Just beyond the bounds of normal human awareness lies a realm governed by a benevolent blonde whose songs are sacred texts.

Red (Taylor Swift album) - Wikipedia Red (Taylor Swift album) - Wikipedia

Swift announced the album's accompanying world tour, the Red Tour, shortly after the album's release. But the real draw for her main audience, who already know Red like the back of their hands, is the new material.

It topped the charts and received multi-platinum certifications in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Taylor Swift: Red (Taylor’s Version) review - The Guardian Taylor Swift: Red (Taylor’s Version) review - The Guardian

The album's liner notes credit Martin and Shellback as producers, but the Recording Academy, in a list announcing nominees for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 2012, additionally credits Swift as a producer. Swift's previous studio albums Fearless and Speak Now respectively spent 11 weeks in 2008–09 and six weeks in 2010–11).Other critics commented Swift had always been more pop-oriented than country and described Red as her inevitable move to mainstream pop. The keepers, though, entrench the album’s brutal obsession with time: how long it takes to get over someone; the shelf life of any young woman’s appeal; the pitiful plight of emotionally frigid ex-boyfriends forever doomed to stagnate in their obsessions with status over love. Over its 40 years in business, PIAS has grown to be one of the largest independently-owned music groups in the world, carving out its own in-house recorded music division PIAS [Recordings]. One new line early on feels jarringly out of time: “You were tossing me the car keys / ‘Fuck the patriarchy,’” she sings.

Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor’s Version) - (CD, Vinyl LP Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor’s Version) - (CD, Vinyl LP

His full length debut on Daptone Records is equal parts raw feeling and elegance and exudes confidence and charm.In the UK, Red was Swift's first number one on the Albums Chart and had four top-ten songs on the Singles Chart, the most of Swift's albums; [116] it was certified 2× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and sold 619,000copies as of June 2021 [update].