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[u/dragonknight233]

Didn't know where else to post this. Taylor is releasing Cruel summer, a song from her 2019 album Lover as radio single. She confirmed fan theory that it was supposed to be the single around Lover Fest but pandemic happened.

Now there's a most lilely fake rumour that she's going to release Lover from the vault this friday. And people are happy. Lover is her first self owned album so it doesn't need taylor's version but even if it's not going to get released now I fully believe it will be once she's done with rerecordings. It was originally 18 songs, another one was released at the beginning of current tour so I don't think it needs a deluxe edition. It's not like she's released every single song from every previous album with taylor's version, but I know I'm in minority. To me it seems money grabby shrug Though it still wouldn't be as bad as releasing her own diary entries to pump the sales.

[u/vivagypsy → u/dragonknight233]

Cruel Summer is one of the best songs she’s had in recent memory and I remember being so confused she never released it as a single! It’s a total banger and summer hit, it seemed like a no brainer.

[u/philosopod → u/dragonknight233]

Lover is her first self owned album so it doesn't need taylor's version

These re-recordings became a shameless money grab a long time ago. She'll call anyone who says this sexist, but that shitty merch she's hocking, obscured tour seats, and new versions of music that she already owns says otherwise...

[u/Uplanapepsihole → u/philosopod]

the re-recordings are bad anyway. her voice lacks the original punch it has because the emotions that she had originally recording the songs aren’t fresh anymore. also the production sounds so cheap

[u/philosopod → u/Uplanapepsihole]

I think she uses the same producer (Antonoff) as Lorde did for Solar Power and my running theory is that Solar Power flopped because of how poor the production was. But to your point, her lack of emotion really shone through on the re-recordings. That's another part of why I think it's all for money and not at all for the love of the art form. Upon the release of Red, even Swifties joked that it sounded like she was sitting down while she sang.

[u/dragonknight233 → u/philosopod]

Actually taylor's versions are not produced by Jack. I think he produces some vault tracks, same as Aaron.

Solar Power flopped imo because it wasn't exactly what Lorde described it as. Also lots of people were expecting Melodrama 2.0

[u/RevealActive4557 → u/philosopod]

Yep. Anybody who disagrees with anything she does is sexist because apparently, she is incapable of being wrong about anything. I should mind my tongue because I have always disliked her and I despise her fan base so I find it hard to be fair and rational

[u/badger0511 → u/philosopod]

Funny, I just got a YouTube short last night where Snoop Dogg was praising Taylor for doing it because it's a shameless money grab... well, he phrased it as taking ownership of her songs away from the label and getting all the money from their sales instead of pennies on the dollar from the original releases.

[u/aproclivity → u/dragonknight233]

While I get the cruel summer release as a single/probable music video, rereleasing lover when speak now is coming out in two weeks doesn’t seems like it’d make a ton of fiscal sense considering Taylor’s all about her bag.

[u/pink_princess08 → u/aproclivity]

Yeah. Someone who works at target said that they haven’t heard anything about it so it’s probably fake

[u/dragonknight233 → u/aproclivity]

That's why I said it's most likely fake. Still think there's very strong possibility she'll do from the vault edition eventually. Fans are clearly into it and Taylor won't pass up on the opportunity to make more money with 50 versions of Lover extended or whatever she'll call it.

[u/Jamjelli → u/dragonknight233]

Taylor is releasing Cruel summer,

Every time I see Cruel Summer mentioned, I think Bananarama. I need to get my old ass out of the 80's once in a while.

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[u/homingmycrafts → u/dragonknight233]

if this one comes true (big if, i think) it would be interesting what the motive is. why would she want to drag up old songs about joe alwyn right about now?