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We're all crumpled up pieces of paper lying here as Twitter reacts to 'Red (Taylor's Version)'

Twitter (Taylor's Version)

Christianna Silva

on November 12, 2021

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Friday, Nov. 12, is a day to remember if you're a Swiftie — or just a person who uses the internet — because today, Taylor Swift released an expanded, re-recorded version of her seminal album Red.

Red (Taylor's Version) is part of her ongoing pursuit to regain ownership of her earlier work after Scooter Braun acquired Big Machine Records and seized control over the master recordings of her first six albums. Despite selling the master rights to Swift's catalog to a private equity firm in late 2020, the war between the singer-songwriter and the men who profit off her music still wages on, publicly.

To devalue the worth of her original masters, Swift announced she would simply re-record all of them to regain ownership. Red (Taylor's Version) is the second of her album re-recordings, following the release of Fearless (Taylor's Version) earlier this year.

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"It never would have been possible to go back & remake my previous work, uncovering lost art & forgotten gems along the way if you hadn't emboldened me," Swift tweeted. "Red is about to be mine again, but it has always been ours. Now we begin again."

The 30-track, 2-hour-long album received five stars from Rolling Stone, which called her long-lost 10-minute version of "All Is Well" a "new heartbreak epic." Known as a breakup album, the music pinpoints a time in Swift's life when she was going through a highly publicized breakup with actor Jake Gyllenhaal, who undoubtedly is not having a great day today.

The internet is, in turn, rejoicing.

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Topics Music X/Twitter Memes Taylor Swift

Christianna Silva

Senior Culture Reporter

Christianna Silva is a senior culture reporter covering social platforms and the creator economy, with a focus on the intersection of social media, politics, and the economic systems that govern us. Since joining Mashable in 2021, they have reported extensively on meme creators, content moderation, and the nature of online creation under capitalism.

Before joining Mashable, they worked as an editor at NPR and MTV News, a reporter at Teen Vogue and VICE News, and as a stablehand at a mini-horse farm. You can follow her on Bluesky @christiannaj.bsky.social and Instagram @christianna_j.