The song that claimed the season of fall, the song that romanticized the light in the freezer, the song that has abandoned us feeling OK yet not fine at all is back and longer than ever. Coming in at a painstaking 10 minutes and, you guessed it, 13 seconds, the newly released
Taylor's Version of “All Also Well” is the result of Swifties begging
Taylor Swift to crush their hearts even more by unearthing this concealed gem from the vault. And she did not disappoint.
Starting with a chilling spin on the original melody, the guitar strings cut through that familiar sound that we know, dare I mention, all also well, and sets up what will become a cautiously crafted roller coaster of emotional heartbreak and diligent storytelling. Swift pleads her vivid lyrics with a deeper voice, controlling inflection, and jarring specifics — leaving nothing to the imagination of what a 21-year-old Taylor was going through as she wrote these words in her journal over a decade ago.
there really are a
ton of new lyrics to unpack in this version of one of Swift’s most acclaimed songs, however the most hurtful one of all might just be, “You mentioned if we had been closer in age, maybe it would have been fine, and that made me aspire to die.” That’s something we would expect from the song that also gave us, “You call me up again just to break me like a promise / So casually cruel in the name of being honest.” —
Alissa Godwin