Wait for Swifties is finally over as Taylor Swift has announced that her 2012 album “Red” is next in line in her series of album re-records.
After much fan speculation about which album would the mega star choose to re-record after “Fearless”, Swift announced on social media on 18th July that the re-recorded version of her fourth studio album, “Red (Taylor’s Version),” will be released on Nov. 19. The re-recording will have 30 songs, including one unspecified ten-minute track that fans are already speculating could be the extended version of super hit “All Too Well.”
“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,” Swift wrote in the post’s caption. “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.” Tay wrote in her instagram post.
Swift went on to describe how ‘Red’ resembled a heartbroken person. “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,” Swift wrote. “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.”
Swift ended the post by saying that she “couldn’t stop writing” while making “Red,” and therefore is finally sharing all 30 songs that were “meant” to end up on the record.
“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,” Swift said. “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.”
In 2019, Swift announced her plans to re-record her six studio albums after her controversy with Scooter Braun over the sale of her master recordings.
