By Taylor Loughlin – Entertainment Editor

Taylor Swift has put her days in country behind her with her new album “1989.” Swift’s all-pop fifth album is impossibly irresistible, starting with “Welcome To New York,” a dazzling view on her new hometown where she gets over all of her heartbrea ks. She had no problem calling out her former boyfriend Harry Styles in many of her songs.

Some of the songs on her album include the single “Shake It Off,” “Bad Blood,” and “Out Of The Woods.” Swift is known for writing all of her songs based off of personal experiences and it’s proven to work for her, especially on this album.

“Blank Space” almost sounds like a Lorde song, but instead of Lorde’s mellowed effect, Swift makes it her own by making it a little bit more sarcastic. “Bad Blood” is rumored to be about Swift’s “frenemy” Katy Perry, and also sounds like it could be one of Perry’s songs. The ninth song on the album is named “Wildest Dreams,” and anyone who has listened to it automatically knows Swift aimed for a Lana Del Rey-type of sound. To say the least, Taylor Swift has had a lot of musical inspiration from her other famous friends with this album.

Swift has been getting a lot of positive feedback since the album came out. Billboard’s Jem Aswad has declared the album “Swift’s best work.” Usually she writes all of her songs by herself but she had some help from Swedish executive producer Max Martin. He co-wrote seven out of the 13 songs on the album. Some other co-writers of the album were Jack Antonoff, Imogen Heap, Ryan Tedder, and Ali Payami.

Almost a million and a half copies of “1989” have been purchased since its release on October 24. The album itself earned the largest sales week for any album since 2002. Overall, “1989” sounds exactly like Taylor Swift, even though it sounds like nothing she’s ever done before.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars