RIP to quality Tswift country tunes of strength and frequent tears. Her frustrating new album “1989” is full of catchy though dull, repetitive and uncreative beats that are empty of vulnerability and make it clear that Swift is going for chart-toppers rather than heart-consolers.

From the first single “Shake It Off” to the synthesizer-heavy “All You Had To Do Was Stay,” Swift’s career shift marks such a steep decline that it has me wondering if she ever belonged at the CMAs. Listening to her screechy complaining, odd conformity and shallow lyrics is like eating a huge donut: easy to digest and catchy as anything, but leaving you feeling empty and disgusted immediately after. She has migrated from raw and genuine to smooth and perfect, projecting an image of a girl who just doesn’t care, even though we know she does. Or did.

Progressing through the album, each song is crazy catchy but has the same base beat, making listening to it sound like one long foot-tapping trip into a preteen room of the future. “I screamed so loud but no one heard a thing,” she sings, “I watched you leave.” Those are not the lyrics of a unique songwriter standing apart in a world of sameness. Instead, Swift has become the monotony of the current top 40.

Bottom Line: Taylor Swift is no longer my go-to friend after a breakup or confusing love or fall-out. She is the artist I will go to when I want to forget, cover things up, try to make life seem perfect and fool-proof, a life full of low drums and back-up singers chanting over and over and over again that the “haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate….” Well, I guess I will.