Title: Fearless
Artist: Taylor Swift
Release date: 09 March 2009
RRP: 8.99


Fearless Review:

18-year-old singing sensation Taylor Swift presents the listener with a conundrum. Her music isn't particularly inventive--indeed it's built largely on what you could call country music clichés--yet she does what she does so well you have to work really hard not to like it. With her blond hair, blue-eyes and pretty face, it's easy to write Swift off as yet another "tweenie". But beneath the glossy exterior lurks some genuine talent: she writes her own tunes, plays (some of) her own instruments and even though she sings about the inevitable pop themes of love and heartbreak, she doesn't rely on any "sex-sells" cynicism to shift her records. All of which is to say that Swift's second album, Fearless , while it won't win any awards for innovation, makes for pleasurable--if highly predictable--listening. --Danny McKenna