Taylor Swift – TBA (Taylor’s Version)

[MissAmericana]

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is out now.

[andrebra]

Unless she’s just being a troll, there’s random capitalized letters throughout the post that spell “April Ninth” so I’m assuming that’s when it’s coming out.

[Deleted]

Exciting!! “Fearless” is the first Taylor album I bought. :)

[Mark]

While it is not her best album, Fearless is probably my personal favorite Taylor album from a nostalgic standpoint. It made me a true Taylor fan and I remember going to buy it at midnight on the day it came out. It defined that part of my college experience and I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s just so NOSTALGIC. So I am extremely excited for this, probably more so than any of the other re-recordings.

Edit: TWAF included?! Her worst song lyrically (but a BOP sonically) did THAT. She is so generous.

[firefox]

It's great to see TWAF made the list. I wonder if her Hunger Games songs will be included?

[fearlessarrow]

Taylor you can't slay me like this for the third time in 7 months! I'm super excited because Fearless was when I got into Taylor. Also the SIX unreleased tracks omg aaaaaaa

[Eloqueen™]

Ugh. April 9th is too far away tho.

[austin]

Yes. OK now I am more perched for these than I was before.

[neverduplicated]

This is so exciting! I can't wait to hear Taylor's version of Fearless, and in particular I can't believe we are getting SIX brand new songs we've never heard before! I wonder if she'll be releasing this many new songs for each album. That would be several albums worth of "new" material. It's kind of crazy we have to wait two months in anticipation of an album we've mostly heard before, but maybe she has some surprises along on the way, and perhaps she wanted to wait a little longer to let folklore have its moment at the Grammys.

I know charts are not the most important thing with these re-recordings, but I'm hoping the original version and this version are combined on the charts. It will be weird to see two different versions of each of her albums charting when they get released.

[kacpi]

Wow, this is the best album cover in her catalog. Not only does it capture the essence of "Fearless" standard cover in a perfect way, but it is also reminiscent of folklore-evermore era. I love it, I'm so excited.

[strongerq]

Feb 11, 2021 9:04:08 GMT -5 neverduplicated said:

I know charts are not the most important thing with these re-recordings, but I'm hoping the original version and this version are combined on the charts. It will be weird to see two different versions of each of her albums charting when they get released.

They will be separate entries. We will see for sure next week, but 99.9% they are separate.

Proof:

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}

Regarding RIAA aswell, there is this rule.

[firefox]

Feb 11, 2021 9:11:37 GMT -5 strongerq said:

Feb 11, 2021 9:04:08 GMT -5 neverduplicated said:

I know charts are not the most important thing with these re-recordings, but I'm hoping the original version and this version are combined on the charts. It will be weird to see two different versions of each of her albums charting when they get released.

They will be separate entries. We will see for sure next week, but 99.9% they are separate.

Proof:

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}

Regarding RIAA aswell, there is this rule.

how about the Fearless album on Billboard 200? Are they separated?

[HolidayGuy]

Why is she calling it "Taylor's Version," though? Weren't the original recordings her versions? :) Or is she solely producing them? Or maybe it's more likely because she's including songs that didn't make the cut the first time. But she's also calling the known songs TV, Hmmm...

[Taylor.]

Feb 11, 2021 9:33:26 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Why is she calling it "Taylor's Version," though? Weren't the original recordings her versions? :) Or is she solely producing them? Or maybe it's more likely because she's including songs that didn't make the cut the first time. But she's also calling the known songs TV, Hmmm...

Because they're the versions she owns, presumably.

[strongerq]

Feb 11, 2021 9:27:50 GMT -5 firefox said:

how about the Fearless album on Billboard 200? Are they separated?

Well if the songs are separated, the albums should aswell.

Def Leppard haven't re-recorded entire albums, only songs (as far as i looked up). Jojo on the other hand has re-recorded her debut album in Dec 2018. The album charted separately on "US R&B/Hip-Hop Album Sales" based on Wikipedia. Those charts are discontinued, and i can't find them.

[Choco]

I kinda expected her to go chronologically (so it all leads up to reputation whenever that one is free to be re-recorded), but Fearless is an iconic part of her story so far so I can't argue with this choice.

[zdm1998]

I'm curious about the 6 new songs. How was she able to record them; as I assumed that big machine probably owned them since that's when she was still under them. Do we think she possible bought them back? Could somebody explain this to me.

[Choco]

Feb 11, 2021 10:25:44 GMT -5 zdm1998 said:

I'm curious about the 6 new songs. How was she able to record them; as I assumed that big machine probably owned them since that's when she was still under them. Do we think she possible bought them back? Could somebody explain this to me.

If she co-wrote she only needs approval from the other co-writers I think, as it's a new audio recording (same way she doesn't need Big Machine to re-record the original tracks).

And I don't see any of her co-writers declining the opportunity to get some new coin from some old unreleased tracks. I wonder if there's something in the vault from the 1989 era; maybe even a full version of "This is What You Came For"? I don't know if she's on good terms with Calvin at the moment and he can be petty (see: Rita Ora's entire scrapped album), but we'll see.

[nas]

Feb 11, 2021 8:40:17 GMT -5 firefox said:

It's great to see TWAF made the list. I wonder if her Hunger Games songs will be included?

Those would end up being part of the “Red” era wouldn’t they? Seems like she’s really releasing every single song in her discography so I would assume so.

[Choco]

Feb 11, 2021 11:24:41 GMT -5 nas said:

Feb 11, 2021 8:40:17 GMT -5 firefox said:

It's great to see TWAF made the list. I wonder if her Hunger Games songs will be included?

Those would end up being part of the “Red” era wouldn’t they? Seems like she’s really releasing every single song in her discography so I would assume so.

If she's releasing the standalone songs as part of the "eras" when they were originally dropped then the Hunger Games tracks would be dropped with Speak Now. But she probably recorded them during the early sessions for Red... so who knows.

"Today Was a Fairytale" was written all the way back in 2008 (probably towards the end of the recording process for Fearless), and recorded during the early Speak Now sessions, but scrapped from the tracklist because it didn't fit.

[fearlessarrow]

So I’m excited about her capitalizing letters like she used to, I remember the days.

Also with songs from the vault being included for Fearless I wonder if her versions of Sugarland’s “Babe” (which she scrapped from Red if I remember correctly) or Little Big Town’s “Better Man” would appear somewhere down the line because I would love to hear that.

Or that full version of “All Too Well”... one can dream right?

[neverduplicated]

Feb 11, 2021 11:46:14 GMT -5 fearlessarrow said:

So I’m excited about her capitalizing letters like she used to, I remember the days.

Also with songs from the vault being included for Fearless I wonder if her versions of Sugarland’s “Babe” (which she scrapped from Red if I remember correctly) or Little Big Town’s “Better Man” would appear somewhere down the line because I would love to hear that.

Or that full version of “All Too Well”... one can dream right?

We are definitely getting “Better Man” and i can’t wait! I think she already talked about that song being recorded. It’s one of her absolute best and will immediately become one of my favs on Red.

[austin]

She did mention "Better Man" fitting the RED album and that she saw it as a natural inclusion.

[nick64]

Six new songs, holy shit I can’t wait !!!

[McCreerian]

I can't wait to hear this although I was hoping she'd start with her debut album. I really want to hear how she will re-do her most Country album.

[kimberly]

Olivia Rodrigo promoting the re-recordings already

[Taylor.]

Ordered the vinyl. 😌

Can she restock the Evermore vinyl now, please??

[g8erboi]

Since there are going to be six new tracks, I wonder if they’re planning to push any of them as a full-fledged single at some point (assuming Love Story doesn’t get another push).

[Mylo13 💜]

Sooooo excited! Love the album and hoping I love some of the unreleased tracks. Wonder how disappointed I'll be that some were left OFF the tracklist haha

[ampersand]

I am SCREAMING. She's really committed to this 2008 aesthetic!