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Speak Now is the most savage album of Taylor Swift‘s career, and also the most musically diverse. And it’s excellent, too, possibly her best.
Speak Now is also a bravura work of nontransparent transparency. The album touches on many of the major public events in Swift’s life the last two years — her conflict with Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards, the sprouting criticisms of her live singing voice, a romantic relationship with the actor Taylor Lautner, rumored dalliances with John Mayer and others — without naming names, relying on fans, critics and tabloids to fill in the blanks.
The great accomplishment of this album, though, is that Swift is at her most musically adventurous when she’s most incensed. She may not be outgrowing the ethos of tit for tat — righting wrongs is Swift’s raison d’être — but as an artist, she’s finding new ways to fight back. — Star Tribune
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