Is Speak Now Taylor's Most Underrated Record?

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I JUST REALIZED THIS IS MY 13TH VIDEO ABOUT HER. LIKE...

[@swiftothecore]

ICONIC

[@spencerglennboyd9803]

Could you do a video about your Taylor Swift album ranking?

[@david.grever]

HER MIND

[@0nyeoma]

💜💜💜

[@Eric_The_Eccentric]

Inescapable.... And I'm waiting for you to hit 13k btw. 😁

[@imjustsomeguy]

Speak Now is what made me a huge Taylor Swift fan. Before 2010, I only knew her for her 2 hit singles (Love Story and You Belong with Me) and that VMA 2009 Kanye thing. 2010, I finally gave Taylor a chance and bought her Speak Now Target album right when it launched. To this day, Speak Now is my all time favorite album from her and my Enchanted is my second favorite Taylor Swift song (All Too Well is still my favorite)

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Your top 2 are so iconic and I feel like you’re a veteran Swiftie if you joined around then! Like slay!

[@aira7115]

Same. I first heard teardrops on my guitar. I liked it a lot. Then I heard love stort and you belong with me..I thouhht wow I like her. Her music is so relatable and then when speak now came out and heard the songs that's when I vowed to be her fan. It is my favorite album.

[@adiawasthi4589]

Even tho Speak Now was a major hit.. Its success globally was quite limited(album+singles)... But it set stage for her being recognised as one of finest songwriters of our generation

[@EljohnMacaranas]

In the states it def was a smash but I just saw international numbers and they’re not quite as big. I guess bc streaming barely started when it dropped!

[@adootledo]

To me it is without a doubt her best album to date still. It's hard for me to listen to Never Grow Up and Last Kiss without crying.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Those two songs are literally gut wrenching and no cowriters?! Amazing

[@justincera1770]

Yes! Never Grow Up is sooo unrated

[@noemistephanie93]

I love Last Kiss. It should’ve been a single with a video

[@winterkitten]

Speak Now is the album that introduced Taylor to my life! Being born and raised in South Korea, I didn’t speak English at all when I first heard this record. I wanted to understand what she was singing about, and as soon as I understood the lyrics, I sympathized with her songs because I was going through my first love and first kiss at that age (when I was 12). Now I became her dedicated fan who can guess all of her songs with 1 second clip. I also speak English very fluently, had dramatic love affairs, and doesn’t hesitate to speak up when I need to, just like Taylor said to “speak now” in her speak now album prologue 😆

[@EljohnMacaranas]

That’s so cool! Thanks for sharing and I love the fact you’ve kinda broken in the album like shoes and lived in it! That’s my fave part of her albums, these stories become our stories. Few artists ever bother making art like that and that’s fine. But that’s amazing!

[@idlevelvets1808]

i need the re-recording to do this era justice… such a good sound with such amazing songwriting but commercially it deserved so much better. hopefully songs like enchanted, dear john, long live, the story of us, haunted, literally everything, can go #1.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I’d love to see her release Enchanted TV as a single or something with a music video. It had a viral tiktok moment this year I think! Agreed!

[@daisy.fields]

Congratulations 'Speak Now (Taylor's Version)' is coming on July 7!!!

[@noemistephanie93]

I love Speak Now. It’s her best country album and one of her best albums in her entire career. Last Kiss should’ve been a single with a video, it’s such a beautiful song and it’s still one of my faves!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Agreed! Last Kiss is perfection. And Speak Now is a classic.

[@smacksoftSMA]

Think Speak Now is my favourite TS albums, up there with Rep and Red! I would love to see Taylor bring back some more organic instrumentals and rock influence in a future album, but as a the much more mature and wise artists that she is now. Her vocals go so well with electric guitars and she always has fun with these songs on stage.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I love that Top 3 and agree, I wanted Midnights to be rock so bad. Happy with what we got but we need the electric guitar to return and for the vocals to feel clear and organic vibe to return!

[@genevievermore7930]

Basically my top 3 favorite Swift albums too. Folklore sorta fights Red for 3rd though. I can never decide. She doesn’t really have a bad album imo

[@shobiosceo]

also notice how its been 13 yesrs since speak now, and now we are getting speak now tv. taylor has come so far.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I’m so proud of her! The vocal improvements from 2010 to now are so underrated, she’s gonna tear Speak Now up!

[@jeremyheartriter2.063]

Speak Now got some of her best bridges and her most memorable songs. It's underrated.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Genuinely one of her best, super sad it doesn't get as much love bc it got buried by the pop trifecta of Red, 1989, then Rep!

[@SweeterThanFiction.]

There’s not many speak now stans but damn are they passionate about it

[@EljohnMacaranas]

So very true!

[@isaacdodsworth6671]

yes we are

[@HeartandSeoul23]

Speak now was the era where i officially became a Swiftie and let me tell you: it was a freaking magical time. Becoming a fan at the very end of the Fearless era( where I got to see her live on the last date on the Fearless Tour), I really didn’t know what to expect from her third album but little did I know, Speak Now would be my favorite album and era to date. So many memories of this era for me: getting the flu during release week(I was in 4th grade at the time) and my mom surprising me with the entire album downloaded on my green IPod. Wanting to scream “Mean” at all of my bullies. Seeing her live at Gillette for the second time, where it would also be the infamous rain show( and I regret nothing). Getting the live CD/DVD for Christmas. Watching the “Story of Us” MV have its world premiere on MTV. The Thanksgiving special she did for NBC( that I still watch every thanksgiving). It was just a magical era and I have cried to “Never Grow Up” more in recent years. This album also made me love the color purple. I’m very excited for the Taylor Version of this because she can go back to this era and really go all in with the maturity she gained from both folklore and evermore, and make this album even more personal than it was in 2010, especially when it comes to songs like “Dear John”, “Last Kiss” and “Innocent”.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I'm so jealous you got to see the iconic rain show! That's iconic! I agree that TV will probably be extra special since she's grown so much!

[@fabulousk8]

Yes, the whole album is gorgeous

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Just a classic!

[@poemofmymind]

Fearless was my first Taylor Swift album but Speak Now really made me fall in love with her. It is absolutely one of my favorite records, like, in general. The storytelling, the lyricism, it's so personal and so easy to connect with. I think it's interesting you compare SN to Rep, I think they're definitely similar in that they feel so honest and genuine...but I think Rep is a little more personal and SN does a better job in the storytelling department (its titular track, The Story of Us, Enchanted, Mine, Long Live). In that sense I think I see it more as a cousin of folklore/evermore. And I'm so excited for the rerecord, mostly for those vault tracks! I'm with you on Better Than Revenge, too. Does TS construct a messy narrative? Yeah, but that what makes it fun. I love how petty it is, and think it's an absolute banger. Always love your videos!!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

The cousin metaphor is so true for Folklore and Evermore! Aaaah love viewing it that way and agree this album is definitely where I think a lot of lifelong fans would stan this one. Thanks so much for watching!!! 💜

[@rodelp.elepiii4732]

When Speak Now (Taylor's Version) hits the scene, let's break all the possible records in Spotify & Physical sales. Enchanted, Speak Now, Dear John deserves to be a single and to rank higher in BBH100. I also hope that the Grammys will finally recognize the masterpiece this album had been.

[@christianmateo4078]

Rep and Speak now need to be huge

[@EljohnMacaranas]

The Grammys definitely snubbed the album to prevent Swift from winning too much right after Fearless. Mean was so undeniably good that it won. I'd love to see this album slay on the charts and releasing Dear John or Enchanted as a single would be so much fun.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

@Christian, Rep is gonna be a monster since that one still charts and gets viral tiktok hits!

[@rodelp.elepiii4732]

@@EljohnMacaranas just a Best Country Album for Grammys will give Speak Now Album justice

[@rodelp.elepiii4732]

@@EljohnMacaranas i think Don't Blame Me will be a single once Rep TV will be released

[@adiawasthi4589]

My fav songs: 1)Enchanted 2)Back to december 3)Last kiss 4)If this was a movie 5)Innocent 6)Dear john

[@EljohnMacaranas]

YESSS! Love that list!

[@farwakhan4423]

I love the rock pop elements in Speak Now. In all of Taylor's discography, I love the songs that have the same elements.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Like I genuinely want her to go back and do rock pop again. So many of the synthy songs could easily be turned into rock jams if the instrumentation changed.

[@Trev1837_]

I remember when I first started getting into listening to Taylor Swift I saw Speak Now on her discography and I was so confused because I had never heard the album before but then when I listened to it I immediatly fell in love with the album, i'd have a song as my favorite and then I would find another song and then that became my favorite and so on. Speak Now is definitely an amazing album with diverse and unique tracks and one of the most underrated albums ever for its popularity. Also good video! Ive been watching a couple of these TS videos lately and there really good especially the Reputation video, Reputation is probably my faovrite albums of Taylor Swift rn.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Speak Now definitely deserves the world. It was in some ways her country farewell but listening again, you could really feel like shift to pop. The fact she wrote a lot of the choruses alone and they work so well... I'm stunned and not surprised she really branched out on Red then her later works. Thanks for watching! The Rep one is my all-time fave album recap. I strive to make my recaps for Taylor as good as that one.

[@daydreaminavenue]

Still to this day, I believe that "Speak Now" is her best album. it's solely written by her doing which allowed her to take control of the narrative and the maturity in the lyrics made it better.

[@BruhCountBruh]

I became a Taylor swift fan with folklore and evermore being my first albums I've fully listened to the songs of. And then midnights, I've been slowly making time to listen to the rest of her catalogue, and it's been all the more depressing that I listened to the terrible things the media has said about her when I was a young girl myself. I have yet to find a Taylor Swift song that I don't enjoy.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Don’t beat yourself up, the media was relentless and society even just almost 13 years ago was different. People used gay and an insult casually and the most diverse show on TV was… Glee. It’s not a race to become a fan, your experience of revisiting the albums is just as magical as being there when they dropped tbh! When I revisited the album, I got to appreciate things I did not understand or perceive as a kid, you get to skip wondering why adults seemed so shocked about some of the lyrics.

[@danameyy]

Speak Now is my 2nd favorite album and I am SO glad it is finally going to get it’s time in the sun soon!!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I’m glad it’s the next rerecording (probably), seeing Red get even more flowers last year was great but this one needs like a truckload of bouquets!

[@AKLabs-xl4re]

Absolutely this is her most underrated. She’s not talking much about it and she rarely perform songs from this album.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Seeing the easter eggs in Bejeweled had me so shocked, there was a brief merch drop earlier this year but that was it.

[@AKLabs-xl4re]

@@EljohnMacaranas Yup. Her masters need to be sold in order for her to be reminded that she had an album called Speak Now lol. I believe it’s more underrated than Evermore.

[@brendan6555]

Speak Now is my favorite album from her and her magnum opus IMO. Also I do NOT appreciate this innocent slander 😤

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Sometimes a song will miss for you, I respect it but the lyrics were wasted on Ye tbh, he did not deserve a ballad like that tbh

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Also Speak Now is one of her GOAT albums like I get why you love it!

[@connordrake5713]

9:08 Omg, I'd never imagined someone will agree on what was I thinking a long time ago that Reputation and Speak Now are both sister albums. 😱 Red and Lover are kinda sister album. 1989 and Midnights are somewhat related because of the success of both albums.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I’m glad I’m not the only one like… they’re both very much records that opened and closed the gates of her being public about her life musically. Red and Lover are very much sisters like Red is about unbridled passionate ephemeral (red) love while Lover is about slowly consuming lasting love (golden) love. 1989 and Midnights don’t share much DNA other than being her two undeniable pop smash hit albums critically and commercially. I’d say Midnights is Lover’s cooler sister. Reputation and Lover are like an opposites attract couple for sure. Folklore and Evermore are sisters.

[@v1eur]

Speak Now is my favorite albm of hers, I don't think it's her best by any means, but it feels the most personal album. It also captures Taylor at a time before she exploded farther into fame. I find that starting around RED her songs became less relatable to the average person (which isnt bad) and more about being Taylor SwiftTM. It just feels like a warm hug of an album and I dont know if she'll ever make another record that sounds anything like it again, especially because she co-writes a lot of her music nowadays.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Oh that’s a good take. Like it didn’t feel so branded but you could sense a shift away from personal towards more commercial. Not to say Fearless and Speak Now weren’t popular but the diaristic feeling was more organic here than on later records.

[@a_weird_strawberry]

I love taylor swift, I'm a newer fan I wasn't an avid taylor swift listener when speak now came out. But even listening to it years later it's my favorite album by her. Speak now is awesome 💜

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Her work ages like fine wine, even coming to albums “late” doesn’t affect how you like it. Some other artists had albums that were exactly perfect for their time and that’s that, revisiting them later you go “huh?”

[@josefinaconsani1252]

I'm so exited for Speak Now TV!!!!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

It’s probably going to be the most fun rerecording for her!

[@jilll4690]

Omg thanks so much for this her albums are the best I’m seeing her live

[@EljohnMacaranas]

SO HAPPY FOR YOU! I hope she plays all your faves! She needs to do more than like 2 songs from this album, I don't know how long the setlist is but she needs to.

[@RoraUndercover]

I only ever listened to a few songs from this album as a kid, but I just listened to the album fully for the first time and it is INCREDIBLE. Definitely one of my top favorite albums from her.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

The fact it’s all her pen still scares me 😭

[@Minatozaki_Icarie]

Okay SPEAK NOW is iconic but I still can't fall asleep at night peacefully knowing she might re record Let's Go for the TV. I'm excited to hear the vault tracks

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I forgot about Let's Go! That one's a forgotten gem! The vault tracks for this one are probably the most mystic ones. You can tell she shelved a lot to cut it down to what we got.

[@raylynne5280]

I absolutely love Speak Now! In high school I had this album and Fearless and listened to them both at least 2-3 times in their entirety every week! Until Midnights it was absolutely my top Taylor Swift album ever but I honestly think Midnights has taken it's spot at the top. I'll always love and cherish this album though, partly because it's so nostalgic but also because it's just a phenomenal album and I still can't get over her writing every song by herself at such a young age!!!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I'm glad you found another top album! I feel like the easter eggs tying Speak Now to Midnights in Bejeweled probably helped quite a bit. It's insane how much talent you need to have to write a whole album by yourself. Just writing one of these songs alone is an accomplishment. A whole album?! Insane!

[@Vondutxh]

I’ve been waiting for this video , I don’t listen to SN so much I think this is my top 5 favorite album by taylor Swift And I agree with you this album is Underrated 😭😭! Same as the debut album

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Debut literally gets so much shade for no reason. Like it's a first album in the 2000s, when people didn't care about making good albums and just made filler songs. ❤️ TBH everyone's gonna see what they're missing with the TV release.

[@v1eur]

short answer: YES

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Agreed!

[@ATWTMVTVFTVSGAVRALPS]

I love the new thumbnail

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank u 😭🫡

[@andrewpavon838]

saying you enjoy listening to superman when you go grocery shopping was soo specific yet so on the nail! like that is exactly what that song is

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Like it's genuinely a shopping bop! I swear all the grocery shopping stores got that playing in the background!

[@nomanisanisland117]

2:00 "middle school, yes i'm old" Me: *watched the 2009 VMAs live in my college dorm, freshman year* "DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY MELBA TOAST?"

[@EljohnMacaranas]

OMG... at least you could comprehend what happened. Like I was so lost haha!

[@calebhamlett]

watching this *exactly* a year after this was uploaded 💜

[@EljohnMacaranas]

🫡🫡🫡

[@tyrellqueen]

I love Speak now. Tour for this album is my favourite TS tour. It's just so magical. My favourites are Mine, Dear John, Last kiss, Long live and Sparks fly.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

That World Tour was so pretty, I'm so glad it got immortalized with a DVD. Debut and Red Tour is the only one to not have its footage out I think. LOVE YOUR LIST.

[@ShrinePriestess]

Speak now is still her best album up to this date😎💅 (objectively)

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Oh it’s a slay

[@systemcalljudgement6077]

I started liking taylor when she release her Speak Now album I like all song ij the album especially The Story of Us

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Speak Now was the first era I stanned her so I totally get it! Same boat!

[@brandMason]

I discovered and fall in love with Taylor swift song writing because of Speak Now. Mean is definitely my life's soundtrack

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Such a classic album and Mean is still probably one of her best single choices ever.

[@brandMason]

@@EljohnMacaranas agree! I wish she would sing Mean on the Eras tour. Anyway, love all of your videos. Brilliant!

[@Kebbythetraveler]

the only time I've seen Taylor live was the Speak Now Tour when I was 14 and it was awesome XD it's been a while but I have a soft spot for this record for sure

[@EljohnMacaranas]

YESSS! You need to find a way to see her again but agh jealous because that tour was amazing.

[@mksaviation7270]

Ok I got to be honest, I had kinda always skipped Speak Now but when I finally listened to it OH MY GOODNESS!! My favorite album had been Red and my favorite albums are the first four albums with the country and guitar/fiddle era!! Speak Now is now my favorite album

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Honestly, this one get swept under the rug because of how iconic Red and Fearless are, when in reality I’d say it’s like bridge between those two records esp with the rock elements sneaking their way onto some of the tracks here

[@mksaviation7270]

@@EljohnMacaranas ya

[@KholEllsworth]

I'm excited about Taylor's Version Vault tracks for Speak Now. I think it'll be a fun time.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I’m dying to hear if Better than Revenge has an angstier sister we never met

[@kpotatov]

I haven't watched the video yet but the answer is yes & it's my personal fav album out of everything she has released 💅💅

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Taste!

[@nataliaalmeida-nacillustra5954]

My husband started listening to and liking her music around the lover era, then went back to reputation, but he's waiting to get to know the older albums after the rerecordings. I can't wait for him to get to this one, it's probably one of my favorites.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Speak Now's rerecording (along with Debut's) fascinate me the most because there's this authentic imperfection to the vocals partially due to age and vocal maturity. Some shaky notes and short notes on this record might be replaced with more confident polished vocals like how on Fearless TV there was an obvious feeling you were listening to a 30-something woman recording her old poetry and prose from her teenage years. I do think Taylor's recent vocals will do Enchanted and Haunted, songs where you could sort of hear her fighting the instrumentals, the justice they deserve.

[@nataliaalmeida-nacillustra5954]

@@EljohnMacaranas so true! Not only that but the songs from the vault in this particular album will probably be just as well-written and experimental as they come. And more swift can never be a bad thing! Haha

[@t4bbyz_]

The fact that superman, ours, dear john and would've could've should've are about the same guy really says a lot about john mayer.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I feel like it speaks to the power of like time and context. You can sort of see someone fall in and out of love through the tracks, the highs and the crushing lows. Love that aspect of her work so much, though Mayer's a very dubious character (even to this day.)

[@koil9073]

Omg u changed the thumbnail

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I had to, cover art is so pretty!

[@koil9073]

@@EljohnMacaranas ikr one of my favourite album cover so far for the re-recordings, i grew on me a lot, at first I thought it doesn’t look like a album cover but nvm

[@swiftothecore]

check on me when speak now (Taylor's Version) comes out because I will not be okay.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

i will be taking off work that day i fear

[@swiftothecore]

@@EljohnMacaranas I will too and I am 100% here for it

[@justina2320]

I don't need to watch the video to answer the title question - yes, it is underrated, but of course I'm going to watch to find out what you think!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Haha, it really got the short end of the stick even for a TV era! 💜😭

[@thxu4_the_venom657]

This has been my favorite Taylor swift album since I was like 10, looking back it’s not surprising I gravitated to the more “edgy” songs like better than revenge and story of us, also on top of the haunted has been my all time favorite ts song sind i heard it 😭 I love the atmosphere with the strings and then the lyrics are so perfect it’s definitely one of her most underrated songs if u ask me

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Haunted is a pretty unique Taylor song. It's a shame it sort of lives as a deep cut but I recall seeing the Speak Now World Tour performance of that and going "whoa..."

[@bonfire5794]

HOW DID YOU CHANGE THE THUMBNAIL SO FAST

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I literally ran to change it the second the new art dropped hahaha!

[@greenLungs-]

You can’t forget Folklore and Evermore (especially Evermore) not saying that Speak Now isnt not popular, but this is a video covering it.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I won't! On the thumbnail there's a joke about evermore in the asterisk.

[@kagalen9196]

HAVENT WATCHED A MINUTE OF THE VIDEO BUT YES. ALL THE WAY YES.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

💜

[@vanessalima.1116]

Loved you inputs an just for the record, her debut was in 2006 with the self titled album

[@bridalkauai]

“…a few people at my middle school (yes I’m old)” 😭 Not me here watching this having been TWENTY FOUR when Kan*e interrupted Blondie at the VMAs 😳

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Whoops... the terror I had on tiktok when a fan showed what they looked like throughout Taylor's career and they put a blank photo for Debut because they weren't born yet. 💀

[@noelleelizabeth9991]

Enchanted is my favorite early Taylor song, kinda wished she'd named the album that.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

It’d be iconic if Speak Now TV was named Enchanted but because she does want to reclaim the publishing and get back the album she has to name it after the original.

[@luv_mark]

@@EljohnMacaranas yyeah but i feel like speak now has more depth and meaning a a name

[@vicki524]

Speak Now is underrated, but I feel like Debut and Evermore are her most underrated records.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

That’s fair! I do love that Evermore did get its own set for Eras though! Sadly Debut got Surprise Song status

[@miamera1164]

I used to like Superman, but I was realized that it might be about J*hn M*ay*er. When I was doing the album pamphlet secret messages, Dear John's message was "I LOVED YOU FROM THE VERY FIRST DAY". That is a line from Superman. If you listen back to the song, you can honestly hear how it would be about him.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Oh… that’s not… I’m shaken and double down on my I’m glad it’s just a bonus track because I- I think Ours is in a similar boat as well.

[@miamera1164]

@@EljohnMacaranasOurs is most likely about Jon Mayo, or whatever his name is, because when she was doing the Harvey Mudd Concert in 2012, she said the song was about people saying she shouldn't have been dating someone, because she SHOULDN'T have been dating them, so...

[@beige3162]

I love Speak Now Album, almost all of the songs are my favorite

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Oh definitely a great record if you can’t pick a favorite

[@TomUniverse]

Imo, Evermore is the most underrated.

[@JobAraujo]

Speak Now is THAT album

[@EljohnMacaranas]

It’s gonna be the best rerecording I think!

[@richmaxmchalliwchester1984]

What i also love about Speak Now is that it was beginning of her vocal journey. I really love that Taylor wasn't just petty and wrote Mean as response for criticism but she actually took that criticism and improved her vocals. On Speak Now she started attempting more difficult and complex vocals. When you compare her vocals during Speak Now era and especially Speak Now Tour there is a big difference to her performances before this era. Her vocal skills progressed in every era but Speak Now was the beginning of this journey and we should be forever grateful for that.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I hadn't realized that! I do know the point of that World Tour album and DVD was more or less a sticking point to critics in a way. I really wish RED had gotten that but sadly the director of that tour film ended being problematic.

[@frozenweevil4022]

while i don’t know if it’s her best album, it definitely is up there. by far it’s the most unique in her discography. i think my ranking would be something like this 1:folklore 2:fearless 3:reputation 4:evermore 5: speak now 6: 1989 7: red 8: midnights 9: lover 10: debut

[@EljohnMacaranas]

It's a sonically scattered album, less so than Red, but still an oddball of genres and a sense of wondering where she could go. Love your ranking btw (even if Red is a bit lower than were I'd put it)

[@frozenweevil4022]

@@EljohnMacaranas i personally feel as if that more applies to red as a transition album to pop too. of course all too well is one of her best songs, but the other albums imo are just so incredible that it makes it seem lower by comparison though red is undoubtedly one of the best albums of all time.

[@thrilcd]

yes it is. speak now is so good and not talked about as much as her others

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Speak Now always gets swept aside like everyone brings up Red and 1989 first 😭 which is fair bc those two are pop perfection but her country years is often remembered through Fearless

[@thrilcd]

@@EljohnMacaranas justice for speak now

[@merletta2626]

Anyone else here after Taylor just announced the re-record of speak now?😅

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Haha I’m here, I look forward to doing a short little analysis on the Vault tracks and sorta glean why or how they didn’t make it into the record like I did for Red’s tracks!

[@tatanooki]

I have a confession...i have more skips in fearless than in speak now.... i understand fearless has legendary songs like love story and ybwm and they're a must for re-recording. Its like, i feel like fearless has 1 or 2 S-tier songs surrounded by a bunch of C-tier songs. Meanwhile Speak now has overall A tier songs with only 1 or 2 C-tier songs... yea idk i def feel like this album should get a taylors version

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Oh you so spilled about Fearless though The Way I Loved You is an A-tier minimum banger for me. Speak Now, just a bunch of highs with few lows on the deluxe 🫡

[@babii6168]

The timing of the VMA incident is WILD because Kanye did all that just for Beyonce to win Video of the Year, the coveted award of that night where she was up against both male (where Kanye was nominated too) and female artists, that was even more of a success to Beyonce. Like based on pop culture that time, it was pretty obvious that if Beyonce didn't win Best Female Video then that means she pretty much has Video of the Year locked if you compare Single Ladies to the other competition.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

He really did that for nothing (and probably because he was smashed at the time)... one of the biggest unforced errors in pop culture history lmao.

[@dumb5308]

YESS

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Love the profile pic!!!

[@islandrebelmakeup4653]

Haunted, innocent, enchanted, dear John, better than revenge, last kiss, and the story of us are my favorites on the album, in that order. It’s probably my favorite of her’s.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

YES. Love those picks!

[@chemistrylinguisticstolkien]

wait, was the video updated, because this video was released 5 months ago, but the thumbnail is the exact photo for Speak Now Taylor's Version!!!!!!!!!!!!! (thirteen exclamation marks just so you know XD)

[@EljohnMacaranas]

oh i just updated the thumbnail, i’ll be doing a special vault tracks breakdown analysis this July 💜

[@chemistrylinguisticstolkien]

@@EljohnMacaranas yayyyyyyyyyy!

[@regeneratedwitch]

i'm 00:00 minutes in and the answer is YES, it is.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Where's the conversation? The confetti? It's a classic? We need Taylor's Version stat!

[@regeneratedwitch]

@@EljohnMacaranas if we got a JM fu on midnights i'm scared of SN vault tracks :O

[@electricsubliminals]

SHE BETTER BRING BACK WONDERLUST IN TV

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I want the perfume back so much 😭

[@electricsubliminals]

@@EljohnMacaranas wonderlust taylors version when?

[@mavlanzerotti8012]

Where did you get the thumbnail photo if she used that pic to announce Speak now TV, where did it come from originally?

[@theauburnfirefox8767]

he edited the thumbnail after the reveal.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Yep! I used photos from Taylor Nation’s post that were uploaded shortly after the reveal!

[@itspricila]

I think the major problem was the “weak” singles. Mean and Mine were no Love Story or You Belong With Me

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I think with those singles she was chasing more or less the same Fearless audience which makes sense business-wise but yeah there were stronger choices for sure. Ours definitely did not have to be a single (and I like that one quite a bit!)

[@ATWTMVTVFTVSGAVRALPS]

In my opinion, it's a tie between Debut and Speak Now

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Fair, I do think Debut really gets glossed over but Speak Now is a much better album

[@inkpad_]

Justice for haunted

[@EljohnMacaranas]

definitely a deep cut that needs more love

[@potatoes4lifersxd813]

yes. that’s it. that’s all i need to know.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jakehart7264]

Wait why is the thumbnail the new cover for speak now tv which was announced like yesterday

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I changed it from the old thumbnail which had stolen version art to reflect the new cover art

[@poppyisaswiftie]

Personally, its not underrated nor overrated. I reckon it's a strong album but not her best compared to rep, red and 1989. It's a classic and the earliest album making her really pop. It's an amazing album just thinking she write it herself,

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I’d argue it could stand toe to toe with Rep in some regards tbh

[@poppyisaswiftie]

@@EljohnMacaranas yep, rep and sp are quite equal, but somedays I like rep more due to how it's got more songs but they are really close

[@alveiria]

actually, red, taylor swift and reputation are very underrated albums.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Red is underrated? Like the one with her highest Pitchfork score and the one most fans usually cry about not winning a single Grammy? 😂 Maybe before the TV.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

But I do agree Rep and Debut definitely got undeserved lashings for sure. Like Debut didn’t even get a song on the Eras tour while other artists usually throw at least one hit from their first on their setlists.

[@alveiria]

@@EljohnMacaranas well yeah, red taylor’s version especially. nobody really mentions the songs from the vault anymore. but red is only a bit underrated lol

[@alveiria]

@@EljohnMacaranas yeah but speak now is actually one of her most popular albums lol

[@carriefingsolomon]

Ummm YES it’s her most underrated album. I don’t understand how anyone thinks any of her others are better, personally-although I also love Fearless. Honestly I like pop music and dislike country, but I am not a fan of Taylor’s more recent pop music and Speak Now is still and will always be in my top 5

[@vankr]

I never understood this expectation that a teenage girl apologizes to her ex boyfriends

[@EljohnMacaranas]

The blatant sexism in 2010 and late 2000's was way worse than it is now where teenage girls' perspectives now shape pop and get credit for it (Lorde, Billie, and Olivia's debut eras all owe Swift and Avril Lavigne flowers for paving the way.)

[@cowsforliyyfe]

FIRST

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Quick what’s your favorite track?!

[@diesehnswurdigkeit9019]

I have not even passed the add that jumped as a clicked on this video just to comment that, no, it isn't the debut album, it's speak now and it isn't reputation or lover her most underrated album, it is called Evermore, and remains her best album alongside Folklore

[@EljohnMacaranas]

It’s in the thumbnail lmao… I have a little asterisk saying besides Evermore, I want to give that record some more time. But I do agree with you haha.

[@diesehnswurdigkeit9019]

@@EljohnMacaranas oop, i plead as a du.mb.ass for this one, i'm the type that defends evermore a lot so i didn't read the little words, btw i watched the video and loved it, waiting for the evermore one.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

OK, so what do we think about Speak Now? Are we excited for the Taylor's Version?

[@MrFrye12345]

Yes we’re VERY excited and VERY ready for it to come out!

[@logankienn]

The BJLD music video had me shocked she is so talented and crazy

[@abdulazizmohammed6832]

16:26 djdjsjka

[@EljohnMacaranas]

They always play it at my favorite grocery store like I'll be getting tomatoes or apples and I'll hear "I watch superman fly away you've got a busy day today, go save the world I'll be around"

[@EljohnMacaranas]

What's your favorite track?! Mine's personally still Enchanted!

[@wedidthemonstermash]

enchanted will always take the cake. it's just so sweet and magical

[@EJTVUTUBECHANNEL]

@@wedidthemonstermash it’s a classic like she better perform it on Eras Tour

[@Vondutxh]

Last kiss is that girl literally !

[@abdulazizmohammed6832]

sparks fly is saur good and that point about mean being a queer anthem yes.

[@Trev1837_]

My Favorite Track from Speak Now is definitely Back To December, I like how this was Taylors fisrt song where she admitted to be in the wrong and that makes the track feel so relatable and fun to listen to. Also every part of the track is pretty much perfect, I also dont have any problems with the song at all.

[@cheezekeyk377]

Capitalism era 😭😭

[@EljohnMacaranas]

She had Sony, American Greetings, the perfume industry, and so many others gagged. Her Wildest Dreams 1989 era commercial for Toyota’s cars in China are forever the moment!

[@veniceviolet16]

Lol no. Debut is

[@gracetanner4132]

Absolutely Speak Now is her most underrated record! 💜🫶 It’s my favourite because it's an album I grew up with. I remember being like seven and downloading her songs on my mom's little iPod and writing down the lyrics in my little notebook, even though I wasn't aware of the deep meaning behind them. I'm excited to hear specific songs (Long Live, Mean, Never Grow Up, Dear John, Enchanted, Haunted, and Last Kiss) about how she's reminiscing about those times; it's almost like listening to them again. I am a huge fan of her pop/rock songs on this record, like "The Story of Us." And Better Than Revenge: I've always wanted to hear more inspired songs like those. I'm also looking forward to the vault tracks because I know they'll have that whimsical feel that her other songs have had (I'm hoping she has Let's Battle, an unreleased song that you can find on KZbin that perfectly suits the album). The deluxe tracks aren’t my favorites; I find they don’t suit the album as well, so maybe the Taylor versions will give them a new meaning for me. Also, I'm really curious what she’s going to do with the album cover because, to me, it’s so iconic and perfect that I don't want her to change it a lot, and I'm wondering if she might change the album name to Enchanted (Taylor's Version) because, like you said, that’s what she originally wanted to call it. I hope when the Taylor’s Version is released, it gets all the appreciation and love it deserves because, in my mind, it's in my top three TS albums (Folklore, Red, and Speak Now).

[@tinan2179]

UNDESERVING of any success in the ‘music’ world. She’s serving nothing but NONSENSE.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

😒

[@MyEleto]

I think the re-recording will help a lot of people to realise what an amazing album Speak now is.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

That needs to happen. I see TikToks of people saying unironically they just learned about the album and I'm like certain the rerecord's going to put this in people's top 3 lists.

[@topher2113]

Long Live is the #1 song that makes me want to see Taylor live. I get goosebumps listening to it and can't imagine how great the feeling of singing it WITH Taylor and thousands of other Swifties would be. Some songs have great lines for a live show, I can't wait to hear how loud "he looks up grinning the like devil" is going to be on Eras. My little Swiftie heart needs to sing "I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you" with Taylor :)

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Honestly, I can’t imagine her NOT singing it live on Eras tour! Like it’s one of my most anticipated.

[@jennamichie7245]

I’m going to KC (I’m from St. Louis) and I’m going on July 7th. I seriously hope she’s gonna play it as one of the surprise songs 😭

[@itspricila]

Speak Now is my top 3 hands down. Love the mix on genres, the fact that she wrote this by herself, and like you said it is one of her most personal abums

[@roy168x]

This album - I'm surprised I still remember the lyrics to all the songs. Will forever be my favorite. And it includes LONG LIVE, my all time no. 1 tswift song.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

That one is such a classic. I was floored when she sang it at the Reputation tour again after sorta ignoring Speak Now for awhile.

[@meloneninja]

I originally began getting more into taylor after I found rep, but I was trying to find taylor swift rock and the closest I found were haunted, the story of us, better than revenge, in an album I'd never heard of, and now I'm a shameless speak now stan through and through

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Oh, we need a return to Rock Taylor soon. This album scratches the itch. I've been asking for it since 1989 World Tour's We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together version. Rep had some elements but those were replaced with synths.

[@normalizenatalie]

did you go back and change this thumbnail? lol

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Continuity 💜

[@AllySheehan]

yes.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Agreed!

[@michaelolegario6399]

You are so right about Mean. She honestly writes better LGBT songs when she doesn't have the intention of writing one which is kinda funny. Tolerate It is also one that can be interpreted from an LGBT lens which makes it pretty heartbreaking. Feels like a son trying to reach out to his dad that won't fully accept him.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Most gay anthems aren't written to be gay anthems. It's usually something relatable but still general like Dancing on My Own or Cut to the Feeling or Mean. They're all just songs that were eventually celebrated or viewed by the community as something. YNTCD felt very... forced. You really can't force a gay anthem written to be that way these days, I think the last explicitly gay anthem to really click organically was Born this Way but I appreciated YNTCD and Taylor's support for the community.

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

For me it’s an abused foster child anthem.