When the song “This Love” appeared on Taylor Swift’s “1989” in 2014, it was a sleeper track that didn’t get much attention amid that hit album’s most eye-catching streak of singles. But fans won’t sleep on it today. Swift just previewed an excerpt from a new version of the song, “This Love (Taylor’s Version),” in the trailer for a new Amazon Prime Video series, “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” Fans won’t have to wait long to hear the full song – it will be available in its entirety as a digital single tonight at midnight ET/(pm PT.
There’s no simultaneous album announcement with the single’s release, so Swift’s large audience will have to wait a little longer to see if this really means what it seems to mean: that “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” will be the next album. . in his series of six full-length recreations (with bonus tracks) of his six original Big Machine studio albums.
Fans have plenty of trailer action to watch on the Swift front recently. A preview released last month for David O. Russell’s 1930s drama “Amsterdam” offers a glimpse of Swift acting in a more serious and possibly bigger movie role than she’s ever had before. And the trailer for another upcoming movie, “Where the Crawdads Sing,” had a snippet of a new song Swift wrote for that movie, “Carolina.”
Swift had been releasing Easter eggs that already seemed to portend that “1989” would be next in line for the cover treatment. There is only one thing that makes many not rush to jump to any assumption: Swift has already released a track from the “1989” remake sessions, “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)”, leading fans to imagine that “1989” would be next, only for hr to drop “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” instead.
But there is a fundamental difference between “Wildest Dreams” and now. With that song, Swift indicated that she turned it off when she did because Big Machine’s version of the song was already trending on TikTok as part of a meme, and she wanted Swifties to be able to use the newly recorded version instead, since it was already trending on TikTok. in the can In this case, releasing “This Love” would seem less reactive and more part of a master plan.
If it’s “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” that comes out next, it will represent the potential crown jewel of the series, as a new look at the biggest album Swift released in her career. The album came at the tail end of the era where blockbuster CD sales could still be a thing, even with the star holding back free streaming sites for the initial release of the release, and has been certified by the RIAA for nine Millions of copies sold in the U.S. Fans are especially eager to hear what discarded songs from this prolific era will sound like.
“This Love” was reportedly the first song written for “1989,” the only one on the album that was co-produced by the man who had been her collaborator on her previous four albums, Nathan Chapman, and also the only song on “ 1989”, she wrote alone. Although buried at the bottom of the track listing, it was one of the least talked about songs on “1989” at the time, Swift later commenting that it was a song she returned to again and again.
“The Summer I Turned Pretty” premieres on Prime Video on June 17. It is based on author Jenny Han’s YA novel of the same name. Han recently signed an exclusive development deal with Prime Video and is co-showrunner for the series with Gabrielle Stanton. The series stars Lola Tung as Isabel “Belly” Conklin, an ordinary teenager who spends a summer vacation with her mother and her older brother and finds herself in a triangle with a childhood friend and her brother. .
Reference-variety.com