After Fearless, Taylor Swift to re-record Red
In conflict with her former producer, the singer is forced to redo her first six albums. Red, which releases on November 19, will feature 30 tracks, 14 more than the original 2012 release.
Taylor Swift has not finished taking us back to the past. After the release of Fearless (Taylor's version) in April, which included the titles of her 2008 Fearless, the singer announced the next album which will be entitled to a complete re-recording. This is Red, his fourth album released in 2012, sold over 6 million copies and certified quadruple platinum in the United States. The singer is indeed committed to re-recording her first six albums, released between 2006 and 2017, following a conflict with her former producer. Scooter Braun, owner of the rights to his albums, had decided to sell the precious recordings to a company, for a sum estimated at more than $ 300 million, without the young American being warned. "This is the second time that my music has been sold without my knowing it," she lamented on Twitter.
Taylor Swift had announced that she was going to re-record them all, an "exciting and creative" exercise, according to her social media accounts. Thing promised, done: less than five months after this announcement, the interpreter of Shake it off released a new version of Fearless, his second studio album released in 2008, renamed for the occasion Fearless (Taylor's version). A re-recording well received by critics and the public, which ranked number 1 in the United States and in many Anglo-Saxon countries.
And it is now the Red album, released in 2012, which will have the right to an update. On Instagram, a long text accompanies a photo of Taylor Swift decked out in a red beret and a ring with “Red” written inside. She reveals the release date, namely November 19. “Musically and lyrically, Red sounded like a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow come together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, savage, and tortured by memories of the past, ”she explains under the photograph.
Huge success thanks to We are never getting back together, 22 or I knew you were trouble, the album Red easily rose to number one on the Billboard in the United States. Taylor Swift had made the second best start for a female artist.
In this new version, fans will find the sixteen titles of the original version and the few other titles of the Deluxe version, but also other completely unreleased tracks: “This will be the first time that you will hear the 30 songs which were intended for go to Red. And hey, one of them even lasts 10 minutes, ”the singer said in her Instagram post.
