She tells Clay Moden of WYRK that her decision to form this star-studded band for the big awards show was based primarily on her aptitude to never do the same thing twice. Swift already debuted ‘Red’ at the 2013 CMT Music Awards with an energetic performance and a thigh-high slit, so she wanted to change things up.
“I really wanted to present ‘Red’ in a different way, ’cause the song is completely one thing if you hear it produced on the radio, and then it’s a completely different song if you hear it the way that we’re doing it,” Swift says during a CMA Week interview.
“I knew that in order to showcase a different, more emotional part of the song, I wanted to bring in artists who completely bring their own flare to everything … Vince Gill and Alison Krauss, they’re two of my biggest heroes,” the superstar gushes. “The music that they’ve made has influenced me so much, so to be sharing a stage with them is going to be — I’m sure — life-alteringly cool.”
That is an amazing OP.
Silly how some of Her best songs (Superstar, CIWTR, TOSOTD) are deluxe songs 
