AlbumE · 2021
Red (Taylor's version)
by Taylor Swift
Red (Taylor's version) is a 2021 country pop album by Taylor Swift. It runs 30 tracks across 131 minutes on Republic Records. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.2/5 from 881 ratings.
Country Pop · Country · Pop
#31 in Best albums of 2021 · #1 in Best country pop albums
Your rating
- 4.2 /5
- 881 ratings
- 89 /100
- 10 critics
- 30
- Tracks
- 131 min
- Runtime
- 119 bpm
- Tempo
- C major
- Key
Ratings
881 ratings · avg 4.2
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Reviews
1 review
- 4.5
The re-recording project's first masterpiece case: Red (Taylor's Version) restores her great messy breakup album with adult vocals and the vault's crown jewel — "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)," a decade-old deep cut expanded into the defining song of her catalog. Ownership reclaimed, artistry compounded. The business move that doubled as a creative one.
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Critics
10 publications
- The New Zealand Herald5/5
- Rolling Stone5/5
- The Independent5/5
- Clash9/10
- The Line of Best Fit9/10
- The A.V. ClubA−
- Pitchfork8.5/10
- The Guardian4/5
- NME4/5
- AllMusic3.5/5
- Metacriticaggregate91/100
- AnyDecentMusic?aggregate8.6/10
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Red album cover
The Red (Taylor's version) cover was designed by 13 Management, photographed by Beth Garrabrant and Christie Goodwin, and art-directed by Taylor Swift.
- Design
- 13 Management
- Photography
- Beth Garrabrant, Christie Goodwin
- Art direction
- Taylor Swift
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Tracklist
30 tracks · 131 min
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According to Riffiter listeners, the best track on Red (Taylor's version) is Come Back… Be Here (Taylor's version) — rated 5.0/5 by 3 listeners.
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Red (Taylor's Version) is the second re-recorded album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on November 12, 2021, through Republic Records. It is a re-recording of Swift's fourth studio album, Red (2012), following her first re-recorded album, Fearless (Taylor's Version), which was released in April 2021. The re-recording venture is Swift's countermeasure against the changed ownership of the masters to her first six studio albums. The album encompasses re-recorded versions of 20 songs from the Red deluxe edition and Swift's 2012 charity single "Ronan"; the 10-minute-long, unabridged version of "All Too Well"; Swift's own recordings of "Better Man" (2016) and "Babe" (2018), both of which she wrote but gave away to other country artists; and six new "From the Vault" tracks that were intended for the 2012 album. Swift and Christopher Rowe produced most of Red (Taylor's Version), while Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, Paul Mirkovich, Espionage, Tim Blacksmith, Danny D, and Elvira Anderfjärd handled the rest. Shellback, Dan Wilson, Jeff Bhasker, Jacknife Lee, and Butch Walker also returned to produce the re-recordings of tracks they had worked on in 2012.
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Phoebe Bridgers and Chris Stapleton joined the album as guest vocalists alongside original features from Gary Lightbody and Ed Sheeran. Red (Taylor's Version) was met with widespread acclaim from music critics, who admired Swift's vocal performances, the production quality, and the new tracks. Reviews described it a classic pop record expanding from Swift's country roots into electronic, synth-pop and rock flairs, whilst chronicling various dynamics of love, life, loss and heartache. The album broke a string of commercial records, such as the Spotify feat for the largest single-day streams for an album by a female artist and the biggest vinyl sales week in MRC Data history. It topped the charts in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland and the United Kingdom, as well as the United States where Swift surpassed Elton John's 46-year-old record to become the fastest soloist in Billboard 200 history to collect four number-one albums, doing so in under 16 months. Swift promoted the album with televised appearances on NBC. The songs "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)", "Message in a Bottle" and "I Bet You Think About Me" were released as hot adult contemporary, pop radio and country singles, respectively. "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" became Swift's eighth number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the longest number-one song of all time; 25 other tracks from the album also charted on the Hot 100 the same week, setting the record for the most single-week new entries ever by an artist. Swift wrote and directed All Too Well: The Short Film, a romantic drama starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien, released on November 12 as well. Various publications have identified the release of Red (Taylor's Version) as a key pop-culture moment of 2021.
In brief
- Is Red (Taylor's version) good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Red (Taylor's version) 4.2/5 from 881 ratings.
- What is the highest-rated track on Red (Taylor's version)?
- Come Back… Be Here (Taylor's version), rated 5.0/5 by 3 listeners on Riffiter.
- When was Red (Taylor's version) released?
- Red (Taylor's version) was released in 2021 on Republic Records.
- How many tracks are on Red (Taylor's version)?
- Red (Taylor's version) has 30 tracks, with a runtime of 131 minutes.
- What genre is Red (Taylor's version)?
- Red (Taylor's version) is catalogued under Country Pop, Country, Pop.
- What BPM is Red (Taylor's version)?
- Red (Taylor's version) runs at a median tempo of 119 BPM across its tracks, most often in C major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Red (Taylor's version)?
- Listeners of Red (Taylor's version) also rate SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo, Short n' Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter, x by Ed Sheeran.
- Who produced Red (Taylor's version)?
- Red (Taylor's version) was produced by Taylor Swift, Christopher Rowe, Aaron Dessner and Shellback, among 15 credited in total. Taylor Swift produced 21 of them.
Red (Taylor's version) at a glance
- Label
- Republic Records
- Recorded at
- Electric Lady Studios, Capitol Studios, Conway Recording Studios
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Credits
- Produced by
- Mixed by
- Serban GheneaJonathan LowBryce Bordone
- Engineered by
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Matt Bishop
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