February 15, 20215 yr Love Story is great to start with because a) it was a big global hit and quite ancient now, and b) Valentine's Day. These new versions will probably decline in popularity from here, so it was understandable that she didn't start with Tim McGraw or Look What You Made Me Do lol
February 15, 20215 yr All of them up to 'reputation'. I'm not sure how long she's going to be dragging out the releases (and it's also a little odd that she's starting with 'Fearless' instead of the self-titled but hey ho). It's been theorised that Taylor's started with Fearless because it's her breakthrough album, and was therefore more likely to receive a bigger wave of nostalgia and attention, than if she'd started with her debut (which wasn't really an entry point for most Taylor Swift fans or the public, internationally). Also, making Love Story the first taste of her re-recordings made this project begin with the lyrics: "We were both young when I first saw you, I close my eyes, and the flashbacks start"
February 15, 20215 yr I was so happy when Love Story broke through for Taylor. I bought her debut in early 2008 because I loved Teardrops On My Guitar and she just seemed like another country singer who would have limited UK success!
February 15, 20215 yr I also remember in the beginning I always thought Taylor would never ever make it big in the UK, but alas... :D what worries me is that this whole re-recording project seems gigantic, 6 releases, pushing singles,... it's gonna take years! and then we probably won't have another new studio album for a while...
February 15, 20215 yr Until 2012 it definitely seemed like she was destined only to ever have one huge hit. She seems to have a trojan work ethic so I'm sure there'll be a new album too before long!
February 15, 20215 yr I also remember in the beginning I always thought Taylor would never ever make it big in the UK, but alas... :D what worries me is that this whole re-recording project seems gigantic, 6 releases, pushing singles,... it's gonna take years! and then we probably won't have another new studio album for a while... It doesn't take "years" to play and sing 6-7 hours of music in the studio. She doesn't need to rewrite the songs.
February 15, 20215 yr ^I mean the release schedule, like now there's a lead single in Feb, album in April, vinyls in August... if she has to do x 6 times
February 15, 20215 yr presumably she won’t be releasing all six before putting out anything new and they’ll just be there to fill in the gaps between new albums.
February 15, 20215 yr I would think the rest of the albums will come out with way less fuss than the first one.
February 15, 20215 yr Yeah I agree I think she just made a big deal out of Love Story because it's that song. Plus it's the "start" of her re-release campaign, it'll probably go until 2022 but I expect the rest of the albums won't have quite the same cycle as a "lead" single and then album later.
February 15, 20215 yr Given Taylor's phenomenal work ethic I can fully see her squeezing out all of the re-releases this year before a new studio album next year.
February 15, 20215 yr I'm glad she's not releasing them week by week like the Elvis invasion of 2005! :lol: I still remember when Ciara interrupted his reign at the top
February 15, 20215 yr Manic Street Preachers’ Empty Souls should have got the 1000th #1 instead of One Night!
February 15, 20215 yr Manic Street Preachers’ Empty Souls should have got the 1000th #1 instead of One Night! Really though, Nelly feat. Tim McGraw - Over And Over should've been credited as the 1000th #1, and I consider it as such - if we don't count re-issued #1 singles going back to #1 as #1s twice.
February 15, 20215 yr Yeah I low-key think we’ll get another Taylor album or something new amidst all these new re-recordings! Also reputation can’t be re-recorded until 2022 so that’s one album that probs won’t be coming for a while
February 15, 20215 yr Until 2012 it definitely seemed like she was destined only to ever have one huge hit. She seems to have a trojan work ethic so I'm sure there'll be a new album too before long! I remember thinking this too, by early 2012 she seemed more famous for the Kanye stage interruption than anything she'd recorded and seemed sadly destined as a one-hit wonder, although she'd had a couple of low top 40 hits after Love Story. To get to the end of that year and be a megastar again was a really nice surprise. There was a brilliant documentary about her I saw at the cinema about this time a year ago that's worth watching. In early 2015 I was backpacking around the United States and you heard her music everywhere, the 1989 era along with Hozier's Take Me To Church/Sam Smith's I'm Not The Only One really were the soundtracks of that trip.
February 15, 20215 yr In early 2015 I was backpacking around the United States and you heard her music everywhere, the 1989 era along with Hozier's Take Me To Church/Sam Smith's I'm Not The Only One really were the soundtracks of that trip. Hearing Taylor's songs playing around while in the US, what a surprise. :whistle:
February 15, 20215 yr https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...-top-40__32450/ #25. UK, Hun? #30. Central Cee #33. Rita Ora - Big #34. Headie One/Burna Boy #35. slowthai #38. P!nk
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