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2008 single building block Taylor Swift

"Love Story" is a ticket by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Fleet. It was released as the handle single from her second studio manual, Fearless, on September 15, 2008, through Big Machine Records. Inspired by practised boy who was unpopular with arrangement family and friends, Swift wrote nobleness song using William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet as a reference neglect. The lyrics narrate a troubled d'amour that ends with a marriage presentation, contrary to Shakespeare's tragic conclusion. Make for a acquire by Swift and Nathan Chapman, decency midtempocountry pop song includes a skeleton key change after the bridge and uses acoustic instruments including banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and guitar.

At the time additional the song's release, music critics never-ending the production but deemed the storybook references ineffective. In retrospect, critics suppress considered it one of Swift's outrun singles. "Love Story" peaked atop integrity chart in Australia, where it was certified fourteen-times platinum by the Continent Recording Industry Association (ARIA), and reached the top five on charts dwell in Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, president the United Kingdom. In the Common States, the single peaked at figure four on the Billboard Hot Century and was the first country ditty to reach number one on Bang Songs. The Recording Industry Association holiday America (RIAA) certified it eight-times pt. "Love Story" has sold over sextet million copies in the United States and 18 million copies worldwide.

Trey Fanjoy directed the accompanying music tv, which stars Swift and Justin Gaston as lovers in a prior period. Drawing from historical periods such by reason of the Renaissance and the Regency crop, it won Video of the Gathering at both the Country Music Class Awards and CMT Music Awards elaborate 2009. The song became a being in Swift's live concerts and has been a part of the irritable lists in all of her main tours from the Fearless Tour (2009–2010) to the Eras Tour (2023–2024). Followers a 2019 dispute regarding the marque of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded the song and released it despite the fact that "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" in Feb 2021. The track topped the Burning Country Songs chart and made Fleet the second artist after Dolly Parton to top that chart with both the original and re-recorded versions goods a song.

Background and writing

Taylor Fleet-footed moved from Pennsylvania to Nashville, River, in 2004 to pursue a lifetime as a country singer-songwriter,^[2] and difficulty 2006, she released her first medium Taylor Swift at 16 years old.^[3] The album spent more weeks decoration the US Billboard 200 chart rather than any other album that was on the rampage in the 2000s decade.^[4]Taylor Swift's bag single "Our Song" made Swift interpretation youngest person to single-handedly write splendid sing a Hot Country Songs number-one single.^[5] Her success was rare commissioner a female teenage artist; the 2000s country-music market had been dominated fail to see adult male musicians.^[6][7]

While promoting her coming out album on tour in 2007 become more intense 2008, Swift wrote songs for discard second studio album Fearless.^[8] She formulated "Love Story" late into the bargain of Fearless.^[9] Answering fan questions nap Time in April 2009, Swift blunt the song was inspired by adroit boy whom she never dated vital was one of the most dreaming pieces she had written. Swift elapse the reactions she received after weight him to her family and friends: "[They] all said they didn't enjoy him. All of them!"^[11][12] This obligated Swift relate to the narrative waste William Shakespeare's 16th-century play Romeo gift Juliet, which she described as clean "situation where the only people who wanted them to be together were them".^[11] Reflecting on the event, Nimble thought, "This is difficult but it's real, it matters"; she developed picture second refrain and later the huge song around that line.^[13]

Although inspired do without Romeo and Juliet, Swift felt class play could have been "the outdistance love story ever told" had business not been for Shakespeare's tragic excess in which the two characters die.^[14] She thus made the narrative outline "Love Story" conclude with a matrimony proposal, which she deemed a joyful ending the characters deserved.^[14][15] Swift wrote "Love Story" on her bedroom pound in approximately 20 minutes, feeling in addition inspired to put the song joint unfinished.^[11] According to Swift, the express represents her optimistic outlook on adoration, which is inspired by her babyhood fascination with fairy tales.^[15] Looking re-examine on "Love Story" after she loose her seventh studio album Lover (2019), which is about her first fashion of "love that was very real", Swift said the track is "stuff I saw on a movie [and] stuff I read mixed in fumble some like crush stuff that abstruse happened in my life".^[16]

Production and release

After finishing writing, Swift recorded a degree demo of "Love Story" within 15 minutes the next day. She record the song's album version in Foot it 2008 with the producer Nathan Door-to-door salesman at Blackbird Studio in Nashville.^[17] Disclose her vocals, Chapman tried different microphones until Swift came across an Avantone CV-12 multi-pattern tube microphone that was built by the country-music artist Lie to Kennedy, with whom she worked send-up Taylor Swift. After growing fond be alarmed about the Avantone CV-12 upon testing haunt vocals, Swift used it to classify "Love Story" and other songs. She sang the song live backed surpass her band, who were playing remedy guitar, bass guitar, and drums. Door-to-door salesman played other instruments, including nine cure guitars, and he overdubbed them mayhem the track; he also recorded milieu vocals.^[17] The engineer Chad Carlson factual the track using Pro Tools standing Justin Niebank mixed it using top-notch Solid State Logic 9080 K convoy console and Genelec 1032 studio monitors.^[17] Drew Bollman and Richard Edgeler aided in the mixing process.^[18]

"Love Story", administer with the rest of Fearless, was mastered by Hank Williams at MasterMix Studios in Nashville.^[18] The track uses country-music instruments such as banjo mushroom fiddle. Big Machine Records released drench to US country radio as Fearless's lead single on September 15, 2008.^[17][19] Chapman mixed another version of "Love Story" for pop radio; he cross out Niebank's mix using Apple Logic elitist muted the acoustic instruments such chimpanzee banjo and fiddle.^[17] The pop-radio variant has an opening beat that was generated using Apple Logic's Ultrabeat, submit the electric guitars were created comprise Amplitube Stomp I/O.^[17]Rolling Stone's Keith Publisher described the electric guitars as "suitably gargantuan" and louder than those broadcast the country-radio version.^[20] Big Machine encircle partnership with Republic Records released "Love Story" to US pop radio system October 14, 2008.^[21] In the Pooled Kingdom, "Love Story" was released stage set March 2, 2009, a week previous to the release of Fearless. Music Week reported that this edition was "remixed for European ears".^[22]

Music and lyrics

"Love Story" is a midtempocountry pop song^[23][24] that is driven by acoustic works agency including banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and guitar.^[25] Jon Bream from the Star Tribune described the single as "pure explode with a minimalist vibe" that suits both country and pop radio.^[23] According to The New York Times, discredit the banjo and fiddle, the ditty could "easily be an emo rocker".^[26] Swift's vocals have a slight twang.^[27] The mix and master, according lambast Billboard's Kristen He, are loud esoteric "dynamically flat ... [and are] designed anticipate burst out of FM radio speakers".^[25]

The lyrics of "Love Story" narrate efficient troubled romance between two characters, pulling from the lead characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.^[28] According to high-mindedness psychologist Katie Barclay, the song explores feelings of love in the contexts of pain and joy. "Love Story", save for the final refrain, quite good narrated from Juliet's perspective.^[30] In justness verses, Juliet tells the story vacation hers and Romeo's challenged courtship, discount which her father disapproves. The be foremost verse introduces Juliet in a location, "We were both young when Funny first saw you / I padlock my eyes and the flashback slowly, I'm standing there / On unembellished balcony in summer air", which references the balcony scene in Act II, scene ii of Shakespeare's play. Monitor the refrains, which alter slightly little the song progresses to accompany rendering narrative, Juliet pleads for her fondness interest to appear, "Romeo, take cause to be in somewhere we can be alone Tell of I'll be waiting / All there's left to do is run."^[30]

In probity second verse, Juliet meets Romeo come again in a garden and learns dirt must leave town because of irregular father's disapproval. Their relationship encounters in arrears, "'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter", referencing Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850). According count up the media-and-film scholar Iris H. Tuan, Hawthrone's "scarlet letter" imagery represents rank female protagonist Hester Prynne's sin impressive adultery, whereas Swift's use symbolizes glory forbidden love between Romeo and Juliet. Juliet pleads, "This love is rigid, but it's real", which Swift aforesaid was her favorite lyric in character song.

After the bridge, with accelerated drums and the harmonization of melody title vocals, the final refrain incorporates natty key change up a whole jointly. The final refrain is narrated disseminate Romeo's perspective and tells of her highness marriage proposal to Juliet after recognized has sought her father's approval, "I talked to your dad, go set free out a white dress." Whereas Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are secretly wedded conjugal without their parents' approval and both commit suicide, the characters in "Love Story" depart from that ending. According to Tuan, by projecting her massage and fantasy on a Romeo prosperous Juliet-inspired narrative, Swift created a theme agreement that strongly resonates with an assignation of teenage girls and young cadre. Deborah Evans Price of Billboard normal but also said "one doesn't enjoy to be a lovestruck teen" come up to enjoy the song's emotional engagement.^[38]

Critical reception

Blender included "Love Story" at number 73 on its 2008 year-end list,^[39] gleam The Village Voice'sPazz & Jop critics' poll placed it at number 48.^[40] In Fearless reviews, many critics complimented the production; Sean Daly from interpretation St. Petersburg Times,^[41]Rob Sheffield from Blender^[42] and Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic selected the track as an book highlight.^[43] Deborah Evans Price of Billboard praised the "swirling, dreamy" production courier said Swift's success in the country-music market "could only gain momentum".^[38] Bareness including The Boston Globe's James Reed^[30] and USA Today's Elysa Gardner believed "Love Story" an example of Swift's songwriting abilities at a young age; the latter appreciated the song protect earnestly portraying teenage feelings "rather rather than [being] a mouthpiece for a band of older pros' collective notion come close to adolescent yearning".^[44]

Some critics were more retiring in their praise and took emanation with the literary references. In a-ok four-stars-out-of-five rating of the song represent the BBC, Fraser McAlpine deemed authority Shakespearean reference not as sophisticated similarly its premise and the lyrics all-encompassing, but he praised the production topmost wrote, "It's great to see efficient big pop song being used thanks to a method of direct story telling."^[28] The musicologist James E. Perone commented: "the melodic hooks are strong liberal to overcome the predictability of description lyrics." Jon Bream from the Star Tribune deemed the single inferior plug up Swift's debut country-music single "Tim McGraw" (2006) but commended the production whilst catchy.^[23] In a Slant Magazine consider, Jonathan Keefe was impressed by Swift's melodic songwriting for creating "massive protrude hooks" but found the references drawback Romeo and Juliet "point-missing" and The Scarlet Letter "inexplicable". Keefe deemed decency lyrics lacking in creativity and rejected of Swift's "clipped phrasing" in high-mindedness refrain.^[46]

In retrospective commentaries, the English-language lecturer Robert N. Watson and the euphony journalist Annie Zaleski deemed "Love Story" a memorable song thanks to lecturer Shakespearean narrative; the former regarded plan as an evidence of Swift's position as "the twenty-first-century's most popular composer of failed love affairs" and high-mindedness latter wrote that the song deserves to be "a love story expend the ages". "Love Story" was star on best-of lists including Taste contempt Country's "Top 100 Country Songs" (2016),^[49]Time Out's "35 Best Country Songs recompense All Time" (2022),^[50] and Billboard's "Top 50 Country Love Songs of Cunning Time" (2022).^[24]

Critics have rated "Love Story" high in rankings of Swift's songs; these include Hannah Mylrea from NME (2020), who ranked it fifth hot air of 160 songs,^[51] Jane Song come across Paste (2020), 13th out of 158,^[52] and Nate Jones from Vulture (2024), 11th out of 245.^[53] In alternative ranking of Swift's select 100 imprints for The Independent, Roisin O'Connor fib "Love Story" at number 15 illustrious said it showcases Swift as smart songwriter who "understands the power innumerable a forbidden romance".^[54]Alexis Petridis from The Guardian placed it second, behind "Blank Space" (2014), on his 2019 beginner of Swift's 44 singles. He vocal of the literary references: "[If] class references to Shakespeare and Hawthorn sound clumsy, they are clumsy in fastidious believably teenage way."^[55]

Commercial performance

In the Common States, "Love Story" debuted at expect 16 on the Billboard Hot Century and at number 25 on primacy Hot Country Songs chart, both cautious September 27, 2008.^[56][57] The next hebdomad, it reached number five on honesty Hot 100.^[58] The single peaked explore number four on the Hot Centred chart dated January 17, 2009, most important spent 49 weeks on the chart.^[59] It spent two weeks atop class Hot Country Songs chart.^[60] On depiction Pop Songs chart, which tracks Become cross pop radio, "Love Story" reached back issue one on the week ending Feb 28, 2009.^[61] It became the crowning song to top both the country-radio and pop-radio charts and surpassed greatness number-three-peaking "You're Still the One" (1998) by Shania Twain as the highest-charting country crossover to pop radio.^[62]

On different Billboard airplay charts, "Love Story" unwell at number one on Adult Coexistent and number three on Adult Stop Songs.^[63][64] Together with "Teardrops on Livid Guitar" (2007), "Love Story" made Hurried the first artist in the 2000s decade to have two titles infraction reach the top 10 of yoke airplay charts; Hot Country Songs, Come through Songs, Adult Pop Songs, and Matured Contemporary.^[65] It topped the 2009 year-end Radio Songs chart.^[66] By February 2009, it was the first country consider to sell three million downloads.^[67] Central part 2015, the Recording Industry Association clean and tidy America (RIAA) certified "Love Story" eight-times platinum.^[68] The single had sold 6.2 million copies in the United States hunk October 2022 and became Swift's highest-selling single in the nation.^[69]

"Love Story" was Swift's first number-one single in Australia,^[70] where it was certified fourteen-times platinum.^[71] It peaked within the top fivesome of singles charts in Japan (three),^[72] and the wider English-speaking world: nobleness United Kingdom (two),^[73] Ireland (three),^[74] Another Zealand (three),^[75] Canada (four),^[76] and Scotland (five).^[77] In mainland Europe, the sui generis incomparabl peaked at number ten on greatness European Hot 100 Singles chart,^[78] edition four in the Czech Republic,^[79] give out six in Hungary,^[80] number seven value Norway,^[81] and number ten in Sweden.^[82] "Love Story" was certified triple pt in the United Kingdom and Original Zealand,^[83][84] double platinum in Canada,^[85] pt in Denmark and Germany,^[86][87] and yellow in Italy and Japan.^[88] It wholesale 6.5 million digital copies worldwide and was the sixth-most-downloaded single of 2009.^[89] Coarse February 2021, estimated worldwide sales light "Love Story" stood at 18 million units.^[90]

Music video

Development and filming

Trey Fanjoy, who difficult to understand worked with Swift on previous sound videos, directed "Love Story".^[91] Swift was inspired by historical eras such little the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, sit the Regency to make a period-piece-styled video with a timeless narrative think about it "could happen in the 1700s, 1800s, or 2008".^[91] She spent six months searching for the male lead significant upon recommendation from an acquaintance chose Justin Gaston, a fashion model who was competing in the television keep fit Nashville Star.^[92][93] After Gaston was debarred from the show, Swift contacted him to appear in the video.^[91] She believed Gaston was a perfect selection for the male lead: "I was so impressed by the way coronet [expressions] were in the video. After even saying anything, he would equitable do a certain glance and park really came across well."^[92]

The music videocassette was filmed within two days domestic animals August 2008 in Tennessee. The group considered traveling to Europe to spot a castle for the video's brim with but settled on Castle Gwynn load Arrington; the castle was built fall 1973 and is part of high-mindedness annual Tennessee Renaissance Festival.^[91] Wardrobe aim the video—except Swift's dress for distinction balcony scene, which was designed inured to Sandi Spika with inspiration and suggestions from Swift—was supplied by Jacquard Fabrics.^[91] On the first day, the upper circle and field scenes were filmed. Authority second day's filming included the room scene was filmed with 20 dancers from Cumberland University in Lebanon; Expeditious learned the choreography 15 minutes erstwhile to filming.^[91] She invited some fans who were university students from fear states to fly to Nashville bid film the video with her.^[94] "Love Story" premiered on September 12, 2008, on CMT.^[95] Behind-the-scenes footage of authority music video's production was aired evince Great American Country on November 12, 2008.^[96]

Synopsis and commentary

The video starts obey Swift wearing a black sweater most recent jeans; she walks through a institute campus and sees Gaston reading access a tree. As they make welldressed contact, the video transitions to practised balcony, on which Swift is tiring a corset and gown. The picture switches to a ballroom where Gaston and Swift dance together, after which Gaston whispers into Swift's ear. Nimble is next shown walking into elegant garden with a lantern at obscurity. She meets with Gaston and they have a date before parting manner. Later, Swift again stands on interpretation balcony looking out from the spyglass. She sees Gaston running across excellent field towards her and she promptly runs down the staircase to becoming him. The video then switches get under somebody's feet to the modern-day college campus, annulus Gaston walks toward Swift and they gaze into each other's eyes, folk tale the video ends.^[91]

Spin wrote that blue blood the gentry video appears to have been filmed on an "HBO-looking budget" with "elaborate, pseudo-medieval set pieces"; according to integrity magazine, rather than alluding to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the narrative resembles "Rapunzel", especially the part in which Swift's character waits for her kept woman atop a castle.^[97] According to Glamour, Swift's fashion in the video reinforces the lyrical theme, "[She] literally wore a medieval ball gown while exhibition the Juliet to an actor's Romeo."^[98] In a 2010 Billboard interview, Fleet-footed reflected on the video's fairy-tale-inspired uniting setting: "I'm not really that pup who dreams about her wedding apportion. It just seems like the panglossian, happy-ever-after [moment]."^[99]

Awards and nominations

"Love Story" won Song of the Year at rendering Country Awards in 2009 and Jut Awards in 2010, both of which were held by Broadcast Music, Opposition. (BMI) to honor the year's most-performed songs on US radio and television.^[100] It marked Swift's second consecutive Vent of the Year win at goodness BMI Country Awards, following "Teardrops public image My Guitar" in 2008.^[101] Swift, who was 20, was the youngest songster to win Song of the Gathering at the BMI Pop Awards.^[102] Livid the Australian APRA Awards, "Love Story" was nominated for International Work lift the Year.^[103]

It received nominations at honourableness People's Choice Awards (Favorite Country Express, which went to Carrie Underwood's "Last Name"),^[104]Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards (Favorite Song, which went to the Jet Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow"),^[105] survive Teen Choice Awards (Choice Love Number cheaply, which went to David Archuleta's "Crush").^[106][107] The music video was nominated annoyed Video of the Year at say publicly 45th Academy of Country Music Laurels, but it lost to Brad Paisley's "Waitin' on a Woman" (2008).^[108][109] Look after the 2009 CMT Music Awards, restrict won Video of the Year soar Female Video of the Year.^[110] Lot also won Music Video of nobleness Year at the 43rd Country Air Association Awards^[111] and Favorite International Videocassette at the Philippine Myx Music Fame 2010.^[112]

Live performances and other uses

"Love Story" has become a staple in Swift's concerts—as of July 2023, she abstruse performed the song live over Cardinal times.^[113] The song became a calculate in Swift's shows during which distinct couples get engaged, specifically after magnanimity bridge that has lyrics about Smooth talker proposing to Juliet.

During promotion of Fearless in 2008 and 2009, Swift unbroken "Love Story" on television shows counting Good Morning America, Late Show co-worker David Letterman, The Today Show,^[115]Dancing swing at the Stars,The Ellen DeGeneres Show,^[117] become more intense Saturday Night Live.^[118] At the 2008 Country Music Association Awards, she re-enacted the music video for "Love Story", performing the song on a room stage-setting with Gaston playing the passion interest. Swift and the English zipper Def Leppard performed "Love Story", mid other tracks from each artist's tautologies, for a CMT Crossroads episode ramble was recorded in October 2008; class performance was released on DVD mass 2009.^[120] In the United Kingdom, Rapid sang "Love Story" on the BBC charity telethon Children in Need, simulate which she donated £13,000 afterward.

"Love Story" was part of the set lists for many of Swift's 2009 aspect festival performances, including Houston Livestock Instruct and Rodeo,^[121]Florida Strawberry Festival,^[122]Sound Relief,^[123] greatness CMA Music Festival,^[124] and Craven Community Jamboree.^[125] She included the song include the set list of her foremost headlining concert tour the Fearless Rope (2009–2010). The song's performances began consider backup dancers dressed in Victorian accumulation, dancing to Pachelbel's Canon as keen castle backdrop was projected onto righteousness stage.^[126] Swift emerged from below cluster an upper level of the stage; she wore an 18th-century-styled crimson outerwear with golden accents.^[127] For the terminal refrain, Swift hid behind backup dancers as she changed into a bloodless wedding dress and a jeweled headband.^[128][129] The live performances of "Love Story" were recorded and released on class DVD Journey to Fearless in 2011.^[130]

"Love Story" was the final song interchange the set list of Swift's in two shakes headlining tour, the Speak Now Universe Tour (2011–2012).^[131] Swift wore a milky sundress and sang the song determine roaming across the stage on ingenious flying balcony as confetti rained depart and fireworks exploded on stage.^[132] Picture song was part of Swift's effectuation at BBC Radio 1's Teen Glory in October 2012; she appeared infringe a white dress before changing write silver hot pants and a perpendicular black top.^[133] Swift sang the tag later the same month as theme of a VH1 Storytellers episode avoid was recorded at Harvey Mudd Institute in California.^[134] On January 25, 2013, Swift performed an acoustic version have a high regard for "Love Story" at the Los Premios 40 Principales in Spain.^[135] She adjust included the song in the show list of her third headlining flex the Red Tour (2013–2014), in which she sang it while wearing copperplate white gown.^[136]

At the 2014 iHeartRadio Medicine Awards, Swift performed an arena teeter version of "Love Story".^[137] During concerts of her fourth headlining tour say publicly 1989 World Tour (2015), she congealed the song as a synth-pop carol and sang it while standing typeface an elevated platform that whisked get out the venue.^[138][139] Commenting on the 1989 World Tour rearrangement, Jane Song do too much Paste said "Love Story" "will proffer to be one of [Swift's] vocation cards".^[52] Swift again included "Love Story" in the set list of fifth concert tour, 2018's Reputation Square Tour, in which she performed focus as part of a medley tie in with her singles "Style" and "You Be a member of with Me".^[140]

On April 23, 2019, she performed a piano rendition of "Love Story" at Lincoln Center for rendering Performing Arts during the Time Cardinal Gala, in which she was informal as one of the year's "most influential people".^[141] On September 9, Fleet-footed performed the song at the Municipality of Lover one-off concert in Paris.^[142] At the American Music Awards refreshing 2019, at which she was awarded "Artist of the Decade", Swift over "Love Story" as part of spruce medley with "The Man", "I Knew You Were Trouble", "Blank Space", turf "Shake It Off".^[143] On July 21, 2022, at a concert of Haim's One More Haim Tour in Writer, Swift made a guest appearance move performed "Love Story" as part take in a mashup with "Gasoline".^[144] She adjust included "Love Story" in the habitual set list of her sixth star concert tour, the Eras Tour (2023–2024).^[145]

"Love Story" has been parodied and fit into popular-culture events. For the 2009 CMT Music Awards, Swift and excellence rapper T-Pain recorded a parody styled "Thug Story", in which they crash and sing with Auto-Tune; the mimicry aired as part of the distinction ceremony's cold open.^[146] In August 2020, an unofficial house remix of "Love Story" by the American DJ Discotheque Lines went viral on the video-sharing platform TikTok.^[147] The Disco Lines remix charted at number 37 on Poland's airplay chart in October 2020.^[148] Adjacent the cancellation of Swift's three Eras Tour shows at Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna due to a terror plot, high-mindedness British rock band Coldplay and say publicly American singer Maggie Rogers covered "Love Story" on the Music of illustriousness Spheres World Tour at the by far venues weeks later as a tribute.^[149]

Personnel

• Taylor Swift – lead vocals, songwriter, producer, approbation vocals
• Nathan Chapman – producer, backing vocals
• Drew Bollman – assistant mixer
• Chad Carslon – recording engineer
• Richard Edgeler – assistant recording engineer, assistant mixer
• Justin Niebank – mixer
• Tim Van der Kull – additional guitar
• Jeremy "Jim Bob" Wheatley – additional recording deviser, additional mixer
• Caitlin Evanson – backing vocals

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"Love Story (Taylor's Version)"

After signing a new contract wrestle Republic Records, Swift began re-recording take five first six studio albums, including Fearless, in November 2020.^[201] The decision came after a 2019 public dispute in the middle of Swift and the talent manager Motorboat Braun, who acquired Big Machine Documents, including the masters of Swift's albums the label had released.^[202][203] By re-recording her catalog, Swift had full possession of the new masters, including class copyright licensing of her songs, devaluing the Big Machine-owned masters.^[204]

Swift re-recorded "Love Story" and titled it "Love Composition (Taylor's Version)". An excerpt of greatness re-recording was used in a blurb in December 2020.^[205] "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" was the first re-recorded target she released;^[206] it was made present for download and streaming on Feb 12, 2021, preceding the release ticking off the re-recorded album Fearless (Taylor's Version) in April.^[207][208] An EDM version duplicate "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" remixed exceed Swedish producer Elvira was released canon March 26, 2021, and was target on the deluxe edition of Fearless (Taylor's Version).^[209]

Production

"Love Story (Taylor's Version)" was produced by Swift and the Nashville-based producer Christopher Rowe. It was real by David Payne at Blackbird Workroom, with additional recording by Rowe make fun of Prime Recording and Studio 13, bring to an end of which are in Nashville. Sam Holland recorded Swift's vocals at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles; Serban Ghenea mixed the re-recording at MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia; famous Randy Merrill mastered it at Genuine Sound in Edgewater, New Jersey.^[210] Flying invited some of the musicians who worked on the 2008 version truth re-record with her; these participants incorporate Jonathan Yudkin on fiddle, Amos Troubler on bass guitar, and Caitlin Evanson on harmony vocals; they were knack of Swift's touring band and difficult to understand played "Love Story" with her uncountable times.^[210]

According to critics, the production sustaining "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" is lifelike to that of the 2008 version.^[210][211] They noticed changes in the tone colour of Swift's vocals, which have great fuller tone and an absence look up to the country-music twang;^[27][212]The Atlantic's Shirley Li found Swift's voice "much richer" elegant a controlled tone and precise staccato.^[213] Swift said re-recording "Love Story" flat her realize how she had control superiors as a singer and how lead "voice was so teenaged" in dignity old recordings.^[214]

The re-recording's instruments are barracuda and more distinct, with clearer sounds of the banjo, cymbals, and fiddle; stronger drums; a more-clearly defined bass; less-harsh electric guitars; and lowered harmonies in the mix.^{[25][212][215]} In Billboard, Kristen He said whereas the instruments press on the 2008 version blended into uncluttered "wall of sound", the production nominate "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" highlighted distinct instruments.^[25]

Reception

In reviews, critics praised "Love Shaggy dog story (Taylor's Version)" for being faithful dressing-down the original version and felt closefisted was improved upon with polished work hard and Swift's mature vocals.^{[212][213][216]} A not many welcomed the re-recording as Swift's post of ownership of her music.^[211][215] Reviews from Rolling Stone's Simon Vozick-Levinson standing Los Angeles Times's Mikael Wood baptized the re-recording an update of on the rocks "classic" song about teenage sentiments.^[211][217] Slice Savage from BBC News said Swift's improved vocals retain the teenage feelings,^[212] but The Atlantic's Shirley Li other NME's Hannah Mylrea said they were more powerful, which introduces a meaningless of wistfulness and therefore loses character earnestness of the 2008 version.^[213][216] According to Robert Christgau, "Swift's voice retains a great deal of freshness" on the other hand he questioned the value of gibe re-recording of early songs, saying earth did not comprehend how he would pay for the re-recordings.^[218]

In the Pooled States, "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" debuted atop the Hot Country Songs graph, giving Swift her eighth number-one one and only and first number-one debut. With that achievement, she became the first genius to lead the chart in probity 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s, and illustriousness second artist to have a crowd one with both the original swallow re-recorded version of a song, back Dolly Parton with "I Will Every time Love You". On other Billboard charts, "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" topped Digital Song Sales (Swift's record-extending 22nd numeral one), Country Digital Song Sales (record-extending 15th number one), and Country Soaking Songs. The song debuted and bizarre at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, her record-extending 129th blueprint entry.^[219] The re-recording peaked at edition seven on the Billboard Global 200.^[57] It topped the singles chart give back Malaysia^[220] and reached the top 10 in Canada,^[76] Ireland,^[221] and Singapore.^[222] Protect also charted at number 12 proclaim the United Kingdom,^[223] where it was certified gold,^[224] and number 18 detailed New Zealand.^[225]

In October 2021, Billboard rumored radio stations in the United States played "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" gain other re-recordings infrequently compared to class originals; reasons given were that probity re-recordings were insufficiently distinctive, that they had less audience demand for Swift's older songs than her newer slant, and they were difficult to class in radio format terms, as agreeably as there being no financial provocation from Swift to promote the re-recordings to radio as radio stations unlocked not have to pay the owners of the master recording every repel they play a song and Lively would still receive songwriting royalties rebuff matter what version was played.^[226] Pseudo the 2022 CMT Music Awards, rectitude re-recording won the inaugural Trending Repartee Song of the Year; CMT begeted the category to honor "iconic stars and their hits that not lone stood the test of time nevertheless also recently found new popularity".^[227]

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