Taylor Swift’s fans are praising and questioning some of the decisions she made on her latest re-recording, ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).’
Swifties are speaking now and forever holding their truth.
Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” is here after much anticipation and the superstar’s fans are eating it up. The album is the latest in Swift’s venture to reclaim the rights to her vast discography. Originally released in 2010 as the singer’s third LP, it is also the third album Swift has rerecorded as “Taylor’s Version,” following the massively popular revisions of “Red” and “Fearless” in 2021.
“It’s here. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s ours,” Swift wrote in an Instagram post celebrating the new release. “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.
“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.”
The new edition features six never-before-released tracks “from the vault,” which include features from Fall Out Boy and Paramore’s Hayley Williams, who will be opening for Swift on her newly expanded Eras tour. Another notable amendment involves lyrics Swift changed in the song “Better Than Revenge.” In the track’s 2010 iteration she sings, “She’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress.” In the new version, she changes the line to, “He was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches.
