For her third album, Speak Now, America’s sweetheart Taylor Swift is going all Lou Reed on us.
The album, which drops October 25th, was written entirely by Swift and is, she says, based around a single concept. As she explained it in an Internet broadcast,
In life you have a lot of situations that pop up and people come into your life and sometimes you don’t get to tell them what you wish you would have told them. This album is my opportunity to do that. Track by track, each song is a different confession to a different person.”
Of the first single, “Mine,” is about what Yahoo terms her “tendency to run from love.” Says Swift, “I’m never ever going to go past hoping that love can work out.”
This very innocuous release prompted the following mixed reactions from Yahoo readers: