Five Songs From ‘Red’ That Deeply Influenced My Womanhood
Re-living the debut of an album that inspired my first ideas of real love.
After months of waiting, Taylor’s Version of her album Red has finally been released. Taylor Swift’s fourth studio album originally debuted in October 2012, but this year she has begun re-releasing her previous works in order to rightfully gain back ownership of her masters.
After thoroughly enjoying the release of Fearless(Taylor’s Version) in May of this year, I was absolutely beside myself when she announced shortly thereafter that Red would be the next of her re-released albums.
Music has always been an outlet of catharsis for me. I heavily relied on music throughout high school and young adulthood as I coped with the confusion of jarring new sensations and circumstances.
Taylor had been one of my favorite singer/songwriters since the first release of Fearless in 2008. Listening to her candid lyricism exposed me to a world of shockingly applicable emotions and a level of wisdom that I’d never explored before.
When Red was originally released in 2012, I was a bright-eyed bushy-tailed seventeen-year-old in a relationship that was doomed to fail. Although this was more of a distraction than a whirlwind romance, I had…
