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| Single by Taylor Swift | ||||
| from the album 1989 | ||||
| Released | February 23, 2016 | |||
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| Genre | Synth-pop | |||
| Length | 3:50 | |||
| Label | Big Machine | |||
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| "New Romantics" on YouTube | ||||
"New Romantics" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, who wrote it with the producers Max Martin and Shellback. The title is a reference to a cultural movement of the 1970s and 1980s, whose new wave musical style influenced the song's synth-pop production and pulsating synthesizers. The lyrics are about reigniting one's hopes and energy after emotional hardships.
A deluxe-edition bonus track of Swift's fifth studio album, 1989, "New Romantics" was released as the album's seventh and final radio single on February 23, 2016, by Big Machine in affiliation with Republic Records. The music video is a compilation of footage from Swift's 1989 World Tour. "New Romantics" peaked at number 46 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The single peaked in the top 40 on the charts in Belgian Flanders, Lebanon, Scotland, and Australia, being certified double platinum in the lattermost country.
Many music critics hailed the energetic and lively atmosphere of "New Romantics"; they lamented its exclusion from 1989's standard edition and ranked it as one of Swift's best songs. A few critics otherwise deemed it a forgettable track. In 2019, Rolling Stone included the song on their list of the 100 best songs of the 2010s decade. Following the 2019 dispute regarding the ownership of Swift's back catalog, she re-recorded the song as "New Romantics (Taylor's Version)" for her re-recorded album 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023).