Red (Taylor's Version)

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It is a supreme public flogging, but the elongated recriminations also act as a form of life support, keeping the affair alive to finally understand exactly how its blood used to beat. Swift's previous studio albums Fearless and Speak Now respectively spent 11 weeks in 2008–09 and six weeks in 2010–11).

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It topped the charts and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Various instruments are slightly louder or quieter in the mix; a note or two might have been tweaked in the melody of “Sad Beautiful Tragic”; the “wee-ees” on “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” are even more cloying than before. It won Favorite Country Album at the 2013 American Music Awards, [144] Top Album and Top Country Album at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, [145] Top Selling Album at the 2013 Canadian Country Music Association Awards, [146] and Top Selling International Album of the Year at the 2014 Country Music Awards of Australia. Executives at Swift's label Big Machine congratulated her on having finalized the album within one year. Red generally received positive reviews from contemporary critics, most of whom commended Swift's songwriting.A day after the release, she began a cycle of television appearances, starting with a live performance on Good Morning America, which was followed by pre-recorded television appearances on such talk shows as The Ellen DeGeneres Show and 20/20. Big Machine's president Scott Borchetta overheard Chapman's original production and suggested a more pop-oriented sound. She sought to collaborate with Chapman and new producers to venture outside of her comfort zone of writing songs alone.

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Its upbeat pop production laid the groundwork for the electropop [164] and synth-pop sound of her next album, 1989 (2014). The official lyrics sheet makes clear that she’s quoting someone else, but you can’t hear the quote marks, and that sort of punchy, boilerplate feminist retort wasn’t common currency at the turn of the 2010s when she wrote this song.On Billboard 's Top Country Albums chart, it spent 16 weeks at number one, and was the year-end number-one album of both 2012 and 2013.

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Billboard considered Red to be her first adult pop album, describing her previous works as that of "an accomplished teenager". Mainstream publications featuring Red on their lists of the best albums of 2012 included Billboard, [128] The Daily Beast, [129] The Guardian, [130] Idolator, [131] MTV News, [132] Newsday, [133] PopMatters, [134] Rolling Stone, [135] Spin, [136] and Stereogum. Hints of sex, absent from Swift's earlier music, are apparent on Red, which coincided with her outgrowing of her public image as an innocent sweetheart.The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.

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Leave it to Taylor to turn a business maneuver into a sweeping mid-career retrospective; leave it to Swifties to receive the songs, the merch, and the short film as gifts, glimpses into their idol’s secret history handed down as rewards for their devotion. In the UK, Red was Swift's first number one on the Albums Chart and had four top-ten songs on the Singles Chart, the most of Swift's albums; [116] it was certified 2× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and sold 619,000copies as of June 2021 [update]. MTV said Red normalized intimacy in pop music and popularized Swift's vulnerable songwriting style with future artists such as Halsey, Kacey Musgraves, Troye Sivan, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, and Conan Gray. Red, often lauded as Swift’s best album, is not perfect; it contains some of her great masterpieces (“Holy Ground,” “22,” “All Too Well”), but also some duds (while reviewing this record, I got through “Starlight” for maybe the first time since 2012). In light of the song’s subject, this feels significant: By inviting a popular younger artist who has studied her textbook to share her stage, Swift suggests that there’s ample room for them both.Her live performances at awards shows included the MTV Video Music Awards, [76] the Country Music Association Awards, [77] and the American Music Awards. Although Red transcends Swift's country roots, her storytelling ability, nurtured by this country background, remains intact in her songwriting. Everything Has Changed" featuring Ed Sheeran is a stripped-back guitar ballad about a blossoming new romance, [22] [59] and "Starlight" is an uptempo, dance-pop song about Robert F. She still misses him, she admits, before donning the Swiftian velvet gloves: if only he’d been less of a schmuck, well, they might have stood had a chance.