Taylor Swift - New Romantics

About "New Romantics"

"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 the New Romantic cultural movement of the 1970s and 1980s; the new wave musical style of those decades influenced the song's synth-pop production and pulsating synthesizers. The lyrics are about reigniting one's hopes and energy after emotional hardships.

"New Romantics" was originally released as a deluxe-edition bonus track of Swift's fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). Big Machine Records released the track as an iTunes Store-exclusive download on March 3, 2015, and as 1989's final radio single on February 23, 2016, in partnership with Republic Records. Released as an Apple Music exclusive on April 6, 2016, the music video is a compilation of footage from Swift's 1989 World Tour (2015). "New Romantics" peaked at number 46 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It also peaked in the top 40 on charts in Australia, Belgian Flanders, Lebanon, and Scotland.

Many music critics who hailed the energetic and lively atmosphere of "New Romantics" lamented its exclusion from 1989's standard edition and ranked it as one of Swift's best songs; a few otherwise deemed it a forgettable track. Rolling Stone in 2019 included the track 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).