Taylor Swift fans have a number of reasons to be excited at the moment - and on Friday (July 7) they were treated to six new songs from the vault.
Taylor's vault contains unreleased music written during her 18-year-career thus far that never saw the light of day. Now, fans have declared these newly released songs as 'the best' as they celebrate the release of Speak Now (Taylor's Version).
The American mega star initially released Speak Now in 2010 via Big Machine Records. But following a dispute with her old label, she has since re-recorded and re-released three LPs, including Fearless and Red, in a bid to reclaim her masters.
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Speak Now (Taylor's Version), which was released on Friday (July 7), contains all 16 tracks featured on the original album, including Dear John, Enchanted and Better Than Revenge. Six songs from the vault - two of which include special guests - were also added to the tracklist.
Electric Touch featuring Fall Out Boy is the first vault track, with Taylor and lead singer Patrick Stump singing about their perspectives on the risks and rewards of new romantic possibilities. Vault track Castles Crumbling features Paramore singer Hayley Williams which marks their first collaboration, days after Taylor announced that the rock band would be an opening act for several of her tour dates in 2024.
Timeless, I Can See You and Foolish One also serve as vault tracks on the re-release. There have also been suggestions that vault track When Emma Falls In Love is about the love life of friend and Hollywood star Emma Stone.
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Understandably, Swifties were sent into a frenzy on social media on Friday after finally being able to get their ears around new music. Many took to Twitter to share their excitement, with some hailing the vault tracks as 'the best'.
The singer previously released six vault tracks on her re-release of Fearless and nine on Red (Taylor's Version).
@ev3rhaze declared: "speak now EASILY has the best vault out of all 3 re-recordings holy hell" and @mieke1201 added: "can't believe we are so blessed, she really gave us all those superior vault tracks".
@Gloryxlla reckoned: "Speak now easily cleared RED and fearless vault tracks" while, quoting the time Kayne West interrupted Taylor's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, @alItooweIls wrote: "fearless imma let you finish but speak now had the best vault tracks of all time".
@TinkerSwiftie admitted: "...Still recovering from I Can See You and Electric Touch and Castles Crumbling ... these 3 at the moment are rotating as favourite" while @gurlonthescreen added: "Speak Now TV is by far taylor's best re-recorded album. The high notes, her mature vocals, the production, the vault songs??? She slayed harder this time".
The remake also saw Taylor change the lyrics in song Better Than Revenge that had garnered controversy in the years since the original recording came out in 2010. With many criticising the lyrics as being unprogressive towards women’s sexuality, the original line “She’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress” has been rewritten to “He was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches”.
Earlier this week, Taylor surprised fans when she announced another 14 dates for the European leg of The Eras Tour. London, Liverpool and Edinburgh each got an extra date.
The first presale for all three Edinburgh shows and two of six London shows go on presale on Monday (July 10). The timings of the sales have been staggered throughout the day, as not to overwhelm ticketing websites Ticketmaster and AXS.
Tickets for the UK shows go on general sale from Monday, July 17.
