Taylor Swift Speak Now (Taylor’s Version): Better Than Revenge lyric change explained

Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is officially underway, proving once again that 2023 is a year for the Swifties. This is the singers third rerelease after Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version) and marks the halfway point for Swift in her quest to own all her music.

The original Speak Now album was released in 2010, and was Taylor’s third album. The album became somewhat of a cult classic among fans, and became one of the singer’s most highly-anticipated re-releases with fans desperate for the vault tracks. Swift has famously been rerecording her first six albums, after her original record label Big Machine Records sold the master recordings of every one of her songs to Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun. This meant that Braun would get profits from CDs, and tracks played on platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify.

With the famous rerecordings, comes the chance to make some major changes. One of the most talked about upcoming potential changes among fans came with one of Taylor’s cult classic songs ‘Better Than Revenge’ that saw the singer delve into a more pop-punk sound for her third album that millions of fans fell in love with.

The thought of hearing Taylor’s version of Better Than Revenge had many fans speculating that the songwriter would change a specific lyric. The cutting song is aimed at another woman stealing someone’s boyfriend, and the original version of the song’s chorus includes the lyric: “She’s better known for the things that she does on the mattress.”