Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticWhen the song “This Love” appeared on Taylor Swift’s “1989” in 2014, it was a bit of a sleeper track that didn’t get undue attention amid the splashier run of singles off that blockbuster album.
But fans won’t be sleeping on it today. Swift has just teased an excerpt from a remake of the song, “This Love (Taylor’s Version),” in the trailer for a new Amazon Prime Video series, “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” Followers won’t have to wait long to hear the whole track: It’ll be out in full as a digital single tonight at midnight ET/( p.m.
PT.A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift)There’s no concurrent album announcement coming with the release of the single, so Swift’s vast audience will have to wait a little longer to see if this really means what it would seem to mean — that “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” will be the next album out in her series of six full-length recreations (with bonus tracks) of her original six Big Machine studio albums.Fans have a lot of trailer action to take in on the Swift front recently.
A preview released last month for David O. Russell ’30s period drama “Amsterdam” offers a glimpse of Swift acting in a more serious and possibly bigger film role than she’s had before.
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