Best paired with: three unsweetened rice cakes
1989 is what your ears eat when they're on a diet. It's Music Lite® — enough of a sensation to grab your attention but lacking in any actual substance. Completely devoid of social commentary or political statements, the songs are all about throwing cryptic shade at your former gal pals and shaking off your social media haterz.
This album is music's version of watching your figure.
See, pop records with this much money behind them are scientifically formulated to appeal to as many people as possible. To do that, you need to offend as few people as possible and to do THAT, you have bleach anything that could once be considered "flavor."
Like rice cakes, you can chew on 1989 all day long and not gain a thing.