Album · 2021
Fearless (Taylor's version)
by Taylor Swift
Fearless (Taylor's version) is a 2021 country album by Taylor Swift. It runs 27 tracks across 110 minutes on Republic Records. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.1/5 from 10 ratings.
Country · Pop · Country Pop
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- 4.1 /5
- 10 ratings
- 81 /100
- 10 critics
- 27
- Tracks
- 110 min
- Runtime
- 123 bpm
- Tempo
- D major
- Key
Ratings
10 ratings · avg 4.1
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- 4.0
The re-recording project's proof of concept: Fearless (Taylor's Version) revisits the country-pop breakthrough — "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me" intact — with a decade-older voice that adds warmth the originals' youth couldn't. The vault tracks are curios; the statement is the point. Ownership as artistry, executed without cynicism.
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Critics
10 publications
- The Daily Telegraph5/5
- The A.V. ClubA
- The Times4/5
- Clash8/10
- NME4/5
- Rolling Stone4/5
- The Guardian4/5
- The Independent4/5
- Pitchfork7.5/10
- AllMusic3/5
- Metacriticaggregate82/100
- AnyDecentMusic?aggregate7.7/10
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Fearless album cover
The Fearless (Taylor's version) cover was designed by 13 Management, photographed by Austin Swift and Beth Garrabrant, and art-directed by Taylor Swift.
- Design
- 13 Management
- Photography
- Austin Swift, Beth Garrabrant
- Art direction
- Taylor Swift
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Tracklist
27 tracks · 110 min
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Fearless (Taylor's Version) is the first re-recorded album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on April 9, 2021, through Republic Records. It is a re-recording of Swift's second studio album, Fearless (2008), and the first in the series of six re-recorded albums Swift has planned to release, following the dispute regarding ownership of the masters to her first six studio albums. Consisting of re-recorded versions of all of the 19 tracks from the Platinum Edition (2009) of Fearless, Swift's 2010 soundtrack single "Today Was a Fairytale", and six bonus "from the Vault" songs that were witheld from being included on the original Fearless or its Platinum Edition, there are 26 tracks on Fearless (Taylor's Version), twelve of which were solely written by Swift. Recreating the album musically, the re-recorded tracks were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe, using the same touring band that played the instruments on the original, whereas the newly added tracks were produced by Swift, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.
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Colbie Caillat returned to feature on "Breathe", while Maren Morris and Keith Urban contributed guest vocals on vault tracks "You All Over Me" and "That's When", respectively. The album was preceded by three of its songs, all of which entered the top 10 of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart: "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" topped the chart, "You All Over Me" landed at number six, followed by "Mr. Perfectly Fine" reaching number two. Fearless (Taylor's Version) received critical acclaim, with emphasis on nostalgic sentiment, and Swift's strong, matured vocals; reviews commended the precise replication of the original compositions but with a crisper production quality. Commercially, it topped the charts in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, the United Kingdom, as well as the United States, where it marked the first ever re-recorded album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.
In brief
- Is Fearless (Taylor's version) good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Fearless (Taylor's version) 4.1/5 from 10 ratings.
- When was Fearless (Taylor's version) released?
- Fearless (Taylor's version) was released in 2021 on Republic Records.
- How many tracks are on Fearless (Taylor's version)?
- Fearless (Taylor's version) has 27 tracks, with a runtime of 110 minutes.
- What genre is Fearless (Taylor's version)?
- Fearless (Taylor's version) is catalogued under Country, Pop, Country Pop.
- What BPM is Fearless (Taylor's version)?
- Fearless (Taylor's version) runs at a median tempo of 123 BPM across its tracks, most often in D major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Fearless (Taylor's version)?
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- Who produced Fearless (Taylor's version)?
- Fearless (Taylor's version) was produced by Taylor Swift, Christopher Rowe, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, among 5 credited in total. Taylor Swift produced all of them.
Fearless (Taylor's version) at a glance
- Label
- Republic Records
- Recorded at
- Electric Lady Studios, Conway Recording Studios
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Credits
- Mixed by
- Serban GheneaJonathan Low
- Engineered by
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