( CNN ) -- Happy Taylor Swift album release day ! It may not be your thing , but the legions of the Swifties have been eagerly awaiting `` 1989 . '' Some of them downloaded a track of silence just to get their TS fix . With her first purely pop album , Swift is winning raves . Billboard 's Jem Aswad declared the album `` Swift 's best work -- a sophisticated pop tour de force that deserves to be as popular commercially as with Robyn-worshipping bloggers ; an album that finds Swift meeting Katy ( Perry ) and Miley ( Cyrus ) and Pink on their home turf and staring them down . '' `` 1989 '' is being closely watched to see whether it can help pull the music industry out of its slump : No single artist has been able to pull off a platinum album this year . Rolling Stone 's Rob Sheffield writes in his review that `` Swift has already written enough great songs for two or three careers . 'Red , ' from 2012 , was her 'Purple Rain , ' a sprawling I-am-the-cosmos epic with disco banjos and piano ballads and dubstep drops . `` Deeply weird , feverishly emotional , wildly enthusiastic , '1989 ' sounds exactly like Taylor Swift , even when it sounds like nothing she 's ever tried before , '' Sheffield adds . `` And yes , she takes it to extremes . Are you surprised ? This is Taylor Swift , remember ? Extremes are where she starts out . '' Swift also has some high-profile fans . A video of superstar Kelly Clarkson covering the new album 's first single , `` Shake It Off , '' in concert was posted on YouTube over the weekend . `` Seriously , everyone gives Taylor a hard time , but she can write a hook , '' Clarkson said . `` I 'm just saying . ''
Rolling Stone 's 's new album is out 1989 . Kelly Clarkson declared it her `` best work '' Billboard covered `` Shake It Off at her concert .