"Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person," Swift wrote in an Instagram post announcing the news. "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."
Swift said "something was healed along the way" of her experimenting ahead of the recording.
"Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators," Swift wrote. "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."
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Fans suspected that "1989 (Taylor's Version)" would come next when a rerecorded version of the album's fifth single, "Wildest Dreams," appeared in a trailer for "Spirit Untamed." Theories intensified after the singer dropped several hints during an appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
"Red" includes the top 10 hits "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," "Begin Again," "I Knew You Were Trouble," and "Red," as well as fan-favorite songs like "All Too Well" and "22."
"This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red," Swift wrote in her announcement.
This presumably includes all 20 from the album's deluxe version (two were original demo recordings), plus 10 or so cuts "from the vault," which were written around the same time as the original tracklist but never released.
Swift also hinted that a much-anticipated extended version of "All Too Well" will be featured on the tracklist, writing that "one of them is even 10 minutes long." The beloved deep cut, which Insider ranked the fifth-best song of the decade, originally stretched about 10 minutes and included explicit language.
"My legal team said that this is absolutely NOT normal, and they've never seen an NDA like this presented unless it was to silence an assault accuser by paying them off," she wrote. "He would never even quote my team a price. These master recordings were not for sale to me."
She owns the rights to her 2019 album "Lover," 2020's sister albums "Folklore" and "Evermore," as well as any rerecorded albums and future releases.
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