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Remember When Taylor Swift Made Her Official Debut in Pop Music?

Taylor Swift fully embraced pop and left her country roots behind with the release of 2014’s ‘1989,’ and Us is exploring why that’s a big deal

While the singer dipped her toes into the pop world on her 2012 record, Red, with songs like “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “I Knew You Were Trouble,” it wasn’t until 1989 that she fully embraced a new sound and left her country roots behind. Her collaborations with legendary pop producers Max Martin and Shellback on several Red tracks — “We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together,” “I Knew You Were Trouble” and “22” — marked the biggest sonic deviation of Swift’s career at the time. After years of being criticized for writing songs about her exes, Swift stopped dating altogether, and her large friend group of actresses, singers and models became the talk of the town.

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