Not for the first time, you might catch yourself begging Tay to slow down and give you a minute to recover, but she plunges ahead, because she has no mercy. This is the first time she’s quoted him in a song - he tells her, “it’s supposed to be fun, turning 21” - and it’s a heart-punching moment. When the guy fails to show up at midnight for her birthday - a story she’s already told in “The Moment I Knew” and “Happiness” - her dad tries to cheer her up.
She goes deeper into the story, venting her grief and rage, getting so savage it makes “Dear John” sound like “I Will Always Love You.” She hits harder about the age difference, sneering, “I’ll get older, but your lovers stay my age.” She quotes Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, seven years before busting out that reference in “Lover.” The legend is that this was the rough draft, before she cut it down to size, now finally done in a proper studio take with Jack Antonoff. The new “All Too Well (Original Version)” sums up Swift at her absolute best. This is a leap, even from the girl who invented the whole concept of Never Looking Down. Nothing on this scale has been tried before. Red is the second chapter of her Taylor’s Version project, after Fearless, redoing her old albums even though she’s hitting her fiercest creative peak right now, dropping two of her biggest albums in 2020. It’s the ultimate version of her most gloriously ambitious mega-pop manifesto. And since she specializes in doing the impossible, here’s yet another insane idea she’s brought to life: the new Red is even bigger, glossier, deeper, casually crueler. No, you’re not fine at all.Įver since Swift announced she was dropping Red (Taylor’s Version), remaking her 2012 classic, anticipation has run high. Yes, you just heard Taylor sing the words “fuck the patriarchy.” Yes, you just heard extra verses about this guy meeting her dad and skipping her 21st birthday party. Taylor Swift takes her own masterpiece, tears it all up, breaks it like a promise, shreds her tapestry, and rebuilds it into a new heartbreak epic, twice as long and twice as mad. The long-lost 10-minute original version of “All Too Well” turns out to be even better than we were all hoping.
First things first: Let’s skip to the ending.
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