In the summer of 2019, Taylor Swift told Tumblr that her previous record label, Big Machine, had sold its masters to a company backed by Scooter Braun music. As a songwriter, Swift still retained her publishing rights, but without the influence of the masters, she had lost a measure of control, such as the ability to choose when her recordings could be used in film or advertising. But she didn’t go down without a fight – she was going to record her entire history, and this time, the masters were on her own. The news raised countless questions: Would she repeat old songs, as she had before? Where would she start? How did she release the music? After making his debut in an app show by Ryan Reynolds, the first song is re-recorded, Swift Love in 2008 hit “Love Story,” here.
This new recording is largely faithful to the very original, as if it were for the execution of Braun’s masters. Other than minor changes – the production is a bit more relaxed, and the mature words Swift are quieter, with no trace of country – it’s hard to tell the difference. This is the kind of effort that a person with meticulousness like Swift excels at: She hired the same violinist and backing singer from the original album, reuniting her touring band members from the time, and doubling down on her lucky number 13. (it is 13 years since the first one was released Without fear, while the naming date and release date of the new version add up to 13). If most of the millennia were trying to recreate the creative efforts of teenagers, we would share Afternoon fan fiction or YouTube dance videos that are terribly painful. He speaks to Taylor’s wunderkind status that she can once again visit the work of her own teenager without shame.
Swift is also invested in a resume, and her last few records are almost in disarray with who she was on. Without fear. She now sings of love with nostalgia and seduction; she drinks wine and refers to sex; she gets into self-doubt and takes responsibility for self-indulgence. But before that, she was a fast-paced teenage girl who didn’t know how intense her romantic desire was, and while her favorite song isn’t “Love Story”, it shows her son-in-law’s power. imaginative (write ie, she says, before she had anything “knowledge of what love was”). Something amazing is heard about a teenage girl rewriting the most famous Shakespearean tragedy as, well, a love story. Now, years later, “Love Story” is going to be another kind of performance: an adult female show of ownership and group.