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Switched on Pop

Speak Now (about Taylor's versions)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Taylor Swift is currently the most streamed artist in the world as she’s commandeered the media as she embarks on her Eras tour around the globe. It's likely to be the highest grossing tour of all time, crossing $1B in sales. What’s more, she’s just released her 6th studio album since 2020, and her 3rd re-recording of her older material called Taylor’s Versions. She famously got in a spat with the new owner of her master recordings. She decided to take back control with her own hands and voice, creating mostly true-to-the-original updates alongside a smorgasbord of bonus material. First there was Fearless from 2008, then Red from 2012 and now Speak Now the last of her more country leaning albums having originally arrived in 2010. Switched On Pop listens to Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) for whats is and isn’t working musically, how the re-recordings are fairing, and where this ambitious project may go next. Joining the conversation is Lauren Michele Jackson American cultural critic, assistant professor of English and African American studies at North Western, author of White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation and a contributing writer to the New Yorker in her review of Taylor Swift’s midnights said “I’ve always maintained that Swift is incapable of writing a bad song.” MORE Pop Pantheon: Checking in on Taylor Swift's Re-Recordings So Far (with Charlie Harding, Larisha Paul & Nora Princiotti) SONGS DISCUSSED Taylor Swift - Fearless, Red, Speak Now, Never Grow Up, The Story Of Us, Sparks Fly, Mine, Mean, Superman, Karma, Better than Revenge, Electric Touch, Castles Crumbling, When Emma Falls in Love, I Can See You, Back, To December, Last Kiss Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On July 21st, the cinematic experience of the summer arrives.

0:06.3

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an epic thriller about the man

0:10.3

who risked destroying the world for the one chance to save it.

0:14.1

Featuring an incredible cast, including Robert Downey Jr., Emily Bluntz, Oscar winner's

0:18.1

Matt Damon and Kenneth Brandock, Oscar nominee Florence Pugh, and Killian Murphy at J.

0:23.1

Robert Oppenheimer.

0:25.1

I think theaters to live 21st, rated R.

0:43.2

Welcome to Switched On Pop, I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.

0:46.6

Taylor Swift is currently the most streamed artist in the world, and she's

0:50.6

a common-deer of the media as she's embarked on her era's tour around the globe.

0:55.6

It's likely to be the highest-grossing tour of all time, crossing a billion dollars.

1:01.8

What's more is that she's just released her sixth studio album since 2020 and her third

1:07.0

re-recording of her older material.

1:09.6

G. Famously got in a spat with the new owner of her master recordings and decided to take

1:14.3

it into her own hands and voice to create these mostly true to the original updates alongside

1:20.2

a smorgasbore of bonus material.

1:23.1

First there was Fearless from 2008.

1:31.1

Then Red from 2012.

1:36.5

And now Speak Now, the last of her more country-leaning albums.

1:50.2

Today I want to listen to Speak Now, Taylor's version, to hear what is and maybe isn't working

1:56.1

musically.

1:57.1

I also want to look at how these re-recording are faring and where this ambitious project

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