Taylor Swift - Mine

20 year old Taylor Swift was ranked 12th most powerful celebrity in 2010 by Forbes magazine after raking in over $45 million. She was also named as the top-selling digital artist in music history with over 24.3 million digital tracks sold by Nielsen SoundScan in January 2010. Not bad for a 20 year old from Pennysylvania eh? Well since the whole ‘incident’ with Kanye at the VMA’s, ( Who could forget that? Barrack Obama who? Taylor and Kanye were the most talked about for months after, some people still haven’t forgiven Kanye for stealing the limelight from Miss Swift, the worlds sweetheart.) and her public breakup from Joe Jonas she is bouncing back with her next single, ‘Mine’ and I’ve been listening to it to give you guys my views.

Well, let me tell you, if you don’t like country music then this is not going to be for you. From ‘Love Story’ which I absolutely loved this is more down the country route. However, I must say its a grower. When I first heard it, I wasn’t that keen - To be honest, I’m not a fan of country and because Taylor has adopted a more authentic country vibe with her subsequent singles, I was a little thrown. I was expecting a more Miley Cyrus type song but what I got was a more young, sweet version of Shania. Come on, who didn’t like ‘That don’t impress me much?!?!’ I was even more surprised to learn that Taylor wrote the song by herself, in fact, she composed the lyrics for the whole album by herself, showing us she’s playing hard-ball (so to speak!)

Lyrics such as ‘You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter, you are the best thing that’s ever been mine’ prove Taylor has a way with words, she’s telling a story, a similar story to the one in Love Story, one that we are enthralled by and love to watch. This is another up-tempo tune but not moving away from her own signature style, one that will have us singing into our hairbrushes, on a Saturday night in our pyjama’s, with our ice-cream (straight out of the tub of course) and good old face masks with the ever-so-important cucumbers over the eyes! This is the type song I imagine would be attached to a movie, like boy meets girl, boy likes girl, something awful happens, boy and girl reconcile. Its the song thats going to come on just as you think ‘No! They aren’t gonna get back together…. But there he is, there she is. Oh they’ve seen each other. They’re kissing. Aaawwwwh.’ I must admit, I’m a sucker when it comes to weepy movies and trust me this is the kind of song that tells you everything is going to be O.K.

Trust me Taylor Swift, with this beauty, everything IS going to be O.K