{"id":967,"date":"2021-02-13T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenpotter.cn\/?p=967"},"modified":"2021-04-13T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:33:29","slug":"taylor-swifts-remade-love-story-taylors-version-is-still-a-classic-just-now-all-hers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevenpotter.cn\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift’s remade ‘Love Story (Taylor’s Version) is still a classic, just now all hers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thirteen years ago, Taylor Swift opened her song \u201cLove Story\u201d with a memory: \u201cWe were both young when I first saw you,\u201d the precocious country star, then 18, sang in the lead single from her 2008 \u201cFearless\u201d album, \u201cI close my eyes and the flashback starts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now she\u2019s remembering that memory \u2014 and her recall is pretty close to total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday night, Swift, now 31 and one of the world\u2019s biggest pop acts, released a rerecorded version of the Romeo and Juliet-themed \u201cLove Story\u201d as the first sampling from a highly anticipated overhaul of \u201cFearless\u201d<\/a> due April 9. Co-produced by the singer and Chris Rowe (a longtime Nashville studio pro who worked on Swift\u2019s early records) and featuring a number of the musicians who played on the original, the new \u201cLove Story\u201d \u2014 officially titled \u201cLove Story (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d \u2014 is virtually indistinguishable from the rendition that gave Swift her first top 10 hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last year, Braun sold Swift\u2019s catalog<\/a> to Shamrock Capital, a Westwood-based investment fund, for more than $300 million. According to the singer, Shamrock offered to work with her, but she declined when she learned that Braun would retain a financial interest in her music. In a letter she posted on Twitter, Swift told Shamrock\u2019s partners that she intended to proceed with rerecording her old music \u2014 the idea being that her new versions would supplant the originals in the marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why remake \u201cFearless,\u201d her second studio album, first? By some measures it\u2019s her most successful LP, having sold more than 10 million copies and won four Grammy Awards, including album of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a way, the faithfulness of the new \u201cLove Story\u201d is a disappointment. Swift\u2019s pair of 2020 albums, \u201cFolklore<\/a>\u201d and \u201cEvermore<\/a>\u201d \u2014 the former is up for five awards, including album of the year, at next month\u2019s Grammys<\/a> \u2014 are full of grown-up musings on romance and compromise; one song from \u201cEvermore,\u201d the haunting \u201cTolerate It,\u201d seems to be narrated by a woman trapped in a loveless marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One longs to hear what she might make of the starry-eyed idealism of \u201cLove Story.\u201d But then to veer too far from the original would be to endanger the chance that some music supervisor might license this rendition instead of the one Shamrock owns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does that make the whole enterprise sound more calculating than we want to believe pop stars are? If so, give Swift credit for talking about her dealings with Braun in starkly emotional terms \u2014 \u201cScooter has stripped me of my life\u2019s work,\u201d she said when he bought Big Machine \u2014 that have recast a business conflict as a battle over art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ditto the way she\u2019s framing her remake of \u201cFearless\u201d \u2014 a process, she said Thursday, that \u201chas been more fulfilling and emotional than I could\u2019ve imagined and has made me even more determined to rerecord all of my music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t doubt that she\u2019ll get it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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