Hey, that's nice: Taylor Swift moved her album's release date to not conflict with Paul McCartney's
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Averting a consumerist bloodbath that neither artist would have recovered from, Taylor Swift reportedly changed the release date of her latest album, evermore, as to not compete with fledgling up-and-comer Paul McCartney.
On Tuesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show, Macca revealed that Swifty was originally going to drop her own LP on the same day as his experimental new record, McCartney III. “I did the Rolling Stone cover with Taylor Swift, and she just emailed me recently, and she said, ‘I wasn’t telling anyone, but I’ve got another album,’” McCartney told Stern. “And she said, ‘So I was going to put it out my birthday.’ And then she said, ‘But I found out you were going to put [your album] out on the 10th. So I moved it to the 18th.’”
Compelling stuff. But much like one of the many plot twists in McCartney’s 1984 crime caper, Give My Regards To Broad Street, the release cycle took yet another unexpected turn when Swift discovered that his album was actually coming out on the 18th—not the 10th, as she originally thought. So she had to switch evermore back to its initial date (it ended up coming out on December 11th).
“So I mean, you know, people do keep out of each other’s way,” McCartney continued. “It’s a nice thing to do.”
True. But let’s be real: both albums were going to do well regardless of when they came out (especially Swift’s), and even if they didn’t, something tells us that both artists would have come out on the other end juuust fine. While there’s something to be said for not stoking a rivalry—not to mention the artistic merit of both records—these are rich-people problems that the rest of us can only dream of having.
Watch the whole interview below:
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The “Musicians on Musicians” cover story of Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney is worth a read, as are other “Musicians on Musicians” from that issue.
Once you get past the name dropping celebrity parties bit at the start it’s a really great interview.
I guess there won’t be a
Battle of Evermore
Albums being released on the same day are really a problem. In 2001, They Might Be Giants and Bob Dylan released an album (“Mink Car” and “Love and Theft” respectively) on the same day. Oddly enough neither launch party was well attended, but that might have been due to the fact that the date was Sept 11th.
Nick Lowe’s The Convincer came out on the same day as well. I bought Nick’s and Dylan’s records, and IIRC, they were the first CD’s I bought from Amazon.
Jay Z’s The Blueprint, too. And… POD’s Satellite.
A lot of albums come out on Tuesdays. Say what you will about Al Qaeda, but they knew what they were doing.
And Beulah’s “The Coast Is Never Clear”.
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The term “the greatest human being of all time” gets used far too much these days but….. – Brobri, Up north, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Why was this so overly mean to Taylor? That’s genuinely pretty cool and seems more in line with “i dont want to step on a legend’s toes” than anything else.
A bit nicer than Michael Jackson was to Paul Mccartney.That’s a bit of an understatement.
I love watching inter4views of Paul talking about this where he does impressions of Michael saying “It’s just business Paul.”
Too bad she didn’t catch that capitalization error before the album’s release.
Taylor Swift is a better person than I am. I would’ve released it in retaliation for inflicting “Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime” upon the world.
Releasing Wonderful Christmas Time was worth it, for giving the world this version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_b7GRoBMMk
AAnd how do I retaliate against you for getting that song, i.e. that one fucking line, playing on repeat in my head?
Whenever that song comes on the air, I replace it in my head with this one, because “Cashing In On Christmas” perfectly sums up “Wonderful Christmastime”.
Meanwhile, Kanye fans are mad that she releases albums on whatever Ye-specific holiday they make up in their head (in this case, Kid Cudi’s MOTM III release).
The Beatles and The Stones used to do that. This isn’t quite the same.
girl knows all about consumerism.