So, that Taylor Swift....

[Brickyard Jack]

Has changed her website frontpage to show a countdown to April 25th (well, 26th UK time), so at the very least there'll be a new single!

[borofan]

Thanks for the warning...

[Brickyard Jack]

Has released the new album, and I am enjoying it very much. Same as always - good tunes, great lyrics, interesting songs.

[soundchaser]

So what about her? What's your favourite? For those of us who can't name one song. That's me.

[Brickyard Jack]

So what about her? What's your favourite? For those of us who can't name one song. That's me.

All her albums (seven of them) are at least pretty good, and often touch on greatness. Her second album, Fearless is outstanding, one of the very best albums ever. 1989, the fifth album, is really fantastic.
Her best song is probably You belong with me, though a lot of people might say Blank space.
Her videos often detract from rather than enhance the song - i rarely watch them.
She is an excellent live performer.
There is a you tuber called Abi Signs who was deaf, and she posted videos of her signing along to a load of songs. I was watching her video of We are never getting back together when I realised how great the song was.
Cracking swift tracks include:
Our song
Should've said no
Picture to burn
Teardrops on my guitar
Love story
You belong with me
Fifteen
The best day
Mean
The story of us
I heart ?
We are never getting back together
22
Girl at home
Starlight
Style
Blank space
Shake it off
This love
Don't blame me
This is why we can't have nice things
New romantics

But that is merely scratching the surface.

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Isn''t she apparently re-recording and re-releasing her first six albums to which she apparently doesn't own the rights?

[soundchaser]

Well, thanks for posting and your positive passion enthusiasm. Obviously, it’s not aimed at me, but a good song is a good song is a good song. And from what I’ve listened to, these are well crafted power pop songs with a country twinge to her voice. My granddaughters are big fans and I can see why. Would I personally listen at home? No. But hey, I live in 1972.

[Brickyard Jack]

Isn''t she apparently re-recording and re-releasing her first six albums to which she apparently doesn't own the rights?

Apparently.
Suzanne Vega did this a few years back, releasing 4 albums ( I think it was 4) in a series called "close ups".

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Isn''t she apparently re-recording and re-releasing her first six albums to which she apparently doesn't own the rights?

Apparently.
Suzanne Vega did this a few years back, releasing 4 albums ( I think it was 4) in a series called "close ups".

Quite a few acts seem to do it - quite often as a fuck you attempt to wrestle back control/royalties of songs whose publishing they no longer own. Pretty sure that's why Van Morrison did the live Astral Weeks album he did a few years back. Squeeze also did an album of re-recordings called - iirc - Spot the Difference

[LMG]

Blue Oyster Cult did it with Cult Classic 25 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_Classic

John Martyn did it and it really backfired, resulting in a truckload of cheap 'best of John Martyn' compilations cobbled together from his remakes and a couple of live albums:

https://www.johnmartyn.com/1990s/couldn ... more-1992/
https://www.johnmartyn.com/1990s/no-little-boy-1993/
https://www.johnmartyn.com/2000s/anthology/
https://www.johnmartyn.com/1990s/the-very-best-of-1997/
https://www.johnmartyn.com/1990s/the-re ... best-1998/
https://www.johnmartyn.com/2000s/solid- ... revisited/
https://www.johnmartyn.com/2000s/classics-2000/
https://www.johnmartyn.com/2000s/id-rat ... l-edition/

[BARON CORNY DOG]

"Taylor Swift Says She Will Rerecord Her Old Music. Here's How.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/arts ... Position=1

[Brickyard Jack]

Tremendous live performance on Radio 1's Live Lounge

[Jimbo]

I wouldn't know a single Taylor Smith song.

[Brickyard Jack]

I have just ordered the first of Taylor Swift's rerecordings - Fearless, of which I already have two versions. This new recording has all the songs from the original plus the six extra tracks from the "platinum edition" plus another six previously unreleased songs from around the same time. What with two albums last year plus the folklore long pond sessions, she really is hoovering up my money. Hooray!

[Rorschach]

Let us know how the new versions compare to the originals.

[Brickyard Jack]

Let us know how the new versions compare to the originals.

They are supposed to be exactly the same, so I understand, but we will see.

[Brickyard Jack]

So I have been listening to this new version of Fearless.

First, compared to the original album there are 13 extra songs, and even compared to the "platinum edition" there are six extra songs. It is a bit like a remastered edition with extra tracks, except this is rerecorded, not just remastered. Some of these extra tracks are really quite good.

As for the main album, the new version is definitely different to the original, but not so much in a "this is different or that is different" way (though there may be cases of this), but more of impression - they are like supercharged versions of the originals, in part because of better production but also I feel from confidence in the material born from hindsight. It certainly sounds fantastic and has tremendous songs on it. If you don't own Fearless already (I am sure this only apllies to a few on this board), this is the version for you. Even if you do have it the extra tracks are certainly good enough to to justify acquisition.

[Rorschach]

Well, I'm listening to the re-recorded version of You Belong With Me and, much as i want to like her, it's not really grabbing me.
It's the first time I've ever heard it so I'll definitely give it another chance but it seems very formulaic to me. In fact, I'm going to have to sound like my dad now and say, it all sounds the same. It reminds me of Katy Perry and all 'that lot'.
I don't hate it or anything, and obviously I'm not the target market but I'm not keen.

Maybe it'll grow on me. I hope so.

(I'm on to Fifteen, now. Not as good as Sharon Van Etten's, Seventeen!)

[Brickyard Jack]

Well, I'm listening to the re-recorded version of You Belong With Me and, much as i want to like her, it's not really grabbing me.
It's the first time I've ever heard it so I'll definitely give it another chance but it seems very formulaic to me. In fact, I'm going to have to sound like my dad now and say, it all sounds the same. It reminds me of Katy Perry and all 'that lot'.
I don't hate it or anything, and obviously I'm not the target market but I'm not keen.

Maybe it'll grow on me. I hope so.

(I'm on to Fifteen, now. Not as good as Sharon Van Etten's, Seventeen!)

well those are the two best tracks, I reckon, so if they aren't grabbing you, you will never be a Swiftie, I would think.

[Muskrat]

Isn''t she apparently re-recording and re-releasing her first six albums to which she apparently doesn't own the rights?

Yes. The first one is out now. Generally contracts have it that you can't re-record a song for another label within a predetermined window - often five years.