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Speak Now

October 15, 2023

This article is about the 2010 Taylor Swift album. For the 2023 re-recording, see Speak Now (Taylor's Version). For other uses, see Speak Now (disambiguation).

Speak Now is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 25, 2010, through Big Machine Records. Swift wrote the album entirely herself within two years while touring to promote her second studio album, Fearless (2008).

Speak Now
Standard edition cover
Studio album by
Taylor Swift
ReleasedOctober 25, 2010 (2010-10-25)
Studio
Genre
Length67:29
LabelBig Machine
Producer
Taylor Swift chronology
Fearless
(2008) 		Speak Now
(2010) 		Speak Now World Tour – Live
(2011)
Singles from Speak Now
  1. "Mine"
    Released: August 4, 2010
  2. "Back to December"
    Released: October 12, 2010
  3. "Mean"
    Released: March 13, 2011
  4. "The Story of Us"
    Released: April 19, 2011
  5. "Sparks Fly"
    Released: July 18, 2011
  6. "Ours"
    Released: December 5, 2011

Inspired by Swift's transition from adolescence into adulthood, Speak Now is a loose concept album consisting of confessional songs mostly about love and heartbreak that explore past relationships and depart from the youthful optimism on her past albums. Some tracks were inspired by her rising stardom and public experience, and they have lyrics about confrontation against her critics and adversaries. Produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman, the album combines country pop, pop rock, and power pop. Its songs incorporate prominent rock stylings, and their melodies are characterized by acoustic instruments intertwined with chiming electric guitars, dramatic strings, and drums.

After the album's release, Swift embarked on the Speak Now World Tour from February 2011 to March 2012. The album was supported by six singles, including the US Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles "Mine" and "Back to December", and the US Hot Country Songs number ones "Sparks Fly" and "Ours". Speak Now peaked atop charts and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia (double platinum), Canada (triple platinum), and New Zealand (triple platinum). In the US, it sold one million copies within its first release week, spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, and was certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Music critics generally praised Speak Now for what they deemed radio-friendly tunes and an emotional engagement to Swift's audience. Some critics found the album to showcase Swift's grown-up perspective, but others took issue with the tracks about vengeance as shallow. At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012, Speak Now was nominated for Best Country Album, and its third single "Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. The album appeared in 2010s decade-end lists by Billboard and Spin, and on Rolling Stone's "50 Best Female Albums of All Time" in 2012. After a dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded Speak Now and released it as Speak Now (Taylor's Version) on July 7, 2023.

Background Edit

 
Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift released her second studio album Fearless through Nashville-based Big Machine Records in November 2008. The album spent 11 weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200, the longest chart run for a female country music artist.[2] It was the best-selling album of 2009 in the US and then-20-year-old Swift the youngest artist to have an annual best-seller since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking album sales in 1991.[3] Two of the album's singles, "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", performed well on both country and pop radio and brought Swift to mainstream prominence.[4] "Love Story" was the first country song to reach number one on the Mainstream Top 40 chart and "You Belong with Me" was the first country song to top the all-genre Radio Songs chart.[5][6] At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2010, Fearless won Album of the Year and Best Country Album, and its single "White Horse" won Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song.[7]

The success of Fearless made Swift one of country music's biggest stars to crossover into the mainstream market.[8][9] At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, where Swift won Best Female Video for "You Belong with Me", rapper Kanye West interrupted her acceptance speech; the incident received widespread media coverage and became known as "Kanyegate".[10][11] At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, Swift sang "You Belong with Me" and "Rhiannon" with Stevie Nicks; some critics commented Swift performed with weak vocals.[12] MTV News commented the MTV Awards incident transformed Swift into a "bona-fide mainstream celebrity",[13] and The New York Times said it was refreshing to see a talented singer-songwriter like Swift "make the occasional flub".[14] Swift began writing for her third studio album immediately after she released Fearless and continued during her Fearless Tour in 2009 and 2010.[15]

Writing and lyrics Edit

Because of her extensive touring schedule, Swift wrote her third album alone: "I'd get my best ideas at 3:00 a.m. in Arkansas, and I didn't have a co-writer around so I would just finish it. That would happen again in New York and then again in Boston and that would happen again in Nashville."[15] Inspired by her growth into adulthood, she conceived Speak Now as a loose concept album about the things she wanted to tell certain people she had met but never had a chance to.[15] As with her songwriting on previous albums, Swift strove to convey emotional honesty with details as specifically as possible, believing it is important for a songwriter to do so.[15] She described her songs as "diary entries" about her emotions that helped her navigate adulthood.[16][17] Swift chose not to follow the trend of making increasingly sexualized music by artists of her age and believed such a path would be incongruent with her artistic vision.[note 1]

 
"Back to December"
The orchestral string-laden "Back to December" is about Swift's confession of her wrongdoings and plea for an ex-lover's forgiveness, departing from the starry-eyed romance of her previous songs.
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Departing from Fearless's theme of fairy tales and starry-eyed romance, Speak Now explores introspection and backward-looking reflections on relationships.[15] By avoiding sexual references in its songs, the album kept Swift's "good-girl" image intact.[note 2] Some tracks were inspired by Swift's public experience, including past relationships with high-profile celebrities, which received media attention during the album's promotional rollout.[20][21] The confessional lyrics of Speak Now are more direct and confrontational than those on Swift's past albums.[22] On "Back to December", she asks an ex-lover to forgive her wrongdoings.[23] Swift wrote the title track after hearing a friend's ex-boyfriend was marrying another woman; in the lyrics, the protagonist crashes the ex-boyfriend's wedding and tries to halt it.[20][24] "Dear John" narrates a devastating relationship of a 19-year-old female narrator who accuses a much-older man of manipulating her with "dark, twisted games".[20] Swift's encounter with an ex-lover at an awards show, where they ignored each other despite Swift feeling a need to speak to him inspired "The Story of Us".[25] On "Better than Revenge", Swift affirms vengeance against a romantic rival who is known for "the things she does on the mattress".[20][26]

Romantic optimism is another major theme of the album.[15][20] The opening track "Mine" is about Swift's hope of attaining happiness despite her tendency to "run from love" to avoid heartbreak.[16] It was the first song she included on the track list because it represents her then-new perspective of romance.[27] Swift had written "Sparks Fly"—a song about dangerous hints of love at first sight—before she released her 2006 self-titled debut album.[28] She re-recorded the song for Speak Now after she received fan request to release it at the 2010 CMA Music Festival.[15] "Enchanted" describes the aftermath of an encounter with a special person without knowing whether the infatuation would be reciprocated.[20] "Haunted" is about romantic obsession and "Last Kiss" explores the lingering feelings after a breakup.[20] On "Long Live", Swift expresses gratitude to her fans and bandmates.[29] The lyrics of "Enchanted" and "Long Live" incorporate high-school-prom and fairy-tale imagery that recalls the youthful optimism of Fearless.[30][31]

 
The 2009 MTV Awards incident with Kanye West (pictured) inspired "Innocent".

Besides love and romance, Swift wrote about self-perception. "Never Grow Up" is a contemplation of her childhood, adulthood, and future.[26][24] The self-aware "Mean", in which Swift sings about facing a man who had tried to take her down, was inspired by her detractors.[32][33] Because of her confessional songwriting, the media became invested in Swift's personal life and believed each song is about a real person: an ex-lover, a friend, or an enemy.[18][20] Although Swift was interested to hear the response from the people to whom she dedicated the songs, she did not publicly name them and believed they would realize this themselves.[18][20] She did reveal that Kanye West, who interrupted Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, was the subject of "Innocent".[25] In the track, Swift sings about forgiving a man who wronged her; according to Esquire, the track can be interpreted as "a simple lament of a lost love, or a former friend being forgiven".[34]

Swift wrote as many as 25 songs and by early 2010, she had begun to select songs for the album.[15][27] To ensure the album would be coherent, she played the songs to her family, friends, and producer Nathan Chapman,[15] who had produced for Swift since the recording of her self-titled debut album in 2006.[35] Swift chose Enchanted as a working title but Big Machine Records executive Scott Borchetta recommended Swift choose a different title, deeming Enchanted unfit for the album's mature perspective.[note 3] She settled on the title Speak Now because she thought it best captures the album's essence: "I think it's such a metaphor, that moment where it's almost too late, and you've got to either say what it is you are feeling or deal with the consequences forever ... And this album seemed like the opportunity for me to speak now or forever hold my peace."[20] Swift finalized the track list by June 2010.[16]

Composition Edit

Production Edit

Swift recorded much of Speak Now with Chapman at his Pain in the Art Studio in Nashville.[36] Although Fearless's commercial success allowed Swift to engage a larger group of producers, she worked solely with Chapman because she believed they had a productive relationship.[36] The recording process started with a demo; Swift recorded vocals and played guitar, and Chapman sang background vocals and played other instruments. After arranging the demos, Swift and Chapman approached engineers and other musicians to tweak some elements, including overdubs and programmed drums.[36] The first track Chapman produced with Swift on Speak Now is "Mine", which they recorded within five hours.[36]

Because of his artistic autonomy, Chapman said he was responsible for "60 percent of the music on the album, including 90 percent of the guitars".[36] Much of his production for Speak Now is identical to that for Fearless; he programmed the drums with Toontrack's software Superior Drummer, played drums on the Roland Fantom G6 keyboard, added electric guitars to the arrangements, recorded Swift's vocals with an Avantone CV12 microphone and his background vocals with a Shure SM57, produced the bass with an Avalon VT737 preamplifier, and used Endless Audio's CLASP System to synchronize his editing on Pro Tools and Logic.[36] Because of Swift's country-music vision, Chapman asked other musicians, mostly in Nashville, to replace his programmed drums with live drumming and add acoustic instruments such as fiddle.[36] For instance, Chapman asked Steve Marcantonio to cut down programmed drums on "Mine" at Blackbird Studios in Nashville.[36] For some tracks, including "Back to December", Swift and her team went to Capitol Studios in Los Angeles to record string orchestration.[16][37]

After recording finished, Justin Niebank mixed the album on Pro Tools at Blackbird Studios; he had mixed some tracks on Fearless. Within three weeks, Niebank finished mixing 17 tracks including 14 on the standard edition and three bonus tracks on the deluxe edition.[36][38] Because Swift wanted Speak Now to be a direct communication with her audience, Niebank infused monoaural reverberation inspired by 1950s and 1960s music in the mix to evoke a "vintage" and "retro" vibe that, according to Niebank, brought a sense of authenticity.[36] Music engineer Hank Williams mastered the recordings.[36] Because much of Speak Now was recorded and mixed in Nashville, Niebank believed the album stood out among popular records that were manipulated with contemporaneous technologies Auto-Tune and Melodyne.[36] Although Chapman was responsible for much of the production, he said Swift's co-production credit is "not a vanity credit. We were really a team, very collaborative."[36][39]

Music Edit

 
"Mine"
Speak Now is primarily a country pop album with radio-friendly production, as exemplified by its lead single "Mine".
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Speak Now follows the country pop production of Fearless and incorporates prominent elements of mainstream pop music, more so than Fearless.[40][41] Critics debated the album's genre. Paste described the album as a blend of country and radio-friendly pop tunes with climatic build-ups and catchy hooks.[42] Entertainment Weekly classified the album as pop and commented the only country elements are its "smattering of banjo pluck and dainty twang".[43] According to BBC Music, Speak Now veers towards pop rock.[44] Ann Powers, in a review for the Los Angeles Times, found the album borderline alternative rock and bubblegum pop with its songs experimenting with styles from "lush strings of Céline-style kitsch-pop to Americana banjo to countrypolitan electric guitar".[21] Now described Speak Now as "slickly produced power pop".[45]

Critics noted the banjo-led bluegrass track "Mean" as the album's pure country song.[9][26][46] Much of the album consists of uptempo country pop melodies, exemplified by the opening track "Mine".[41][47] Many tracks explore rock stylings that draw from rock music of the late 1970s through the 1980s,[48] and their melodies incorporate chiming guitars, loud drums, and powerful choruses.[49] "Sparks Fly" has an arena rock production with guitars and subtle fiddles.[50] The title track is an acoustic guitar-driven country pop song with a 1950s rock chorus.[41][51] "The Story of Us" and "Better than Revenge" are electric-guitar-driven pop punk songs;[52] the former contains influences of dance-pop and new wave.[53][42] The arena-rock and goth-rock-inspired "Haunted" incorporates a dramatic recurring string section.[29][52][54] The closing track "Long Live" is a heartland rock song featuring girl-group harmonies and chiming rock guitars.[29][30]

The remaining tracks of Speak Now are ballads. "Back to December" is a gentle, orchestral, string-laden ballad.[24] Speak Now's longest track, "Dear John" at six minutes and 43 seconds, is a slow-burning, bluesy, country-pop song with electric guitar licks.[9][55] The guitar ballad "Never Grow Up" incorporates an understated production that accompanies its wistful lyrics.[29][41] On "Enchanted", the acoustic guitar crescendos after each refrain and leads up to a harmony-layered coda at the end.[29][31] The tracks "Innocent" and "Last Kiss" incorporate sparse instruments; the latter is a slow-tempo waltz with breathy vocals.[31][41][54] "If This Was a Movie", a bonus song on the deluxe edition and the only song not written solely by Swift,[note 4] is a fast-paced ballad with a recurring guitar riff and simple harmonies.[57]

Release and promotion Edit

Swift announced Speak Now on July 20, 2010, in a live stream on Ustream.[35] Big Machine Records released the lead single "Mine" to US country radio and digital download sites on August 4, 2010.[58] The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100[59] and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[60] It reached number six in Japan,[61] number seven in Canada,[62] and number nine in Australia.[63] On August 18, Swift released the album's cover art, which depicts Swift with curly hair and red lipstick twirling in a deep-purple gown.[64] On September 15, she announced a Target-exclusive deluxe edition whose cover art is identical to that of the standard edition but the gown is red instead of purple.[65] Starting from October 4, 2010, Big Machine released one Speak Now track each week on the iTunes Store as part of a three-week countdown campaign; the title track was released on October 5, followed by "Back to December" on October 12 and "Mean" on October 19.[66] On October 22, Xfinity premiered a preview of "The Story of Us".[66]

Big Machine released the standard and deluxe editions of Speak Now on October 25, 2010.[65][67] The Target-exclusive CD+DVD edition contains 14 songs of the standard; the bonus tracks "Ours", "If This Was a Movie", and "Superman"; acoustic versions of "Back to December" and "Haunted"; a "pop mix" of "Mine"; a 30-minute behind-the-scenes video for "Mine"; and the music video for "Mine".[38][68] The deluxe edition was released to other retailers on January 17, 2012.[69][70] To bolster sales of the album, Swift had partnerships with Starbucks, Sony Electronics, Walmart, and Jakks Pacific.[71][72] In October 2011, Swift partnered with Elizabeth Arden, Inc. to release her fragrance brand "Wonderstruck", whose name references the lyrics of "Enchanted".[72]

 
Swift on the Speak Now World Tour in 2012

To further promote Speak Now, Swift appeared on magazine covers and conducted press interviews.[16] She performed "Innocent" at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.[73] Her other performances at awards shows include the Country Music Association Awards[74] and the American Music Awards in 2010;[75] the Academy of Country Music Awards[76] and the Country Music Association Awards in 2011.[77] She also performed at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.[78] In Europe, Swift performed on BBC Radio 2 and X Factor Italy, and she had interviews with BBC Radio 1 in the UK and NRJ in France.[79] She embarked on a promotional tour in Japan, where she appeared on variety show SMAPxSMAP and music program Music Station.[80] Her round of American television shows included Today, Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Dancing with the Stars.[71] She also gave private concerts to contest winners and played a semi-private concert for JetBlue at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.[81]

After "Mine", Swift released five more singles from Speak Now. "Back to December" and "Mean", which were earlier available for digital download, were released to US country radio on November 15, 2010,[82] and March 13, 2011, respectively.[83] The two singles peaked at numbers seven and ten, respectively, in Canada,[62] and "Back to December" reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100.[84] "The Story of Us" was released to US pop radio on April 19, 2011.[85] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" were released to US country radio on July 18[86] and December 5, 2011, respectively.[87] Prior to its single release, "Ours", together with the other deluxe edition tracks, was released for digital download via the iTunes Store on November 8, 2011.[88] "Sparks Fly" and "Ours" reached the top 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and peaked atop the US Hot Country Songs chart.[89][90] The RIAA certified all six of the album's singles at least platinum; "Back to December" and "Mean" sold over two million copies each, and they were respectively certified double-platinum and triple-platinum.[91][92]

On November 23, 2010, Swift announced the Speak Now World Tour, which started in Singapore on February 9, 2011. The tour visited Asia and Europe before the North American leg started in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 27, 2011.[93] Within two days of announcement, the tour sold 625,000 tickets.[94] By April 2011, Swift had added another 16 shows to the North American leg.[95] After the final US concert in New York City on November 22, 2011, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 80 sold-out North American shows.[96] On August 10, 2011, Swift released a music video for "Sparks Fly" that includes footage from the tour.[97] She released the album Speak Now World Tour – Live on November 21, 2011.[98] In December 2011, Swift announced an extension of the tour to Australia and New Zealand starting in March 2012.[99] Concluding on March 18, 2012, the Speak Now World Tour had covered 110 shows, visited 18 countries,[note 5] and grossed $123.7 million.[100]

Commercial performance Edit

Before Speak Now's release, Big Machine shipped two million copies of the album to stores in the US.[27] In the week ending November 13, 2010, the album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 1,047,000 copies.[101] It marked the highest single-week tally for a female country artist and became the first album since Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III (2008) to sell over one million copies in its first week of release.[102] Media publications including Billboard,[101] MTV,[71] and The New York Times[81] noted Speak Now's first-week sales figures in the context of declining record sales brought about by the emergence of music download platforms. According to The New York Times, although the music industry in 2010 saw album sales "[plunging] by more than 50 percent in the last decade", the album's strong sales proved Swift "has transcended the limitations of genre and become a pop megastar".[81] The Guinness World Records in 2010 recognized Speak Now as the fastest-selling album in the US by a female country artist.[103]

In Speak Now's first charting week, 11 of the standard edition's 14 tracks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, making Swift the first female artist to have 11 songs on the Hot 100 at the same time.[104] After the digital release of the deluxe edition tracks in November 2011, "If This Was a Movie" charted at number 10 on the Hot 100, making Swift the first artist to have eight songs debut in the top 10.[105][note 6] With this achievement, Speak Now had three songs peaking in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100—"Mine", "Back to December", and "If This Was a Movie".[107] The album spent six non-consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200.[108] Speak Now was the third-best-selling album of 2010 in the US with sales of 2,960,000 copies.[109] By October 2022, it had sold 4,800,000 copies in the US.[110] The RIAA certified the album six-times platinum, which denotes six million album-equivalent units based on sales, song downloads, and streaming.[111]

Speak Now was a chart success in the wider English-speaking world: it peaked atop the albums charts of Australia,[112] Canada,[113] and New Zealand,[114] and peaked at number six in Ireland[115] and the UK.[116] The album was certified double-platinum in Australia[117] and triple-platinum in Canada and New Zealand.[118] In certain European markets, it charted at number four in Norway,[119] number six in Japan,[120] number eight in Mexico,[121] and number ten in Spain.[122] After Swift embarked on the Eras Tour (2023–2024), Speak Now resurged in popularity in the UK: it re-entered the top 40 (at number 23) of the UK Albums Chart for the week ending May 18, 2023, which was its first top-40 appearance since November 2010.[123]

Critical reception Edit

Contemporaneous professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.9/10[124]
Metacritic77/100[125]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [40]
The A.V. ClubB−[126]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[43]
The Guardian     [127]
Los Angeles Times    [21]
MSN Music (Expert Witness)A−[128]
Paste7.1/10[42]
Rolling Stone     [30]
Slant Magazine     [31]
Spin7/10[55]

Speak Now received generally positive reviews from contemporaneous critics.[94] Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, gave the album an average score of 77 that was based on 20 reviews.[125] AnyDecentMusic? compiled 10 reviews and gave it an average score of 6.9 out of 10.[124]

Most critics approved of Swift's grown-up perspective on love and relationships.[94] Reviews published in AllMusic,[40] Entertainment Weekly,[43] The Guardian,[127] the Los Angeles Times,[21] and Rolling Stone[30] complimented the songs for portraying emotions with engaging narratives and vivid details. In AllMusic's review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote; "[Swift] writes from the perspective of the moment yet has the skill of a songwriter beyond her years".[40] American Songwriter approved of Swift's self-penned material and artistic control.[26] In his consumer guide, Robert Christgau commented although the album is "overlong and overworked", the songs "evince an effort that bears a remarkable resemblance to care—that is, to caring in the best, broadest, and most emotional sense".[128]

The album's dramatic themes of heartbreak and vengeance received mixed reviews. Spin[55] and Now[45] said although it includes some memorable tracks, Speak Now is blemished by celebrity, rage, and grievances. Slant Magazine lauded Swift's melodic songwriting for offering radio-friendly pop hooks but criticized the lyrics of "Dear John", "Mean", "Innocent", and "Better than Revenge" as shallow and shortsighted.[31] According to Steven Hyden from The A.V. Club, those tracks are Speak Now's strength; "Swift's niftiest trick is being at her most likeable when she's indulging in such overt nastiness".[126] Entertainment Weekly agreed, deeming those tracks inevitable for Swift's artistic evolution.[43] The Village Voice said Swift's songwriting is "not confessional, but dramatic" and found it more nuanced and mature compared to that of Fearless.[53]

Other reviews focused on Speak Now's production. Reviews published in Paste[42] and Slant Magazine[31] call it a catchy album with radio-friendly pop tunes; Paste was impressed by the crossover appeal but deemed the overall production dull. The Village Voice took issue with Swift's weak and strained vocals.[53] BBC Music found the album's track list too long but called it overall a "sparky and affecting record".[44] Now approved of Swift's experimentation with styles other than country but considered it "too safe" and said the album is tarnished by "slickly produced power pop and a sugary sameness [that is] indiscernible from any number of today's radio-oriented artists".[45] Ann Powers appreciated Speak Now's soft, introspective tracks for personalizing pop music.[21] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times lauded the experimentation with genres such as blues and pop punk, and he called Speak Now a bold step for Swift.[52]

Accolades Edit

Speak Now was ranked 13th on Rolling Stone's list of the best albums of 2010.[129] The New York Times' Jon Caramanica ranked the album number two (behind Rick Ross's Teflon Don) in his 2010 year-end list.[130] The album appeared on lists of the best country albums of 2010; PopMatters ranked it fifth[131] and The Boot ranked it second.[132] In 2012, Speak Now appeared at number 45 on Rolling Stone's list of the "50 Best Female Albums of All Time"; the magazine commented: "She might get played on the country station, but she's one of the few genuine rock stars we've got these days, with a flawless ear for what makes a song click."[133] In 2019, Billboard listed Speak Now in 51st place on its list of the best albums of the 2010s[134] and second on its list of best country albums of the same decade.[135] The album also ranked 37th on Spin's 2010s decade-end list[136] and 71st on that of Cleveland.com;[137] and Taste of Country named it the fourth-best country album of the 2010s.[138]

Speak Now received industry awards and nominations. In the US, it was nominated for Album of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards,[139] the American Country Awards,[140] and in 2011 the Country Music Association Awards.[141] At the 2011 Billboard Music Awards, Speak Now was nominated for Top Billboard 200 Album and won Top Country Album.[142] It won Favorite Album (Country) at the 2011 American Music Awards[143] and Top Selling Album of 2011 by the Canadian Country Music Association;[144] and was nominated for International Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards[145] and for International Album of the Year at the 2012 Canadian Independent Music Awards.[146] At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012, Speak Now was nominated for Best Country Album, and its single "Mean" won Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song.[147]

Impact Edit

In a 2019 Rolling Stone cover story, Swift said she wrote the album by herself as a reaction to her critics' doubts about her songwriting ability.[148] For some critics and academics, the self-written Speak Now is an album that solidified Swift's songwriting and artistry with its nuanced observations and confessional songs about young adulthood and confrontation against her critics.[149] Many considered it a strong groundwork to Swift's consistently-evolved songcraft on subsequent albums.[note 7] For communications professor Myles McNutt, the album established Swift's credentials to claim authorship to her music and career, contrary to other artists being commodified by their labels.[153] Its commercial success contributed to her fame as a pop star transcending her self-identity as a country-music artist.[154][155] Pitchfork's Sam Sodomsky, reviewing the album in 2019, contended that her country-music identity served as an indicator of her autobiographical songwriting rather than musical style.[29]

Some commentators reflected on Speak Now in the context of Swift's celebrity: they viewed the songs inspired by Swift's public experience—including high-profile, short-lived romantic relationships and the 2009 MTV Awards incident—as a precedent to her confessional narratives of subsequent albums, which received extensive media attention.[note 8] According to gender studies professor Adriane Brown, the songs about idealized romance and her innocent, "good-girl" image made her stand out in a contemporary pool of sexualized female pop artists. Brown commented that Swift's unwillingness to openly discuss sex and tendency to criticize females who "whore themselves out", as in the lyrics of "Better than Revenge", were problematic.[159] In Vulture, Maura Johnston remarked that although the songs about Swift's public experience were missteps, they hinted at her 2017 album Reputation, which explores Swift's public image and confrontation against her critics.[156]

2023 re-recording Edit

Main article: Speak Now (Taylor's Version)

In November 2020, after a dispute over the ownership of the masters to her back catalog, Swift began re-recording her first six studio albums.[160] The first of these was Fearless (Taylor's Version), released on April 9, 2021,[161] followed by Red (Taylor's Version) on November 12.[162] On May 5, 2023, at the first Eras Tour show in Nashville, Swift announced Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and its release date on July 7.[163] The re-recorded album consists of all fourteen songs from the standard edition, the deluxe tracks "Ours" and "Superman",[note 9] and six previously unreleased "From the Vault" songs. Two of them feature American rock acts Fall Out Boy and Hayley Williams respectively; both were cited by Swift as influences while writing Speak Now.[165] After Speak Now (Taylor's Version) was released, the original album reached new peaks in Switzerland (number one),[166] Austria (number one),[167] Germany (number two),[168] and it was certified gold in the latter two countries.[169][170]

Track listing Edit

All tracks are written by Taylor Swift, except where noted.

Standard edition
No.TitleLength
1."Mine"3:50
2."Sparks Fly"4:20
3."Back to December"4:53
4."Speak Now"4:00
5."Dear John"6:43
6."Mean"3:57
7."The Story of Us"4:25
8."Never Grow Up"4:50
9."Enchanted"5:53
10."Better than Revenge"3:37
11."Innocent"5:02
12."Haunted"4:02
13."Last Kiss"6:07
14."Long Live"5:17
Total length:67:29
Deluxe edition (disc two)[38]
No.TitleLength
15."Ours"3:58
16."If This Was a Movie" (Swift, Martin Johnson)3:54
17."Superman"4:36
18."Back to December" (acoustic)4:52
19."Haunted" (acoustic)3:37
20."Mine" (pop mix)3:50
21."On the Set: Behind the Scenes "Mine" Music Video" (video)30:21
22."Mine" (music video)3:55

Notes

  • The international iTunes Store edition features the original version of "Mine", noted as the "US version", as track 15.[171]
  • International standard editions feature different versions of "Mine" (noted as the "Pop mix" on digital releases), "Back to December" and "The Story of Us" in place of their original versions in the tracklist.[172]
  • The international deluxe editions include the original versions of "Mine", "Back to December" and "The Story of Us" as bonus tracks, each noted as "US version".[172]
  • CD releases of the album in Japan included the original versions of "Back to December" and "The Story of Us", each noted as "US version", as tracks 15 and 16 on the standard[173] and deluxe editions with the deluxe bonus tracks on the second disc being numbered 17–22 with the original version of "Mine", also noted as the "US Version", as the final track.[174]

Personnel Edit

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[1]

Musicians

Production

  • Taylor Swift – background vocals direction, liner notes, songwriter, producer
  • Nathan Chapman – engineer, producer, programming
  • Chuck Ainlay – engineer
  • Joseph Anthony Baker – photography
  • Steve Blackmon – assistant
  • Drew Bollman – assistant, assistant engineer, engineer
  • Tristan Brock-Jones – assistant engineer
  • David Bryant – assistant engineer
  • Paul Buckmaster – conductor, orchestral arrangements
  • Jason Campbell – production coordination
  • Chad Carlson – engineer
  • Chris Carmichael – composer, string arrangements
  • Joseph Cassell – stylist
  • Steve Churchyard – engineer
  • Mark Crew – mixing engineer
  • Dean Gillard – production, mixing, additional instrumentation
  • Jed Hackett – engineer
  • Jeremy Hunter – engineer
  • Aubrey Hyde – wardrobe
  • Suzie Katayama – orchestra contractor
  • Steve Marcantonio – engineer
  • Seth Morton – assistant engineer
  • Emily Mueller – production assistant
  • Jemma Muradian – hair stylist
  • John Netti – assistant engineer
  • Bethany Newman – design, illustrations
  • Josh Newman – design, illustrations
  • Justin Niebank – engineer, mixing
  • Mark Petaccia – assistant engineer
  • Joel Quillen – engineer
  • Matt Rausch – assistant
  • Lowell Reynolds – engineer
  • Mike Rooney – assistant engineer
  • Austin Swift – photography
  • Todd Tidwell – assistant engineer, engineer
  • Lorrie Turk – make-up
  • Matt Ward – production, mixing, additional instrumentation
  • Hank Williams – mastering
  • Brian David Willis – engineer
  • Nathan Yarborough – assistant mixing engineer

Charts Edit

Decade-end charts Edit

2010s decade-end charts for Speak Now
Chart (2010–2019) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[213] 39
US Billboard 200[214] 50
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[215] 17

All-time charts Edit

All-time charts for Speak Now
Chart Position
US Billboard 200 (Women)[note 10] 66
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[note 11] 73

Certifications and sales Edit

Certifications for Speak Now, with pure sales where available
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[117] 2× Platinum 140,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[169] Gold 10,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[219] Gold 20,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[118] 3× Platinum 240,000^
Germany (BVMI)[170] Gold 100,000‡
Hong Kong (IFPI)[79] Gold  
Ireland (IRMA)[220] Gold 7,500^
Japan (RIAJ)[221] Gold 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[222] 3× Platinum 45,000‡
Norway (IFPI Norway)[223] Gold 15,000*
Philippines (PARI)[224] Platinum 15,000*
Singapore (RIAS)[225] Platinum 10,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[226] Platinum 300,000‡
United States (RIAA)[111] 6× Platinum 4,800,000[note 12]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also Edit

Notes Edit

  1. ^ In a 2010 interview with Glamour, when the interviewer asked, "And you hear artists say things like, 'When I turned 21, the record label made me over into a sexualized creature'. Could you see yourself going in that direction?", Swift responded, "I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun".[18]
  2. ^ In scholar Adriane Brown's view, Swift's past albums are also about romantic, nonsexual relationships, which was congruent with her public image and identity as a white, feminine, innocent, middle-class American girl.[19]
  3. ^ Borchetta reportedly said to Swift; "Taylor, this record isn't about fairy tales and high school anymore. That's not where you're at."[27]
  4. ^ Although "If This Was a Movie" (written by Swift and Martin Johnson) is on the deluxe edition of Speak Now, the 14-track standard edition was solely written by Swift, and thus the album is agreed upon by the press as self-penned by Swift.[9][17][56]
  5. ^ United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and England.[100]
  6. ^ The other seven songs that debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 are "Change" (2008), "Fearless" (2008), "Jump Then Fall" (2009), "Today Was a Fairytale" (2010), "Mine" (2010), "Speak Now" (2010), and "Back To December" (2010).[106]
  7. ^ Attributed to retrospective rankings of Swift's albums by GQ's Lucy Ford,[150] Entertainment Weekly's Allaire Nuss,[151] and the Alternative Press's Kelsey Barnes[152]
  8. ^ Attributed to restrospective reviews by Billboard,[9] Vulture's Maura Johnston,[156] Spin's Al Shipley,[157] and Consequence's Mary Siroky[158]
  9. ^ For "If This Was a Movie", it was released earlier on March 17, 2023, as a promotional single and included on a Fearless (Taylor's Version)-themed streaming compilation.[164]
  10. ^ Compiled by Billboard for albums 1963–2017[216][217]
  11. ^ Compiled by Billboard for albums 1963–2016[218]
  12. ^ Pure sales as of October 2022[110]

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External links Edit

  • Speak Now at Discogs (list of releases)

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This article is about the 2010 Taylor Swift album For the 2023 re recording see Speak Now Taylor s Version For other uses see Speak Now disambiguation Speak Now is the third studio album by American singer songwriter Taylor Swift released on October 25 2010 through Big Machine Records Swift wrote the album entirely herself within two years while touring to promote her second studio album Fearless 2008 Speak NowStandard edition coverStudio album by Taylor SwiftReleasedOctober 25 2010 2010 10 25 StudioAimeelandBlackbirdPain in the ArtStarstruck Nashville Capitol Hollywood Stonehurst Bowling Green 1 GenreCountry pop pop rock power popLength67 29LabelBig MachineProducerNathan Chapman Taylor SwiftTaylor Swift chronologyFearless 2008 Speak Now 2010 Speak Now World Tour Live 2011 Singles from Speak Now Mine Released August 4 2010 Back to December Released October 12 2010 Mean Released March 13 2011 The Story of Us Released April 19 2011 Sparks Fly Released July 18 2011 Ours Released December 5 2011Inspired by Swift s transition from adolescence into adulthood Speak Now is a loose concept album consisting of confessional songs mostly about love and heartbreak that explore past relationships and depart from the youthful optimism on her past albums Some tracks were inspired by her rising stardom and public experience and they have lyrics about confrontation against her critics and adversaries Produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman the album combines country pop pop rock and power pop Its songs incorporate prominent rock stylings and their melodies are characterized by acoustic instruments intertwined with chiming electric guitars dramatic strings and drums After the album s release Swift embarked on the Speak Now World Tour from February 2011 to March 2012 The album was supported by six singles including the US Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles Mine and Back to December and the US Hot Country Songs number ones Sparks Fly and Ours Speak Now peaked atop charts and received multi platinum certifications in Australia double platinum Canada triple platinum and New Zealand triple platinum In the US it sold one million copies within its first release week spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 and was certified six times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA Music critics generally praised Speak Now for what they deemed radio friendly tunes and an emotional engagement to Swift s audience Some critics found the album to showcase Swift s grown up perspective but others took issue with the tracks about vengeance as shallow At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012 Speak Now was nominated for Best Country Album and its third single Mean won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance The album appeared in 2010s decade end lists by Billboard and Spin and on Rolling Stone s 50 Best Female Albums of All Time in 2012 After a dispute regarding the ownership of Swift s back catalog she re recorded Speak Now and released it as Speak Now Taylor s Version on July 7 2023 Contents 1 Background 2 Writing and lyrics 3 Composition 3 1 Production 3 2 Music 4 Release and promotion 5 Commercial performance 6 Critical reception 7 Accolades 8 Impact 8 1 2023 re recording 9 Track listing 10 Personnel 11 Charts 11 1 Weekly charts 11 2 Year end charts 11 3 Decade end charts 11 4 All time charts 12 Certifications and sales 13 See also 14 Notes 15 References 15 1 Sources 16 External linksBackground Edit nbsp Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music AwardsAmerican singer songwriter Taylor Swift released her second studio album Fearless through Nashville based Big Machine Records in November 2008 The album spent 11 weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200 the longest chart run for a female country music artist 2 It was the best selling album of 2009 in the US and then 20 year old Swift the youngest artist to have an annual best seller since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking album sales in 1991 3 Two of the album s singles Love Story and You Belong with Me performed well on both country and pop radio and brought Swift to mainstream prominence 4 Love Story was the first country song to reach number one on the Mainstream Top 40 chart and You Belong with Me was the first country song to top the all genre Radio Songs chart 5 6 At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in February 2010 Fearless won Album of the Year and Best Country Album and its single White Horse won Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song 7 The success of Fearless made Swift one of country music s biggest stars to crossover into the mainstream market 8 9 At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards where Swift won Best Female Video for You Belong with Me rapper Kanye West interrupted her acceptance speech the incident received widespread media coverage and became known as Kanyegate 10 11 At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Swift sang You Belong with Me and Rhiannon with Stevie Nicks some critics commented Swift performed with weak vocals 12 MTV News commented the MTV Awards incident transformed Swift into a bona fide mainstream celebrity 13 and The New York Times said it was refreshing to see a talented singer songwriter like Swift make the occasional flub 14 Swift began writing for her third studio album immediately after she released Fearless and continued during her Fearless Tour in 2009 and 2010 15 Writing and lyrics EditBecause of her extensive touring schedule Swift wrote her third album alone I d get my best ideas at 3 00 a m in Arkansas and I didn t have a co writer around so I would just finish it That would happen again in New York and then again in Boston and that would happen again in Nashville 15 Inspired by her growth into adulthood she conceived Speak Now as a loose concept album about the things she wanted to tell certain people she had met but never had a chance to 15 As with her songwriting on previous albums Swift strove to convey emotional honesty with details as specifically as possible believing it is important for a songwriter to do so 15 She described her songs as diary entries about her emotions that helped her navigate adulthood 16 17 Swift chose not to follow the trend of making increasingly sexualized music by artists of her age and believed such a path would be incongruent with her artistic vision note 1 nbsp Back to December source source track The orchestral string laden Back to December is about Swift s confession of her wrongdoings and plea for an ex lover s forgiveness departing from the starry eyed romance of her previous songs Problems playing this file See media help Departing from Fearless s theme of fairy tales and starry eyed romance Speak Now explores introspection and backward looking reflections on relationships 15 By avoiding sexual references in its songs the album kept Swift s good girl image intact note 2 Some tracks were inspired by Swift s public experience including past relationships with high profile celebrities which received media attention during the album s promotional rollout 20 21 The confessional lyrics of Speak Now are more direct and confrontational than those on Swift s past albums 22 On Back to December she asks an ex lover to forgive her wrongdoings 23 Swift wrote the title track after hearing a friend s ex boyfriend was marrying another woman in the lyrics the protagonist crashes the ex boyfriend s wedding and tries to halt it 20 24 Dear John narrates a devastating relationship of a 19 year old female narrator who accuses a much older man of manipulating her with dark twisted games 20 Swift s encounter with an ex lover at an awards show where they ignored each other despite Swift feeling a need to speak to him inspired The Story of Us 25 On Better than Revenge Swift affirms vengeance against a romantic rival who is known for the things she does on the mattress 20 26 Romantic optimism is another major theme of the album 15 20 The opening track Mine is about Swift s hope of attaining happiness despite her tendency to run from love to avoid heartbreak 16 It was the first song she included on the track list because it represents her then new perspective of romance 27 Swift had written Sparks Fly a song about dangerous hints of love at first sight before she released her 2006 self titled debut album 28 She re recorded the song for Speak Now after she received fan request to release it at the 2010 CMA Music Festival 15 Enchanted describes the aftermath of an encounter with a special person without knowing whether the infatuation would be reciprocated 20 Haunted is about romantic obsession and Last Kiss explores the lingering feelings after a breakup 20 On Long Live Swift expresses gratitude to her fans and bandmates 29 The lyrics of Enchanted and Long Live incorporate high school prom and fairy tale imagery that recalls the youthful optimism of Fearless 30 31 nbsp The 2009 MTV Awards incident with Kanye West pictured inspired Innocent Besides love and romance Swift wrote about self perception Never Grow Up is a contemplation of her childhood adulthood and future 26 24 The self aware Mean in which Swift sings about facing a man who had tried to take her down was inspired by her detractors 32 33 Because of her confessional songwriting the media became invested in Swift s personal life and believed each song is about a real person an ex lover a friend or an enemy 18 20 Although Swift was interested to hear the response from the people to whom she dedicated the songs she did not publicly name them and believed they would realize this themselves 18 20 She did reveal that Kanye West who interrupted Swift s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards was the subject of Innocent 25 In the track Swift sings about forgiving a man who wronged her according to Esquire the track can be interpreted as a simple lament of a lost love or a former friend being forgiven 34 Swift wrote as many as 25 songs and by early 2010 she had begun to select songs for the album 15 27 To ensure the album would be coherent she played the songs to her family friends and producer Nathan Chapman 15 who had produced for Swift since the recording of her self titled debut album in 2006 35 Swift chose Enchanted as a working title but Big Machine Records executive Scott Borchetta recommended Swift choose a different title deeming Enchanted unfit for the album s mature perspective note 3 She settled on the title Speak Now because she thought it best captures the album s essence I think it s such a metaphor that moment where it s almost too late and you ve got to either say what it is you are feeling or deal with the consequences forever And this album seemed like the opportunity for me to speak now or forever hold my peace 20 Swift finalized the track list by June 2010 16 Composition EditProduction Edit Swift recorded much of Speak Now with Chapman at his Pain in the Art Studio in Nashville 36 Although Fearless s commercial success allowed Swift to engage a larger group of producers she worked solely with Chapman because she believed they had a productive relationship 36 The recording process started with a demo Swift recorded vocals and played guitar and Chapman sang background vocals and played other instruments After arranging the demos Swift and Chapman approached engineers and other musicians to tweak some elements including overdubs and programmed drums 36 The first track Chapman produced with Swift on Speak Now is Mine which they recorded within five hours 36 Because of his artistic autonomy Chapman said he was responsible for 60 percent of the music on the album including 90 percent of the guitars 36 Much of his production for Speak Now is identical to that for Fearless he programmed the drums with Toontrack s software Superior Drummer played drums on the Roland Fantom G6 keyboard added electric guitars to the arrangements recorded Swift s vocals with an Avantone CV12 microphone and his background vocals with a Shure SM57 produced the bass with an Avalon VT737 preamplifier and used Endless Audio s CLASP System to synchronize his editing on Pro Tools and Logic 36 Because of Swift s country music vision Chapman asked other musicians mostly in Nashville to replace his programmed drums with live drumming and add acoustic instruments such as fiddle 36 For instance Chapman asked Steve Marcantonio to cut down programmed drums on Mine at Blackbird Studios in Nashville 36 For some tracks including Back to December Swift and her team went to Capitol Studios in Los Angeles to record string orchestration 16 37 After recording finished Justin Niebank mixed the album on Pro Tools at Blackbird Studios he had mixed some tracks on Fearless Within three weeks Niebank finished mixing 17 tracks including 14 on the standard edition and three bonus tracks on the deluxe edition 36 38 Because Swift wanted Speak Now to be a direct communication with her audience Niebank infused monoaural reverberation inspired by 1950s and 1960s music in the mix to evoke a vintage and retro vibe that according to Niebank brought a sense of authenticity 36 Music engineer Hank Williams mastered the recordings 36 Because much of Speak Now was recorded and mixed in Nashville Niebank believed the album stood out among popular records that were manipulated with contemporaneous technologies Auto Tune and Melodyne 36 Although Chapman was responsible for much of the production he said Swift s co production credit is not a vanity credit We were really a team very collaborative 36 39 Music Edit nbsp Mine source source track Speak Now is primarily a country pop album with radio friendly production as exemplified by its lead single Mine Problems playing this file See media help Speak Now follows the country pop production of Fearless and incorporates prominent elements of mainstream pop music more so than Fearless 40 41 Critics debated the album s genre Paste described the album as a blend of country and radio friendly pop tunes with climatic build ups and catchy hooks 42 Entertainment Weekly classified the album as pop and commented the only country elements are its smattering of banjo pluck and dainty twang 43 According to BBC Music Speak Now veers towards pop rock 44 Ann Powers in a review for the Los Angeles Times found the album borderline alternative rock and bubblegum pop with its songs experimenting with styles from lush strings of Celine style kitsch pop to Americana banjo to countrypolitan electric guitar 21 Now described Speak Now as slickly produced power pop 45 Critics noted the banjo led bluegrass track Mean as the album s pure country song 9 26 46 Much of the album consists of uptempo country pop melodies exemplified by the opening track Mine 41 47 Many tracks explore rock stylings that draw from rock music of the late 1970s through the 1980s 48 and their melodies incorporate chiming guitars loud drums and powerful choruses 49 Sparks Fly has an arena rock production with guitars and subtle fiddles 50 The title track is an acoustic guitar driven country pop song with a 1950s rock chorus 41 51 The Story of Us and Better than Revenge are electric guitar driven pop punk songs 52 the former contains influences of dance pop and new wave 53 42 The arena rock and goth rock inspired Haunted incorporates a dramatic recurring string section 29 52 54 The closing track Long Live is a heartland rock song featuring girl group harmonies and chiming rock guitars 29 30 The remaining tracks of Speak Now are ballads Back to December is a gentle orchestral string laden ballad 24 Speak Now s longest track Dear John at six minutes and 43 seconds is a slow burning bluesy country pop song with electric guitar licks 9 55 The guitar ballad Never Grow Up incorporates an understated production that accompanies its wistful lyrics 29 41 On Enchanted the acoustic guitar crescendos after each refrain and leads up to a harmony layered coda at the end 29 31 The tracks Innocent and Last Kiss incorporate sparse instruments the latter is a slow tempo waltz with breathy vocals 31 41 54 If This Was a Movie a bonus song on the deluxe edition and the only song not written solely by Swift note 4 is a fast paced ballad with a recurring guitar riff and simple harmonies 57 Release and promotion EditSwift announced Speak Now on July 20 2010 in a live stream on Ustream 35 Big Machine Records released the lead single Mine to US country radio and digital download sites on August 4 2010 58 The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 59 and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA 60 It reached number six in Japan 61 number seven in Canada 62 and number nine in Australia 63 On August 18 Swift released the album s cover art which depicts Swift with curly hair and red lipstick twirling in a deep purple gown 64 On September 15 she announced a Target exclusive deluxe edition whose cover art is identical to that of the standard edition but the gown is red instead of purple 65 Starting from October 4 2010 Big Machine released one Speak Now track each week on the iTunes Store as part of a three week countdown campaign the title track was released on October 5 followed by Back to December on October 12 and Mean on October 19 66 On October 22 Xfinity premiered a preview of The Story of Us 66 Big Machine released the standard and deluxe editions of Speak Now on October 25 2010 65 67 The Target exclusive CD DVD edition contains 14 songs of the standard the bonus tracks Ours If This Was a Movie and Superman acoustic versions of Back to December and Haunted a pop mix of Mine a 30 minute behind the scenes video for Mine and the music video for Mine 38 68 The deluxe edition was released to other retailers on January 17 2012 69 70 To bolster sales of the album Swift had partnerships with Starbucks Sony Electronics Walmart and Jakks Pacific 71 72 In October 2011 Swift partnered with Elizabeth Arden Inc to release her fragrance brand Wonderstruck whose name references the lyrics of Enchanted 72 nbsp Swift on the Speak Now World Tour in 2012To further promote Speak Now Swift appeared on magazine covers and conducted press interviews 16 She performed Innocent at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards 73 Her other performances at awards shows include the Country Music Association Awards 74 and the American Music Awards in 2010 75 the Academy of Country Music Awards 76 and the Country Music Association Awards in 2011 77 She also performed at Nashville s Country Music Hall of Fame 78 In Europe Swift performed on BBC Radio 2 and X Factor Italy and she had interviews with BBC Radio 1 in the UK and NRJ in France 79 She embarked on a promotional tour in Japan where she appeared on variety show SMAPxSMAP and music program Music Station 80 Her round of American television shows included Today Late Show with David Letterman The Ellen DeGeneres Show Live with Regis and Kelly and Dancing with the Stars 71 She also gave private concerts to contest winners and played a semi private concert for JetBlue at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York 81 After Mine Swift released five more singles from Speak Now Back to December and Mean which were earlier available for digital download were released to US country radio on November 15 2010 82 and March 13 2011 respectively 83 The two singles peaked at numbers seven and ten respectively in Canada 62 and Back to December reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 84 The Story of Us was released to US pop radio on April 19 2011 85 Sparks Fly and Ours were released to US country radio on July 18 86 and December 5 2011 respectively 87 Prior to its single release Ours together with the other deluxe edition tracks was released for digital download via the iTunes Store on November 8 2011 88 Sparks Fly and Ours reached the top 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and peaked atop the US Hot Country Songs chart 89 90 The RIAA certified all six of the album s singles at least platinum Back to December and Mean sold over two million copies each and they were respectively certified double platinum and triple platinum 91 92 On November 23 2010 Swift announced the Speak Now World Tour which started in Singapore on February 9 2011 The tour visited Asia and Europe before the North American leg started in Omaha Nebraska on May 27 2011 93 Within two days of announcement the tour sold 625 000 tickets 94 By April 2011 Swift had added another 16 shows to the North American leg 95 After the final US concert in New York City on November 22 2011 the Speak Now World Tour had covered 80 sold out North American shows 96 On August 10 2011 Swift released a music video for Sparks Fly that includes footage from the tour 97 She released the album Speak Now World Tour Live on November 21 2011 98 In December 2011 Swift announced an extension of the tour to Australia and New Zealand starting in March 2012 99 Concluding on March 18 2012 the Speak Now World Tour had covered 110 shows visited 18 countries note 5 and grossed 123 7 million 100 Commercial performance EditBefore Speak Now s release Big Machine shipped two million copies of the album to stores in the US 27 In the week ending November 13 2010 the album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 1 047 000 copies 101 It marked the highest single week tally for a female country artist and became the first album since Lil Wayne s Tha Carter III 2008 to sell over one million copies in its first week of release 102 Media publications including Billboard 101 MTV 71 and The New York Times 81 noted Speak Now s first week sales figures in the context of declining record sales brought about by the emergence of music download platforms According to The New York Times although the music industry in 2010 saw album sales plunging by more than 50 percent in the last decade the album s strong sales proved Swift has transcended the limitations of genre and become a pop megastar 81 The Guinness World Records in 2010 recognized Speak Now as the fastest selling album in the US by a female country artist 103 In Speak Now s first charting week 11 of the standard edition s 14 tracks charted on the Billboard Hot 100 making Swift the first female artist to have 11 songs on the Hot 100 at the same time 104 After the digital release of the deluxe edition tracks in November 2011 If This Was a Movie charted at number 10 on the Hot 100 making Swift the first artist to have eight songs debut in the top 10 105 note 6 With this achievement Speak Now had three songs peaking in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 Mine Back to December and If This Was a Movie 107 The album spent six non consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 108 Speak Now was the third best selling album of 2010 in the US with sales of 2 960 000 copies 109 By October 2022 it had sold 4 800 000 copies in the US 110 The RIAA certified the album six times platinum which denotes six million album equivalent units based on sales song downloads and streaming 111 Speak Now was a chart success in the wider English speaking world it peaked atop the albums charts of Australia 112 Canada 113 and New Zealand 114 and peaked at number six in Ireland 115 and the UK 116 The album was certified double platinum in Australia 117 and triple platinum in Canada and New Zealand 118 In certain European markets it charted at number four in Norway 119 number six in Japan 120 number eight in Mexico 121 and number ten in Spain 122 After Swift embarked on the Eras Tour 2023 2024 Speak Now resurged in popularity in the UK it re entered the top 40 at number 23 of the UK Albums Chart for the week ending May 18 2023 which was its first top 40 appearance since November 2010 123 Critical reception EditContemporaneous professional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingAnyDecentMusic 6 9 10 124 Metacritic77 100 125 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 40 The A V ClubB 126 Entertainment WeeklyB 43 The Guardian nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 127 Los Angeles Times nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 21 MSN Music Expert Witness A 128 Paste7 1 10 42 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 30 Slant Magazine nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 31 Spin7 10 55 Speak Now received generally positive reviews from contemporaneous critics 94 Metacritic which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications gave the album an average score of 77 that was based on 20 reviews 125 AnyDecentMusic compiled 10 reviews and gave it an average score of 6 9 out of 10 124 Most critics approved of Swift s grown up perspective on love and relationships 94 Reviews published in AllMusic 40 Entertainment Weekly 43 The Guardian 127 the Los Angeles Times 21 and Rolling Stone 30 complimented the songs for portraying emotions with engaging narratives and vivid details In AllMusic s review Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote Swift writes from the perspective of the moment yet has the skill of a songwriter beyond her years 40 American Songwriter approved of Swift s self penned material and artistic control 26 In his consumer guide Robert Christgau commented although the album is overlong and overworked the songs evince an effort that bears a remarkable resemblance to care that is to caring in the best broadest and most emotional sense 128 The album s dramatic themes of heartbreak and vengeance received mixed reviews Spin 55 and Now 45 said although it includes some memorable tracks Speak Now is blemished by celebrity rage and grievances Slant Magazine lauded Swift s melodic songwriting for offering radio friendly pop hooks but criticized the lyrics of Dear John Mean Innocent and Better than Revenge as shallow and shortsighted 31 According to Steven Hyden from The A V Club those tracks are Speak Now s strength Swift s niftiest trick is being at her most likeable when she s indulging in such overt nastiness 126 Entertainment Weekly agreed deeming those tracks inevitable for Swift s artistic evolution 43 The Village Voice said Swift s songwriting is not confessional but dramatic and found it more nuanced and mature compared to that of Fearless 53 Other reviews focused on Speak Now s production Reviews published in Paste 42 and Slant Magazine 31 call it a catchy album with radio friendly pop tunes Paste was impressed by the crossover appeal but deemed the overall production dull The Village Voice took issue with Swift s weak and strained vocals 53 BBC Music found the album s track list too long but called it overall a sparky and affecting record 44 Now approved of Swift s experimentation with styles other than country but considered it too safe and said the album is tarnished by slickly produced power pop and a sugary sameness that is indiscernible from any number of today s radio oriented artists 45 Ann Powers appreciated Speak Now s soft introspective tracks for personalizing pop music 21 Jon Caramanica of The New York Times lauded the experimentation with genres such as blues and pop punk and he called Speak Now a bold step for Swift 52 Accolades EditSpeak Now was ranked 13th on Rolling Stone s list of the best albums of 2010 129 The New York Times Jon Caramanica ranked the album number two behind Rick Ross s Teflon Don in his 2010 year end list 130 The album appeared on lists of the best country albums of 2010 PopMatters ranked it fifth 131 and The Boot ranked it second 132 In 2012 Speak Now appeared at number 45 on Rolling Stone s list of the 50 Best Female Albums of All Time the magazine commented She might get played on the country station but she s one of the few genuine rock stars we ve got these days with a flawless ear for what makes a song click 133 In 2019 Billboard listed Speak Now in 51st place on its list of the best albums of the 2010s 134 and second on its list of best country albums of the same decade 135 The album also ranked 37th on Spin s 2010s decade end list 136 and 71st on that of Cleveland com 137 and Taste of Country named it the fourth best country album of the 2010s 138 Speak Now received industry awards and nominations In the US it was nominated for Album of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards 139 the American Country Awards 140 and in 2011 the Country Music Association Awards 141 At the 2011 Billboard Music Awards Speak Now was nominated for Top Billboard 200 Album and won Top Country Album 142 It won Favorite Album Country at the 2011 American Music Awards 143 and Top Selling Album of 2011 by the Canadian Country Music Association 144 and was nominated for International Album of the Year at the 2011 Juno Awards 145 and for International Album of the Year at the 2012 Canadian Independent Music Awards 146 At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012 Speak Now was nominated for Best Country Album and its single Mean won Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song 147 Impact EditIn a 2019 Rolling Stone cover story Swift said she wrote the album by herself as a reaction to her critics doubts about her songwriting ability 148 For some critics and academics the self written Speak Now is an album that solidified Swift s songwriting and artistry with its nuanced observations and confessional songs about young adulthood and confrontation against her critics 149 Many considered it a strong groundwork to Swift s consistently evolved songcraft on subsequent albums note 7 For communications professor Myles McNutt the album established Swift s credentials to claim authorship to her music and career contrary to other artists being commodified by their labels 153 Its commercial success contributed to her fame as a pop star transcending her self identity as a country music artist 154 155 Pitchfork s Sam Sodomsky reviewing the album in 2019 contended that her country music identity served as an indicator of her autobiographical songwriting rather than musical style 29 Some commentators reflected on Speak Now in the context of Swift s celebrity they viewed the songs inspired by Swift s public experience including high profile short lived romantic relationships and the 2009 MTV Awards incident as a precedent to her confessional narratives of subsequent albums which received extensive media attention note 8 According to gender studies professor Adriane Brown the songs about idealized romance and her innocent good girl image made her stand out in a contemporary pool of sexualized female pop artists Brown commented that Swift s unwillingness to openly discuss sex and tendency to criticize females who whore themselves out as in the lyrics of Better than Revenge were problematic 159 In Vulture Maura Johnston remarked that although the songs about Swift s public experience were missteps they hinted at her 2017 album Reputation which explores Swift s public image and confrontation against her critics 156 2023 re recording Edit Main article Speak Now Taylor s Version In November 2020 after a dispute over the ownership of the masters to her back catalog Swift began re recording her first six studio albums 160 The first of these was Fearless Taylor s Version released on April 9 2021 161 followed by Red Taylor s Version on November 12 162 On May 5 2023 at the first Eras Tour show in Nashville Swift announced Speak Now Taylor s Version and its release date on July 7 163 The re recorded album consists of all fourteen songs from the standard edition the deluxe tracks Ours and Superman note 9 and six previously unreleased From the Vault songs Two of them feature American rock acts Fall Out Boy and Hayley Williams respectively both were cited by Swift as influences while writing Speak Now 165 After Speak Now Taylor s Version was released the original album reached new peaks in Switzerland number one 166 Austria number one 167 Germany number two 168 and it was certified gold in the latter two countries 169 170 Track listing EditAll tracks are written by Taylor Swift except where noted Standard editionNo TitleLength1 Mine 3 502 Sparks Fly 4 203 Back to December 4 534 Speak Now 4 005 Dear John 6 436 Mean 3 577 The Story of Us 4 258 Never Grow Up 4 509 Enchanted 5 5310 Better than Revenge 3 3711 Innocent 5 0212 Haunted 4 0213 Last Kiss 6 0714 Long Live 5 17Total length 67 29 Deluxe edition disc two 38 No TitleLength15 Ours 3 5816 If This Was a Movie Swift Martin Johnson 3 5417 Superman 4 3618 Back to December acoustic 4 5219 Haunted acoustic 3 3720 Mine pop mix 3 5021 On the Set Behind the Scenes Mine Music Video video 30 2122 Mine music video 3 55 Notes The international iTunes Store edition features the original version of Mine noted as the US version as track 15 171 International standard editions feature different versions of Mine noted as the Pop mix on digital releases Back to December and The Story of Us in place of their original versions in the tracklist 172 The international deluxe editions include the original versions of Mine Back to December and The Story of Us as bonus tracks each noted as US version 172 CD releases of the album in Japan included the original versions of Back to December and The Story of Us each noted as US version as tracks 15 and 16 on the standard 173 and deluxe editions with the deluxe bonus tracks on the second disc being numbered 17 22 with the original version of Mine also noted as the US Version as the final track 174 Personnel EditCredits are adapted from the album s liner notes 1 Musicians Taylor Swift vocals acoustic guitar handclapping vocal harmony banjo Nathan Chapman banjo bass guitar Fender Rhodes electric twelve string guitar electric guitar acoustic guitar handclapping mandolin organ piano synthesizer vocal harmony Tom Bukovac electric guitar Nick Buda drums Chris Carmichael strings Smith Curry lap steel guitar Eric Darken percussion Caitlin Evanson vocal harmony Shannon Forrest drums John Gardner drums Rob Hajacos fiddle Amos Heller bass guitar Liz Huett vocal harmony Tim Lauer Hammond B3 piano Tim Marks bass guitar Mike Meadows electric guitar handclapping Grant Mickelson electric guitar Michael Rhodes bass guitar Paul Sidoti electric guitar Tommy Sims bass guitar Bryan Sutton acoustic guitar twelve string guitar ukulele Al Wilson handclapping percussion Production Taylor Swift background vocals direction liner notes songwriter producer Nathan Chapman engineer producer programming Chuck Ainlay engineer Joseph Anthony Baker photography Steve Blackmon assistant Drew Bollman assistant assistant engineer engineer Tristan Brock Jones assistant engineer David Bryant assistant engineer Paul Buckmaster conductor orchestral arrangements Jason Campbell production coordination Chad Carlson engineer Chris Carmichael composer string arrangements Joseph Cassell stylist Steve Churchyard engineer Mark Crew mixing engineer Dean Gillard production mixing additional instrumentation Jed Hackett engineer Jeremy Hunter engineer Aubrey Hyde wardrobe Suzie Katayama orchestra contractor Steve Marcantonio engineer Seth Morton assistant engineer Emily Mueller production assistant Jemma Muradian hair stylist John Netti assistant engineer Bethany Newman design illustrations Josh Newman design illustrations Justin Niebank engineer mixing Mark Petaccia assistant engineer Joel Quillen engineer Matt Rausch assistant Lowell Reynolds engineer Mike Rooney assistant engineer Austin Swift photography Todd Tidwell assistant engineer engineer Lorrie Turk make up Matt Ward production mixing additional instrumentation Hank Williams mastering Brian David Willis engineer Nathan Yarborough assistant mixing engineerCharts EditWeekly charts Edit 2010 2011 weekly charts for Speak Now Chart 2010 2011 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 112 1Australian Country Albums ARIA 175 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 167 16Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 176 18Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 177 45Canadian Albums Billboard 178 1Danish Albums Hitlisten 179 26Dutch Albums Album Top 100 180 17European Top 100 Albums Billboard 79 12French Albums SNEP 181 39German Albums Offizielle Top 100 168 15Greek Albums IFPI 182 17Irish Albums IRMA 115 6Italian Albums FIMI 183 18Japanese Albums Oricon 120 6Mexican Albums AMPROFON 121 8New Zealand Albums RMNZ 114 1Norwegian Albums VG lista 119 4Scottish Albums OCC 184 5South Korean Albums Circle 185 28Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 122 10Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 186 18Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 166 17UK Albums OCC 116 6US Billboard 200 187 1US Top Country Albums Billboard 188 12019 2023 weekly charts for Speak Now Chart 2019 2023 PeakpositionArgentine Albums CAPIF 189 3Austrian Albums O3 Austria Top 40 167 1German Albums Offizielle Top 100 168 1Greek Albums IFPI 190 1Portuguese Albums AFP 191 1Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 166 1UK Albums OCC 192 23US Independent Albums Billboard 193 4 Year end charts Edit 2010 year end charts for Speak Now Chart 2010 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 194 15Canadian Albums Billboard 195 15New Zealand Albums RMNZ 196 15UK Albums OCC 197 163US Billboard 200 198 9US Top Country Albums Billboard 199 32011 year end charts for Speak Now Chart 2011 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 200 51Canadian Albums Billboard 201 9New Zealand Albums RMNZ 202 34US Billboard 200 203 2US Top Country Albums Billboard 204 12012 year end charts for Speak Now Chart 2012 PositionUS Billboard 200 205 45US Top Country Albums Billboard 206 182017 year end chart for Speak Now Chart 2017 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 207 732018 year end chart for Speak Now Chart 2018 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 208 772021 year end charts for Speak Now Chart 2021 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 209 34US Independent Albums Billboard 210 502022 year end charts for Speak Now Chart 2022 PositionUS Top Country Albums Billboard 211 15US Independent Albums Billboard 212 19 Decade end charts Edit 2010s decade end charts for Speak Now Chart 2010 2019 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 213 39US Billboard 200 214 50US Top Country Albums Billboard 215 17All time charts Edit All time charts for Speak Now Chart PositionUS Billboard 200 Women note 10 66US Top Country Albums Billboard note 11 73Certifications and sales EditCertifications for Speak Now with pure sales where available Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 117 2 Platinum 140 000 Austria IFPI Austria 169 Gold 10 000 Brazil Pro Musica Brasil 219 Gold 20 000 Canada Music Canada 118 3 Platinum 240 000 Germany BVMI 170 Gold 100 000 Hong Kong IFPI 79 Gold Ireland IRMA 220 Gold 7 500 Japan RIAJ 221 Gold 100 000 New Zealand RMNZ 222 3 Platinum 45 000 Norway IFPI Norway 223 Gold 15 000 Philippines PARI 224 Platinum 15 000 Singapore RIAS 225 Platinum 10 000 United Kingdom BPI 226 Platinum 300 000 United States RIAA 111 6 Platinum 4 800 000 note 12 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone See also EditList of Billboard 200 number one albums of 2010 List of Billboard 200 number one albums of 2011 List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2010 List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2011 List of number one albums of 2010 Canada List of number one albums from the 2010s New Zealand List of number one albums of 2010 Australia Notes Edit In a 2010 interview with Glamour when the interviewer asked And you hear artists say things like When I turned 21 the record label made me over into a sexualized creature Could you see yourself going in that direction Swift responded I don t ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun it s just not necessarily the way I like to have fun 18 In scholar Adriane Brown s view Swift s past albums are also about romantic nonsexual relationships which was congruent with her public image and identity as a white feminine innocent middle class American girl 19 Borchetta reportedly said to Swift Taylor this record isn t about fairy tales and high school anymore That s not where you re at 27 Although If This Was a Movie written by Swift and Martin Johnson is on the deluxe edition of Speak Now the 14 track standard edition was solely written by Swift and thus the album is agreed upon by the press as self penned by Swift 9 17 56 United States Canada Australia New Zealand Singapore Japan Philippines Hong Kong Belgium Norway Germany Netherlands Italy France Spain Ireland Northern Ireland and England 100 The other seven songs that debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 are Change 2008 Fearless 2008 Jump Then Fall 2009 Today Was a Fairytale 2010 Mine 2010 Speak Now 2010 and Back To December 2010 106 Attributed to retrospective rankings of Swift s albums by GQ s Lucy Ford 150 Entertainment Weekly s Allaire Nuss 151 and the Alternative Press s Kelsey Barnes 152 Attributed to restrospective reviews by Billboard 9 Vulture s Maura Johnston 156 Spin s Al Shipley 157 and Consequence s Mary Siroky 158 For If This Was a Movie it was released earlier on March 17 2023 as a promotional single and included on a Fearless Taylor s Version themed streaming compilation 164 Compiled by Billboard for albums 1963 2017 216 217 Compiled by Billboard 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