Fearless [Platinum Edition]
Kelsey Tanouye, Staff Writer
November 30, 2009
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Featured A&E, Music
This artist recently became the youngest artist to ever win country music’s Entertainer of the Year award. The album that got her there has now been ranked as the one album which has spent the most consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 charts, and so it was naturally re-released one year later on October 27, 2009 with bonus tracks and concert footage. While most 19 year olds are worried about trying to get through their freshman year of college, Taylor Swift is singing her heart out to millions and counting her awards.
Taylor Swift’s Fearless was originally released on November 11, 2008 and featured a total of 13 songs. Ranging from heartbreak or the dream of a perfect relationship to simply living life, Swift pretty much covers all the bases in an album that was well received by listeners all around the world. Her title track “Fearless” speaks about falling headfirst without worry into a new-found love while the smash-hit “Love Story” hints at a Romeo and Juliet fantasy. “Hey Stephen” has a simple vibe which you can’t help but nod along to before “White Horse” shifts into a slow-paced song with the message, “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.” “You Belong With Me” follows up with a packed in pop feel where Taylor tries to convince a special friend that she’d like to be something more. “Breathe” describes trying to move on from a relationship, but with great difficulty, while “Tell Me Why” sings about not having control of your life in a relationship that’s turning sour.
“You’re Not Sorry” and “The Way I Loved You” both prove to be reflective of Swift’s failed relationships (at this point she seems to have had a lot right?) and “Forever and Always” cuts in with a dig at former flame Joe Jonas. Legend depicts their breakup over a 16-second phone call just weeks before Taylor’s album release, so how did she retaliate? She wrote a song about it. And it definitely involves guys calling on phones, but in the song they actually don’t even call at all, so you cry and “he still hasn’t called/And then you feel so low, you can’t feel nothin’ at all/And you flashback to when he said, forever and always.” The last two songs that rounded out Fearless were “The Best Day” and “Change.” “The Best Day” pays tribute to her own mother for being by her side while she was going growing up through the years, but surprisingly “Change” then turned out to be not another love song, though there were a lot of those on this album, and was instead about stepping out and making a difference; it was even featured in a promo for the 2008 Olympics last year.
Fearless [Platinum Edition] contains all these great songs and much more. Besides featuring the 13 original songs that Fearlesshad to offer, there are six new songs which include “Jump Then Fall”, “Untouchable”, “Forever & Always (Piano Version)”, “Come In With the Rain”, “Superstar”, and “The Other Side of the Door.” All of these were of the same Taylor Swift formula: catchy yet relatable lyrics with simple guitar hooks that stay in your head. All were completely new additions except for the piano rendition of “Forever and Always” which gave a more somber, yet still beautiful, feel to the previously upbeat version. Six music videos as well as behind-the-scenes footage from a few of those videos and her recent “Fearless” Tour accompany an already bursting at the seams 19-song CD.
So, for any die-hard Taylor Swift fan, or any music fan in general, not only is Fearless [Platinum Edition] perfect for playing in the house, but hey, you can even play it in the car and start rocking out when no one’s looking.
It’s just that good.
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