Red (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift (original) (raw)
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Record Label: Republic
Release Date: Nov 12, 2021
Summary: The new recording of Taylor Swift's fourth studio album features nine previously unreleased songs that include guest appearances from Phoebe Bridgers, Ed Sheeran, and Chris Stapleton.
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- Record Label: Republic
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mixed: 0 out of 16
Negative: 0 out of 16
The new Red is even bigger, glossier, deeper, casually crueler. It’s the ultimate version of her most gloriously ambitious mega-pop manifesto.
Red (Taylor’s Version) is a highly rewarding listen for fans both casual and manic, bolstered by its excellent source material and Swift’s steady hand in rewriting her own looping history, with a few thrilling footnotes tacked on. ... Red 2.0 is another towering victory, which should be coveted by fans as Swift is surely already onto the next re-recording, furthering the worthwhile fight.
Truth is that this is now the definitive version of Red. It may also ensure that the good old boys who casually sold her music, seemingly out of a mixture of greed and spite, won’t get one red cent from Red, and it proves you can take a masterpiece and make it sound even better.
If you haven’t listened to Red, recently or ever, it’s well worth your time; in its ecstatic, expressive vocals, tart humor, vivid imagery, and tender attention to the nuances of love and loss, you’ll find everything that makes Taylor Swift great. ... Some of the vault tracks feel like they were left off of Red because they weren’t up to snuff.
Swift lays the groundwork of her songs with good chords in Red (Taylor’s Version), but she also enhances the songs’ power with catchy lyrics and melodies (“You fooound me / You fooound me / You fooound me-e-e-e-“).
The highlight of these is a ten-minute version of "All Too Well," a bitter ballad that was already one of the peaks of Red and is now turned into an epic kiss-off. This, along with excavated songs, are reason enough for Swift to revisit Red and they, not the re-recordings, are the reason to return to Red [Taylor's Version].
- IM IN LOVE!!!!!! this woman never disappoints. thank you, taylor!!! ronan is a masterpiece. all too well (10min version) is so deep! i’m in love!
- This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. amazing album najsjjsjsjsjskkskskskskksksksksksjsjjsjsjsjsjsjsjsjsjsjsjjsjsjsjs… Expand
- This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is just Fantastic, she didn’t disappoint, so excited for the next re-recordings… Expand
- She is The music industry. All songs are literal fire. It was a roller coaster.
- I am a big fan of Taylor and so I will already enjoy her work, but the original recording of “Red” is not my favorite work of hers. But thisI am a big fan of Taylor and so I will already enjoy her work, but the original recording of “Red” is not my favorite work of hers. But this re-recorded version with better production, matured vocals, and vault tracks places this album in my top three works by her. Definitely would recommend listening too this album.… Expand
- It’s a masterpiece. Thank you for giving us the original version of all too well. I thought I would be waiting my whole life for this version.
- no he escuchado ni escucharé este álbum en la vida, pero este 0 se lo quiero dedicar a los granjeros en busca de empleo, de parte de unno he escuchado ni escucharé este álbum en la vida, pero este 0 se lo quiero dedicar a los granjeros en busca de empleo, de parte de un motopapi, un besazo… Expand
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