TAYLOR Swift has dropped a new album with music fans flocking to listen to her latest lyrics.
With the superstar deciding to re-record some of her old albums, here’s everything you need to know about ‘Speak Now: Taylor’s Version’.
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What time is Taylor Swift’s version of her album Speak Now coming out?
Fans can stream Taylor’s newest album via Apple Music and Spotify.
The much-anticipated ‘Speak Now’ album – originally released in 2010 – dropped earlier today.
It will also be available on cassette, CD, as a digital download, vinyl, and LP.
The tracklisting is the original 14 songs, plus eight bonus tracks — making up 22 songs and a staggering run time of 104 minutes.
“It’s an album I wrote alone about the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas, and tragedies I lived out as a young woman between 18 and 20,”Swift wrote on Instagram shortly after the album dropped.
“I recorded this album when I was 32 (and still growing up, now) and the memories it brought back filled me with nostalgia and appreciation,”
“I remember making tracklist after tracklist, obsessing over the right way to tell the story. I had to be ruthless with my choices, and I left behind some songs I am still unfailingly proud of now.
“For life, for you, for the fact that I get to reclaim my work. Thank you a million times, for the memories that break our fall.”
Speak Now is the third release of the six albums Swift plans to re-record.
Why is Taylor Swift rerecording her albums?
The star is rerecording her albums after a 2019 masters dispute.
In 2019, Swift announced that she would re-record her first six albums—from her 2006 self-titled debut through 2017’s Reputation—in order to regain control of her masters.
This sparked when the singer’s contract with Big Machine Records expired around the time the label was taken over by new chief Scooter Braun who took control of Swift’s master recordings.
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Swift attempted to buy the masters back but was offered, in her words, “unfavourable conditions”.
And rather than lose out on revenue or fight it further, she decided to release the albums again for her new record label, Republic.
The superstar singer also used the re-release to take back a now-controversial lyric from “Better Than Revenge.”
When it was originally released in 2010, “Better Than Revenge” contained the lyrics, “She’s not a saint and she’s not what you think/ She’s an actress/ She’s better known for the things that she does/ On the mattress.”
Critics at the time said Swift had been “slut shaming” in the lyrics.
Now, the latter two lines have been changed to: “He was a moth to the flame/ She was holding the matches.”
When do tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour come out?
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) comes after Swift announced international dates for “The Eras Tour.”
In 2024, the artist will take her career-spanning live show to Japan, Australia, Europe, and the UK.
Paramore will be opening the show on every date during the UK and Europe run.
Fans will be hoping to get their hands on the coveted presale tickets in the coming weeks.
Taylor is currently in the midst of the US leg of The Eras Tour.
When the US leg of the Eras tour went on sale last year, demand was so high that Ticketmaster’s systems buckled.
What are the vault tracks on Speak Now: Taylor’s Version?
Taylor has revealed the back cover of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), including the full tracklist and six vault tracks.
The much-anticipated “vault” tracks are the following:
- “Electric Touch (Featuring Fall Out Boy) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
- “When Emma Falls in Love (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
- “I Can See You (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
- “Castles Crumbling (Featuring Hayley Williams) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
- “Foolish One (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
- “Timeless (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)”
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