“At first, I thought maybe the vinyl had a secret message from Taylor,” said one Swiftie who received the new “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)” album.
The record was playing Cabaret Voltaire’s “Soul Vine ” instead of “Mine .”
“This would be wild in the 70s before the internet. You would just think this is what the album was,” one person pointed out in the TikTok comments.Universal Music Group, the parent company of Swift’s label Republic Records,in a statement, “We are aware that there are an extremely limited number of incorrectly pressed vinyl copies in circulation and have addressed the issue.
“Speak Now ” was released on July 7 and had the biggest one-week sale for albums so far this year, selling 575,000 equivalent album units.Distribution company Above Board Distribution also commented on the mix-up on Instagram, reposting Hunter’s video to their page. “Due to a delicate pressing blunder, some Taylor Swift fans received a misprinted copy of ‘Speak Now ,’ which we have learned features audio of our in house compilation ‘Happy Land ,'” the companyA small batch of the vinyls were “incorrectly pressed” and gave fans quite the scare when it started to play British electronica music.Messages of “flakes of flesh” and “endless rows of sardines” started to play in a dark twist.“Never in our wildest dreams could we imagine this situation.
“Speak Now ” was released on July 7 and had the biggest one-week sale for albums so far this year, selling 575,000 equivalent album units.
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