Taylor Swift ‘GENTLY politically incorrect lyrics’ for Speak Now re-release
Taylor Swift ‘GENTLY politically incorrect text’ about what her ex’s new girlfriend is ‘doing on the mattress’ in new version of Better Than Revenge
For her new Better Than Revenge re-recording, Taylor Swift reportedly softened a mean old text about her ex’s latest girlfriend.
Amid her legal battle with Scooter Braun over her original masters, Taylor decided years ago to re-record all of her old albums and release new “Taylor’s Versions” to which she would own the rights.
Tomorrow, fans will be treated to “Taylor’s Version” from her 2010 album Speak Now, which featured the original edition of Better Than Revenge.
The old text – now discarded in favor of a more politically correct line – read: “She’s not a saint and she’s not what you think.” She’s an actress, ho. she’s better known for the things she does on the mattress, ho.’
However Page six reports that the ‘mattress’ jab has been replaced with, ‘He was a moth to the flame. She was holding the matches, ho.’
Aglow: For her new re-recording of Better Than Revenge, Taylor Swift reportedly softened a mean old lyric; she’s pictured in cover art for her new edition of Speak Now
Stagestruck: Taylor is currently whirling around the world on her Eras Tour, playing a gig at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium in May
Apparently a few fans managed to sneak a listen to Taylor’s version of Speak Now ahead of its official debut on Friday.
At the time of its initial release in 2010, Better Than Revenge was widely believed to be about Taylor’s ex Joe Jonas and his later flame Camilla Belle.
However, over the intervening decade, Taylor developed a friendly relationship with Joe, who is currently married to Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner.
In recent years, Taylor has also expressed her frustration at being on the business side of “slut-shaming” during her twenties.
“I was 23 and people were making slideshows of my dating life and putting in people I once sat next to at a party and decided my songwriting was a trick rather than a skill and a craft,” she shared Zane Lowe of Apple Music.
“It’s a way of taking a woman who does her job and manages to do her job… [and] completely minimize that skill by slutting her.”
She noted that she absorbed the comments “at a very young age,” so that was a bit difficult. That was one of the first times I thought, “Wow, this isn’t fair.”
In 2021, Taylor’s fans were outraged when a character on the Netflix sitcom Ginny & Georgia joked, “You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.”
Remember when: Apparently a few fans secretly listened to Taylor’s version of Speak Now ahead of its official debut on Friday; the cover of the original album is pictured
Throwback: Better Than Revenge would be about Taylor’s ex Joe Jonas and his later flame Camilla Belle; Taylor and Joe are pictured in 2008
As they were: Joe, who is now married to Game Of Thrones star Sophie Turner, is pictured with Camilla in West Hollywood in 2009
“Swifties,” as her admirers are affectionately known, took the show over the coals on the internet for making their idol “slut-shaming.”
Taylor himself furious on Twitter: “Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back. Can we stop humiliating hard-working women by defining this horse as funny?’
The new version of Speak Now will also include a re-recording of Dear John, which Taylor performed live on stage for the first time in 11 years last month.
Dear John, with its scathing lyrics about an ex’s “sick need to give love and then take it away,” it was overwhelmingly assumed to be about John Mayer.
After the song came back into the public eye last month, Taylor begged her fans not to “defend” her against John, but they ignored her pleas and began denouncing him online as a “trimmer” because he was 33 and she 19 when they dated.