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Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is the third re-recorded album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on July 7, 2023, by Republic Records. It is part of her re-recording projects following the 2019 dispute over the ownership of her back catalog. Swift announced the album at the Nashville concert of her sixth headlining tour, The Eras Tour, on May 5, 2023.

Speak Now (Taylor's Version) consists of songs written solely by Swift. She produced the re-recorded versions of 16 tracks from her third studio album, Speak Now (2010), with Christopher Rowe, and six previously unreleased "From the Vault" tracks with Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner. Two vault tracks respectively featured Fall Out Boy and Hayley Williams. A country pop and pop rock album, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) incorporates various rock styles such as emo, pop-punk, and alternative rock. Its sound is characterized by prominent electric guitars, dynamic drums, and strings. Reflecting Swift's adolescence, the songs document emotions of affection, grievance, and heartbreak, forming a loose concept album of unspoken confessions.

Music critics praised Swift's emotionally-engaging songwriting in the album and the matured tone of her vocal performances, although the edit to a lyric in the track "Better Than Revenge" was met with mixed opinions. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) reached number one on albums charts of Australia, Canada, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, among others. In the United States, it was Swift's 12th album to top the Billboard 200 chart, breaking Barbra Streisand's all-time record for the most number-one albums by a female artist. All 22 of its tracks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with "I Can See You", which was accompanied by a music video, becoming the highest-peaking at number five.

Background[]

Taylor Swift signed a recording contract with Big Machine Records, an independent record label based in Nashville, in 2005. As part of the contract, Big Machine released Swift's first six studio albums, from Taylor Swift (2006) to Reputation (2017).[2] Swift wrote the standard edition of her third studio album, Speak Now, entirely herself and produced it with Nathan Chapman, who had produced both of her previous albums.[3][4] The album was released on October 25, 2010, by Big Machine.[5] It expands on the country pop style of her past albums with more aggressive elements of mainstream pop[6] and rock styles from the 1970s and 1980s such as pop rock, arena rock, and new wave rock. Speak Now registered in the 2010 Guinness World Records as the fastest-selling US digital album by a female artist[7] and was nominated for Best Country Album at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012.[8] The New York Times wrote in 2010 that the album's strong sales proved Swift "has transcended the limitations of genre and become a pop megastar".[9]

By August 2018, Swift's contract with Big Machine had expired; she signed a new contract with Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group, which secured her the rights to own the masters of the new music she would release.[10] In 2019, the talent manager Scooter Braun and his company Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Records. The masters of Swift's Big Machine-released albums were effectively transferred to Braun, which resulted in a public dispute between Swift and Braun.[11] Swift denounced the purchase and began re-recording her first six studio albums in November 2020.[12][13] By re-recording the albums, Swift had full ownership of the new masters, which enabled her to control the licensing of her songs for commercial use and therefore substituted the Big Machine–owned masters.[14]

Swift released the first two re-recorded albums in 2021: Fearless (Taylor's Version) in April and Red (Taylor's Version) in November; the former is the re-recording of Swift's second studio album, Fearless (2008), and the latter is of her fourth, Red (2012). In addition to reproduced versions of the original songs subtitled "Taylor's Version", each album include several unreleased tracks denoted as "From the Vault".[note 1] After their release, both re-recorded albums performed better in commercial metrics than did their original counterparts.[15] At the first Nashville show of her sixth headlining concert tour, the Eras Tour, on May 5, 2023, Swift announced the third installment in her re-recording project, Speak Now (Taylor's Version).[16]

Release and promotion[]

After announcing Speak Now (Taylor's Version) at the Eras Tour, on May 5, 2023, Swift announced its track listing via social media.[17] On June 9, the French newspaper Ouest-France reported that a temporary worker from Le Mans, France, was arrested for stealing 10 vinyl records of Speak Now (Taylor's Version) from a warehouse and selling them on Leboncoin, a classified ads website. The worker was sentenced to eight months in prison. The public prosecutor stated that only the eight unsold LPs were retrieved from the worker; the whereabouts of the two sold copies remain unknown.[18][19]

Swift released a snippet of the re-recorded version of "Mine" via social media on June 24,[20] and "Back To December" in the trailer for the Amazon Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty on June 29.[21] Speak Now (Taylor's Version) was released on July 7, 2023.[22] The standard vinyl edition of Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is a set of three marbled violet LP records.[23] Two additional lilac and orchid marbled variants were also released.[24][25] Universal Music Japan released two Japanese exclusive physical versions, a standard CD and a deluxe 7–inch jacket on August 16, 2023.[26]

When the album was released on July 7, Swift premiered the music video for "I Can See You" at the first Kansas City show on the Eras Tour.[27] The following day, it was released to her YouTube channel.[28] Directed and written by Swift, the video stars her alongside Taylor Lautner, Joey King, and Presley Cash; the latter two previously appeared in Swift's video for "Mean" (2011).[29] On July 13, 2023, Swift released a digital deluxe edition of the album, featuring live recordings of "Dear John" and "Last Kiss" from the Minneapolis and Kansas City shows of the Eras Tour, respectively.[30]

Promotional singles[]

The album's sole promotional single, "I Can See You", was released on July 7, 2023, alongside a music video.

Commercial performance[]

Upon release, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) broke the record for the most single-day streams for a country album on Spotify.[31] In the United States, it spent two weeks atop the Billboard 200 and became Swift's 12th number-one album.[32] Its first-week figures consisted of 716,000 album-equivalent units, including 507,000 sales, earning the largest week for a country album since December 2014. Swift set new records among female artists for most number-one albums in chart history (12) and most consecutive years with a new number-one album (5), surpassing Barbra Streisand and Miley Cyrus, respectively. In the week that Speak Now (Taylor's Version) debuted atop the chart, Swift became the first woman to chart four albums in the top 10 the same week,[note 2] the first woman and living soloist to chart 11 albums simultaneously (after the Beatles and Prince),[note 3][33] and the first act to have nine albums each sell at least 500,000 copies in one week.[34] All 22 tracks from Speak Now (Taylor's Version) debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, bringing Swift's total career entries to 212 songs.[35] The album marked Swift's eighth number one on the Top Country Albums chart, and all tracks charted on the Hot Country Songs, with seven in the top 10.[36]

Speak Now (Taylor's Version) debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 67,000 units, surpassing the 2010 album's peak (number six) and doubling its first-week sales. Swift became the fastest female artist to collect 10 number-one albums in the United Kingdom, surpassing Madonna.[37] In Australia, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) debuted atop the ARIA Albums Chart, displacing Swift's Midnights (2022) from the top spot. It became Swift's 11th number-one album and made her the first act to replace themselves at the top spot.[38] Elsewhere, the album reached number one in Argentina, Belgian Flanders, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and Sweden.

Critical reception[]

Speak Now (Taylor's Version) ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 81/100[39]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars[40]
American Songwriter 4.5/5 stars[41]
Clash 8/10[42]
The Daily Telegraph 4/5 stars[43]
The Guardian 3/5 stars[44]
The Independent 4/5 stars[45]
Pitchfork 7.5/10[46]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[47]
Slant Magazine 4/5 stars[48]
The Times 4/5 stars[49]

On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average based on ratings from publications, the album scored 81 out of 100 based on 14 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[39] AnyDecentMusic? compiled 13 reviews and gave the album a score of 7.6 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.[50]

Maura Johnston of Rolling Stone stated, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) "expands our image of a landmark album", with grittier production quality.[47] The same magazine's UK critic Mark Sutherland wrote, "the empowering, elemental force and simmering hurt that made the original Speak Now such a remarkable record remains strikingly intact."[51] Reviews from Annabel Nugent of The Independent,[45] Poppie Platt of The Daily Telegraph,[43] Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine,[48] Rachel Caroll of PopMatters,[52] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic,[40] and Will Hodgkinson of The Times praised the album's crisper production mix, emotional heft, added nuance of the vault songs, and Swift's strong and refined vocals.[49] Alex Hopper of American Songwriter and Kelsey Barnes of The Line of Best Fit complimented the album's catharsis for an accurate portrayal of adolescence.[53][41] Spin critic Bobby Olivier admired the album's "rock elegance" and Swift's "mature and textured vocal performance".[54]

The lyric change in "Better than Revenge" was a common point of contention in reviews, with some calling it unnecessary.[43][49][55] Others appreciated the change, opining that it is line with Swift's changed perspective as a grown woman.[56][42][48] The Guardian's Laura Snapes and Pitchfork's Vrinda Jagota said that Swift's voice, despite being "much richer" than in 2010, has lost its "youthful twang" and "teenage angst" but nevertheless considered the album's evolved songwriting and musical consistency impressive.[44][46]

Recognition[]

On July 10, the Washington, D.C. branch of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a mock Speak Now (Taylor's Version) back cover encouraging social media users to submit tips regarding possible criminal activity, replacing track titles with offenses such as terrorism, cybercrime, counterintelligence, civil rights, public corruption, weapons of mass destruction, organized crime, violent crime and white-collar crime.[57] To honor a record six sold-out shows of the Eras Tour at the SoFi Stadium, the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live hosted a pop-up exhibit from August 2 to September 18, 2023, displaying 11 of Swift's costumes and two of her music instruments from the "I Can See You" music video.[58] At the 2023 Billboard Music Awards, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) was nominated for Top Country Album but lost to Morgan Wallen's One Thing at a Time.[59]

Track listing[]

All tracks were written by Taylor Swift and produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe except where noted.

Standard edition
No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "Mine" 3:51
2. "Sparks Fly" 4:21
3. "Back To December" 4:54
4. "Speak Now" 4:02
5. "Dear John" 6:45
6. "Mean" 3:58
7. "The Story Of Us" 4:27
8. "Never Grow Up" 4:52
9. "Enchanted" 5:53
10. "Better Than Revenge" 3:40
11. "Innocent" 5:01
12. "Haunted" 4:05
13. "Last Kiss" 6:09
14. "Long Live" 5:17
15. "Ours" 3:55
16. "Superman" 4:34
17. "Electric Touch" (featuring Fall Out Boy) Swift • Aaron Dessner 4:26
18. "When Emma Falls in Love" Swift • Dessner 4:12
19. "I Can See You" Swift • Jack Antonoff 4:33
20. "Castles Crumbling" (featuring Hayley Williams) Swift • Antonoff 5:06
21. "Foolish One" Swift • Dessner 5:11
22. "Timeless" Swift • Antonoff 5:21
Total length: 1:44:33
Digital Deluxe Edition
No.TitleLength
23."Dear John" (Live from Minneapolis)7:08
24."Last Kiss" (Live from Kansas City)6:11
Total length:1:57:54

Notes[]

  • All tracks are subtitled "(Taylor's Version)". Tracks 17-22 are additionally subtitled "(From The Vault)".
  • The re-recording of "If This Was A Movie", a deluxe track on the original 2010 album, is not included on Speak Now (Taylor's Version), due to it featuring a co-writer. Instead, the re-recording for this song was released as a standalone single on March 17, 2023, using the cover art of Fearless (Taylor's Version) and included on The More Fearless (Taylor's Version) Chapter.
  • The Apple Music version of the album includes a video of the album's announcement from the Eras Tour on May 5, 2023.
  • The acoustic versions of "Haunted" and "Back To December" were not re-recorded despite the acoustic version of "State Of Grace" and the piano version of "Forever & Always" having been, since these tracks used the same vocal take as the original versions.

Spotify streams[]

Standard edition
No. Song Streams
1. Mine (Taylor's Version) 203,281,027
2. Sparks Fly (Taylor's Version) 139,292,411
3. Back To December (Taylor's Version) 220,556,232
4. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) 115,241,498
5. Dear John (Taylor's Version) 119,232,125
6. Mean (Taylor's Version) 111,238,811
7. The Story Of Us (Taylor's Version) 110,764,133
8. Never Grow Up (Taylor's Version) 65,114,149
9. Enchanted (Taylor's Version) 348,495,235
10. Better Than Revenge (Taylor's Version) 143,500,393
11. Innocent (Taylor's Version) 52,766,364
12. Haunted (Taylor's Version) 92,196,520
13. Last Kiss (Taylor's Version) 92,249,590
14. Long Live (Taylor's Version)* 157,937,922
15. Ours (Taylor's Version) 62,869,454
16. Superman (Taylor's Version)* 44,973,408
17. Electric Touch (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 96,055,464
18. When Emma Falls in Love (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 89,096,277
19. I Can See You (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 277,182,881
20. Castles Crumbling (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 92,508,174
21. Foolish One (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 104,679,908
22. Timeless (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 96,960,130
* Total streams 2,836,192,106

No. Song Streams
1. Enchanted (Taylor's Version) 348,495,235
2. I Can See You (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 277,182,881
3. Back To December (Taylor's Version) 220,556,232
4. Mine (Taylor's Version) 203,281,027
5. Long Live (Taylor's Version)* 157,937,922
6. Better Than Revenge (Taylor's Version) 143,500,393
7. Sparks Fly (Taylor's Version) 139,292,411
8. Dear John (Taylor's Version) 119,232,125
9. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) 115,241,498
10. Mean (Taylor's Version) 111,238,811
11. The Story Of Us (Taylor's Version) 110,764,133
12. Foolish One (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 104,679,908
13. Timeless (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 96,960,130
14. Electric Touch (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 96,055,464
15. Castles Crumbling (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 92,508,174
16. Last Kiss (Taylor's Version) 92,249,590
17. Haunted (Taylor's Version) 92,196,520
18. When Emma Falls in Love (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)* 89,096,277
19. Never Grow Up (Taylor's Version) 65,114,149
20. Ours (Taylor's Version) 62,869,454
21. Innocent (Taylor's Version) 52,766,364
22. Superman (Taylor's Version)* 44,973,408

  • Songs marked with "*": Has more streams than OG
  • Last Update: November 4, 2024

Physical copies[]

Special editions[]

Booklet[]

Physical booklet[]

Promotional[]

Photoshoot[]

Main article: Speak Now (Taylor's Version) photoshoot

Personnel[]

Musicians

  • Taylor Swift – vocals (all tracks), background vocals (1–16)
  • Mike Meadows – acoustic guitar (1–16), background vocals (1–3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13–16, 18), Hammond B3 (1–3, 5, 7, 12, 14, 16), mandolin (2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 16), clapping (4, 6), organ (4), banjo (6), electric guitar (10)
  • Amos Heller – bass guitar (1–7, 9–16), clapping (4, 6)
  • Matt Billingslea – drums, percussion (1–7, 9–16); clapping (4, 6), vibraphone (5)
  • Max Bernstein – electric guitar (1–6, 10–12, 14, 16), synthesizer (1, 5, 7, 11, 14), synth pads (3), acoustic guitar (7, 13), strings (11), keyboards (15)
  • Paul Sidoti – slide guitar (1), electric guitar (2–7, 9–16), acoustic guitar (3, 6), ukulele (15)
  • David Cook – piano (2, 5, 11, 12–14)
  • Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle (2, 6)
  • London Contemporary Orchestra[note 4] – strings (3, 9, 12)
  • Liz Huett – background vocals (4, 6, 7, 16)
  • Caitlin Evanson – background vocals (6, 11, 14)
  • Christopher Rowe – background vocals (9, 18, 22)
  • Brian Pruitt – drum programming (10, 13, 14)
  • Aaron Dessner – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer (17, 18, 21); electric guitar (17, 18), percussion (17, 21), piano (18, 21), drum programming (21)
  • Josh Kaufman – electric guitar, organ (17, 18, 21); piano (17, 21), acoustic guitar (17), banjo (18); keyboards, synthesizer (21)
  • Thomas Bartlett – keyboards, piano, synthesizer (17)
  • Benjamin Lanz – synthesizer (17, 18, 21)
  • James McAlister – synthesizer (17, 18, 21); drums, percussion (18, 21); drum programming (21)
  • Joe Russo – drums, percussion (17)
  • Patrick Stump – electric guitar, vocals (17)
  • James Krivchenia – drums (18), percussion (18)
  • Jack Antonoff – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar (19, 20, 22); programming, synthesizer (19, 20); 12-string acoustic guitar, background vocals, keyboards (19); drums, piano (20); Mellotron (22)
  • Sean Hutchinson – drums, percussion (19, 20, 22)
  • Mikey Freedom Hart – electric guitar (19), synthesizer (19, 20), Wurlitzer electronic piano (19)
  • Evan Smith – saxophone (19, 20, 22), flute (20, 22); electric guitar, organ, synthesizer (22), ukulele (22)
  • Eric Byers – cello (20)
  • Bobby Hawk – violin (20)
  • Hayley Williams – vocals (20)

Technical

  • Randy Merrill – mastering
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing (1–16, 19, 20, 22)
  • Jonathan Low – mixing, engineering (17, 18, 21)
  • David Payne – engineering (1–16)
  • Derek Garten – editing, engineering, programmer (1–16)
  • Jeremy Murphy – engineering (3, 9, 12)
  • Aaron Dessner – engineering (17, 18, 21)
  • David Hart – engineering (19, 20)
  • Evan Smith – engineering (19, 20, 22)
  • Jack Antonoff – engineering (19, 20, 22)
  • Laura Sisk – engineering (19, 20, 22)
  • Mikey Freedom Hart – engineering (19, 20)
  • Sean Hutchinson – engineering (19, 20, 22)
  • Eric Byers – engineering (20)
  • Jon Gautier – engineering (20)
  • Bryce Bordone – mix engineering (1–16, 19, 20, 22)
  • Christopher Rowe – vocal engineering
  • Taylor York – vocal engineering (20)
  • Lowell Reynolds – editing, engineering assistance (1–16)
  • Bella Blasko – additional engineering (17, 18)
  • Benjamin Lanz – additional engineering (17, 18)
  • James McAlister – additional engineering (17, 18)
  • Thomas Bartlett – additional engineering (17)
  • Patrick Stump – additional engineering (17)
  • John Rooney – engineering assistance (19, 20, 22)
  • Jon Sher – engineering assistance (19, 20, 22)
  • Megan Searl – engineering assistance (19, 20, 22)

Release history[]

Release dates and formats for Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
Region Date Format(s) Version Label
Various July 7, 2023 CD, cassette, vinyl LP
Digital download, streaming 		Standard Republic
United States July 13, 2023 Digital download Deluxe
Japan August 16, 2023 CD Standard Universal Japan
Japan Deluxe

Merchandise[]

Main article: Speak Now (Taylor's Version) photoshoot

Trivia[]

  • "Timeless" is the longest "From The Vault" track, being 5 minutes and 21 seconds long.
  • Most of the songs on the album have received a new length, ranging from 3 seconds shorter to 3 seconds longer than the originals.
  • After much speculation, Swift opted to change a heavily scrutinized lyric in "Better Than Revenge", changing "She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress" to "He was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches".
  • There are five other songs that were known to have been written around the time of Speak Now but were not chosen to be a "From The Vault" track on Speak Now (Taylor's Version). These are "Let’s Go (Battle)", "Bother Me", "Someone Just Told Me", "His Lies", and "Wonderful Things".
  • This was the first re-recording without a vault teaser video which could be due to the fact that the tracklist leaked before Swift could announce it. In the lithograph of Speak Now merchandise, Swift had used codenames for this re-recorded album's six vault tracks during early promotion to keep From The Vault songs private: "Earliest Truth", "Wade Each Fable in Lade", "I Cab Sun Yes", "Cabanas Caballero", "Facades Oat" and "Tackless".[60]

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Notes[]

  1. ↑ This article refers to these tracks as "vault tracks" hereafter for concision.
  2. ↑ Midnights, Lover, and Folklore charted at numbers five, seven, and 10, respectively.
  3. ↑ Red (Taylor's Version), 1989, Reputation, Fearless (Taylor's Version), Evermore, the 2010 version of Speak Now, and Taylor Swift charted at numbers 18, 19, 21, 23, 38, 67, and 138, respectively.
  4. ↑ The London Contemporary Orchestra consists of cellists Jonny Byers, Max Ruisi, and Oliver Coates; double bassist Dave Brown; violists Clifton Harrison, Matthew Kettle, Stephanie Edmundson, and Zoe Matthews; and violinists Anna Ovsyanikova, Anna de Bruin, Antonia Kesel, Charis Jenson, Charlotte Reid, Eloisa-Fleur Thorn, Galya Bisengalieva, Guy Button, Natalie Klouda, Nicole O'Donoghue, Nicole Stokes, and Zahra Benyounes.
Speak Now
"Mine" • "Sparks Fly" • "Back To December" • "Speak Now" • "Dear John" • "Mean" • "The Story Of Us" • "Never Grow Up" • "Enchanted" • "Better Than Revenge" • "Innocent" • "Haunted" • "Last Kiss" • "Long Live"
Deluxe Edition
"Ours" • "If This Was A Movie" • "Superman" • "Back To December" (acoustic) • "Haunted" (acoustic) • "Mine" (Pop Mix)
Taylor's Version
"Electric Touch" (feat. Fall Out Boy) • "When Emma Falls in Love" • "I Can See You" • "Castles Crumbling" (feat. Hayley Williams) • "Foolish One" • "Timeless"
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