#fearless platinum edition

[taylor-on-your-dash]

Analysis of the Fearless Platinum Credits

Since the credits on the OG Fearless and Fearless Platinum are SHIT, I have to assume lots of things, like who played certain instruments and what not. Thanks to the TV credits, I estrapolated the instruments played to see if I could compare them to make sense of some things, unlike Speak Now, that one's completely fucked. I'll still need to Occamrazor some things. This is what I found:

🎙️Recording Studios: No other Studios are credited as main ones, just smaller ones, such as Pain In The Art, where Nathan Chapman recorded and mixed Jump Then Fall and Forever & Always Piano by himself.

🥁Percussions: Eric Darken recorded Percussions on Untouchable, Come In With The Rain and Superstar.

🪕Banjo: there are two more people who play the banjo on FP besides Ilya Toshinsky: Nathan Chapman and Bryan Sutton. Also Banjo Ben Clark but it was scrapped, but that's another story. According to Fearless TV, the songs that have a banjo in them are Jump Then Fall, Come In With The Rain and The Other Side Of The Door. Based on the fact that Jump The Fall was recorded and mixed by Nathan Chapman, I'm gonna assume that he played the banjo on it, while Bryan Sutton played it on Come In With The Rain. I think that the banjo on The Other Side Of The Door was played by Ilya Toshinsky, since the song was a full part of the OG Fearless sessions and was the closest to release out of the other Platinum songs.

🎸Dobro Guitar: The resonator guitar is only present on the Platinum Edition, credited to Nathan Chapman. The only song that features it is The Other Side Of The Door, making it one of the many instruments he played on the recording sessions.

🎸Steel Guitar: Dan Dugmore is the only extra person to have played the instrument. The only song on FP that features a Steel Guitar is Come In With The Rain.

🎻 Cello & Strings: Jonathan Yudkin definitely played the Cello and arranged the Strings for Forever & Always Piano Version, which, to the surprise of no one, is the only songs that feature them. This makes Yudkin one of the few people from the OG Fearless sessions to have come back for the TV.

Note: Taylor said that the OG Fiddle Player on Love Story is Yudkin, but this is openly in contrast with the OG Fearless credits, where the only Fiddle Player credited is Rob Hajcos.

🎹 Programming: Nathan Chapman. Despite the numbers of outcry about the synths on Fearless TV, Fearless Platinum had a bunch of them. According to the TV credits, Programming occurred on: Jump Then Fall (Electronic Percussion Programming) and on Untouchable and Forever & Always Piano (Synth Programming). I think that originally Nathan did the same things on the OG songs.

[taylorlibrary]

Fearless (Platinum Edition) // link

[tesaurotaylorswift]

Superstar

BT: Fearless (Platinum Edition)

RT: Superstar (Taylor's Version)

Lyrics

[growingup-swift]

Fearless (Platinum Edition)

Song title Sticker Pack

Get it here

[heystephen]

What do you mean her albums USED to be complete pieces of art? Lmao you’re not a real fan

what i mean is that they used to come as complete pieces of art. you used to get the full album as it was intended to be heard on one album, you didn’t have this fragmented mess of needing this version to hear these tracks and that version to get this track, and never getting the full piece to appreciate because then she won’t be able to sell as many odds and ends. it has nothing to do with being a rEaL fAn, and frankly that’s a very childish thing to say like are you 12 lol??, and everything to do with the fact that this whole exclusive tracks and 10+ versions of her albums makes her work come off very scattered. still good songs, but it’s like looking at a puzzle that someone picked up and shattered on the floor

[mermaidinthecity]

By Unknown for Fearless Platinum Edition - 2009

[serotinals]

I miss when it was 2010 and a new Taylor Swift album dropping consisted of me staying up to buy it on iTunes and then listening to it on my iPod shuffle… the discourse would then take place in my 5th grade classroom where me and one other girl would argue over who knew most of the lyrics the fastest

[max-nolastname]

i want to make black sails edits to taylor swift lyrics but I fear the girls will persecute me for it

[lazyspeedy]

have to go back to regular life tmr :(

[mariatesstruther]

do you like taylor swift?

i need to know your intentions behind asking me this before i answer honestly

[officialbillhader]

I had a dream i found fearless platinum edition tucked away at a thrift store and the case was broken as all shit but i bought it anyway

[tesaurotaylorswift]

Come In With The Rain

BT: Fearless (Platinum Edition)

RT: Come In With The Rain (Taylor's Version)

Lyrics

[the-bluebird-you-need]

So this kind of fun it's my top played taylor swift songs according to a last.fm discord bot, cool mix of songs.

[finnickodaiir]

Wait do people actually think Taylor doesn't like Fearless 😭?

[mermaidinthecity]

By Joseph Anthony Baker for Fearless Platinum Edition - 2009