No one sent us the new Taylor Swift album to review

So no one sent us the new Taylor Swift album to review.  It’s a shame as we would have done our best to buck the trend and not have another review written by a male reviewer.

Spot the difference:

NME’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Matthew Horton

Rolling Stone’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Rob Sheffield

The Guardian’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Alexis Petridis  (although the Observer did run a Kitty Empire review a couple of days later on the Sunday)

The Telegraph’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Neil McCormick

The Independent’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Andy Gill

The Financial Times’ review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

The Daily Mail’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Adrian Thrills

Time Out’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Nick Levine

Billboard’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Jem Aswad

Stereogum’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Tom Breihan

Noisey’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Sam Wolfson

NY Times’ review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Jon Caramanica

New York Daily News’ review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Jim Farber

The Washington Post’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Chris Richards

Time Magazine’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Sam Lanskey

Vogue’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Alex Frank

US Weekly’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Ian Drew

Forbes’ review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Hugh McIntyre

Hallel’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Timothy Yap

Entertainment Weekly’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Adam Markovitz

Idolator’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Bradley Stern

ABC News’ review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Michael McCall

Toronto Sun’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Darryl Sturdan

Tampa Bay Time’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Sean Daly

Headline Planet’s review of Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ by Brian Cantor

I’m struggling to find much in the way of Australian reviews though; I guess everyone is far to busy posting press releases and click bait listicles to get around to actually writing about music.  The only one I’ve found so far is on SameSame. Written by someone called Paul Keevers.

If you are a female music writer and you were commissioned to review the new Taylor Swift album, as unlikely as it would seem to be, you have our hearty congratulations.

by ed

Justin Edwards is a regular contributor to Brisbane's weekly street press magazine, Rave and his photographs have also been published in Rolling Stone, Plan B magazine, Mess+Noise, the Herald-Sun and Blunt, as well as on numerous music and band websites.

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