Taylor Swift releases new 'Red (Taylor's Version)' album 2021

 Taylor Swift releases new 'Red (Taylor's Version)' album

Taylor Swift releases new 'Red (Taylor's Version)' album

It’s one thing to faithfully re-record a beloved album; it’s another risk entirely to mess with the song generally considered the Swift ur-text, one that eviscerates her slick ex in a series of ever-more climactic verses that never resolve to a chorus, just a shuddered realisation of how vividly she recalls his disregard. (“You call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest” may be her most quoted lyric.) One new line early on feels jarringly out of time: “You were tossing me the car keys / ‘Fuck the patriarchy,’” she sings. The official lyrics sheet makes clear that she’s quoting someone else, but you can’t hear the quote marks, and that sort of punchy, boilerplate feminist retort wasn’t common currency at the turn of the 2010s when she wrote this song.

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That’s the only stumble: the other new verses double down on melodrama mixed with piercing observations of the emotional vampire who stood her up on her 21st birthday; who couldn’t call what they had love “‘til we were dead and gone and buried / Check the pulse and come back swearing it’s the same after three months in the grave”. By that point, she sings that her body is withered by shame, and then a later verse makes clear the physical toll of his treatment as Swift, who has been open about experiencing disordered eating, describes herself as a “soldier who’s returning half her weight”.

It is a supreme public flogging, but the elongated recriminations also act as a form of life support, keeping the affair alive to finally understand exactly how its blood used to beat. “Missing him was dark grey, all alone,” Swift sang on the album’s title track. Red (Taylor’s Version) adds satisfying hues of deep, gothic black.