Don’t forget the MTV/CMT Live Streaming event tomorrow! The Taylor Swift Live Stream from New York City will start at 7PM Eastern time, 6PM Central.
On November 5, Taylor Swift will visit the MuchMusic building in Toronto, Canada at 5pm Eastern time. More details as they become available 🙂 The date, as all dates, has been added to the ever-growing Calendar.
Taylor Swift’s Journey To Fearless premiered on The Hub network on October 22nd. And you should be watching if you can. We don’t have The Hub here in Canada yet. From the few clips I’ve seen it’s a full behind the scenes making of the Fearless Tour spawning from the early stages of production to full footage of the concerts. Of course they filmed it so they could catch the audio from the performance on the foreground because inside a Fearless Tour, the screaming was usually the louder thing.
More reviews are pouring in! Be careful, any review is giving away some stuff from the album. Don’t worry, I won’t publish any leaks. We don’t do that here. However be warned that after October 25 hits everything is fair game. I will be publishing a review of the album once all the events start to simmer down a bit.
First up is The Independent from the UK. Not in love with this interview, it’s revealing but there’s a few questions that have been asked already and others that I know Taylor is not crazy about addressing at all. I prefer questions that address her musical songwriting abilities. Overall a positive outcome as usual.
Next is the Boston Globe, with a review that starts slightly pitching to the negative, and then slides back to Taylor’s songwriting strengths mostly praising Taylor’s growth and more importantly her work on Speak Now. We like the mention of Shania Twain addressing the sass in Better Than Revenge an the comparison to the Dixie Chicks for Mean. Taylor would love to hear those references.
Finally HitFix felt the need to point out Taylor’s musical ability is not quite on par with her lyrical one, meaning in short they thought Dear John was too long. That’s about it. The rest, they do some praise and some minor critique but otherwise a good review. They praise her openness and her maturity but take a few jabs at her style crossover. In the end they acknowledge there is one song, Mean, that sounds country. Oh, then they mention Dear John has definitive country sound to it. And also Never Grow Up. So that’s three. I like the final note saying that if any album has a shot at ever making that old benchmark of a million sold in the first week, it is Speak Now.
And we’re already below the T minus 12 mark. Can you believe it?
Update: The Calendar has been updated.
(Sources: The Hub, MuchMusic, The Independent, Boston Globe, HitFix)
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