I remember it all too well1/4/2024 ![]() The film premiered at New York City’s AMC Lincoln Center theater on Friday with Swift, Sink, and O'Brien in attendance before debuting on YouTube the same night. Even long-time fans who think they have taken every emotional rollercoaster with this singer will be taken on a wild intimate ride. While this film is packed to the brim with classic Swift Easter Eggs that includes a fun Stranger Things connection other than Sink, the journey that this film takes you on is going to emotionally surprise people. The bittersweet ending of this particular somber tale reminds us that the other person might have gone through the same revelation as well.Īll Too Well makes Swift fans think about a song they thought they knew for almost 10 years in a new compelling light. Even though the other person may have hurt us in an unforgivable way, we would not be the same if we did not have that experience to learn from. This is a film that recontextualizes how relationships, through all their painful and rose-colored moments, help us grow to be better people. But day by day, year by year, a new self emerged.However, the short film is more than about past romantic failures and how even in our old age we cannot help but think about them. “Time won’t fly/It’s like I’m paralyzed by it/I’d like to be my old self again/But I’m still trying to find it,” she sings in one of the song’s most claustrophobia-inducing lines. And I, left my scarf there at your sisters house And youve still got it in your drawer even now Oh, your sweet disposition And my wide-eyed gaze Were singing in the car, getting lost upstate Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place And I can picture it after all these days And I know its long gone and that magics not here no. When her lover skips her birthday party (a reference to another heartbroken Red song) and her father reminds her, “It’s supposed to be fun, turning 21,” Swift seems to align with his adult perspective over that of her distraught 21-year-old self. ![]() The new turning point of the song is delivered with aged wisdom too. The observation about his lovers staying the same age while she gets older feels more insightful now that it comes from a woman in her 30s. The Swift who dodged a question about identifying as a feminist in 2012 probably wouldn’t have mentioned the irony of a shitty dude sporting a “Fuck the Patriarchy” keychain. These lyrics were ostensibly written in 2012, but the perspective in the added verses feels contemporary. Intro: C G Am F x2 C G I walked through the door with you, the air was cold Am F But something bout it felt like home somehow, and I, C G Left my scarf there at your sisters house Am F And you still got it, in your drawer, even now Instrumental: C G Am F C G Oh your sweet dispositon and my wide eyed gaze Am F. Instead, the 10-minute song reflects how context and time have transformed her. Nor is it a near facsimile of the original, the way Swift’s rerecording of “ Love Story” and most of Fearless (Taylor’s Version) was. Not surprisingly, this song isn’t exactly an improvement the new expository details are interesting but not critical, and few of the new one-liners carry the same sting. The bar for a 10-minute version of “All Too Well” is almost impossibly high. Not only does she remember, but she knows he does too. At the end, Swift deploys her classic perspective shift-first person changes to second-to drive the point home. She ties them together with cutting one-liners that explain, largely via accusations, why the romance fell apart: He was “casually cruel in the name of being honest,” and she, maybe, “asked for too much.” The song is a document of a young woman’s refusal to be forgotten, asserting the love she felt and gave as real. Swift recalls every intimacy of a failed relationship in technicolor: the autumnal drive upstate, the late-night dance in the kitchen, the scarf that became her lover’s keepsake. The original version of “All Too Well” is a supercut of epic emotion.
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