Taylor Swift releases re-record of 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)'

Taylor Swift re-introduced another era with the release of her re-recorded "Taylor’s Version" of her third studio album Speak Now.

"It’s here. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s ours," Swift wrote in an emotional social media post. "It’s an album I wrote alone about the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas and tragedies I lived out as a young woman between 18 and 20."

The 22-track album dropped Friday, July 7 at midnight and features fan-favorites like "Ours" and "Enchanted."

The original award-winning 2010 album featured 16 songs, Swift's re-releases has additional songs "from the vault," which includes collaborations with Fall Out Boy and Paramore. 

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"I remember making tracklist after tracklist, obsessing over the right way to tell the story," her post continued. "I had to be ruthless with my choices, and I left behind some songs I am still unfailingly proud of now. Therefore, you have 6 From The Vault tracks!"

"I recorded this album when I was 32 (and still growing up, now) and the memories it brought back filled me with nostalgia and appreciation," the Grammy-winning artist added. "For life, for you, for the fact that I get to reclaim my work. Thank you a million times, for the memories that break our fall."

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) marks the next re-recorded album from the singer-songwriter, following Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version), both released in 2021. 

In 2019, Swift first confirmed that she was re-recording her first six albums on "Good Morning America," after her label Big Machine sold her masters to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings. Prior to the songwriter owning the rights to her music, Swift said that Braun was preventing her from performing her own music for her dedicated fans. 

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In November 2020, after her masters were sold once again to Shamrock Holdings, Swift penned a long post on Twitter, saying that she had started the process of re-recording her old music.

In a hometown Eras Tour show in Nashville, Tennessee, Swift announced the long awaited Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). 

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Upon the announcement, the city turned on purple lights on the nearby bridge over the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee.

After making the announcement, she posted to her social media accounts.

"It fills me with such pride and joy to announce that my version of Speak Now will be out July 7 (just in time for July 9th, iykyk)." the "Enchanted" singer wrote in a Twitter post, hinting at the date in the "Speak Now" lyrics of "Last Kiss" – which many Swifties believe to be the date when she visited her then-boyfriend Joe Jonas

"I first made Speak Now, completely self-written, between the ages of 18 and 20." Swift continued. "The songs that came from this time in my life were marked by their brutal honesty, unfiltered diaristic confessions and wild wistfulness. I love this album because it tells a tale of growing up, flailing, flying and crashing… and living to speak about it."

GREG GUTFELD: The California Reparations Task Force's recommendations 'sound really racist'

Happy Thursday, everybody. What a short week it is. Now, as you probably already know, California has a reparations task force. And what's their task, besides giving government employees something to do between renaming elementary schools after Marxists and handing out syringes? It lets them punish citizens for crimes committed before they were born, against people they don't know in places most of them have never even been to. You know, that's like punishing me because in the past, one of my relatives bought a Red Hot Chili Peppers record. I can't, be held accountable for every white person's atrocity. 

The task force just released a report of over 1,000-pages, and it's all about, "eliminating disparities." You know, like the one between people who own small businesses and people who loot small businesses, like between people who use a bathroom and people who pee behind trash cans.

KAT TIMPF: That was one time.

Yes and it's on tape. 

CALIFORNIA REPARATIONS TASK FORCE CALLS FOR ELIMINATING CHILD SUPPORT DEBT FOR BLACK RESIDENTS

The main recommendation, of course, is reparations. They want to give up to $1.2 million to each eligible California resident to make up for their ancestors being enslaved in other states. Basically replacing policy with Powerball. 

How in the world would that even work? Where would the money come from? Why should an Asian family, that just moved to America be forced to pay for a bad thing that happened 150 years ago. And as you know, origin stories, they could be problematic. Barack Obama, descendant of slave owners. Donald Trump not a descendant of slave owners. John Fetterman, who's he a descendant of? I mean, you can see how it gets confusing. And I mean, does Joy Behar pay reparations when whatever she descended from no longer exists? But luckily for Hillary Clinton, whomever she descended from is still very, very powerful. But that's just the beginning. 

The task force has also called on the state legislature to cancel child support debt for Black residents.

TYRUS: Yes. Yeah. Whew.

You're not in California, Tyrus.

TYRUS: I identify.

So, who does that help? Well, whoever owes the debt. But who does it hurt? Who ever needs that support? If it weren't for white liberals, Black families might actually succeed more. But here's my favorite policy recommendation. 

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I'm just going to read this as is, "Law enforcement is frequently tasked with enforcing public disorder offenses, such as illegal camping, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, minor trespass, and," my favorite, "public urination. Although the subjects of these contacts are often experiencing homelessness, a mental health crisis or both, the responding officers typically possess neither training or expertise in working with these vulnerable populations. And this disconnect often results in the use of excessive and sometimes fatal force that falls disproportionately on Black individuals." 

Given the devastating impacts of this kind of over policing, they recommend that the legislature prohibit law enforcement from criminally enforcing public disorder infractions and other low level crimes. There you have it. Don't enforce the law because the guy breaking the law might be Black. And boy, that's a lot of unenforced law. But it's weird, all of these ideas to help Black Californians always sound really racist. Forgive child support debt, let people pee on the street, I mean, what liberal came up with these? David Duke? Joe Biden? Hard to tell. 

Meanwhile, if you're just trying to mind your own business, raise a family or work, you still got to pay taxes, but with the added value of people literally pissing on you. California has been home to a lot of awful things earthquakes, fires, the Manson family, 20 seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, but slavery was never one of them, and yet they're using that past evil to create a present divide that only the very rich and the very protected can endure. 

You know the old phrase, don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. The left doesn't even bother to lie anymore. Now they'll just piss on you and call you a racist for complaining.

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