This is in fact about Jake Gyllenhall. He was photographed by paparazzi wearing her red scarf well after the break up. Jake also still dates 20 year olds. Taylor was 20 when the started dating and he was 29. When they broke up she was 21, he started dating a 20 year old. HIs next few gf were 25 and 22. He is currently dating Jeanne Cadieu. At the time they started dating, he was 37. She was 21. "I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age."
Sorry to tell you, the scarf was not actually red, it was a navy blue scarf with gray and red in it. Since Taylor's album was called Red, she took creative license and chose red, which also has some symbolism in its color.
She finally released the 10 minute version after years of asking, pushing and begging from the fans. What she does with and for her fans is amazing from the Easter Eggs, to private sessions, sending out gifts and cards, it goes on and on.
She wrote Shake It Off when she was young; going through bullying and public attacks. It was a great song for young people to let them know they can shake it off - denying the bullie’s powers. It was a single on the radio and many older people didn’t get it and thought of it as a shallow song. I’m 73 and now love it for the life lesson it is for not only the young but for any age.
We love that song in our house. We really worried about my son transitioning to middle school with new kids who weren't used to his accommodations and non speaking autism. So we danced to shake it of or went in the trampoline every day over the summer to practice, letting it go and getting into a better mental zone. First day comes, I am playing it in the car in drop off line. A little girl stops and starts to dance along. She says she like Taylor too & needed to shake a little. She took my son by the hand to walk in with him. By the end of the first week, we had lots of kids who would walk in in bopping & shaking with him. He was getting friendship bracelets. Fast forward. He's a junior now. We threw a big Taylor party for his friends - girls and boys this summer for folks who couldn't go to the show. They had lots of fun dancing it up in our backyard.
I think everyone has experience an “All Too Well” relationship. Where the times that were good were SO good that you physically can’t purge them from your memory, and at the same time you wonder how a relationship that has such beautiful moments could leave you SO broken at the end. While the lyrics, especially in this version are incredibly specific, she wrote them in a way that everyone can still find something relatable in the song, and that is what makes her a lyrical legend. To be able to make millions of people resonate so deeply with your own specific circumstances is truly a talent and gift.
You should react to more of Taylor’s discography folklore, evermore, or even midnights are just poetry. She’s has such has a beautiful way of putting things together and making it so relatable!
I like how she repeats “I was there, I was there, I remember it all too well…like, it happened, I’m not dramatizing this, I remember it..and so do you. Almost like unfortunately she remembers it all “too” well which isn’t a great thing when that “too much” of something is quite painful. But she won’t allow what happened to be dismissed. She knows how it went down. He knows how it went down. And writing it down in the form of a song is how she coped with the pain and got it out so to speak. Some of these songs are like a purge or a cleanse that allow her to move forward imo. Great reaction! Lots of Taylor to comb through, her catalog of songs is vast, including many different genres!
She has an amazing video for this song that is like a mini movie with actors looking very much like Taylor & Jake. Seeing the lyrics come to life is pretty powerful. Highly recommend. She has 3 or 4 songs about him.
❤Now that you've done the lyrics version its as MUST that you watch the Short film w the song - its 20 minutes long but the video is amazing, features Sadie Sink from Stranger Things and Dylan Obrien ❤❤
I honestly thought about doing that version instead of the lyric… I didn’t open the description of the video and didn’t realize it was “Taylor’s Version” I was trying to be respectful to Taylor… my fault for over looking it. Dang it
You won’t regret doing multiple versions!! You can still do the short film and people will love it! I also love the Saturday Night Live performance and her Grammy piano performance of the short version which comes across as just so emotional!
@@TCBReactsthe song you reacted to is Taylor version, but there is also a short film that Taylor actually wrote and directed. It gives you more of the meaning of the song, more input, more puzzle pieces….
@@TCBReacts You’ll find that Swifties will happily listen to reactions to everything. We enjoy watching other people discover what a mastermind she is. 😉 Plus, knowing the lyrics helps with the short film; you can better understand how they tie to what’s on screen without having to pay attention to new lyrics and new visuals. (And reacting to Taylor’s Version is respectful! And very cool of you to think of that, too.)
This has always been my favorite Taylor song, but when she released the 10-minute version, I fell for it even harder. It's just written so well that she puts you right there with her. By the way, Taylor hasn't been "country/pop" in a very long time. She's done so many different genres now that I am not even sure she can be called any particular one. I would love to see you react to more Taylor, I don't think you'll ever find better songwriting. Although, I think Eminem is a great lyricist as well. I wish they'd do a song together but I doubt that would ever happen. 😂 Some of my other favorite songs of hers are "Long Live", "Dear John", "Would've, Could've, Should've", "Mad Woman", and "Exile" (ft Bon Iver).
1st time here, LOVED the time, research and respect you took into her work and lyrics. New sub Frfr! 🤗 Her LIVE performances are her best, IMO, especially from her reputation tour: *Intro + Ready For It, *I Did Something Bad (About Kanye), *Don’t Blame Me (About Joe) & the Blank Space music video is a super TREAT! 💃✌🏽😊
Taylor explains her writing process and breaks down her three writing styles during her acceptance speech at the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter-Artist of the Decade award in 2022. Taylor reveals the three imaginary genres she thinks about when writing lyrics: Quill lyrics 🪶, Fountain Pen Lyrics 🖊️, and Glitter Pen Lyrics ✨. Taylor in my opinion, and I might be biased because I am a hardcore swiftie but she is a phenomenal, one of a kind songwriter ♥️
This song was my go to for so long bc she's so good at taking you to the moments she sings about. You're Losing me has just taking it over, adding her own heartbeat to the song, love. Along with 'You're on your own kid'. Can't stop listening to those 2
It's nice to see someone so focused on her lyrics. This song has some of the best lyrics she's ever written. Also, I'm pretty sure the relationship was longer than 3 months. Based on the lyrics it sounds like they were 3 months on and 3 months off, then on again for a bit. Anyway. I'm so happy you chose this over Shake It Off. I'll concede that is a great pop song, but it's been played to death and it in no way represents her talent and who she is as an artist. I hope you continue your journey down the rabbit hole. I don't think you'll regret it.
Yes we all have a ‘jake gylenhal’s’ we can remember as a young woman. She played the 5 minute track for the first time at the Grammy’s when her album #RedTaylersversion was up for Album of the Year. That was the first and last time anyone heard it unless u were a fan and bought #Redtv. It wasn’t a single and she only performed it when she was on tour, and for a long time she would tear up. Fast forward to the re-recorded version 10 MINUTE VAULT TRACK!! She released for us .#Swifties who supported her through this process of reclaiming her life’s work. As u can tell I’m an old #Swiftie circa 2008. It was so popular it became a single in 2022 I believe lol. Anyway welcome to the fam
I think you'd really enjoy the whiplash from watching Reputation Stadium Tour right into Folklore Long Pond Sessions. Her voice is just beyond... and it's fun to hear the back stories on all those songs
For more like in depth lyrics you can go all the way back to *Mary's Song or Tied Together with a Smile from Debut (remember she's 16 when this was released and 13-16 when these were written), White Horse or The Best Day from Fearless, Dear John or Last Kiss from Speak Now, Clean from 1989, Getaway Car or New Years Day from Reputation...* From there on just take your pick on the rest of the albums. I think as time's gone on she's written less for radio playability and more for herself and her fans. But in the early days she put on a handful of radio smashes that everyone knows like Shake It Off and then there's be a few that were just quintessential Taylor Swift hit you in the hurt songs. Shake it off is great too for an entirely different reason. The video and the part people don't realize in reaction videos is that at the time people were fiercely making fun of her for not being a performer... for not being able to dance. So the entire video is her making fun of herself a bit for not dancing but also saying it's fine. And a lot of her radio hits are like that. They have hidden depth but also super catchy hooks. I Knew You Were Trouble is a prime example. A bop when you listen casually. But if you actually read the lyrics it's pretty sad.
Thank you for sharing your own experience friend! When you get a chance listen to it with headphones because when it gets to the bridge (when she gets to the "give me back my girlhood it was mine first") that whole part you can hear her just gasping for air and her voice slowly gets higher and higher very close to how she sounded when she was 19! For all of us, brightest blessings!
Check her out, performing live doing 'Are you ready for it?' from her Reputation tour or 'Vigilante shit' from her Era's tour. She is amazing live! I was shocked actually. I know this mellow side of her, not her power songs. She has a really cool video for 'Bad Blood' with Kendrick Lemar too. Her viideo's are amazing.
While her relationship with him was 100% the catalyst for writing the song, I would argue (as Taylor has said many times) that what the song is *about* is more universal; the emotional journey of the beginning and deterioration of a relationship and the recovery from it afterwards. She writes personal, but universally recognizable songs, and does it brilliantly and with perceptive observation, distilled expertly into concise but vivid lyrics. It kind of irks me how obsessive people are about *who* her songs are about. Yeah, it's interesting I guess in a gossipy kind of way, but I think it also trivializes the emotional depth of these masterpieces by treating them like tabloid sensationalized pieces. Or is that just me? Anyway, this is one of my all-time favorites but she has dozens more in this same league. Happy rabbit-holing.
You need to listen to my Tears Ricochet The Long Pond set with the description of the song. It is about Scott Borchetta and Big Machine Records and how they stole her masters by selling them without letting her buy them.
i’m glad you chose to react to this and not Shake It Off. and although Shake It Off might be one of her biggest hits there might actually be like 50 songs you should react to before Shake It Off. no exaggeration.
In these comments, people have been suggesting a lot of TSwift songs, all of which are great. I’ve decided to offer some links to some of them that might help you find the best versions. BTW: I’m often surprised by how many non-fans don’t realize that Taylor’s music ranges over several styles and genres (pop, country, folk, alt, indie, rock, and all possible hyphenated combinations of these). I also want to emphasize that her live performances and music videos are both fantastic. I would suggest that, ideally, you should plan on doing a combination of music video and live performance for each song where both exist. For her folklore album, I’d recommend clips from her Long Pond Sessions movie. Here are some to consider: Exile (Long Pond Sessions) ua-cam.com/video/o5SQIECedTY/v-deo.html Taylor Swift - august (folklore : the long pond studio sessions | Disney+) ua-cam.com/video/PQR4hAc2mvY/v-deo.html My Tears Ricochet (Long Pond Sessions) ua-cam.com/video/Idjs-hw7Spg/v-deo.html Taylor Swift - this is me trying (the long pond studio sessions) ua-cam.com/video/s2EvrDYRHvk/v-deo.html Reputation Stadium Tour movie: intro + "ready for it?" ua-cam.com/video/2QJaf6qq8jQ/v-deo.html Ready For It? (music video) ua-cam.com/video/wIft-t-MQuE/v-deo.html Taylor Swift - intro + look what you made me do # live reputation tour ua-cam.com/video/1WhDBaBWlnc/v-deo.html Look What You Made Me Do (official music video) ua-cam.com/video/3tmd-ClpJxA/v-deo.html (So here is a good chance to try my “double-header” suggestion.) Don't Blame Me - Taylor Swift • Reputation Tour ua-cam.com/video/seOJleBbf-U/v-deo.html Taylor Swift 'Vigilante Shit' The Eras Tour (Movie Ver.) ua-cam.com/video/1qnRUPYEfdg/v-deo.html
Often you tube deletes posts with links to prevent spam & strange links for family friendly channels. That's why lots of people don't add them Just FYI. It's nice that you did.
Great Reaction!! Subscribed to more Taylor Swift!!!! Glad to see a partner like You diving to ..The Journey of an Experience❤! Im a Heavy Metal musician/singer/songwriter too ( for side jobs😅), and You will understand this: My primary in Music is LYRICS and then the perfect music to guide with Feelings those lyrics....That's why my Favorites: Iron Maiden = Best History songs Queensryche = Best fiction Concept Album ( Operation Mindcrime) TAYLOR SWIFT = Best Autobiografical Storyteller in multifacetical GENRES She's a Genious Mastermind in all She does...also as an actress,Director and Producer of many of Her own videos...like Anti-hero WARNING: If you are ready for it... in this journey, by discovering Her golden 💛....you'll find lost places in your ❤ ..Never Imagined!! I suggest : The Long Pond Studio Sessions ( in Disney + ), that's the complete Album FOLKLORE In acoustic version with Her explaining every song !!
Great reaction! You need to react to ”Dear John” and ”Would have, could have, should have”, in that order. Those are about different relationship break up and quite powerful too
They started dating in the fall. Jake wore alot of plaid flannel shirts, not long after they started dating he took her to spend Thanksgiving with his family at his sister Maggie's house in upstate New York. They broke up when he didn't show up for her 21st birthday after saying he would. He didn't even tell her he changed his mind. He called the next day to apologize. She knew the relationship was over when he didn't show up. You MUST WATCH the video version of this. It is incredible! It is good to have listened to the words first so you can pick up on little things in the video. She directed the video. She writes or co-writes all of her songs, produces many of them and directs some of her videos. She has her own management and production company which she is the CEO of. Her parents are directly underneath her. She hand picked everyone on her team. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THAT YOU GIVE A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON!!! YOU JUST GOT A NEW SUBSCRIBER. 🫶
P.S.S. The album name is Red. She named it that because red can signify the emotions of love and anger. They were together only three months. Taylor loves hard. He tried to get back together but she said no.
A few of her other magnificent songs were about other heartbreaks by John Mayer...Dear John from Speak Now, and the sister song Would've, Could've, Should've. In that song, the lyrics often repeat Would've and Could've, but only Should've in the chorus. However, i think that's because all the Should'ves are back in Dear John. Last kiss was beautiful heartbreak song about Joe Jonas. But All Too Well takes the cake. I just heard an interview saying the original version was actually 20 minutes long! Jake broke her heart hard.
Note that Taylor had said that the scarf is a metaphor, and to stop asking Jake to return it. Folks have drawn some pretty intrusive conclusions from that, which is kinda… gross, imo, but I guess ymmv. She’s also taken, on her re-releases, to ask fans not to harass the people they believe these songs to be about.
This was a much better choice than Shake it Off. They’re both good songs but this one in particular is a way better example of what she’s capable of lyrically. She’s legitimately a poet and her radio hits don’t necessarily showcase that talent.
That is so true. I had no idea,until i saw The Eras Tour movie. I knew more songs than i had expected. Now I am a fan. The joy of the concert and the little girls dancing and singing in the theatre. Just beautiful.
Shake it Off is meant to be sarcastic but it’s very poppy. I enjoy it a lot but it’s not everybody’s cup of tea. This album Red made me a Taylor Swift fan, this song is actually one of my favorites ever. If you like to deep dive into her music I highly recommend Folklore and Evermore these two are sister albums and amazing
First. The publicly dated 3 months… often celebrities don’t go out in public with their relationship right away. A good example of that is Taylor and her current boyfriend Travis. When the world though we saw their first dates back in September/October 2023 they had already been seeing each other for 2-3 months.. Jake Gyllenhaal was 30 and Taylor 20 when the dated. The relationship seem to have been quite toxic and filled by gaslighting/lov-bombing. Taylor dated Jake after dating John Mayer who she dated when she was 19 and he was 32. (Although the meet way before that after John “slit into her DM’s asking her to do a duet with him. Notice he contacted her directly, not her manager or any of her team. They recorded the duet and then when on tour together, then they officially” started dating. In my opinion he was grooming her and this before she was 18. In interviews John called Taylor a child and talked about a moment when they where rehearsing and he turned around and saw her sitting on her knees drawing pictures on a piece of paper, so innocent and childlike. In a interview with Ellen she even replied “well I hope she stays like that” At the time John Mayer was known as a “lady’s man” he had dated some of the really big names during this time. Before dating Taylor he dated Jessica Simpson. She has written about how toxic and abusive there relationship was in her memoirs . After their break up John went on radio bashing their sexlife and completely shamed Jessica for how her body looked. Taylor has written several songs about John Mayer to. Among them “Dear John” and “would’ve could’ve should’ve (which she wrote when she was 32, the age John was when they dated)) So, unfortunately Taylor was in 2 toxic/abusive relationship when she was very young. Those relationships and going through them has damaged her and impacted her life and all the relationships that followed.
And on top of that the media blamed HER for those relationships, calling her toxic, a maneater, implying she was a slut after being “such a good girl,” and that she was going after “these men” just so she could write breakup songs. She was labeled trouble, someone to avoid dating, etc… it was really, really awful.
Billboard actually just ranked this song as the number one break-up song of all time. In the song she clearly says that they broke up and then after the relationship had spent "3 months in the grave" he came back, calling it love and wanted to try again, but kept her a secret. Taylor also wrote "We are never ever getting back together " about this relationship, because they had an on and off relationship for WAY longer than people know. So this was longer than a 3 month relationship.
Oh you haven’t heard the true heartbreak of Taylor swift you need to listen to dear John which is about her relationship with John Mayer and do the Taylor’s version
The 'f* the patriarchy' part. A lot of people miss that it's the words that are written on his keychain rather than a phrase she's actually saying/calling him. A keychain he threw at her. But there's some tension there. Like the keychain--his keychain--says 'f* the patriarchy' yet he's sort of a hypocrite. A guy gaslighting her about how serious their relationship was. She's repeating and repeating that she was there... like she's not crazy... it was a serious relationship. And as it ends she ends on 'you remember it' ... like dude admit we were together and a couple and it was a big deal. But he's a guy who's not emotionally available. A guy dating younger women perpetually. A guy who downplays what she was to him. Sounds like a stereotypical guy to me.
@@TCBReacts No, "All Too Well" is grammatically correct. "To" is a preposition (at least most of the time), which means it would be used before a noun/pronoun to show direction, time, place, or the relationship between two nouns. "Too" can mean "also," but "too" is also an adverb, so it can describe an adjective. In the phrase "all too well," "too" is describing "well." You would see a similar usage of the word "too" in a sentence like, "you're walking too fast," where "too" would describe "fast."
Anytime you see someone claim a song is about so and so take it with a grain of salt. Taylor doesn't confirm who songs are about, but says that they know who they are, so unless they do a dumb like John Mayer there is no official confirmation. Swifties map details from the publicly known parts of her relationships to details in songs, but no guarantee they're correct.
@@Kellendras1 I mean, it's not really a grain of salt for Maggie to say that the exact opening verse happened. 🤷🏼♀ Is it possible Swift used different experiences for the song? Sure - but the specific details she put in have been confirmed by other people in the song, who were there. (And Taylor herself has confirmed how long she dated JG.)
This is in fact about Jake Gyllenhall. He was photographed by paparazzi wearing her red scarf well after the break up. Jake also still dates 20 year olds. Taylor was 20 when the started dating and he was 29. When they broke up she was 21, he started dating a 20 year old. HIs next few gf were 25 and 22. He is currently dating Jeanne Cadieu. At the time they started dating, he was 37. She was 21. "I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age."
Sorry to tell you, the scarf was not actually red, it was a navy blue scarf with gray and red in it. Since Taylor's album was called Red, she took creative license and chose red, which also has some symbolism in its color.
She said in her TIFF interview that the scarf 'is a metaphor".
@@malva-yk2jg The scarf exists, but red is probably the metaphor.
@@Violet316 not only it's real but there's also a gray scarf that appears on the we are never ever getting back together music video lol
The scarf is a metaphor for her virginity
This is considered her magnum opus by many in the Swiftie fandom.
She’s an amazing writer. The Folklore and evermore albums are like poetry. Every album she does is a different vibe aka era. She’s very versatile
These lyrics are some of the best ever written. By anyone. Ever. ❤
She finally released the 10 minute version after years of asking, pushing and begging from the fans. What she does with and for her fans is amazing from the Easter Eggs, to private sessions, sending out gifts and cards, it goes on and on.
She wrote Shake It Off when she was young; going through bullying and public attacks. It was a great song for young people to let them know they can shake it off - denying the bullie’s powers. It was a single on the radio and many older people didn’t get it and thought of it as a shallow song. I’m 73 and now love it for the life lesson it is for not only the young but for any age.
We love that song in our house. We really worried about my son transitioning to middle school with new kids who weren't used to his accommodations and non speaking autism. So we danced to shake it of or went in the trampoline every day over the summer to practice, letting it go and getting into a better mental zone.
First day comes, I am playing it in the car in drop off line. A little girl stops and starts to dance along. She says she like Taylor too & needed to shake a little. She took my son by the hand to walk in with him.
By the end of the first week, we had lots of kids who would walk in in bopping & shaking with him. He was getting friendship bracelets.
Fast forward. He's a junior now. We threw a big Taylor party for his friends - girls and boys this summer for folks who couldn't go to the show. They had lots of fun dancing it up in our backyard.
I love Mean, look what you made me do and Vigilante Sh*t personally. But Mama is a little more jaded. 😂
I think everyone has experience an “All Too Well” relationship. Where the times that were good were SO good that you physically can’t purge them from your memory, and at the same time you wonder how a relationship that has such beautiful moments could leave you SO broken at the end. While the lyrics, especially in this version are incredibly specific, she wrote them in a way that everyone can still find something relatable in the song, and that is what makes her a lyrical legend. To be able to make millions of people resonate so deeply with your own specific circumstances is truly a talent and gift.
You should react to more of Taylor’s discography folklore, evermore, or even midnights are just poetry. She’s has such has a beautiful way of putting things together and making it so relatable!
I like how she repeats “I was there, I was there, I remember it all too well…like, it happened, I’m not dramatizing this, I remember it..and so do you. Almost like unfortunately she remembers it all “too” well which isn’t a great thing when that “too much” of something is quite painful. But she won’t allow what happened to be dismissed. She knows how it went down. He knows how it went down. And writing it down in the form of a song is how she coped with the pain and got it out so to speak. Some of these songs are like a purge or a cleanse that allow her to move forward imo. Great reaction! Lots of Taylor to comb through, her catalog of songs is vast, including many different genres!
I do appreciate the song history addition, havent see anyone else do that1👍
The music video to this is like watching a movie. It leaves you feeling speechless and sad that she was ever treated like that.
She has an amazing video for this song that is like a mini movie with actors looking very much like Taylor & Jake. Seeing the lyrics come to life is pretty powerful. Highly recommend. She has 3 or 4 songs about him.
❤Now that you've done the lyrics version
its as MUST that you watch the Short film w the song
- its 20 minutes long but the video is amazing,
features Sadie Sink from Stranger Things and Dylan Obrien ❤❤
I honestly thought about doing that version instead of the lyric… I didn’t open the description of the video and didn’t realize it was “Taylor’s Version” I was trying to be respectful to Taylor… my fault for over looking it. Dang it
You won’t regret doing multiple versions!!
You can still do the short film and people will love it!
I also love the Saturday Night Live performance and her Grammy piano performance of the short version which comes across as just so emotional!
@@TCBReacts❤
@@TCBReactsthe song you reacted to is Taylor version, but there is also a short film that Taylor actually wrote and directed. It gives you more of the meaning of the song, more input, more puzzle pieces….
@@TCBReacts You’ll find that Swifties will happily listen to reactions to everything. We enjoy watching other people discover what a mastermind she is. 😉 Plus, knowing the lyrics helps with the short film; you can better understand how they tie to what’s on screen without having to pay attention to new lyrics and new visuals. (And reacting to Taylor’s Version is respectful! And very cool of you to think of that, too.)
This has always been my favorite Taylor song, but when she released the 10-minute version, I fell for it even harder. It's just written so well that she puts you right there with her. By the way, Taylor hasn't been "country/pop" in a very long time. She's done so many different genres now that I am not even sure she can be called any particular one. I would love to see you react to more Taylor, I don't think you'll ever find better songwriting. Although, I think Eminem is a great lyricist as well. I wish they'd do a song together but I doubt that would ever happen. 😂
Some of my other favorite songs of hers are "Long Live", "Dear John", "Would've, Could've, Should've", "Mad Woman", and "Exile" (ft Bon Iver).
1st time here, LOVED the time, research and respect you took into her work and lyrics. New sub Frfr! 🤗 Her LIVE performances are her best, IMO, especially from her reputation tour: *Intro + Ready For It, *I Did Something Bad (About Kanye), *Don’t Blame Me (About Joe) & the Blank Space music video is a super TREAT! 💃✌🏽😊
Thank you thank you thank you 🙏
Taylor explains her writing process and breaks down her three writing styles during her acceptance speech at the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter-Artist of the Decade award in 2022.
Taylor reveals the three imaginary genres she thinks about when writing lyrics: Quill lyrics 🪶, Fountain Pen Lyrics 🖊️, and Glitter Pen Lyrics ✨. Taylor in my opinion, and I might be biased because I am a hardcore swiftie but she is a phenomenal, one of a kind songwriter ♥️
This song was my go to for so long bc she's so good at taking you to the moments she sings about. You're Losing me has just taking it over, adding her own heartbeat to the song, love. Along with 'You're on your own kid'. Can't stop listening to those 2
It's nice to see someone so focused on her lyrics. This song has some of the best lyrics she's ever written. Also, I'm pretty sure the relationship was longer than 3 months. Based on the lyrics it sounds like they were 3 months on and 3 months off, then on again for a bit. Anyway.
I'm so happy you chose this over Shake It Off. I'll concede that is a great pop song, but it's been played to death and it in no way represents her talent and who she is as an artist. I hope you continue your journey down the rabbit hole. I don't think you'll regret it.
Yes we all have a ‘jake gylenhal’s’ we can remember as a young woman. She played the 5 minute track for the first time at the Grammy’s when her album #RedTaylersversion was up for Album of the Year. That was the first and last time anyone heard it unless u were a fan and bought #Redtv. It wasn’t a single and she only performed it when she was on tour, and for a long time she would tear up. Fast forward to the re-recorded version 10 MINUTE VAULT TRACK!! She released for us .#Swifties who supported her through this process of reclaiming her life’s work. As u can tell I’m an old #Swiftie circa 2008. It was so popular it became a single in 2022 I believe lol. Anyway welcome to the fam
I think you'd really enjoy the whiplash from watching Reputation Stadium Tour right into Folklore Long Pond Sessions. Her voice is just beyond... and it's fun to hear the back stories on all those songs
I've listened to this song since it was released originally and I learned some stuff here today
The part of this song that Her Father said: it's Supposed to be Fun....turning 21.....There's another song that explains ( The moment I Knew ))
For more like in depth lyrics you can go all the way back to *Mary's Song or Tied Together with a Smile from Debut (remember she's 16 when this was released and 13-16 when these were written), White Horse or The Best Day from Fearless, Dear John or Last Kiss from Speak Now, Clean from 1989, Getaway Car or New Years Day from Reputation...* From there on just take your pick on the rest of the albums. I think as time's gone on she's written less for radio playability and more for herself and her fans. But in the early days she put on a handful of radio smashes that everyone knows like Shake It Off and then there's be a few that were just quintessential Taylor Swift hit you in the hurt songs. Shake it off is great too for an entirely different reason. The video and the part people don't realize in reaction videos is that at the time people were fiercely making fun of her for not being a performer... for not being able to dance. So the entire video is her making fun of herself a bit for not dancing but also saying it's fine. And a lot of her radio hits are like that. They have hidden depth but also super catchy hooks. I Knew You Were Trouble is a prime example. A bop when you listen casually. But if you actually read the lyrics it's pretty sad.
Fellow nuggets stan and swiftie, appreciate your intent listening and genuine reaction!
Thank you for sharing your own experience friend! When you get a chance listen to it with headphones because when it gets to the bridge (when she gets to the "give me back my girlhood it was mine first") that whole part you can hear her just gasping for air and her voice slowly gets higher and higher very close to how she sounded when she was 19! For all of us, brightest blessings!
Check her out, performing live doing 'Are you ready for it?' from her Reputation tour or 'Vigilante shit' from her Era's tour. She is amazing live! I was shocked actually. I know this mellow side of her, not her power songs. She has a really cool video for 'Bad Blood' with Kendrick Lemar too. Her viideo's are amazing.
It’s funny how you were deciding between this and Shake it off😂 managed to pick between 2 songs that could not be more different hahah
While her relationship with him was 100% the catalyst for writing the song, I would argue (as Taylor has said many times) that what the song is *about* is more universal; the emotional journey of the beginning and deterioration of a relationship and the recovery from it afterwards. She writes personal, but universally recognizable songs, and does it brilliantly and with perceptive observation, distilled expertly into concise but vivid lyrics. It kind of irks me how obsessive people are about *who* her songs are about. Yeah, it's interesting I guess in a gossipy kind of way, but I think it also trivializes the emotional depth of these masterpieces by treating them like tabloid sensationalized pieces. Or is that just me? Anyway, this is one of my all-time favorites but she has dozens more in this same league. Happy rabbit-holing.
You need to listen to my Tears Ricochet The Long Pond set with the description of the song. It is about Scott Borchetta and Big Machine Records and how they stole her masters by selling them without letting her buy them.
It is a beautiful song
I bet you would like “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” from the 1989 World Tour…it is a special version that probably right up your alley. 😊
i’m glad you chose to react to this and not Shake It Off. and although Shake It Off might be one of her biggest hits there might actually be like 50 songs you should react to before Shake It Off. no exaggeration.
In these comments, people have been suggesting a lot of TSwift songs, all of which are great. I’ve decided to offer some links to some of them that might help you find the best versions. BTW: I’m often surprised by how many non-fans don’t realize that Taylor’s music ranges over several styles and genres (pop, country, folk, alt, indie, rock, and all possible hyphenated combinations of these). I also want to emphasize that her live performances and music videos are both fantastic. I would suggest that, ideally, you should plan on doing a combination of music video and live performance for each song where both exist.
For her folklore album, I’d recommend clips from her Long Pond Sessions movie. Here are some to consider:
Exile (Long Pond Sessions)
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Taylor Swift - august (folklore : the long pond studio sessions | Disney+)
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My Tears Ricochet (Long Pond Sessions)
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Taylor Swift - this is me trying (the long pond studio sessions)
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Reputation Stadium Tour movie: intro + "ready for it?"
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Ready For It? (music video)
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Taylor Swift - intro + look what you made me do # live reputation tour
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Look What You Made Me Do (official music video)
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(So here is a good chance to try my “double-header” suggestion.)
Don't Blame Me - Taylor Swift • Reputation Tour
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Taylor Swift 'Vigilante Shit' The Eras Tour (Movie Ver.)
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Often you tube deletes posts with links to prevent spam & strange links for family friendly channels.
That's why lots of people don't add them
Just FYI.
It's nice that you did.
Great Reaction!! Subscribed to more Taylor Swift!!!!
Glad to see a partner like You diving to ..The Journey of an Experience❤! Im a Heavy Metal musician/singer/songwriter too ( for side jobs😅), and You will understand this: My primary in Music is LYRICS and then the perfect music to guide with Feelings those lyrics....That's why my Favorites:
Iron Maiden = Best History songs
Queensryche = Best fiction Concept Album ( Operation Mindcrime)
TAYLOR SWIFT = Best Autobiografical Storyteller in multifacetical GENRES
She's a Genious Mastermind in all She does...also as an actress,Director and Producer of many of Her own videos...like Anti-hero
WARNING: If you are ready for it... in this journey, by discovering Her golden 💛....you'll find lost places in your ❤ ..Never Imagined!!
I suggest : The Long Pond Studio Sessions ( in Disney + ), that's the complete Album FOLKLORE In acoustic version with Her explaining every song !!
Great reaction! You need to react to ”Dear John” and ”Would have, could have, should have”, in that order. Those are about different relationship break up and quite powerful too
If you enjoyed this one, you really should listen to The Moment I Knew. They’re kind of sister songs.
Listen to we are never ever getting back together from the 1989 tour! Rock version! You’ll love it!!!
Maybe watch the Short Film all too well, has just as much power visually, thank you for this reaction ❤
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They started dating in the fall. Jake wore alot of plaid flannel shirts, not long after they started dating he took her to spend Thanksgiving with his family at his sister Maggie's house in upstate New York. They broke up when he didn't show up for her 21st birthday after saying he would. He didn't even tell her he changed his mind. He called the next day to apologize. She knew the relationship was over when he didn't show up.
You MUST WATCH the video version of this. It is incredible! It is good to have listened to the words first so you can pick up on little things in the video. She directed the video.
She writes or co-writes all of her songs, produces many of them and directs some of her videos. She has her own management and production company which she is the CEO of. Her parents are directly underneath her. She hand picked everyone on her team.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THAT YOU GIVE A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON!!! YOU JUST GOT A NEW SUBSCRIBER. 🫶
P.S. She chose actors that are the same age difference as her and Jake.
P.S.S. The album name is Red. She named it that because red can signify the emotions of love and anger.
They were together only three months. Taylor loves hard. He tried to get back together but she said no.
A few of her other magnificent songs were about other heartbreaks by John Mayer...Dear John from Speak Now, and the sister song Would've, Could've, Should've. In that song, the lyrics often repeat Would've and Could've, but only Should've in the chorus. However, i think that's because all the Should'ves are back in Dear John. Last kiss was beautiful heartbreak song about Joe Jonas. But All Too Well takes the cake. I just heard an interview saying the original version was actually 20 minutes long! Jake broke her heart hard.
Watch the short film version, even more powerful and a real tear jerker!
This is about Jake. “I bet you think about me” is about him, as well
The video is hilarious as well!
Note that Taylor had said that the scarf is a metaphor, and to stop asking Jake to return it. Folks have drawn some pretty intrusive conclusions from that, which is kinda… gross, imo, but I guess ymmv. She’s also taken, on her re-releases, to ask fans not to harass the people they believe these songs to be about.
After this you need to watch the short-film!
SUBSCRIBED. expecting more if her
her 1989 album is good - Blank space is about her rivalary with the media and “out of the woods”’is about her relationship with Harry Styled
Do Exile long pond session with Bon Iver! I promise it will blow you away!
This was a much better choice than Shake it Off. They’re both good songs but this one in particular is a way better example of what she’s capable of lyrically. She’s legitimately a poet and her radio hits don’t necessarily showcase that talent.
That is so true. I had no idea,until i saw The Eras Tour movie. I knew more songs than i had expected. Now I am a fan. The joy of the concert and the little girls dancing and singing in the theatre. Just beautiful.
Shake it Off is meant to be sarcastic but it’s very poppy. I enjoy it a lot but it’s not everybody’s cup of tea. This album Red made me a Taylor Swift fan, this song is actually one of my favorites ever.
If you like to deep dive into her music I highly recommend Folklore and Evermore these two are sister albums and amazing
First. The publicly dated 3 months… often celebrities don’t go out in public with their relationship right away. A good example of that is Taylor and her current boyfriend Travis. When the world though we saw their first dates back in September/October 2023 they had already been seeing each other for 2-3 months.. Jake Gyllenhaal was 30 and Taylor 20 when the dated. The relationship seem to have been quite toxic and filled by gaslighting/lov-bombing. Taylor dated Jake after dating John Mayer who she dated when she was 19 and he was 32. (Although the meet way before that after John “slit into her DM’s asking her to do a duet with him. Notice he contacted her directly, not her manager or any of her team. They recorded the duet and then when on tour together, then they officially” started dating. In my opinion he was grooming her and this before she was 18. In interviews John called Taylor a child and talked about a moment when they where rehearsing and he turned around and saw her sitting on her knees drawing pictures on a piece of paper, so innocent and childlike. In a interview with Ellen she even replied “well I hope she stays like that” At the time John Mayer was known as a “lady’s man” he had dated some of the really big names during this time. Before dating Taylor he dated Jessica Simpson. She has written about how toxic and abusive there relationship was in her memoirs . After their break up John went on radio bashing their sexlife and completely shamed Jessica for how her body looked.
Taylor has written several songs about John Mayer to. Among them “Dear John” and “would’ve could’ve should’ve (which she wrote when she was 32, the age John was when they dated)) So, unfortunately Taylor was in 2 toxic/abusive relationship when she was very young. Those relationships and going through them has damaged her and impacted her life and all the relationships that followed.
And on top of that the media blamed HER for those relationships, calling her toxic, a maneater, implying she was a slut after being “such a good girl,” and that she was going after “these men” just so she could write breakup songs. She was labeled trouble, someone to avoid dating, etc… it was really, really awful.
watch the short film version - it is incredible!
I started watching Taylor because I’m from KC. I enjoyed your review. Come visit. We can be safe.
My favorite shirt I saw at the Eras tour was a man and it said “WHERE’S THE SCARF, JAKE?” 😂
Love doesn't keep time. A 3 mth relationship can have more of an impact & be more meaningful to you than a 3 yr one - esp if it's your first love.
If he still has the scarf he should auction it for charity. That thing is biblical at this point
Billboard actually just ranked this song as the number one break-up song of all time. In the song she clearly says that they broke up and then after the relationship had spent "3 months in the grave" he came back, calling it love and wanted to try again, but kept her a secret. Taylor also wrote "We are never ever getting back together " about this relationship, because they had an on and off relationship for WAY longer than people know. So this was longer than a 3 month relationship.
Oh you haven’t heard the true heartbreak of Taylor swift you need to listen to dear John which is about her relationship with John Mayer and do the Taylor’s version
John Mayer dated only younger girls he was 31 and she was 19-20
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The scarf is a metaphor 😏
They were together over 10 months and she was very much in love with Jake
The 'f* the patriarchy' part. A lot of people miss that it's the words that are written on his keychain rather than a phrase she's actually saying/calling him. A keychain he threw at her. But there's some tension there. Like the keychain--his keychain--says 'f* the patriarchy' yet he's sort of a hypocrite. A guy gaslighting her about how serious their relationship was. She's repeating and repeating that she was there... like she's not crazy... it was a serious relationship. And as it ends she ends on 'you remember it' ... like dude admit we were together and a couple and it was a big deal. But he's a guy who's not emotionally available. A guy dating younger women perpetually. A guy who downplays what she was to him. Sounds like a stereotypical guy to me.
This.
React all too well short film please
TOO
It’s All Too Well, not All To Well
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Well you are correct so I’ll fix it but it’s not grammatically correct lol “Too” means “Also” it reads All Also Well… hmmm 🤔
@@TCBReacts No, "All Too Well" is grammatically correct. "To" is a preposition (at least most of the time), which means it would be used before a noun/pronoun to show direction, time, place, or the relationship between two nouns. "Too" can mean "also," but "too" is also an adverb, so it can describe an adjective. In the phrase "all too well," "too" is describing "well." You would see a similar usage of the word "too" in a sentence like, "you're walking too fast," where "too" would describe "fast."
Anytime you see someone claim a song is about so and so take it with a grain of salt. Taylor doesn't confirm who songs are about, but says that they know who they are, so unless they do a dumb like John Mayer there is no official confirmation. Swifties map details from the publicly known parts of her relationships to details in songs, but no guarantee they're correct.
Maggie actually accidentally confirmed this song was about Jake.
@@khillsit probably is,but Maggie didn't write the song. So that's a grain of salt,unless Taylor ever says.
@@Kellendras1 I mean, it's not really a grain of salt for Maggie to say that the exact opening verse happened. 🤷🏼♀ Is it possible Swift used different experiences for the song? Sure - but the specific details she put in have been confirmed by other people in the song, who were there. (And Taylor herself has confirmed how long she dated JG.)