What’s life without color? Life would literally be dull without color.
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As the multi-faceted individuals that we are, we tend to personalize color – from our favorite color to the feeling(s) that resonate with a particular color.
Blue can signify cold or even melancholy, whereas a color seemingly on the other end of the spectrum, red, can signify extreme warmth or symbolize passion when circumscribed to emotion.
Case in point: Taylor Swift, who recently announced that her upcoming album will be entitled Red. Why has she opted to simply call her fourth studio album Red?
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Well, in a YouTube webcast Monday night, Taylor said:
“All the different emotions that are written about on this album are all pretty much about the kind of tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships that I’ve experienced in the last two years. All those emotions — spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion, all of that — in my mind, all those emotions are red. You know, there’s nothing in between. There’s nothing beige about any of those feelings.”
But America’s sweetheart isn’t the only artist to name their album Red, nor is she the only artist to pick a color from the rainbow as a title to represent a body of work. GlobalGrind compiled a list of artists who named their album after a color. Some were even inspired in a similar fashion as Tay-Tay.
Check out the list below, and let us know what you think about this trend among artists.
Taylor Swift Red album (2012)
Ne-Yo R.E.D. (2012)
The Game The R.E.D. Album (2011)
Jay-Z The Black Album (2003)
Prince The Black Album (1994)
Metallica The Black Album (1991)
DJ Danger Mouse The Grey Album (2004)
Barenaked Ladies Maroon (2000)
Stefy The Orange Album (2006)
Frank Ocean Channel Orange (2012)
Asher Roth’s forthcoming sophomore effort was supposed to be called, Is This Too Orange? but he is revising the title of his album because he wants to stay away from comparisons to Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange.
