Taylor Swift: 'Today Was A Fairytale'

Taking potshots at Taylor Swift is almost too easy. At times her glossy, poppy take on country can seem as authentic as those sparkly pink cowboy hats they sell outside Take That gigs. Vocally, well, she's no Faith Hill. And then there's the fact that the songbird herself is every bit as wholesome as her million-selling odes to growing up in smalltown America.

Well, the naysayers will love clawing this latest single, whose opening salvo actually goes: "Today was a fairytale / You were the prince / I was the damsel in distress." Taylor Swift, in case you were wondering, turned 20 in December. However, the rest of us should be suitably impressed by another relatable, elegantly-constructed song whose chorus is good enough to make you think, 'Who cares if she sounded ropey at the Grammys?' And this is just something she's knocked out for a rom-com soundtrack.