I love Taylor with all of my heart and soul, but I've stopping buying her albums because of this whole "new limited edition album" shit. I am not spending $13 for one new song every few weeks.
I don't know if this is her doing this, or her label, but it's really fucking annoying and exploitative. This is version 5 of this album, each only differing one song. People have spent $52, pre-tax, on these "(individual) special bonus" tracks (on the low end!) because they want to support their favorite artist
This is what we mean by there is no ethical billionaire. Sure, Taylor does a lot of amazing things with her wealth, but she could still do all those amazing things without exploiting her fans
Sam Lansky has such a wondrous way with words, and I’ve loved reading his pieces for over a decade. If you’ve ever been around him, you know he’s just the best type of person: Curious. Interested. Hilarious. Intriguing and intrigued. I have tRuSt iSSueS when it comes to interviews but I couldn’t be happier that I did this one with him. I was blown away to see quotes from people I adore and admire like Stevie Nicks, Greta Gerwig, Shonda Rhimes, Phoebe Bridgers, Natalie Maines, Kenny Chesney, and Lucian Grainge. I was so happy he spoke to fans Madison and McCall who were so eloquent, loyal, and kind. I’m really reflecting on this year, and all the years that led up to it. Can’t say thank you enough times. 🥲
The Eras Tour has been the most meaningful, electric experience of my life so far and I’m overjoyed to tell you that it’ll be coming to the big screen soon 😆 Starting Oct 13th you’ll be able to experience the concert film in theaters in North America! Tickets are on sale now at taylor.lnk.to/TSTheErasTourFilm. Eras attire, friendship bracelets, singing and dancing encouraged 🫶 1, 2, 3 LGB!!!! (iykyk)
It’s here. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s ours. It’s an album I wrote alone about the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas and tragedies I lived out as a young woman between 18 and 20. I remember making tracklist after tracklist, obsessing over the right way to tell the story. I had to be ruthless with my choices, and I left behind some songs I am still unfailingly proud of now. Therefore, you have 6 From The Vault tracks! I recorded this album when I was 32 (and still growing up, now) and the memories it brought back filled me with nostalgia and appreciation. For life, for you, for the fact that I get to reclaim my work. Thank you a million times, for the memories that break our fall. 💥🐉🏰 Speak Now (MY VERSION!) is out now.
I'd like to formally thank the people of the UK and Ireland today for their rhyming prowess and forcing the Royal Mint to turn off replies to this tweet in RECORD time lmfao
And last but not least, the pièce de resistance that inspired about 90% of the hidden replies:
About a year and half ago I wrote a song about an incredible story, the story of a girl who always lived on the outside, looking in. Figuratively and literally. The juxtaposition of her loneliness and independence. Her longing and her stillness. Her curiosity and fear, all tangled up. Her persisting gentleness… and the world’s betrayal of it. I wrote this one alone in the middle of the night and then Aaron Dessner and I meticulously worked on a sound that we felt would be authentic to the moment in time when this story takes place. I made a wish that one day you would hear it. ‘Carolina’ is out now 🥺
My dad found a knitting book my mom got in, like, the 70s. I started looking through it and, naturally, started thinking about my mom's craftings. She learned to crochet, knit, sew, cross-stitch, and a bunch of other stuff by the time she was, like, 10. Looking through the book, I remembered her talking about wanting to design her own patterns, but she didn't feel she could because it seemed to complicated, but then she wanted to make something that she couldn't find a pattern to so she made one. She realized that it wasn't complicated and every time she would make a new pattern, she would get all excited go to grab all the failed attempts to show the progression of the design. She looked so proud, doing the thing she never thought she could do, and doing it so well that people were asking for the patterns.
Her birthday was last Thursday and I wasn't bothered by it, even though, for some reason, there were a bunch of things that day that got me talking about my mom, but I'm currently sitting in my kitchen, sobbing
There is only one thing in my life that I have ever regretted: getting to the hospital not even 15 minutes after my mom was put on a ventilator. I wanted to leave earlier, but I could hear my mom's voice telling me to not waste my whole day sitting in her hospital room. That is the only time I wish I didn't listen