Taylor Swift just dropped another new song “from the vault” off her highly anticipated
re-release of “Fearless”, and while some people are speculating who the song is about,
others are saying that she’s changing the music industry for good.
Let’s get into it!
We all know that Taylor Swift is dropping her first re-released album this week after
the years long battle with Scooter Braun and Big Machine Records’ Scott Borchetta over
her masters.
Back when Scott sold Big Machine to Scooter, Taylor says she was “stripped of her life’s
work,” but she wasted no time in getting to work so she could own her masters again.
And while Taylor doesn’t own the original masters, she does own the publishing rights
AKA the copyright for the musical arrangement and lyrics.
So since she wrote most of her own songs, she can re-record the music and veto the use
of her original music when it comes to commercial use like in TV, movies, ads, etc.
Long story short, yes pun intended for my Swifties, this means that when Taylor decided
to re-record new masters of her older albums, she can completely devalue the original assets
and take control of her art.
And according to Inc. Taylor’s move to re-record her music quote, “has potential to drastically
change the landscape of the music industry, and beyond.”
The outlet reports that Taylor could “prompt record labels to attempt to revise their standard
contracts” and “set a new standard, to signal to artists across industries -- that
they don't need to give up control over their work to reach a large audience.”
And that’s already been proven true with artists like Olivia Rodrigo who has called
Taylor Swift her role model countless times.
According to PopBuzz, Olivia took a note out of Taylor’s book and negotiated her record
label contract so that she would own all of her own masters from the beginning of her
career.
We can’t wait to see the impact this has on the entire music industry, but as we watch
that all unfold, Taylor has been blessing us with more and more new tracks ahead of
her Fearless albums’ re-release.
On Wednesday, she surprise dropped the “song from the vault” Mr. Perfectly Fine and nearly
broke the internet.
Taylor took to social media and wrote quote, “Me in 2020: life is chill, writing songs
based in fiction to avoid drama, feeling pretty grown up.
... My 2008 music from the vault, in a goblin voice: ‘REELEEEEEEASE MR PERFECTLY FIIIIIIINE’”
Sorry that was my best goblin voice!
So clearly, Taylor alluded to the fact that the song is about someone from her Fearless
era 13 years ago and it’s the breakup song we didn’t know we needed.
Tay didn’t hold back with these lyrics and left her 2008 heartbreak all out there singing
“Hello Mr. ‘Perfectly fine’ How's your heart after breaking mine?
Mr. ‘Always at the right place at the right time,’ baby Hello Mr. ‘Casually cruel’
Mr. ‘Everything revolves around you.’”
And fans couldn’t help but dive into the vault, literally, and try to dig up who this
song could be about.
Well, we all know that another Fearless song Forever & Always is about her breakup with
Joe Jonas and many fans think that this song could be about Joe too.
So much so, that Joe quickly started trending on Twitter soon after Taylor dropped Mr. Perfectly
Fine.
One person tweeted writing “no because she’s so funny sending joe jonas a baby blanket
and then releasing a bunch of decade old songs dragging him less than a year later lmao”
Another fan shared this meme and said “Joe Jonas’s kid after Fearless Taylor’s Version
is released.”
And this person poked fun at the situation because Joe’s wife Sophie Turner is a Swiftie
saying “Sophie Turner bopping along to Taylor Swift while she absolutely obliterates Joe
Jonas:” Sophie Turner even shared her thoughts on
the song seemingly dragging her hubby, posting on her IG story, “It’s not NOT a bop @taylorswift”
Clearly Mr. Perfectly Fine has Sophie Turner’s stamp of approval!
And while there was plenty of chatter about whether or not the song could be about Joe,
most fans were just basking in how incredible Mr. Perfectly Fine is.
And we couldn’t agree more.
We can’t wait to hear the rest of Fearless later this week and we still have more songs
from the vault to prepare for!
The music industry must be quaking and we can’t wait to see how Taylor changes the
industry for generations of artists to come.
If you want more on Taylor Swift, click right over here for another Clevver News video.
Also, let us know down in the comments below what you think of her new song Mr. Perfectly
Fine.
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, you can find me on Instagram @Sussan_Mourad, bye guys!