Unreleased Aaron Lewis album used as Taylor Swift wrapping paper

Aaron Lewis’new album, Give my country backwon’t be available until next month, but is already starting to make the rounds – in the form of packaging material for Taylor Swift merchandise.

Earlier this week, TikTok creator Christa Jo (@heartwasglassidroppedit) posted a unpack video for CDs of Swift’s new single “I Knew It, I Knew You,” featured in Toy story 5. As she looks through the recycled packaging, she finds what appears to be a “whole music book” for Lewis’ new album, complete with lyrics. The material is shredded, but Lewis’s face against the backdrop of an American flag is unmistakable.

Lewis reposted the video and addressed the packaging issue on Thursday. “Oh look, there’s my new album, which hasn’t even been released yet, shredded like wrapping paper in Taylor Swift merchandise,” Lewis wrote on social media. “Isn’t that nonsense.”

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Lewis said USA today he heard about the packing incident from his team, but doesn’t know why it happened. “I don’t have social media. I didn’t have it when I was younger. It never felt like it was important to me,” he said. “I’ve never even had a MySpace. So I don’t see any of that stuff. And when this was brought to me, I was like, ‘What’s going on? This is just weird.'”

He added: “I don’t know how this happened. I hate to think it’s malicious, but at the same time I don’t know that it isn’t.”

Loudwire has reached out to Big Machine Records and Swift’s team for comment.

What to expect from Aaron Lewis’ ‘Give My Country Back’

Lewis will release Give my country back on July 17 via Big Machine Label Group – the label that signed Swift as the first artist and released the pop superstar’s first six albums. The album has been preceded by two singles so far: the defiantly pro-MAGA title track and the acoustic ballad ‘The Door’.

The Fleck frontman previously praised Big Machine for standing by him amid the backlash over his 2021 conservative anthem “Am I the Only One,” even though he and label boss Scott Borchetta disagreed.

“There was a big call for my cancellation when I released ‘Am I The Only One,’” Lewis said on The Devin Nunes Podcast in 2024. “I’m very blessed in the sense that even though my label president Scott Borchetta doesn’t agree with us at all, he believes in freedom of speech and freedom of expression and he’s president of a record label — that’s creativity, that’s freedom of expression.”

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