Happy Monday, friends! Hope you have a wonderful week ahead.
So can we just talk for a tiny minute about the buh-rilliance of Taylor Swift!? lol
She did not own the rights to her own music with the past label, and rather than sitting around being upset or feeling powerless about that, she is literally releasing new versions of her first five albums (Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, and 1989). And breaking all manner of sales records and Spotify streaming records in the process. Very same songs, newly recorded with a stronger new attitude behind them! It's fantastic and making me very happy to watch her success. There's something particularly funny and hopeful to me about the level of success these songs are having in round two... I don't know of any other artist that's attempted something like this, but her belief in herself and her music and her story (which is the lyrics to her music) is inspiring, and it's clearly paying off!
There are a few songs thrown in that didn't make the cut on the original album release, and she's making playful new music videos and has directed a short film... and she broke records by performing a 10-minute version of a 2012 song on SNL this weekend.
I just love that she is pulling this off!
*And I love that she released her version of Better Man on this album... I have loved the lyrics of that song by Little Big Town for years but had no idea Taylor actually wrote it!! Makes lots of sense why I connected with it now.
**And I LOVE that these new (Taylor's Version) recordings have been contracted for use with Peloton!!! #yusssplease #tswiftartistseries #butnotwithCody
Some love her and some hate her for it, but her songs are all written about personal experiences in her own life, and there's something really beautiful and cathartic about taking the opportunity to go back a decade later and look closely at those things... throwing in some stuff you didn't find worthy before and putting a more fierce and resilient spin on anything that felt sad or hopeless at the time. SO GOOD.
It makes me want to do a (Lindsey's Version) edited re-release of some of my own past thoughts and writing. lol Over the past week, Taylor re-released the Red album, including an album-only #brilliantchoice 10-minute version of All Too Well, and she released a video this morning for I Bet You Think About Me. She is currently in what appears to be a happy, long-term relationship... and she is absolutely raking it in with snarky/sad breakup songs she wrote ten years ago. And the fans, including myself, are here for all of it!!
...It turned out I'm harder to forget than I was to leave.
And I bet you think about me.
That's all I've got for now. ❤
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