taylor swift releases red taylor's version, her second rerecorded album

The album you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived – Red (Taylor’s Version). While the original had 16 tracks, the re-recorded version includes 30 songs plus musical features from Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton, and Phoebe Bridgers.

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To celebrate the release of Red (Taylor’s Version), Taylor writes on Instagram, “Just a friendly reminder that I would never have thought it was possible to go back and remake my previous work, uncovering lost art and forgotten gems along the way, if you hadn’t emboldened me. Red is about to be mine again, but it has always been ours. Tonight we begin again. Red (my version) is out now.”

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Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield described the project as “a tribute to how far she’s traveled, but it makes you even more excited for where she’s heading next.” And writing specially about Taylor’s 10-minute version of ‘All Too Well, he says, “Taylor takes her own masterpiece, tears it all up, breaks it like a promise, shreds her tapestry, and rebuilds it into a new heartbreak epic, twice as long and twice as mad.”

Red (Taylor’s Version) is the second in the series for Taylor’s re-recording project. Back in June, Taylor shared on Instagram, “Musically and lyrically, Red resembled 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. 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.”