Username: Ghost-Quartet

Album: Blown Away: Carrie DUMPSTERED the other two albums, it isn’t even funny. The other two albums aren’t even bad but damn this album is fantastic, I’m gonna have to check out more of her stuff because I’m stanning this hard.

Good Girl: 10 By one minute into this song I was ready to burn this guy’s house down, Idk who he is or what he did but he’s dead to me. I’m gonna become one of those people on /r/relationshipadvice who just always advises people to dump their significant others. He’s no good for you.

Blown Away: 9.5 There’s not enough wind in Oklahoma to wash the sins out of that house… but there is enough to snatch my wig! I didn’t expect this kind of emo country from Carrie, I’m literally blown away. My only complaint is that I wish the vocals on the bridge were more different, Carrie’s voice lacks heaviness but it really would have taken this song to another level.

Two Black Cadillacs: 10 RIP to this man, Idk who he was but I hope he’s burning in hell.

See You Again: 11 I’m crying, I’m throwing my lighter up to the sky, I’m shaking my head and my ass. This took me to church, I live for these kind of cheesy, string heavy inspirational songs. It’s like the best parts of Christian music but they don’t keep mentioning God every five seconds.

Do You Think About Me: 8.5 This song is actually pretty good but it’s the first track on the album that has allowed my wig to stay on my head so if we’re grading on a curve I have to knock some points off.

Forever Changed: 8.5 Did it start snowing outside? It feels like it’s snowing outside.

Nobody Ever Told You: 7.5 I like this song, it’s a little presumptuous but it has a good heart. The main problem is that it’s too long, it could have stopped at three minutes, the last minute isn’t unpleasant but it’s basically nothing.

One Way Ticket: 9 Miss Carrie taking us to the islands! I like the tropical influences on this song, and I appreciate that they actually make sense with the lyrical/thematic content of the song rather than just being a trendy sound choice. This is just pure sunny fun.

Thank God for Hometowns: 7 As someone who’s burning through his savings trying NOT to have to go back to his hometown I’m triggered, but the song is cute and I’m glad she’s happy.

Good in Goodbye: 8 I like the piano on this track, it was a neat change of pace at the start of the track and I wish that the song had leaned into that more and stayed simple. It’s still a beautiful song but a piano ballad would have been a serve, and instead it’s just kind of another track on the album.

Leave Love Alone: 8 Oooh, the chorus of this one caught me off-guard. This is a neat little track, every time I start to get bored with it it switches itself just enough to keep me hooked.

Cupid's Got a Shotgun: 9 Oh this song is silly, I like it. I’m predicting it’s an early out though.

Wine After Whiskey: 6 I don’t drink so this song means nothing to me.

Who Are You: 6.5 I have a sneaking suspicious this song is about Jesus or something like that, I don’t mind it necessarily but it is still kind of a weak song.

Album: Speak Now: This album was alright, I think the songwriting was generally solid but the production felt a little overcrowded and the songs were too long. Like, most of them didn’t need the final chorus repeat that they had. It’s weird that this album was the most successful of the three because it felt like it had the fewest songs with hit potential, but history has already proven me wrong there I guess. It was very ambitious for someone for someone her age.

Mine: 7 Oh boy, this song takes me back to hearing it on the radio and not liking it that much. That was during my “I hate pop” phase but even now that I’m older and more sophisticated I still am not crazy about this song. It’s kind of like, too peppy and too much screaming for my tastes.

Sparks Fly: 6 It’s fine but a little basic? Maybe it’s just the age of the song but it felt very formulaic in terms of the writing/production. Miranda Cosgrove did it better.

Back to December: 7.5 I remember this song being… softer? More maudlin? I thought this was gonna be an easy ten but listening to it now with headphones it doesn’t hit me like I thought it did, it’s kind of overproduced. The writing is strong though, great chorus.

Speak Now: 9.5 This is cute! I like the silly, romantic fairy tale narrative she spins here and it sounds pretty. I like the little giggle she does at the end of the bridge, it’s a nice touch.

Dear John: 5 I looked it up and apparently John Mayer was like, in his thirties when he was dating a nineteen year old Taylor Swift. He creeps me out, roast his ass Taylor, you were definitely too young and he definitely should have known. That said, this song is low-key plodding it did NOT need to be seven minutes long.

Mean: 10 This song!! Loved this when I was a kid, I listened to it even back in my “I only listen to musicals” time and rationalized it was okay because the music video took place on a stage, lol. I think the gentle banjo driven sound of this song works a lot better for Taylor’s voice than the heavier production songs on the album.

The Story of Us: 4 That spunky little “the end” at the end of the song is cute but I have no idea what this song sounds like, it’s just a wall of noise.

Never Grow Up: 9 I love that she’s stanning [CHANMINA’s new album *Never Grow Up*](https://open.spotify.com/album/5b4nK135Z5T9Z62k7804LH?si=PYLyjBS6TuK-NTTLzNkhfg), one of the best pop/rap albums of the year. I knew she had taste! But seriously the song is cute and relatable, songs about fleeting youth and innocence are a big pressure point for me.

Enchanted: 8 This song is a real slow-burn, it takes a while to rev up but it ends strong. It takes a bit too long for my tastes though.

Better Than Revenge: 8.7 Even when I was nineteen and heartbroken and saw my ex-boyfriend with a new girl two months after he left me I wouldn’t write something this juvenile. BUT it is kind of a mood. It’s a precursor the *reputation* era “evil Taylor” but I honestly think it works better than that mess of an era because she’s actually willing to be unapologetically bitchy; he straightforwardness of how petty she is is actually what makes this song work. Also, shoutout to this for being the shortest song on the album!

Innocent: 6 I think she has a point, I’m not sure what it is but this song is five minutes long so SURELY these lyrics must have a point

Haunted: 5 This song is loud but it doesn’t know why.

Last Kiss: 6.5 There’s a lot of times that I’ll really relate to Taylor Swift songs but I really think not being a WASPy girl has held me back from liking this song. It sounds pretty I guess but again, too long. There’s nothing wrong with a long song but these songs seem long more for her sake than for ours, if that makes sense. Like she wants to keep repeating herself whether or not it’ll make sense to the listener.

Long Live: 7 Oh wow I’m really noticing Taylor’s “country accent” on this song. I really like the guitar on this song and the melody/chorus are great, but the story she’s telling is really uninteresting. Also, the song is too long again! It stops and starts up again like four times towards the end, it’s okay Taylor, you can just finish a song.

Ours: 7 Cute.

If This Was a Movie: 9 this song didn’t need to bitchslap me like this

Superman: 9 Superman is one of my favorite heroes, I don’t get the argument that he’s boring or overpowered or whatever. Also he’s the hottest superhero, Tom Welling on *Smallville* was such a #moment for young me. I do genuinely really like the song, but it’s no [“It’s Superman” from the 1966 Superman musical.](https://youtu.be/LE8Q7pE-Th0?t=413)

Album: Four the Record: This was good, it started strong and finished strong but it kind of dragged in the middle. But I really loved those first few and last few tracks.

All Kinds of Kinds: 8.5 I really like the way this song sounds. I like the funny little stories she tells at the start of the song but I’m not sure how they’re tied into the overall narrative she’s trying to tell though.

Fine Tune: 10 I LOVE the melodies of this song! It makes me feel like I’m on a boat that’s gently rocking back and forth. And when’s the last time you heard the word “defibrillator” in a song?

Fastest Girl in Town: 6 eh this song is fine but not as good as some of the others on this album

Safe: 7 cute enough but could have been shorter

Mama's Broken Heart: 7 I like the lyrics, they’re really silly and relatable, but musically it’s not my favorite.

Dear Diamond: 7 This feels old school!

Same Old You: 5 Forgot what this sounded like.

Baggage Claim: 7 ’s alright I guess

Easy Living: 8 This kind of twangy, laid back country always gets a kick out of me.

Over You: 8 It’s a little bit basic if we’re being completely honest, but I’m such a sucker for this type of song.

Look At Miss Ohio: 5 I looked up the lyrics to this song and I still don’t quite like them, they just seem kind of aimless? This song feels like a puff of air.

Better in the Long Run: 9 Am I just a sucker for these kinds of emotional country duets? When they’re done well, yeah.

Nobody's Fool: 9 Oooh I love how “big” this song feels, it’s always refreshing to hear that. I just wish that the lyrics were stronger, I feel like I kept losing them.

Oklahoma Sky: 10 Great closing track for the album. It reminds me of a song from a musical almost with how theatrical it is. I especially liked the really long instrumental outro, I don’t normally vibe with that kind of thing but the gentle strings were so evocative it really made me feel like I was drifting off into the distance.

BONUS TRACKS

Safe and Sound: 10 Maybe the best song in the rate, I love how delicate Taylor sounds here this is the best vocal performance of her career.

Both of Us: 2 This sounds like two songs jammed together and neither of them are good.

Today Was a Fairytale: 4 girl have you ever read a fairy tale, those are messed up. “today was a fairytale, I wore a dress” oh my godddddddd

Little Toy Guns: 5 I love that every Carrie music video in the bonus rate just features Carrie just kind of standing there as things happen dramatically around her. Anyways Carrie, stop screaming.

Remind Me: 6 It’s cute but tbh I’m just waiting for it to be done.

Something in the Water: 8 I love the video but I’m more of a godless kind of guy. The song is great though, I’m glad she’s having a good time. I love the inspirational aesthetics of Christian music I just wish they didn’t come with, you know, the rest of it.

Hell on Heels: 7.5 It’s a mild bop, I’ll allow it.

Run Daddy Run: 5 This was on the soundtrack to the Hunger Games which is ideal because it’s great music to kind of listen to in the background.

We Were Us: 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM0nDmKX-mo&frags=pl%2Cwn

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