Synths -an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals- pulsating bass, and drums drive the album forward with her vocals in lieu of her usual talky manner. I was also writing a different storyline than I’d ever told you before,” Swift said in a letter from. I listened to a lot of music from the decade in which I was born and I listened to my intuition that it was a good thing to follow this gut feeling. I needed to change the way I told my stories and the way they sounded. “For the last few years, I’ve woken up every day not wanting, but needing to write a new style of music. Of the thirteen singles on Swift’s album, each one of them emulates her idea of pop music 1989 was inspired by the 1980s when pop was less overtly hybrid and mixed with other genres. In 1989, one will find a number of country songs, R&B, and rap singles that number is zero. 1989 debuted atop the chart a week early, selling 285,000 copies after it was released on a Friday, giving the album only three days of sales in its chart bow. According to, 1989 has the largest sales week for an album since June 2002. Swift’s fifth album, 1989, was released October 27. She cut away her long, golden hair, put her acoustic guitar in its case, and picked up her bags for the big apple -a place she had taunted a critic on “Mean” in 2010 saying, “Someday I’ll be living in a big ol’ city”. Almost every ear across the globe has heard a song by Taylor Swift, who has recently taken the final leap into the pop genre.