Taylor Swift Shines on Twinkly, Dreamy 1989 (Taylor’s Version): Breaking Down the 5 New Vault Tracks

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Taylor Swift. PHOTO: BETH GARRABRANT

She’ll never go out of style.

On Friday Taylor Swift unleashed 1989 (Taylor’s Version). The re-release, Swift’s fourth, comes nine years after she first dropped her crossover pop album and includes five previously unheard tracks from the vault that were written for the project.

Like 1989’s original 16 songs, the vault tracks are synthy, twinkly gems about lost love. And for the re-recording process, Swift teamed up with her constant collaborator Jack Antonoff, who co-produced each of the new songs. (The pair have worked together since she first released 1989 in 2014.)

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Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) album art.BETH GARRABRANT

Here, PEOPLE breaks down the five new vault tracks, from the swooping and soaring choruses to the Instagram-able lyrics.

“Slut!”

The hotly anticipated new song “Slut!” offers a response to the public slut-shaming Swift endured early on in her career. But unlike on its satirical, tongue-in-cheek sister-song “Blank Space,” Swift dreamily shrugs off the scrutiny and embraces a clandestine romance on “Slut!”

“But if I’m all dressed up they might as well be lookin’ at us / If they call me a slut, you know it might be worth it for once / If I’m gonna be drunk, might as well be drunk in love,” Swift sings on the effervescent tune.

Best lyric: “Being this young is art.”

“Say Don’t Go”

One of Swift’s greatest gifts as a songwriter is that she feels everything so deeply — and can communicate those feelings like no other. See: “Say Don’t Go,” an instant classic breakup bop co-written by Diane Warren that is about reeling at the end of a romance and sounds like a cross between original 1989 stand-outs “Clean” and “All You Had to Do Was Stay.”

Best lyric: “Why’d you whisper in the dark / Just to leave me in the night / Now your silence has me screaming, screaming.”

“Now That We Don’t Talk”

“Now That We Don’t Talk” is Swift’s shortest song to date, but it packs a punch. The track finds Swift — specific as ever — seeking words of wisdom from her mom as she watches an ex move on post-split: ”You grew your hair long / You got new icons / And from the outside it looks like you’re trying lives on / I miss the old ways / You didn’t have to change / But I guess I don’t have a say / Now that we don’t talk / I call my mom, she says that it was for the best / Remind myself the more I gave, you’d want me less / I cannot be your friend / So I pay the price of what I lost and what it cost.”

Best lyric: “Now that we don’t talk / I don’t have to pretend I like acid rock.”

“Suburban Legends”

Like most of these new vault tracks, “Suburban Legends” sounds like it would fit nicely alongside Midnights tracks as they do 1989 highlights.

Over driving, sometimes wind chime-y production, Swift reflects on a lover with a “mismatched star sign,” singing, “I didn’t come here to make friends / We were born to be suburban legends / When you hold me, it holds me together / And you kiss me in a way that’s gonna screw me up forever.”

Best lyric: “I broke my own heart because you were too polite to do it.”

“Is It Over Now?”

Between the synths and drum-machine beats, “Is It Over Now” is giving “Out of the Woods” 2.0, blended with Midnights track “Labyrinth.” The track finds Swift picking up the pieces after she and an ex have each moved on: “If she’s got blue eyes, I will surmise that you’ll probably date her / You dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor / You search in every model’s bed for something greater.”

Best lyric: “Your new girl is my clone.”

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