Red (Taylor's Version)

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Billboard considered Red to be her first adult pop album, describing her previous works as that of "an accomplished teenager". Big Machine's president Scott Borchetta overheard Chapman's original production and suggested a more pop-oriented sound.

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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. Critics observed a sign of maturity in Swift's perspectives and recognized additional themes—wide-eyed optimism, insecurity about one's perceived image, and the pressure of stardom. If that bloke underestimated her youth, Swift, then in her early 20s, was also acutely aware of her novelty fading. It received multi-platinum certifications in Australia (4× Platinum), [113] Canada (4× Platinum), [114] and New Zealand (2× Platinum). Her live performances at awards shows included the MTV Video Music Awards, [76] the Country Music Association Awards, [77] and the American Music Awards.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.

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The new version is more widescreen than the original, which was by no means a wallflower to start with. The former said much of the album could perform well on commercial country radio but at its core, it is "perfectly rendered American popular music" with influences from modern trends; [32] the latter remarked Swift as "a pop star in a country context". 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. But things get eerie on the bridge, when she begins waxing prophetic about the young woman who will eventually take her crown.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. It was originally released on October 22, 2012, by Big Machine Records, as the follow-up to her third studio album, Speak Now. It is instrumented with a toy piano, ukulele, mandolin, and hand claps, and has lyrics about two lovers trying to reconcile after a fight. Red spent seven non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, [101] and made Swift the first female artist, and the second after the Beatles, to have three consecutive studio albums each spend six or more weeks atop the chart.