From messy breakups to love at first sight, Taylor Swift writes it all. Her first single from her new album, Red, called “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” gives her fans a taste of what is to come in Swift’s fourth album.

      “I wrote a song called ‘Red,’ and thinking about what that means to me and all the different emotions that are written about on this album. Spanning from intense love, intense frustration and jealousy, confusion, all of that, in my mind, all of those emotions are red,” Swift said in an interview with ABC.

      Swift’s new in-your-face breakup song, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” sold 623,000 downloads, making Swift the highest digital sales in a week by a woman.

      “I think [‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’] is much different than her other songs. I think it is good, but different,” Lindsay Killips, Swift fan, said.

      Swift’s older hits such as “Love Story,” which sold 360,000 digital songs and “Today Was a Fairytale,” which sold 325,000, both revolve around a happy ending.

      “The happier songs are more relatable because breakups are more personal to you, while having a crush on somebody is more universal,” Killips said.  

       Swift’s first album, A Place In This World, labeled Swift as a country artist. Four albums later however, Swift’s first single on Red leans more towards pop than country.

      “I think [her new song] sounded different than she normally does, but it’s good for her to branch out and try different things,” Veronika Paprocka, junior, said.

      In an interview with MTV news, Swift said that her ability to express herself through writing her songs has grown throughout her career.

      “I had this song called ‘Picture to Burn’ that’s talking about ‘I hate your truck’ and ‘I hate that you ignored me,’ ‘I hate you.’ Now, the way that I would say that and the way that I would feel that kind of pain is a lot different,” Swift said. 

      Unlike in past albums when Swift wrote the albums by herself, in Red she asked different song writers such as Max Martin and Adele to be co-writers and Dan Wilson to be a collaborator. Red ranges from a U2-style song, “State of Grace,” to an acoustic duet with Ed Sherren, a U.K. singer who sang during the Olympics closing ceremony. Another song on the album features a bass breakdown, inspired by dubstep style of music. 

      “[Red] is full of co-writes and it’s full of different people producing different things, and it’s got a lot of collaborations going on,” Swift said during a live chat with her fans. “I’m so excited to for you to hear the new direction of things.”