The Taylor’s Version albums, instigated by music manager Scooter Braun’s sale of her early catalog, represent Swift’s effort to control her own songs and how they’re used - a fitting ethos for “Speak Now,” a record built exclusively of her own voice.Ĭoming a year after Kanye West interrupted her acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, “Speak Now” is the moment in Swift’s career where she began to use her celebrity as a mirror to her interior life. “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” released Friday, is the third release of the six albums Swift plans to re-record. The album served as a close document of her nascent fame and future career ambitions, and now, 13 years on, it’s back. Swift proved her detractors wrong on “Speak Now,” an album that arrived just before her pivot from country’s youngest hope to pop’s freshest voice. Her 2006 self-titled debut and 2008’s “Fearless” had inspired both acclaim and criticism for her bold bridges and keen lyricism - these are masterful country-pop songs, critics argued, but surely a teen idol wasn’t responsible for them. LOS ANGELES (AP) - In 2010, newly anointed as a Grammy winner, Taylor Swift released “Speak Now,” her third studio album and her first without a single songwriting collaboration.
0 kommentar(er)
