Somehow I never knew that pop version of "Teardrops" existed—I knew who Swift was in 2007 but didn't get around to playing anything from the first album until 2008 (and if memory serves was underwhelmed by the sappiness and went back to playing Miley.) Upon listening to it, I'm slightly disappointed it's barely even a travesty by 2020s r…
Somehow I never knew that pop version of "Teardrops" existed—I knew who Swift was in 2007 but didn't get around to playing anything from the first album until 2008 (and if memory serves was underwhelmed by the sappiness and went back to playing Miley.) Upon listening to it, I'm slightly disappointed it's barely even a travesty by 2020s remix standards (if you're not going to go full EDM or get a former best rapper alive to add a totally irrelevant verse, what's even the point?)
I think the three-month chart disappearance is an artifact of Billboard's Byzantine recurrency rules: don't know what the exact regulations were at the time, but likely "Teardrops" hit the age threshold and was dropped from the Hot 100, then got reinstated once the pop mix got pushed to radio. So it really was *that* version that set the table for "Love Story"/Fearless/world domination etc.
(also the reaction at the end of that Pulse thread to the pop version is amusing, could've just read that and saved myself the next five years of "but is she country?" discourse)
Somehow I never knew that pop version of "Teardrops" existed—I knew who Swift was in 2007 but didn't get around to playing anything from the first album until 2008 (and if memory serves was underwhelmed by the sappiness and went back to playing Miley.) Upon listening to it, I'm slightly disappointed it's barely even a travesty by 2020s remix standards (if you're not going to go full EDM or get a former best rapper alive to add a totally irrelevant verse, what's even the point?)
I think the three-month chart disappearance is an artifact of Billboard's Byzantine recurrency rules: don't know what the exact regulations were at the time, but likely "Teardrops" hit the age threshold and was dropped from the Hot 100, then got reinstated once the pop mix got pushed to radio. So it really was *that* version that set the table for "Love Story"/Fearless/world domination etc.
(also the reaction at the end of that Pulse thread to the pop version is amusing, could've just read that and saved myself the next five years of "but is she country?" discourse)