The re-recorded 30-track version of Red will feature nine bonus tracks, including collaborations with Phoebe Bridgers, Ed Sheeran and Chris Stapleton. Swift additionally shared that the album will be coming in vinyl in her first-ever TikTok post.
Released in October 2012, her fourth studio album Red included Swift’s first career Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” as well as hits such as “I Knew You Were Trouble,” “22” and “Everything Has Changed” with Ed Sheeran. The album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 the year of its release and remained on the chart for a whopping 171 weeks.
“Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person,” Swift wrote in her first announcement regarding Red (Taylor’s Version). “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.”
See Swift’s surprise announcement below.
