Taylor Swift continues to rip off Katy Perry's sound, and we're totally okay with it as long as we get more tunes like "Blank Space."
The new leak from Swift's highly-anticipated 1989 has a heavy One of the Boys vibe, following a Monday release ("Welcome To New York") that parrots some of Perry's later work.
Swift took her first big pop jump on 2012's Red, with country-eschewing bangers like "I Knew You Were Trouble" and "22," but she's taking a much harder dance stance this time around: she's made it clear the new record won't include any country cuts.
Listen to "Blank Space" here.
Our own Carolyn Menyes reviewed "Welcome to New York" earlier this week, and she wasn't impressed.
The song, which is the first track on 1989, begins with a round of electronic drums and an insanely optimistic glitz of synthesizer. Swift, a starry-eyed transplant to New York by way of Nashville (and Pennsylvania), sings about the renewal that a new city can offer, and she's more hopeful than ever.
"When we first dropped our bags on apartment floors / Took our broken hearts, put them in a drawer / Everybody here was someone else before / And you can want who you want / Boys and boys and girls and girls / Welcome to New York / It's been waiting for you," Swift sings in the second verse in a way that is just so full of hope and happiness that you kind of want to punch her in the face.
Ouch. 1989 drops in its entirety on Oct. 27.
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