Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Taylor Swift rewrites ‘Better Than Revenge’ “actress” lyric on ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’
nme.comTaylor Swift has re-written a problematic lyric on ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’.The pop star released the re-recording of her 2010 third album today (July 7) as she continues to recreate her first six records after the controversial sales of her masters in recent years.It follows on from ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ and ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’, both of which came out in 2021.On the track ‘Better Than Revenge (Taylor’s Version)’, the singer has changed a line from the original song that had been interpreted by some as being “anti-feminist” and having a slut-shaming message.“She’s an actress, whoa/ She’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress, whoa,” Swift sings on the 2010 version of the song.
However, the updated ‘Better Than Revenge’ lyric goes: “She’s an actress, whoa/ He was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches.”The track is rumoured to have been inspired by Swift’s ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas and his post-Swift girlfriend, actress Camilla Belle.
Swift was 20 years old when ‘Speak Now’ was released, and she later addressed the controversial lyric following a negative response from critics.“I was 18 when I wrote [‘Better Than Revenge’],” she told The Guardian in 2014. “That’s the age you are when you think someone can actually take your boyfriend.
Then you grow up and realise no one take someone from you if they don’t want to leave.”Since the arrival of ‘Speak Now’ (Taylor’s Version)’, fans have been airing their thoughts on the lyric swap on social media.“‘Better Than Revenge (Taylor’s Version)’ has the lyrics she wishes she would’ve written all along and I respect the hell out of that,” one person wrote. “She’s repeatedly told us this is her passion project, she’s doing this for herself.
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