Country artist Aaron Lewis was stunned by Taylor Swift’s latest sales decline after pages from her upcoming album turned out to be cut up as packing material inside fan orders.
“Oh look, there’s my new album, which isn’t even released yet, shredded as packaging paper in Taylor Swift merch,” the Staind frontman Wrote on Thursday. “Isn’t that some–.”
Lewis was responding to a fan’s unboxing video, in which the fan, confused, was piecing together shredded paper, revealing the cover of Lewis’s unreleased record “Give Me Back My Country”.
Fans who ordered Swift’s new “I knew it, I knew you” The CD collection was initially thought to contain Swift songs hidden in cut pages.
instead, Swifties realized on social media The paper features lyrics, artwork and album pages from Lewis’ upcoming album, which will not be released until July 17 through Swift’s former label Big Machine Label Group, whose business will be handled by Universal Music Group.
Lewis said he first learned about the mixtape from his team because he doesn’t use social media.
“I don’t have any social media. I didn’t have it when I was younger. It never seemed important to me,” he said. USA Today.
“I never even had a MySpace. So I don’t see anything like that. And when it was brought up to me, I was just like, ‘What’s going on? This is so weird.'”
The “Country Boy” singer said he can’t believe fans have found pieces of an album that isn’t even in stores yet.
“This is the cover of my brand new record that hasn’t even been released yet,” he said.
“As artists, we rely on distribution companies to push our content and trust that they will be responsible for what we give them.”
Lewis, whose music has become more conservative since his early nu-metal years in Staind, He said he had no explanation for how the album material ended up as packing filler.
“I don’t know how it happened,” he admitted. “I hate to think it’s malicious, but at the same time, I don’t know that it’s not.”
He added, “I haven’t even put the record out yet.” “It’s not like there was this old stuff lying around that they decided to make packing material into. This is my new record. I don’t understand how something like that could happen.”
Lewis previously met Swift at a Nashville event in 2016 when they both joined Big Machine, and he said he doesn’t blame the Grammy winner for the packaging mistake.
He said, “We live in two completely different worlds. And she is such a big star that her world does not match anyone else’s world.”
“I definitely wouldn’t try to bring her into it or blame her for anything. It just so happens that it was my record cover in her gift box for her fans.”
He also stressed that he did not want to take advantage of the attention associated with the accident.
Lewis said, “I don’t want people to think this was an opportunity to promote my new record.”
“I don’t understand how a cut copy of the art from my new record ended up in a gift box for Taylor Swift fans.”
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