Taylor Swift: the 24-year-old's journey from country to pop ends now.

"Everybody here was someone else before," sings Swift on Welcome to New York , the opening track from her fifth studio album, 1989 , and even if her Tribeca apartment cost a cool $US20 million she's no different. A former resident - both geographically and stylistically - of Nashville, the one-time country music princess presents herself as a knowing young denizen of the metropolis on these expertly wrangled songs.

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