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Fearless (Taylor’s Version) gives a familiar sequence a much longer afterlife. The first thirteen tracks preserve the shape of the 2008 standard album, from its excited opening to Change’s larger horizon. The listener then reaches songs associated with the expanded Fearless period before arriving at six From The Vault recordings.
Released on April 9, 2021, the twenty-six-song edition was the first full album in Swift’s re-recording project. Its attraction is both familiar and new: songs that many listeners already know are performed again, while additional material gives that musical chapter more voices and more possible endings. [1]
Listen to the album
Listen to the 26-track Taylor’s Version edition, including its From The Vault recordings.
Tracklist [1]
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Fearless (Taylor’s Version)4:01 Listen ↗
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The first-date rush makes uncertainty feel like an invitation. The opening offers motion before it offers a reliable future.
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Fifteen (Taylor’s Version)4:54 Listen ↗
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Looking back at adolescence creates distance between what an experience seemed to promise and what it eventually taught the narrator.
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Love Story (Taylor’s Version)3:55 Listen ↗
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A forbidden romance is given the resolution its characters want. The dramatic lift makes the imagined ending feel wonderfully inevitable.
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Hey Stephen (Taylor’s Version)4:14 Listen ↗
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An affectionate, lightly teasing address enjoys attraction before it becomes a complicated argument. Its warmth changes the opening stretch’s pace.
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White Horse (Taylor’s Version)3:54 Listen ↗
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The fairy-tale expectation reaches its limit. Listen for how the vocal holds disappointment without needing the arrangement to become enormous.
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You Belong With Me (Taylor’s Version)3:51 Listen ↗
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An everyday comparison becomes a confident claim to recognition. The chorus expands the narrator’s private certainty into a room-sized invitation.
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Breathe (Taylor’s Version) [feat. Colbie Caillat]4:23 Listen ↗
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Separation is allowed to hurt even when blame is not the central question. Colbie Caillat’s presence adds another color to the close vocal setting.
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Tell Me Why (Taylor’s Version)3:20 Listen ↗
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A relationship’s unpredictability is answered directly. The track keeps its questions brisk, refusing to soften the behavior that prompted them.
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You’re Not Sorry (Taylor’s Version)4:21 Listen ↗
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The narrator reassesses an apology against a pattern. The repeated refusal gains force from recognizing that words alone have stopped being persuasive.
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The Way I Loved You (Taylor’s Version)4:03 Listen ↗
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A stable present is compared with a volatile past. The song complicates the assumption that calm and excitement will feel interchangeable.
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Forever & Always (Taylor’s Version)3:45 Listen ↗
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A sweeping promise becomes the subject of an urgent postmortem. The arrangement’s speed makes the broken continuity especially audible.
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The Best Day (Taylor’s Version)4:05 Listen ↗
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A family memory supplies a steadier form of love near the ending. Small occasions become evidence of someone repeatedly showing up.
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Change (Taylor’s Version)4:39 Listen ↗
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The closing voice moves toward shared effort and a possible breakthrough. The album leaves its private disappointments with a larger horizon.
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Jump Then Fall (Taylor’s Version)3:57 Listen ↗
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A small fall into affection supplies a buoyant opening to the expanded-era material. The invitation sounds immediate rather than ceremonious.
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Untouchable (Taylor’s Version)5:12 Listen ↗
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A more suspended arrangement gives distant attraction a patient atmosphere. The song lets wanting remain open over a longer span.
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Forever & Always (Piano Version) [Taylor’s Version]4:27 Listen ↗
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The piano setting exposes the question under the full-band recording’s urgency. Compare the same refrain with fewer surrounding gestures.
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Come In With The Rain (Taylor’s Version)3:57 Listen ↗
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Waiting for a return becomes a scene shaped by weather and remembered possibility. The slower attention makes uncertainty feel prolonged.
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Superstar (Taylor’s Version)4:23 Listen ↗
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The distance between a public performer and an admiring listener becomes part of the longing. Recognition remains more imagined than mutual.
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The Other Side Of The Door (Taylor’s Version)3:58 Listen ↗
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The late rush of the song changes what the opening’s hesitation seemed to mean. Its accumulated address rewards hearing the whole track.
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Today Was A Fairytale (Taylor’s Version)4:01 Listen ↗
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A date takes on the brightness of a storybook occasion. The song gives the expanded sequence another concentrated romantic scene.
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You All Over Me (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] [feat. Maren Morris]3:40 Listen ↗
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Maren Morris joins a recollection in which moving on has not completely removed the old connection. The restrained atmosphere keeps the remainder audible.
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Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault]4:37 Listen ↗
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A sharply contrasting account of a breakup enjoys the other person’s apparent ease as a source of irony. The refrain makes resentment brisk and memorable.
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We Were Happy (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault]4:04 Listen ↗
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A past shared happiness is considered from a changed present. The song gives recollection a quieter space than the preceding track’s pointed humor.
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That’s When (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] [feat. Keith Urban]3:09 Listen ↗
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Keith Urban’s answering voice makes separation and possible return an exchange. The duet allows the question to acquire another position.
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Don’t You (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault]3:28 Listen ↗
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An unexpected meeting threatens to reopen an unfinished feeling. The title’s restraint becomes an attempt to control how close the encounter can come.
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Bye Bye Baby (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault]4:02 Listen ↗
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Departure closes the longer edition with a more private emotional scene. It is a different destination from Change’s original collective ending.
The same order, another vocal moment
Playing Fearless and Fifteen in the same opening positions preserves an especially effective contrast: an encounter lived through with excitement is followed by one remembered with greater distance. In the re-recording, the singer is also returning to her own earlier performance, giving that difference in perspective another audible context.
Love Story and White Horse still disagree about what a romantic story can promise. The new edition does not revise the album’s emotional argument by rearranging those positions. It allows the listener to hear familiar dramatic choices through a later voice, which makes a comparison worthwhile even when the melody and sequence remain recognizable.
The Platinum-era material widens the journey after Change. The piano version of Forever & Always is particularly useful: the change of setting shifts attention toward the exposed question beneath a song whose full-band version moves much more urgently. The edition contains more than one way of revisiting the same feeling. [1]
Six songs open another ending
You All Over Me introduces the vault run with Maren Morris, while Mr. Perfectly Fine gives it a much sharper response to a breakup. The contrast matters because the additional songs do not simply extend one sentimental mood. They add different positions the narrator might occupy after a relationship changes.
That’s When, featuring Keith Urban, gives the return an answering voice. Don’t You considers a meeting that would be easier if it carried fewer unresolved feelings. Bye Bye Baby then closes the expanded sequence with departure rather than the collective breakthrough that ended the original thirteen tracks.
A good comparison is to play the thirteen-track original, then this edition’s first thirteen tracks, then the six-song vault run as its own chapter. The approach makes both continuity and expansion audible. These are new recordings of earlier songs alongside newly released material, rather than a remaster of the same 2008 performances. [1]