Taylor Swift described her fifth studio album, 1989, as her first "official pop album" that marked her departure from the country music stylings … See more

During seclusion from public appearances, Swift wrote Reputation as a "defense mechanism" against the rampant media scrutiny targeting … See more

Swift said that Reputation consists of a linear timeline: it begins with how she felt when she started working on the album and transitions to … See more

Reputation sold two million copies worldwide within one week of release. In the United States, the album sold roughly 700,000 copies after one day of availability, and 1.05 … See more

Reputation is primarily an electropop album. It incorporates a heavy, maximalist electronic production with EDM instrumentation and … See more

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On August 18, 2017, Swift blanked out all of her social media accounts, which prompted media … See more

Upon its release, Reputation received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received a weighted average score of 71 based on 28 reviews. See more