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Red (Taylor's Version) is
the upcoming second re-recorded album by American singer-songwriter
Taylor Swift, scheduled for release on November 12, 2021, through
Republic Records. It is a re-recording of Swift's fourth studio
album, Red (2012), following her first re-recorded album,
Fearless (Taylor's Version), which was released in April 2021.
The re-recording is Swift's countermeasure against the changed
ownership of the masters to her first six studio albums.
The track list was unveiled on August 6, 2021, confirming
collaborations with Phoebe Bridgers, Chris Stapleton, and Ed Sheeran
on the album's "From the Vault" tracks, which are songs that were
originally written for Red but did not make the final cut. It
includes "Better Man" (2016) and "Babe" (2018), written by Swift and
later recorded by American country music bands Little Big Town and
Sugarland, respectively, her 2012 charity single "Ronan", and the
10-minute version of the fan-favorite "All Too Well", which inspired
Swift's 2021 short film of the same name slated for release
alongside Red (Taylor's Version).
"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…This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were
meant to go on Red. And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long."
- Taylor Swift. Includes 9 unreleased songs from the vault.
