“Red (Taylor’s Version)” has nine previously unrecorded songs that kick in after the recreation of the original album (plus O.G. On “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” the new-old stuff was just of moderate interest, since Swift was not yet as crafty a writer as she’d be just a few short years later … and also, let’s be candid here: You weren’t really waiting for more forensic information on what went wrong with Joe Jonas, were you? Whereas the answer to that basic question with “Red” (filling in the blank accordingly) is: Yes - not just out of morbid celebrity curiosity, but because by the time 2012 arrived, Swift had graduated from winsome country-pop petulance into a poet, with every detail that seemed to corroborate what fans knew from real life making her feel kind of like a journalist as well as modern-master librettist. Swift’s foremost co-producer on the remakes, producer Christopher Wray, who fills in for both Chapman and Martin, definitely merits some plaudits as the most skilled mimic this side of Dana Carvey.īut it’s the “From the Vault” bonus material we’re really anticipating on these new albums the A/B-ing on the recreations can be left to the pros. She does have the benefit of having nearly all the original producers back on board, save for those two - Dan Wilson, Jacknife Lee, Butch Walker and even Martin’s longtime partner, Shellback, doing his part on three songs. (Does she utter the word “What?” in “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” with more or less insolence than she did in 2008? You be the judge.) A general initial impression is that the more acoustically based stuff is easier to exactly recreate without producer Nathan Chapman than her very first forays into electro-pop are without Max Martin, although the differences may be hard for the non-Swiftie ear to immediately be heard. (Why is she redoing all those albums? Because she hasn’t gotten over it, of course… Hold this, Ithaca Holdings, right?) As with the first in the series, “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” which came out earlier in 2021, much will be said and written about how identical the remakes are or aren’t to the originals.
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There was more where that came from, and it’s arrived in the form of “Red (Taylor’s Version),” the second in her series of re-recordings of her original seven-album Big Machine catalog.
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