album Taylor Swift - 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)'

[NEX]

I still can't get over the song choice to promote this re-recording. Not only it is by far the worst song on it, it is also the least representative of its sound.. like tf

 

[justin.]

Metacritic added Pitchfork’s 75, and we’re still at universal acclaim! Success stans and quality stans both won!

 

If only NME would swoop in with a 100. 

[1989]

2 hours ago, Enrique523 said:

It's literally my favorite Speak Now song, even above Enchanted. I find it THAT good.

I love Enchanted with my whole heart, but there’s a few on SN I’ve always loved more. Dear John, Last Kiss, Long Live, Sparks Fly, The Story Of Us. 

[Dear Reader]

went in my local store to buy Speak Now CD and they were SOLD OUT 

[Mr. Duff]

Castles Crumbling and Electric Touch are top five Taylor collab songs ever. Both songs are just stellar!

Timeless and Foolish One are just almost perfect country songs, amazing tracks!

 

I Can See You is catchy, but I don’t get why it’s the pushed track. It doesn’t sound like a Speak Now track at all. It’s cute though.

 

Emma is okay, clearly the worst vault track though.

[Mr. Duff]

And my personal (and super unpopular) opinion, but Enchanted is bottom tier for

me (sorry!). I mean I love it but Mine, Back to December, Long Live, Haunted, Speak Now, Sparks Fly, and Last Kiss >>>>>>

[YellowRibbon]

Day 5 Spotify numbers are fine, around 15M streams on Spotify US should bring day 5 to around 20M on-demand streams. 

 

Globally it'll do around 38-39M unfiltered which is decent.

[Aiya]

37 minutes ago, Mr. Duff said:

And my personal (and super unpopular) opinion, but Enchanted is bottom tier for

me (sorry!). I mean I love it but Mine, Back to December, Long Live, Haunted, Speak Now, Sparks Fly, and Last Kiss >>>>>>

ICSY doesn’t fit into Speak Now but it’s very catchy summer song. I wish she would push Last kiss instead tho with that 9th of July and 1:58 references. If it was a fall release Enchanted would fit just perfect, but it’s all said and done now(

[Aiya]

2 minutes ago, Aiya said:

ICSY doesn’t fit into Speak Now but it’s very catchy summer song. I wish she would push Last kiss instead tho with that 9th of July and 1:58 references. If it was a fall release Enchanted would fit just perfect, but it’s all said and done now(

 

46 minutes ago, Mr. Duff said:

Castles Crumbling and Electric Touch are top five Taylor collab songs ever. Both songs are just stellar!

Timeless and Foolish One are just almost perfect country songs, amazing tracks!

 

I Can See You is catchy, but I don’t get why it’s the pushed track. It doesn’t sound like a Speak Now track at all. It’s cute though.

 

Emma is okay, clearly the worst vault track though.

I quoted wrong post in my first massage 

[BODERLINE]

I’m really sad we didn’t get an Enchanted music video. I love ICSY, but Enchanted deserved its MOMENT 

[Starchild]

48 minutes ago, Mr. Duff said:

And my personal (and super unpopular) opinion, but Enchanted is bottom tier for

me (sorry!). I mean I love it but Mine, Back to December, Long Live, Haunted, Speak Now, Sparks Fly, and Last Kiss >>>>>>

finally someone with Taste! Enchanted IS bottom tier, I was so mad when it kept winning the damn rates it's just so overrated in the fanbase and I feel like it would've been extremely hard to make that song a #1. Haunted and BTD stomp on it 

[Mr. Duff]

2 minutes ago, Starchild said:

finally someone with Taste! Enchanted IS bottom tier, I was so mad when it kept winning the damn rates it's just so overrated in the fanbase and I feel like it would've been extremely hard to make that song a #1. Haunted and BTD stomp on it 

I know it was a pain to give it a low score just because it would have won again. It’s a great song not gonna lie, but since Taylor has so many great songs, it doesn’t really match up with the other brilliant songs, not even in its parent album. But hey, that’s just me.

[Buffy]

6 hours ago, Ampersand13 said:

I get some of the negativity surrounding Sparks Fly (TV) but with every listen I love it more and more just as much as the stolen version. I think the only track that is going to take just a bit more time getting used to is Enchanted (which isn't botched by any means)

 

How this woman managed to put her entire p***y  soul into Last Kiss, Dear John, Mine, Back to December, Story of Us, Better Than Revenge and the vault tracks There really isn't a single song I don't thoroughly enjoy 

Sparks Fly TV gets better after each listen. Do you by chance have the credits for this song? I noticed she does her own backup vocals but there’s also new male harmonies underneath which weren’t there on the OG. The original Sparks Fly in 2007 (pre-Speak Now) had male harmonies in her live concert, so I think it’s pretty cool to hear them in this TV.

 

The TV version is nearly flawless. The only thing I notice is her vocals are flat when she sings “wrong enough to make it feel right” Right is VERY flat. And it’s during one of the best parts of the song which makes it even more obvious. Her vocals are also flat when she sings softly “take away the pain.” Away is flat. I’m thinking she may have only done a couple takes on this song and Chris Rowe used whatever he could. Other than that, the song is well done and the production is a little less rock and more country than the OG (which IMO is a good thing). I do think she should’ve spent more time polishing up this track considering it’s more known than her other ones.

Edited July 12, 2023 by Buffy

[gagacasanova]

I'm starting to warm up a bit to this. Back to December finally clicked for me.

[sh0ckw4ves]

Why am I still not prepared to accept that there won't be any signed CDs 

[305]

5 hours ago, Taylor fanboy said:

I’m used to all the TVs now but I really can’t help myself from pointing out what’s missing every second.
 

The explosive fireworks-like string(?) sound from the old is missing on the last chorus of Sparks Fly TV.

Can you point out some more differences? I listened to the original and couldn't really tell what was different besides her voice and the BTR lyric change

[Mezik]

So, after listening to this for almost 96 hours straight I can confirm "Castles Crumbling" and "Timeless" are indeed those songs and up there in God tier with Ivy and All too Well I must say.

[Taylor fanboy]

Just now, 305 said:

Can you point out some more differences? I listened to the original and couldn't really tell what was different besides her voice and the BTR lyric change

@Starchild won’t like it if I do.

 

Kidding aside, I will on Sparks Fly some other time. Seems kinda pointless when I’ll get side comments of “it’s the same”, “you care for something insignificant” etc.

[BODERLINE]

6 minutes ago, sh0ckw4ves said:

Why am I still not prepared to accept that there won't be any signed CDs 

I'm praying she held them back to give a boost for Week 2 

[sh0ckw4ves]

Just now, BODERLINE said:

I'm praying she held them back to give a boost for Week 2 

See you here in Week 3 when we're still saying the same thing 

[Lemon]

6 minutes ago, Mezik said:

So, after listening to this for almost 96 hours straight I can confirm "Castles Crumbling" and "Timeless" are indeed those songs and up there in God tier with Ivy and All too Well I must say.

Picking the best two Vault tracks. 
I have to add Foolish One to complete the triangle. 

[BODERLINE]

2 minutes ago, sh0ckw4ves said:

See you here in Week 3 when we're still saying the same thing 

I'll be saying it every week till 1989 TV drops cause if she makes this the only TV without signed copies i stg 

[1989]

24 minutes ago, sh0ckw4ves said:

See you here in Week 3 when we're still saying the same thing 

She’s never beating the allegations she hates SN if this is the only album in years she doesn’t release signed CDs for 

[Edibles.]

Am I the only one that thinks the vault songs are just fine? Maybe they haven’t grown enough on me yet.

[Taylor fanboy]

“Singles”:

AAA - Castles Crumbling

Country - Timeless