Taylor Swift Announces New Version Of 'Fearless' Album, Confirms First Single
Thursday, 11 February 2021
Written by Laura Johnson
Taylor Swift has announced a new edition of her 2008 album 'Fearless'.
The pop superstar's reworked second album is called 'Fearless (Taylor's Version)' and is the first in her discography to be re-recorded following her promise to do so back in 2019, after the masters of her back catalogue were sold by her previous label to Scooter Braun, a move she was strongly against.
In a social media post, the singer-songwriter confirmed the album "has 26 songs including 6 never before released songs from the vault." She also announced that the new version of the cut Love Story will be released tonight (February 11).
In an extensive statement in the same post, Swift has alluded to the record's release date as April 9 by capitalising certain letters — we've put them in red for you.
The new version of the album will follow up 2020's 'Folklore' and 'Evermore', which were both recorded during the coronavirus lockdown last year.
"When I think bAck on the fearless album and all that you turned into, a completely involuntary smile creeps across my face. This was the musical era in which so many inside jokes were created between us, so many hugs exchanged and hands touched, so many unbreakable bonds formed. So before I say anything else, let me just say that it was a real honor to get to be a teenager alongside you, and for those of you I've come to know more recently than 2008 I am ecstatic that I'll get to exPerience a bit of that feeling with you in the very near future, now that I can fully appreciate it in its whimsical, effervescent, chaotic entirety.
"Fearless was an album full of magic and curiosity, the bliss and devastation of youth. It was the diaRy of the adventures and explorations of a teenage girl who was learning tiny lessons with every new crack in the facade of the faIrytale ending she'd been shown in the movies. I'm thrilled to tell you that my new version of fearless is done and will be with you soon. It's called Fearless (Taylor's Version) and it includes 26 songs.
"I've spoken a lot about why I'm remaking my first six albums, but the way I've chosen to do this will hopefuLy help illuminate where I'm coming from. Artists should own their own work for so many reasons, but the most screamingly obvious one is that the artist is the only one who really *knows* that body of work. For example, only I know which songs I wrote that almost made the Fearless album. Songs I absolutely adored, but were held back for different reasons (don't want too many breakup songs, don't want too maNy down tempo songs, can't fit that many songs on a physical CD).
"Those reasons seem unncessary now. I've decIded I want you to have the whole story, see the entire vivid picture, and let you into the entire dreamscape that is my Fearless album. That's why I've chosen to include 6 never before released songs on my version of this album. Written when I was betweeN the ages of 16 and 18, these were the ones it killed me to leave behind.
"This process has been more fulfilling and emoTional than I could've imagined and has made me even more determined to re-record all of my music. I Hope you'll like this first outing as much as I liked travelling back in time to recreate it.
"Love Story (Taylor's Version) will be out tonight.
"Sincerely and fearlessly, Taylor."
I’m thrilled to tell you that my new version of Fearless (Taylor’s Version) is done and will be with you soon. It has 26...
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