Taylor Swift's New Album Earns Early Rave Reviews

"Speak Now," Taylor Swift's highly-anticipated third album, is set for a worldwide release Monday, Oct. 25. The album from the four-time Grammy Award winner will be released in more than 40 countries, and is already garnering early substantial acclaim from some top critics.

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The Hollywood Reporter said, "Brilliant. The stone-hearted among [the cynics] who listen to Speak Now will find it hard to complain that Swift somehow stole that Best Album Grammy for Fearless. Entirely self-penned, sans the collaborations of the previous albums, it's an enormous breakthrough in songwriting maturity....It'll be decades before she's holding her peace."

"Taylor Swift has again achieved the near-impossible...with a third bundle of melodic, cathartic country-pop. Speak Now is another unrestrained grand-slam. Four Stars," Us Weekly magazine raved.

"Since the start of her major label career four years ago, Swift has proved an exemplary role model and a strong songwriter because she is able to tap into her emotions in an authentic way. She's reached a new high watermark with 'Mean.'"

"["Dear John"] might be her masterpiece to date, or at least the most bracingly, joltingly honest song you've heard any major performer have the nerve to put on record in years," Yahoo Music wrote.

The New York Times calls "Speak Now" "the most musically diverse [album] of her career.... And it's excellent too, possibly her best."

Good to see album reviewers like the other songs on her album and are talking about how great they are, and not just speculating over if "Dear John" is about an alleged brief romance with singer John Mayer.