Fearless (Taylors Version) The Best Tracks From The Vault Ranked
Fearless (Taylor’s Version): The Best Tracks From The Vault, Ranked
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Fearless (Taylor’s Version) allowed the artist to release songs “from the vault” that have never been fully heard before. Here are the songs, ranked.
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Taylor Swift is not the first artist to return to her past catalog and re-record tracks to flex her ownership over them. However, she is certainly the first to do it on such a prominent stage. As one of the global superstars in the music industry, Taylor Swift has immense clout, and it has led to the first entry in her re-record project, Fearless (Taylor’s Version), becoming a chart-topping success.
On the one hand, it’s inspiring to see Swift make great strides for artistic ownership and authorship in the face of financially-minded bullies. On the other, it’s also an excellent vehicle for revisiting all her classics from the last decade and a half. Through the release of her own version of Fearless, she was also able to release songs “from the vault” that have never been heard in full before. They all have their merits, but some have managed to join the pantheon of the all-time best from Swift (an impressive feat considering she just won another Album of the Year Grammy).
6 “Don’t You”
“Don’t You” is a lovely song from the vault on Fearless (Taylor’s Version), but it just does not have a direct musical hook to latch onto. It’s not that it’s an unmemorable song from the vault, but rather that it just doesn’t seem as special as the other five previously never-before-heard songs.
For the vault tracks, Swift enlisted the aid of her two most prolific collaborators from the past year, Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner. “Don’t You” is a Swift and Antonoff joint, so it’s never going to be truly “bad.” Rather, it’s just not as good as some of the other vault ditties.
5 “We Were Happy”
On the other hand, “We Were Happy” is one of the two Swift-Dessner collaborations in the vault. It’s not the strongest of the pair, but it does have a lot of meritable qualities that prop it up as a quality track, even if it does make sense why the song was originally cut from the album.
With mentions to a relationship gone by and even some country imagery, “We Were Happy” treads a lot of the same ground that much of the initial Fearless release did in 2008. It’s reductive, but worth hearing when the album is Taylor’s version.
4 “That’s When”
When the album was officially announced, the vault tracks were kept under wraps. As the release came closer, though, Swift became “unhinged” when she announced the song titles through a video of scrambled letters. However, one of the biggest parts of the announcement came in the form of Keith Urban’s confirmation as a feature in the vault.
He pops up on “That’s When,” which strongly harkens back to the Fearless era. Their voices go smoothly together, but the best aspect of the duet from the vault is the fact that Taylor actually takes the first verse for herself, which does not always happen when she collaborates with male artists.
3 “You All Over Me”
The first song to be released from the vault during this new early spring album cycle was the other one with production from Dessner, “You All Over Me.” On this track, Maren Morris turned up to provide backing vocals and its release showed fans and critics alike that the songs from the vault weren’t just afterthoughts – they were real parts of the conversation on Fearless (Taylor’s Version).
Swift’s voice sounds like honey on this track, which contains a ton of imagery that would be later explored further on subsequent albums. It’s a goosebumps-inducing thought to imagine an “in-her-30s-Taylor” recording songs she wrote when she was a teenager, but it’s even more remarkable to think that she was writing gorgeous tunes like this when most teens are just trying not to post a cringe-worthy Facebook status.
2 “Bye Bye Baby”
Alliteration is only one aspect of why “Bye Bye Baby” is clearly one of the standout tracks from the vault. Melodically, it seems like Swift might have never been better than on this track, as her crooning of “bye, bye” during each chorus somehow seems more soaring than the last.
Antonoff’s production is understated here, but in a way that blends perfectly with Swift’s vocals, which have become an instrument all their own at this point. Her classic songwriting abilities combined with the modern orchestration that now defines her sound turns out to be a truly magical connection, especially on this song, which is addictive to listen to over and over again.
1 “Mr. Perfectly Fine”
At the top of the list, though, is “Mr. Perfectly Fine,” which seems to have already rightfully taken its place in the Swift Hall of Fame. Some have even compared it to the majesty of the all-time Swift great, “All Too Well.” (Both songs use the phrase, “casually cruel,” which shows how Taylor never throws away a gorgeous lyric – she just repurposes it.
The song (which is about Joe Jonas, prompting some fun from Sophie Turner) has a classic pop song structure, but in a way that is so unbelievably satisfying, thanks to Swift’s vocals and the kick-in from the production in the final chorus. Not to mention, it has the classic Swift vibe of being a song that puts a specific feeling into words that listeners may have never even known someone else shared. Come for the way Swift’s voice goes up on “Mister, I’ve been waiting for you all my life,'” and stay for the fact that this song is going to be a jam to sing along to whenever concerts are allowed to happen again.
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