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\n About \u201c1989 (Deluxe)\u201d\n
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1989 was Swift\u2019s official entrance to the pop music scene, and it cemented her status as a musical titan. It was the only album of 2014 to sell over a million copies in its first week, and spent five non-consecutive weeks at #1.

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After her 2012 record Red didn\u2019t win the Grammy for Album Of The Year, Swift stepped back and decided she may have a better chance if she changed her sound. That night, she vowed to go in a completely different direction in hopes that her next album would win the award \u2014 and it did, making Swift both the first woman to win the award twice and the first to win it for two genres, since her 2008 record, Fearless, won in 2010.

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Swift foreshadowed her new pop sound with 2013\u2019s \u201cSweeter Than Fiction,\u201d her first collaboration with Jack Antonoff, who became a crucial part of her pop career. He produced \u201cOut of the Woods,\u201d \u201cI Wish You Would,\u201d and deluxe track \u201cYou Are In Love,\u201d which Swift even wrote about his relationship with Lena Dunham.

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Swift kicked off the 1989 era with a livestream and the release of lead single \u201cShake It Off,\u201d which became one of her biggest hits and earned Swift her first diamond single by March 2020.

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Swift went on to release \u201cBlank Space,\u201d \u201cStyle,\u201d \u201cBad Blood,\u201d \u201cWildest Dreams,\u201d \u201cOut Of The Woods,\u201d and \u201cNew Romantics\u201d as singles. In addition, \u201cWelcome To New York\u201d was used in tourism ads for the city that served as the track\u2019s inspiration.

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In addition to the standard, 13-song album, Swift teamed up with Target for this extended deluxe release, featuring three new songs and three voice memos from her writing sessions.

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In May 2015, Swift kicked off the album\u2019s tour, sponsored by American Express. It became the highest-grossing U.S. tour of all time, earning over $250 million, and Swift later broke her own record with 2018\u2019s reputation Stadium Tour.

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    Did Swift find inspiration from outside sources?

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    Swift told Ryan Adams:

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    For 1989 I would watch John Hughes movies. I would think, \u2018okay, pause, freeze frame, what\u2019s she thinking in this moment? What does he think in this moment?\u2019 1989, I wrote when I was single, I didn\u2019t have much intense drama going on, I was living for my friends, and I was living in New York, and everything was exciting. So to access those emotions again, I would kind of put myself into other people\u2019s perspectives.

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    What musicians influenced the record?

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    I hear Peter Gabriel and I hear Annie Lennox. [\u2026] What Annie does is so interesting to me, and it\u2019s not something you could ever try to duplicate. But the way she conveys a thought, there\u2019s something really intense about it. And I think that\u2019s something I\u2019ll always aspire to. With Peter, that\u2019s an artist who has such incredible taste and such an incredible finger on the pulse of what would excite people, musically. What he was doing in the \u201880s was so ahead of its time, because he was playing with a lot of synth-pop sounds, but kind of creating sort of an atmosphere behind what he was singing, rather than a produced track. It was just kind of astonishing how he was able to do that. And then you see him in his later work, when he did that album full of modern-day covers. I mean, I just think that he\u2019s remarkable at giving people what they want, but they didn\u2019t think they wanted.

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    It was the night of the Grammys this year. [\u2026] I remember going home and playing a lot of the new music I had recorded for some of my backup singers and one of my best friends. We were all sitting in the kitchen and I was playing them all this music, and they were just saying, \u2018you know, this is very eighties. It\u2019s very clear to us that this is so eighties.\u2019 We were just talking and talking about how it\u2019s kind of a rebirth in a new genre, how that\u2019s a big bold step, how, kind of, starting a part of your career over. When they left that night, I just had this very clear moment of, \u2018it\u2019s gotta be called 1989.\u2019

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    Some of them I wrote on piano, some of them I wrote on guitar. Some of them I would think of some synth line in my head and sing it into my phone and send it to my co-writers and say, \u2018do you think this would sound cool?\u2019 [\u2026] Or singing a drum beat over top of it, and I would send it to them and say, \u2018I don\u2019t have the right keyboard to make this sound in my house. I just have a piano and a guitar, but let me play it for you on piano and let you know what I think the bassline should be, and we can start there.\u2019 Or it would be a first line of a first verse, or it would be, sort of, an image that I wanted to create a feeling around. We would just start with this image I had, or a story.

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    I wanted it to be a sonically cohesive album, and it ended up really being the first I\u2019ve done since Fearless. I also wanted the songs to sound exactly how the emotions felt. I know that\u2019s pretty vague, so I really didn\u2019t know where it was going to go, but I knew that I wanted to work with the collaborators I had such crazy electricity with on Red, like Max Martin. I wanted to do some things that sounded nothing like what we had done before.

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    It was GRAMMY night this year that I decided that was the title. I remember it really vividly. I came home from the GRAMMYs night, was sitting on the couch eating an hamburguer and invited my friends over. We got into this discussion about how, without even realizing it, I had started to incorporate 80\u2019s synth pop elements into the sound of this new album [\u2026] Essentially switching genres, starting over, and how apropriate to name this album after my birth year.

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Taylor Swift\u2019s fourth re-recorded album features vault tracks: \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d \u201cSuburban Legends,\u201d \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go,\u201d \u201cIs It Over Now?\u201d and \u201c\u2018Slut!\u2019\u201d
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Taylor Swift performs at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball in New York on Dec. 12, 2014. Chad Batka / The New York Times via Redux file
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The Billboard charts should be prepared to leave a \u201cBlank Space\" for Taylor Swift once again.

On Friday, Swift released \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\" \u2014 nine years to the day after the original album was released. The artist is now reportedly a billionaire, according to Bloomberg.

When Swift released \u201c1989\u201d in 2014, it seemed like she was at her peak. \u201cShake It Off\u201d became a massive hit, the viral \u201cBad Blood\u201d music video featured seemingly every A-lister in Hollywood, and \"1989\" ended up edging out \u201cFrozen\u201d as the most popular album of the year.

While Swift\u2019s re-recording journey may have been conceived as an effort to reclaim her work, the \u201cTaylor\u2019s Version\u201d albums have been triumphant successes in their own right. All three re-recordings have debuted at No. 1, with each one performing better than the last.

\u201c1989 (Taylor's Version)\u201d is also poised to be a huge success. Here\u2019s what to know.

What are the vault songs?

Swift revealed the track list in September in typical Swiftie fashion: with a complicated puzzle for fans to solve.

Google announced that its search function would populate a series of 89 puzzles that fans could solve to eventually reveal the names of those new songs.

Fans successfully decoded the names of the five vault tracks, or songs that weren\u2019t included on the original album. Swift posted the official track list to her social media platforms on Sept. 20, confirming the vault track titles: \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d \u201cSuburban Legends,\u201d \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go,\u201d \u201cIs It Over Now?\u201d and \u201c\u2018Slut!\u2019\u201d

In an Instagram post announcing the album in August, Swift wrote it was her \u201cmost FAVORITE re-record I\u2019ve ever done because the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane.\u201d

\u201cI can\u2019t believe they were ever left behind,\u201d she wrote in the caption.

Does the album feature any collaborations?

Fans have posted their dream collab artists, including Harry Styles on \u201cStyle,\u201d a track many believe to be about Swift\u2019s former rumored relationship with her fellow pop star. But the former One Direction band member\u2019s vocals are not featured.


In terms of producers, the original \u201c1989\u201d was the first collaboration with Jack Antonoff, who has become an integral part of Swift\u2019s discography and social life. He is credited as a producer on every \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d vault track. Other original producing collaborators, such as Max Martin and Imogen Heap, also returned for the re-recorded version of the album.

Swift said Friday morning that the re-recording of \"Bad Blood (featuring Kendrick Lamar)\" would be available on \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) Deluxe Edition.\"

\"Watching @kendricklamar create and record his verses on the Bad Blood remix was one of the most inspiring experiences of my life... The reality that Kendrick would go back in and re-record Bad Blood so that I could reclaim and own this work I\u2019m so proud of is surreal and bewildering to me,\" Swift posted on X.

Were there any notable Easter eggs leading up to the release?

It wouldn\u2019t be Swiftdom without Easter eggs. Swift and her team unleashed plenty of online speculation ahead of the album release.

This week, Swift posted three photos on her Instagram story featuring handwritten notes.

The first photo was a notebook entry posted Tuesday that read, \u201cLet\u2019s fast forward to 300 takeout coffees later I see your profile and your smile on unsuspecting waiters.\u201d

The second photo, posted Wednesday, featured four lines written in alternating blue and black ink. \u201cAquamarine, Moonlit swimming pool, what if, All I need is you,\u201d the lines read.

The third post, shared Thursday on Swift\u2019s story, read, \u201cI broke my own heart, Cause you were too polite to do it.\u201d

Fans immediately took to social media to speculate about the meaning behind the cryptic posts from the \u201cMastermind\u201d singer. Theories circulating on X proposed that the handwritten notes Swift posted could be lyrics from the \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d vault tracks.

On TikTok, a user speculated in a video, which has gotten over 600,000 views, that lines like \u201cAquamarine\u201d and \u201cMoonlit swimming pool\u201d could even be bonus song titles.

When the album was released, it was revealed that the notes were in fact lyrics from the vault songs.

What does the \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d prologue say?

The initial \u201c1989\u201d release had an intro that was penned by Swift when she was 24.

The TV prologue features one handwritten message from Swift, as well as another two-page note typed in all-caps Courier.

\"I was born in 1989, reinvented for The first time in 2014, and a part of me was reclaimed in 2023 wiTh The re-release of This album I love so dearly,\" she writes in the handwritten prologue. \"Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine The magic you would sprinkle on my life for so long.\"

With the lengthier typed message, some fans zeroed in on one paragraph in particular, in which Swift writes, \"If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn\u2019t sensationalize or sexualize that right? I would learn later on that people could and people would.\"

Factions of Swift\u2019s fan base have been known to clash online over speculation that the pop singer may have had romantic relationships with women, like her female friends. Swift herself said in 2019 that she is \u201cnot a part of\u201d the LGBTQ+ community. That hasn't stopped some fans \u2014 who call themselves \u201cGaylors\u201d \u2014\u00a0from overanalyzing all of her lyrics.

Both notes end with \"It's been waiting for you,\" a line from her \"1989\" song \"Welcome To New York.\"

How have fans reacted to \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d so far?

Ahead of the release, Taylor Nation, the official account for Swift\u2019s management team, also shared a \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d album cover generator for fans to re-create the cover with their own photos. Fans posted their personalized covers, including versions featuring pictures of themselves and their pets.

After the album dropped, many Swifties reminisced about reliving 2014 nostalgia in 2023 on posts on X and TikTok.

\"The people who were in high school/older when 1989 came out\u2026. this album literally shaped our teens and 20s and it gets better with time nobody can tell me otherwise,\" one fan said in a X post.

\"Getting to re-live all of our favorite albums with taylor for the second time is something so special to me... these albums are the soundtrack to our lives and it\u2019s so crazy to look back and see how far we have come since their original release,\" another fan posted.

The reaction to the album online was largely enthusiastic, with many fans praising the vault tracks and the improvement of Swift's more mature vocals on the new version.

However, the track \"Style (Taylor's Version)\" appeared to disappoint some fans.

\"Oh god what is wrong with style tv... i\u2019m so sorry,\" one fan said in a post.

\"STYLE TV WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU,\" said another fan.

Some Swifties attributed this to a difference in the production on \"Style (Taylor\u2019s Version)\", which was not an exact recreation of the original version.

Nonetheless, \"1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\" debuted with a perfect score of 100 on Metacritic.

\"\"
Kaetlyn Liddy
", + "page_last_modified": "" + }, + { + "page_name": "Taylor Swift\u2019s new release: Here\u2019s what to know about 1989 ...", + "page_url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/1989-taylors-version-what-to-know-rcna122332", + "page_snippet": "Taylor Swift\u2019s fourth re-recorded album features vault tracks: \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d \u201cSuburban Legends,\u201d \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go,\u201d \u201cIs It Over Now?\u201d and \u201c\u2018Slut!\u2019\u201dTheories circulating on X proposed that the handwritten notes Swift posted could be lyrics from the \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d vault tracks. On TikTok, a user speculated in a video, which has gotten over 600,000 views, that lines like \u201cAquamarine\u201d and \u201cMoonlit swimming pool\u201d could even be bonus song titles. When the album was released, it was revealed that the notes were in fact lyrics from the vault songs. The initial \u201c1989\u201d release had an intro that was penned by Swift when she was 24. Both notes end with \"It's been waiting for you,\" a line from her \"1989\" song \"Welcome To New York.\" Ahead of the release, Taylor Nation, the official account for Swift\u2019s management team, also shared a \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d album cover generator for fans to re-create the cover with their own photos. Taylor Swift\u2019s fourth re-recorded album features vault tracks: \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d \u201cSuburban Legends,\u201d \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go,\u201d \u201cIs It Over Now?\u201d and \u201c\u2018Slut!\u2019\u201d \u20181989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019 features vault tracks: \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d \u201cSuburban Legends,\u201d \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go,\u201d \u201cIs It Over Now?\u201d and \u201c\u2018Slut!\u2019\u201d", + "page_result": "Taylor Swift\u2019s new release: Here\u2019s what to know about 1989 (Taylor\u2019s version)
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\u20181989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u2019 is here. Here\u2019s what to know.

Taylor Swift\u2019s fourth re-recorded album features vault tracks: \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d \u201cSuburban Legends,\u201d \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go,\u201d \u201cIs It Over Now?\u201d and \u201c\u2018Slut!\u2019\u201d
\"Taylor
Taylor Swift performs at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball in New York on Dec. 12, 2014. Chad Batka / The New York Times via Redux file
By Kaetlyn Liddy

The Billboard charts should be prepared to leave a \u201cBlank Space\" for Taylor Swift once again.

On Friday, Swift released \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\" \u2014 nine years to the day after the original album was released. The artist is now reportedly a billionaire, according to Bloomberg.

When Swift released \u201c1989\u201d in 2014, it seemed like she was at her peak. \u201cShake It Off\u201d became a massive hit, the viral \u201cBad Blood\u201d music video featured seemingly every A-lister in Hollywood, and \"1989\" ended up edging out \u201cFrozen\u201d as the most popular album of the year.

While Swift\u2019s re-recording journey may have been conceived as an effort to reclaim her work, the \u201cTaylor\u2019s Version\u201d albums have been triumphant successes in their own right. All three re-recordings have debuted at No. 1, with each one performing better than the last.

\u201c1989 (Taylor's Version)\u201d is also poised to be a huge success. Here\u2019s what to know.

What are the vault songs?

Swift revealed the track list in September in typical Swiftie fashion: with a complicated puzzle for fans to solve.

Google announced that its search function would populate a series of 89 puzzles that fans could solve to eventually reveal the names of those new songs.

Fans successfully decoded the names of the five vault tracks, or songs that weren\u2019t included on the original album. Swift posted the official track list to her social media platforms on Sept. 20, confirming the vault track titles: \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d \u201cSuburban Legends,\u201d \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go,\u201d \u201cIs It Over Now?\u201d and \u201c\u2018Slut!\u2019\u201d

In an Instagram post announcing the album in August, Swift wrote it was her \u201cmost FAVORITE re-record I\u2019ve ever done because the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane.\u201d

\u201cI can\u2019t believe they were ever left behind,\u201d she wrote in the caption.

Does the album feature any collaborations?

Fans have posted their dream collab artists, including Harry Styles on \u201cStyle,\u201d a track many believe to be about Swift\u2019s former rumored relationship with her fellow pop star. But the former One Direction band member\u2019s vocals are not featured.


In terms of producers, the original \u201c1989\u201d was the first collaboration with Jack Antonoff, who has become an integral part of Swift\u2019s discography and social life. He is credited as a producer on every \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d vault track. Other original producing collaborators, such as Max Martin and Imogen Heap, also returned for the re-recorded version of the album.

Swift said Friday morning that the re-recording of \"Bad Blood (featuring Kendrick Lamar)\" would be available on \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) Deluxe Edition.\"

\"Watching @kendricklamar create and record his verses on the Bad Blood remix was one of the most inspiring experiences of my life... The reality that Kendrick would go back in and re-record Bad Blood so that I could reclaim and own this work I\u2019m so proud of is surreal and bewildering to me,\" Swift posted on X.

Were there any notable Easter eggs leading up to the release?

It wouldn\u2019t be Swiftdom without Easter eggs. Swift and her team unleashed plenty of online speculation ahead of the album release.

This week, Swift posted three photos on her Instagram story featuring handwritten notes.

The first photo was a notebook entry posted Tuesday that read, \u201cLet\u2019s fast forward to 300 takeout coffees later I see your profile and your smile on unsuspecting waiters.\u201d

The second photo, posted Wednesday, featured four lines written in alternating blue and black ink. \u201cAquamarine, Moonlit swimming pool, what if, All I need is you,\u201d the lines read.

The third post, shared Thursday on Swift\u2019s story, read, \u201cI broke my own heart, Cause you were too polite to do it.\u201d

Fans immediately took to social media to speculate about the meaning behind the cryptic posts from the \u201cMastermind\u201d singer. Theories circulating on X proposed that the handwritten notes Swift posted could be lyrics from the \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d vault tracks.

On TikTok, a user speculated in a video, which has gotten over 600,000 views, that lines like \u201cAquamarine\u201d and \u201cMoonlit swimming pool\u201d could even be bonus song titles.

When the album was released, it was revealed that the notes were in fact lyrics from the vault songs.

What does the \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d prologue say?

The initial \u201c1989\u201d release had an intro that was penned by Swift when she was 24.

The TV prologue features one handwritten message from Swift, as well as another two-page note typed in all-caps Courier.

\"I was born in 1989, reinvented for The first time in 2014, and a part of me was reclaimed in 2023 wiTh The re-release of This album I love so dearly,\" she writes in the handwritten prologue. \"Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine The magic you would sprinkle on my life for so long.\"

With the lengthier typed message, some fans zeroed in on one paragraph in particular, in which Swift writes, \"If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn\u2019t sensationalize or sexualize that right? I would learn later on that people could and people would.\"

Factions of Swift\u2019s fan base have been known to clash online over speculation that the pop singer may have had romantic relationships with women, like her female friends. Swift herself said in 2019 that she is \u201cnot a part of\u201d the LGBTQ+ community. That hasn't stopped some fans \u2014 who call themselves \u201cGaylors\u201d \u2014\u00a0from overanalyzing all of her lyrics.

Both notes end with \"It's been waiting for you,\" a line from her \"1989\" song \"Welcome To New York.\"

How have fans reacted to \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d so far?

Ahead of the release, Taylor Nation, the official account for Swift\u2019s management team, also shared a \u201c1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d album cover generator for fans to re-create the cover with their own photos. Fans posted their personalized covers, including versions featuring pictures of themselves and their pets.

After the album dropped, many Swifties reminisced about reliving 2014 nostalgia in 2023 on posts on X and TikTok.

\"The people who were in high school/older when 1989 came out\u2026. this album literally shaped our teens and 20s and it gets better with time nobody can tell me otherwise,\" one fan said in a X post.

\"Getting to re-live all of our favorite albums with taylor for the second time is something so special to me... these albums are the soundtrack to our lives and it\u2019s so crazy to look back and see how far we have come since their original release,\" another fan posted.

The reaction to the album online was largely enthusiastic, with many fans praising the vault tracks and the improvement of Swift's more mature vocals on the new version.

However, the track \"Style (Taylor's Version)\" appeared to disappoint some fans.

\"Oh god what is wrong with style tv... i\u2019m so sorry,\" one fan said in a post.

\"STYLE TV WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU,\" said another fan.

Some Swifties attributed this to a difference in the production on \"Style (Taylor\u2019s Version)\", which was not an exact recreation of the original version.

Nonetheless, \"1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version)\" debuted with a perfect score of 100 on Metacritic.

\"\"
Kaetlyn Liddy
", + "page_last_modified": "" + }, + { + "page_name": "Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) Album Review | Pitchfork", + "page_url": "https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-1989-taylors-version/", + "page_snippet": "The \u201cvault\u201d tracks packaged with the Taylor\u2019s Version series range from astonishing (\u201cNothing New\u201d) to feeble (\u201cCastles Crumbling\u201d), and while the five songs added to 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) lack the wallop and precision of the album proper, they also sometimes reveal humanizing ...For Taylor Swift, 2014 might have felt like one long debutante ball. On her fifth album, 1989, she emerged as a pop superstar, platinum coursing through her veins, Victoria\u2019s Secret models flanking her like groupies, and a jewel-encrusted microphone permanently affixed to her right hand. For the first eight years of her career, she had been known for her intimate, open-hearted songwriting. On 1989, she traded in six-minute open letters and vivid diary entries for songs that were bright, punchy, and dramatic. The \u201cvault\u201d tracks packaged with the Taylor\u2019s Version series range from astonishing (\u201cNothing New\u201d) to feeble (\u201cCastles Crumbling\u201d), and while the five songs added to 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) lack the wallop and precision of the album proper, they also sometimes reveal humanizing depth\u2014the equivalent of seeing a star exhale and slump their shoulders the minute they step from the afterparty into the Escalade. Toward the end of \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d a glittering catwalk-stomper shot through with the bitterness of Speak Now\u2019s \u201cThe Story of Us,\u201d Swift basically positions the poise and shine of 1989 as a way to cope: \u201cThe only way back to my dignity/Was to turn into a shrouded mystery.\u201d Taylor keeps her re-records very close to the originals, but five previously unreleased songs add depth and context to what was then her galactic, career-shifting pop debut. For Taylor Swift, 2014 might have felt like one long debutante ball. On her fifth album, 1989, she emerged as a pop superstar, platinum coursing through her veins, Victoria\u2019s Secret models flanking her like groupies, and a jewel-encrusted microphone permanently affixed to her right hand. No new wrinkles are necessary to appreciate the record\u2019s immaculate highs: the tug-of-war between yearning and anthemic on \u201cI Wish You Would\u201d; \u201cStyle\u201d\u2019s Miami Vice strut; the Tumblr-teen euphoria of \u201cNew Romantics.\u201d It\u2019s easy to class 1989 as an artistically lesser entry in Swift\u2019s catalog, however counterintuitive to its success, but these songs are wildly durable. 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) isn\u2019t plastered with a debutante smile like its predecessor\u2014but it certainly hasn\u2019t lost its luster.", + "page_result": "Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) Album Review | Pitchfork
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7.7

By Shaad D\u2019Souza

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    October 30, 2023

Taylor keeps her re-records very close to the originals, but five previously unreleased songs add depth and context to what was then her galactic, career-shifting pop debut.

For Taylor Swift, 2014 might have felt like one long debutante ball. On her fifth album, 1989, she emerged as a pop superstar, platinum coursing through her veins, Victoria\u2019s Secret models flanking her like groupies, and a jewel-encrusted microphone permanently affixed to her right hand. For the first eight years of her career, she had been known for her intimate, open-hearted songwriting. On 1989, she traded in six-minute open letters and vivid diary entries for songs that were bright, punchy, and dramatic. It was her \u201cfirst official pop album,\u201d as she herself put it at the time (dubstep drops on 2012\u2019s Red be damned), inspired by the decade of her birth but totally contemporary in its single-minded pursuit of chart domination and Grammys supremacy.

The gambit worked: Your aunt who only listens to Whitney Houston probably bought 1989; the guy who thinks his indie records are much cooler than yours definitely told you it contained \u201csome really well-crafted pop songs\u201d on a Tinder date once. The album yielded five Hot 100 top 10s, including three No. 1s, and hovered in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 for its entire first year of release. Behind Adele, it was the best-selling album of 2015. And it crystalized an image of Swift that she hasn\u2019t been able to shake off over the intervening decade: that of an invulnerable, sweetly Machiavellian pop deity, arranging her music and the world around her with equal precision.

1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version), the fourth entry in Swift\u2019s series of re-recordings, goes some way toward fleshing out this chapter in her career. The \u201cvault\u201d tracks packaged with the Taylor\u2019s Version series range from astonishing (\u201cNothing New\u201d) to feeble (\u201cCastles Crumbling\u201d), and while the five songs added to 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) lack the wallop and precision of the album proper, they also sometimes reveal humanizing depth\u2014the equivalent of seeing a star exhale and slump their shoulders the minute they step from the afterparty into the Escalade. Toward the end of \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d a glittering catwalk-stomper shot through with the bitterness of Speak Now\u2019s \u201cThe Story of Us,\u201d Swift basically positions the poise and shine of 1989 as a way to cope: \u201cThe only way back to my dignity/Was to turn into a shrouded mystery.\u201d

If 1989 lacks some of the texture and nuance that defines her best work, the vault tracks can be encumbered by their wordiness. On \u201cSuburban Legends,\u201d Swift writes in the dense, largely rhymeless run-on style that defines later records like Folklore and Midnights. The second verse builds to the lines, \u201cI am standing in a 1950s gymnasium/And I can still see it now\u201d\u2014an unwieldy contrast to the appealingly quantized bounce of 1989 cuts like \u201cHow You Get the Girl\u201d and \u201cStyle.\u201d But this messiness can yield the kind of bittersweet gems that are Swift\u2019s specialty: As ever, she excels when channeling the cocktail of victimhood and superiority that foments in the aftermath of a breakup. On \u201cNow That We Don\u2019t Talk,\u201d she tells an ex that \u201cfrom the outside, it looks like you\u2019re trying lives on.\u201d \u201cYou dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor,\u201d from \u201cIs It Over Now?\u201d is an instant addition to Swift\u2019s already-heaving canon of perfect last words.

The most striking moments of 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) are shivering and defensive, taking a bat to the knees of the pageant-ready main record. The title of \u201c\u2018Slut!\u2019\u201d raised a lot of eyebrows upon announcement, with many assuming that it would be a rejoinder to misogyny in the style of \u201cBlank Space,\u201d Swift\u2019s comment on her treatment in the tabloids. Really, it\u2019s far meeker than that: Over a Chromatics-style synth fog, Swift sings about trying to hide a relationship for fear of becoming gossip-rag fodder once again. When she attempts an empowering chorus\u2014\u201cIf I\u2019m all dressed up/They might as well be looking at us/If they call me a slut/You know, it might be worth it for once\u201d\u2014she delivers it listlessly, unable to hide the false sentiment. It\u2019s a compelling idea that nonetheless is the weakest of the vault tracks, ambling and aimless in comparison to the songs that come after it.

By contrast, \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go,\u201d the best new addition to the record, shimmers with tension. Where much of 1989 wears its \u201980s influence loosely, if at all, the patient verses of \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go\u201d seem like a shot at the glowing slow builds of Phil Collins, to whom Swift would pay tribute a few years later with an exceptional \u201cCan\u2019t Stop Loving You\u201d cover. Its booming chorus is like her take on the grand, percussive hooks of her friends in Haim, but the lyrics bridge the gap between 1989 and Red, almost vicious in their angst.

\u201cSay Don\u2019t Go\u201d is the only vault track written with an industry stalwart: Diane Warren, who penned a swath of megahits through the \u201980s and \u201990s. The rest were written with Jack Antonoff, whose rise to pop music ubiquity largely began with these songs. (Max Martin and Shellback, who co-wrote and produced most of the record, are absent, and their tracks on the main album were recreated with Christopher Rowe, Swift\u2019s main re-recording partner.) Many of the new songs could slot easily onto Midnights, the pair\u2019s first album-length collaboration. I don\u2019t doubt that chunks of these songs, whether large or small, date back to the original 1989 sessions\u2014\u201cIs It Over Now,\u201d in particular, feels mostly shorn from the same cloth, as does \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go\u201d\u2014but it feels as if many of them were fragments that were built out at a much later date. Swift\u2019s style has changed dramatically in the past nine years; melodically and rhythmically, these tracks don\u2019t wholly match the original 1989.

Not that it really matters. Although the vault tracks extend 1989\u2019s runtime to about 81 minutes, they also make the record\u2019s cloying moments seem more palatable. The fresh-start optimism of \u201cWelcome to New York\u201d is more believable when set in relief against wearier breakup tracks; \u201cI Know Places,\u201d a boilerplate on-the-run-from-the-media narrative, plays like a flipside to the defeatist \u201c\u2018Slut!\u2019\u201d. These songs aren\u2019t technically better now, but they\u2019re certainly easier to understand. Not everything can be saved by this added context: Nearly 10 years later, \u201cBad Blood\u201d sounds more basic, bratty, and boring than ever. And while I have a soft spot for the peppy, doe-eyed \u201cHow You Get the Girl,\u201d I suspect that no amount of time will mellow its HFCS-level sweetness. (Aside from the slightest tweaks in vocal delivery or processing, the 1989 recreations are the closest to their source material yet.)

No new wrinkles are necessary to appreciate the record\u2019s immaculate highs: the tug-of-war between yearning and anthemic on \u201cI Wish You Would\u201d; \u201cStyle\u201d\u2019s Miami Vice strut; the Tumblr-teen euphoria of \u201cNew Romantics.\u201d It\u2019s easy to class 1989 as an artistically lesser entry in Swift\u2019s catalog, however counterintuitive to its success, but these songs are wildly durable. 1989 (Taylor\u2019s Version) isn\u2019t plastered with a debutante smile like its predecessor\u2014but it certainly hasn\u2019t lost its luster.

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