Taylor Swift Promises That the ‘From the Vault’ Songs on ‘Reputation’ Re-Record Will Be ‘Fire’

There’s some good news and some great news for Swifties about the as-yet-unannounced Taylor’s Version of Taylor Swift‘s 2017 album Reputation. In an interview with TIME magazine for its Person of the Year issue, Swift revealed that she’s hard at work on the re-record of her sixth album, which featured such hits as “Look What You Made Me Do,” “…Ready For It?,” “End Game” and “New Year’s Day.”

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The singer said while revisiting the album that she said represents “a goth-punk moment of female rage at being gaslit by and entire social structure” during the Reputation segment of her Eras Tour, a lot of fans see just “sick snakes and strobe lights.” But she knows something they don’t about the collection that found Taylor leaning into electropop arrangements while singing about vengeance public scrutiny.

The extra “From the Vault” tracks she plans to include on it are, in a word, “fire,” she told the magazine. She didn’t get into specifics, but Swift likened the gathering of the bonus songs for the previous Version editions to “collecting horcruxes,” furthering the Harry Potter metaphor by adding in some Avengers and Lord of the Rings references into the mix as well. “I’m collecting infinity stones,” she said. “Gandalf’s voice is in my head every time I put out a new one. For me, it’s a movie now.”

At press time no additional information or release date had been announced for the Reputation Version, which would follow on the heels of the release of the four previous re-records: Fearless (2021), Red (2021), Speak Now (2023) and 1989 (2023).

As part of the TIME chat, Swift finally spoke publicly about her monthslong relationship with Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce, as well as he anger at the sale of her Big Machine catalog and the rigorous training she’s been doing to stay in shape for the record-setting Eras tour.

Gil Kaufman

Billboard