Taylor Swift – review

O2, LondonOne night in London, even a night at the O2, is small beer compared to Taylor Swift's record-breaking success back home in the US. There, her recent single Mine topped the iTunes chart within six hours; here, it limped to No 30. US critics praise the 21-year-old's songwriting chops – old-fashioned Nashville craft, through the prism of a high-school movie – while their British equivalents find the sheer efficiency of her slick, catchy pop-rock hard to get excited about.This isn't ...

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