Taylor Swift releases new CD versions for 'The Life of a Showgirl'

[DavidLuis198 1,182]

3 hours ago, ALGAYDO said:

Why release 4 different variants with 2 acoustic tracks each? Why not just release one variant with all the acoustic tracks there? At 8 bucks a pop that’s $32 for something that should only be, like $14, $16 max. 

Why make fans buy one extra CD if you can make them buy four extra CDs?!

[RAMROD 110,380]

4 minutes ago, DavidLuis198 said:

Why make fans buy one extra CD if you can make them buy four extra CDs?!

Actually 6 in my case. Two of each, bby!!! 

[salty like sodium 2,030]

1 hour ago, RAMROD said:

Actually 6 in my case. Two of each, bby!!! 

wouldn't that be 8...?

[RAMROD 110,380]

15 minutes ago, salty like sodium said:

wouldn't that be 8...?

Maybe. Gays doesn't math idk 

[andy232000 12,224]

Not defending her, cause I actually hate this trend variants have instituated in the music industry. But technically these are the first real variants for this album. Everything else up to this point was the same exact album with just a different art cover, but the tracklist remained the same, so there was no incentive to buy more than one (even if the fans are psychos and have bought all versions, that’s them being literal psychos). So to me, technically this whole rollout has had less real variants than previous ones. There’s a lot of variations, but variants is usually a term that should only apply to versions that have some sort of difference from the standard tracklist and fans just throw that term around casually.

[nATAH 50,754]

2 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Actually 6 in my case. Two of each, bby!!! 

girl......

[LadyxGaGa 2,375]

2 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Actually 6 in my case. Two of each, bby!!! 

YAAAAAAY!!!!!

[Blackout19 12,339]

this girl is hungry

[Wet Fire 7,817]

At this point I'm just glad and relieved that I'm not a stan. The second hand embarrassment seeing the desperation to just sell while the music itself is abysmal. Imagine buying 40 versions of an album that's getting mixed to negative reviews 

Edited 6 hours ago by Wet Fire

[Idefix1999 118]

To be fair, there was an article by Billboard during the TTPD era about how variants make up like 10 % or less of the weekly sales. Still her 10 % are more than triple that of other's complete first week sales but doesn't this just show that she has a huge appeal that just stream the album or buy a standard variant of the album?

For TLOAS I really liked the different covers but they could have just been printed in a booklet that you receive along the album or let it be a seperate picture book, like the programmes you can buy at concerts or musicals.

I bought two of all the variants (a vinyl and one of the acoustic CDs this morning), but if someone wants to buy all of them, why not? It's their money...

At least it's better than releasing single CDs or vinyls with just one song in my opinion. 

[RAMROD 110,380]

4 hours ago, nATAH said:

girl......

It's OK. I did that to every one of my faves

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I feel so sorry (not) for swifties with FOMO and OCD of getting every single version. Gotta Catch 'Em All

[salty like sodium 2,030]

7 hours ago, andy232000 said:

Not defending her, cause I actually hate this trend variants have instituated in the music industry. But technically these are the first real variants for this album. Everything else up to this point was the same exact album with just a different art cover, but the tracklist remained the same, so there was no incentive to buy more than one (even if the fans are psychos and have bought all versions, that’s them being literal psychos). So to me, technically this whole rollout has had less real variants than previous ones. There’s a lot of variations, but variants is usually a term that should only apply to versions that have some sort of difference from the standard tracklist and fans just throw that term around casually.

they were all different... some had posters, some had jewels, some had different coloured vinyls... all those differences are absolutely what people mean when they talk about variants. variants with different tracklists is extremely rare and is the exception, not the norm. the industry standard for variants has always been a different cover or a different coloured vinyl disk.

Edited 1 hour ago by salty like sodium

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,487]

13 hours ago, princedeeblebleble said:

Wish she could be like hey guys, the album i released was a joke, here's the actual album xoxo

I feel like this is the PR move she could have made if she hadn't sold so many physical items to people. Variants are enough of a slap in the face already. But to make actual money spent into a gimmick would be extreme.

Like someone else said, she could pull out the Reputation vault tracks. I really feel she just has them in her back pocket for a rainy day. And with what I've seen I feel like the rainy day is coming soon. Though I could just be in a bubble.