The Grammy-winner’s highly-anticipated re-recorded album invites fans and music enthusiasts to revisit and enjoy her revised work.
her third studio album and her first without a single songwriting collaboration.
In preparation for "Speak Now ," The Associated Press reached out to Taylor Swift scholars to discuss all the ways listeners can and should think about the release.Before "Speak Now" became "Speak Now," the working title was "Enchanted," named after the power ballad of the same name.
Elizabeth Scala teaches a course on Taylor Swift's songbook at the University of Texas at Austin as an introduction to literary studies and research methods. "Insults are everywhere in music, and men don’t get the same flak for it," Hirsch says, in reference to "Dear John" and "Mean." "There’s this idea that women especially are supposed to take the high road, turn the other cheek and all of that, and men can get away with the low road, and they certainly do in music. It’s a kind of double standard. Women are labeled ‘catty’ when confronting bad behavior, like in ‘Dear John.
In the original chorus of "Better Than Revenge," Swift sings, "She’s an actress / She’s better known for the things she does on the mattress," a rare lyrical misstep in a career underscored by poetic turns of phrases . In her 2023 "Better Than Revenge" version, the lyric becomes "He was a moth to the flame / She was holding the matches."
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