After months of speculation, Taylor Swift finally revealed she’s releasing Red (Taylor’s Version) next. The album will come out on November 19.
Taylor Swift released one of her most poetic albums, Red, in 2012. With songs like “22,” “We Are Never Getting Back Together” or “I Knew You Were Trouble,” Taylor took it to the next level.
But the song also includes one of Taylor’s best songs ever, “All Too Well.” The song, which allegedly is inspired by Taylor’s relationship with actor Jake Gyllehnaal, broke our hearts for almost a decade now. But Red Taylor’s Version comes with the full 10 minute version.
Now Taylor Swift announced that Red (Taylor’s Version) will be her second re-recorded album. You can check this article here on why Taylor’s re-recording her music.
The Red (Taylor’s Version) will include 30 songs (the Deluxe version includes 22, with two original demos and an acoustic version for “State of Grace”).
Taylor wrote: “I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice. In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independence, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralyzing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past. And this is all to say, that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.
Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. 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.
Sometimes you need to talk it over (over and over and over) for it to ever really be… over. Like your friend who calls you in the middle of the night going on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing. This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.”
The picture Taylor shared, and what seems to be the cover for the re-recording also seems to show Taylor in a red car. “Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street.”
She also sports a “Red” ring which most likely will be featured in her merch soon.
Fans were expecting 1989 (Taylor’s Version), but thinking back to 2020 when she released both Folklore and Evermore, everything is possible with Ms. Swift.
