Taylor Swift - Fearless

Taylor Swift - Fearless
Big Machine Records - November 11, 2008
by Jackie Lee King

Fearless, Taylor Swift's sophomore release is a collection of 13 memories that sound like notes passed from one friend to another during class. Happiness and heartbreak swirls beneath those blonde curls as she steps up to the microphone and tells her tails of woe and wow. How she found time to have several relationships in the midst of touring for the past two years is unfathomable. These songs are her senior yearbook and she's taking us back to school; memoirs of a young girl's heart.

Taylor continues to be the pretty wallflower at the party and makes no apologies for her observations. She's a writer's writer; and sees what others can not or refuse to realize. The energy of Fearless is a slight departure from her first self-titled release, but still has the country roots intact. The sound is less fiddle and banjo and more violin and guitar, though all instruments are represented on this release. It's pop with a little twang thrown in and needs to be played a loud.

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