50% Awesome; 31.3% Good; 18.8% OK; Meh; Skip out of 16
8 Awesome
Blank Space
Style
Out of the Woods
Shake It Off
I Know Places
Stay
Bad Blood
Wonderland
These songs are amped up and theatrical. You can ‘picture’ each one as a movie, and the music videos are practically block-buster films. Also, I hear a lot of Kaylor vibes, and it’s fun to translate the obscure lyrics and figure out signs and hints. I wish I had been engaged during this era!
5 Good
Wildest Dreams
Welcome to New York
How You Get the Girl
Clean
You are in Love
3 OK
I Wish You Would
New Romantics
This Love
Meh
Skip
2023 Edit to Standardize Scoring
Here’s the scoring system again: Gone are the days when artists can hide meh-bad songs in an album and still sell based on 1-2 singles (thank goodness). As such, I penalized the less than good songs more than I scored the awesomes high. Streaming is harsh. Here’s the scale I used for this entire list:
- Elite 10
- Elite-A cusp 7.5
- awesome 5
- A-Gr cusp 4.5
- Great 4
- Gr-G cusp 3.5
- Good 3
- G-N cusp 1
- Neutral -1
- N-M cusp -2
- Meh -3
- M-S cusp -4.5
- Skip -6
KEY:
Song Title {album abbreviation}- abbreviation of descriptive rank (quantitative translation of word into number) [any side comments]
Neutral:
This Love- N (-1)
I Wish You Would- N (-1) [Red holdover?]
Good-Neutral:
New Romantics- G-N (2)
Good:
All you had to do was Stay- G (3) [Red holdover?]
How You Get the Girl- G (3)
Wildest Dreams- G (3.1)
Great-Good Cusp:
Clean- Gr-G (3.25)
Welcome to New York- Gr-G (3.4)
Great:
You are in Love- Gr (4) [dancing in a snow globe]
Out of the Woods- Gr (4)
Awesome-Great Cusp:
Bad Blood- A-G (4.72)
Awesome:
Wonderland- A (5.1)
Elite-Awesome Cusp:
Style- E-A (7.5)
Blank Space- E-A (8)
Elite:
Shake it off- E (10)
I Know Places- E (11)
1989 Album Ranking per Song Score:
-1 + -1 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 3.1 + 3.25 + 3.4 +4 + 4 + 4.72 + 5.1 + 7.5 + 8 + 10 + 11 = 70.07
70.07 score / 16 songs = avg 4.379
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