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Swift's previous studio albums Fearless and Speak Now respectively spent 11 weeks in 2008–09 and six weeks in 2010–11). Everything Has Changed" featuring Ed Sheeran is a stripped-back guitar ballad about a blossoming new romance, [22] [59] and "Starlight" is an uptempo, dance-pop song about Robert F. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something was healed along the way. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. Executives at Swift's label Big Machine congratulated her on having finalized the album within one year.

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Pitchfork 's Brad Nelson lauded the "newfound patience to Swift's observations" and deeper exploration of emotion in Red 's songwriting. Taylor Swift’s fourth studio album, released in October 2012, was inspired by intense emotions and feelings that Swift believes correlate with the color red, including frustration, romance, disappointment, and nostalgia. Billboard considered Red to be her first adult pop album, describing her previous works as that of "an accomplished teenager".

Bridgers, too, may be Swift’s best duet partner (albeit in a catalogue of often baffling pairings), her lovely hangdog shrug a great foil for Swift’s irrepressible brightness. The day after outlets started reporting it, Swift announced Red (Taylor’s Version) via social media. Taylor Swift to Receive First-Ever Generation Trophy at 2012 Canadian Country Music Association Awards". A critical point during a recording session with Chapman was the song " Red", on which her creativity "started wandering to all the places [she] could go".

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The album was supported with seven singles, including the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one lead single " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and the Mainstream Top 40 number-one single " I Knew You Were Trouble".On September 22, Swift announced on Good Morning America a four-week song release countdown from September 24 until the album's release week. Billboard Woman of the Year Taylor Swift on Writing Her Own Rules, Not Becoming a Cliche and the Hurdle of Going Pop". In 2019, an indie rock album titled ReRed, featuring Wild Pink, Adult Mom, Chris Farren, and other artists, was released as a tribute to Red. Red generally received positive reviews from contemporary critics, most of whom commended Swift's songwriting.

Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor’s Version) Lyrics and Tracklist

In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked Red at number 99 on its revised list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Not all of them are additive; Swift’s beyond-her-years analysis in the final verse feels disconnected from the in-process pain of the version that we know, and when she opens up the song for its subject’s input (“Did the love affair maim you too?Swift said she had been repeating the same songwriting process she used for Speak Now, which diminished her creativity. Following a dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded the album as Red (Taylor's Version) on November 12, 2021. Clash demarcated Red as the turning point of Swift's career—it "was the first time Taylor actively stepped away from the pretty dresses and southern girl chic" to the outrage of "old fashioned listeners". The keepers, though, entrench the album’s brutal obsession with time: how long it takes to get over someone; the shelf life of any young woman’s appeal; the pitiful plight of emotionally frigid ex-boyfriends forever doomed to stagnate in their obsessions with status over love.

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It topped the charts and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The album received nominations at US country music awards, including two nominations for Album of the Year at the 2013 Country Music Association Awards [142] and the 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards. The official lyrics sheet makes clear that she’s quoting someone else, but you can’t hear the quote marks, and that sort of punchy, boilerplate feminist retort wasn’t common currency at the turn of the 2010s when she wrote this song. In "Holy Ground", a narrator reminisces about an absent lover and the fleeting moments of their past. Although Red transcends Swift's country roots, her storytelling ability, nurtured by this country background, remains intact in her songwriting.