By Melissa Martinez

News Editor

For young adults, surviving love can be a demanding, chaotic and stressful time in your life. Taylor Swift’s love life is no different.

However, not many young adults can say the ups and downs of love have won them six Grammy awards, 10 American Music Awards, seven Country Music Association Awards and six Academy of Country Music Awards, which is only the beginning of her sparkling career.

Swift skyrocketed up country music charts in 2006 with her self-titled debut album and soon made her way over to the Top 40 pop charts. In her early songs, Swift wrote about her troubles in high school, such as trying to get the “jocks” to notice her and dealing with typical teenage dramas. She channeled her frustrations and heartbreak into an undeniable love for the people who identified with her happiness and/or hurt. On Oct. 22, Swift will release her fourth album, “Red.”

Now 22 years old, Swift could move forward in her songwriting to write about relationships from a more mature perspective. But the first single from the album, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” reminded me more of her high school breakup songs. As a “T-Swizzle” fan and a college student, I felt that “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” was catchy, but something wasn’t quite my taste. Maybe it was the unnecessary, excessive use of the word “like” or the overemphasizing of the word “ever,” but it just seemed a bit childish to me. I was not impressed.

Since I have been rooting for this album (and hopefully even a few singles) to win a Grammy or two, I was concerned. However, upon listening to her next single “Red,” I felt much better. “Red” at first sounds like she has returned to her country roots, but then it transitions into a more modern musicality that fits with her more recent, critically acclaimed albums “Fearless” and “Speak Now.”

This song is about losing love and how “forgetting him is like trying to forget somebody you’ve never met.” She presents a song that I believe many people can identify with, since both the intensity of pain and her music have matured.