“Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person,” she wrote in an Instagram post Friday.
Quickly becoming the number one trending topic on Twitter, the new album contains 30 tracks — which include such hits as “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” “I Knew You Were Trouble,” and “22” — dwarf the original’s 19 tunes.
The re-recording will also include a 10-minute version of one of her songs, suspected by fans to be her magnum opus, “All Too Well,” long speculated to be about her break-up with actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
Swift’s 11th studio album features a cover of her in a rust-colored newsboy cap, a bedazzled ring with the word “Red” spelled out in jewels, a beige coat, and — of course — her signature red lipstick from the era.
The singer-songwriter, who released her re-recorded version of her starmaker “Fearless” in April, is notorious for dropping cryptic hints for her fans to dissect — and do they ever deliver.
In 2019, Big Machine sold talent manager Scooter Braun the masters of her back catalog — a move she did not authorize — and Braun sold them in October 2020 to Shamrock Holdings for a reported price upwards of $300 million.