Taylor Swift re-introduced one other era with the discharge of her re-recorded “Taylor’s Version” of her third studio album Speak Now.
“It’s here. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s ours,” Swift wrote in an emotional social media post. “It’s an album I wrote alone concerning the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas and tragedies I lived out as a young woman between 18 and 20.”
The 22-track album dropped Friday, July 7 at midnight and features fan favorites like “Ours” and “Enchanted.”
The unique award-winning 2010 album featured 16 songs, Swift’s re-releases has additional songs “from the vault,” which incorporates collaborations with Fall Out Boy and Paramore.
“I remember making tracklist after tracklist, obsessing over the correct solution to tell the story,” her post continued. “I needed to be ruthless with my decisions, and I left behind some songs I’m still unfailingly pleased with now. Subsequently, you will have 6 From The Vault tracks!”
“I recorded this album once I was 32 (and still growing up, now) and the memories it brought back filled me with nostalgia and appreciation,” the Grammy-winning artist added. “For all times, for you, for the incontrovertible fact that I get to reclaim my work. Thanks one million times, for the memories that break our fall.”
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) marks the subsequent re-recorded album from the singer-songwriter, following Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version), each released in 2021.
In 2019, Swift first confirmed that she was re-recording her first six albums on “Good Morning America,” after her label Big Machine sold her masters to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings.
Prior to the songwriter owning the rights to her music, Swift said that Braun was stopping her from performing her own music for her dedicated fans.
In November 2020, after her masters were sold once more to Shamrock Holdings, Swift penned a protracted post on Twitter, saying that she had began the technique of re-recording her old music.
In a hometown Eras Tour show in Nashville, Tennessee, Swift announced the long-awaited Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).
Upon the announcement, the town turned on purple lights on the nearby bridge over the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee.
After making the announcement, she posted to her social media accounts.
“It fills me with such pride and joy to announce that my version of Speak Now might be out July 7 (just in time for July ninth, iykyk).” the “Enchanted” singer wrote in a Twitter post, hinting on the date within the “Speak Now” lyrics of “Last Kiss” – which many Swifties consider to be the date when she visited her then-boyfriend Joe Jonas.
“I first made Speak Now, completely self-written, between the ages of 18 and 20.” Swift continued. “The songs that got here from this time in my life were marked by their brutal honesty, unfiltered diaristic confessions and wild wistfulness. I really like this album since it tells a tale of growing up, flailing, flying and crashing… and living to discuss it.”
