She engaged musicians Gary Lightbody and Jacknife Lee of the Irish-Scottish band Snow Patrol, saying, "they can just hit you when they are singing about loss or longing". According to the magazine, Red proved an album can be "both ground-breaking and wildly commercial", because avant-garde is not the only way to experiment with music, as Swift "opened a door for every other musician" in 2012 to coalesce multiple genres.

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Most of the songs on Red were inspired by one ex-boyfriend who, according to Swift, contacted her after listening to the album and described the experience as "bittersweet". Pitchfork 's Brad Nelson lauded the "newfound patience to Swift's observations" and deeper exploration of emotion in Red 's songwriting. Begin Again", which peaked at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100, was later released as a single to US country radio on October 1, 2012. I Knew You Were Trouble", which Swift said was a completely new style for her, [47] begins with a pop-rock production before building into a dubstep-tinged refrain with aggressive synthesizer backing.

On August 13, 2012, Swift announced the album's details through a live webchat via Google Hangouts, [35] [65] and released the lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", which was her first number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100. Whereas Swift's previous songs contain fantasy-driven narratives with happy endings, Red realizes the uneasy reality of how a seemingly enduring relationship can painfully end. Taylor Swift Reveals New Album, ' Red, ' Drops New Single, 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together': ABC Exclusive". Taylor Swift's Fans Already Figured Out the 'From the Vault' Track Titles off ' Red (Taylor's Version) '". Like Fearless (Taylor’s Version), the first of Swift’s re-recordings to be released, Red (Taylor’s Version) stays true to the original.

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Mainstream publications featuring Red on their lists of the best albums of 2012 included Billboard, [128] The Daily Beast, [129] The Guardian, [130] Idolator, [131] MTV News, [132] Newsday, [133] PopMatters, [134] Rolling Stone, [135] Spin, [136] and Stereogum. Red was also where she began to seek source material beyond her own biography; the character studies (of Ethel Kennedy on the lightly ditzy “Starlight”; of a Joni Mitchell–esque elder on “The Lucky One”; of a mother who loses her young son to cancer on vault track “Ronan”) point in the direction of Folklore, where, years later, the gulf between Swift and her narrators would widen.The second of six albums that Swift is remaking from scratch to regain financial and legal control of her catalog, it’s built on the well-founded belief that her fandom will consume anything spun by her hands—even lightly retouched versions of songs that came out less than a decade ago, plus a fistful of contemporaneous unreleased tracks for good measure. Throughout June 2021, Swift’s fans fiercely debated whether 1989 would be the next rerecorded album, even earning major media coverage after it trended on Twitter. Caramanica agreed, commenting that the production is a striking feature of Red that proves Swift is more of a pop star than a country singer.

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V. Club's Michael Gallucci acknowledged the deeper observations of Red's songs but did not appreciate their criticism of Swift's ex-lovers. 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".Roberts was impressed by the different musical styles as Swift "strives for something much more grand and accomplished". Dolan considered the album part " Joni Mitchell-influenced maturity binge" and part pop, describing the combination as "not just inevitable but natural. The album accumulated 72,000 sales, claiming the biggest week for a female artist in 2021 from Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour. V. Club argued the music was more ambitious than Swift's previous records but considered the album as a whole "complicated and sometimes unfocused".

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Although Red transcends Swift's country roots, her storytelling ability, nurtured by this country background, remains intact in her songwriting. 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.

Swift worked with Butch Walker on the song " Everything Has Changed", a duet with English singer Ed Sheeran.