Taylor Swift has announced the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version). Here’s what we know
Your ears will soon be treated to Taylor Swift’s reissue of her 1989 album. On August 1, the multifaceted musician made a statement. 9 that her “1989” album, which was initially released in October 2014, will be the next Taylor’s Version re-recording. The show took place at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
At 11:09 p.m. PT, during the performance of the surprise song, Swift told the crowd that the 1989 album would be re-released before starting to perform New Romantics. She pointed to the display behind her, which displayed the updated record’s cover art and announced its October release. 27. Swift’s official social media accounts shared the news a short while later.
The 1989 album profoundly altered my life, and I’m thrilled to announce that my cover of it will be released on October 27. Since the five songs from the Vault are so incredible, I have to say that this is my MOST FAVORITE re-record that I have ever made. I find it hard to believe they were ever abandoned. Although not for long!
Numerous new songs from the vault that weren’t included in the original versions of each of Swift’s classic albums have been added to the new versions.
On a purely commercial level, everyone can agree that it’s unprecedented. According to estimates, the Eras Tour will be the first to gross more than $1 billion in ticket sales (Elton John’s multi-year farewell tour currently holds the record with $939 million), and this $1B milestone is likely to be reached sometime in March when she is traveling through Asia. Mind you, if this prediction comes true, she will have accomplished it seven months before the tour concludes in Toronto in November 2024, assuming that the Canadian stop even serves as the official end of her time on the road.
The question of whether anyone has ever matched her commercial draw need not be given a moment of thought. The world hasn’t witnessed that in recent memory, and it is unlikely to happen again in the near future. When was the last time an artist sold out six nights at a stadium in Los Angeles, with such a high demand for resale tickets that she easily could have scheduled six more shows without meeting demand?
Justification for Taylor Swift’s album re-recordings.
Taylor Swift’s mission to fully own her music has seen her re-record and release each of her first six albums. The first six albums’ masters were purchased by Scooter Braun in 2019 from Big Machine Records, who then sold them to a private equity company. Swift publicly expressed her displeasure with the sale and declared she would record all the albums she originally produced with Big Machine again.
In a statement shared on social media in 2020, she said, “I have just started re-recording my older music, and it has already proven to be both exciting and creatively fulfilling. “I have a lot of surprises in store.
And she certainly delivered on those surprises: in addition to the “from the vault” tracks and new album art, she even produced music videos.
Which albums she has completed to date and which are still unfinished?
By designating each re-release as “Taylor’s Version,” she has been succeeding in doing just that. She has thus far been let go of:
Invincible (Taylor’s Version) (2021).
Taylor Swift Version of Red (2021).
Taylor’s Version of Speak Now (2023).
After 1989, Taylor Swift’s 2006 debut album and her 2017 album “Reputation” will be the only reissues that are still available.
How fans were aware that 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was coming up.
Early in July 2023, fans learned that 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was forthcoming. She debuted a music video for one of the new songs, I Can See You, not long after releasing Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). In the final moments of the video, she can be seen driving off with actors Taylor Lautner and Joey King while crossing a bridge with a sign reading 1989TV atop it.
Swift’s July 7 Instagram post, which showed her “belated Independence Day” party at her Rhode Island beach house, also led some Easter egg-hunting Swift fans to believe that it might have been a 1989 re-release.
Taylor Swift shared a series of Polaroid photos in the post in which she posed alongside Selena Gomez, the Haim sisters, and other friends. Swift fans immediately brought up the fact that a Polaroid photo of Swift appears on the album cover of the original 1989 album. Her “1989” era was also characterized by the annual July Fourth parties she hosted at her vacation home.
Taylor Swift’s Taylor Nation account reposted one of her Fourth of July photos on July 28, showing the singer posing in a blue dress in front of the ocean. The cryptic caption, “The air is getting pretty salty,” sent fans into a frenzy.
As the Aug. 1 race approached, fans became more and more energized. Swift gave more hints during the November 9 concert, most notably by replacing four of her previous tour outfits with blue ones.
It’s difficult to ignore the message that two entertainments that just so happened to both include mentions of the word “patriarchy” as an ironic joke, while being utterly friendly and welcoming of men as much as anybody, became the stuff of billion-dollar headlines in a summer that also saw the success of “Barbie.”. It doesn’t happen every ten years, so here’s to $1 billion franchises that we can be proud of, enjoy as cathartic or even therapeutic experiences, or simply enjoy for pure joy. It’s comparable to the rarity of a pop star who still has a lifetime of eras ahead of her but who some generations can think of as their own Beatles.
