‘Speak Now’, Taylor Swift’s third album, will be the next album in the “Taylor’s Version” series of re-recorded albums
Taylor Swift let fans in his hometown of Nashville be the first to hear the official news: Speak Now (2010), his third album, will be the next album in his series “Taylor’s Version” of re-recorded albums.
The re-recording will feature six brand new tracks and will be available on all digital platforms and physical stores on July 7th. Following the announcement at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium, the city turned purple lights on the nearby bridge over the Cumberland River. Check out images below:
you can’t tell me she’s not a mastermind… just as she announced #SpeakNowTaylorsVersion the bridge turned purple 💜💜 pic.twitter.com/0wRGOflhm7
— emma (@emma22caroline) May 6, 2023
In an Instagram post, Swift indicated that Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) has six unreleased tracks. She wrote in part:
I did Speak Now (2010) for the first time, completely self-written, between 18 and 20 years old. The songs that came out of this time in my life were marked by their brutal honesty, unfiltered diary confessions and wild melancholy. I love this album because it tells the story of growing up, floundering, flying and falling… and living to talk about it.
It fills me with such pride and joy to announce that my version of Speak Now will be out July 7 (just in time for July 9th, iykyk 😆) I first made Speak Now, completely self-written, between the ages of 18 and 20 The songs that came from this time in my life were marked by their… pic.twitter.com/oa0Vs5kszr
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 6, 2023
Speak Now marks the beginning of the career transition from Taylor Swift as a pop singer, from country origins to even more daring compositions, although it was still a few albums away before she firmly declared herself a pop artist.
The record sold over a million copies in its first week and featured singles like “Mine”, “Back To December”, “Ours”, “Sparks Fly” It is “The Story of Us”. Furthermore, Speak Now (2010) was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Albumand won the statuettes with “Mean” by Best Country Solo Performance It is Best Country Song.
Swift announced its plans to re-record all of its material prior to the release of lover (2019), after Scooter Braun buy your old record label Big Machine and consequently lose copyright to the songs themselves.
Source: Rollingstone
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