Taylor Swift Releases ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
Swifties around the world have new music to listen to as Taylor Swift as officially released 1989 (Taylor’s Version). It is the re-recording of her 1989 album, which she released in 2014.
It includes the 16 original tracks from album’s deluxe edition. Aside from this, there are also five new “From the Vault” songs that have been included in the re-release of 1989.
Taylor Swift’s Message to Fans
Taylor Swift made the official announcement of the release on her social media pages. Alongside a series of images featuring her, the popstar also included a sweet handwritten note to her fans.
Her note begins with, “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.”
“This moment is a reflection of the woods we’ve wandered through and all this love between us still glowing in the darkest dark,” she says. “I present to you, with gratitude and wild wonder, my version of 1989. It’s been waiting for you.”
You can view the images as well as the entirety of the handwritten note below:
✨🫶 My name is Taylor and I was born in 1989 🫶✨https://t.co/klomIqGx38 pic.twitter.com/sWofWRjpvN
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 27, 2023
Five Songs ‘From the Vault’
As previously mentioned, the re-release includes five “From the Vault” songs. This means that these songs are previously unreleased songs. The five new songs are as follows:
- Is It Over Now?
- Now That We Don’t Talk
- Say Don’t Go
- Slut!
- Suburban Legends
The Los Angeles Times ranks Suburban Legends as the best of the five new tracks.
“With the possible exception of Drake, Taylor Swift is pop’s most effective nurser of past grievances, and here — over a surging arena-disco groove that keeps accumulating emotional weight — she examines a fraught high-school reunion in one indelible image after another,” it says of the song.