Red (Taylor's Version)

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Tickets for the Shanghai show sold out within 60 seconds, setting the Chinese record for the fastest sellout. In the US, Red spent seven weeks atop the Billboard 200—making Swift the first female artist and the second act after the Beatles to have three consecutive albums each spend at least six weeks at number one—and was certified seven-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). 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.

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Mainstream publications featuring Red on their lists of the best albums of 2012 included Billboard, [128] The Daily Beast, [129] The Guardian, [130] Idolator, [131] MTV News, [132] Newsday, [133] PopMatters, [134] Rolling Stone, [135] Spin, [136] and Stereogum. Swift announced the album's accompanying world tour, the Red Tour, shortly after the album's release.Martin and his frequent collaborator Shellback produced the songs " 22", " I Knew You Were Trouble", and " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", all of which are characterized by a synth-driven electronic production. The album reached number one on the record charts of European and Oceanic countries, including Australia, [108] Canada, [109] New Zealand, [110] Ireland, [111] and Scotland. The imagery of a scarf left in a drawer became a symbol associated with the song; according to critic Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone, "no other song does such a stellar job of showing off her ability to blow up a trivial little detail into a legendary heartache". If that bloke underestimated her youth, Swift, then in her early 20s, was also acutely aware of her novelty fading. She still misses him, she admits, before donning the Swiftian velvet gloves: if only he’d been less of a schmuck, well, they might have stood had a chance.

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According to the magazine, Red proved an album can be "both ground-breaking and wildly commercial", because avant-garde is not the only way to experiment with music, as Swift "opened a door for every other musician" in 2012 to coalesce multiple genres. Following a dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded the album as Red (Taylor's Version) on November 12, 2021. Most of the songs on Red were inspired by one ex-boyfriend who, according to Swift, contacted her after listening to the album and described the experience as "bittersweet". Taylor Swift Reveals New Album, ' Red, ' Drops New Single, 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together': ABC Exclusive".In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Swift responded country music "feels like home" and dismissed the debate, saying "I leave the genre labeling to other people".