A red-letter day arrived for curious Taylor Swift fans when the pop star explained the meaning behind “Red,” her new album’s title track.
Swift color coded her feelings — as well as her guitar and lipstick, apparently — to write a song about an intense romance.
“I was writing this song, and I was thinking about correlating the colors to different feelings I was going through,” Swift said at a filming of VH1’s “Storytellers” at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif.
Her emotions throughout the relationship, which she described as both the worst and best thing ever, corresponded with various colors — the chief among them being red.
“Red is such an interesting color to me because you have the great part of red,” she said. “Like, the red emotions that are like daring and bold and passion and love and affection.”
But red can also symbolize the negative aspects of powerful relationships.
“And then on the other side of the spectrum you have jealousy and anger and frustration and ‘you didn’t call me back’ and ‘I need space,’” she said.
Swift did not paint the tune with a single color, however. She also dipped her pen into blue and dark gray to flesh out the lyrics.
“Losing him was blue like I’d never known,” she sang, “Missing him was dark gray all alone … but loving him was red.”
The episode will premiere Sunday at 11 p.m.
Swift told the fans during the filming that the performance was “unlike any show I will ever play again and have ever played before.”
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