Taylor fanboy Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 (edited) Metacritic Score: Debut: 74 (4 reviews) Updates: 78 (6 reviews) 80 (10 reviews) 81 (11 reviews) 81 (12 reviews) The last review from its 10th Anniversary: STEREOGUM Spoiler It finds Swift between two worlds and it sees her using this in-between period to seek perspective and empathy. So much of Speak Now is Swift acting wise beyond her years, all while fixated on a time when those years were just beginning. She returns to the idea of childhood a lot, a simpler time that she recognizes was never all that simple, really. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) <Reviewer> - Score The Line of Best Fit - 7/10 The Independent - 4/5 SPIN - 80/100 Guardian - 3/5 Rolling Stone - 80/100 The Telegraph - 4/5 Clash Music - 80/100 SLANT - 80/100 American Songwriter - 90/100 Variety - 92/100 Pitchfork - 75/100 Taylor’s Discography MC scores: Spoiler Midnights (2022) 85 Red (2021) 91 Fearless (2021) 82 evermore (2020) 85 folklore (2020) 88 Lover (2019) 79 reputation (2017) 71 1989 (2014) 76 Red (2012) 77 Speak Now (2010) 77 Fearless (2008) 73 Taylor Swift (2006) 67 Edited July 12, 2023 by Taylor fanboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyPrismSpirit Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 i fear pitchfork will drag this some way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FolkLover1989 Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 14 minutes ago, KatyPrismSpirit said: i fear pitchfork will drag this some way It's getting panned She changed BTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FolkLover1989 Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 This will be her first album to get panned by p4k. Less than 6 incoming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born to Run Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 113 albums higher than 80/100 on MC this year, no way this is getting panned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEX Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 Red 77 vs Red TV 91 💀 The extra tracks certainly didn't improve the overall quality. Taylor is the literal proof of poptimism's existence. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byzantium Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 She better only get bad reviews for changing the lyrics to better than revenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dear Reader Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 coming for that 95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mezik Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 46 minutes ago, =NEX= said: Red 77 vs Red TV 91 💀 The extra tracks certainly didn't improve the overall quality. Taylor is the literal proof of poptimism's existence. I think it's more so proof that for the longest time critics were unnecessary hard on her, and her work. Had she used an entire production team to make her albums and had little input, then I would say yes - proof of poptimism, but critics unfairly targeted her songwriting for the longest time as if she would write at a Grade 2 English level. The only thing I think these rereleases are doing now are showcasing how brilliant of a songwriter she has always been and how her songwriting prowess has always been ignored. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BtDecember Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 It will be higher than Red TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gustavothehuman Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 She changed Better Than Revenge so I hope it gets panned 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Queen Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, =NEX= said: Red 77 vs Red TV 91 💀 The extra tracks certainly didn't improve the overall quality. Taylor is the literal proof of poptimism's existence. Cause the initial score underestimated the record, so many publications admit that Some of them drag her about the genre, saying it was chaos Red TV is just a chance for them to correct their mistake, so as the decade-end list. Now Red is considered as Taylor's magnum opus Edited July 6, 2023 by Monster Queen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klein Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 1 hour ago, =NEX= said: Red 77 vs Red TV 91 💀 The extra tracks certainly didn't improve the overall quality. Taylor is the literal proof of poptimism's existence. Not when the vault tracks includes masterpieces like Nothing New, Forever Winter, ATW10 ; and excellent songs like IBYTAM and TVFN. Hell, even MIAB is a fun song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor fanboy Posted July 6, 2023 Author Share Posted July 6, 2023 NYLON commentary Spoiler Now, at 33, Swift no longer feels like an outsider. And like her fans who feel her music and emo music have been the soundtrack of their lives, Swift can celebrate the artists that she leaned on when she did. For Swemos, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and its vault tracks represent the ultimate manifestation of Swift’s subtle nods to and lifelong flirtations with emo music: she’s finally bringing together her love of creating with her love of emo music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor fanboy Posted July 6, 2023 Author Share Posted July 6, 2023 The Line of Best Fit commentary Spoiler While Swift was at a crossroads — a girl turning into a woman in the public eye — Speak Now turned her diary entries of thoughts she never said into an album that gave her her own voice, sans co-writers. For the first time she was forced to reckon with the concept of celebrity post-Fearless and how turning into one, whether she wanted it or not, informed her own writing and perception of herself. Through her statement on the re-recorded Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), naturally she says it best: “It tells a tale of growing up, flailing, flying and crashing… and living to speak about it.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor fanboy Posted July 6, 2023 Author Share Posted July 6, 2023 Rolling Stone commentaries Better Than Revenge Spoiler Laying these tracks down once more is Swift’s way of preserving history rather than rewriting it — always adding more rather than taking away, at least not lyrically. Her voice has noticeably changed on the re-recordings fans have already heard, but she hasn’t yet tampered with the memories themselves. And if the goal is to recapture the emotional minefield the originals were created within, it’s unlikely that she would start now. In 2023, “Better Than Revenge (Taylor’s Version)” won’t align with Taylor Swift: Global Superstar, but at a point in time, “Better Than Revenge” did align with Taylor Swift: Pissed Off Teenager Who Hasn’t Fully Developed an Understanding of Feminism. Haunted Spoiler Long before she traded in country music for unstoppable pop stardom, there was a moment in time when Taylor Swift decided to go full emo. And it really was just a moment, particularly the mid-point of NBC‘s Thanksgiving Special: Taylor Swift – Speak Now in 2010, just one month after she released her third studio album Speak Now. Her nine-song setlist could have soundtracked a fairytale: There were dreamy renditions of “Sparks Fly” and “Enchanted,” but when she reached “Haunted,” Swift let the teenage angst that inspired it consume her completely. This was nearly 13 years ago at this point, so most of the footage from the performance scattered across YouTube does in fact look like it was recorded using a microwave. But the emotion in Swift’s vocals, soaked in pure devastation at the loss of a love that was supposed to last forever, still cuts deep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danes Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 I'm expecting 85-90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Johnson Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 I smell 5.5 from Pitchfork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobynYoBank Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, =NEX= said: Red 77 vs Red TV 91 💀 The extra tracks certainly didn't improve the overall quality. Taylor is the literal proof of poptimism's existence. Not really. Most culturally significant albums reviewed in a retrospective have much better reviews, not just pop albums or this re-recording. Edited July 6, 2023 by RobynYoBank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloröx Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 (edited) The Line of Best Fit : 7/10 Metacritic : TBD AOTY: TBD Edited July 7, 2023 by Cloröx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poxy Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Electric Cross get this album a 90 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Palmer Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Even The Line of Best Fit being butthurt that she’s changed BTR lyrics. The power that has Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shookspeare Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 PANNED! that's what she gets for ruining BTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor fanboy Posted July 7, 2023 Author Share Posted July 7, 2023 You are not stealing MY thread sis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor fanboy Posted July 7, 2023 Author Share Posted July 7, 2023 (edited) Line of Best Fit - 7/10 Kelsey Barnes Spoiler Despite that blemish, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is a cathartic release of pent-up frustrations of things she never had the confidence to say at 19 that are now stated proudly at 33. Edited July 7, 2023 by Taylor fanboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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