Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Music Review: ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ by Taylor Swift
metroweekly.comRed (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.
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