Taylor Swift - Taylor's Versions (Re-Recordings Official Thread) Album • Page 174

Yeah, I'm hoping the vocals were done a while ago. And with that one, I'll likely listen to the re-recording a couple times at most. I just want the vault tracks for Rep. You know she's been holding onto a gem or two at least for that one.

 

I am pretty certain she couldn't release anything until x amount of time after it's release, but there no way you can prevent her from singing in a studio

 

Correct. She had to wait five years to start the re-record, so 2022 in the case of Rep.

 

That second tweet works, but the first absolutely doesn't. No one thinks mcu is the pinnacle of the medium and you can absolutely trash the mcu any day and not get roasted for it

 

And many people (even in this thread) would say she’s already released quite a few stinkers.

 

Reputation is underrated imo so I'm excited for the vault tracks if they're actually from that era. I fully expect her to rework the vault tracks and I think she even talked about doing that when she was announcing this whole thing, but it's kind of a bummer when it doesn't sound like the album cycle it's from, in a way where I don't buy most of it was written back then. I just feel like she doesn't write as many tracks per cycle anymore but maybe I'm wrong

And I will be LIVING when the self titled re-release comes out. That'll prob be the weirdest sounding album but I'm excited for people to realize it rules.

 

I do believe that these vault tracks absolutely were started during 1989, but she never claimed that anything was fully formed and produced tracks ready to go. I think these ones definitely feel like Midnights because in many ways, the album is 1989 adjacent, so producing the vault songs now can end up in that zone, I think we'll get similar vibes from reputation vault

 

Everyone whose been sleeping on cold as you and Mary's song is gonna LEARN

 

Listening to more 1989 TV and I think I'm just way too familiar with the original because every single song sounds vastly different to me haha, vocally it's all sang so differently. It's not bad in any way, but it feels so extremely different to me

 

Like, OOTW is so wildly different, Jack singing at the end is a wholly different style, the drums are way different, she sings so much of the song in different ways, it's crazy

Of all the TV so far, this one is just not for me haha

 

It's interesting which TV versions just miss the mark for different people. I think I'm less attached to certain aspects of 1989 than I am to the other albums she's done this with so far. I love 1989, but I love it for the songs, not for the production or the instrumentation or even the specific vocal tics. Versus Red or Speak Now where I think all those elements are so crucial and were so misrepresented on the re-records. This one is easily the one I have the fewest problems with, in terms of the re-creation.

 

Ok what the actual fuck is going on with How You Get the Girl

 

Yeah I think this is all the right take, I've listened to this album so many times that every single tiny detail is engrained in my mind, so literally every second of this TV is audibly different to me

 

That was me with Red and Speak Now, albums I truly lived off in college. Red especially, I listened to so, so many times while I was in a long-distance relationship in 2012/13 and driving hours and hours every week, often with that album on the stereo. As a result, every single facet of that album 1) is memorized, and 2) means the world to me. This one I'm finding I'm a little less precious about, even though it's probably my 3rd or 4th favorite Taylor album.

 

I think all of this is just a reminder for me that albums are (and should be!) a moment in time, and recapturing them is really fucking hard. It's more than just the songs, or the producers, or the guest artists, or even the phrasing of a specific vocal line. You can capture magic in a take of a song that you will never, ever get back, whether you try again 10 minutes later or 10 years later. I feel like this is what makes albums so special, even if it means that something like the re-records will always be a complicated proposition to me.

 

And as much as I'm losing my mind over this TV specifically, I never listen to the other three either so it's a moot point in the end, I'm always going to want the originals how they were made.

 

Yep, 100%. I understand the reason she's doing this and she's absolutely killing it, it's amazing and insane, but I'm going to clutch the original mp3s in my iTunes forever

 

Wonderland is bizarre as hell, what's going on here

 

New production on You Are In Love is actually really cool, makes me like the song a little more.

Edit: am I misremembering a song I don't like, or is this the biggest change after Girl at Home?

 

Now That We Don't Talk absolutely is not a wholly new creation, the production is very New Romantics toned down

 

misremembering. that one is improved but it’s not like crazy different or anything

 

Weird, I mean I never ever listen to it, but I guess I remembered it more stripped back and less upbeat in the second half

 

Kendrick sounds so damn good, I think his re record is different enough that it's not uncanny valley for me, sounds just like a new recording rather than trying to ape his original

 

Not too high on the vault tracks on this one, but Say Don't Go and Suburban Legends are pretty great.