We all know that it doesn’t matter what the critics say about Taylor Swift’s new album Red, it’s going to absolutely trounce its competition on the US Billboard 200 this weekend, like a cheetah in a foot race against an ageing John Goodman. Nevertheless, the reviews are now all in for the country star’s latest LP.

Success in the US looks like it’s going to translate to the UK if The Guardian and The Observer’s views are anything to go by (although as said, this is going sell by the utter shed load regardless). “Swift seems to know just the right phrase to pull you inside her break-up narratives” chirrups the former, whilst the latter add “Another chapter in one of the finest fantasies pop music has ever constructed.” The Daily Telegraph are a little more cautious, claiming “Too many of the songs on this bloated 16-track album revisit the gently strummed verses and characterless choruses of her previous work.”

Back Stateside, a recent review from Spin has been published which reads “This music is full of adult pleasures, even if the most explicit image Swift offers is of an ex-boyfriend sniffing her scarf because it smells like her.” This goes nicely alongside Rolling’s Stone appraisal that states “A 16-song geyser of willful eclecticism that's only tangentially related to Nashville.” World dominance awaits.