Speak Now is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 25,2010, through Big Machine Records.
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21 Facts About Speak Now
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Speak Now received generally positive reviews from music critics for offering emotional engagement and radio-friendly songs.
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At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012, Speak Now was nominated for Best Country Album, and its third single "Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance.
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Speak Now described her songs as "diary entries" about her emotions that helped her navigate adulthood.
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The confessional lyrics of Speak Now are more direct and confrontational than those on Swift's past albums.
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Speak Now re-recorded the song for Speak Now after she received fan request to release it at the 2010 CMA Music Festival.
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Speak Now did reveal that Kanye West, who interrupted Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, was the subject of "Innocent".
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Much of his production for Speak Now is identical to that for Fearless; he programmed the drums with Toontrack's software Superior Drummer, played drums on the Roland Fantom G6 keyboard, added electric guitars to the arrangements, recorded Swift's vocals with an Avantone CV12 microphone and his background vocals with a Shure SM57, produced the bass with an Avalon VT737 preamplifier, and used Endless Audio's CLASP System to synchronize his editing on Pro Tools and Logic.
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Speak Now follows the country pop production of Fearless with increasing elements of mainstream pop music.
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Speak Now longest track, "Dear John" at six minutes and 43 seconds, is a slow-burning, bluesy, country-pop song with electric guitar licks.
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Speak Now gave private concerts to contest winners, and played a semi-private concert for JetBlue at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York.
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In Speak Now first charting week, 11 of the standard edition's 14 tracks charted on the Billboard Hot 100, making Swift the first female artist to have 11 songs on the Hot 100 at the same time.
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Speak Now was a chart success in the wider English-speaking world, peaking atop the albums charts of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
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Speak Now approved of Swift's experimentation with styles other than country but considered it "too safe" and said the album is tarnished by "slickly produced power pop and a sugary sameness [that is] indiscernible from any number of today's radio-oriented artists".
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Speak Now was ranked 13th on Rolling Stones list of the best albums of 2010.
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At the 2011 Billboard Music Awards, Speak Now was nominated for Top Billboard 200 Album and won Top Country Album.
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At the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012, Speak Now was nominated for Best Country Album, and its single "Mean" won Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song.
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Communication professor Myles McNutt argued that the self-written Speak Now was Swift's definite move to claim authorship to her music and career, contrary to other artists being commodified by their labels.
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