Happy Red Day! Red (Taylor’s Version) is officially out in the world and
Tay has been on the night show circuit sharing intimate details behind her song ‘All Too Well’
and even giving her friend Selena Gomez a surprise shoutout. Let’s get into it!
Last night Taylor dropped the highly-anticipated re-recording of her 2012 album Red and if
we’re being honest we’ve been up since midnight listening to it on repeat...
And lucky for us, Tay also spent the evening on back to back late-night appearances,
stopping by the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers .
And the best part of those appearances? She shared the
intimate details behind the 10-minute version of her hit song, “All Too Well”
“The one that I am the most excited about is a song called All Too Well,
in parentheses, the ten minute version”
Tay revealed that it was her favorite song on the original album,
and although it was not a single, it ended up being a fan favorite as well...
But Taylor also shared the sad details behind the
track and explained that she’d been going through a “bit of a sad time”
while writing ‘All To Well’ and let’s be honest it totally put us in our feels...
“I showed up for rehearsals and I just was really upset, and sad,
and everybody could tell, it was really, like, not fun to be around me that day
so I started playing guitar and just kind of playing the same four chords over and over again.”
Apparently that sad mood led to an impromptu recording session,
which led to this wonderful masterpiece that us Swifities are all stanning over!
“The band sort of joined in, and I started ad-libbing what I was going through, and what
I was feeling, and it went on, and the song kept building and building and building in intensity,
and the song just went on for about, you know, 10 to 15 minutes of us doing this.”
Tay and her band apparently moved on from that improvised session to rehearse for her Speak Now
tour, but lucky for Tay and fans, Taylor’s mom got a copy of the 10 minute version of All Too Well
from the sound guy who had apparently recorded it!! Umm… huge shout out to Taylor’s mom!
And though Tay joked that the 10 minute song was absurdly long,
obviously we don’t agree, because we’ve been streaming it on repeat since its release
as well as the rest of Red Taylors Version...
Which is likely how the album hit #1 on iTunes only 10 minutes after its release. WILD.
And that’s not the only insight Tay dropped about the original 10 minute version of All Too Well,
while talking with Seth Myers, she told him that while promoting Red in 2012,
she actually had to take breaks to cry during interviews,
She started off by saying, "At the time I was, like, honestly, really sad. Cause I'd
actually gone through, you know, the stuff that I had sung about.” She went on to say…
But this time, I've got sunglasses on and a mojito and just, like,
it's chill this time. It's really nice to be able to put this album out and not be sad not be, like,
taking breaks in between interviews to cry. I'm telling you, it's much better this way.”
Awww we love hearing Tay say this so much!
And as fans know, there’s a lot of speculation that Taylor’s ex
Jake Gyllenhal was the subject of the song
And though Taylor hasn’t confirmed it’s him, Seth did ask her, “I wonder if there are people,
who might think that they were the one you were singing about, if it's easier or
far, far worse for them 10 years later,"
And Tay’s answer was EVERYTHING!
“I haven’t thought about their experience, to be honest. I think that's the
biggest burn. [laughter]”
Burn indeed…
And in another moment from Taylor’s Red press rounds,
she gave a shout out to her bestie Selena Gomez!
During a game on the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon where guest and the host guess if the
other person is telling the truth about what’s in a box, Tay name-dropped Selena’s hit Disney show
“I don’t have to lie because I’m very excited to tell you that it’s a wizards of waverly place dvd
with a weird ribbon around it that says I see corn.”
But, it was revealed that Tay was in fact lying, and was just bringing up her BFF.
“you should of known I was lying I will do anything to bring up Selena Gomez, anything!“
Ahhh OMG if we couldn’t love Tay and her friendship with Selena any more!!! Honestly,
our Swifite hearts are about to burst with this avalanche of Taylor Swift content.. and you guys…
brace yourselves, as you know we’ve still got more to come today with the All Too Well short film...
Until then I’ll just be over here listening to All Too Well on repeat as I sob into my Kleenex.
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Then, let me know your thoughts of Red (Taylors Version)
and especially the 10 minute version of All Too Well in the comments!
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, you can find me on socials
@Sussan_Mourad, I’ll catch you later, bye guys!