Avoiding a consumer massacre that neither artist would have recovered from, Taylor Swift Reportedly changed the release date of her latest album, forever, so as not to compete with novice newbies Paul McCartney.
On Tuesday episode of The Howard Stern Show, Macca revealed that Swifty would originally release her own LP on the same day as his experimental new record, McCartney III. ‘I have the Rolling stone cover with Taylor Swift, and she emailed me the other day and she said, ‘I didn’t tell anyone, but I have another album,’ ”McCartney told Stern. And she said, ‘So I’d turn it off on my birthday.’ And then she said, ‘But I found out you would turn [your album] out on the 10th. So I moved it to the 18th. ”
Exciting stuff. But like one of the many plot twists in McCartney’s 1984 crime haircut, Give my regards to Broad Streetthe release cycle took another unexpected turn when Swift discovered his album was really comes out on the 18th – not the 10th, as she initially thought. So she had to switch forever back to the original date (it finally came out on December 11).
“So I mean, you know, people keep away from each other,” McCartney went on. “It is fun to do.”
That’s right. But let’s be honest: both albums would do well no matter when they came out (especially Swift’s), and even if they didn’t, something tells us that both artists on the other end would have come out just fine. While there’s something to be said not to spark rivalry – not to mention the artistic merit of both records – these are wealthy issues that the rest of us can only dream of.
Watch the entire interview below:
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