Taylor Swift confirmed the release date for ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ at show of her Eras Tour on 9 August.
Here’s everything we know so far.
The singer announced the news during the sixth L.A. show of her Eras Tour at SoFi Stadium.
On stage, Swift said she wanted to thank the fans for their support in her endeavour to re-record her music.
“Since I was a teenager, I wanted to own my music and the way to do it was to re-record my albums and call them ‘Taylor’s Version.
”And the way that you have embraced that, the way that you have celebrated that, you really decided that it was your fight, too, and that you were 100 percent behind me and that if I cared about it, you cared about it
“I will never stop thanking you for that. It was so generous. And so now here we are at the last night of the U.S. leg of the Eras Tour in the eighth month of the year, on the ninth day of the month.
The release date for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is 27 October 2023.
Ahead of the announcement, Taylor dropped plenty of hits that it would be the next of her six re-recorded albums to come out.
On 7 July, she released the music video for her Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) song “I Can See You,” and it concluded with a BIG 1989 Easter egg. As Taylor drove away at the end of the video, there was a sign above a bridge that said “1989 TV.” Fans took this as Taylor’s way of letting them know that 1989 would be coming next.
1989 was the fifth album in Taylor’s original repertoire and there have also been plenty of “5” hints recently. In the “I Can See You” video, five security guards chased down Joey King and Taylor Lautner as they tried to rescue Taylor and symbolically help her reclaim her work.
Back in October, when Taylor released the music video for “Bejeweled,” her character rode an elevator and got off on floor 3 first (signifying album 3, Speak Now, as the next release). However, she then rode the elevator up to floor 5, hinting that album 5, 1989, would be after that.
Let’s wait and see what other surprises the artist has in store for us!
