Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
Studio album (re-recorded) by Taylor Swift
Released	July 7, 2023
Studio	Big Mercy (Brooklyn); Blackbird (Nashville); The Clubhouse (Rhinebeck); The Dwelling (New York); EBC (London); Electric Lady (New York); Hutchinson Sound (Brooklyn); Kitty Committee (Belfast); Long Pond (Hudson Valley); Pleasure Hill (Portland); Prime Recording (Nashville); Rough Customer (Brooklyn); Sound House (Lakeland);
Genre	Country pop; pop rock;
Length	104:33
Label	Republic
Producer	Taylor Swift; Christopher Rowe; Aaron Dessner; Jack Antonoff;
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Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is the third re-recorded album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on July 7, 2023, by Republic Records. It is part of her re-recording projects following the 2019 dispute over the ownership of her back catalog. Swift announced the album at the Nashville concert of her sixth headlining tour, the Eras Tour, on May 5, 2023.

Speak Now (Taylor's Version) consists of songs written solely by Swift. She produced the re-recorded versions of 16 tracks from her third studio album, Speak Now (2010), with Christopher Rowe, and six previously unreleased "From the Vault" tracks with Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner. Two vault tracks respectively featured Fall Out Boy and Hayley Williams. A country pop and pop rock album, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) incorporates various rock styles such as emo, pop-punk, and alternative rock. Its sound is characterized by prominent electric guitars, dynamic drums, and strings. Reflecting Swift's adolescence, the songs document emotions of affection, grievance, and heartbreak, forming a loose concept album of unspoken confessions.

Music critics praised Swift's emotionally-engaging songwriting in the album and the matured tone of her vocal performances, although the edit to a lyric in the track "Better than Revenge" was met with mixed opinions. Speak Now (Taylor's Version) reached number one on albums charts of Australia, Canada, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, among others. In the United States, it was Swift's 12th album to top the Billboard 200 chart, breaking Barbra Streisand's all-time record for the most number-one albums by a female artist. All 22 of its tracks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with "I Can See You", which was accompanied by a music video, becoming the highest-peaking at number five.