Music Review: ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ by Taylor Swift

metroweekly.com:

Red (Taylor’s Version) (★★★☆☆) comes in two distinct pieces. The bulk of it is a revisiting and reworking of tracks from 2012’s Red.

It is, for the most part, a general improvement on a collection that was already a critical and commercial success on its release, although the differences between the new Red and the old are somewhat granular.Similar as it is to the original, the rework provides a fresh take on themes that, in Swift’s hands, have a retrospective sort of timelessness.

Her voice is a little deeper, a little heavier with the weight of life experience, putting the original songs in a new light while preserving their wry, feisty sense of humor.The original version of Red was filled with a sense of fresh hurt and anger, with both.