In case you’re behind on your Taylor Swift lore, let’s back up a little bit. Sure, it seems like Swift can achieve basically anything, including traveling through the space-time continuum … except that she was pretty famously born on December 13, 1989. The fact that she was just shy of being an official ’90s baby has become a huge part of her identity; in 2014, she released an album titled “1989,” which won a Grammy for Album of the Year and sent Swift on an enormous international tour.
That album has been in the news again lately — as Swift continues to re-record her first six albums after her masters were sold elsewhere, she delivered her fourth revamped record on October 27 with “1989 (Taylor’s Version).” If you’ve been paying attention, you can likely surmise that the album performed pretty well both critically and commercially. Upon its release, Swift beat her own Spotify record when the album scored the highest single-day streams on the platform, and Billboard estimated that it made $25 million in just one day. (In fact, its success led to Swift’s net worth crossing one billion dollars for the first time in her career.) According to its Metacritic consensus, the album received pretty glowing reviews from critics as well, surprising absolutely nobody as the singer-songwriter continues to rack up accolades and praise for her genre-spanning works.
All of this is to say that, while the girl in the commercial definitely looks like Swift, the timeline here is off by a solid eight years.
