ARTICLE
(CNN) -- Happy Taylor Swift album release day!
It may not be your thing, but the legions
of the Swifties have been eagerly awaiting "1989." Some of them downloaded a
track of silence just to get their TS fix.
With her first purely pop album, Swift is
winning raves. Billboard's Jem Aswad declared the album "Swift's best work -- a sophisticated pop tour de force that
deserves to be as popular commercially as with Robyn-worshipping bloggers; an
album that finds Swift meeting Katy (Perry) and Miley (Cyrus) and Pink on their
home turf and staring them down."
"1989" is being closely watched
to see whether it can help pull the music industry out of its slump: No single
artist has been able to pull off a platinum album this year.
Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield writes in his review that "Swift has already written enough great songs for two or
three careers.'Red,' from 2012, was her 'Purple Rain,' a sprawling
I-am-the-cosmos epic with disco banjos and piano ballads and dubstep drops.
"Deeply weird, feverishly emotional,
wildly enthusiastic, '1989' sounds exactly like Taylor Swift, even when it
sounds like nothing she's ever tried before," Sheffield adds. "And
yes, she takes it to extremes. Are you surprised? This is Taylor Swift,
remember? Extremes are where she starts out."
Swift also has some high-profile fans.
A video of superstar Kelly Clarkson
covering the new album's first single, "Shake It Off," in concert was
posted on YouTube over the weekend.
"Seriously, everyone gives Taylor a
hard time, but she can write a hook," Clarkson said. "I'm just
saying."
Reported Speech
Statements
- Billboard's
Jem Aswad declared the album "Swift's best work
-- a sophisticated pop tour de force that deserves to be as popular
commercially as with Robyn-worshipping bloggers; an album that finds Swift
meeting Katy (Perry) and Miley (Cyrus) and Pink on their home turf and staring
them down."
- Billboard's
Jem Aswad declared that the album Swift's best work -- a
sophisticated pop tour de force that deserves to be as popular commercially as
with Robyn-worshipping bloggers; an album that finds Swift meeting Katy (Perry)
and Miley (Cyrus) and Pink on their home turf and staring them down. At that
time.
- "Deeply weird, feverishly emotional, wildly enthusiastic, '1989'
sounds exactly like Taylor Swift, even when it sounds like nothing she's ever
tried before," Sheffield adds.
- Sheffield adds that the album deeply weird, feverishly emotional, wildly
enthusiastic, '1989' sounds exactly like Taylor Swift, even when it sounds like
nothing she's ever tried before.
Questions
- "And yes, she takes it to
extremes. Are you surprised?"
- And yes, she takes it to extremes. Are you surprised? He asked that.
- "This is Taylor Swift, remember? Extremes are where she starts
out."
- He remembered us that this is Taylor Swift, extremes are where she
starts out.
Imperatives
-
The officer ordered
the clerk to do it immediately.
The teacher said to the boy, ‘Come in, please.’
The teacher said to the boy, ‘Come in, please.’
- I said to him,
‘Love and obey your parents.’
I advised him to love and obey his parents.
I advised him to love and obey his parents.
