Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version) [Oct 27] + Re-Recordings

Fabian (Taylor’s Version)

Fabian (Taylor’s Version)

HairBodyFace said:
This sums it up so well for me too. I grew up with each of her albums and they each kind of define different chapters of my life for me. When each album came out, I was the same age as she was when she wrote it....she always felt like a girl I went to school with or something, especially in the debut era.

She has always had such a gift with writing songs that perfectly depict and describe different relatable experiences and emotions, to where you feel like she's a friend going through the same stuff as you are. That kind of emotional connection through music is rare, and that's something that's given her such staying power...her audience has grown up alongside her and has felt seen through her songs. Even as she's become a huge star, she's (mostly) still conveyed universal human emotions/experiences through her music to where she feels like your peer.

For me, the only time it truly felt like she was a huge out of reach star was a lot of the 1989 era. Which was fun, but different. Even with reputation, where she had a bit more of a put on character/"image", she was spending much more time chatting with fans online under the radar than she was in the press and it made her feel closer to the fans in a way.

She's grown up the same time many of us have, has made mistakes and gone through things...but it's really cool for her to be at a place now where she seems so comfortable and happy just keeping to herself and using her craft as much as she wants in a much more grounded way.
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You said it so much better than me but exactly the same! Teardrops On My Guitar was my introduction and since then I’ve been obsessed.
 
drewsky

drewsky

The only rerelease I'm not excited for is Reputation. Part of me hopes she unceremoniously drops it instead of doing everything for it a la Red TV. I could see her waiting until 2026 to drop Taylor Swift TV as a huge celebration of 20 years from her debut.
 
Celestial Mosaic

Celestial Mosaic

They/Them
My desire for Enchanted TV to get a full single release with a video that is done in old school Disney animation starring Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey is getting stronger by the day. Enough games Taylor, you have the power to make this happen.
 
Mvnl

Mvnl

Staff member
The way this is happening with hardly any new material??
(Of course the year's just started but still. Insane)
 
colouroffensive

colouroffensive

He/Him
Happy to see Lover charting so high - it's such a solid album and a lot of the latter part of the record felt like seeds that eventually grew into folklore (especially False God/ It's Nice To Have A Friend, Cornelia Street).

Also elated that Cruel Summer is being given her long overdue moment to shine!
 
tylerc

tylerc

I really came on board with 1989 but still didn’t consider myself a fan until the pandemic/folklore/rereleases combination, and now I’m totally enamored. Getting folklore, evermore and Fearless (all totally new albums to me) in such quick succession was just a thrilling experience. Midnights and the stream of vault tracks from Red and beyond has been so gratifying. I wish my legitimate favs cared this much about their catalogue and its her care and commitment to her music has converted me to a true fan.
 
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Luckey

Luckey



10 years later, "Style" is coming.

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Drew

Drew

Style being the best (or at the very least 2nd best) single off 1989 and getting that shambollicaly bad, ill fitting video. She needs justice. It should have been a slam dunk #1 for her.

colouroffensive said:
Happy to see Lover charting so high - it's such a solid album and a lot of the latter part of the record felt like seeds that eventually grew into folklore (especially False God/ It's Nice To Have A Friend, Cornelia Street).

Also elated that Cruel Summer is being given her long overdue moment to shine!
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The constant slams on Lover over the last few years here have really baffled me. It is not a bad album. It's not even a bad Taylor Swift album. If our introduction to the album had been Lover as the lead single, Cruel Summer as the 2nd, and if ME! simply didn't exist, I think the tune around that album would be totally different. Even tracks that you kind of cringe at like London Boy are par for the course on a Taylor album - hello Stay Stay Stay and This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things. It's a perfectly fine (if slightly bloated) album.
 
colouroffensive

colouroffensive

He/Him
Drew said:
Style being the best (or at the very least 2nd best) single off 1989 and getting that shambollicaly bad, ill fitting video. She needs justice. It should have been a slam dunk #1 for her.



The constant slams on Lover over the last few years here have really baffled me. It is not a bad album. It's not even a bad Taylor Swift album. If our introduction to the album had been Lover as the lead single, Cruel Summer as the 2nd, and if ME! simply didn't exist, I think the tune around that album would be totally different. Even tracks that you kind of cringe at like London Boy are par for the course on a Taylor album - hello Stay Stay Stay and This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things. It's a perfectly fine (if slightly bloated) album.
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Wholeheartedly agree. ME! killed the Lover era from the jump which sucks because and YNTCD seem so out of place on the record overall.

I’m seeing lots of TikTok’s of people coming to realise that Lover is a great album. Everyone is like “omg! I slept on this album at the time!!” - yes you did!!! The fact she performs it first during the Eras tour is helped massively.
 
LoveMachine

LoveMachine

Everytime I think of Lover I'm like "hmm, I don't really know what songs are on there" and then I listen and it's mostly okay to good with some duds and no clear highlights. Afterwards I forget again.
It's certainly not a bad album, but it lacks a certain spark and at the time it felt like diminishing returns. Thank god she managed to revive her creative forces again afer that!
 
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