1989 (Taylor's version) / Taylor Swift.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: 0245597656 | Republic Records1000140180 | Republic RecordsPublisher: [New York] : Republic Records, [2023]Copyright date: ℗&©2023Edition: [Deluxe edition]Description: 1 audio disc (77:58) ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Nineteen eighty-nine (Taylor's version)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | CD | New | POP/ROCK Swift, Taylor | Checked out | 07/06/2024 | 33111010012751 | |||
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Adult CD
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Main Library | CD | New | POP/ROCK Swift, Taylor | Checked out | 07/13/2024 | 33111010017958 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
While Taylor Swift transitioned cautiously from country to pop on 2012's Red, she became the face of mainstream pop music with the monumental synth-driven hit parade of her next album, 1989. Released in October of 2014, the album was named after Swift's birth year as well as the era of synth pop radio hits that provided partial inspiration for the dancy, hyper-produced material. 1989 [Taylor's Version] continues Swift's series of re-recording her albums for purposes related to licensing rights, and more than any of the revised versions that preceded it, illuminates the moment when she became a timeless songwriter. At the time of its original release, 1989 was a grand slam, moving platinum numbers, producing seven hit singles (three of which were number ones), and remaining in the charts internationally for more than a year. Returning to this material exactly nine years later, one would expect songs played to death on the radio for nearly a decade to feel a little dated, or for the Jack Antonoff or Max Martin and Shellback co-written tunes to sound especially formulaic in hindsight. Instead, the re-recorded versions (like all of Taylor's Versions, aiming for faithful re-creation of the originals more than artistic updating) sound fresh and vital, perhaps even more powerful in light of Swift's often-shifting artistic progress since. Songs that may have come across shallow or substanceless in 2014 (the cheerleader-y bounce of "Shake It Off" or Swift's PG-rated Lana Del Rey mirroring on "Wildest Dreams") now make more sense as part of the unfettered celebration of pop -- in all its self-indulgence and escapism -- that 1989 was intended as. The album's homage to the gated reverb and MIDI keyboard tones of late-'80s radio comes into full view on the five additional tracks that were kept in the vault from the time the album was initially made. There are echoes of the Outfield's 1986 hit "Your Love" in the verses of "Say Don't Go" before a decidedly 2010s chorus washes up on a cascade of bubbly synth notes, and both "Suburban Legends" and the magnetic hooks of "Slut!" offer a more subdued counterpoint to the overenthusiastic electro-pop exclamation Swift got into on "New Romantics." Fleshed out by these extra tracks, 1989 [Taylor's Version] confirms the lasting strength that Swift's songwriting was achieving in this one of many blooms, and serves as a lovely reminder of when she officially stepped into her place in the pop culture continuum. ~ Fred Thomas
Title from disc label.
Taylor Swift ; with accompaniment.
Re-recording of the album released in 2014.
Compact disc.
CD released in multiple colors: Crystal skies blue - Rose garden pink - Aquamarine green - Sunrise boulevard yellow.
Taylor Swift revisits her hit 2014 album and creates new interpretations of all the tracks. There are also five 'From the Vault' tracks that were originally written for the album but left off.
"The standard edition 1989 (Taylor's Version) consists of 21 tracks: re-recordings of the 13 songs from the standard edition of 1989, re-recordings of the three bonus tracks from the original deluxe edition, and five previously unreleased "From the Vault" songs that were written for the 2014 album but excluded from the final track list."--Wikipedia.org.
Welcome to New York (Taylor's version) -- Blank space (Taylor's version) -- Style (Taylor's version) -- Out of the woods (Taylor's version) -- All you had to do was stay (Taylor's version) -- Shake it off (Taylor's version) -- I wish you would (Taylor's version) -- Bad blood (Taylor's version) -- Wildest dreams (Taylor's version) -- How you get the girl (Taylor's version) -- This love (Taylor's version) -- I know places (Taylor's version) -- Clean (Taylor's version) -- Wonderland (Taylor's version) -- You are in love (Taylor's version) -- New romantics (Taylor's version) -- From the vault. Slut! (Taylor's version) (From the vault) ; Say don't go (Taylor's version) (From the vault) ; Now that we don't talk (Taylor's version) (From the vault) ; Suburban legends (Taylor's version) (From the vault) ; Is it over now? (Taylor's version) (From the vault)