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"Fearless (Taylor's Version)" features 26
tracks, including six previously unreleased songs from the
vault. It has all of the original album's 13 songs and six more
from the record's platinum version.
It also features single "Today Was a Fairytale" and a remix
bonus track of "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" by Swedish
producer Elvira.
"It was the night things changed," Swift wrote to her 153
million Instagram followers announcing the album's release.
The 31-year-old, who has won 11 Grammy Awards, said in February
she would release a re-recording of "Fearless" following a
long-running dispute with her former record company Big Machine
and music executive Scooter Braun over the rights to some of her
biggest hits.
Braun bought Big Machine in 2019 after Swift left the label in
2018 for a new deal with Universal Music Group. Last year, he
sold Swift’s master recordings to a private equity company in a
deal reported to be worth more than $300 million.
Swift released "Fearless" as an 18-year-old and the album, her
second, catapulted her to global stardom as well as winning her
the coveted album of the year award at the Grammys.
Critics said her fans would be pleased with the re-recording,
with the singer staying loyal to the original version 13 years
on.
"It would take a deeply devoted Swiftologist — of which there
are millions, each eagerly armed with a fine-toothed comb — to
suss out the minute differences, so thoroughly has the singer
re-created her original arrangements," the Los Angeles Times
said.
Music website NME said the re-recording "celebrates and stays
true to Swift’s ‘Fearless’-era".
"Production here is crisper and warmer than that of the
original, and Swift’s vocals are, understandably, more mature,"
it wrote.
"Listening back to the whole album has a similar effect to
reading back an old diary – especially as these songs are
steeped in nostalgia given the prominence on first release."
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; editing by Barbara Lewis)
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