(CNN)It's official. Taylor Swift has unlocked the vault.
On Friday, the Grammy award-winning vocalist unveiled "Red (Taylor's Version)," a rerecording of her acclaimed 2012 medium "Red," arsenic portion of her ongoing ngo to regain ownership of her aboriginal music.
While the archetypal medium was 16 tracks, "Red (Taylor's Version)" is an epic 30 tracks, featuring philharmonic collaborations with Phoebe Bridgers, Gary Lightbody, Ed Sheeran and Chris Stapleton. It besides includes 9 antecedently unreleased songs that didn't marque the last merchandise successful 2012.
And guessing from the reactions connected societal media, revisiting the past isn't ever a atrocious idea.
"I americium crying @taylorswift13 #RedTaylorsVersion . Freaking AWESOME," 1 instrumentality wrote connected Twitter, portion different said: "taylor swift conscionable hits antithetic and particularly erstwhile its Red we are talking about."
Among euphony critics, the reception was besides mostly positive.
Awarding the medium 5 stars, Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield described the task arsenic "a tribute to however acold she's traveled, but it makes you adjacent much excited for wherever she's heading next. "
Writing specifically astir the long-lost 10-minute mentation of "All Is Well," helium said Swift "takes her ain masterpiece, tears it each up, breaks it similar a promise, shreds her tapestry, and rebuilds it into a caller heartbreak epic, doubly arsenic agelong and doubly arsenic mad."
According to Variety's Chris Willman, Swift benefits from having astir each the archetypal producers from the medium backmost connected board.
However, helium writes: "A wide archetypal content is that the much acoustically based worldly is easier to precisely recreate without shaper Nathan Chapman than her precise archetypal forays into electro-pop are without Max Martin, though the differences whitethorn beryllium hard for the non-Swiftie receptor to instantly beryllium heard."
Nonetheless, helium says, the postulation of 9 antecedently unreleased songs "doesn't person a existent dud successful the bunch."
In a four-star reappraisal entitled "A retread of heartbreak," NME's Hannah Mylrea says 31-year-old Swift's matured vocals are the astir important change.
"You perceive it clearest connected the spoken-word moments, similar 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together's withering put-down: "With immoderate indie grounds that's overmuch cooler than mine," she writes, earlier adding that "It's the benignant of eye-roll infinitesimal emblematic of being a young adult, and portion delivered with vim successful its creation, successful these moments the shifts successful Swift's lyricism and vocals successful the 10 years since it was archetypal released are obvious."
"Red (Taylor's Version)" is the 2nd successful the bid for Swift's rerecording project. In April this year, she topped the Billboard 200 illustration with "Fearless (Taylor's Version)," which was the reworking of her 2008 sophomore album, "Fearless."
Swift previously announced plans to revisit her aboriginal albums (from her 2006 self-titled debut up to 2017's "Reputation") successful a bid to regain ownership of the enactment she released nether her erstwhile statement Big Machine Records.
Superstar manager Scooter Braun acquired the maestro recordings of Swift's archetypal six albums successful 2019, contempt her objections. Swift confirmed successful a Twitter post successful November past twelvemonth that the masters person since been sold to Shamrock Holdings.
Following the merchandise of "Red (Taylor's Version)," Swift thanked fans for inspiring her to reclaim her art, telling her 89 cardinal Twitter followers: "It ne'er would person been imaginable to spell backmost & remake my erstwhile work, uncovering mislaid creation & forgotten gems on the mode if you hadn't emboldened me. Red is astir to beryllium excavation again, but it has ever been ours. Now we statesman again."
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