Speak Now (Taylor's Version) Taylor Swift

• 1 Mine (Taylor's Version) 03:51
• 2 Sparks Fly (Taylor’s Version) 04:21
• 3 Back To December (Taylor's Version) 04:54
• 4 Speak Now (Taylor's Version) 04:02
• 5 Dear John (Taylor's Version) 06:45
• 6 Mean (Taylor's Version) 03:58
• 7 The Story Of Us (Taylor's Version) 04:27
• 8 Never Grow Up (Taylor's Version) 04:52
• 9 Enchanted (Taylor's Version) 05:53
• 10 Better Than Revenge (Taylor's Version) 03:40
• 11 Innocent (Taylor's Version) 05:01
• 12 Haunted (Taylor's Version) 04:05
• 13 Last Kiss (Taylor's Version) 06:09
• 14 Long Live (Taylor's Version) 05:17
• 15 Ours (Taylor’s Version) 03:55
• 16 Superman (Taylor’s Version) 04:34
• 17 Electric Touch (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) 04:26
• 18 When Emma Falls in Love (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) 04:12
• 19 I Can See You (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) 04:33
• 20 Castles Crumbling (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) 05:06
• 21 Foolish One (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) 05:11
• 22 Timeless (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) 05:21
• Total Runtime 01:44:33

Info for Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is Taylor’s third re-recorded album. It is set to be released on July 7, 2023, via Republic Records, as the re-recording of her third studio album, Speak Now (2010). The re-recording is part of her counteraction to defy the changed ownership of the masters to her first six studio albums. Taylor announced the album on May 5, 2023, in Nashville, at an “The Eras Tour” concert.

"Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)" contains 22 tracks, six of which are designated “From the Vault” — unreleased songs that were written for Speak Now but did not make the final cut in 2010. “If This Was A Movie (Taylor’s Version)“, a deluxe track from the original album, was released as a promotional single and included with The More Fearless (Taylor’s Version) Chapter earlier in 2023; it was the only track from Speak Now to have a co-writer. The vinyl edition of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is a set of three albums.

Speak Now was a reaction. After two massive albums, as her star was ascending to new heights, Taylor was tired of hearing that she didn’t write her own songs. So for her third studio album, she decided not to write with anyone else — let the credits show that she could make a sparkling country song catchy enough to cross over to pop radio all on her own. And so she did. It wouldn’t stop those doubts about her authenticity, but for anyone willing to take Taylor at face value, Speak Now was proof that she is a formidable talent. Taylor reflected on the album 13 days before its release, saying:

«Speak Now is an album that is so incredibly important to me. This was an album that I wrote between the ages of 18 and 20, and I wrote it completely alone without any collaborators in the co-writing department. It was something that I wanted to do, I think to prove to myself, and I ended up writing a really, really intense, magical album.» (Taylor Swift)

As per her contract with Big Machine Records, Taylor released six studio albums under the label from 2006 to 2017. In late 2018, the contract with the label expired; she hence withdrew from Big Machine and signed a new recording deal with Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group, which secured her the rights to own the masters of the new music she will release. In 2019, American businessman Scooter Braun and his company Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine. As part of the acquisition, ownership of the masters to Taylor’s first six studio albums, including Speak Now, transferred to Braun. Taylor denounced Braun’s purchase of the label, and announced that she would re-record her first six studio albums, so as to own their masters herself. At her “The Eras Tour” concert on June 24, 2023, she said:

«Ever since I was a teenager and I started putting out my albums, I knew that my long-term goal was to one day own my art, my work, my music. That’s just always been something I’ve really wanted and dreamed about. And so a couple of years ago, I announced that I was going to be re-recording and re-releasing my entire first six albums. [...] This is a passion project. This is something that I wanted to do personally, because I wanted to own my work.» (Taylor Swift)

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift
is a seven-time GRAMMY winner, and the youngest recipient in history of the music industry’s highest honor, the GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year. She is the best-selling digital music artist of all time, and the only female artist in music history (and just the fourth artist ever) to twice have an album hit the 1 million first-week sales figure (2010’s Speak Now and 2012’s RED). She’s a household name whose insanely catchy yet deeply personal self-penned songs transcend music genres, and a savvy businesswoman who has built a childhood dream into an empire.

But the numbers don’t tell Taylor's story half as well as she could. After all, it’s the intangibles that elevate Swift into the stratosphere of our pop culture planet, allowing the 24-year old singer-songwriter to orbit in a more rarified air. Her large-scale charitable contributions are one thing, but it’s in the small gestures – the notes of compassion she posts on the Instagram photos of lovelorn fans, the genuine hugs she distributes without discretion – where Swift proves time and time again that platinum-selling, record-setting success has not changed her inherent nature. She is awkwardly honest and powerfully empathetic; a brazen superfan, loyal friend, fierce protector of hearts; and one of the world’s greatest ambassadors for the power of just being yourself.

Granted, for Taylor, “being herself” tends towards shimmering, gossamer perfection – but that’s an image regularly blown whenever she dons fake braces and a tri-pony to clown around on late night TV. She’s the first artist since the Beatles (and the only female artist in history) to log six or more weeks at #1 with three consecutive studio albums, and while she’s been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, she’s probably the only person on that list who uses social media to post notes to her best friends and videos of her cats.

As Billboard’s youngest-ever Woman of the Year prepares to release her fifth album, 1989, she finds herself, as always, in the glare of a blinding spotlight of expectation – but if you think that scares her, you haven’t been paying attention. She calls 1989 her most sonically cohesive collection, and armed with first single, “Shake It Off,” she’s ready to blaze into the next phase of her still-young career, where she’ll continue to dance like no one’s watching, write like she stole our collective diary, and inevitably soar to ever-greater heights. All that’s left to wonder is how many more lives she’ll lift in the process.

This album contains no booklet.