I will admit that when I first listened to “Speak Now,” Taylor Swift’s long-awaited third album, I was a little less than impressed.

For starters, the songs are not all based on her personal experience, which I disliked. Probably everybody’s favorite thing about her music is that the songs depict events she’s lived through, which puts us on her level.

One of her new songs, “Speak Now,” is about crashing a wedding, telling the groom you’re in love with him, and having him ditch his bride-to-be in favor of you. Frankly, I don’t think this happened to Taylor Swift. I understand that the song can be interpreted as a dramatization of someone else dating the boy she likes, but the way she covers it with an experience she’s never had ruins her credibility a little bit for me.

Listening to her music is soothing because I know someone else has been through what I’m going through, and listening to a song I know she hasn’t been through makes me wonder how much of it she made up or exaggerated. Taylor Swift is a teenage idol and I don’t feel comfortable mistrusting her.

Another thing she does on this album is talk. She throws in chatty little snippets much more frequently than I want her to. I didn’t pay $13.99 to listen to her talk. I want her to sing.

And I want her to sing about relationships. None of these silly songs about her critics (“Mean”) and about Kanye West (“Innocent”) and about whatever else she tried to throw onto this album. I want my familiar Taylor Swift songs where she wants the guy but he doesn’t want her back, or where she just got cheated on/dumped/led on/other shenanigans related to relationships ending.

But that’s what’s good about this album. There are plenty of songs that fall into her familiar old groove of playing out every possible relationship drama, to the tune of pop-country music. It’s what she’s best at, and she shouldn’t try to move away from what’s working for her. “Haunted” and “Enchanted” are two of her best new songs, and they are both her recognizable style that the entire teenage population, including males, appreciates.

Another positive of the newest album is that it’s all Taylor and no cowriters. This makes up for the fact that some of the things she writes about aren’t real, because at least they all came from her own mind.

Overall, her album quickly grew on me. After all, nobody can stay mad at Taylor Swift for too long. The more I listen to it, the more I realize that this album is the best thing that’s ever been mine.