Taylor Swift Fans Need To Buy Four More Versions Of "The Life Of A Showgirl" If They Want To Hear Seven Acoustic Songs And A Voice Note, And People Have Had Enough

Posted 19 minutes agoSubscribe to Taylor Swift NewsletterCaret DownTaylor Swift Fans Need To Buy Four More Versions Of "The Life Of A Showgirl" If They Want To Hear Seven Acoustic Songs And A Voice Note, And People Have Had Enough"Can't you just be nice to your fans for once? Haven't you got enough of their money yet?"by Stephanie SoteriouBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLinkHot Topic🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Taylor Swift As you probably know, Taylor Swift released her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Friday, and as you also may have noticed, it has received... A lukewarm response, to say the least. Emma Mcintyre / Getty Images In fact, even Taylor's biggest fans were left underwhelmed by the 12-track record, with one viral tweet that was posted just hours after TLOAS's release brutally reading: "And I have like 5 copies of this shit coming in the mail." Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images And this comment actually ties into another aspect of the backlash that Taylor has received over the weekend, with everybody getting pretty fed up over how she mercilessly continues to capitalize on each of her albums by releasing multiple different variants that each have their own unique sell. New Heights Taylor has been criticized for doing this for several years now, with the constant stream of limited edition vinyls an apparent attempt to inflate sales and ensure chart dominance. In addition to each vinyl being a different color and having its own unique album artwork, they are only available to buy for a limited amount of time - creating a sense of urgency and exclusivity. Icon Sportswire / Getty Images BuzzFeed TrendingHot TopicThink you're Blondie's biggest fan? Put your ~reputation~ to the test.

See our Taylor Swift Discussions Of course, Taylor followed her tried-and-tested marketing strategy for The Life of a Showgirl, and prior to the album's release, 24 different versions had been available for pre-order. When it came to the vinyls specifically, not only was each one a different standout color with different artwork on the cover, they also had different exclusive content included with it, too, with Taylor including a unique poem with each variant. Others had USPs like an exclusive Polaroid photo, poster, and varying inner sleeve quotations. BBC And Taylor even teased that it was integral for all of the variants to be discovered by fans during her appearance on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, where she explained that all the separate poems together reveal a surprise. She told the host: "There's different poems on each variant and if... No, I'm not gonna tell about that, but they'll [the fans] figure that out, there's something about the poems that's fun." But, it turns out, Taylor had even more variant tricks up her sleeve after her album's release, with the singer announcing on Saturday that she was releasing four limited edition CDs for fans to buy. Kevin Mazur / Getty Images For what it's worth, Swifties had already been on high alert that something exciting would be happening the day after TLOAS's release, with a timetable of Taylor's plans for release week suspiciously teasing "stand by" during this window. And anticipation reached fever pitch when a countdown appeared on her website an hour before the announcement. It's worth noting that for Taylor's last two albums that weren't rerecords, The Tortured Poets Department and Midnights, the star surprised fans with additional tracks shortly after each record's release. For Midnights, Taylor dropped seven extra songs onto streaming platforms just three hours after the album came out, and for TTPD, she famously announced that it was actually a double album just two hours after releasing the first half - giving fans an additional 15 songs there and then. Kevin Mazur / Getty Images With that in mind, it's perhaps unsurprising that Saturday's surprise fell short, with Taylor telling fans that they'll need to buy four extra CDs if they want to enjoy all of the new content. Erika Goldring / Getty Images Posting to her social media pages once the countdown ended, Taylor revealed: "File this under 'save your best for the finale'... I think my favorite moments from the tour were the acoustic surprises. So I went back into the studio with Max and Shellback to record acoustic/unplugged versions of a few of the Showgirl songs with brand new vocals and production! Cannot WAIT for you to hear." She then explained that one CD would include acoustic versions of "Opalite" and "Ruin The Friendship," another features acoustic versions of "Wi$h Li$t" and "The Life of a Showgirl," the third would include acoustic versions of "The Fate Of Ophelia" and "Eldest Daughter," and the final will have an acoustic version of "Elizabeth Taylor" plus her original songwriting voice memo. Erika Goldring / Getty Images As with the vinyl variants, each CD also has different album artwork, and - once again creating that sense of fan urgency - they were only available for purchase for 24 h