Taylor Swift broke her own record for most-streamed album in a single day with the release of “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” on Oct. 28.
In just one day she broke the record for the most-streamed album, Spotify said on its X account.
Taylor’s Version of “1989” features the original 16 songs and the five new vault tracks.
Swift also released a deluxe version of this album, which features the song “Bad Blood” featuring Kendrick Lamar.
Most of the songs on the record sound very similar to the original but her voice has matured since the original.
One of the two reimagined songs is “Style.” The main beat that starts at the beginning of the song doesn’t sound as clean as it used to be.
The song is classified as synth-pop, and the old version did a phenomenal job of combining the two types of music. Taylor’s Version just feels like she got rid of the pop aspect and heavily leaned into the synth aspect which made it lose that clean rhythm it had at the beginning.
The other reimagined song is “I Know Places.” This song always felt like it was missing something in its chorus, and the live version sounded better than the original.
Swift took the original and added some of the vocal techniques she used when touring back in 2015 to create this new version. The lyric, “and we run,” in the second round of the chorus sounds so much better than the original recording.
The five brand-new vault tracks include “Slut!,” “Say Don’t Go,” “Now That We Don’t Talk,” “Suburban Legends” and “Is It Over Now?”
“Slut!” was not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting something that was a combination of the style of “1989,” but themed like “Better Than Revenge” from “Speak Now.”
This was not the case. This song is incredibly satirical but sad.
Swift said she debated between this song and “Blank Space” for the original album.
Both of these songs satirize the media’s perspective of her love life.
The best way I can describe this song is it is a song you want to listen to while lying in bed, staring at the ceiling and just vibing to it. This is not the kind of song to dance to like “Shake It Off.”
“Say Don’t Go” is yet another sad song in these vault tracks.
This one is a little bit more upbeat than “Slut!,” but still not nearly as upbeat as say “Out Of The Woods,” which is one of the slower songs on the original album.
“Now That We Don’t Talk” is my personal favorite from the album.
The song is catchy, upbeat and honestly kind of funny.
Swift turned a song that could’ve been sad into a hopeful track.
I love that, at the beginning of each chorus, she talks about calling her mom to tell her what’s going on, and her mom says things like “It was for the best,” or “Get it off my chest.”
Another amazing lyric is the bridge, “I don’t have to pretend I like acid rock / Or that I’d like to be on a mega yacht / With important men who think important thoughts / Guess maybe I am better off now that we don’t talk.”
“Is It Over Now” is the first single out of the vault tracks.
This song is a lot like “Now That We Don’t Talk” in the way that it talks about a topic that could’ve turned into a sappy song but didn’t.
A reason these vault songs feel out of place is because the original album isn’t slow or sappy. Almost every song on the original album was upbeat in some way.
“1989 (Taylor’s Version)” is now streaming on all platforms.



