Over the past couple years, Taylor Swift has written four beautiful albums with soft lullabies as well as empowering stories of love, loss, and growing up. All of these albums have consisted of country songs up until last October when Swift released a completely pop album, 1989, with no twang or banjo accompaniment.  Changing her music style so dramatically was extremely risky for Swift as she had to convince her record label, Big Machine Records, to produce a new type of album.  In order to do away with her old ballads about heartache and fairy tales, Taylor Swift wrote strong, upbeat songs that empower modern day woman to vocalize their opinions and own who they are.  The third track, “Blank Space” portrays the view society has of  Swift as a serial dater with “long list” of numerous boyfriends.  Rather than writing songs about her lack of power and spoke of surrendering to heartbreak, she chose to focus on ambitious songs that embrace her true persona.  Not only has the overall feeling of the album changed, but also the writing.  Swift writes alluring and mysterious words in the new album, titled “Wildest Dreams.”  She uses figurative language and literary devices such as diction and personification: she sings “red lips and rosy cheeks” and “memories follow(ing) you around”.  Another song that stands out is “This Love”, which was written as a commentary on Taylor swift’s friend Lena Dunham and her boyfriend’s relationship.  In this song she uses imagery such as “currents swept you out again” and personifies love.  She says that love is “back from the dead”.  This use of figurative language aids in conveying the powerful stories Swift continually reveals.  Not only is the writing on the album innovative, but so is the album cover and the digital booklet.  The cover shows only half of Taylor Swift’s face that is seemingly mysterious rather than having her entire portrait shown giving a sad look.  The digital booklet consists of multiple polaroids showing her around New York city and collaborating with other artists.  She collaborated on this album with Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic and Imogen Heap.  Taylor Swift has evolved drastically and will keep doing so.  Her latest album, 1989 has been at the top of charts and creates a new sound that illustrates her talents even further.