Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).Photo:Beth Garrabrant
Beth Garrabrant
Taylor Swiftis opening up about the six new songs featured on her re-recorded albumSpeak Now (Taylor’s Version).
The singer-songwriter, 33, dropped the new songs early Friday and revealed more about the selection processin a reflective Instagram postsoon after.
“I had to be ruthless with my choices, and I left behind some songs I am still unfailingly proud of now. Therefore, you have 6 From The Vault tracks!” Swift revealed about how the new releases were originally left off her 2010 album.
The new tracks — “Electric Touch,” “When Emma Falls in Love,” “I Can See You,” “Castles Crumbling,” “Foolish One” and “Timeless” — sit alongside the original 16 songs on an album Swift described in the post as one she “wrote alone about the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas and tragedies I lived out as a young woman between 18 and 20.”
“I remember making tracklist after tracklist, obsessing over the right way to tell the story,” she added about how it took time to nail down the framework of her third studio album, which followedTaylor SwiftandFearless.
Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) back cover.Beth Garrabrant
Always appreciative of her loyal Swifties, the singer then shared that she rerecorded the album at 32 and that, “the memories it brought back filled me with nostalgia and appreciation. For life, for you, for the fact that I get to reclaim my work."
“Thank you a million times, for the memories that break our fall,“ she said alongside a dreamlike image of her lying amid pink blossom under a tree.
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Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).Beth Garrabrant
“I first madeSpeak Now, completely self-written, between the ages of 18 and 20,”Swift wrote on Instagramwhen she announcedSpeak Now (Taylor’s Version).
A loose concept album about the times she wishes she had spoken up, Swift previouslyteased toSongwriter Universemagazinethat each song is meant to serve as “a different confession to a different person.”
In addition to writing songs about her family and her fans, Swift also pens several songs about her public heartbreaks and adversaries.
source: people.com
