Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is the self-titled debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 24, 2006, by Big Machine Records. Swift was 16 years old at the time of the album's release and wrote its songs during her freshman year of high school. Swift has writing credits on all of the album's songs, including those co-written with Liz Rose. -Wikipedia
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Billboard
Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift in miniature, already formed: an essential and paradigmatic manifestation of the singer. Everything that she would ever become existed here already.
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All Music
Swift's young age may be a major point of interest in bringing listeners in, but by the end of the record she's succeeded in keeping them.
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PopMatters
It's to be hoped that when she finds both her place and her full grown voice, she's able to find an accomodation between the country tradition and her very obvious pop sensibilities, because Taylor Swift suggests she has much to offer.
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Vulture
The fact that she’d amassed so many online followers helped persuade country-radio programmers to play her songs; not only did she pledge fealty to the format, she was on to something way too big and important for them to ignore.
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Sputnik Music
Each song on Swift’s debut is an experience that she chooses to share with us, straight from the pages of her diary into the microphone and her guitar strings.
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Pitchfork
8/19/2019. The 16-year-old Swift crash-landed into this landscape with “Tim McGraw,” a saudade-drenched mid-tempo ballad that’s as much a love letter to music’s power as it is to a soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend leaving for college. Swift’s quivering low soprano made the lyrical details— . . . —hit harder, and showcased her ability to make diaristic songs universally relatable.
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Plugged In
Rather than get bitter, a girl tells a boy to "Stay Beautiful" as he moves on without her. This 18-year-old has talent and charm. It's too bad a handful of positive songs get bushwhacked by others containing mild profanities and banjo-backed sassiness that crosses the line.
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Country Standard Time
Swift's best efforts come on her deeply personal, self-penned songs, particularly "The Outside" and "Our Song," which she sings with stirring conviction. It's an impressive debut that, while she pines about lost love and Tim McGraw, will likely have others singing the praises of Taylor Swift.
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