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Taylor Swift’s fourth and newest “Taylor’s Version” isn’t just a release, it’s a healing process.
The pop superstar’s re-recorded LP arrived promptly at midnight, nine years to the day after the 2014 release of the 1989 original.
While Swifties everywhere tuned in, tuned in, and stopped what they were doing, TayTay took to her social channels to share a think piece, peppered with easy-to-find Easter eggs.
“I was born in 1989, reinvented for the first time in 2014, and in 2023 a part of me was reclaimed with the re-release of this album that I love so much,” Swift’s message, written in her own handwriting, reads.
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“Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the magic you would cast over my life for so long.”
The new release features re-recorded editions of all 13 original songs, as well as three bonus tracks (“Wonderland,” “New Romantics,” and “You Are In Love”) and five tracks from the “Vault” (“Is It Over Now?”). , “Now That We Don’t Talk”, “Say Don’t Go”, “Suburban Legends” and “Slut!”).
“This moment is a reflection of the forests we have wandered through and all that love between us that still shines even in the darkest hour,” she writes. “It is with gratitude and wild amazement that I present to you my version from 1989. It has been waiting for you.”
Swift’s latest social media post is accompanied by pictures of the pop star frolicking on the beach, eating ice cream and living life like it’s 1989 all over again.
With the release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Swift only has two more albums left to re-record: her 2006 self-titled debut and 2017’s Reputation, the last album she released on Big Machine Records. In 2021 she released Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) and in July of this year she released Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).
Stream 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and check out TayTay’s social media post below.