Taylor Swift Announced ‘Red’ to Be Her Next Album Re-Release
Taylor Swift reveals 2012 album Red is next in the string of re-releases the pop star has up her sleeve. On June 18 Swift announced on her multiple socials the details behind the re-recording of Red, set to drop November 19.
The next album that I’ll be releasing is my version of Red, which will be out on November 19. 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🧣 https://t.co/FOBLS5aHpS pic.twitter.com/6zWa64Owgp
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 18, 2021
The artist explains that the next release will include 30 songs compared to the original sixteen, including a 10-minute rendition of a track yet to be named.
When Taylor re-releases Red pic.twitter.com/GmfTlNjXJe
— Nick Roberts (@nickroberts317) June 19, 2021
“Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person,” Swift wrote, “It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end.”
Multiple singles from Red received a handful of critical acclaims and continue to impact pop culture today after nearly a decade. There is not a 22 birthday that goes by without someone in the world captioning their celebration photos with the standout lyric “I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 22.”
The first album within her re-recording project started with Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and ended with the singer-songwriter with the album debuting No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Because of this feature, she became the first woman to have three No. 1 albums in less than a year.
Fans began to speculate and theorize on what the ten-minute song may be, the most supported answer being the highly praised track “All Too Well.” The evidence for these claims comes from an interview where Swift details the recording process of Red and how the original demo of the song was a “stream-of-consciousness” that turned into a piece that is “definitely like 10-minutes long.”
MAYBE WE GOT LOST IN TRANSLATION MAYBE I ASKED FOR TOO MUCH BUT MAYBE THIS THING WAS A MASTERPIECE TILL YOU TORE IT ALL OFF RUNNING SCARED I WAS THERE I REMEMBER IT ALL TOO WELL pic.twitter.com/K1BwZMy5L8
— tony 🧣 (@diegosknife) June 18, 2021
Swift began this re-recording project after her pre-Reputation era albums were bought out by Scooter Braun’s company Ithaca Holdings, leaving the artist with no rights to her original work.
With this record on the way, fans prepare for which re-release will be revealed next, most guesses going toward her fifth studio album 1989.
