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8.3
47961
8.3 |
A.V. Club
She still believes in the power of love, and she has more than a dozen new songs bitching about it to prove it
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8.0
47865
8.0 |
Spin
This music is full of adult pleasures, even if the most explicit image Swift offers is of an ex-boyfriend sniffing her scarf because it smells like her
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Observer
Swift seems to know just the right phrase to pull you inside her break-up narratives
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Guardian
Another chapter in one of the finest fantasies pop music has ever constructed
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7.0
47763
7.0 |
BBC
It’s a 16-track album and they’re always a bit scrappy. And what matters is the intimacy between star and audience
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7.0
47752
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
A 16-song geyser of willful eclecticism that's only tangentially related to Nashville
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7.0
47816
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
For all its manufactured essence, Red remains firmly grounded at the crossroads between innocence and experience
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7.0
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7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
It would be easier to take issue with Red’s glaring crossover aspirations if Swift’s full-fledged pop experimentations didn’t fit so well
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6.0
48006
6.0 |
PopMatters
Ultimately, Red might be about getting a few things out of Swift’s system in order to figure out where she’s headed
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Irish Times
If there’s a whiff of cynicism about Swift’s change in style, in her favour is her knack of penning nifty, insightful pen-portraits
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
There’s some progress, and much that is still the same
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6.0
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6.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Too many of the songs on this bloated 16-track album revisit the gently strummed verses and characterless choruses of her previous work
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6.0
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6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Ultimately too uneven to be a truly great pop album
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Scotsman
The music is so desperate not to offend, it becomes offensive
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4.0
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4.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
A mixed bag, and it’s up to you to sort through the majority-holding bad in order to find the good
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