Taylor Swift dropped her extremely anticipated re-recording of her 2010 album Converse Now (Taylor’s Model) on Friday (July 7) and it’s not simply Swifties who’re amped up about it. The singer celebrated the discharge with a be aware to followers by which she reminisced concerning the songs she started writing at 18 after which revisited as a 32-year-old, and all of the attendant recollections and feelings that journey unleashed.
“It’s right here. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s ours. It’s an album I wrote alone concerning the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas and tragedies I lived out as a younger lady between 18 and 20,” she wrote. “I keep in mind making tracklist after tracklist, obsessing over the best technique to inform the story. I needed to be ruthless with my decisions, and I left behind some songs I’m nonetheless unfailingly pleased with now.”
The revised model of the album contains all 16 songs from the unique and deluxe variations of the mission, plus six never-before-heard “From the Vault” tracks with two collaborations with Hayley Williams and Fall Out Boy; Williams visitors on a vault monitor known as “Castles Crumbling,” whereas Fall Out Boy seems on the vault monitor “Electrical Contact.” The opposite solo Vault songs on Converse Now are: “When Emma Falls in Love,” “I Can See You,” “Silly One” and “Timeless.”
Swift beforehand launched Pink (Taylor’s Model) and Fearless (Taylor’s Model), which equally featured re-recordings of these album’s tracks, in addition to beforehand unreleased songs that have been lower from these unique albums.
In her be aware to followers, Taylor addressed the brand new songs, writing, “subsequently, you could have 6 From The Vault tracks! I recorded this album once I was 32 (and nonetheless rising up, now) and the recollections it introduced again stuffed me with nostalgia and appreciation. For all times, for you, for the truth that I get to reclaim my work. Thanks one million occasions, for the recollections that break our fall.”
Along with re-recording the songs, Swift tweaked a lyric from the music “Higher Than Revenge,” which was rumored on the time to be impressed by ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas and his post-Tay girlfriend, Camilla Belle. On the unique, Swift sang: “She’s not a saint and he or she’s not what you assume, she’s an actress, whoa/ She’s higher identified for the issues that she does on the mattress, whoa.”
Within the re-recorded model, Swift stored the primary line the identical, however modified the latter line to: “He was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches, whoa.”
See Swift’s be aware under.