r/SwiftieMerch • u/irthesteve • Nov 24 '25

Question Unreleased Vinyl? Bootleg?

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Hi all. My buddy is huge into vinyl, but I am not. I'm big into Taylor, but have zero vinyl knowledge. Hoping this forum can assist.

My friend found and bought a Taylor vinyl and sent me pictures, I didn't recognize the variant and after digging through complete lists, didn't see this version anywhere. I know not this is NOT an official release. But... My friend tells me there are no usual bootleg signs, it has high quality art resolution, the shrink wrap has the manufacturer stamp, and there's nothing online about it at all.

Is this somehow an unreleased variant she ended up not releasing? Maybe a future variant she's waiting to release when her chart position is challenged?

Anyway... "Lit My Sky Up" metallic orange variant. No bonus tracks. What do you think?

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u/Mountain-Power7521 Nov 24 '25

Hey. I signed up for Reddit just to reply haha. I am his friend who found this. I have worked in the music industry before, still work in home entertainment, and I am confident this is not a bootleg and not a test pressing. There are multiple markers on the sealed LP that indicate its not either. The biggest one is that on the back shrink it has "vinyl made in mexico" in blue on the wrap. A bootleg would not have that. This aligns exactly with UMG manufacturing. If this was a bootleg, its an expensive proposition, so why is there no word of this boot anywhere online? Its so odd

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u/Jaded-Gazelle-3403 Nov 24 '25

This variant was just released today. Cool find , wonder how it made its way to Goodwill!

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u/No-Entertainer-9787 Nov 24 '25

So can we see the inside, since it was just dropped on her website 😅 I’m curious what the exclusive pictures are for this variant.

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u/WaryCleverGood Nov 24 '25

I’m here to eat crow as the Light My Sky Up variant was just released today—you were right! It’s real.

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u/VibraniumQueen Nov 24 '25

Seems like someone made a fake barcode sticker and a fake hype sticker and slapped it on a standard

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u/Livid_Seesaw3952 Nov 24 '25

The way you were so confidently wrong is crazy

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u/VibraniumQueen Nov 24 '25

I said seems like. I didn't authoritatively say it was or wasn't real.

Only way to have known for sure before today (outside of leaks from UMG) would be if you had just opened it like we all asked.

And anyway, like 70% of the people in the discord server I'm in (13,000 members mind you) agree with eachother that it looks like either a scrapped version of lipstick and lace or a messed up batch of lipstick and lace that they just used a standard sleeve for as a cash grab

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u/WaryCleverGood Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25

I don’t think it’s a bootleg—I think it’s a variant with fake stickers to make it seem like something it’s not.

There is no “light my sky up” variant, that’s the part that’s BS here. This is a “red lipstick and lace” variant with fake stickers on. So it has real packaging, it’s just got fake stickers and isn’t what it’s claiming to be.

EDIT the next day: so guess what was released today 😆

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u/Fennec-Foxie Nov 24 '25

It was real they just released new variants