… People just started playing along with me. “I ended up sort of just playing four chords over and over again, and the band started kicking in.
“It was a day when I was just, like, a broken human, walking into rehearsal just feeling terrible about what was going on in my personal life,” she explained during an episode of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums” podcast in 2020. As she looked back on her old songs, the Pennsylvania native offered a glimpse at what inspired her to write “All Too Well” in the first place. While fighting to win back ownership of her masters from her former record label, Big Machine, Swift decided to rerecord all of her past albums. “Nicer than, like, the ranting, crazy e-mails I got from this one dude.” It was like going through a photo album.’ That was nice,” the Grammy winner recalled during an interview with New York magazine in November 2013. “He was like, ‘I just listened to the album, and that was a really bittersweet experience for me. While Swift didn’t specify which of her famous exes the tracks were about, she revealed that the subject of her songs instantly connected the dots. Swifties were quick to to dig for clues within the lyrics, which not-so-subtly hinted at Swift and Gyllenhaal’s whirlwind relationship. Two years later, Swift made headlines with her album Red, which included smash hits “All Too Well” and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” The twosome were originally seen spending time together in October 2010 and dated for three months before going their separate ways. Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal’s relationship may have been brief, but its impact certainly hasn’t been.
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