Taylor Swift's re-released 1989 album featuring five previously unheard tracks has been branded "a pop masterclass".
The 21-track offering marks the next stage of the US megastar’s ambitious re-record of her entire back catalogue to regain control of her master recordings.
✨🫶 My name is Taylor and I was born in 1989 🫶✨https://t.co/klomIqGx38 pic.twitter.com/sWofWRjpvN
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) October 27, 2023
1989 (Taylor’s Version) features hit songs including Blank Space, Bad Blood and Shake It Off, as well as never-before-released songs "from the vault" such as Say Don’t Go, Now That We Don’t Talk and Suburban Legends.
Swift shared a series of images and a handwritten letter on Twitter to accompany the album’s launch on Friday.
"I was born in 1989, reinvented for the first time in 2014 and a part of me was reclaimed in 2023 with the re-release of this album I love so dearly," she wrote.
From the archives: watch our 2014 interview with Taylor in London
"Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine the magic you would sprinkle on my life for so long.
"This moment is a reflection of the woods we’ve wandered through and all this love between us still glowing in the darkest dark.
"I present to you, with gratitude and wild wonder, my version of 1989. It’s been waiting for you."
The re-recording of her albums was instigated by music manager Scooter Braun’s sale of her early catalogue.
Source: Press Association
