Taylor Swift: Speak Now Album Review

 Back in July, i reviewed Taylor Swift's fourth album, "Red".  It's safe to say I didn't like the album that much.  Today I'll be reviewing her third album, "Speak Now", which I thought was a better album.  Here's my track by track review.

1) Mine: "Mine" was the first single from the album.  Taylor says that it's about her tendency to run from love.  Although the song and it's video are great, it reminds me a little bit of "Love Story" from her "Fearless" album.  10/10

2) Sparks Fly: Taylor performed the song live before a studio version of the song was released.  It's an amazing song.  Especially the chorus "Drop everything now, meet me in the pouring rain.  Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain.  Cause I see Sparks Fly whenever you smile."  It was released as the fifth single from the album and it's one of my favorites.  10/10

3) Back to December: This was the second single from the album.  Unlike most of her songs, Taylor apologizes in this song.  The song is about Taylor Lautner.  At first listen it's blah, but after a few more it's amazing.  10/10

4) Speak Now: The title track, which was released as a promo single before the album's release.  In the song Taylor crashes the wedding of her ex and his bride-to-be.  She does this because the bride is wrong for him.  It's very good, and if anyone has been in that situation and stopped the wedding then I salute you, because I probably wouldn't have the courage to do that.  But then again my ex's wouldn't invite me to their weddings.  And if they did then they've clearly lost their minds!  10/10

5) Dear John: This is a song about John Mayer.  Shocking isn't it?  Who knew they dated?  It's the longest song on the album at almost 7 minutes.  It's a good ballad.  8/10

6) Mean: Before I heard this song I thought it would sound like "Picture to Burn".  Boy was I wrong!  It's very country.  It talks about how someone people can be nothing but mean to you.  I know the feeling.  (High school sucked!)  It was released as the third single from the album and got Taylor a Grammy.  Awesome!  10/10

7) The Story of Us: An upbeat song!  YAY!  She wrote this song after being at and award show a few seats away from an ex.  I wonder who the ex was.  Hmmmm...  The song was released as the fourth single from the album but it became Taylor's first single to miss the top 40 on the billboard charts.  Ouch!  10/10

8) Never Grow Up: A lullaby Taylor sings to a baby.  She's telling the baby to never grow up so they won't go through the challenges of growing up.  I like it and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who can relate to this song.  It made me cry when I first heard it.  10/10

9) Enchanted: It starts off slow, which makes it perfect to waltz to, but then it gets more upbeat.  I like it but it's not my favorite.  8/10

10) Better than Revenge: MY FAVORITE SONG ON THE ALBUM!  It talks about a girl who stole Taylor's boyfriend, but the girl should watch out because Taylor is great at revenge.  I wish that it was released as single.  10/10

11) Innocent:  This song is clearly about Kanye West.  We all know the song is about him and what he did at the VMA's last year.  Instead of singing about how hurtful it was Taylor takes a different direction it seems she's let go of the whole thing.  10/10

12) Haunted: Don't you just hate it when someone haunts you?  Taylor does.  In this song Taylor is haunted by an ex.  It's very dark and unexpected from Taylor.  My 2nd favorite song on the album.  10/10

13) Last Kiss: A sad song.  Talks about the end of a relationship.  The hidden message in the booklet for this song is FOREVER AND ALWAYS, which is a song on "Fearless" about Joe Jonas.  10/10

14) Long Live: This song might be heard at graduation ceremonies in the future.  I like it, awesome job Taylor!  10/10

15) Ours: This is on the Deluxe Edition that can be bought at Target.  The positive, it's very sweet.  The negative, the music sounds like Carrie Underwood's "Quitter" from "Play On".  It was released as the album's sixth and final single.  10/10

16) If this was a Movie: Why do I think of her song "A Perfectly Good Heart", from the deluxe edition of her self titled album, when I hear this song?  Either way, It's still good.  10/10

17)  Superman: Great song.  Nothing negative about it and it's a guilty pleasure of mine to listen to.  10/10

18) Back to December (Acoustic): I think it's better than the original version.  10/10

19) Haunted (Acoustic): It loses it's dark vibe but it's still good.  10/10

20) Mine (Pop Mix): It's pretty good but I prefer the original version of the song.  8/10

 "Speak Now", in my opinion is my favorite album of hers.  I don't why it wasn't nominated for album of the year.  I love all the songs on this album.  Out of 200 points I give the album 194 points which is 97%, an A+.  Hopefully her fifth album will be like this!