“Wildest Dreams” (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift, Saturday, October 7, 2023 (Updated Repost)
In 2021 the 2015 hit “Wildest Dreams” became a TikTok trend. Of course this was in the middle of Swift’s massive project to release re-recordings of her studio records due to her inability to buy the rights to her original recordings. In the spring of last year, she released a massive re-recording of Fearless, the album that propelled the then teen singer to being one of the biggest internationally-recognized music stars. Responding to the TikTok trend, Swift posted her own take on it with the re-recorded version, despite the fact that the singer had stated that she would release her version of Red, 1989’s predecessor and the album that transitioned the singer’s style from Country to Pop, before any of her versions of songs from 1989 would be released.
SAY YOU’LL REMEMBER ME. We’re still a few weeks away from the release of the Taylor’s Version of 1989. The album officially marked Taylor Swift leaving Country music in full pursuit of a pop stardom that had been growing since Fearless and had become a bit of a split identity personality on Red with half of the songs sounding organic and the other half synthetic. We don’t know what to expect from 1989 (Taylor’s Version)—Perhaps Jack Antonoff interpretations of Max Martin/Shellback productions? I wrote last year that I thought that Swift would release 1989 as the last of her re-recordings because it was her biggest album. The album, with its seemingly infinite merchandising options, has already been projected to outsell the massive 2014 record. The critics at Switched on Pop, when reviewing Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) wondered about the future of Taylor Swift re-recording, particularly in light that 1989 had already been announced at the time of the review and that the remaining albums in the re-recording series Reputation and the eponymous debut record, feel the least relevant today. What does a teenage Taylor and a dated EDM record have for a 2024 audience?
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