Why Taylor Swift’s new vinyl albums feature ‘creepy’ mystery music

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video on TikTok, which has garnered 4.1 million views and 464,400 likes.Turns out, a small batch of the vinyl LPs were “incorrectly pressed.” Fans who’d purchased the duds got quite the scare when they heard British electronica rather than the hits of the 33-year-old singer-songwriter.And, in a darker twist, lyrics about “flakes of flesh” and “endless rows of sardines” accompanied the music.“At first, I thought maybe the vinyl had a secret message from Taylor.

But when I flipped to the B-side, it started saying ‘There’s 70 billion people on earth, where are they hiding?’ I started to get a little scared,” TikToker Rachel Hunter — @mischief_marauder on TikTok — told the BBC. “I was alone and it was late and my vinyl was playing creepy messages.”send help I got speak now (not Taylors version) this is so funny #speaknowtaylorsversion @Taylor Swift @Taylor Nation #erastour #speaknoworchid The record was playing Cabaret Voltaire’s “Soul Vine (70 Billion People)” instead of “Mine (Taylor’s Version).”“This would be wild in the ’70s before the internet.

You would just think this is what the album was,” one person pointed out in the TikTok comments.“This would creep me out,” another admitted.Universal Music Group, the parent company of Swift’s label, Republic Records, told Billboard in a statement, “We are aware that there are an extremely limited number of incorrectly pressed vinyl copies in circulation and have addressed the issue.