Red

So, kind of the audience and the critics were not in the same room, although we could also argue just Swifties are always gonna fight for Taylor in a way that the other fan bases might have a, some of that, but it's not at Taylor's level.

F- for fan reception over time, so on day one there was a lot of TikTok and Reddit backlash centered around the innuendos, the internet slang-

Mm

... poor little rich girl energy, and just maybe a retreat from her earlier depth.

All right.

Up next we're moving on to a little album called Red, which also had some bonus tracks to discuss.

The first one is The Moment I Knew.

This is a very interesting song because I find I don't hate it, but I never wanna listen to it, and as soon as it starts I'm like, "Hurry the fuck up." How well does it fit? I gave it a 10 out of 10 because it kind of does fit perfectly in Red, especially when you think about the context of All Too Well, the birthday party with the 10-minute version.

Like, it belongs in this cinematic universe for sure.

Songwriting, I gave it a six.

I, I can imagine some people are like, "I relate because once upon a time, I was turning 21, and he left me at the altar on that day." I can imagine some people's...

But it's like otherwise, I don't really know why you'd be attached to it.

Even as it was getting bad, I remember it being appointment viewing for me.

And then I guess also for this era, I came into the Taylor Swift fandom with Red.

Red came out just as I was moving to New York City.

I moved to New York City in...

I just hit my 14-year New York-iversary.

Today's song recap.

Let's hop right into it, shall we? Today, we are talking about track eight from the Red album.

Yeah.

"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." Try and say that three times fast.

And guess what? Christopher Rowe produced Taylor's version of the song, so nothing shocking there.

Um, Max Martin and Shellback, we have been talking about them a lot lately with The Life of a Showgirl since they were Taylor's only collaborators on that album.

And now we get to talk about one of the first times that they ever worked together way back in the Red era.

So as we know, Speak Now came before Red.

And second of all, September means the official end of summer and the start of that most perfect and beloved and magical and mystical and mysterious season known as fall or autumn.

And there's a certain little album made by a certain little lady that marks the start of this season perhaps better than any other, and that is an album called "Red" by Taylor Swift.

Now, before we go any further, I have to mention that it's a lot of issues going on when we're talking which Taylor albums belong to which season.

I've discovered over the past few years that people have a lot of different opinions on which Taylor albums belong in which season.

To me, there is no arguing.

There is no different opinion on the fall albums that I'll accept.

The autumnal Taylor Swift records are clearly defined, and I don't care what you're doing in spring or summer or most of winter, but when it comes to autumn Taylor records, there are rules, and the rules are as follows: "Red" is early fall, so right now, September into October.

Of course, you can stream it the entire time.

We're going to talk about the song Holy Ground by Taylor Swift.

It came out on the album Red, which is a fall album.

Yay, we're in October.

Red is my favorite album.

And this song is about the narrator looking back at their life after they've gone through a storm and reflecting on it.

And I thought this was a really interesting thing for Sydney Prescott, because this is what we see of her in Scream after she's gone through the hardship at the very, very end, right? But then also Scream 4 with the Out of Darkness.

Ashley, what is the Taylor Swift song of the week?

The Taylor Swift song of the week is Holy Ground.

[sighs] So this is a hot take.

Like, I, I just don't like the Red era a- at all.

Really?

Like, music- lyrically, musically.

I love Red.

[laughs]

And I know, know it's a very hot take 'cause for a lot of people, people love that album the most.

Yeah.

On that same day, a certain Miss Taylor Swift released Begin Again.

This was a preview for her album Red that was released to Country Music Radio on this date.

Peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

And in 2020, Bam Morrison released Born to be Free.

And she's already broken up with Connor Kennedy, etc., etc., I've always thought team Taylor leaked this because of what the last line in this article is knowing how much Taylor uses her relationships to write music do you think we should expect a song about Harry on her next album sound off below.

There were a couple other articles that came out when Red came out saying some of these songs are about Harry Styles, y'all.

They had a thing in the spring.

We didn't know.

They were publicly, you know, it was a public fact.

It's okay for him to go talk about that.

But, you know, the person who helped to write Babe, you know, they're not giving quotes about the Red album because they don't have a song on the Red album,

you know?