massive single here. While it’s debatable whether this song even should be released to country radio given its super pop-leaning arrangement, the fact that Taylor is country music’s Number One star of the moment ensures the song’s success on that chart. I would also give 3-2 odds that this song blows up on pop radio as the song has the makings of a big hit there as well.
Support the artist. Buy the song.
READER'S COMMENTS
Rick says:
Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008
In spite of how I tend to dump on Taylor Swift I must admit I don't dislike her in any way. The thing I primarily dislike about her music is that most of it is not country, well that and her pitch issues live. Taylor belongs on pop radio going head to head with Katy Perry and Britney Spears, not competing with Lee Ann Womack. If Taylor was totally in the pop realm like she belongs I wouldn't care about her one way or the other. That fact that Taylor is dragging Top 40 country radio further into the pop realm is what bothers me no end.....
TAyers says:
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008
This song doesn't belong on country radio. Radio Disney, yes. I wish we had that in our market.
hjj says:
Posted: Saturday, September 13, 2008
Definitely catchy and I like it but it should be on pop radio not country radio.
Rick says:
Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2008
Whenever I see or hear the image or name of Taylor Swift or her sonic output (its not "music" in my book), I think of the Jypsi song "Free". That song contains a lyric that says "I hope you will stay....stay away!" and that's how I feel about Taylor and her music. I just wish she would jump ship to The Disney Channel and Pop Radio and just stay there and take her legions of shrieking teeny-bopper girl fans with her. If Taylor is the future of Top 40 mainstream country music, its time for that format to experience a self-inflicted mercy killing.....
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