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(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."

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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.’

-       I said to him, ‘Love and obey your parents.’
I advised him to love and obey his parents.