TAYLOR SWIFT - RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (Vinyl)

Taylor tells:
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.

The vault tracks will feature Chris Stapleton, Phoebe Bridgers, Mark Foster and the first song Ed Sheeran and I ever wrote together the first time we met in 2012. I can’t express my gratitude enough to these artists for helping me bring these songs to life. I can’t wait til we can dust off our highest hopes and relive these memories together. We’ll also be making a bunch of new ones too, since Red (Taylor’s Version) includes so many songs you haven’t heard yet.



Tracklist

1. ‘State of Grace (Taylor’s Version)’
2. ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’
3. ‘Treacherous (Taylor’s Version)’
4. 'I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor’s Version)’
5. ‘All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)’
6. ’22 (Taylor’s Version)’
7. ’I Almost Do (Taylor’s Version)’
8. ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor’s Version)’
9. ‘Stay Stay Stay (Taylor’s Version)’
10. ‘The Last Time (featuring Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol (Taylor’s Version)’
11. ‘Holy Ground (Taylor’s Version)’
12. ‘Sad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor’s Version)’
13. ’The Lucky One (Taylor’s Version)’
14. ’Everything Has Changed (featuring Ed Sheeran (Taylor’s Version)’
15. ‘Starlight (Taylor’s Version)’
16. ‘Begin Again (Taylor’s Version)’
17. ‘The Moment I Knew (Taylor’s Version)’
18. ‘Come Back… Be Here (Taylor’s Version)’
19. ‘Girl At Home (Taylor’s Version)’
20. ’State of Grace (acoustic version) (Taylor’s Version)’
21. ’Ronan (Taylor’s Version)’
22. ’Better Man (Taylor’s Version) (from the vault)’
23. ’Nothing New (featuring Phoebe Bridges) (Taylor’s Version) (from the vault)’
24. ‘Babe (Taylor’s Version) (from the vault)’
25. ’Message In A Bottle (Taylor’s Version) (from the vault)’
26. ’I Bet You Think About Me (featuring Chris Stapleton) (Taylor’s Version) (from the vault)’
27. ’Forever Winter (Taylor’s Version) (from the vault)’
28. ‘Run (featuring Ed Sheeran) (Taylor’s Version) (from the vault)’
29. ‘The Very First Night (Taylor’s Version) (from the vault)’
30. ‘All Too Well (10 minute version) (Taylor’s Version) (from the vault)’