(CNN) — Taylor Swift let her Eras Tour audience know on Saturday that she appreciates the “beautiful interactions” she’s witnessed on tour, but only has one small request ahead of the release of “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).”
“I’d like to ask that as we get closer to the release of this album, I’d love to see that kindness and graciousness extend to our online activities,” Swift said during her concert at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, according to reports. posted videos by attendees on social media.
“I’m 33 years old, I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19, except the songs I wrote,” he continued, adding that his listeners shouldn’t “feel the need to defend myself on the internet against someone you think I might have written about. a song 14 billion years ago.
The speech came before Swift performed “Dear John,” an iconic seven-minute track from the 2010 version of the album that swifties [fans de Swift] they’ve long believed it’s about her ex-boyfriend John Mayer.
And while she’s known for using past relationships with ex-boyfriends like Mayer, Taylor Lautner and Jake Gyllenhaal as inspiration, the “Anti-Hero” singer has a more poignant reason to pull off her “Speak Now” era.
“I’m putting out this album because I want to own my music and I think any artist who has the desire to own their music should be able to,” she said.
Swift has spent many years re-recording new versions of her first six albums – calling them “Taylor’s Version” albums – after her former label Big Machine sold the master recordings from its catalog in 2019.
In 2021, Swift released “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” and “Red (Taylor’s Version),” and in May announced that “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” will be out on July 7.
