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1989 (Taylor's Version)
Standard cover
Studio album (re-recorded) by Taylor Swift
Released	October 27, 2023 (2023-10-27)
Studio	Audu (Brooklyn) Big Mercy (New York) Conway Recording (Hollywood) Electric Lady (New York) The Hideaway (London) Hutchinson Sound (Brooklyn) Kitty Committee (New York, London, Belfast) Mandarin Oriental (Milan) Pleasure Hill (Portland) Prime Recording (Nashville) Rough Costumer (Brooklyn) Sharp Sonics (Los Angeles) Studio 112 (Jonstorp)
Genre	Synth-pop
Length	77:49
Label	Republic
Producer	Taylor Swift Christopher Rowe Jack Antonoff Ryan Tedder Noel Zancanella Imogen Heap Shellback Patrik Berger
Taylor Swift chronology
Speak Now (Taylor's Version) (2023) 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023)
Singles from 1989 (Taylor's Version)
"Slut!" Released: October 27, 2023 "Is It Over Now?" Released: October 31, 2023

1989 (Taylor's Version) is the fourth re-recorded album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It is a re-recording of Swift's fifth studio album, 1989 (2014), and was released on October 27, 2023, via Republic Records. The album is part of Swift's ongoing response to a 2019 dispute regarding the masters of her back catalog. It was announced at the final Los Angeles show of the Eras Tour on August 9, 2023.

A 1980s-inspired synth-pop album, 1989 (Taylor's Version) is characterized by upbeat arrangements of synthesizers and percussion. It contains re-recorded versions of the 16 songs from 1989's deluxe edition and five previously unreleased "From the Vault" tracks. Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Christopher Rowe produced the majority of the album; Ryan Tedder, Noel Zancanella, Shellback, and Imogen Heap reprised their production roles. Extended editions of the album additionally feature the re-recorded versions of the soundtrack song "Sweeter than Fiction" (2013) and the Kendrick Lamar remix of "Bad Blood" (2015).

Music critics praised 1989 (Taylor's Version), with emphasis on the production, Swift's vocals and the vault tracks. Commercially, it earned the biggest streaming day for an album in 2023 on Spotify and of all time on Amazon Music. The album topped record charts in 18 territories, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, 1989 (Taylor's Version) marked Swift's 13th number-one album on the Billboard 200, the biggest sales week of her career, her record-extending sixth album to sell over one million first-week copies, and the highest vinyl sales week of the 21st century. Seven of its songs concurrently became top-10 entries on the Billboard Hot 100, with the vault tracks "Is It Over Now?", "Now That We Don't Talk", and "Slut!" occupying the top three spots.

Background

Taylor Swift released her fifth studio album, 1989, on October 27, 2014, under Big Machine Records. Inspired by 1980s synth-pop, Swift conceived 1989 to recalibrate her artistry to pop after marketing her first four albums to country radio. The album received generally positive critical reviews and sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Three of its singles—"Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood"—reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, 1989 made Swift the first female musician to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year twice—her first win was for Fearless in 2010.

Swift's contract with Big Machine expired in November 2018. She then withdrew from Big Machine and signed a new deal with Republic Records, which secured her the rights to own the masters of any new music she would release. In 2019, American businessman Scooter Braun acquired Big Machine; the ownership of the masters to Swift's first six studio albums, including 1989, transferred to him. In August 2019, Swift denounced Braun's purchase and announced that she would re-record her first six studio albums so as to own their masters herself. Swift began the re-recording process in November 2020. Fearless (Taylor's Version), the first of her six re-recorded albums, was released on April 9, 2021, followed by Red (Taylor's Version) on November 12, 2021, and Speak Now (Taylor's Version) on July 7, 2023; all three peaked atop the US Billboard 200 chart.

Swift released re-recordings of some 1989 tracks prior to the re-recorded album; all songs feature the additional "Taylor's Version" moniker in their titles. The re-recorded "Wildest Dreams" was released on September 17, 2021, after the original version went viral on TikTok. Other tracks were used in films and series: "This Love" was released on May 6, 2022, after its snipper featured in the trailer for the series The Summer I Turned Pretty; a snippet of "Bad Blood" appeared in the animated film DC League of Super-Pets, and "Out of the Woods" featured in a trailer for Migration. On August 9, 2023, at the final Los Angeles show at SoFi Stadium as part of Swift's Eras Tour, she performed in blue outfits, representing the color that she associated 1989 with, and announced 1989 (Taylor's Version) as her next re-recorded album, set for release on October 27, 2023, exactly nine years after the original release of 1989.

Writing and recording

The standard edition 1989 (Taylor's Version) consists of 21 tracks: re-recordings of the 13 songs from the standard edition of 1989, re-recordings of the three bonus tracks from the original deluxe edition, and five previously unreleased "From the Vault" songs that were written for the 2014 album but excluded from the final track list. Re-recordings of the "Bad Blood" remix (2015) featuring American rapper Kendrick Lamar and "Sweeter than Fiction" (2013), a song Swift and Jack Antonoff contributed to the soundtrack of One Chance (2013), were included on extended editions of 1989 (Taylor's Version) as bonus tracks.

Most re-recorded tracks were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The remaining were co-produced by their original producers—Antonoff, Ryan Tedder, Noel Zancanella and Imogen Heap. Swedish producer Shellback, who produced multiple songs on the 2014 recording alongside Max Martin, produced "Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)" with Swift and Rowe, while Martin was not involved in the production of the re-recording. All of the vault tracks were written and produced by Swift and Antonoff, except "Say Don't Go", which was co-written by American songwriter Diane Warren.

Music and lyrics

1989 (Taylor's Version) is a synth-pop record. Its sound is driven by sinuous melodies, burbling synthesizers and heavy percussions. According to NME, the album is a work of 1980s-inspired synth-pop that features a unique sound rather than a "kitschy pastiche" of retro influences. Various critics have opined that the only sonic difference between 1989 and 1989 (Taylor's Version) is Swift's vocals, which have become technically stronger and richer. According to Clash, the re-recording has a "cleaner" instrumentation. Slant Magazine critic Jonathan Keefe identified minor changes: the clicking pen noise on "Blank Space" sounds less like the spring action of a ballpoint pen, the "ah-ah-ah" vocal hook of "New Romantics" is more staccato, the reverb on "Out of the Woods" is more prominent, and the guitar's tone on "Style" is altered. Unlike Swift's previous re-recordings, 1989 (Taylor's Version) does not feature new guest vocalists.

"From the Vault" songs

Various critics opined that the sonics of the five vault songs were pertinent to the 1980s-inspired sound of the original 1989. According to The Line of Best Fit's Kelsey Barnes, the vault tracks are of different pop subgenres similar to the 2014 recording. However, Variety's Chris Willman felt that some production elements of the vault tracks seem to have been influenced by Swift's tenth studio album, Midnights (2022).

"Slut!", whose title is a reference to the slut-shaming Swift has experienced as a public figure over the years, is about a romantic relationship Swift is proud of and therefore has no concern for how the outside world views it. It is composed as a "dreamy", slow-paced, mid-tempo pop song, featuring glistening synthesizers and a range of other instruments. "Say Don't Go" is a sensuous "high-drama" song about intense romantic feelings, with an anthemic chorus and isolated vocal patterns. Swift sings about a lover's departure over "crashing" drum beats. "Now That We Don't Talk" is the shortest song in Swift's discography, showcasing her "breathy" falsetto. Lyrically, it sees Swift "sashay away" from heartache.

"Suburban Legends" depicts a hopeful but unfruitful romance. It features bouncing chords and an outro of dissipating synthesizers in a "wind chime-y" production style, according to People's Jeff Nelson. "Is It Over Now?" is an introspective song chronicling the end of a relationship, with lyrics about mistakes committed by both partners and various "feelings of unfinished business", "cruel memories", and confessions. Musically, the song is built around "an odd squawking sample" in the hook and features a breathless vocal delivery that imbues a sense of urgency over steady drum beats, further accentuated by tightly packed internal rhymes.

Release

On September 19, 2023, Swift posted a short visual on social media that depicted the characters "T-S-!-U-L" emerging from a blue vault, which fans and journalists considered to be a teaser for one of the five "From the Vault" tracks. She also partnered with Google Search to launch a feature for solving word puzzles in order to uncover the album's "From the Vault" track titles. Searching for "Taylor Swift" gave rise to an animated graphic of a blue vault, which, upon clicking, produced one of 89 puzzles with or without an accompanying hint. The track titles were set to be officially revealed once 33 million puzzles had been solved globally. Although the feature crashed hours after launching, it reached the 33-million mark in less than one day. Four of the five vault track titles were revealed: "Is It Over Now?", "Now That We Don't Talk", "Say Don't Go", and "Suburban Legends". Shortly thereafter, Swift unveiled the back covers of the album, which featured the full track list, confirming "Slut!" as the remaining vault track.

1989 (Taylor's Version) was released on October 27, 2023, to music streaming services and in vinyl LP, cassette tape, and CD formats. It marks Swift's fourth re-recorded album. The standard edition contains 21 tracks, five of which are designated "From the Vault", indicating unreleased songs that were written for 1989 but did not make the final track list in 2014. A deluxe edition with the re-recorded remix of "Bad Blood" featuring Kendrick Lamar as a bonus track was surprise released on streaming and digital download platforms hours after the standard album. The album was sold in four CD editions, which featured different cover artwork and either posters or photographs, as well as five vinyl variants, one of which is a Target-exclusive deluxe that also includes "Sweeter than Fiction (Taylor's Version)". Universal Music released "Slut!" to Italian radio on October 27, and Republic Records released "Is It Over Now?" as a single to US contemporary hit radio on October 31.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.1/10
Metacritic	90/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Clash	9/10
The Daily Telegraph
The Guardian
The Independent
NME
Paste	9/10
Pitchfork	7.7/10
Rolling Stone
The Times

1989 (Taylor's Version) was met with widespread acclaim from critics. On review aggregator Metacritic, it received a weighted mean score of 90 out of 100 based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

NME's Hollie Geraghty, The Daily Telegraph's Neil McCormick, and Ludovic Hunter-Tilney of Financial Times hailed 1989 (Taylor's Version) as Swift's best record; Geraghty argued that the album consists of "deliciously polished belters", while McCormick called it an "impeccable" and indistinguishable remake with "deft and clever" new tracks. Hunter-Tilney said the album documents "young adulthood, the most exhilarating and error-strewn period of a person's life, in the highly engineered setting of the perfect pop song". Will Hodgkinson of The Times dubbed the album a "pop masterclass". Ed Power of i described it as a "bright, brash, smart and catchy" LP, displaying the best of Swift's effervescent songwriting.

Kelsey Barnes, writing in The Line of Best Fit, described the album as "sleek pop passion" and observed there are no jarring changes in the re-recording, "if anything, Swift's vocals are more powerful and punchy than ever." The Guardian's Rachel Aroesti described Swift's vocal performance as "richer and more mature yet hardly distractingly so" and felt the pertinent vault tracks added more depth to a classic. Rolling Stone critics Angie Martoccio and Mark Sutherland commended Swift's richer voice and the vault tracks; Martoccio stated, 1989 was not critiqued seriously by many rockist "cultural gatekeepers" such as Pitchfork in 2014 but its Taylor's Version "shines a lot brighter", whereas Sutherland said 1989 could have been the "greatest pop album of 1989" and the Taylor's Version "could well be the greatest pop album of 2023."

Clash's Alex Berry admired the "exquisite" vault tracks that continue the sonic landscape of 1989. In a similar vein, Paste critic Elizabeth Braaten proclaimed that the vault tracks made 1989 (Taylor's Version) Swift's best re-recorded album yet. American Songwriter's Alex Hopper called the album "surprisingly timeless", saying it sounds as fresh as it did in 2014 despite its retro elements. By contrast, Adam White of The Independent wrote that Martin's absence as a producer and Swift's improved vocals losing 2014's raw "strain" made the re-recording a "diminished" pop classic. However, White added the album is still "untouchable greatness". In Pitchfork, Shaad D'Souza remarked that the album is "an artistically lesser entry" in Swift's catalog but a "wildly durable" one, with the vault tracks adding more "depth and context".

Commercial performance

1989 (Taylor's Version) became Swift's most commercially successful re-recorded album. It posted the highest single-day streams globally for an album on Spotify in 2023 and the second-highest for an album ever, behind Swift's Midnights (2022), accumulating 176 million streams worldwide per estimated data. Swift also broke her own record for the most single-day Spotify streams for an artist. In its opening day, 1989 (Taylor's Version) eclipsed Midnights on Amazon Music to become the platform's most streamed album globally in a single day. In its debut week, it became Amazon Music's most-streamed album in a single week. Its songs occupied the top six of the Billboard Global 200 the same week, making Swift the first artist to achieve this feat. Republic Records reported global opening-week sales crossing 3.5 million units.

In the United States, 1989 (Taylor's Version) sold 250,000 albums on its release day, and over one million albums by its fifth day, marking Swift's record-extending eleventh album to sell 500,000 copies and sixth to sell one million copies in a single week. Prior to the tracking week's end, the re-recorded album also broke two records set by Midnights as it became the top-selling album of 2023 and garnered the largest vinyl sales week since tracking began in 1991, selling 580,000 LPs in six days. 1989 (Taylor's Version) debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 1.653 million units, consisting of 1.359 million album sales (including 693,000 vinyl LPs and 554,000 CDs) and 375.49 million on-demand streams. It surpassed Midnights to become the largest album sales week of Swift's career and the 2020s decade, and accumulated the most single-week on-demand streams of any of Swift's re-recordings. Outselling its 2014 counterpart in the first week by nearly 400,000 units, 1989 (Taylor's Version) marked Swift's 13th chart-topping album, extending her record among female artists, and spent two weeks at number one. All 21 tracks on the standard edition of the re-recording charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Is It Over Now?", "Now That We Don't Talk", and "Slut!" in the top three. Swift extended her record for most simultaneous debuts atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 (5).

In the United Kingdom, 1989 (Taylor's Version) earned the biggest opening week of any album in 2023 in three days of tracking, with 148,000 units. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 184,000 units, more than doubling the opening of its 2014 counterpart. It sold 62,000 vinyl LPs in its first week, becoming the fastest-selling vinyl album of 2023. 1989 (Taylor's Version) also marked Swift's record-extending 11th career number-one album in the United Kingdom. In Australia, 1989 (Taylor's Version) debuted atop the ARIA Albums Chart as Swift's 12th number-one album in the country and marked a career-best opening week for her, the largest week for any album since 2017, and the largest vinyl sales week in the country's history. The album spent three weeks at number one, and eight of its songs charted simultaneously in the top 10 of the ARIA Singles Chart, completely occupying the top four spots. The album also reached number one in other European markets including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.

Track listing

Notes

• All tracks are subtitled "Taylor's Version"; tracks 17–21 are additionally subtitled "From the Vault".
• "Slut!" is stylized in quotation marks.

Personnel

Musicians

• Taylor Swift – vocals (all tracks), background vocals (all tracks), clapping (6), heartbeat (9)
• Ryan Tedder – background vocals, piano, synthesizer (1, 12); acoustic guitar, drum programming, electric guitar, programming (12)
• Noel Zancanella – drum programming, synthesizer (1, 12), bass guitar, programming (12)
• Mike Meadows – synthesizer (2, 3, 5, 6, 8–10, 14, 16, 22), acoustic guitar (2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 22), electric guitar (2, 3, 16), background vocals (6), synthesizer programming (9)
• Amos Heller – bass guitar (2, 3, 5, 6, 9–11, 14, 16), synth bass (22)
• Dan Burns – drum programming, synth bass, synthesizer (2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 22); programming (3), synthesizer programming (9)
• Matt Billingslea – drum programming (2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 22), drums (2, 3, 5, 8–11, 14, 16, 22), percussion (6, 9)
• Max Bernstein – electric guitar (2, 3, 5, 10, 14, 16), synthesizer (2, 3, 6–11, 14, 16, 22), acoustic guitar (3, 14, 16), synthesizer programming (9)
• Derek Garten – programming (2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, 16, 22)
• Brian Pruitt – drum programming, drums (2, 5, 10, 14, 16)
• Christopher Rowe – background vocals (2, 6, 8, 22), trumpet (6)
• Jack Antonoff – programming (4, 7, 15, 16, 18–21), synthesizer (4, 7, 15, 17–21), electric guitar (4, 7, 15, 18, 19); bass guitar (4, 7, 15), drums (4, 7, 15); acoustic guitar (4, 18), background vocals (17, 18, 20, 21); Mellotron, percussion (18)
• Mikey Freedom Hart – synthesizer (4, 7, 15, 18–21), electric guitar (4, 7, 15, 18–20), programming (4, 7, 15, 18, 19), acoustic guitar (4, 15), background vocals (7), bass guitar (18, 19), Rhodes (18–20), organ (20)
• Evan Smith – synthesizer (4, 7, 15, 18–21), programming (4, 7, 15, 18, 19), background vocals (4), saxophone (18–21), electric guitar (20)
• Michael Riddleberger – drums, percussion (4, 7, 15, 18–21)
• Sean Hutchinson – drums, percussion (4, 7, 15, 18–21); programming (15)
• Zem Audu – synthesizer (4, 7, 15, 18–21)
• Mattias Bylund – synthesizer (6, 9), string arrangement (9)
• Paul Sidoti – electric guitar (6, 10, 11), background vocals (6)
• Wojtek Goral – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone (6)
• Robert Allen – background vocals, clapping (6)
• Tomas Jönsson – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone (6)
• Johan Schuster – drums, sound effects (6)
• Lowell Reynolds – programming (6)
• Peter Noos Johansson – trombone, tuba (6)
• Janne Bjerger – trumpet (6)
• Magnus Johansson – trumpet (6)
• David Bukovinszky – cello (9)
• Mattias Johansson – violin (9)
• Orion Meshorer – acoustic guitar, electric guitar (12)
• Imogen Heap – background vocals, drums, kalimba, keyboards, percussion, programming, vibraphone (13)
• Patrik Berger – bass guitar, electric guitar, programming, synthesizer (17)
• Ilya Salmanzadeh – background vocals (22)
• Kendrick Lamar – vocals (22)

Technical

• Randy Merrill – mastering
• Ryan Smith – mastering (1–8, 10–22)
• Serban Ghenea – mixing
• Rich Rich – engineering (1, 12)
• Ryan Tedder – engineering (1, 12)
• Derek Garten – engineering, editing (2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 22)
• Christopher Rowe – engineering (4, 7, 15), vocal engineering (1–3, 5, 6, 8–14, 22)
• Laura Sisk – engineering (4, 7, 15, 17–22)
• Jack Antonoff – engineering (4, 7, 15, 17–21)
• David Hart – engineering (4, 7, 15, 18–21)
• Evan Smith – engineering (4, 7, 15, 18–21)
• Michael Riddleberger – engineering (4, 7, 15, 18–21)
• Mikey Freedom Hart – engineering (4, 7, 15, 18–21)
• Sean Hutchinson – engineering (4, 7, 15, 18–21)
• Zem Audu – engineering (4, 7, 15, 18–21)
• Oli Jacobs – engineering (4, 7, 15, 18)
• Lowell Reynolds – engineering (6), editing (6, 11), engineering assistance (11)
• Mattias Bylund – engineering, editing (6, 9)
• David Payne – engineering (11)
• Imogen Heap – engineering (13)
• Ray Charles Brown Jr. – engineering (22)
• Bryce Bordone – mix engineering (1–8, 10, 11, 2)
• John Hanes – mix engineering (9)
• Dan Burns – additional engineering (2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 22)
• Jack Manning – engineering assistance (4, 7, 15, 17–21)
• Jon Sher – engineering assistance (4, 7, 15, 17–21)
• Megan Searl – engineering assistance (4, 7, 15, 17–21)
• Joey Miller – engineering assistance (4, 7, 15)
• Jozef Caldwell – engineering assistance (4, 7, 15)
• Jacob Spitzer – engineering assistance (22)
• John Turner – engineering assistance (22)

Charts

Certifications

Release history

See also

• List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2023
• List of number-one albums of 2023 (Australia)
• List of number-one albums of 2023 (Belgium)
• List of number-one albums of 2023 (Canada)
• List of number-one albums of 2023 (Ireland)
• List of number-one albums of 2023 (Portugal)
• List of number-one albums of 2023 (Spain)
• List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 2020s

Footnotes

1. This article refers to these tracks as "vault tracks" for concision.
2. The physical deluxe editions, which do not include the re-recorded "Bad Blood" remix featuring Kendrick Lamar, are subtitled "Crystal Skies Blue", "Rose Garden Pink", "Aquamarine Green", and "Sunrise Boulevard Yellow". The Target-exclusive LP is subtitled "Tangerine Edition".

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