Swift, aiming to experiment with as many styles as she could, decided her fourth studio album would not follow one coherent genre. She reworked the new album while touring Speak Now. While Speak Now was Swift's statement as a songwriter, she envisioned her fourth studio album as a statement of her "thirst for learning". She sought to collaborate with Chapman and new producers to venture outside of her comfort zone of writing songs alone. Swift said she had been repeating the same songwriting process she used for Speak Now, which diminished her creativity. Executives at Swift's label Big Machine congratulated her on having finalized the album within one year. By October 2011, she had written around 25 songs. Swift on the Speak Now World Tour in 2011, when she was writing RedĪfter the release of Speak Now, Swift planned to continue collaborating with Chapman for its follow-up. At the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012, the album was nominated for Best Country Album, and its single " Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. Speak Now was the fastest-selling digital album by a female artist, with 278,000 downloads in a week, earning Swift an entry in the 2010 Guinness World Records. It incorporates various rock styles, including pop rock and bluegrass. Speak Now, which was co-produced by Swift and her longtime collaborator Nathan Chapman, expands on her characteristic country pop sound with increasingly frequent elements of radio-friendly pop crossover, which are evident on its predecessor, Fearless (2008). Rolling Stone reported in 2020 that Swift wrote the music to Speak Now alone to prove to critics she was capable Swift herself says it happened by accident as she would write songs in early morning hours and did not have a co-writer around before she finished the songs. Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift released her third studio album, Speak Now, in October 2010. Following a dispute regarding the ownership of its master, a re-recording of the album containing several unreleased songs, titled Red (Taylor's Version), was released in November 2021. The album appeared in several publications' lists of the best albums of the 2010s, and ranked at number 99 in the 2020 revision of Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Retrospectively, many critics have claimed Red as Swift's best work and a transitional record bridging her country roots to mainstream pop. Swift's songwriting in Red was positively received by critics, but they were divided on the album's sonic range praise was directed at the album's versatility but criticism targeted its inconsistency. Swift promoted the album with the Red Tour (2013–2014), the most successful country tour of all time, grossing $150 million. It received nominations for Album of the Year at the 2013 Country Music Association Awards, and Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards. Red is certified seven times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has received multi-platinum certifications in other countries. It topped the charts in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom as well. Billboard 200, making Swift the first female artist and the second act since the Beatles to have three consecutive albums spend at least six weeks at number one. The album spent seven weeks atop the U.S. The album was supported with seven singles, four of which peaked inside the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 the lead single " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" topped the chart, while " Begin Again", " I Knew You Were Trouble", and " Red" reached numbers seven, two, and six, respectively.
Big Machine promoted Red as a country album but many critics disputed this categorization, calling it a straightforward pop record. The final product was a collection of pop, country and rock songs with folk and electronic elements, drawing from sub-genres such as arena rock, Britrock, dance-pop, and dubstep. Hoping to experiment with new sounds that would expand her music beyond its traditional country pop style, Swift engaged new producers such as Dann Huff, Max Martin, Shellback, Jeff Bhasker, Dan Wilson, Jacknife Lee, Butch Walker, alongside her long-time collaborator Nathan Chapman. The album's title refers to the tumultuous, "red" emotions Swift experienced during the album's conception its songs discuss the complex and conflicting feelings resulting from fading romance. It was released on October 22, 2012, by Big Machine Records. Red is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together".
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