Perspective: “Halfway through her remake campaign, Taylor Swift’s studio reenactments are quietly starting to resemble something like metaphysics,” Chris Richards writes. “Dominating the present and owning the future are no longer enough for her.”
,” a rerecording of her spirited 2010 album, and the third in a series of painstaking redos after her master recordings were reportedly sold without her consent. So to reassert some legal and financial control over her work, Swift is entrenched in the mind-bending process of re-creating her first six albums, song for song, nearly note for note — with a few shelved songs from each album’s corresponding era affixed to the end. Something feels different about this one, though.
And, yes, that means Swift is remembering a song about how it felt to remember something, and, no, that isn’t the most severe scrambling of temporality in this bunch. The new version of “” finds today’s Taylor reinhabiting her 20-year-old psyche as she sings to both her past and future selves. It’s a lullaby about the preservation of innocence, and hearing the titular refrain roll back around in 2023 induces a sort of nostalgic claustrophobia.
Swift obviously loves to sing about fated love, then, now and then-now. Time is her secondary lyrical theme. But those positions might swap once she has finished reincarnating all six of these albums. Until then, we have at least three worthwhile ideas to chew on.
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