{"id":2058,"date":"2020-08-25T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/?page_id=2058"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:39:01","slug":"sad-beautiful-tragic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/red-album\/red-songs\/sad-beautiful-tragic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad Beautiful Tragic"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2058\" class=\"elementor elementor-2058\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5131a13e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-xl\">Sad Beautiful Tragic<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30bdd63 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"30bdd63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">RED (2012) | RED (Taylor's Version) [2021]<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9740215 elementor-hidden-mobile\" data-id=\"9740215\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-646e55d 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data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44ce5982 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"44ce5982\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d is track twelve on Taylor\u2019s fourth studio album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/red-album\/\">RED<\/a><\/em> (2012). In the song, she is reflecting on a failed relationship that was sad, beautiful and tragic. The re-recording of the song, \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor\u2019s Version),\u201d was released on November 12, 2021, on the album <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/re-recordings\/red-taylors-version\/\"><em>RED (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em><\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79fd90b elementor-widget elementor-widget-table-of-contents\" data-id=\"79fd90b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;headings_by_tags&quot;:[&quot;h3&quot;,&quot;h5&quot;],&quot;exclude_headings_by_selector&quot;:[],&quot;no_headings_message&quot;:&quot;No headings were found on this page.&quot;,&quot;marker_view&quot;:&quot;numbers&quot;,&quot;hierarchical_view&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;min_height&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;min_height_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;min_height_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"table-of-contents.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-toc__header-title\">\n\t\t\t\tTable of Contents\t\t\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-toc__79fd90b\" class=\"elementor-toc__body\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toc__spinner-container\">\n\t\t\t\t<i class=\"elementor-toc__spinner eicon-animation-spin eicon-loading\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd204c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"fd204c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Background and Recording<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e56ab06 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e56ab06\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor penned the hushed, intimate \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d when she was sitting on her tour bus after a show on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/tours\/speak-now-world-tour\/\">Speak Now World Tour<\/a>\u201c. She was thinking about a relationship that had ended several months prior. She explained the meaning of the song to <em>Billboard<\/em>:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9c5d22 elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"c9c5d22\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00ab\u2018Sad Beautiful Tragic\u2019 is really close to my heart. I remember it was after a show and I was on the bus thinking about this relationship that ended months and months before. The feeling wasn\u2019t sadness and anger or those things anymore. It was wistful loss. And so I just got my guitar and I hit on the fact that I was thinking in terms of rhyming; I rhymed magic with tragic, changed a few things and ended it with what a sad beautiful tragic love affair. I wanted to tell the story in terms of a cloudy recollection of what went wrong. It\u2019s kind of the murky gray, looking back on something you can\u2019t change or get back.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Taylor Swift<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-905dadf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"905dadf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor said that she only recorded the song once because the first take captured the emotion she felt while writing the song perfectly. She also didn\u2019t want to add too much production to the track in order to keep the listener\u2019s focus on the lyrics. She told <em>Good Morning America<\/em> in 2012: \u201cI was on a tour bus that was moving and I just started playing this really haunting, sad chorus, and it was very simple, \u201cWhat a sad, beautiful, tragic love affair.\u201d It was just reflecting on something that was lost and you can\u2019t get it back. I went home and I called Nathan Chapman and said, \u2018Hey, I wrote this song. Please, please, please, can we record today?\u2019 and, of course, he said, \u2018Yes,\u2019 and we used that original demo on the album, because it just kind of came across so pure and raw.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bc3929 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"4bc3929\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8797746793\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d8d86d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9d8d86d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Lyrical Theme<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e6a6e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e6a6e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<em>RED<\/em> covers the whole spectrum of emotions. For Taylor, \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d explores the feeling of \u201cwistful loss.\u201d She told <em>Billboard<\/em> in 2012:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19a4aec elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"19a4aec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00abThe feeling wasn't sadness and anger, or those things anymore. It was wistful loss. And so I just got my guitar and I hit on the fact that I was thinking in terms of rhyming; I rhymed magic with tragic, changed a few things and ended it with, 'What a sad, beautiful, tragic love affair.' I wanted to tell the story in terms of a cloudy recollection of what went wrong. It's kind of the murky gray, looking back on something you can't change or get back.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Taylor Swift<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe7c811 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"fe7c811\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Live Performances<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3c02d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d3c02d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor didn\u2019t include \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d on the regular setlist for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/tours\/the-red-tour\/\">The RED Tour<\/a>\u201d (2013-2014). However, she performed the track as the acoustic surprise song twice: the first time being on the tour\u2019s stop in St. Paul (Minnesota) on September 8, 2013, and the second being the final show of the US leg at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville (Tennessee) on September 21, 2013. Ten years later, \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d was a surprise song on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/tours\/taylor-swift-the-eras-tour\/\">The Eras Tour<\/a>\u201d (2023-2024) in Arlington, on March 31, 2023. When she introduced the song, Taylor said:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50755ae elementor-blockquote--align-left elementor-blockquote--skin-border elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"50755ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u00abI was taking a chance with this one, because I'm not sure if you guys love this one or not, or if you just like it, or if you're obsessed with it. It could be anything, really. I love this one, and when I love something I don't really care what the feedback is, so I didn't check. This is a song that I wrote that's just like a simple, wistful, sad song that I love: It's this very sad, beautiful, tragic song. I'm not sure if I've played this live before, but if I have, it would be like one time before...Always think before you speak \u2013 something to learn from what just happened.\u00bb\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Taylor Swift<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59b32a2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"59b32a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn July 9, 2024, she played an acoustic mashup of the song with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/speak-now-album\/speak-now-songs\/last-kiss\/\">Last Kiss<\/a>\u201d (2010) on piano in Z\u00fcrich. That night, she introduced the acoustic section by saying: \u201cSo, tonight is our 113th show of \u2018The Eras Tour,\u2019 and that\u2019s my favorite number, which I never mention, it\u2019s like a secret, no one knows that. But I just thought, since it\u2019s my favorite number, I\u2019d just do some of my favorite songs for the acoustic set and see if they\u2019re yours too!\u201d On August 16, 2024, she paired the song with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/speak-now-album\/speak-now-songs\/dear-john\/\">Dear John<\/a>\u201d (2010) in London.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-461f2f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"461f2f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-9609324988608069\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     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Beautiful Tragic (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d debuted and peaked at No. 85 on the <em>Billboard Hot 100 <\/em>chart, the week ending November 26, 2021.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc66d66 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cc66d66\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Taylor's Version<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-071ed2d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"071ed2d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn August 6, 2021, Taylor announced that a re-recorded version of \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d, titled \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d, would be included on her second re-recorded album <em>RED (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/em>, which was released on November 12, 2021, through <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/wiki\/republic-records\/\">Republic Records<\/a>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-244eb13 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"244eb13\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71989a9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"71989a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Lyrics<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90d5977 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"90d5977\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>[Verse 1]<\/b><br \/>Long handwritten note, deep in your pocket<br \/>Words, how little they mean when you\u2019re a little too late<br \/>I stood right by the tracks, your face in a locket<br \/>Good girls, hopeful they\u2019ll be and long they will wait<\/p><p><b>[Chorus]<\/b><br \/>We had\u2026<br \/>A beautiful, magic love there<br \/>What a sad\u2026<br \/>Beautiful, tragic love affair<\/p><p><b>[Verse 2]<\/b><br \/>In dreams, I meet you in warm conversation<br \/>We both wake in lonely beds, different cities<br \/>And time is taking its sweet time erasing you<br \/>And you\u2019ve got your demons and darling<br \/>They all look like me, \u2019cause<\/p><p><b>[Chorus]<\/b><br \/>We had\u2026<br \/>A beautiful, magic love there<br \/>What a sad\u2026<br \/>Beautiful, tragic love affair<\/p><p><b>[Bridge]<\/b><br \/>Distance, timing, breakdown, fighting<br \/>Silence, the train runs off its tracks<br \/>Kiss me, try to fix it<br \/>Could you just try to listen?<br \/>Hang up, give up, and for the life of us<br \/>We can\u2019t get back\u2026<\/p><p><strong>[Chorus Variation]<\/strong><br \/>A beautiful, magic love there<br \/>What a sad\u2026<br \/>Beautiful, tragic, beautiful, tragic<br \/>Beautiful<\/p><p><b>[Chorus]<\/b><br \/>We had\u2026<br \/>A beautiful, magic love there<br \/>What a sad\u2026<br \/>Beautiful, tragic love affair<\/p><p><strong>[Final Chorus]<\/strong><br \/>We had\u2026<br \/>A beautiful, magic love 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elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\tGeneral Information\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fed76dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fed76dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<table><tbody><tr><th>Artist<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/biography\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Albums<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/red-album\/\">RED<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/re-recordings\/red-taylors-version\/\">RED (Taylor\u2019s Version)<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Released<\/th><td>October 22, 2012<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Written<\/th><td>2011<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Re-Released<\/th><td>November 12, 2021<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Studios<\/th><td>Pain In The Art (Nashville)<br \/>Kitty Committee (Belfast)<br \/>Capitol Studios B (Los Angeles)<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Genre<\/th><td>Singer-Songwriter<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Length<\/th><td>4:44<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Labels<\/th><td><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/wiki\/big-machine-records\/\">Big Machine Records<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/wiki\/republic-records\/\">Republic Records<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Songwriter<\/th><td>Taylor Swift<\/td><\/tr><tr><th>Producers<\/th><td>Nathan Chapman (original)<br \/>Christopher Rowe<br \/>Paul Mirkovich<br \/>Taylor Swift<\/td><\/tr><tr><th class=\"infobox-header description\" style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\"><h6>RED CHRONOLOGY<\/h6><\/th><\/tr><tr><td class=\"infobox-full-data\" colspan=\"2\"><table><tbody><tr><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/red-album\/red-songs\/holy-ground\/\">Holy Ground<\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><b>Sad Beautiful Tragic<\/b><\/td><td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorswiftswitzerland.ch\/index.php\/albums\/red-album\/red-songs\/the-lucky-one\/\">The Lucky One<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c271ef elementor-widget-divider--view-line_text elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"2c271ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider__text 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In the song, she is reflecting on a failed relationship that was sad, beautiful and tragic. The re-recording of the song, \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor\u2019s Version),\u201d was released on November 12, 2021, on the album RED (Taylor\u2019s Version). Table of Contents Background and Recording Taylor penned the hushed, intimate \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d when she was sitting on her tour bus after a show on the \u201cSpeak Now World Tour\u201c. She was thinking about a relationship that had ended several months prior. She explained the meaning of the song to Billboard: \u00ab\u2018Sad Beautiful Tragic\u2019 is really close to my heart. I remember it was after a show and I was on the bus thinking about this relationship that ended months and months before. The feeling wasn\u2019t sadness and anger or those things anymore. It was wistful loss. And so I just got my guitar and I hit on the fact that I was thinking in terms of rhyming; I rhymed magic with tragic, changed a few things and ended it with what a sad beautiful tragic love affair. I wanted to tell the story in terms of a cloudy recollection of what went wrong. It\u2019s kind of the murky gray, looking back on something you can\u2019t change or get back.\u00bb Taylor Swift Taylor said that she only recorded the song once because the first take captured the emotion she felt while writing the song perfectly. She also didn\u2019t want to add too much production to the track in order to keep the listener\u2019s focus on the lyrics. She told Good Morning America in 2012: \u201cI was on a tour bus that was moving and I just started playing this really haunting, sad chorus, and it was very simple, \u201cWhat a sad, beautiful, tragic love affair.\u201d It was just reflecting on something that was lost and you can\u2019t get it back. I went home and I called Nathan Chapman and said, \u2018Hey, I wrote this song. Please, please, please, can we record today?\u2019 and, of course, he said, \u2018Yes,\u2019 and we used that original demo on the album, because it just kind of came across so pure and raw.\u201d Lyrical Theme RED covers the whole spectrum of emotions. For Taylor, \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d explores the feeling of \u201cwistful loss.\u201d She told Billboard in 2012: \u00abThe feeling wasn\u2019t sadness and anger, or those things anymore. It was wistful loss. And so I just got my guitar and I hit on the fact that I was thinking in terms of rhyming; I rhymed magic with tragic, changed a few things and ended it with, \u2018What a sad, beautiful, tragic love affair.\u2019 I wanted to tell the story in terms of a cloudy recollection of what went wrong. It\u2019s kind of the murky gray, looking back on something you can\u2019t change or get back.\u00bb Taylor Swift Live Performances Taylor didn\u2019t include \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d on the regular setlist for \u201cThe RED Tour\u201d (2013-2014). However, she performed the track as the acoustic surprise song twice: the first time being on the tour\u2019s stop in St. Paul (Minnesota) on September 8, 2013, and the second being the final show of the US leg at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville (Tennessee) on September 21, 2013. Ten years later, \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d was a surprise song on \u201cThe Eras Tour\u201d (2023-2024) in Arlington, on March 31, 2023. When she introduced the song, Taylor said: \u00abI was taking a chance with this one, because I\u2019m not sure if you guys love this one or not, or if you just like it, or if you\u2019re obsessed with it. It could be anything, really. I love this one, and when I love something I don\u2019t really care what the feedback is, so I didn\u2019t check. This is a song that I wrote that\u2019s just like a simple, wistful, sad song that I love: It\u2019s this very sad, beautiful, tragic song. I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019ve played this live before, but if I have, it would be like one time before\u2026Always think before you speak \u2013 something to learn from what just happened.\u00bb Taylor Swift On July 9, 2024, she played an acoustic mashup of the song with \u201cLast Kiss\u201d (2010) on piano in Z\u00fcrich. That night, she introduced the acoustic section by saying: \u201cSo, tonight is our 113th show of \u2018The Eras Tour,\u2019 and that\u2019s my favorite number, which I never mention, it\u2019s like a secret, no one knows that. But I just thought, since it\u2019s my favorite number, I\u2019d just do some of my favorite songs for the acoustic set and see if they\u2019re yours too!\u201d On August 16, 2024, she paired the song with \u201cDear John\u201d (2010) in London. Commercial Performance Upon the release of RED (Taylor\u2019s Version), \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d debuted and peaked at No. 85 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the week ending November 26, 2021. Taylor\u2019s Version On August 6, 2021, Taylor announced that a re-recorded version of \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic\u201d, titled \u201cSad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor\u2019s Version)\u201d, would be included on her second re-recorded album RED (Taylor\u2019s Version), which was released on November 12, 2021, through Republic Records. 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