Speak Now served as a close document of Taylor Swift’s nascent fame and future career ambitions, and now, 13 years on, it’s back
In 2010, newly anointed as a Grammy winner, Taylor Swift released “Speak Now,” her third studio album and her first without a single songwriting collaboration.
Transition creates an interesting framework for thinking about this album: Written largely between the ages of 18 and 20, released when she turned 21, “Speak Now” is a collection of songs on a precipice – of adulthood, of fame, of declaring ownership but still concerned with the subject matters that concern a young adult. There are crushes and bittersweet breakups , alike.
“Mean,” a takedown of a rock critic, becomes a banjo-led treatise on antagonism of any kind; the blues-y “Dear John” centres on a young woman’s tumultuous relationship with an older man. Scala sees a through-line between this album and its successors, with “Dear John” as a precursor to “All Too Well” and “Mean” as prescient to “Blank Space,” a song that parodies how she’s been portrayed in the media.Much online chatter surrounding the re-recording of “Speak Now” has centred on “Better Than Revenge,” a pop-punk song that takes aim at another woman instead of the man that wronged them both.
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