Taylor Swift’s third “Taylor’s Version” release tackled 2010’s Speak Now, her third studio album and the only one (to date) on which she wrote every song without a collaborator.
With typical attention to detail, Swift made sure every bonus cut and vault track on the Speak Now re-recording was penned by her and her alone, even leaving off one song that appeared on a deluxe edition of the original album.
Best Films of 2020
#4 – One Night in Miami…
In a year of strong ensemble casts, none impressed me more than the quartet at the center of Regina King’s One Night in Miami….
King directs a script by Kemp Powers, based on his own play, about an encounter between four legendary Black icons: Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.). The four men alternately clash and harmonize about their roles and responsibilities in a society that worships them but would never invite them in for dinner.
Continuing my ranking of Taylor Swift’s albums…
One of the biggest surprises for me when reassessing Taylor Swift’s catalog was how far 2010’s Speak Now slid in my estimation.
Don’t get me wrong… it’s a great album. But before my deep dive into each of her releases, I would have named it as her best. In fact, I did just that when I recently placed it on my list of the best albums of the decade.
On past lists like this, I’ve had single artists dominate with multiple appearances. I realize that can be a little boring for the reader, and it ends up pushing out acts deserving of a mention.
So this time around I am limiting myself to just one title per artist, though I will list other albums of theirs that might have otherwise made the cut.
I had a dream about Taylor Swift last night.
Not last night, February 8, but last night as I’m writing this. I write these in advance, sometimes well in advance… hope that doesn’t shatter anybody’s illusions. I’m writing this on January 29, so last night was January 28.
And last night I had a dream about Taylor Swift.
It wasn’t that kind of dream, and the truth is I’ve never thought of Swift in that kind of way. She’s attractive, I suppose, but also kind of awkward and lanky. Unlike most teenagers in the music industry who look and act like they’re 25, she’s a 21-year-old who looks and acts like a teenager.
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