“Fearless” will always be my favorite, with those guitars blazing away. This is a girl who feels visible, safe, free to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, a star even if her audience is just the boy and the rain. A classic car/girl rock anthem, the kind that actual rock stars were way too cool to write by then. It’s crafted with a pro’s precision, but she makes it sound like it’s all spilling out of her. “I’m not usually this way,” sings the girl who is always this way. She is the glow off the pavement.
