If 2023 has not yet been determined to be the Year of Taylor Swift, the world will likely stop once again when she is released. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) on July 7
Despite the relative award pay and lack of chart-topping singles, Swift’s third album, Speak Now, perhaps the most important in its extensive catalogue. Released in 2010, it is Swift’s first and only self-authored album after critics questioned the songwriter’s goodwill. More importantly, it marked her transition from a popular country singer to a mainstream celebrity, thanks to her high-profile dating life (thus starting the heavy teasing tradition of not-so-subtly targeting famous exes in her songs).
This last point already makes the upcoming re-release of the album a bit of a stretch, because speak Now It’s full of confessional quotes that allude to celebrities like John Mayer. The singer begged her fans to stop harassing the alleged person in question at her Eras Tour concert in Minneapolis last weekend. speak Now“Dear John” is her fifth track, before performing live for the first time since 2012.
Perhaps it was the frenzy surrounding Swift’s recent fling with provocative singer Matty Healy, finally setting boundaries between her fans and the celebrities she once orbited. Historically, the Grammy-winning artist has remained silent in cases of harassment and disclosure from his overzealous fan base—when he wasn’t infecting it himself. Swift was most recently criticized for not interfering with her online behavior, after the viral re-recording of “All Too Well,” in which she wrote about their months-long relationship, by her ex, Jake Gyllenhaal.
It will be especially fascinating to watch how Swift navigates fans’ reactions to certain songs. Talk Now (TV) considering the rich knowledge of the original album and especially the messy material. You can already imagine hundreds of TikTok’s educating or re-educating the public on the album’s juicy backstory, sifting through tabloid feeds you thought were old history. Whether Swift will underestimate the vendettas of those years or lean towards drama is anyone’s guess. (I bet on the latter.)
For now, let’s take a look at some of the key players that will inevitably be pushed back into the spirit of the times after 2018. Talk Now (TV)— and who might want to mute social media comments, July 7th.
john mayer
Swift’s message in Minneapolis was likely related to the Swifties’ online attack against Mayer on the Call Her Daddy podcast last December. Due to the ostensibly revealing nature of the show, fans assumed that Mayer would break up her relationship with Swift, which she didn’t. Still, they later started criticizing her on Twitter, accusing her of being prey to Swift, who she dated between 2009 and 2010, when she was 32 and 19.
In “Dear John,” Swift asks his older girlfriend about their age difference and says, “Don’t you think I was too young to mess with me?” However, last year’s midnight The bonus track “Would’ve, Could’ve, should’t” has a more recent insight into the short relationship: “And I certainly would never dance with the devil / At 19 / And the honest truth of God is that the pain was heaven. Fans,” I’m 33, I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19″, we’ll see if they really listen to Swift or continue to blame Mayer.
Taylor Lautner
This twilight The actor, who dated Swift in 2009, has announced several times that he has nothing to worry about with the upcoming re-recording of “Back to December,” which is rumored to be about him. Of course, she’s probably right because it’s the rare song where Swift regrets her treatment of her ex and not vice versa.
when asked a Today an interview about whether he’s ready to deal with the inevitable scrutiny Talk Now (TV), Lautner said “[felt] safe” and “praying for John” instead. After her comments went viral, she garnered attention by making a lame TikTok where she jokingly prayed for Mayer. Still, 12 years is a lot of time to think about, and he might not want to bring himself so overtly jinxed.
camilla belle
One of the biggest question marks about the album is the diss track “Better Than Revenge,” which allegedly targets actress Camilla Belle. This 10,000 BC The star became embroiled in a messy love triangle when she started dating Swift’s ex Joe Jonas after appearing in the Jonas Brothers’ “Lovebug” music video. In “Better Than Revenge,” the pop star angrily vows to take revenge on an “actress” who “stealed” her ex. The song has not aged well; “She’s more known for the things she does on the bed,” Swift said while insulting the nameless woman’s “always-present frown” and uttering her blatantly slut-shaming words.
Given Swift’s public statements of feminism over the years and her frankness about slut-shaming by the media, it’ll be interesting to see if she attributes the song to an apologetic point of view or if she attributes her brutality to immaturity.
Writer criticizing Grammy performance
“Average” can easily be applied directly to the Swifties and their online antics, but according to Swift herself, the main inspiration for the anti-bullying song is a music critic who negatively reviewed the 2010 Grammy duet with Stevie Nicks.
“The things this guy said about me knocked me down and leveled me off,” Swift said. 60 minutes report. In a video preview of “Average”, he did a lengthy review, separating “constructive criticism” and “professional criticism” from “just being rude.” Since then, many listeners have pointed to music critic Bob Lefsetz, who criticized his Grammy vocal performance on his website, writing that he “cannot sing”. He even wrote a post addressing the accusations and scolding the lyrics, “He’s drunk and grumbling about how I can’t sing / But you’re bad.”
Kanye West
no matter how tempted speak Now (see above), Swift took a softer approach to “Innocent” when addressing Kanye West, who infamously interrupted his VMA acceptance speech the previous year. She said on record that the song was dedicated to Ye because she thought it was important to “write a song”. with “its” instead of “about him”. And while “Innocent” is forgiving and sympathetic at first glance, “Wasn’t it easier on the days when you had lunch?” and “32 and still growing.”
Still, West proved anything but “innocent” in the years that followed, switching to full MAGA, harassing ex-wife Kim Kardashian on social media, and making anti-Semitic remarks. From all the re-recorded songs Talk Now (TV)this will definitely need some kind of attachment.