Avoiding a consumerist bloodbath that neither artist would have recovered, Taylor Swift as supposed changed the release date of their last album, forever, not to compete with emerging beginners Paul McCartney.
Tuesday’s episode of The Howard Stern show, Macca revealed that Swifty would originally release his own LP on the same day as his new experimental album, McCartney III. “I did the Rolling stone I was dating Taylor Swift, and she emailed me recently and said, ‘I wasn’t telling anyone, but I have another album,’ ”McCartney told Stern.“ And she said, ‘So I was going to publish my birthday “. And then he said, ‘But I knew you were going to put [your album] it will come out on the 10th. So I moved it to the 18th ”.
Convincing things. But as one of the many plot twists of McCartney’s 1984 whim, Give my regards to Broad Street, the release cycle took another unexpected turn when Swift discovered that her album was in reality leaving on the 18th, not the tenth, as she originally thought. So it had to change forever returning to its initial date (it ended up coming out on December 11).
“So I mean, you know, people stay out of the way,” McCartney continued. “It’s a good thing to do.”
Is true. But let’s be real: both albums would go well regardless of when they came out (especially Swift), and even if they didn’t, something tells us that the two artists would have come out at the other end. While there is something to be said for not provoking a rivalry — not to mention the artistic merit of both albums — these are problems for rich people that the rest of us can only dream of having.
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