Taylor Swift releases Red (Taylor’s Version) and social media loves it

The Sun reports the superstar is back with her brilliant album Red (Taylor’s Version), a re-recorded version of her 2012 release Red and featuring six previously unheard songs written at the same time as the original.

Swift has decided to rerecord her first six albums after her former label Big Machine refused to give her rights to her masters which she had signed away.

That decision has been widely praised on social media from everyone from the Teletubbies to the French Embassy in the US.

But unlike her millions of fans, Swift’s ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal probably isn’t as excited about the release which details their split in 2011.

Swift ius believed to have written songs I Knew You Were Trouble and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together about her failed romance with Gyllenhaal, and she’s giving him both barrels again ten years on.

On I Bet You Think About Me, she sings: “You can’t help who you fall for, and you and I fell like an early spring snow. But reality crept in, you said we’re too different. You laughed at my dreams, rolled your eyes at my jokes.

“Mr. Superior Thinking, do you have all the space that you need? I don’t have to be your shrink to know that you’ll never be happy, and I bet you think about me.”

Later in the track she accuses him of being “scared not to be hip, scared to get old”, and even refers to the fact that he probably wouldn’t be too impressed to hear the song.

She adds: “I bet you think about me when you say, ‘Oh my God, she’s insane, she wrote a song about me’.”

But in the more introspective Nothing New, she opens up about her fears over being considered a has-been.

At the time she was just 22 and six years into her career.

Singing with US artist Phoebe Bridgers, she ponders: “They tell you while you’re young, girls, go out and have your fun. Then they hunt and slay the ones who actually do it, criticise the way you fly when you’re soaring through the sky. Shoot you down and then they sigh and say, ‘She looks like she’s been through it’. Lord, what will become of me once I’ve lost my novelty?”

Then the chorus goes: “Will you still want me when I’m nothing new?”

The beautiful album, which will go down as one of Swift’s best, features other new songs Message In A Bottle, Forever Winter, The Very First Night and an Ed Sheeran collaboration titled Run.

She has also covered her own tunes Better Man, which was recorded by Little Big Town, and Babe, which she gave to country duo Sugarland.

The finale is a ten-minute, extended version of the album’s fifth track All Too Well, which fans will find a real tear-jerker.

A mini-film to accompany that song will be released at midnight tonight on YouTube, featuring Swift alongside Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink and Maze Runner’s Dylan O’Brien.

Swift felt strongarmed into re-recording her albums to put two fingers up at the people who bought the rights to her early music.

But now that she is revisiting and perfecting her back catalogue, it is sounding even better than ever.

This article originally appeared in The Sun and is republished here with permission

Originally published as Taylor Swift releases Red (Taylor’s Version) and social media loves it

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