Tag: Taylor Swift Red

  • Taylor Swift to return as musical guest on ‘SNL’

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is set to return as the musical guest on ‘Saturday Night Live’ (SNL). It will be Swift’s fifth time appearing on the show.

    As per E! News, the singer will make her return as the musical guest on November 13. The ‘Willow’ singer will share the stage with ‘Lovecraft Country’ star Jonathan Majors, who is set to host for the first time.

    Swift’s visit to the long-running NBC sketch series might be a part of her promotion for her re-recorded ‘Red’ album, which is coming out on November 12.

    Majors, who is making his hosting debut with the show’s upcoming episode, will next be seen in the Netflix film ‘The Harder They Fall’. He is known for his roles in films like ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ and the HBO series ‘Lovecraft Country’.

    He is set to appear as the villain Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) after making his debut in the Disney Plus series ‘Loki’.

    But, before Majors’ hosting and Swift’s performance, we have her close friend and fellow singer Ed Sheeran’s November 6 appearance to look forward to, which is still on after the singer had quarantined after testing positive for COVID-19 at the end of October.

    Sheeran will take the stage when ‘Succesion’ star Kieran Culkin hosts the upcoming episode of ‘SNL’. The show is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.

  • Taylor Swift reveals new release date of re-recorded ‘Red’ album

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Taylor Swift surprised her fans by sharing that ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ will be released a week earlier than scheduled. The re-recorded album will now come out on November 12.

    The singer shared the news via a tweet on Thursday, September 30, 2021. She wrote, “Got some news that I think you’re gonna like – My version of Red will be out a week earlier than scheduled (including the 4 disc vinyl) on November 12th ! Can’t wait to celebrate the 13th with you and our new/old autumn heartbreak album.”

    Swift also updated her Twitter bio with the new release date, which already included lyrics from ‘Red’ fan-favourite song ’22’: “Happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time. Nov. 12th, 2021.”

    The ‘State of Grace’ songstress has been teasing fans and even hinting at the release of her album ‘1989’ after she put ‘Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)’ on streaming services earlier this month.

    Regarding the release of ‘Red’, the songstress shared a video of scrambled letters floating out of a vault for her fans to decipher the 30-song tracklist off of the re-released album. With it, she revealed that a 10-minute version of ‘All Too Well’ is on the way, along with several star-studded collabs on songs “from the vault.”

    As per People magazine, Phoebe Bridgers will join Swift for ‘Nothing New’, Chris Stapleton will appear on ‘I Bet You Think About Me’, and Ed Sheeran — who was already featured on the album’s ‘Everything Has Changed’ — will also sing with Swift on ‘Run’.

    Other ‘from the vault’ songs include ‘Better Man’, ‘Babe’, ‘Message in a Bottle’, ‘Forever Winter’ and ‘The Very First Night’. Also on the album will be the previously released song ‘Ronan’, which was inspired by Ronan Thompson, a 4-year-old who died of cancer.

    The singer’s decision to re-record her songs came after Scooter Braun bought Swift’s former record label Big Machine, a move that saw him take control of the masters to her first six albums. He later sold the masters for USD 300 million to Shamrock Holdings in November.

    Swift said that while the private equity company reached out to her following their purchase, she declined to work with them since Braun’s Ithaca Holdings would still profit off her old music for “many years”.

    Originally released in October 2012, ‘Red’ featured massive hits including ‘Everything Has Changed’, ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ and ’22’.

    Many fans believe the breakup album was partially inspired by Taylor’s relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal.

    The re-recording of ‘Red’ comes after Taylor’s April release of ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. 

  • Taylor Swift teases fans with clues to new ‘Red’ album songs

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift recently shared a social media post that hinted she will apparently be bringing in Phoebe Bridgers as a guest for her upcoming rerecording of ‘Red’ (Taylor’s Version).

    The three-time album of the year Grammy winner released a special “vault video” on Twitter, containing a hidden message about the album for her fans.

    It suggested that she’ll soon be announcing the names of new “from the vault” tracks from the upcoming rerecording of her fourth studio album, 2012’s ‘Red’, which is slated for a November 19 release.

    The video showed a vault, coloured in red, with music playing in the background, and a jumble of letters flying on the screen, towards the viewers. The word puzzle featured the names of bonus tracks to be included on ‘Red’ (Taylor’s Version) as well as possible collaborators on the album.

    Swift chose this same method when hinting at what was coming on her re-recorded album ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’, which arrived in April.

    Swifties were quick to discover the words ‘Phoebe Bridgers’ hidden in the message, plus ‘Better Man’, a song Swift originally wrote for ‘Red’ but later gave to Little Big Town to record. Swift performed it live at the Bluebird Cafe in 2018 as part of Bluebird, a documentary film tribute to the Nashville venue where she was discovered.

    Ed Sheeran, who recorded ‘Everything Has Changed’ with Swift on the original ‘Red’ and country singer Chris Stapleton, were also found in the word search, implying that Swift will be collaborating with both for the new album. Sheeran recently said in an interview he’d re-recorded his duet part, as well as hinting at other recordings.

    Also in the puzzle was ‘Ronan’, a heart-wrenching track Swift wrote in the ‘Red’ era that was inspired by four-year-old Ronan Thompson’s fatal battle with cancer. Reportedly, Swift only performed it once at the 2012 Stand Up to Cancer telethon, but Billboard reported last week that a re-recorded ‘Ronan’ will be appearing on ‘Red’ (Taylor’s Version) with permission from Ronan’s mother, Maya Thompson.

    Lastly, ‘All Too Well’, ‘Ten’, ‘Minute’ and ‘Version’ were also in the search, confirming that the long-awaited 10-minute version of ‘All Too Well’ will be featured on the re-recording.

    There were a few other words here and there in the puzzle that form up the names of new song titles. The unscrambled list of newly recorded ‘Vault’ tracks being added to the original ‘Red’ will be as follows:

    – ‘Ronan’

    – ‘Better Man’

    – ‘Nothing New’, featuring Phoebe Bridgers

    – ‘Babe’

    – ‘Message in a Bottle’

    – ‘I Bet You Think About Me’, featuring Chris Stapleton

    – ‘Forever Winter’

    – ‘Run’, featuring Ed Sheeran

    – ‘The Very First Night’

    – ‘All Too Well’ 10-minute version

    *presses post**cackles maniacally*Level: casually cruel in the name of being honest pic.twitter.com/Tf0ahCMql8
    — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 5, 2021
    Along with the video, she tweeted, “*presses post* *cackles maniacally* Level: casually cruel in the name of being honest,” referencing lyrics to her objectively finest masterpiece, ‘All Too Well’.

    She later followed up with a subsequent tweet, writing, “Your next clue will be in the spot where you hear red…”

    The singer, then again, tweeted, “Love is a ruthless game #iunlockedthevault,” with a sunglasses emoji. As fans might know, the line is from 2012 ‘Red’ opener ‘State of Grace’.

    Love is a ruthless game #iunlockedthevaulthttps://t.co/WdrCmvLHyA pic.twitter.com/4OnnrtPjDD
    — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 5, 2021
    As per USA Today, Swift is re-recording her music after a public battle with music executive Scooter Braun, who had purchased her recordings before selling them for millions in November 2020.

    By re-recording her music, she will be gaining ownership over the earlier songs that launched her career, albeit with a more sophisticated, mature twist.