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  • Summary: The latest solo album for the singer-songwriter includes one track co-produced by Mark Ronson.

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Lady Luck
Lady luck, she is lovely Lady luck, she is free But I wish sometimes that lady luck She would find some time to spend with me Why do I worry? Why do... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
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  1. The contrast of Moog buzz and the wordsmith's featherlight touch reaches full tilt with 'Hallelujah, Goodnight!' but takes a sharp left with the equally charismatic 'Bat Coma Motown,' where banjo and trumpet hug it out while dancing the Temptation Walk.
  2. In this brilliant new time of directional change, the piano-led analogue boy is practically smiling his words out on the Mark Ronson-produced 'Ballad Of Old What's His Name'.
  3. Where the latter two releases felt like "Hail Marys" tossed into the musical ether, Ocean serves as a return to the kind of sharp-tongued, Beatlesque retro-pop that fueled 2005's "Novelist/Walking Without Effort" and the aforementioned "Letdown."
  4. If you’re reading this, stick with it. It has some real rewards in the back end--my only hope is that the songs were recorded in chronological order, to suggest that this is the direction Swift will take future albums.
  5. 70
    The sad sacks who populate such bitterly funny songs as 'Already Gone' and 'R.I.P.' linger in the mind long after the toe-tapping grooves have faded.
  6. Swift has figured out how to make pretty music, but he hasn't found anything compelling to say through it.
  7. The Atlantic Ocean is impressive, at times even masterful, yet falters in reminding us more of what it lacks than of what it possesses.

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