Earlier this week I managed to snag tickets for Taylor Swift’s Era Tour (yes, that is a flex), so naturally I’ve spent every day since blasting out the freshly re-recorded version of the popstar’s 2010 album Speak Now. But, after streaming the album front-to-back on Spotify several times, I noticed that some of the record’s most punchy songs such as “Haunted” and “Sparks Fly” seems to lack a certain aural oomph.
A quick Google search told me that I was far from alone in feeling this way. In fact, I found a whole community of Swifties expressing their disappointment in the album’s seemingly muted soundscapes. But a potential resolution came in the form of a very helpful Reddit thread that suggested disabling Spotify’s automatic Audio Normalization feature could be a solution to this problem.
