SPEAK NOW (OG) - Taylor Swift *First Listen*
🕑 Added 2025-06-24 23:00:05 +0000 UTCholyyyy adolescent??? listening to this album again was such a treat, and just re-scrambled my taylor ranking for me. honestly my rankings just depend on what i'm listening to lmao. but hearing the og for the first time was so much fun!! this album ranks VERY high for me all and all. i can't really explain why, it just scratches a very specific part in my brain. anyways, as always, let me know your thoughts or any discourse! the discord link is below <3
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Lauren Monet
the OG is sooo much better - the ANGST!! same with Red
sNiles
one of my favorite vibes is watching you listening to SPEAK NOW...both this OG and the TV. Both reactions just make me so happy and want to hang out with you.
Reema !
Hello can i say if you want to really see Taylor personality and growth you gotta watch her NYC graduation speech its crowded one of the best commitment speeches ever
Laine Wagner
I think Speak Now will always be a super special album to me. there is something about it that is un-re-createable. also the era itself if you got to live through it was SOMETHING ELSE. so detail oriented and thorough, and dreamyyyyy
Danika
Iām back hehe but Iām such a big Taylorās Version defender of quality, crispness, vocals, etc⦠but Last Kiss OG is just so good and so much better with the shaky breath in itself like itās SO SAD
Nikolas Hernandez
should do 5SOS5 or CALM :9
Danika
Listening to Dear John OG since WCS came out is wild like it really just shows how much of a baby she was like she was so young
Danika
Speak Now OG (the song) HITS SO GOOD. Like when I see a picture of Taylor at 19/20 years old I think of that song. š„¹
MK
I love your username š¤£š¤£
MK
thatās why I personally love this song! nut I understand where youāre coming from š«¶š»
MK
Ugh Lauryn I was crying with you lol. Iām SO happy that you revisited this album! It hits different (midnights pun intended lmao) šš
JessicaRabbit
Also, I hear you about Haunted. It's a good song, but the lyrics are pretty generic, and the sound did not age well. It's very Paramore/Evanescence sounding.
JessicaRabbit
Unpopular opinion: All of the OGs are better. They encapsulate who she was and the emotions behind how she felt at the time of writing the songs. That is irreplaceable for me. Also, the OGs are what I grew up on. They just feel right.
Richard
Yeah I feel that innocent is not really literal, meaning she doesn't think he was innocent. She was talking to him as a kid. He was Immature. Kind of a dig.
Morgan Bauman
You asked if there were any Speak Now stans⦠Itās me! Hi. Iām the Speak Now fan. Itās me. (Haha.) I donāt really rank them like that, but if I DID⦠Tied with TTPD for top spot. And then evermore and Lover are tied for second. (ā¦theyāre for opposite moodsā¦)
Morgan Bauman
When I first heard Better Than Revenge, I was pretty annoyed with the mattress line, so I prefer the TV on that one⦠But the rest are just soā¦irreplaceable? Her vocals are undeniably better as an adult, but Iām not after perfection on that front. I like the way it sounds like she was pushing herself and/or still in the emotional fallout of everything in the OG. Also nostalgia. When Iām ranking Taylor Swift songs/albums, I tend to rank all of them number one, just for different things? Lmao. Let me see if I can word this on three hours of sleep⦠Debut: best for road trips Fearless: best for when you wanna lie in the sun or run through a summer thunderstormā¦but itās too cold out Speak Now: look. sheās That Girl. best for when youāre feeling petty Red: best for when you feel like the world is a meat grinder 1989: best vault tracks (sorry to the og) Reputation: best for when you wanna go to the club in steel-toed boots and fishnets Lover: best for when Iām fucking miserable. Cruel Summer can heal me lmao. folklore: best for when you see a cat curled up looking like the coziest baby ever and you wish you could be boneless but youāre all sharp angles evermore: best for poetry Midnights: best for feeling like youāre sitting in the stairwell outside a club having an emotional breakdown TTPD: best for when youāre spiraling Some of those are normal and some super arenāt, I know. But. Eh. Three hours of sleep, yāknow? Also whatās so great about normalā¦hahaha. Iām liking this revisiting thing! For me, the og version that just could not be captured by the TV was actually āThe Way I Loved Youā (it just hits different when a thirty-something year old woman is singing it vs a teenager lmao).
Richard
Taylor just did a pop up performance at Travis's TEU after party of shake it off. I love Taylor at small venues. https://youtu.be/DBQi4EuNJcQ?si=VVCLkCJbrlTKtSqX
Walt Mossberg
I fell in love with Speak Now via the OG. But I also think they did a great job with the TV. And remember: she wrote the whole album solo. Itās been in my top five for years, way better than Lover or Midnights.
Casey Malue
I donāt remember how track fives came about but they seemed to always exist. cold as You and White Horse before this were always deemed emotional and personal so I feel she kind of just kept it up?
False Dog
Loved this. Speak Now is more than nostalgic, it's a classic that still holds up 15 years later. Thanks for sharing, Lauren.
emma
the "run it š¹backš¹" for speak now sent me š¤£
emma
SPARKS FLY šš
wg
as someone who thinks the original is waaaaaaay better than tv... i already love this video
emma
YESSS I HOPE YOU LOVE THE OG AS MUCH AS TV šš
Jessie š©·šø
Your OG reaction to The Story of Us always comes up in my thoughts listening to that song šš
Jessie š©·šø
FUN