Home to ‘You Belong with Me,’ ’22,’ ‘I knew You Were Trouble,’ and ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,’ Taylor Swift has announced ‘Red’ as her next re-recorded album.

 

 

 

Taylor announced the news with an Instagram post that says:

 

“I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken. It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice. In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independence, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralyzing vulnerability and hopelessness. Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past. And this is all to say, that the next album I’ll be releasing is my version of Red.

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.

Sometimes you need to talk it over (over and over and over) for it to ever really be… over. Like your friend who calls you in the middle of the night going on and on about their ex, I just couldn’t stop writing. 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.”

 

 

 

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The news comes two months after Taylor released Fearless (Taylor’s Version), her first re-recorded album.  Red was originally released in 2012, it’s Taylor’s fourth studio album, and it landed her first career Hot 100 single, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.

 

 

 

 

Talking about the re-recording process, Taylor told Billboard back in 2019, “It’s going to be fun, because it’ll feel like regaining a freedom and taking back what’s mine.  When I created [these songs], I didn’t know what they would grow up to be. Going back in and knowing that it meant something to people is actually a really beautiful way to celebrate what the fans have done for my music.”

 

 

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Red (Taylor’s Version) drops on November 19.

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