The hot-blooded breakup anthems you know and love are still there (“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “I Knew You Were Trouble” are two), but the new, full collection paints an even richer portrait of heartbreak. 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.” Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past. “It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. “Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person,” she wrote in a letter to fans. After rerecording her 2008 album Fearless as part of a sweeping effort to regain control of her master tapes-or at least create new ones-Taylor Swift presents Red (Taylor’s Version), an expanded take on her 2012 blockbuster that features nine never-before-released songs written in the same era as the original.
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