She also produced a short film about this song. It’s definitely one of her best songs! I don’t listen to much of her but you have to respect her talent! She’s definitely one of the best song writers of all time! ❤
To be able to write a 10 min song without being too repetitive and keep you engaged… a real feat. I personally believe this song is a master class in songwriting.
I wish other people would listen to song writers like yourself or people like us swifties when we say she is an incredible songwriter and not to judge her from her radio hits. I’ve finally had to tell a few people “Well if you don’t think so I guess you can take it up with Sir Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen since they both think she is one of the greatest songwriters there is” Paul McCartney has even changed release dates on albums before to not compete with her and she does visa versa with him because they have so much respect for each other.
I’m not one to judge over age gaps- Jake was 29 going on 30, Taylor was 20 going on 21- but just over the past month I’ve been realizing how traumatizing they can be when the older lover is toxic and plays games. I fell in love with a 37 year old man when I was 21. And let me tell you… when he left I was devastated, just like Taylor was. Happy you posted this. I recently discovered the 10-minute version and have been watching reactions like crazy! It’s always nice to see your genuine reactions.
I really truly feel like All Too Well healed something in me. Anyone who has been been so in love with someone, only to be "kept like a secret" and heartbroken in the end, knows that this song was written out of grief. But this song really helped me process a lot of internal shit, and I will always be grateful to Taylor Alison Swift for giving us this little piece of her soul.
This song is a masterpiece. Those lyrics and the pictures she paints with them, that's true storytelling. Nothing more to say. By the way, it's not an extended version. It's how the song started. It needed to be cut down for the album.
Her ability to mine her feelings and memories and render a lyric we can all relate to is phenomenal. They teach Taylor Swift lyrics in university creative writing courses now. As a novelist, I'm in awe. And taking notes. The specific details paired with haunting emotion and poetic wording -- *chef's kiss*. Thanks, Cliff, for a great reaction to a Swift masterpiece.
My FAVORITE Taylor Swift song (10 minute version). Thank you. The 10 minute film that Taylor also Directed, is amazing. You have to watch the film. Taylor performed this 10 minute version live on SNL, with the Film running in the background.
Her long Pond session film shows her making her songs and talking about what the inspiration was behind her writing that song. Check them out on one of your reaction videos. I promise you won't be disappointed
I'm so very proud of Taylor!!! She went from an unknown country singer who is now a very rich and well loved BILLIONAIRE!!! She is ALWAYS working. I don't think she's human. 😂😂😂
They dated officially for 3 months, but as she says in the song, they had an on and off again relationship in secret for way longer than that after. She also talks about that vicious circle of this relationship in her song "We are never ever getting back together"
I love her live Grammy performance of the original version. It's one of my favourite live performances of any song by any artist. You really get the emotions behind this song. Very real.
5:46 -- Yep, that little smile is unavoidable at the "dancing round the kitchen in the refrigerator light" lyric lol. It is SUCHHH a good lyric, and such a visceral thing, we've all opened a fridge late at night and experienced that very particular way it lights up the room when the lights are all off.
I never really listen to Taylor Swift and then she started dating Travis Kelce from the Chiefs and I said let me listen to her music and I am so highly impressed like I’ve heard her before obviously but I thought she was like these teeny bopper songs you know she’s incredible songwriter, and singer now I can’t stop listening to her and I’m going through each of her catalogs listening like I didn’t know she could rap and she’s good at it but her song my tears ricochet. Oh my goodness I was crying like a baby.
You should definitely check out the short film she made for All Too Well, it's AMAZING and stars Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) and Dylan O'Brien (The Maze Runner).
The song is about her relationship with Jake G. The 10 min version doesn’t take away from the original song structure. She wrote the song to be this long but had to cut it down because the record company didn’t want that long of a song on the Red album. When she re-recorded her “Taylor’s Version”, she added the entire 10 minute version as a vault track. Please also watch the All Too Well short film on UA-cam. It’s amazing and really brings the whole song together with visuals. Taylor directed it as well and it has actors Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien and they are great in it.
I can't tell you enough how much I love you reacting to Taylor Swift. I started watching you from your first Em reaction! Eminem and Taylor are two of my favorite artists (yeah, I'm weird), and I've always loved your reactions. This is just PERFECT for me!
Loved your reaction. I don't know why this song is always reminding me of a relationship I had when I was 23. He dumped me and had actually been cheating on me. I sob every single time I listen to this song and it's been decades since that relationship. lol This is what Taylor does to people.
Swift’s exceptional at writing about so many kinds of relationships, including business relationships. Some of her most powerful songwriting has revolved around the masters debacle. Genius of her to write those in such a way that people who don’t know anything about that whole issue might assume a romantic relationship, making those songs even more relatable to everyone.
'And you call me up again just to break me like a promise' is a reference to another song of hers called The moment I knew. She was having her 21st birthday party and he promised her that he would be there, but he never showed up. He later called her to say sorry for not being there. He broke her like he broke his promise to show up.
I’m like you, not a Swifty at all, but I appreciate everything she’s done as an artist, songwriter and performer. The short film version of this is beautiful. Sadie Sink gave a helluva performance in it. Cheers!
A few other songs by Taylor Swift that are worth checking out are The Man, This is the Last Time ft. Gary Lightbody, wildest Dreams, and Anti-Hero.... I don't know how she does it but she just knows how to convey something so specific yet general at the same time..... I guess thats the genius of Taylor Swift ❤
This track has some great lyrics, but I love the line 'And I was never good at telling jokes but the punch line goes I'll get older but your lovers stay my age' in other words, you continue to date 20/21yr olds, even now. That's an eloquent burn from the Lady Swift right there 🔥
Great review. This is a powerful song and just proves that Taylor Swift is special...a generational talent and one of, if not the best singer/songwiter/storyteller in the business. Watch the movie it is special too.
This is NOT "extended"! The original was shortened. The original took away from the song structure. This 10 min version has the intended song structure.
#cliffbeats Taylor’s lyricism is remarkable, she uses phrasing and words to put the image in your head with out you broke my heart... you see it instead. 12:39 around this time mark you were like, how do you know what is in my head. I always say Taylor Swift lives in my head... not just a summer home.. no, no... she LIVES there. Again she writes from a heart, Soul, Spirit, feeling... it’s not just rhyming words on a page and I’m an OG Swifty and I prefer the original but because of this tour and to see her face... she does remember (not misses but remembers), because of that, this has drawn me in. I’m also not a swear word girl.... most of the time misused but I had to realize, she grew up and so this was a transition for me as her fan going “Wait, what? Are they bleeping those on Disney+? 😂”. So we move with her. Like I am divorced and this song really hits hard and different, but these new kids and fans just feel it like Jake hurt Taylor and I’m like, “yea, I remember it all too well.... I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it... that lyric is me daily!! She makes me believe that I can find love again because I would really love too. Thank you so much for not just dismissing her and for really getting deep into the lyrics and okay I get the joke, the point she is making, stabbing you in the heart feelings... even in her faster music and you also appreciate it for the art she is putting out there in the world. Taylor loves all kinds of music and she prefers to be called a songwriter/singer. I love how she’s not drunk dancing at the award shows even though they say she is. No, she’s not drunk until the afterparty, that’s just Taylor being Taylor and not caring what others think. She is an artists artist and wants to show appreciation. Great reaction!!!
You got it 👍 it’s aboutJake Gyllenhaal. It’s not actually a red scarf 🧣 as thats more of a metaphor. It’s more like a black and burgundy plaid scarf; there are pictures of them together where he is wearing her scarf.
this song was not even supposed to be....she was in her feelings and was supposed to be doin studio work but she wasnt into it...her band knew it and quietly started following her lead, just letting her do what she needed to...and when she finished her mother leaned over to the sound guy and said did u get that as she sobbed and he said yep
Some of the comments below have suggested the follklore Long Pond Sessions movie. Here are two examples from the movie, just in case you want to take a moment to see why swifties love it so much: Taylor Swift - this is me trying+interview (folklore: the long pond studio sessions) ua-cam.com/video/Z1yeJIn12KQ/v-deo.html My Tears Ricochet (Long Pond Sessions) (the song performance) ua-cam.com/video/Idjs-hw7Spg/v-deo.html Another suggestion was Look What You Made Me Do. I think that's a great suggestion. I would especially recommend the music video. The video is incredibly entertaining, and it would introduce you to her Reputation era. You have not yet reacted to anything from that album even though, of all her albums, this one might come closest to your preferred style of music: (?) Look What You Made Me Do (official music video) ua-cam.com/video/3tmd-ClpJxA/v-deo.html
The red scarf 🧣 can also be a metaphor for something else. Something a man can take that a woman can't get back. *You kept my old scarf from that very first week, because it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me. I agree with you about her writing. As a best-selling author, editor and ghostwriter, she is phenomenal. It's why they call her the Mastermind. ❤ your reactions!
Yes, it’s about Jake Gyllenhaal. But the Red Scarf 🧣 has a secondary meaning. It’s often said she lost her virginity to him. That’s the meaning behind the scarf.
So casually cruel in the name of being honest hits me everytime. Mad bars.
She also produced a short film about this song. It’s definitely one of her best songs! I don’t listen to much of her but you have to respect her talent! She’s definitely one of the best song writers of all time! ❤
The short film is amazing! Please react to that as well.
To be able to write a 10 min song without being too repetitive and keep you engaged… a real feat. I personally believe this song is a master class in songwriting.
It’s her best song IMO
I wish other people would listen to song writers like yourself or people like us swifties when we say she is an incredible songwriter and not to judge her from her radio hits. I’ve finally had to tell a few people “Well if you don’t think so I guess you can take it up with Sir Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen since they both think she is one of the greatest songwriters there is” Paul McCartney has even changed release dates on albums before to not compete with her and she does visa versa with him because they have so much respect for each other.
I’m not one to judge over age gaps- Jake was 29 going on 30, Taylor was 20 going on 21- but just over the past month I’ve been realizing how traumatizing they can be when the older lover is toxic and plays games. I fell in love with a 37 year old man when I was 21. And let me tell you… when he left I was devastated, just like Taylor was.
Happy you posted this. I recently discovered the 10-minute version and have been watching reactions like crazy! It’s always nice to see your genuine reactions.
This is the song that really made me appreciate her as a songwriter also amazing that this 10 minute song feels 3 minutes long.
The ending is haunting. And I'm sure this song haunts Jake.
I think there was a response he said that it's bittersweet or something when TV came out.
Weeping to it until this day 😭
Woohoo! Never thought I would see Swift pop up on your channel, but I'm totally here for it!!!
And yes, it's about Jake lol.
this is my absolute fav song by her
I really truly feel like All Too Well healed something in me. Anyone who has been been so in love with someone, only to be "kept like a secret" and heartbroken in the end, knows that this song was written out of grief. But this song really helped me process a lot of internal shit, and I will always be grateful to Taylor Alison Swift for giving us this little piece of her soul.
This song is a masterpiece. Those lyrics and the pictures she paints with them, that's true storytelling. Nothing more to say. By the way, it's not an extended version. It's how the song started. It needed to be cut down for the album.
Her ability to mine her feelings and memories and render a lyric we can all relate to is phenomenal. They teach Taylor Swift lyrics in university creative writing courses now. As a novelist, I'm in awe. And taking notes. The specific details paired with haunting emotion and poetic wording -- *chef's kiss*. Thanks, Cliff, for a great reaction to a Swift masterpiece.
Gosh you really need to watch the short film. It is so touching and bittersweet. Especially for those of us who had relationships similar.
The song is healing for sure, but also all these men reacting to it, not being able to explicitly say it but clearly feeling: I DO REMEMBER HER.
My FAVORITE Taylor Swift song (10 minute version). Thank you. The 10 minute film that Taylor also Directed, is amazing. You have to watch the film. Taylor performed this 10 minute version live on SNL, with the Film running in the background.
Her long Pond session film shows her making her songs and talking about what the inspiration was behind her writing that song. Check them out on one of your reaction videos. I promise you won't be disappointed
I'm so very proud of Taylor!!!
She went from an unknown country singer who is now a very rich and well loved BILLIONAIRE!!!
She is ALWAYS working. I don't think she's human. 😂😂😂
She was far from an unknown country artist 😂
They dated officially for 3 months, but as she says in the song, they had an on and off again relationship in secret for way longer than that after. She also talks about that vicious circle of this relationship in her song "We are never ever getting back together"
I love her live Grammy performance of the original version. It's one of my favourite live performances of any song by any artist. You really get the emotions behind this song. Very real.
5:46 -- Yep, that little smile is unavoidable at the "dancing round the kitchen in the refrigerator light" lyric lol. It is SUCHHH a good lyric, and such a visceral thing, we've all opened a fridge late at night and experienced that very particular way it lights up the room when the lights are all off.
I never really listen to Taylor Swift and then she started dating Travis Kelce from the Chiefs and I said let me listen to her music and I am so highly impressed like I’ve heard her before obviously but I thought she was like these teeny bopper songs you know she’s incredible songwriter, and singer now I can’t stop listening to her and I’m going through each of her catalogs listening like I didn’t know she could rap and she’s good at it but her song my tears ricochet. Oh my goodness I was crying like a baby.
Others have said it already, but the short film to this is also great! ❤
You should definitely check out the short film she made for All Too Well, it's AMAZING and stars Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) and Dylan O'Brien (The Maze Runner).
The actors in the film are the same ages as well as she and Jake was too.
Agreed. Their on-screen chemistry is so real!!
Absolutely!!!!
The song is about her relationship with Jake G. The 10 min version doesn’t take away from the original song structure. She wrote the song to be this long but had to cut it down because the record company didn’t want that long of a song on the Red album. When she re-recorded her “Taylor’s Version”, she added the entire 10 minute version as a vault track. Please also watch the All Too Well short film on UA-cam. It’s amazing and really brings the whole song together with visuals. Taylor directed it as well and it has actors Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien and they are great in it.
Personally I find this song to be her Magnum Opus. I just think it's extraordinary!!❤ And yes, Jake Gyllenhaal.
I can't tell you enough how much I love you reacting to Taylor Swift. I started watching you from your first Em reaction! Eminem and Taylor are two of my favorite artists (yeah, I'm weird), and I've always loved your reactions. This is just PERFECT for me!
Loved your reaction. I don't know why this song is always reminding me of a relationship I had when I was 23. He dumped me and had actually been cheating on me. I sob every single time I listen to this song and it's been decades since that relationship. lol This is what Taylor does to people.
Swift’s exceptional at writing about so many kinds of relationships, including business relationships. Some of her most powerful songwriting has revolved around the masters debacle. Genius of her to write those in such a way that people who don’t know anything about that whole issue might assume a romantic relationship, making those songs even more relatable to everyone.
'And you call me up again just to break me like a promise' is a reference to another song of hers called The moment I knew. She was having her 21st birthday party and he promised her that he would be there, but he never showed up. He later called her to say sorry for not being there. He broke her like he broke his promise to show up.
Also the "weeping in the party bathroom" part
I’m like you, not a Swifty at all, but I appreciate everything she’s done as an artist, songwriter and performer.
The short film version of this is beautiful. Sadie Sink gave a helluva performance in it.
Cheers!
GREAT reaction!
Her live version of Did Something Bad is amazing
👏 👏 👏 your reaction was absolutely fantastic...she is deadly with a pen...I am impressed, I subscribed
Love hearing a breakdown of the lyrics from a man’s perspective. Great reaction.
You definitely check out her short film for this song!! It is Jake she is referring to!
A few other songs by Taylor Swift that are worth checking out are The Man, This is the Last Time ft. Gary Lightbody, wildest Dreams, and Anti-Hero.... I don't know how she does it but she just knows how to convey something so specific yet general at the same time..... I guess thats the genius of Taylor Swift ❤
Thank you for doing this one!❤
What the short film!
Thank you so much ❤
Amazing reaction!
Her lyrics are so bomb it’s unreal. I hear this song and see what a genius songwriter. Song is about Jake ..
This track has some great lyrics, but I love the line 'And I was never good at telling jokes but the punch line goes
I'll get older but your lovers stay my age' in other words, you continue to date 20/21yr olds, even now. That's an eloquent burn from the Lady Swift right there 🔥
Appreciate you Mr. Beats 👍🏽👍🏽👵🏼 Gmaw
Self love is key, yes sir
Great review. This is a powerful song and just proves that Taylor Swift is special...a generational talent and one of, if not the best singer/songwiter/storyteller in the business. Watch the movie it is special too.
This is NOT "extended"! The original was shortened. The original took away from the song structure. This 10 min version has the intended song structure.
It’s Jake… the bathroom actress is ScarJo
I thought it was Jennifer Aniston…
I've heard Anne Hathaway. I think ppl are just making things up.
I hope you can see the short film, it shows post Traumatic Narcissist disorder from Robert. He used dark magic to repeat cycle and destroy Tony and I
The punchline goes, I'll get older but your lovers stay my age (20)
This song stops time.
Bout time, got alot of catching up to do on Tswizzle music
Swiftis gather around
Think you should check out the short film for this song it's great.
Umm. Cliff is 🔥!
Is anyone going to tell him about invisible string? No? I want to see that "get out of my head Taylor!" Moment
#cliffbeats Taylor’s lyricism is remarkable, she uses phrasing and words to put the image in your head with out you broke my heart... you see it instead. 12:39 around this time mark you were like, how do you know what is in my head. I always say Taylor Swift lives in my head... not just a summer home.. no, no... she LIVES there. Again she writes from a heart, Soul, Spirit, feeling... it’s not just rhyming words on a page and I’m an OG Swifty and I prefer the original but because of this tour and to see her face... she does remember (not misses but remembers), because of that, this has drawn me in. I’m also not a swear word girl.... most of the time misused but I had to realize, she grew up and so this was a transition for me as her fan going “Wait, what? Are they bleeping those on Disney+? 😂”. So we move with her. Like I am divorced and this song really hits hard and different, but these new kids and fans just feel it like Jake hurt Taylor and I’m like, “yea, I remember it all too well.... I’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it... that lyric is me daily!! She makes me believe that I can find love again because I would really love too. Thank you so much for not just dismissing her and for really getting deep into the lyrics and okay I get the joke, the point she is making, stabbing you in the heart feelings... even in her faster music and you also appreciate it for the art she is putting out there in the world. Taylor loves all kinds of music and she prefers to be called a songwriter/singer. I love how she’s not drunk dancing at the award shows even though they say she is. No, she’s not drunk until the afterparty, that’s just Taylor being Taylor and not caring what others think. She is an artists artist and wants to show appreciation. Great reaction!!!
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My eye is fucked up again and all I can think of the lyrics blurring out my peripherals
this is a song about her relationship and break up with Jake Gyllenhaal
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And my life is like the truman show
The short film shows adult Taylor with red hair which is me going to a YEA play 11th grade I bet youd see the uncanny resemblance
Jake Gyllenhal
Taylor has a calming voice. Also, would appreciate it if you reacted to Hurt Myself by Ekoh and In Too Deep by Eminem.
You got it 👍 it’s aboutJake Gyllenhaal. It’s not actually a red scarf 🧣 as thats more of a metaphor. It’s more like a black and burgundy plaid scarf; there are pictures of them together where he is wearing her scarf.
Jake
Why I felt that you speed up the video, I mean the music video not this reaction video😂
this song was not even supposed to be....she was in her feelings and was supposed to be doin studio work but she wasnt into it...her band knew it and quietly started following her lead, just letting her do what she needed to...and when she finished her mother leaned over to the sound guy and said did u get that as she sobbed and he said yep
Ok i desperately need ethel cain on this channel you will fully implode over the pen game alone
Not a huge fan, but I think this is her best song
Some of the comments below have suggested the follklore Long Pond Sessions movie. Here are two examples from the movie, just in case you want to take a moment to see why swifties love it so much:
Taylor Swift - this is me trying+interview (folklore: the long pond studio sessions)
ua-cam.com/video/Z1yeJIn12KQ/v-deo.html
My Tears Ricochet (Long Pond Sessions) (the song performance)
ua-cam.com/video/Idjs-hw7Spg/v-deo.html
Another suggestion was Look What You Made Me Do. I think that's a great suggestion. I would especially recommend the music video. The video is incredibly entertaining, and it would introduce you to her Reputation era. You have not yet reacted to anything from that album even though, of all her albums, this one might come closest to your preferred style of music: (?)
Look What You Made Me Do (official music video)
ua-cam.com/video/3tmd-ClpJxA/v-deo.html
LIL WAYNE NO CEILINGS REACTION PLEASE D.O.A. WATCH MY SHOES.
OR A MILI, THA MOBB, NIGHTMARES OF THE BOTTOM. All weezy. That'd be so dope man.
The red scarf 🧣 can also be a metaphor for something else. Something a man can take that a woman can't get back. *You kept my old scarf from that very first week, because it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me. I agree with you about her writing. As a best-selling author, editor and ghostwriter, she is phenomenal. It's why they call her the Mastermind. ❤ your reactions!
React to "Look what you made me do" Taylor Swift
The tortured poets Department is epic and Cassandra is about our mother and the song Robin is a song from her to us.
The smallest man who ever lived is about Robert Archer
Way too long between comments. And then
... talked about his red face? 😖
Yes, it’s about Jake Gyllenhaal. But the Red Scarf 🧣 has a secondary meaning. It’s often said she lost her virginity to him. That’s the meaning behind the scarf.
Jake