How can one artist lay claim to both the country and dubstep genres? It could only be everyone’s favorite whiny baby, Taylor Swift. With the release of her well-received but undignified album, “Red,” the 22-year-old songstress expresses her discontent with unsatisfactory men through 16 tracks. While “I Knew You Were Trouble” experiments with everyone’s favorite womp-womping bass drop, vocals in “Stay Stay Stay” twang between ukulele strums. It might be hard to follow, except for underlying themes of broken hearts and hesitant but promising new love. What Swift lacks in substance of rhymes and lyrical value, she makes up for in catchy hooks and melodies. It’s admittedly difficult to shake loose from some of these tunes, though that’s not a good thing.
Grade: D+