Taylor Swift debuted “four previously unreleased songs” ahead of the start of her highly anticipated, Ticketmaster-breaking stadium tour on Friday.
The “Anti-Hero” and “Lavender Haze” hitmaker released the quartet of singles at midnight “in celebration of the Eras Tour,” which follows the October release of her critically acclaimed and record-breaking “Midnights” album. Swift announced her latest listening offering Thursday over Instagram stories and they manifested themselves hours later on Spotify, fueling the frenzy over which Swift album would next get the full “Taylor’s Version” treatment.
The tunes are all “Taylor’s Version” tracks, meaning they are re-recordings of music that was stuck in the ownership hiatus when their former Big Machine Records label was sold to Scooter Braun in 2019. Swift lost the master recordings on her first six albums, but later developed “a plan to re-record her early works in order to devalue these masters by essentially supplanting them in the market with products she owns,” explained the music critic The Times’ Mikael Wood. (Braun later sold the label to private equity group Ithaca Holdings for an alleged $300 million).
Following the “Taylor’s Version” remakes of her Grammy-winning 2021 albums “Fearless” and “Red,” the country crossover star released a handful of shots on Friday marked with her subtle flex staple. This includes the guitar-heavy rock ballad “Eyes Open (Taylor’s Version)” And “Safe & Sound (Taylor’s Version)” with Joy Williams and John Paul White from the Civil Wars. Both songs were featured on the soundtrack of the 2012 blockbuster The Hunger Games.
The 33-year-old superstar also debuted on Friday “If This Was a Movie (Taylor’s Version)”, whose previous iteration came from the Target Deluxe edition of their 2010 album Speak Now, their third studio album. The original song was also released as a promotional single on iTunes and Amazon in 2011.
The fourth track is the love song “All The Girls You’ve Loved Before” a previously leaked outtake from her seventh studio album Lover.
Of course, Swifties celebrated the arrival of their Queen’s new music and fueled speculation about which historic album would be next remastered by the singer-songwriter. they also complained that the songs were not immediately available on Spotify at midnight. You will recall that the streaming platform crashed in October shortly after the release of their “Midnights” album. Don’t mess with it the SwiftiesOK?
The Eras Tour begins Friday with back-to-back shows in Glendale, Arizona, its mayor temporarily renamed the city “Swift City”. sanctify the start. The tour stops locally in Inglewood, California this summer with a five-night stop at SoFi Stadium on August 3-5, 8-9. In doing so, Swift becomes the first artist to perform as many shows at the 70,000-seat, $5 billion venue, which opened in 2020 and serves as the shared home of the NFL’s LA Rams and LA Chargers.
Source : www.latimes.com