Red (Taylor's Version)

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It topped the charts and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. At the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012, the album was nominated for Best Country Album, and its single " Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Girl at Home", a song combining country with 1980s music elements, [49] [63] is about a woman's feelings when her boyfriend is out and flirting with other women. The Last Time", a duet with Gary Lightbody, has a melancholic production backed by string instruments; [55] Perone compared its production with the music of late-1970s and early-1980s rock bands but with a muted texture.

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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Swift responded country music "feels like home" and dismissed the debate, saying "I leave the genre labeling to other people". Everything Has Changed" featuring Ed Sheeran is a stripped-back guitar ballad about a blossoming new romance, [22] [59] and "Starlight" is an uptempo, dance-pop song about Robert F.

Other critics commented Swift had always been more pop-oriented than country and described Red as her inevitable move to mainstream pop. A critical point during a recording session with Chapman was the song " Red", on which her creativity "started wandering to all the places [she] could go". It’s a rueful, softly strummed vignette from a night of drunk paranoia, during which she feels crushed by time passing and her self-knowledge evaporating with it, and anticipates the cruel turnover of young women in the public eye.

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It won Favorite Country Album at the 2013 American Music Awards, [144] Top Album and Top Country Album at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, [145] Top Selling Album at the 2013 Canadian Country Music Association Awards, [146] and Top Selling International Album of the Year at the 2014 Country Music Awards of Australia.Over the last few months he has disarmed packed rooms of rowdy concert goers, leaving them silent as they hold fast to every syllable sung. Red opens with "State of Grace", an arena-rock song featuring chiming guitars, dynamic drums, and lyrics about the tumultuous feelings that are evoked by the first sights of love. Like Fearless (Taylor’s Version), the first of Swift’s re-recordings to be released, Red (Taylor’s Version) stays true to the original. The album's title refers to what Swift termed the tumultuous, extreme, "red" emotions that were evoked by unhealthy romantic relationships she was experiencing during the album's conception phase; such emotions ranged "from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion" and shaped the lyrics. Message in a Bottle,” the first song Swift wrote with the pair, is among Red (Taylor’s Version)’s new offerings; its abundant polish nearly makes up for its dearth of personality.

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Roberts was impressed by the different musical styles as Swift "strives for something much more grand and accomplished". With Speak Now and Red, Swift was recognized in the Guinness World Records as the "First Solo Female with Two Million-Selling Weeks on the U. Mesfin Fekadu of the Associated Press asserted that the album "sounded empty" compared to Fearless (2008) and Speak Now (2010), but praised "I Almost Do" and the duets. The rock stylings of Speak Now expand on tracks " State of Grace" and "Holy Ground", which musicologist James E. Critics considered the track Swift's most radical sonic change on Red, with Perone viewing the syncopated bass drums as exemplary of her experimenting with hip hop, [20] and Caramanica saying the dubstep drop was "a wrecking ball, changing the course not just of the song but also of Ms.Originally released in 2012, Red was the clear nexus between where Swift’s career started and where it was heading.