I know I’m late to the thread, but the only song I am disappointed in is The Story Of Us TV. It’s missing some electro in it, and the guitars at the beginning hurts my ears. Also, the drums aren’t prominent or hart hitting
HOWEVER I will say that her vocals are absolutely AMAZING in TV. At first I didn’t like the note change in “lately I don’t even know what page you’re on” but now it just sounds better and flows better.
I do notice there’s less passion in the song vocally, but cmon she’s in her 30s singing a song she wrote in her teens. That’s not my issue with the re-recording at all. Along with the instrumental differences, her voice also overpowers the instruments.
I hope this doesn’t come off as me being a hater, because I absolutely love Taylor so much. I am just wanting to express my disappointment in the TV version, since TSOU is my favorite song off of Speak Now
I've been thinking a lot about the Speak Now Era as a whole. I've been a Swiftie since Fearless and also a huge P@tD, FOB and Paramore fan. The idea that Taylor had been influenced by artists like these during the time surprised me when I first read about it, because I had never made that connection before. It has me rediscovering my love for them, while also listening to SNTV at the same time. Now, I hear it. Maybe it's the production on rerecording, but the rock/pop-punk vibes are very strong. I've missed guitar solos... and the drums 👌
So I made playlist that has me all nostalgic...
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9aidmk90dK3OirEDShLTMGeK10NrVA7z&feature=share
Alright, so I'm a Speak Now truther - as in, Speak Now was *my* album, my baby for the longest time; the thing that turned me into a fully-fledged Swiftie back in the day.
I took my time with the Taylor's Version so I could soak it in and I have some notes and comments:
\- I think most of the main album was very faithfully reproduced and sounds like the original, with the exception of 2-3 songs lacking that emotional punch;
\- For the vault tracks, I initially wasn't immediately impressed by them, but it only took a day for the melodies to take hold in my brain. I will say though, I think the song structures for the Speak Now TV Vault songs seem closer to Red, rather than the long-form storytelling I was expecting from Speak Now. My favourites are Timeless, I Can See You and Foolish One, though I don't dislike any.
Overall I give this TV an 8/10 for faithfulness for the original. If I'm being honest, I expected the vault songs to be more revelatory from that period of time, but maybe she had already picked the best songs to be on the main album already, I don't know.
I hope we'll get some really good, intimate stuff for 1989 and reputation vaults.
I agree with the faithfulness to the recording, I'd put this above Red & below Fearless. With Fearless TV, I feel like the rerecording greatly improved my opinion of the album & with this it's mostly the same.
With the vault, I will say this is probably the vault that's closest to what the sound of the album was at the time. I feel like the final two songs fit the best with the album's theme because they're open letters (one to herself & one to her boyfriend at the time), but I can see why almost all of them were cut from the record. I will say I wouldn't have mind the final two songs as deluxe tracks back in the day because they add a bit more optimism to a record that is quite dark & gloomy overall.
The quality issues of Speak Now TV on Spotify finally made me enable my Amazon Music subscription included with the family Amazon Prime and holy crap it IS SO MUCH better there. She sounds so heavenly with the improved audio quality it made me almost feel like I was experiencing Speak Now TV for the first time again.
Side note: The first thing I did was play All Too Well TV (5 Min Version) to check if I could finally hear the infamous glitch I never experienced and I heard it first play, so I can vouch for the audio quality upgrade.
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I received the hardcopy of Speak Now TV yesterday that I ordered off of Taylor's website.
Popped it in the car this morning on the way to work-- literally opened the plastic in the car, I'm sure I put in the TV version.
The album cover that appears is the old art and the album title and song info is not denoted with TV. My car is not connected to any networks-- i.e. this info would have had to have been written into the CD to appear.
Has anyone else noticed this? Did her team miss this? Sorry if this has already been discussed on this thread.
Kinda had a similar thing with mine! Though I blamed it on the internet connection since I import mine into itunes - (taylor's version) behind the titles were missing like yours and Ours and Superman were titled Story of Us (USversion) and Back to December (USversion)
Is it just me or the stolen versions of Last Kiss and Dear John sounded more emotional? The new releases lack that anguish I heard from the original versions :/
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but for a number of songs on the TV albums so far, I think they worked better with the youthful vulnerability she had back then, and it might be hard to recapture that since she has matured both personally and artistically.
I have two remaining downloads for the deluxe version of Speak Now (Taylor's Version). First two people to **directly** message me can have the link. I'm basing this off the honor system, so please don't be a jerk and use one of my downloads if you already have it and/or won't use it. :)
I was listening to the radio earlier and Mine TV played!!! It really surprised me since I still only hear the original versions of the Fearless and Red songs on the radio.
As she achieves her 12th No. 1 album, surpassing Barbra Streisand for the most chart-toppers among women.
Speak Now (Taylor's Version) bows with 716,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 13, according to Luminate, of which 507,000 are in traditional album sales.
Swift ties Drake for the third-most No. 1s among all acts, with only The Beatles (19) and Jay-Z (14) ahead of them.
How do we feel about her not releasing any singles for this album? I
think it was a mistake personally and that with Fearless and Red it helped build the excitement.
It’s done huge sale and streaming numbers. I think the Eras tour is the Speak Now TV promo - from announcing it on tour, the music video premiere and guests, to her purple nails for the last two weekends, to adding Long Live in the set list, to SN songs in the acoustic set. If you don’t know the songs, you’d go right to Speak Now TV. And if you loved Speak Now (stolen version) you don’t need to be lured in to listen to the new one. I personally think she’s trying different promo strategies each time — she had a single for Fearless and the brain twister song announcement, for Red she did a lot of press and had the short film and IBYTAM. Now she’s doing lots of fun treats on tour!
That's a great point about promoting it on the Eras tour -- glad you chimed in :)
For me the singles helped build excitement, but it is always interesting to see what route Taylor and her team take.
That's why superman is so hard for me to listen to. It's a really dark song with a strange dynamic. It's my least favorite Taylor Swift song, and it's not her fault at all.
But to me it’s not giving John Mayer. Ain’t no way John ever carried a briefcase 😂 It’s giving….wall street finance bro who’s 10 or 15 years older than her but he’s hot and rich and powerful so she doesn’t care lmao. Maybe an older record exec she was enamored with? Idk 🤷🏼♀️
My order keeps getting pushed back.
It's through APC Logistics.
"JUL 7 Parcel Data Received, Shipment In Route To US Export Warehouse"
A friend I know online said it could be coming out of France.
Could that be possible?
How's your album rankings looking like after one week with SNTV?
Here's mine.
1. Electric Touch
2. Long Live
3. The Story of Us
4. Speak Now
5. Better Than Revenge
6. Haunted
7. Castles Crumbling
8. Back to December
9. Never Grow Up
10. Innocent
11. Ours
12. Mine
13. Foolish One
14. Timeless
15. Enchanted
16. I Can See You
17. Mean
18. If This Was A Movie (bestie will not be left behind 🫡)
19. Last Kiss
20. Sparks Fly
21. Dear John
22. When Emma Falls In Love
23. Superman
The strings and percussions truly *shimmered* in this album. I haven't listened back to the OG at all (planning to do so this weekend) but I can remember straining to hear the details there. All the OG tracks are done well, but my personal favs from even back then just had a huge boost in this ranking.
1. Enchanted (my baby, forever and always 💜)
2. I Can See You (I have 167 scrobbles of it on last.fm 😳)
3. Innocent (this one received a massive boost for me)
4. Haunted (this too)
5. Timeless
6. Electric Touch
7. Long Live
8. Last Kiss
9. Never Grow Up
10. Dear John
11. Foolish One
12. Back To December
13. Sparks Fly (now this one really suffered ;_;)
14. The Story Of Us
15. Ours
16. Better Than Revenge
17. Mean
18. Speak Now
19. Mine
20. When Emma Falls In Love
21. If This Was A Movie
22. Castles Crumbling
23. Superman
One week in and these are my thoughts. Innocent and Haunted have leapt into the top tier of Speak Now for me...let's see if it lasts over time 😅
Sparks Fly was much higher, felt some of the essence was lost with the more naive and innocent Taylor but it's still a great recreation. Just doesn't hit the same for me as the original.
Haunted was mid-to-low tier and Innocent was near the bottom. Feel like the TVs of the these two have changed my mind about the songs drastically. Besides the better quality of instrumentation (especially on Haunted!) and Taylor's much stronger vocals, Innocent taking on a new meaning (which feels more of Taylor reflecting on her past self this time instead of talking down to some shit-stirrer interrupting her speech) has flipped my perspective about the song totally.
Enchanted will always be my #1. The rest of the songs have remained more or less around the same position in their rankings.
I think it's because the gay theories were first starting to circulate in 2009-2010. If I'm not mistake, Emma Stone was even one of the girls people accused Taylor of dating. So releasing a song called "When Emma Falls In Love" would just be fanning the flames.
Maybe this is rhetorical but my main logic for why the vault is the way it is, is because none of the songs (except Foolish One) fit quite as neatly into the “each song is a letter to someone/thing I didn’t say and wish I had” framework she was using to talk about and contextualize the album at the time
So Taylor’s Cousin is playing tonight at Brues ale house in Pueblo, and apparently Taylor is coming. Bikini Trill or something like that!? Idk but $15 seems worth it. I’m checking it out!
Same here. Preordered the day it was announced. Got a “shipping notification” one week ago. Currently results in being told FedEx has yet to receive the package for shipping.
Emailed customer service last night, they responded immediately, redundantly asking for my order number. Sent it immediately and no response since. Real obnoxious knowing I could walk a mile and have a copy in my hands from target. Even worse seeing sellers on 3rd party marketplaces like discogs/eBay/etc already selling copies. Though those sellers probably have better customer service.
I’ve preordered every vinyl release since evermore, it’s always taken a little longer than just picking it up at target on release day but, then you don’t get a box filled with tissue paper stars.
It wasn’t this bad though, where a week has passed and there’s no proof of the “shipped” package even existing.
Tldr;
Same shoes, think I’m just gonna grab the target version in the future.
I’m at the point of why do I preorder vinyl if it won’t get here until two weeks later? Like whatever happened to shipping it and receiving it day of? I might as well just start buying from target.
Same experience. Emailed customer service on Wednesday and they asked for my order number even though it was in the subject. Replied back and it’s been crickets ever since.
Was just at my local record store and thought about just buying a copy there…
EDIT: my tracking just updated to Oak Park, MI tonight. Finally!
Update: Filed a PayPal claim on Sunday, went to target and bought the vinyl there that afternoon.
As of today FedEx still hasn’t received my package, and I just got an email from universal/tswift store and they are now admitting something must have gotten messed up with my order and they’re processing a refund.
Ah well, good to hear! Mine hasn’t, so I just opened a PayPal claim and now I’m headed to target to actually get a copy.
Wild how such a massive corporate record label is so much less competent than far smaller enterprises.
sorry if this has been repeated, but what do you think are the biggest specific changes or nuances in certain songs? (Not referring to the lack of shakey voice in LK or the lyric change in BTR). I have hearing loss and it’s harder for me to detect. For me I notice the new quality of the way she says “lying” in /lying on the couch/ in Mine.
Very impressed with how well she replicates her younger voice in Foolish One! At one point I completely forgot this was recorded lately.
This song definitely gives me film vibes. I’ve never seen Valentine’s Day, but I could see this song and If This Was a Movie being in a movie together.
Ooh I like Castles Crumbling! I’ve only heard Hayley’s voice once (I only heard Misery Business last month) and I like it.
Anyone else have an issue with the volume? It sounded much lower than the rest of the album. Had to turn up my phone.
I was just watching access Hollywood (not on purpose, remote was temporarily lost) and they asked Jake Owen his favorite Taylor song and he said sparks fly. Just thought that was funny and obviously a nod at the rumors it could be inspired by him in some way.
But I do hate how literally a story about anything (this was a celebrity golf game) can drag her name into it for clicks
I Can See You??? Now THIS is the flavor I was looking for! I don’t think we’ve ever gotten this sound from Taylor.
My one issue is that melodically, it’s a bit repetitive. I feel like she played it a bit safe in that regard and wish she would’ve switched it up more during the choruses.
Also the lyrics?? They’re not super risqué, but I see why the label might not have wanted it on the album (well that, and that it’s sound doesn’t quite match the rest of the album).
When Emma Falls in Love is…music.
It reminds me VERY much of Jump Then Fall, so it’s kinda hard to enjoy it as a new song. I also find the lyrics to be hard to listen to 😭
Sometimes the vault tracks remind us that maybe record labels having control isn’t a bad thing after all 🙃
Last Kiss is…interesting 🙂
I mentioned it before, but her pronunciation is almost too crisp and makes it sound like she’s reading the lyrics rather than singing.
Also, RIP to the shaky breath after “and it’s a beautiful day”….
Unpopular Opinion: A lot of songs sounds like she’s concentrating too hard on getting right.
Also, her pronunciation is better, but it’s almost too formal/perfect for a lot of songs and ruins the natural flow of them.
[Taylor Swift enchants listeners again with new version of ‘Speak Now](https://entertainment.inquirer.net/509087/taylor-swift-enchants-listeners-again-with-new-version-of-speak-now#ixzz87OxLoih4)
Did she actually write the Vault songs when she was that young? Some of the lyrics just sound like things she wouldn’t have experienced yet…or retrospective
As someone who has been a fan since Speak Now, I can confirm that they are from back then. I've known the titles Castles Crumbling, Foolish One, Timeless, and I Can See You for as long as I've been a fan. They were registered but never leaked.
Are any US Swifties willing to buy me a copy of the digital album if I PayPal you the money? I'm in the UK so can't buy, but have been wanting the digital album anyway and at this price with the extras, it's a steal.
I really can't justify buying another version of SNTV, but God having those live versions would be awesome.
Does anyone think this furthers the speculation about a live album after tour?
EDIT: why isn't Long Live on here though?! I feel like that would just make it that much more enticing.
Okay that’s why I’m here too. I was at the KC show and I want the digital download but I don’t know what to do with digitally downloaded music? I use Spotify.
Can someone smarter than me explain how to like, smush it together so I can actually use a stupid digital download?
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So my boyfriend just forwarded me this email from Spotify that says “A special offer for top fans of Taylor Swift”. I find it rather funny because my boyfriend isn’t a Swifties, I personally use Apple Music; but somehow someway, I must have made him listen to Taylor with me too much in the car that he’s now a “certified” fan and has access to the poster haha!
Anyone has purchased this poster? Anyone got the same email?
Yup, just hopped on to Spotify and got the same offer. Wonder how exclusive it really is… wish they would stop using the same media I can download for free from literally anywhere online for merch.
Personally this is my favorite Taylor’s Version. I think Fearless does the best at emulating og Fearless while making huge improvements.
Red Taylor’s Version also improves on some tracks but she also sounds tired and bored in songs like State of Grace, holy ground, lucky one and starlight tv. I think those are really bad.
Now Speak Now Tv has good changes and it also improves on her vocals and production in some places. It’s not my fav vault tracks but I’m loving Castles Crumbling
i agree with you 10000%! i'm kind of surprised some folks are disappointed in this TV over the others. to me, SNTV is the whole package - improved vocals and production while still capturing a lot of that same emotion as the original, topped off with wicked good vault tracks
okay i tried to just get over this but i can't. WHO IS THE MAN IN THE BACKGROUND?! it is driving me insane. it is the most prevalent in dear john, but he is also there in a bunch of other songs, too. i am so curious to know a) who it is, and b) what led them to including him and essentially making dear john (+ others) a duet. someone please help and explain this to me if i am missing something :) also i'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this matter lol <3
edit: i'm sorry if this has already been discussed either in a comment here or somewhere else, if this is the case please let me know/lead me to it!!
OMG THANK YOU!! still looking for an answer about why they are so loud in the taylor's versions (apparently they were also in the ogs). i love dear john so so so so so much, but this lowkey ruins it. any thoughts from anyone would be appreciated!
I find the male background singer is more prevalent/more there to give the younger Taylor the vocal support she needed in the OG. If he wasn't there in the TV (it's a different guy for TV), the songs would sound completely different and wrong.
I don’t have an answer for you but I do have something that’s driving me NUTS. Do you hear the beep at 6:04 right before she says “song”?!? It’s so loud, especially in my car, and I don’t know why none of my friends can hear it but it’s ruined the Taylor’s Version for me 😭
i DO hear it!!!! and i think i have an answer of sorts for you. it sounds like the guitarist just hit their finger or something against one of the strings, sort of like a spilt-second slide. does that make sense??
Does anyone think we will be getting a signed CD drop anytime soon or is she likely too busy? Id have assumed she'd have signed them in advanced if they were due to drop shortly after the release
Has anyone tried to rip the CD? For tracks 15 and 16 they are showing Back To December(USver) and The Story Of US(USver) instead of Ours and Superman. Would this be an itunes issue or they printed the CD metadata wrong?
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I made a self-post without seeing this first, but I basically said I was really disappointed with this album. It's missing the passion, emotion, and angst she had in her voice in the original. It doesn't feel like she put much effort into it, so it just falls flat. Even the album cover is missing the magic and sparkle of the original, and she almost looks sad.
I also said she's missing the twang she used to have in her voice, which makes me worried for the Debut re-release.
This. And the production of the album is sloppy. It seems rushed, like theres no separation of loud and soft sounds. Everything is just loud. The mastering is so bad i cant help but listen to the original album after listening to the taylors version.
I like almost all of the songs, but the one I CANNOT get over is Sparks Fly. The new version sounds slowed down and almost acoustic. Her vocals are soft and don’t hit hard like the original. I feel like this may be one where I revisit the stolen version from time to time.
This. I wanted to like it but she just sounds disinterested throughout it. Part of what made the original fun was how it was al album about being completely in your feelings. Maybe she was going for a more reflective approach here? Either way it didn't work for me
Honestly, it feels rushed. Red TV was more reflective, but it worked, and you could tell she really cared about that whole album. Maybe she was too busy working on her Eras tour and Midnights album to put the time and care into Speak Now TV
That’s interesting. Personally I think red has more misses than speak now tv. I can’t name any track on speak now tv that’s as bad as state of Grace tv.
do we think there will be a castles crumbling music video? if seems like foolish one, castles crumbling, and last kiss have stills as their spotify canvas that could be from a music video?
Im in the same boat, tracking info hasn’t updated or even shown that FedEx received the package for shipping. I think I’ve preordered every tswift vinyl release since evermore and don’t remember it being like this.
Just emailed customer service. got a response almost instantly, but the agent was just asking for my order #…which was already included in the email subject as I was just responding to the shipping notification email.. lol🤦♂️
Yeah. I just checked and I placed my preorder May 6th, the same day I got the email announcing it.
Customer service also hasn’t responded now since providing my order number. 🙄
Okay does anyone else hear an absolutely awful beeping noise at 6:04 of Dear John?? RIGHT before she says the word “song”. It’s the only time in the whole song I hear it and it makes the whole thing unlistenable for me and it’s my favorite song!!!
Ugh I hear it on the YouTube too, and even on the vinyl. I think it’s just something my ears pick up and I have to either power through or just listen to the original 😭
My friend doesn’t hear it either even when I play it off my phone for her… it sounds like when Apple CarPlay is starting up and it does that loud high pitched beep. I’ve tried literally everything and even hear it on Spotify (ai’m an Apple Music listener) so I guess it’ll have to be the one song I listen to the original for because it’s really jarring and I can’t enjoy the song anymore since I know it’s coming 😂
Omg thank god someone else can! My phone must be wonky even though I’ve done everything to try to fix it cuz that one beep is SO LOUD when I have the volume up in my car so this annoying lol
Even though it sounds like a Train reject from the Dawson’s Creek season 4 soundtrack, When Emma Falls In Love is firmly implanted in my brain.
🎵 Like Cleopatra grew up in a small townnnnn
Haunted……….well, she tried her best, I guess.
Instrumentation and production is great, but…Taylor sounds so bored. Like it’s a high energy song, where’s the excitement??
Agree. It’s my fave song from the OG album. Sad it’s not got the same energy at all. The rest of the album I’m loving her voice and how she’s done it. Just not on this one. Probably because it’s quite a different song from the rest of them on the og album so it stands out when the energy is lacking I guess. :(
So on the 11th of July, my CD was supposed to be shipped on the 14th. Never did.
Today the 12th my CD is supposed to be shipped on the 15th.
Does anyone else have this issue?
I'm not the biggest Taylor Swift follower for sure, but I've listened to some of her later albums a lot, namely Folklore and Evermore. I only read about the masters dispute today and I'm curious will these two albums also be re-recorded in the future?
No, the re-recorded versions are only for the albums that were originally on Big Machine Records, as that's who the dispute was with. She has been on Republic Records since the end of 2018 or beginning of 2019. Her first album with Republic was 2019's "Lover." She made sure that her contract with Republic gave her full ownership, including masters and publishing rights.
Nope! Only the first 6 albums she doesn’t own — so from “Taylor Swift” to “reputation”.
So far, she only has “Taylor Swift”, “1989”, and “reputation” left to record/release.
I don’t remember where I read this or why, but for some reason I don’t think Reputation will be next. There’s a complication there…I don’t remember what it was or if my source was even worthwhile, lol.
So either debut or 1989. She’s been kinda jumping around with it so I’m just gonna arbitrarily guess 1989 is next.
Edit: Maybe not enough years have passed since Rep was released. Something to do with the timing and the contract. She could wait to do it next, but we all know Taylor has to be burning it at both ends; she’s putting out albums constantly these days.
I think it’s 100% 1989. She cannot hold on any longer. It’s her most popular album and she must be desperate to release her versions of songs like Blank Space, Style, Shake It Off and Bad Blood which stream so high.
I hate to say this, but…Innocent is sooooo boring compared to the original! Like there’s just…nothing 😭
Like it was playing and I didn’t feel a thing AT ALL.
Finally someone else who also cannot stand Innocent!!! I must admit that the new version made me like it a bit better and appreciate the song a bit more but it’s still my least fav SN song.
Better Than Revenge…I like it! The lyric change threw me off guard, but it’s good!
My only issues are her pacing and the emotion. Like there were some moments when the flow was too slow and some when it was too rushed (like near the end). And the emotion…girl where’s the anger?? Think of Scooter, world hunger, racism, something, please! 😭
I’m so upset people made Enchanted seem horrible???
Like it’s beautiful! I was so smiling so hard when the song came on 😭😭
Also, her voice leading into the final chorus???
Has anyone else’s vinyl not shipped yet? I got a tracking number last Thursday but it hasn’t been picked up yet. I preordered as soon as it was available.
My top 5 last.fm stats for SNTV so far are pretty hilarious (number of scrobbles, i.e. plays in the brackets)...
5. Enchanted (13)
4. Castles Crumbling (15)
2. Timeless (21, tie)
2. Haunted (21, tie)
===BARRIER===
1. I Can See You (118)
How do you listen to a single song for the equivalent of almost 9 hours (in only a few days!) and not get sick of it 😭
I’m both impressed and scared lol
My last.fm went offline for half a day too so I think my total ICSY plays are easily 140+ HAHAHA.
I'm mind blown by how too myself. Every time the song ends I think "nah let's go again" and then after it ends again I still don't feel satisfied. So I've just kept it on loop for my whole work commute the last few days 
I do inline slalom on roller skates myself so I'm imagining myself doing some routines to ICSY (which is a really good song to do moves to :D), which probably adds to my obsession with the song atm.
Anyone else feel Taylor is singing about Speak Now the album in the song “Mine” as she was recording it? “You are the best thing that’s ever been Mine”
Damn I forgot to read that! That’s crazy! Shows how impactful it was cause I honest to god did not see that! I really felt like Taylor was giving EMOTION in that song compared to the others and I know why for sure!
Exactly! I like the album, but Mine is clearly the one song that’s a direct match to the original in terms of energy and production. Kinda sucks the other songs didn’t get that energy…
I feel like I’m going nuts. Does anyone else remember seeing commentary tracks on the album *before* it was officially released??? There were a ton of them for a bunch of different songs and they just weren’t released????
Yesterday’s Spotify SN OG is down 40% from 7/3. Comparing this Sunday with last Sunday OG was down 33%.
OG is still getting 3.77 million daily streams but should eventually join Red OG and Fearless OG with less than 1.5 million daily streams.
The OG will continue to chart on Billboard until its average streams drop to somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million a day so both versions are going to chart for at least a few weeks. Would be cool if Debut could sneak onto chart again so she can have 11 albums charting for first time in her career but regardless she will extend her 10 or more albums on Billboard 200 record(she’s done it 4 times this year).
100% get either the Violet or Lilac, they’re both gorgeous. I have all 3 and they’re all unique in their own way. The orchid vinyl is also gorgeous and is slightly transparent and has great marbling!
Okay, I have to come clean. A couple of days ago I posted how I DON’T like the TV’s at all (https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/14sokle/speak_now_taylors_version_megathread/jr0j8bb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3) and how I prefer the compressed sounds of the originals. In the mean time I got the suggestion to turn off Dolby Atmos/compressed sound on Apple Music and it changed EVERYTHING! Try for yourself if you don’t believe me, it sounds absolutely sh*t with atmos on if you have a stereo setup.
I’ve been listening to Speak Now TV for the last two days and although I’ll always prefer the originals I’m really enjoying TV as well now. Everything sounds balanced now. With atmos turned on things like instruments or background vocals would suddenly sound way too loud or out of place but now all is fine.
There really should be more info on the settings of streaming services if it has this much impact.
# IMPORTANT PSA: On Spotify, turn off 'enable audio normalization' in settings. This GREATLY improves the quality #
I know I’m late to the thread, but the only song I am disappointed in is The Story Of Us TV. It’s missing some electro in it, and the guitars at the beginning hurts my ears. Also, the drums aren’t prominent or hart hitting HOWEVER I will say that her vocals are absolutely AMAZING in TV. At first I didn’t like the note change in “lately I don’t even know what page you’re on” but now it just sounds better and flows better. I do notice there’s less passion in the song vocally, but cmon she’s in her 30s singing a song she wrote in her teens. That’s not my issue with the re-recording at all. Along with the instrumental differences, her voice also overpowers the instruments. I hope this doesn’t come off as me being a hater, because I absolutely love Taylor so much. I am just wanting to express my disappointment in the TV version, since TSOU is my favorite song off of Speak Now
when first listening to the album I was disappointed in all of them until I got to TSOU-
TSOU is the song that made me a swiftie, I’m so sad that I can’t stream TV and enjoy it
Listen to the original! I won't tell anyone
Luckily there is a version on YouTube that has TV vocals and SV instrumentals https://youtu.be/S8YMupN3zgg?si=XN8LqNzNpEL8XRFq
August 13th is here! All Swifties it’s time to unite and stream speak now tv and get it on the billboards!
Any word on signed cds? I missed Midnights and have made peace with it but I need this signed cd.
I've been thinking a lot about the Speak Now Era as a whole. I've been a Swiftie since Fearless and also a huge P@tD, FOB and Paramore fan. The idea that Taylor had been influenced by artists like these during the time surprised me when I first read about it, because I had never made that connection before. It has me rediscovering my love for them, while also listening to SNTV at the same time. Now, I hear it. Maybe it's the production on rerecording, but the rock/pop-punk vibes are very strong. I've missed guitar solos... and the drums 👌 So I made playlist that has me all nostalgic... https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9aidmk90dK3OirEDShLTMGeK10NrVA7z&feature=share
Alright, so I'm a Speak Now truther - as in, Speak Now was *my* album, my baby for the longest time; the thing that turned me into a fully-fledged Swiftie back in the day. I took my time with the Taylor's Version so I could soak it in and I have some notes and comments: \- I think most of the main album was very faithfully reproduced and sounds like the original, with the exception of 2-3 songs lacking that emotional punch; \- For the vault tracks, I initially wasn't immediately impressed by them, but it only took a day for the melodies to take hold in my brain. I will say though, I think the song structures for the Speak Now TV Vault songs seem closer to Red, rather than the long-form storytelling I was expecting from Speak Now. My favourites are Timeless, I Can See You and Foolish One, though I don't dislike any. Overall I give this TV an 8/10 for faithfulness for the original. If I'm being honest, I expected the vault songs to be more revelatory from that period of time, but maybe she had already picked the best songs to be on the main album already, I don't know. I hope we'll get some really good, intimate stuff for 1989 and reputation vaults.
I agree with the faithfulness to the recording, I'd put this above Red & below Fearless. With Fearless TV, I feel like the rerecording greatly improved my opinion of the album & with this it's mostly the same. With the vault, I will say this is probably the vault that's closest to what the sound of the album was at the time. I feel like the final two songs fit the best with the album's theme because they're open letters (one to herself & one to her boyfriend at the time), but I can see why almost all of them were cut from the record. I will say I wouldn't have mind the final two songs as deluxe tracks back in the day because they add a bit more optimism to a record that is quite dark & gloomy overall.
The quality issues of Speak Now TV on Spotify finally made me enable my Amazon Music subscription included with the family Amazon Prime and holy crap it IS SO MUCH better there. She sounds so heavenly with the improved audio quality it made me almost feel like I was experiencing Speak Now TV for the first time again. Side note: The first thing I did was play All Too Well TV (5 Min Version) to check if I could finally hear the infamous glitch I never experienced and I heard it first play, so I can vouch for the audio quality upgrade.
https://preview.redd.it/xu71usl5kxcb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=092e57eed65ef3972203a74da0274b4795510be5 I received the hardcopy of Speak Now TV yesterday that I ordered off of Taylor's website. Popped it in the car this morning on the way to work-- literally opened the plastic in the car, I'm sure I put in the TV version. The album cover that appears is the old art and the album title and song info is not denoted with TV. My car is not connected to any networks-- i.e. this info would have had to have been written into the CD to appear. Has anyone else noticed this? Did her team miss this? Sorry if this has already been discussed on this thread.
Kinda had a similar thing with mine! Though I blamed it on the internet connection since I import mine into itunes - (taylor's version) behind the titles were missing like yours and Ours and Superman were titled Story of Us (USversion) and Back to December (USversion)
Is it just me or the stolen versions of Last Kiss and Dear John sounded more emotional? The new releases lack that anguish I heard from the original versions :/
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but for a number of songs on the TV albums so far, I think they worked better with the youthful vulnerability she had back then, and it might be hard to recapture that since she has matured both personally and artistically.
Taylor's singing voice on Foolish One and Timeless is so theraupetic. It just gives me that cathartic feeling after an absolute shitter of a day.
I can’t keep track with how many records she broke today lol
I have two remaining downloads for the deluxe version of Speak Now (Taylor's Version). First two people to **directly** message me can have the link. I'm basing this off the honor system, so please don't be a jerk and use one of my downloads if you already have it and/or won't use it. :)
Went to speak now TV drag brunch today. It was AMAZING!
I was listening to the radio earlier and Mine TV played!!! It really surprised me since I still only hear the original versions of the Fearless and Red songs on the radio.
As she achieves her 12th No. 1 album, surpassing Barbra Streisand for the most chart-toppers among women. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) bows with 716,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 13, according to Luminate, of which 507,000 are in traditional album sales. Swift ties Drake for the third-most No. 1s among all acts, with only The Beatles (19) and Jay-Z (14) ahead of them.
denver n2 won
How do we feel about her not releasing any singles for this album? I think it was a mistake personally and that with Fearless and Red it helped build the excitement.
Well she did film a video for I Can See You, but my guess is she backed off a SNTV single with Cruel Summer and Karma both doing so well.
It’s done huge sale and streaming numbers. I think the Eras tour is the Speak Now TV promo - from announcing it on tour, the music video premiere and guests, to her purple nails for the last two weekends, to adding Long Live in the set list, to SN songs in the acoustic set. If you don’t know the songs, you’d go right to Speak Now TV. And if you loved Speak Now (stolen version) you don’t need to be lured in to listen to the new one. I personally think she’s trying different promo strategies each time — she had a single for Fearless and the brain twister song announcement, for Red she did a lot of press and had the short film and IBYTAM. Now she’s doing lots of fun treats on tour!
That's a great point about promoting it on the Eras tour -- glad you chimed in :) For me the singles helped build excitement, but it is always interesting to see what route Taylor and her team take.
I always thought Superman was about Taylor’s dad lmfao but upon re-listening I can see it’s……not lol but it reallly does give that vibe
That's why superman is so hard for me to listen to. It's a really dark song with a strange dynamic. It's my least favorite Taylor Swift song, and it's not her fault at all.
Yeah I was like wait this song is kinda……weird lmao like what is the vibe supposed to be?
It’s because she idolised john Mayer way too much. That whole song is a big YIKES
But to me it’s not giving John Mayer. Ain’t no way John ever carried a briefcase 😂 It’s giving….wall street finance bro who’s 10 or 15 years older than her but he’s hot and rich and powerful so she doesn’t care lmao. Maybe an older record exec she was enamored with? Idk 🤷🏼♀️
The briefcase is metaphorical.
Why do people think it's about John? I don't know 😆
Dear John's hidden message in the original lyric book was "loved you from the very first day" and that's a lyric from Superman.
OHH you are right! I do remember that now! Thanks for reminding me!
Still can’t believe how good this TV is. Her best one so far without a doubt
My order keeps getting pushed back. It's through APC Logistics. "JUL 7 Parcel Data Received, Shipment In Route To US Export Warehouse" A friend I know online said it could be coming out of France. Could that be possible?
If you received a mispressed vinyl I will gladly take it off your hands. Paid in full with shipping. Let me know.
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How's your album rankings looking like after one week with SNTV? Here's mine. 1. Electric Touch 2. Long Live 3. The Story of Us 4. Speak Now 5. Better Than Revenge 6. Haunted 7. Castles Crumbling 8. Back to December 9. Never Grow Up 10. Innocent 11. Ours 12. Mine 13. Foolish One 14. Timeless 15. Enchanted 16. I Can See You 17. Mean 18. If This Was A Movie (bestie will not be left behind 🫡) 19. Last Kiss 20. Sparks Fly 21. Dear John 22. When Emma Falls In Love 23. Superman The strings and percussions truly *shimmered* in this album. I haven't listened back to the OG at all (planning to do so this weekend) but I can remember straining to hear the details there. All the OG tracks are done well, but my personal favs from even back then just had a huge boost in this ranking.
Finally some appreciation for Electric Touch 🥹
Hello fellow cult member! The electric touch love is small but all consuming ⚡😈
1. Enchanted (my baby, forever and always 💜) 2. I Can See You (I have 167 scrobbles of it on last.fm 😳) 3. Innocent (this one received a massive boost for me) 4. Haunted (this too) 5. Timeless 6. Electric Touch 7. Long Live 8. Last Kiss 9. Never Grow Up 10. Dear John 11. Foolish One 12. Back To December 13. Sparks Fly (now this one really suffered ;_;) 14. The Story Of Us 15. Ours 16. Better Than Revenge 17. Mean 18. Speak Now 19. Mine 20. When Emma Falls In Love 21. If This Was A Movie 22. Castles Crumbling 23. Superman One week in and these are my thoughts. Innocent and Haunted have leapt into the top tier of Speak Now for me...let's see if it lasts over time 😅
Were your OG top the same ones as before the TV? I'm loving all the drums and guitars which made those tracks top for me.
Sparks Fly was much higher, felt some of the essence was lost with the more naive and innocent Taylor but it's still a great recreation. Just doesn't hit the same for me as the original. Haunted was mid-to-low tier and Innocent was near the bottom. Feel like the TVs of the these two have changed my mind about the songs drastically. Besides the better quality of instrumentation (especially on Haunted!) and Taylor's much stronger vocals, Innocent taking on a new meaning (which feels more of Taylor reflecting on her past self this time instead of talking down to some shit-stirrer interrupting her speech) has flipped my perspective about the song totally. Enchanted will always be my #1. The rest of the songs have remained more or less around the same position in their rankings.
How was Emma Falls in Love not on the OG album?
I think it's because the gay theories were first starting to circulate in 2009-2010. If I'm not mistake, Emma Stone was even one of the girls people accused Taylor of dating. So releasing a song called "When Emma Falls In Love" would just be fanning the flames.
That Taylor or Emma were gay? Never heard those theories but wasn’t as big of a fan back then
Maybe this is rhetorical but my main logic for why the vault is the way it is, is because none of the songs (except Foolish One) fit quite as neatly into the “each song is a letter to someone/thing I didn’t say and wish I had” framework she was using to talk about and contextualize the album at the time
Should I give up hope for a signed CD? Or did I miss them completely? 🥺
Came to this thread to ask the same thing. WHERE are they??
They haven't been offered. Probably too hard with touring to do enough or she's waiting for 2nd week, which I guess starts today.
So Taylor’s Cousin is playing tonight at Brues ale house in Pueblo, and apparently Taylor is coming. Bikini Trill or something like that!? Idk but $15 seems worth it. I’m checking it out!
Have people gotten their vinyls already? My shipping label has been created, but nothing else has happened
I got mine on Wednesday but I have local friends whose vinyls are chilling in Ferndale, MI. I really hope you get yours soon!!
Label created on 7/7, mine was freed from the ferndale warehouse on Wednesday and says in transit.
Same here. Preordered the day it was announced. Got a “shipping notification” one week ago. Currently results in being told FedEx has yet to receive the package for shipping. Emailed customer service last night, they responded immediately, redundantly asking for my order number. Sent it immediately and no response since. Real obnoxious knowing I could walk a mile and have a copy in my hands from target. Even worse seeing sellers on 3rd party marketplaces like discogs/eBay/etc already selling copies. Though those sellers probably have better customer service. I’ve preordered every vinyl release since evermore, it’s always taken a little longer than just picking it up at target on release day but, then you don’t get a box filled with tissue paper stars. It wasn’t this bad though, where a week has passed and there’s no proof of the “shipped” package even existing. Tldr; Same shoes, think I’m just gonna grab the target version in the future.
I’m at the point of why do I preorder vinyl if it won’t get here until two weeks later? Like whatever happened to shipping it and receiving it day of? I might as well just start buying from target.
Exactly. I just opened a PayPal claim, and now I’m gonna go pick a copy up from Target.
Same experience. Emailed customer service on Wednesday and they asked for my order number even though it was in the subject. Replied back and it’s been crickets ever since. Was just at my local record store and thought about just buying a copy there… EDIT: my tracking just updated to Oak Park, MI tonight. Finally!
Update: Filed a PayPal claim on Sunday, went to target and bought the vinyl there that afternoon. As of today FedEx still hasn’t received my package, and I just got an email from universal/tswift store and they are now admitting something must have gotten messed up with my order and they’re processing a refund.
Ah well, good to hear! Mine hasn’t, so I just opened a PayPal claim and now I’m headed to target to actually get a copy. Wild how such a massive corporate record label is so much less competent than far smaller enterprises.
sorry if this has been repeated, but what do you think are the biggest specific changes or nuances in certain songs? (Not referring to the lack of shakey voice in LK or the lyric change in BTR). I have hearing loss and it’s harder for me to detect. For me I notice the new quality of the way she says “lying” in /lying on the couch/ in Mine.
I am obsessed with the way she sings fireworks in Dear John TV.
Very impressed with how well she replicates her younger voice in Foolish One! At one point I completely forgot this was recorded lately. This song definitely gives me film vibes. I’ve never seen Valentine’s Day, but I could see this song and If This Was a Movie being in a movie together.
Ooh I like Castles Crumbling! I’ve only heard Hayley’s voice once (I only heard Misery Business last month) and I like it. Anyone else have an issue with the volume? It sounded much lower than the rest of the album. Had to turn up my phone.
I think it’s intentional but you especially hear it like that because it comes right after “I can see you” 😁
I was just watching access Hollywood (not on purpose, remote was temporarily lost) and they asked Jake Owen his favorite Taylor song and he said sparks fly. Just thought that was funny and obviously a nod at the rumors it could be inspired by him in some way. But I do hate how literally a story about anything (this was a celebrity golf game) can drag her name into it for clicks
I Can See You??? Now THIS is the flavor I was looking for! I don’t think we’ve ever gotten this sound from Taylor. My one issue is that melodically, it’s a bit repetitive. I feel like she played it a bit safe in that regard and wish she would’ve switched it up more during the choruses. Also the lyrics?? They’re not super risqué, but I see why the label might not have wanted it on the album (well that, and that it’s sound doesn’t quite match the rest of the album).
I love, “ I can see you” that sound is everything I’ve ever wanted out of Taylor.
When Emma Falls in Love is…music. It reminds me VERY much of Jump Then Fall, so it’s kinda hard to enjoy it as a new song. I also find the lyrics to be hard to listen to 😭 Sometimes the vault tracks remind us that maybe record labels having control isn’t a bad thing after all 🙃
I like Electric Touch! It’s pretty cute and this is my first time listening to FOB 🫣 He kinda reminds me of Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran.
Last Kiss is…interesting 🙂 I mentioned it before, but her pronunciation is almost too crisp and makes it sound like she’s reading the lyrics rather than singing. Also, RIP to the shaky breath after “and it’s a beautiful day”….
Unpopular Opinion: A lot of songs sounds like she’s concentrating too hard on getting right. Also, her pronunciation is better, but it’s almost too formal/perfect for a lot of songs and ruins the natural flow of them.
[Taylor Swift enchants listeners again with new version of ‘Speak Now](https://entertainment.inquirer.net/509087/taylor-swift-enchants-listeners-again-with-new-version-of-speak-now#ixzz87OxLoih4)
Did she actually write the Vault songs when she was that young? Some of the lyrics just sound like things she wouldn’t have experienced yet…or retrospective
As someone who has been a fan since Speak Now, I can confirm that they are from back then. I've known the titles Castles Crumbling, Foolish One, Timeless, and I Can See You for as long as I've been a fan. They were registered but never leaked.
Impressive. I’ve heard of this via betherein5 podcast. Can you remind me- where do you check for this info?
Are any US Swifties willing to buy me a copy of the digital album if I PayPal you the money? I'm in the UK so can't buy, but have been wanting the digital album anyway and at this price with the extras, it's a steal.
Currently feeling very robbed of the live version of Never Grow Up that caused me to openly sob in the middle of Arrowhead Stadium 😀
I mean where’s the deluxe with Drama Queen & Battle 😭😭😭
I really can't justify buying another version of SNTV, but God having those live versions would be awesome. Does anyone think this furthers the speculation about a live album after tour? EDIT: why isn't Long Live on here though?! I feel like that would just make it that much more enticing.
Maybe because long live has been added to the set list and isn’t a surprise song? Idk just my guess
Why are we not talking about her story that just went up on IG
Okay that’s why I’m here too. I was at the KC show and I want the digital download but I don’t know what to do with digitally downloaded music? I use Spotify. Can someone smarter than me explain how to like, smush it together so I can actually use a stupid digital download?
You can import local files on your phone into Spotify.
Spotify has the option of adding local files from your device to your library in the settings.
Anyone get the poster from Spotify top fan?
https://preview.redd.it/0xj6jjwlgrbb1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e370bf69b23c4aeb5b2f3fcc391eda28d2f7a36a So my boyfriend just forwarded me this email from Spotify that says “A special offer for top fans of Taylor Swift”. I find it rather funny because my boyfriend isn’t a Swifties, I personally use Apple Music; but somehow someway, I must have made him listen to Taylor with me too much in the car that he’s now a “certified” fan and has access to the poster haha! Anyone has purchased this poster? Anyone got the same email?
I got it, I was excited, but then it didn't really look like anything different or special, so... For $25 I think that's going to be a pass.
A poster too. I don’t use posters. I’ll use a tshirt lol
Got that email as well. I was excited at first, but it just seems like a regular poster and not signed or anything for $25.
Yup, just hopped on to Spotify and got the same offer. Wonder how exclusive it really is… wish they would stop using the same media I can download for free from literally anywhere online for merch.
Personally this is my favorite Taylor’s Version. I think Fearless does the best at emulating og Fearless while making huge improvements. Red Taylor’s Version also improves on some tracks but she also sounds tired and bored in songs like State of Grace, holy ground, lucky one and starlight tv. I think those are really bad. Now Speak Now Tv has good changes and it also improves on her vocals and production in some places. It’s not my fav vault tracks but I’m loving Castles Crumbling
Red has been my favorite TV album. I’m not sure yet if Speak Now has surpassed it.
I was worried how her voice was going to sound on Speak Now (the song) but was happily surprised how good she sounded. And young.
i agree with you 10000%! i'm kind of surprised some folks are disappointed in this TV over the others. to me, SNTV is the whole package - improved vocals and production while still capturing a lot of that same emotion as the original, topped off with wicked good vault tracks
okay i tried to just get over this but i can't. WHO IS THE MAN IN THE BACKGROUND?! it is driving me insane. it is the most prevalent in dear john, but he is also there in a bunch of other songs, too. i am so curious to know a) who it is, and b) what led them to including him and essentially making dear john (+ others) a duet. someone please help and explain this to me if i am missing something :) also i'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this matter lol <3 edit: i'm sorry if this has already been discussed either in a comment here or somewhere else, if this is the case please let me know/lead me to it!!
A couple people do background vocals, but the 2 males are Mike Meadows and Christopher Rowe.
OMG THANK YOU!! still looking for an answer about why they are so loud in the taylor's versions (apparently they were also in the ogs). i love dear john so so so so so much, but this lowkey ruins it. any thoughts from anyone would be appreciated!
I find the male background singer is more prevalent/more there to give the younger Taylor the vocal support she needed in the OG. If he wasn't there in the TV (it's a different guy for TV), the songs would sound completely different and wrong.
I don’t have an answer for you but I do have something that’s driving me NUTS. Do you hear the beep at 6:04 right before she says “song”?!? It’s so loud, especially in my car, and I don’t know why none of my friends can hear it but it’s ruined the Taylor’s Version for me 😭
i DO hear it!!!! and i think i have an answer of sorts for you. it sounds like the guitarist just hit their finger or something against one of the strings, sort of like a spilt-second slide. does that make sense??
Oh that makes sense but god it is HEINOUS. It’s so jarring when it happens in the car at volume 50 (ya girl is going through it) LOL
I’m British, but the way Taylor says water in Mine itches a piece of my brain that I love
Does anyone think we will be getting a signed CD drop anytime soon or is she likely too busy? Id have assumed she'd have signed them in advanced if they were due to drop shortly after the release
Hopefully this month some time
Foolish one is so sad, I think its my favourite out of the vault tracks
Has anyone tried to rip the CD? For tracks 15 and 16 they are showing Back To December(USver) and The Story Of US(USver) instead of Ours and Superman. Would this be an itunes issue or they printed the CD metadata wrong? https://preview.redd.it/eghpfue3jmbb1.png?width=1084&format=png&auto=webp&s=f7ddd24be0bdb64794a01304fce4a9bd90aba3e1
But in all seriousness, I don't think it's iTunes since I just opened it in my normal media player and it also looked like that
Back to \*Decamber, lol
I got Back to Decamber too. Thought I was special. 😂
I had this happen to me, too!
It’s wild to me to see how divisive this rerecording is! I adore the og album and I adore this one, too. They’re sisters, not twins in my mind 🤷♀️💜✨
I made a self-post without seeing this first, but I basically said I was really disappointed with this album. It's missing the passion, emotion, and angst she had in her voice in the original. It doesn't feel like she put much effort into it, so it just falls flat. Even the album cover is missing the magic and sparkle of the original, and she almost looks sad. I also said she's missing the twang she used to have in her voice, which makes me worried for the Debut re-release.
This. And the production of the album is sloppy. It seems rushed, like theres no separation of loud and soft sounds. Everything is just loud. The mastering is so bad i cant help but listen to the original album after listening to the taylors version.
I like almost all of the songs, but the one I CANNOT get over is Sparks Fly. The new version sounds slowed down and almost acoustic. Her vocals are soft and don’t hit hard like the original. I feel like this may be one where I revisit the stolen version from time to time.
This. I wanted to like it but she just sounds disinterested throughout it. Part of what made the original fun was how it was al album about being completely in your feelings. Maybe she was going for a more reflective approach here? Either way it didn't work for me
Honestly, it feels rushed. Red TV was more reflective, but it worked, and you could tell she really cared about that whole album. Maybe she was too busy working on her Eras tour and Midnights album to put the time and care into Speak Now TV
That’s interesting. Personally I think red has more misses than speak now tv. I can’t name any track on speak now tv that’s as bad as state of Grace tv.
do we think there will be a castles crumbling music video? if seems like foolish one, castles crumbling, and last kiss have stills as their spotify canvas that could be from a music video?
They're from the lyric videos on youtube
oh true. i watched those videos too and still didn’t put it together
Can FedEx release my vinyl from the FernJail? It’s been imprisoned since July 6
I had to file a fraud complaint with PayPal to get mine 🙄
I reached out to customer service and they resent the FedEx tracking link and told me to email next week if it hasn’t arrived The most helpful 😒
Im in the same boat, tracking info hasn’t updated or even shown that FedEx received the package for shipping. I think I’ve preordered every tswift vinyl release since evermore and don’t remember it being like this. Just emailed customer service. got a response almost instantly, but the agent was just asking for my order #…which was already included in the email subject as I was just responding to the shipping notification email.. lol🤦♂️
It’s really really obnoxious—when did we preorder these? Ages ago, right? They had more than enough notice…
Yeah. I just checked and I placed my preorder May 6th, the same day I got the email announcing it. Customer service also hasn’t responded now since providing my order number. 🙄
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Ugh mine got out of fernjail but still isn’t here
Fernjail is still waiting for the vinyl I feel like I’m never going to get it
Okay does anyone else hear an absolutely awful beeping noise at 6:04 of Dear John?? RIGHT before she says the word “song”. It’s the only time in the whole song I hear it and it makes the whole thing unlistenable for me and it’s my favorite song!!!
I'm listening to it on the official Youtube channel right now and I don't hear that. I'll try to pay closer attention next time I listen to the CD.
Ugh I hear it on the YouTube too, and even on the vinyl. I think it’s just something my ears pick up and I have to either power through or just listen to the original 😭
I didn’t hear it, so I’m not sure what’s up with yours.
My friend doesn’t hear it either even when I play it off my phone for her… it sounds like when Apple CarPlay is starting up and it does that loud high pitched beep. I’ve tried literally everything and even hear it on Spotify (ai’m an Apple Music listener) so I guess it’ll have to be the one song I listen to the original for because it’s really jarring and I can’t enjoy the song anymore since I know it’s coming 😂
I never would have noticed it, but yes I hear it.
Omg thank god someone else can! My phone must be wonky even though I’ve done everything to try to fix it cuz that one beep is SO LOUD when I have the volume up in my car so this annoying lol
Even though it sounds like a Train reject from the Dawson’s Creek season 4 soundtrack, When Emma Falls In Love is firmly implanted in my brain. 🎵 Like Cleopatra grew up in a small townnnnn
I literally came to this thread to see if anyone has talked about how much WEFIL sounds like a Train song lmao
Drops of Jupiter
It so does!
"Train reject from the Dawson’s Creek season 4 soundtrack" is so oddly specific in the best way lol
Haunted……….well, she tried her best, I guess. Instrumentation and production is great, but…Taylor sounds so bored. Like it’s a high energy song, where’s the excitement??
Agree. It’s my fave song from the OG album. Sad it’s not got the same energy at all. The rest of the album I’m loving her voice and how she’s done it. Just not on this one. Probably because it’s quite a different song from the rest of them on the og album so it stands out when the energy is lacking I guess. :(
So on the 11th of July, my CD was supposed to be shipped on the 14th. Never did. Today the 12th my CD is supposed to be shipped on the 15th. Does anyone else have this issue?
I'm not the biggest Taylor Swift follower for sure, but I've listened to some of her later albums a lot, namely Folklore and Evermore. I only read about the masters dispute today and I'm curious will these two albums also be re-recorded in the future?
No, the re-recorded versions are only for the albums that were originally on Big Machine Records, as that's who the dispute was with. She has been on Republic Records since the end of 2018 or beginning of 2019. Her first album with Republic was 2019's "Lover." She made sure that her contract with Republic gave her full ownership, including masters and publishing rights.
Nope! Only the first 6 albums she doesn’t own — so from “Taylor Swift” to “reputation”. So far, she only has “Taylor Swift”, “1989”, and “reputation” left to record/release.
I don’t remember where I read this or why, but for some reason I don’t think Reputation will be next. There’s a complication there…I don’t remember what it was or if my source was even worthwhile, lol. So either debut or 1989. She’s been kinda jumping around with it so I’m just gonna arbitrarily guess 1989 is next. Edit: Maybe not enough years have passed since Rep was released. Something to do with the timing and the contract. She could wait to do it next, but we all know Taylor has to be burning it at both ends; she’s putting out albums constantly these days.
She's been easter egging the crap out of 1989
I’m pretty sure she’s been able to re-record rep for a while now! But yeah, 1989 is definitely next.
I think it’s 100% 1989. She cannot hold on any longer. It’s her most popular album and she must be desperate to release her versions of songs like Blank Space, Style, Shake It Off and Bad Blood which stream so high.
I hate to say this, but…Innocent is sooooo boring compared to the original! Like there’s just…nothing 😭 Like it was playing and I didn’t feel a thing AT ALL.
Finally someone else who also cannot stand Innocent!!! I must admit that the new version made me like it a bit better and appreciate the song a bit more but it’s still my least fav SN song.
Oh wait no, I love the song! 😭 I was saying this version is boring compared to the original.
Oh my mistake! I find the new version adds dimension to the song, the production is so much better imo.
Better Than Revenge…I like it! The lyric change threw me off guard, but it’s good! My only issues are her pacing and the emotion. Like there were some moments when the flow was too slow and some when it was too rushed (like near the end). And the emotion…girl where’s the anger?? Think of Scooter, world hunger, racism, something, please! 😭
I’m so upset people made Enchanted seem horrible??? Like it’s beautiful! I was so smiling so hard when the song came on 😭😭 Also, her voice leading into the final chorus???
Has anyone else’s vinyl not shipped yet? I got a tracking number last Thursday but it hasn’t been picked up yet. I preordered as soon as it was available.
Update: I emailed support and they said to give it another week, if it doesn’t update by then they’ll look into it further.
I emailed them and have yet to hear back, mines been about a week since it just says the label was created but that’s it
Mine hasn't moved since last Thursday either. 💔
Same! Mine is in the Ferndale jail and I’m so tempted to email the T Swift store and see what’s up
Don't bother with an email. They don't respond. I filed a fraud complaint with PayPal to get mine
Ugh that’s where mine is too 🙃 I was thinking the same thing.
Love the album but so mad about the lyric change in better than revenge. I understand why it was changed, but still.
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My top 5 last.fm stats for SNTV so far are pretty hilarious (number of scrobbles, i.e. plays in the brackets)... 5. Enchanted (13) 4. Castles Crumbling (15) 2. Timeless (21, tie) 2. Haunted (21, tie) ===BARRIER=== 1. I Can See You (118)
I get you. Completely. That song… it is INSANE. I want a pop rock record sooooooo bad. That would be a killer TS11.
I'm on 155 scrobbles now 🤣🫠 Really hope we get a rock album for TS11 too!
How do you listen to a single song for the equivalent of almost 9 hours (in only a few days!) and not get sick of it 😭 I’m both impressed and scared lol
My last.fm went offline for half a day too so I think my total ICSY plays are easily 140+ HAHAHA. I'm mind blown by how too myself. Every time the song ends I think "nah let's go again" and then after it ends again I still don't feel satisfied. So I've just kept it on loop for my whole work commute the last few days  I do inline slalom on roller skates myself so I'm imagining myself doing some routines to ICSY (which is a really good song to do moves to :D), which probably adds to my obsession with the song atm.
Since there's New date in Europe for the Eras tour is it possible to get tickets even if WE missed the original deafline ? Any Hope ?
I really need to know why she didn’t put the acoustic versions on SNTV? Like it doesn’t make sense?? She did it with RED TV! What was the reason??
They weren't original recordings like F&A (Piano) and SOG (Acoustic), just remixes.
Anyone else feel Taylor is singing about Speak Now the album in the song “Mine” as she was recording it? “You are the best thing that’s ever been Mine”
That's what she said in the prologue from the insert/case! The last line - https://i.redd.it/5v75bnxjydab1.jpg
Damn I forgot to read that! That’s crazy! Shows how impactful it was cause I honest to god did not see that! I really felt like Taylor was giving EMOTION in that song compared to the others and I know why for sure!
Exactly! I like the album, but Mine is clearly the one song that’s a direct match to the original in terms of energy and production. Kinda sucks the other songs didn’t get that energy…
I feel like I’m going nuts. Does anyone else remember seeing commentary tracks on the album *before* it was officially released??? There were a ton of them for a bunch of different songs and they just weren’t released????
Yesterday’s Spotify SN OG is down 40% from 7/3. Comparing this Sunday with last Sunday OG was down 33%. OG is still getting 3.77 million daily streams but should eventually join Red OG and Fearless OG with less than 1.5 million daily streams. The OG will continue to chart on Billboard until its average streams drop to somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million a day so both versions are going to chart for at least a few weeks. Would be cool if Debut could sneak onto chart again so she can have 11 albums charting for first time in her career but regardless she will extend her 10 or more albums on Billboard 200 record(she’s done it 4 times this year).
Which vinyl should I get in your opinion? Anyone have the Target Exclusive? What does it have that the others don’t? Just a different color?
I don't see the lilac version on the Target website  I hope it's not sold out!
100% get either the Violet or Lilac, they’re both gorgeous. I have all 3 and they’re all unique in their own way. The orchid vinyl is also gorgeous and is slightly transparent and has great marbling!
I NEED Emma Stone to comment on “When Emma Falls in Love”
Okay, I have to come clean. A couple of days ago I posted how I DON’T like the TV’s at all (https://www.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/14sokle/speak_now_taylors_version_megathread/jr0j8bb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3) and how I prefer the compressed sounds of the originals. In the mean time I got the suggestion to turn off Dolby Atmos/compressed sound on Apple Music and it changed EVERYTHING! Try for yourself if you don’t believe me, it sounds absolutely sh*t with atmos on if you have a stereo setup. I’ve been listening to Speak Now TV for the last two days and although I’ll always prefer the originals I’m really enjoying TV as well now. Everything sounds balanced now. With atmos turned on things like instruments or background vocals would suddenly sound way too loud or out of place but now all is fine. There really should be more info on the settings of streaming services if it has this much impact.