Musical style
Swift's music contains elements of pop, pop rock and country.[325][325][326] She self-identified as a country artist until the 2014 release of 1989, which she has described as a "sonically cohesive pop album."[327][328] Despite the pop direction of 1989,[219] Swift intends to record further country music albums in the future.[328]Rolling Stone asserted that, "she might get played on the country station, but she's one of the few genuine rock stars we've got these days."[329] The New York Times noted that, "There isn't much in Ms. Swift's music to indicate country—a few banjo strums, a pair of cowboy boots worn onstage, a bedazzled guitar—but there's something in her winsome, vulnerable delivery that's unique to Nashville."[330] The New Yorker believes she is "considered part of Nashville's country-pop tradition only because she writes narrative songs with melodic clarity and dramatic shape—Nashville's stock-in-trade."[331] The Guardian has said that Swift "cranks melodies out with the pitiless efficiency of a Scandinavian pop factory.
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