In April, Taylor Swift dropped her re-recorded version of her 2008 Grammy Award-winning album ‘Fearless’ as she embarks on owning the masters to her official albums. The decision to record her previous material came after Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Label Group, along with all of Swift’s early masters, in 2019. “I just think that artists deserve to own their work. I just feel very passionately about that,” Swift said at the time.
Now, despite speculation that Taylor would release the re-recorded version of ‘1989’ as the next re-recorded album, the star revealed that Taylor’s Version of ‘Red’ drops on 19 November.
“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,” Taylor said in a statement on social media.
The 2012 album was one of the star’s biggest releases and also nabbed Grammy Awards in the process. The project featured the smash hits ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,’ ‘22’ and ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ along with 13 other tracks. The deluxe edition featured a whopping 22 tracks and the new version of the album will feature 8 additional tracks on top of that.
“This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red,” she writes. “And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long” — presumably a reference to the long-rumoured extended version of ‘All Too Well’.
She adds “Musically and lyrically, Red resembles 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.”
Read Taylor’s full statement below:
