Today is the day: Taylor Swift’s rendition of Red has finally arrived, and it has broken me like a promise. The rerecording of this seminal album grew to 30 songs, including songs she had previously given away to other artists as well as ones she had never heard before. Taylor is rerecording five albums to her own discography, and Red (Taylor’s Version) is the second of them. Much with Fearless (Taylor’s Version), the modifications to Red (Taylor’s Version) are slight, yet there are some significant differences.
Red has always represented something special to Swifties, even though everything Swift creates is near-genius. The album is recognised for its devastating and precise lyrics, which make listeners feel as though they’re going through every moment with Swift throughout her three-month engagement with Jake Gyllenhaal. It fearlessly and forcefully takes us through her first significant heartbreak, and it has some of her greatest lyrical writing to date (and a lot of tea).
Red (Taylor’s Version) is similar to Fearless (Taylor’s Version) in that it provides fans with a broader, more mature-sounding update on the songs we’ve been playing in our cars for years. Swift was 22 when Red was released, and she was about to turn 32. In ten years, she’s crossed genres, performed in front of millions of admirers, and released two surprise albums amid a pandemic. Red is also an album for the heartbroken, according to Swift, who has been in love, broken up, and fallen in love again since the album’s release in 2012.
You might easily think that the lyrics of Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen” were written by an adult woman looking back regretfully on her childhood if you didn’t know anything about the song.
“Fifteen,” told in a sequence of autobiographical vignettes, follows Swift and her closest friend, Abigail, through their freshman year of high school as they grow closer and date males who treat them badly. (It turns out that adolescent males aren’t always the friendliest.) They learn about shattered hearts and friendships that last a lifetime. Swift looks back on that moment in her life with a bittersweet love as she sings. That made all the difference since she didn’t know what she knows today.
