Reviews of Each Song on Taylor Swifts Albun
"State of Grace"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift
Hush-hush message: "I love yous doesn't count afterwards goodbye."
Fan lore:Although Swift has never named names when information technology comes to ex-inspired songs (relieve for possibly "Forever & Ever"), fans presume that this bittersweet opener has roots in her whirlwind romance with Jake Gyllenhaal. The two were first linked in Oct 2010 and reportedly divide only before the yr ended.
In "State of Grace," Swift sings of an unexpected, transformative human relationship. Most notably, she uses the phrase, "twin fire signs, 4 blue optics." Both Swift and Gyllenhaal have blueish eyes, and both were born during Sagittarius season, which is a fire sign.
Trivia: "State of Grace" was played equally the opening song during the Reddish Tour in 2013 and 2014. Critics have compared its anthemic rock sound to U2.
An acoustic version was included on the deluxe version of "Crimson," also as "Red (Taylor's Version)." Swift has said it was an intentional reimagining of the song, rather than a raw demo, since she felt a mellowed audio changed the emotion of the lyrics.
All-time lyrics: "Dearest is a ruthless game, unless you lot play information technology proficient and right."
"Red"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift
Secret message: "SAG."
Fan lore: It's long been suspected that Gyllenhaal is the primary antagonist-slash-beloved-involvement who appears throughout "Red," and the title track'due south secret message certainly supports this theory. Equally previously noted, Gyllenhaal is a Sagittarius, which is often abbreviated as "Sag" in online astrology communities.
Trivia: Physical copies of Swift's 2019 anthology "Lover" included scanned excerpts from old diaries, which revealed that "Crimson" was written during a red-centre flight to Nashville on September vii, 2011. Information technology was recorded the following 24-hour interval, when Swift journaled, "I'd love to proper noun my next album 'Red.'" (She subsequently described the experience as "a real turning betoken" for the anthology.)
Swift's utilize of the color to symbolize "powerful," unstable passion would return in the "Lover" closing track "Daylight," apparently inspired by her electric current long-term relationship with Joe Alwyn: "I once believed love would be burning ruby-red, but information technology'south golden."
Best lyrics: "Loving him is similar driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street / Faster than the wind, passionate as sin / Ending so of a sudden."
"Treacherous"
Written by: Taylor Swift, Dan Wilson
Produced by: Dan Wilson
Secret bulletin: "Won't stop till information technology's over."
Fan lore: This song'southward secret message is taken from The Temper Trap's 2008 indie canticle "Sweet Disposition," whose chorus ends with the couplet, "Won't stop 'till it'due south over / Won't end to surrender."
This points to Harry Styles, who has a slightly wrong version of the lyric tattooed on his arm.
Styles and Swift were first linked in the fall of 2012, though it'south unclear when they actually began dating. The Atmosphere Trap's guitarist Joseph Greer confirmed that Swift and Styles shared a dearest for the band.
"We were doing an awards anniversary in Australia and Taylor Swift was playing at it and she was dating Harry Styles at the time," Greer told Daily Hive in 2016, calculation that Swift asked the ring to write the lyrics to "Sweet Disposition" as a present for Styles. "And then we were thinking, 'Shit, do we write the correct one?'"
However, the secret message could also exist another nod to Gyllenhaal. On "All Too Well," Swift sings, "Oh, your sweetness disposition / And my wide-eyed gaze / Nosotros're singing in the car, getting lost upstate."
Trivia: Swift told U.s. Today that "Treacherous" was inspired by "a person that I knew, from the infinitesimal I saw him, that it would end in peppery, burning wreckage," which suggests a connection with "I Knew Y'all Were Problem."
She cowrote the vocal with Dan Wilson, who she knew as a member of the rock band Semisonic, of "Closing Fourth dimension" fame.
"I've e'er wanted to work with him," she said during an audio-visual session with fans. "Nosotros wrote a song about when you're falling for someone and you know that it's unsafe, and you lot know that information technology could really, really, really, really, really just annihilate yous if it were to non work out — and it could perchance not piece of work out, and it probably won't work out, only you go for it anyway."
Best lyrics: "Nothing safe is worth the drive / And I would follow you, follow you habitation."
"I Knew You lot Were Problem"
Written by: Max Martin, Shellback, Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift, Shellback
Secret bulletin: "When you lot saw me dancing."
Fan lore: Styles has long been the presumed subject of this song, a theory fueled past Swift's performance at the 2013 BRIT Awards.
Asked if it was hard to perform with her ex-boyfriend watching, Swift told the UK'south Sunday Times Magazine, "Well, it's non difficult to access that emotion when the person the song is directed at is standing past the side of the stage watching."
Every bit far as the public is aware, Styles was Swift's only ex in the audience that night.
Still, Styles probably didn't inspire this song, even if Swift came to associate it with him later. The couple's dissever wasn't reported until early 2013, a few months after "Red" was released and several months subsequently "I Knew You Were Problem" was written.
The more likely culprit is John Mayer, who already had a reputation as a womanizer when Swift dated him briefly in 2009. She was 19 and he was 32.
Trivia: Swift told Time that she wrote this vocal'south melody on the piano, and then enlisted dubstep producers Max Martin and Shellback to help information technology sound "as cluttered as that emotion felt."
"I tin can't actually say I've studied information technology or anything," Swift said of the genre. "I didn't fifty-fifty know that that'due south really what nosotros were doing with the rails — I simply knew I wanted information technology to audio a certain fashion. And that'south what people take been calling it."
Best lyrics: "And the saddest fright / Comes creeping in / That yous never loved me / Or her, or anyone, or annihilation."
"All Likewise Well"
Written by: Taylor Swift, Liz Rose
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift
Secret message: "Maple latte."
Fan lore: Coffee dates became a hallmark of Swift's public-facing relationship with Gyllenhaal. In November 2010, a headline from People magazine announced, "Taylor Swift & Jake Gyllenhaal Share Thanksgiving Maple Lattes."
Around the same time, they were photographed sipping coffee in Brooklyn with the actor's sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Sources merits the couple celebrated Thanksgiving that year at Maggie'due south flat nearby.
In "All Too Well," Swift describes leaving a scarf at her ex's sister'southward place, though Maggie has denied being in possession of such an accessory.
In the extended version, Swift adds more fuel to this theory by singing, "your Brooklyn broke my peel and basic."
She also seems to nod to the former couple'south age gap: "You said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine / And that made me want to die." Swift was 20 when they began dating, while Gyllenhaal was 29.
Trivia: "All Too Well" was the offset track Swift wrote that fabricated information technology onto "Red." According to her interview with U.s. Today, it was conceived nearly two years prior to the album's release, though it took some time to complete.
Swift said she came upwards with some of the vocal's most "pointed" lyrics while she was "ranting during a soundcheck."
"I was just playing these chords over and over onstage and my band joined in and I went on a rant," she told Popdust. "Ane of the get-go things that I came up with, simply, like, spat out, was, 'And you call me upward again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the proper noun of beingness honest.'"
The twenty-four hour period "Red" was released, Swift revealed on "Good Forenoon America" that "All Too Well" — still the longest vocal on the album at five minutes and 27 seconds — had been trimmed dramatically.
"It took me a really long time to filter through everything I wanted to put in the song without it being a x-minute song, which you can't put on an album," she said, adding that she asked her longtime cowriter, Liz Rose, to help refine the lyrics.
"She had a story to get out, so we just saturday down and started going through information technology slice by piece, and equally she sang all these things, I but wrote down what I idea were the important pieces that hitting," Rose told Yahoo! in 2014.
Fans accept been begging to hear the full song for well-nigh a decade, and finally, "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)" was included as the last track on "Red (Taylor's Version)."
Some of the never-before-heard lyrics are conspicuously continued to other songs on the album, most notably "The Moment I Knew" ("It's supposed to exist fun turning 21") and "State of Grace" ("Did the twin flame bruise paint yous blue?").
Best lyrics: "Afterwards plaid-shirt days and nights when you lot made me your own / Now y'all post back my things and I walk home lonely / Only you continue my old scarf from that very first week / 'Cause information technology reminds you of innocence and information technology smells like me."
"22"
Written past: Max Martin, Shellback, Taylor Swift
Produced past: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift, Shellback
Secret message: "Ashley Dianna Claire Selena."
Fan lore: This vocal'southward surreptitious message is pretty patently: "22" is dedicated to Swift's close friends at the fourth dimension, most probable stylist Ashley Avignone, "Glee" star Dianna Agron, jewelry designer Claire Kislinger, and singer-slash-actor Selena Gomez.
Trivia: Swift told Billboard that age 22 was her "favorite year" thus far, describing the time equally "carefree" mixed with "indecision and fear."
"I similar all the possibilities of how you're nevertheless learning, merely y'all know enough. You still know nothing, but y'all know that you know nothing. You're old enough to start planning your life, only you're young enough to know there are and then many unanswered questions," she said.
The song is the spiritual successor of "15," the second rail on Swift's sophomore anthology "Fearless."
"I learned a lot of lessons the hard way and [15] was a vulnerable historic period," she told The Daily Brute. "And 22 is a vulnerable historic period, only you're a little more brave. You lot're a trivial more than ready to take risks and live with the consequences."
Best lyrics: "We're happy, free, confused, and lone at the same time / It's miserable and magical."
"I Almost Do"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift
Secret message: "Wrote this instead of calling."
Fan lore: Some theorize the standard edition of "Red" is thematically split up in one-half: eight songs about losing and mourning love, and so eight songs almost finding and appreciating dear.
In this interpretation, "I Nearly Do" marks an essential shift. Swift still sings from a place of longing; she describes her urge to reconnect with an ex and give their relationship another effort. Ultimately, nevertheless, it's a song near leaving dysfunctional love in the past.
Theoretically, this leads to her breakthrough in the next song, "Nosotros Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," when Swift ditches her doubts and embraces her new path.
Trivia: "I Almost Do" seems to friction match Swift's existent-life resolve when information technology comes to breakups.
"I'm a really skilful girlfriend," Swift told the Uk'southward Lord's day Times Magazine. "But I'yard a nonexistent ex-girlfriend."
All-time lyrics: "I bet it never, ever occurred to you / That I tin can't say how-do-you-do to you and risk another goodbye."
"Nosotros Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
Written by: Max Martin, Shellback, Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift, Shellback
Hush-hush message: "When I stopped caring what you thought."
Fan lore: Swift famously adopted a British accent when she performed this song at the 2013 Grammy Awards, leading some to believe it was inspired by Styles. However, Gyllenhaal is the more likely suspect.
Swift has hinted at a connection between the anthology's title track and "Nosotros Are Never Ever Getting Dorsum Together." She told VH1's "Storytellers" that the former was written about a passionate relationship, which wavered between "love and affection" and "jealousy and anger and frustration and 'you didn't phone call me back' and 'I need infinite.'" In the latter, Swift sings, "We hadn't seen each other in a month when you said you needed space."
Trivia: "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was the lead single from "Red" and became Swift's start No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The pop earworm marked a meaning shift in Swift's career, equally she was still known primarily as a country singer. Swift said her intent was to stick information technology to an ex who "fabricated me feel like I wasn't as good or as relevant as these hipster bands he listened to."
"And then I made a song that I knew would admittedly drive him crazy when he heard information technology on the radio," she told United states of america Today. "Non simply would it hopefully be played a lot, so that he'd have to hear it, merely it's the opposite of the kind of music that he was trying to make me experience inferior to."
The spoken-give-and-take bridge was organically built-in when Swift went on a "rant" in the studio after a surprise visit from her ex's friend. She began explaining her recent breakup to Martin and Shellback, and her monologue was recorded equally "a vox memo on someone's iPhone."
"It was Max's idea to just pop it in," she told Yahoo! Music. "Information technology was 1 of those moments that took the moment before we wrote the vocal and incorporated it into the song, so it was actually heady."
All-time lyrics: "You would hide away and observe your peace of heed / With some indie record that's much cooler than mine."
"Stay Stay Stay"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift
Secret message: "Daydreaming about real love."
Fan lore: "Stay Stay Stay" is widely presumed to be fiction, much like the imagined characters and storylines that populate Swift's 8th and ninth albums, "Folklore" and "Evermore."
Trivia: This song paints the key to "real love" as straightforward and fun, punctuated by the sound of Swift laughing at the cease of the recording. Her unproblematic request to "stay" acts equally a foil to the hot-and-cold relationship described in the previous rail.
Swift would revisit this concept in "All Yous Had to Do Was Stay," the 5th track on her 2014 album "1989."
Best lyrics: "All those times that you lot didn't go out, information technology's been occurring to me / I'd similar to hang out with you for my whole life."
"The Concluding Time" /// feat. Gary Lightbody
Written past: Gary Lightbody, Jacknife Lee, Taylor Swift
Produced by: Jacknife Lee
Underground bulletin: "LA on your pause."
Fan lore: This secret message could allude to Swift's final public outing with Gyllenhaal, when they were spotted driving together in Los Angeles. Co-ordinate to reports at the time, when Swift flew dorsum to Nashville to gloat her birthday, Gyllenhaal remained in California to promote his new picture show, "Love and Other Drugs."
Moreover, the vocal'southward lyrics mirror the on-over again-off-once more dynamic described in "Nosotros Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," though filtered through a far more somber lens. Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody seems to serenade Swift from Gyllenhaal'due south perspective.
Trivia: Swift said "The Last Time" was inspired by an experience with an "unreliable guy."
"My visual for this song is, at that place's a guy on his knees sitting on the basis outside of a door. And on the other side of the door is his girlfriend, who he keeps on leaving — and he keeps coming back to her, only then he leaves again," she told NPR. "It's a really fragile emotion yous're dealing with when you want to dearest someone, but you lot don't know if information technology'southward smart to."
According to Lightbody, "The Concluding Time" was written and recorded in just ix hours.
"[Swift] works actually fast. She's boggling," he told Rolling Stone. "Nosotros really did that song, wrote it and recorded it in a day. And that was the version of it on the record, which is very rare."
Best lyrics: "You wear your all-time apology / But I was there to watch y'all leave."
"Holy Ground"
Written past: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Jeff Bhasker
Secret message: "When you came to the bear witness in SD."
Fan lore: This song'south secret bulletin and reminiscent lyrics imply it was inspired by a less recent ex. At the fourth dimension of the album'southward release, her latest bout was for "Speak Now," and she performed in San Diego on October 20, 2011.
Interestingly, Joe Jonas was spotted in the audience at two of Swift'southward shows during the Speak At present World Tour, both in California. Is it possible that he also attended her bear witness in San Diego? Plenty of fans think and so.
"Holy Basis" is virtually seeing a by relationship with new optics and coming to capeesh its value. Swift and Jonas had a notoriously messy breakup in 2008, but managed to mend things in the years since. In that location'southward even reason to believe that Swift sent Jonas and Sophie Turner a present when the "Game of Thrones" star gave birth to their first child.
One lyric, in particular, offers strong support to the Jonas theory: "For the offset time, I had something to lose." To the public's knowledge, Jonas was Swift's showtime serious boyfriend.
Moreover, the bridge ("I don't wanna dance unless I'm dancing with you") could be a callback to "Last Kiss," the 13th track on "Speak Now," which many presume to be about Jonas ("I'm non much for dancing, but for yous I did").
Trivia: Swift said she wrote "Holy Ground" correct later seeing the ex-boyfriend in question.
"Years had gone by and I finally appreciated a past human relationship for what it was, rather than existence bitter virtually what it didn't end upward being," she said. "I was sitting at that place thinking nearly information technology later on I'd just seen him, and I was just like, 'You know what? That was skillful. Information technology was proficient having that in my life.'"
She also said she "immediately" wanted the vocal to exist produced by Jeff Bhasker, who is best known for his piece of work with Kanye W on "808s & Heartbreak" (2008), "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" (2010), and "Lookout the Throne" (2011).
All-time lyrics: "Took off faster than a greenish calorie-free, go / Hey, you lot skip the conversation when you lot already know / I left a annotation on the door with a joke we'd made / And that was the first day."
"Pitiful Cute Tragic"
Written past: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift, Paul Mirkovich
Secret message: "While you were on a train."
Fan lore: This could definitely be another ode to Gyllenhaal, though some fans accept noted a tonal similarity betwixt "Sad Cute Tragic" and "Back to Dec," the third runway on "Speak Now," which Taylor Lautner has confirmed he inspired. The two dated for a few months in 2009 and bankrupt upwardly in early 2010.
Trivia: Swift wrote "Sad Cute Tragic" on her tour motorcoach during the Speak Now World Tour, which began in February 2011 and ended in March 2012.
She told Billboard information technology was inspired by a relationship "that concluded months and months before," describing the emotion equally "wistful loss."
"I wanted to tell the story in terms of a cloudy recollection of what went incorrect. It's kind of the murky gray, looking dorsum on something you can't change or become dorsum," she said, recalling the "nighttime gray" feeling of "missing him" described in the title runway.
All-time lyrics: "And time is taking its sweet time erasing y'all / And you've got your demons, and darling, they all expect like me."
"The Lucky Ane"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced past: Jeff Bhasker
Hole-and-corner message: "Wouldn't you similar to know."
Fan lore: This underground message is likely a nod to Swift's ever-expanding fame and distaste for tabloid fodder. Swift is open nigh her policy not to name her muses, and during the "Reddish" era, she was consistently tight-lipped when asked nigh her individual life.
"I like the way the stories of my relationships audio to music more than the mode they look in impress, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews," she told USA Today. "I think it's a better way of telling the stories."
Trivia: "The Lucky One," a semi-autobiographical vocal about stardom, bears a striking similarity to "Lucky" past Britney Spears. In fact, Swift covered "Lucky" at her bear witness in Louisiana during the Speak At present World Tour.
Swift makes it clear in the song's very showtime line that she is not the protagonist in this story ("New to boondocks with a made-up name"). The fictional tale seems inspired by a patchwork of female starlets, including Spears, Joni Mitchell, and Kim Wilde.
At the time, Swift was in talks to portray Mitchell in a big-screen adaptation of Sheila Weller'south volume "Girls Like Us," a biography of Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon. (The project was "squelched" by Mitchell herself.)
"The Lucky One" also interpolates a tune from Wilde'south 1988 single "Four Letter Word." The British pop star famously left music to pursue a career in mural gardening, which Swift appears to reference in the song's third verse ("They say yous bought a bunch of land somewhere / Chose the rose garden over Madison Square").
All-time lyrics: "And they tell you lot that you're lucky, only you're just and so confused / 'Cause you don't feel pretty, yous but feel used / And all the young things line up to have your place."
"Everything Has Inverse" /// feat. Ed Sheeran
Written by: Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift
Produced past: Butch Walker
Secret message: "Hyannis Port."
Fan lore: This song is widely seen as an ode to the "green eyes and freckles" of Conor Kennedy, whom Swift began dating the summer earlier she released "Scarlet."
In August 2012, the new couple was spotted kissing in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. It was shortly after Swift purchased a house nearby. According to People, Ethel Kennedy endemic a business firm across the street from Swift'south property, which she sold in March 2013.
Trivia: Swift and Sheeran wrote the vocal while sitting on a trampoline in Swift'southward lawn.
"I was like 'Hey, I just got a trampoline. You want to run across it?' And and then, he brought the guitar for some reason," she told MTV. "We ended up writing an entire song out in that location. For portions of the vocal, [we were bouncing around] 'crusade it'south a trampoline and it's fun, and the combined maturity level of both of the states is 8 years old."
All-time lyrics: "'Crusade all I know is we said, 'Hullo' / And your eyes look similar coming home."
"Starlight"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced past: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift, Paul Mirkovich
Hole-and-corner message: "For Ethel."
Fan lore: N/A
Trivia: We don't need theories for this ane. Swift confirmed that "Starlight" was inspired by an old photo she saw of Ethel and Robert Kennedy every bit teenagers.
"I become a lot of fashion inspiration from the 1960s, then I'll go and look at black and white pictures, and await at [photos from the] '50s and '60s, and I came across this picture of these two kids dancing at a trip the light fantastic," she told the Wall Street Journal. "Information technology immediately made me retrieve of how much fun they must have had that nighttime. It was dorsum in the late '40s."
"I concluded upwards reading underneath that it was Ethel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy," she continued. "So I merely kind of wrote that song from that place, non really knowing how they met or anything like that."
The song was written from Ethel's perspective, made clear by the lyrical references to "Bobby," meeting in 1945 at simply 17 years old, and teaching ten kids "how to dream." (In reality, the couple raised eleven children.)
It'south unclear whether Swift was already dating the couple'southward grandson when she wrote "Starlight," but the lyric about having "snuck into a yacht club party" could be a cheeky nod to rumors that she and Conor crashed his cousin'southward nuptials.
"I call up that story was based on the biggest misunderstanding, 'cause I would never knowingly show up somewhere that I thought I wasn't invited to. And I would never desire to upstage anybody," she told Rolling Stone of the incident.
All-time lyrics: "I said, 'Oh, my, what a marvelous tune' / It was the best night, never would forget how nosotros moved."
"Begin Again"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift
Secret bulletin: "I wear heels now."
Fan lore:"Begin Again" seems to consummate the Kennedy trilogy on "Red," though the couple reportedly split just before the album'south release.
The song also works as a worthy thesis for Swift'due south songwriting career. Despite the breakups and disappointments that saturate her lyrics, she has always maintained a steadfast belief in love itself.
"The way I look at beloved is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you lot fall hard," she told Rolling Stone at the fourth dimension. "Y'all have to forget well-nigh what everyone else thinks. It has to be an us-against-the-world mentality. Yous have to make it work by prioritizing it, and by falling in dearest really fast, without thinking besides difficult. If I think likewise difficult near a relationship I'll talk myself out of it."
Trivia: Swift tends to end her albums with an emotional, optimistic carol ("Change," "Clean," "New year's day's Day," "Daylight").
"Begin Once again," the original closer on the standard edition of "Red," fits in this tradition. Information technology's perhaps the only true dearest song on the tracklist. Swift described it as an "epiphany" and a "rebirth" in an interview with Yahoo! Music.
All-time lyrics: "You said y'all never met one girl who had as many James Taylor records as you, merely I do."
"The Moment I Knew"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift, Paul Mirkovich
Secret message: N/A
Fan lore: "The Moment I Knew" is the first of three original bonus tracks on the album'southward deluxe edition, which excludes it from the liner notes included with physical copies of the album.
Just fans still think it's pretty clear who inspired this heartbreak canticle; Swift confirmed the song was written about her 21st altogether party, which she called "the worst experience always." She was dating Gyllenhaal at the time, who was a no-show to the festivities. Their divide fabricated headlines only a few weeks afterwards.
Even Rolling Stone claimed "100% confidence" that Gyllenhaal inspired this "nakedly confessional song."
T rivia: Swift told New York Magazine that "most of 'Cherry'" was written about one guy, who reached out later its release.
"He was like, 'I only listened to the album, and that was a actually bittersweet experience for me. It was like going through a photo album,'" she said. "That was prissy. Nicer than, like, the ranting, crazy east-mails I got from this one dude."
"It's a lot more mature way of looking at a honey that was wonderful until it was terrible, and both people got hurt from it — simply 1 of those people happened to be a songwriter," she added.
Best lyrics: "What do y'all do when the one who means the almost to you is the 1 who didn't show?"
"Come Dorsum... Be Hither"
Written by: Dan Wilson, Taylor Swift
Produced by: Dan Wilson
Secret message: Northward/A
Fan lore: Many fans believe this song was inspired by Styles, though others say it'southward well-nigh a brief fling with Zac Efron.
Swift was spotted on a "flirty dinner date" with the "High School Musical" actor in January 2012. The post-obit calendar month, they appeared together on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" to promote their film "The Lorax," but denied dating rumors.
Throughout the adjacent few months, Efron appeared in diverse cities for piece of work events — including New York and London, which are both cited as inconvenient locations in "Come up Back... Be Here."
In truth, this song could be about anyone. The fundamental theme is physical distance, which is a reoccurring obstacle in celebrities' dating lives.
Trivia: Swift said "Come Back... Be Hither" is near "falling for someone and and so they have to go away for piece of work."
"They're traveling, you're traveling, and you're thinking about them, just y'all're wondering how it's gonna work when there'due south and then much distance between you," she told Yahoo! Music.
At a release party for "Crimson," Swift too described the song's discipline as "a guy that I met," rather than an ex-boyfriend.
Best lyrics: "The delicate beginning rush / The feeling you tin can know and then much / Without knowing anything at all."
"Girl at Home"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Elvira Anderfjärd
Hush-hush message: N/A
Fan lore: This song is also rumored to be about Efron, who was reportedly dating Lily Collins during his flirtation with Swift — though information technology feels like it could apply to enough of Hollywood men.
In "Daughter at Dwelling house," Swift chastises someone for "crossing and so many lines" while he's spoken for. She likewise says he'd exist making "a fine proposition" if she herself hadn't been cheated on, suggesting a connectedness with the "Red"-era song "Infant," which seems to tell the story of Swift's own betrayal.
Trivia:Swift said "Girl at Habitation" was simply written near "a guy who had a girlfriend."
"I just felt like it was disgusting that he was flirting with other girls," she told Yahoo! Music.
Best lyrics: "Call a cab, lose my number / Yous're about to lose your girl."
"Ronan"
Written by: Maya Thompson, Taylor Swift
Produced by: Christopher Rowe, Taylor Swift
Underground message: N/A
Fan lore: Northward/A
Trivia: This heart-wrenching ballad was written in 2012 from the perspective of Maya Thompson, whose iii-twelvemonth-erstwhile son had recently died of neuroblastoma. Swift based the lyrics on posts from Thompson'southward blog, Rockstar Ronan, and credited the Arizona mom as a cowriter.
In a mail from September 2012, Thompson described getting a phone phone call from Swift, asking for her permission to perform the song at the televised Stand Up to Cancer benefit.
"I was a blubbering mess telling her how much this meant to me as she was helping me go along your retention alive and helping me to do amazing things," she wrote. "How if I had to pick my dream person to be tied to your name, it would be her because she is total of so much pure goodness, just like you."
"Ronan" was not included on the original version of "Ruby." It was released on iTunes later on the do good performance and all gain were donated to cancer research.
Swift has performed the song just ane other fourth dimension in 2015, when Thompson attended her concert in Glendale, Arizona during the 1989 Bout.
After Scooter Braun took control of Big Machine Records in 2019, acquiring the legal rights to Swift's entire discography thus far, Thompson voiced her discomfort with his ownership of "Ronan" on Twitter.
In a follow-upwards blog mail service on July 30, 2021, Thompson revealed that Swift had asked for her permission to rerecord "Ronan" for "Red (Taylor's Version)."
"Scarlet was an album of heartbreak and healing, of rage and rawness, of tragedy and trauma, and of the loss of an imagined time to come alongside someone," Swift told Thompson via email. "I wrote Ronan while I was making Red and discovered your story as you then honestly and devastatingly told it."
"My genuine hope is that yous'll hold with me that this song should exist included on this album," she continued. "Equally my co-writer and the rightful owner of this story in its entirety, your opinion and approval of this idea really matters to me, and I'll honor your wishes hither."
Thompson told Insider that she was shocked still thrilled by Swift's request.
"The only identify Ronan belongs is with Taylor. And just the fact that information technology was a possibility of him being somewhere else was, as a mom and that's my child, and that was just, I couldn't fifty-fifty," she said. "It was merely unbearable to think virtually."
"Knowing that he'southward with Taylor and that'due south his home and that'southward where he belongs, information technology means everything to me."
Best lyrics: "Information technology'southward about to exist Halloween / Y'all could exist anything you wanted if y'all were still hither."
"Better Human being"
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced by: Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift
Hugger-mugger message: N/A
Fan lore: This song thematically corresponds to "Scarlet" and "All Too Well," both presumably inspired past Gyllenhaal. All three illustrate the tragic irony of breakups, which are nearly painful if you lot tin can remember when the relationship was "magic."
In the second pre-chorus, Swift sings, "You're talking downwards to me like I'll always be effectually." This recalls the second verse of "We Are Never E'er Getting Back Together" and Swift's memories of being fabricated to experience "inferior" by her ex.
Trivia: "Better Man" was recorded and released by land grouping Little Big Town (Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook) years after it was cut from the original "Red" tracklist.
"Nosotros've been friends with her forever," Fairchild said of Swift in 2016. "She emailed Phillip one night and she said, 'Hey, I continue thinking about this song that I wrote and wondering if it might be for y'all. So heed to information technology and meet what you think.'"
"We kept coming back to it and couldn't get abroad from information technology," Sugariness added. "Information technology was sticking with united states of america, too, and then nosotros had to cut information technology."
When asked why Swift didn't go on the song for herself, Schlapman replied, "Nosotros didn't inquire. We merely said, 'Thank you very much, nosotros'll take it.'"
The song won best country duo/group performance at the 2018 Grammy Awards.
Best lyrics: "I agree onto my pride because these days, it's all I have / And I gave you my all-time and we both know y'all can't say that."
"Zilch New" /// feat. Phoebe Bridgers
Written by: Taylor Swift
Produced past: Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift
Hush-hush message: Due north/A
Fan lore: This song explores the connective link between "15," which Swift wrote when she was 18 years former, and "22," its spiritual successor. In the chorus of "Nothing New," Swift sings, "How can a person know everything at 18, but nothing at 22?"
Trivia: In a diary entry dated March 2, 2012, released with physical copies of "Lover," Swift revealed that she wrote "Nada New" while traveling from Sydney to Perth.
She composed the song using an Appalachian dulcimer, a stringed folk instrument that she bought just before her flying. The purchase was inspired past Joni Mitchell, who manifestly played the same kind of musical instrument throughout her 4th album "Blue."
"I've been thinking a lot about getting older and relevancy and how all my heroes have all ended up lonely," Swift wrote, coining a line nearly identical to one she would eventually apply in her 2019 single "The Archer."
Swift said she wrote "Zip New" nearly "being scared of aging and things changing and losing what you have," and transcribed a lyric that was ultimately scrapped: "I'm getting older and less sure of what you similar about me anyway."
"It's a really vulnerable song, but I think it's of import to say," she added.
Swift voiced similar fears in her 2020 documentary "Miss Americana."
"We do exist in this society where women in amusement are discarded in an elephant graveyard by the fourth dimension they're 35," she narrated. "Everyone's a shiny new toy for like, ii years. The female artists that I know of have reinvented themselves 20 times more than the male person artists. They accept to, or else you lot're out of a job."
She described this external pressure as, "Be new to u.s.a.. Be young to us, just merely in a new way, and only the way we want, and reinvent yourself, but only in a way that we find equally comforting, but besides a challenge for you."
She added: "As I'chiliad reaching xxx, I'm like, I want to piece of work actually hard while society is still tolerating me being successful."
All-time lyrics: "It'southward a fever dream / The kind of radiance you only have at 17."
"Infant"
Written past: Pat Monahan, Taylor Swift
Produced past: Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift
Cloak-and-dagger message: Northward/A
Fan lore: Though information technology's unclear who amid Swift's exes were unfaithful ("Her lips on your neck, I tin can't unsee it"), it would make sense if multiple songs from the "Scarlet" vault were directed towards Gyllenhaal.
Swift said the album was originally "nearly one relationship," merely she ended up "scratching" several breakup songs in the final six months of the creative procedure to make room for more optimistic compositions.
"That first year is like a development stage," she told Yahoo! Music. "And and then y'all become into year two, and you have new experiences and learn all kinds of new lessons. And there are yet some things that are very heartbroken on the record. But there are too shades of different kinds of things that I was inspired by, different layers of emotion, different levels of emotion."
Trivia: "Infant" was released as a single in 2018 by country duo Sugarland (Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush) with Swift every bit a featured vocalist. She also starred in the music video as a red-haired romantic rival.
"[Taylor] reached out. We [accept] obviously known each other for many years. When she was commencement getting started we had simply had our first piffling EP out, called 'Premium Quality Tunes,'" Nettles told Billboard. "She still has a copy of it that we signed for her whenever nosotros played a couple of shows together."
"She was excited we were getting back together and reached out and said, 'Hey, I have a vocal,'" Nettles connected. "That is a short list, ladies and gentleman, of people to whom she has said, 'Hey, I have a vocal, you desire to sing it?' So we said, 'Yes!'"
At the time, Swift confirmed that she had cowritten the vocal with Train'south Pat Monahan while making "Red."
All-time lyrics: "Your secret has its effect and that's on you, babe."
"Message in a Bottle"
Written by: Max Martin, Shellback, Taylor Swift
Produced by: Elvira Anderfjärd, Shellback
Secret message: North/A
Fan lore: The mention of "freckles and bright eyes" in this song's first poesy echoes the "dark-green eyes and freckles" line in "Everything Has Changed," which suggests Kennedy's influence.
Fans were also quick to notation a thematic connection between "Message in a Bottle" and "Come Dorsum... Be Here," particularly in the bridge.
"How is information technology in London? / Where are you lot while I'm wondering / If I'll ever see you over again?" Swift sings, referencing the aforementioned urban center and describing a similar yearning equally in the previous deluxe rails ("I gauge you're in London today / And I don't wanna need yous this way").
Alternatively, these details could point to Styles, who hails from England and too has dark-green eyes.
Trivia: Swift used the phrase "message in a bottle" throughout the "Red" era to describe her approach to songwriting.
"I've never changed the reason I write a song. Songs for me are like a message in a canteen," she told The Daily Beast. "You send them out to the globe and perchance the person who you experience that way nearly will hear about information technology someday."
She echoed this sentiment during the final stop on her Red Tour: "I recollect for me, a question that I become asked sort of a lot is: How do you lot write a song? Similar, where exercise yous start? I only imagine that I am putting a message in a bottle and sending information technology out into the sea."
All-time lyrics: "Time moves faster, replaying your laughter, disaster."
"I Bet Yous Think Almost Me" /// feat. Chris Stapleton
Written by: Lori McKenna, Taylor Swift
Produced past: Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift
Hole-and-corner message: N/A
Fan lore: Several lines betoken that "I Bet You Recall Nearly Me" was inspired past the same man equally "Nosotros Are Never Always Getting Dorsum Together," presumably Gyllenhaal.
Once once more, Swift addresses an ex that made her experience inferior, out of step with his "upper-crust circles" and "cool indie music concerts." She also rehashes his need for "space."
Information technology seems he blamed their relationship issues on being "too different." Swift underscores this bespeak in the third poesy, juxtaposing her ex's childhood in "a silverish-spoon gated community" in Beverly Hills with her own upbringing on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania. Indeed, Gyllenhaal was raised in Los Angeles by two parents in the filmmaking industry.
Trivia: Chris Stapleton is as well a featured creative person on Adele'due south "thirty," slated for release just one week later on "Red (Taylor'south Version)." Asked how these powerhouse collaborations came about, Stapleton replied simply, "They called and I answered."
"Those are calls you pick upward and say, 'What shall I exercise? OK, cool.' That'due south how that goes," he told press at the 2021 Country Music Association awards.
All-time lyrics: "I bet you couldn't believe / When you realized I'grand harder to forget than I was to exit."
"Forever Winter"
Written by: Mark Foster, Taylor Swift
Produced past: Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift
Hugger-mugger message: N/A
Fan lore: "Forever Winter" feels similar a prelude to "Ameliorate Homo," with the former written in the midst of a strained relationship and the latter written in retrospect. In both songs, Swift describes staying up all night into the wee hours of the morning, fretting near a man who was painful to honey.
In "Forever Wintertime," she calls to cheque in at 3 a.m. while he'southward spiraling, and again at 5 a.m. when he's drunk. She begs him not to go out her.
In "Better Human," she sings, "I wish it wasn't 4 a.m., standing in the mirror / Saying to myself, 'You know you had to do it' / I know the bravest thing I ever did was run."
"Forever Winter" also shares thematic similarities to "Renegade," a song Swift wrote with Aaron Dessner and recorded for Dessner and Justin Vernon'south band Big Cherry-red Machine. The song was released on July 2, 2021, less than ane month after Swift announced "Scarlet (Taylor's Version)" would be her second rerecorded album.
Trivia: Although "Forever Winter" was left off the original "Cherry" tracklist, Mark Foster (of popular-rock band Foster the People) revealed he'd written a song with Swift a few months before its release in 2012.
"Information technology's a really cool song," he told Fuse. "We kind of but went into it casually, like permit's just jam and just have fun, and something really cool came out of it."
"We'll see what happens with it," he connected. "She's been writing a lot for her next record. But it was a lot of fun working with her, she's super talented."
When the tracklist for "Red (Taylor's Version)" was announced, Foster described Swift as "one of our generation's most prolific and talented artists" and praised her for "trailblazing a new way for artists to own their masters."
All-time lyrics: "I pull at every thread trying to solve the puzzles in his caput / Live my life scared to death he'll decide to leave instead."
"Run" /// feat. Ed Sheeran
Written by: Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift
Produced by: Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift
Hole-and-corner message: Due north/A
Fan lore: According to Sheeran, the two friends wrote "Run" about one week earlier "Everything Has Inverse." This timeline would suggest that "Run" was as well inspired by Kennedy.
The lyric "We shouldn't exist in this boondocks" could refer to the secret bulletin for "Everything Has Changed," which was "Hyannis Port." Swift and Kennedy were photographed there together multiple times, leading to heavy scrutiny from the press.
"Run" could then be seen as a reaction to the difficulties of nurturing and protecting a relationship in the public eye, a concept she would explore thoroughly on her next album, "1989."
Trivia: Sheeran said he causeless Swift would include "Run" on the initial release of "Red" rather than "Everything Has Changed," but she chose the latter instead.
"'Run' was always my favorite one, just 'Everything Has Inverse' just ended up sounding better, 'cause I remember nosotros produced them differently," he told Upper-case letter FM.
"Then 'Run' has merely been at that place for years and years and years, and I've never really wanted to nudge Taylor most it, because it'south her song and her thing," he continued. "Simply I've e'er been secretly hoping that one day she'd be like, 'Hey, this ane was cool.'"
All-time lyrics: "My so-called friends, they don't know / I'd drive away earlier I let you go."
"The Very Commencement Night"
Written by: Amund Bjørklund, Espen Lind, Taylor Swift
Produced by: Espionage, Tim Blacksmith, Danny D
Secret message: N/A
Fan lore: The 2d poetry of "The Very Starting time Night" features two articulate callbacks to previous tracks, "All Too Well" and "The Last Time," both suspected to be inspired by Gyllenhaal.
"Merely don't forget about the night out in LA / Trip the light fantastic in the kitchen, chase me downwards through the hallway," Swift sings.
The undercover message for "The Last Time" was "LA on your break," while "All Also Well" includes a memorable lyric nigh "dancing in the kitchen in the fridge lite."
Some fans however, including Rolling Rock's Rob Sheffield, retrieve "The Very First Night" sounds like it's "office of the aforementioned jet-set rock-star romance as 'Come Back… Be Here.'"
Trivia: This is Swift's first known collaboration with Norwegian product duo Amund Bjørklund and Espen Lind, known professionally as Espionage, who helped write hits similar Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" and Train's "Hey, Soul Sister."
Best lyrics: "We broke the condition quo / Then we broke each other'southward hearts."
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