Most of the songs on Red are about Jake Gyllenhaal. Obviously, Taylor has never confirmed this, because she never says names, but it's a well-accepted fact among Swifties.
"is she really upat 4am?" GIRL, if you're gonna keep listening to Taylor, you'll find out that that woman never sleeps. the number of midnights, 2ams, 3ams, 4ams etc is biiiiiiig, like she's up at night like almost always in songs lol
Her first four albums are considered country albums and then she moved over to pop. This is from Red where she works with Max Martin for the first time, and her genre really started to change. This song was originally written for Little Big Town.
No, this song was originally written for Taylor to put on Red. After it didn't make the album, then she offered it to Little Big Town years later. But it was not written for them.
She wrote the song and she explains it live at the bluebird Café that she wrote song, but she didn’t think she needed to sing it that she heard it and three or four part harmony, and immediately sent it to “Little big town”who recorded it & it was a huge hit!
I think she was somewhat emulating the vocals of Little Big Town who originally recorded this song. It was written during the Red album songwriting sessions but wasn’t on the original album, and was actually a HUGE hit on country radio for LBT.
Just a note - for the Taylors Version re-recordings she is trying to, for the most part, recreate the songs as close as possible. Which is likely, in my opinion, the vowels and high notes sound like “old Taylor”.
Red is about Jake Gyllenhaal who she was dating around the time of Speak Now which was 2010 and then they broke up before Red so most of the songs are about Jake The song I Knew You Were Trouble is about John Mayer so if you want I highly suggest listening to the full song You actually heard a snippet of it when looking at live performances of Taylor singing high notes. I know a lot of people think that song is about Harry Styles but personally I don't see it
actually, she dated Jake in the fall of 2010. It started just about the time she released Speak Now in October, and was all over by Christmas. She wrote All Too Well during the band rehearsals for Speak Now. By the time Red was out, she had already been dating Styles. (Why WANEGBT had that Alice in Wonderland circus theme for the Red Tour -- Harry is a Cheshire cat who did the disappearing act)
I always thought the songs with red in the lyrics were about Jake from the red album. (At least in the stolen version.) But that's just my interpretation.
It's Jake Gyllenhall. So is "The Moment I Knew" Because of the birthday party references seen in All Too Well and TMIK. WANEGBT is about Jake and "I Almost Do" references WANEGBT meaning "I almost do" is also about Jake. Seeing as I'm the second comment this is exciting
She actually handed this song off to "Little Big Town" many many years ago and they recorded it and won a few top awards for it. I love their version more bc they have a 4 part harmony instead of one voice. And thats one of the reasons why she gave it to them. She felt like it would sound good with many levels.
"Taylor Swift wrote the song, intending to include it on her fourth studio album, Red (2012), but the song did not make the final track list. She passed the song to Little Big Town in 2016, believing the group's vocal harmonies suited it."
Guessing someone has already said it but she gave this song to 'Little Big Town' who won song of the year at the CMAs with it. Speaking of 'Little Big Town' you should react to some of there harmony there cove of 'the chain' blew my mind when I seen them live. 😊
This song and All Too Well battled for the track 5 position on the original album, shame it was cut but Little Big Town ate this song up. I listen to both versions back to back to really get my cry on
I have two theories one it’s about her relationship with her dad; and two, that it’s about herself. It’s almost like she’s wondering what her career would have been had she made some different choices
fwiw, Taylor has been a co-producer of all her songs as of Fearless (2008). Which also makes her eligible for those production awards, on top of songwriting, performance, record, song, and video.
Damn she’s releasing this at October 2, 1:00 AM at my country. I love everything she posts about Taylor. But my first day of classes starts at October 2 😓
It was originally recorded for Red but didn't make the cut, she then gave it to "little big town" to record and it's a from the vault song. Their interpretation of the song feels a little sadder and more resigned. Taylor's version feels like the person singing the song feels empowered by making a hard decision. So both are great but it depends on your mood which one you want to play in the moment
Taylor tends to save the really strong belting for when she is live -- her albums are more restrained. Quite aside from any vocal training, mixing software and tech has changed sound a LOT in the last 17 years; her first songs were recorded in 2005/6 when she was 15 to 16. People differ, but she probably was not done growing until around 2010, so the "improvement" in her voice is also attributable to aging. For myself, I quite like her voice; but I don't expect her debut album to have the same tonal qualities as her Speak Now or Red albums. My favorite album, though --- depends on my mood. They are all good.
There is no 'original' recording of Better Man. It didn't make the album. She offered it to Little Big Town and they had a HUGE hit with it. There is an acoustic recording of Taylor singing this at the Blue Bird Cafe. You should check out those two videos as well. (even if only for yourself... but I's love to see reactions to both as well! :)
It's a vault track from Red. But she originally wrote it and then gave it to Little Big Town and that version got really popular. Now that she's doing these re-recordings she decided to record her own version and release it with Red TV, it wasn't part of the original Red album.
She did write this song, but the first time I think I heard this particular song was when Little Big Town sang it….. it’s kind of fun listening to both versions.
You should ABSOLUTELY listen to the Little Big Town version of this song which is who the song was given to. I love Taylor but Little Big Town knocked this out of the park. It sounds a lot more full and meaningful because it is a Quartet. The harmonies are ABSOLUTELY gut wrenchingly beautiful.
This song was written by Taylor but was originally recorded by country group Little Big Town. Taylor is queen of all queens, but I think Little Big Town performed it better. Don't come for me. I'm a swiftie. You should also listen to their version.
my most traumatic relationship was actually from him falling in with my potential and spending every second putting me down and trying to convince me that he knew better and i needed to change to “become an adult in a successful relationship”. but it was really just his own insecurities bc men can’t handle independent women
It's more like, the guy showed his best self in the starting stage and gave hopes to be that great potential better man but only that it didn't last so she keep on hoping if it will turn sweet again.. I don't understand why some men do that and give false hope and then turn into a low effort man right after making the girl fall, it's very hurtful.
I think it sounds a little tight because on re-recordings she forces herself to imitate her younger voice instead of singing freely the way she knows how to sing now
You should react to her live version of this song, just search Taylor Swift Better Man Bluebird Live, it's so much better than this version, it's more like Little Big Town's version and she slays it. ❤
"The song won a Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and was nominated for Best Country Song at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards." th-cam.com/video/ph9NQ8ASmX4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HMgh3sLy2W-xfur2
I don't think it really matters who the song was written about. Not all her songs even are about anycreature she knows, plenty of them are just purely imagined scenarios, told from the perspectives of purely imagined people. And personally I find it best to listen to all her songs assuming they're like that and not giving any thought to anything or anycreature in her life they could've been about. You really don't have to know any actual life context to enjoy them a lot of the time, and imo it's really best to just form your own interpretations independently of any of that.
No, it's not a "John Mayer song", it's a Taylor Swift song and is really annoying when people mainly focus on who are the songs thought to be about it and not for what they are. And yes, I know swifties does that a lot too and we all like to get the tea, but it's so unnecessary to talk about it and put it in the thumbnail/title.
@@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989 Yeah, I like her reactions but it bothers me when people do this, it make it look like there's nothing good or interesting to say about the music and they need to resort to gossips to promote the video.
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Most of the songs on Red are about Jake Gyllenhaal. Obviously, Taylor has never confirmed this, because she never says names, but it's a well-accepted fact among Swifties.
I love how she's never said anything about anyone but we somehow know exactly which song is about who.
@@rylymbona Though, sometimes even we struggle to follow the breadcrumbs she does give us.😂
@LiMoo02 yeah and we be clowning hard.
I feel like this is a John song, there’s a lot of parallels with Dear John
@@ange1. Could be, who knows. Regardless, it's a great song.
This song always hit me like the reflections of someone who escaped abuse instead of lamenting your partner didn't reach their potential.
Yeeesss!! I've been saying this since 2012 when the demo was filtration!
Its about Jake Gyllenhaal, also if you should do a red album reaction, if you want to, id love to see it!!
"is she really upat 4am?" GIRL, if you're gonna keep listening to Taylor, you'll find out that that woman never sleeps. the number of midnights, 2ams, 3ams, 4ams etc is biiiiiiig, like she's up at night like almost always in songs lol
She even has an album dedicated to that time of the day😂
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Once she went from pacing at 3 am to wasted at 5 am and we didn't object a single time
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Her first four albums are considered country albums and then she moved over to pop. This is from Red where she works with Max Martin for the first time, and her genre really started to change. This song was originally written for Little Big Town.
No, this song was originally written for Taylor to put on Red. After it didn't make the album, then she offered it to Little Big Town years later. But it was not written for them.
@@KMCB12 no you right. I totally forgot Ahah.
@@christianseibold3369 I know. I didn't write that someone else wrote it for Taylor to put on Red. I meant Taylor wrote it FOR Red.
She wrote the song and she explains it live at the bluebird Café that she wrote song, but she didn’t think she needed to sing it that she heard it and three or four part harmony, and immediately sent it to “Little big town”who recorded it & it was a huge hit!
I think she was somewhat emulating the vocals of Little Big Town who originally recorded this song. It was written during the Red album songwriting sessions but wasn’t on the original album, and was actually a HUGE hit on country radio for LBT.
Taylor wrote it for Red but then it was cut, she offered it to LBT years later
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Just a note - for the Taylors Version re-recordings she is trying to, for the most part, recreate the songs as close as possible. Which is likely, in my opinion, the vowels and high notes sound like “old Taylor”.
Red is about Jake Gyllenhaal who she was dating around the time of Speak Now which was 2010 and then they broke up before Red so most of the songs are about Jake
The song I Knew You Were Trouble is about John Mayer so if you want I highly suggest listening to the full song
You actually heard a snippet of it when looking at live performances of Taylor singing high notes. I know a lot of people think that song is about Harry Styles but personally I don't see it
Some people theorize that I Knew You Were Trouble is about Harry Styles. None of them are definitively about anyone that we know for sure
actually, she dated Jake in the fall of 2010. It started just about the time she released Speak Now in October, and was all over by Christmas. She wrote All Too Well during the band rehearsals for Speak Now. By the time Red was out, she had already been dating Styles. (Why WANEGBT had that Alice in Wonderland circus theme for the Red Tour -- Harry is a Cheshire cat who did the disappearing act)
@@robertthompson7242 ok thanks for letting me now I'll edit my comment
I always thought the songs with red in the lyrics were about Jake from the red album. (At least in the stolen version.) But that's just my interpretation.
It's Jake Gyllenhall. So is "The Moment I Knew" Because of the birthday party references seen in All Too Well and TMIK. WANEGBT is about Jake and "I Almost Do" references WANEGBT meaning "I almost do" is also about Jake. Seeing as I'm the second comment this is exciting
I hope while you're editing your video you can add a clip and give a shout-out to me and talk about my theory :DD that would be so exciting 😊 thanks
She actually handed this song off to "Little Big Town" many many years ago and they recorded it and won a few top awards for it. I love their version more bc they have a 4 part harmony instead of one voice. And thats one of the reasons why she gave it to them. She felt like it would sound good with many levels.
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Im so excited for this reaction, its one of my fav songs
Every upload I just love the editor more😂❤
"Taylor Swift wrote the song, intending to include it on her fourth studio album, Red (2012), but the song did not make the final track list. She passed the song to Little Big Town in 2016, believing the group's vocal harmonies suited it."
It doesn’t really matter who the song is about! It’s a great song, one of my favorites
This was my suprise song for the eras tour✌️
Guessing someone has already said it but she gave this song to 'Little Big Town' who won song of the year at the CMAs with it.
Speaking of 'Little Big Town' you should react to some of there harmony there cove of 'the chain' blew my mind when I seen them live. 😊
This song and All Too Well battled for the track 5 position on the original album, shame it was cut but Little Big Town ate this song up. I listen to both versions back to back to really get my cry on
I have two theories one it’s about her relationship with her dad; and two, that it’s about herself. It’s almost like she’s wondering what her career would have been had she made some different choices
I was at Gillette when she sang this as a surprise song on the Eras Tour. It’s unreal live, I SOBBED.
She also gave this song to Little Big town and they did a great version of it
fwiw, Taylor has been a co-producer of all her songs as of Fearless (2008). Which also makes her eligible for those production awards, on top of songwriting, performance, record, song, and video.
Damn she’s releasing this at October 2, 1:00 AM at my country. I love everything she posts about Taylor. But my first day of classes starts at October 2 😓
It was originally recorded for Red but didn't make the cut, she then gave it to "little big town" to record and it's a from the vault song. Their interpretation of the song feels a little sadder and more resigned. Taylor's version feels like the person singing the song feels empowered by making a hard decision. So both are great but it depends on your mood which one you want to play in the moment
You should react to Death By A Thousand Cuts, and the Lover Album in general!!
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Taylor tends to save the really strong belting for when she is live -- her albums are more restrained. Quite aside from any vocal training, mixing software and tech has changed sound a LOT in the last 17 years; her first songs were recorded in 2005/6 when she was 15 to 16. People differ, but she probably was not done growing until around 2010, so the "improvement" in her voice is also attributable to aging. For myself, I quite like her voice; but I don't expect her debut album to have the same tonal qualities as her Speak Now or Red albums. My favorite album, though --- depends on my mood. They are all good.
There is no 'original' recording of Better Man. It didn't make the album. She offered it to Little Big Town and they had a HUGE hit with it.
There is an acoustic recording of Taylor singing this at the Blue Bird Cafe. You should check out those two videos as well. (even if only for yourself... but I's love to see reactions to both as well! :)
It's a vault track from Red. But she originally wrote it and then gave it to Little Big Town and that version got really popular. Now that she's doing these re-recordings she decided to record her own version and release it with Red TV, it wasn't part of the original Red album.
Just came here to say that your eyes look incredible! That shirt really brings out the color of your eyes!
She did write this song, but the first time I think I heard this particular song was when Little Big Town sang it….. it’s kind of fun listening to both versions.
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don't understand why does matters knowing who is the inspiration, it's a good song
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I think the tightness is a style choice so her re-recordings and vault tracks have the same sound she had then
I adore how her she adjusts her meter in order to incorporate a really clever rhymescheme
I think the “tight” vocals are a stylistic choice to adhere to the style of the original demo recording fans know.
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You should ABSOLUTELY listen to the Little Big Town version of this song which is who the song was given to. I love Taylor but Little Big Town knocked this out of the park. It sounds a lot more full and meaningful because it is a Quartet. The harmonies are ABSOLUTELY gut wrenchingly beautiful.
I relate this song to my mum. I wish she was a better mum
Taylor gave this song to Little Big Town great versión too
it's about jake gyllenhaal...
She doesn't know this yet so you can't really blame her
@@JovanisVersion ik, not mad at her
She’s never confirmed who the song was about. When doing the track list she had to choose between this and All Too Well and she chose All Too Well.
Another great video! You're the best.
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She gave this song to Little Big Town originally. So this was her technical recording.
Better man is a great song by Taylor also With Little Big town
Little big town recorded this. Taylor didn’t release but she wrote it
This song was written by Taylor but was originally recorded by country group Little Big Town. Taylor is queen of all queens, but I think Little Big Town performed it better. Don't come for me. I'm a swiftie. You should also listen to their version.
in the cover shes wearing orange Karma TV FTV yall
my most traumatic relationship was actually from him falling in with my potential and spending every second putting me down and trying to convince me that he knew better and i needed to change to “become an adult in a successful relationship”. but it was really just his own insecurities bc men can’t handle independent women
I like taylors version, but I'm just so used to little big towns version that I actually prefer it. But both are good.
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@@SongsFromASuitcase omg thanks I’m feeling 20😅
It would be great if you react to "Babe" but the version with Sugarland ft. Taylor, also the video is great.
please do more taylor stuffs
Awesome ❤
you should react to this song live at the bluebird cafe
i like your character when you react it,you are so funny🤣
These edits are absolutely sending me lmao "well taylor was ten minutes mad-er" oml 😂
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still waiting 😁
It's more like, the guy showed his best self in the starting stage and gave hopes to be that great potential better man but only that it didn't last so she keep on hoping if it will turn sweet again.. I don't understand why some men do that and give false hope and then turn into a low effort man right after making the girl fall, it's very hurtful.
Audrey: Whoever it is, I'm already mad at him!
Me: So am I, Audrey...
Watch the blue bird cafe live acoustic performance here on TH-cam - so good!
now we need a full red reaction the whole album and the jake hate era must begin
Okay, but honestly, if you like Taylor's version, you SHOULD listen to Little Big Town. Taylor had them record it bc they have amazing harmonies.
this song broke me...
She wrote this song for little big town. This song has been on country radio since 2018
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It think it is about John Mayer in spite of being in Red.
You should do see you again with wiz khalifa from the 1989 world tour and please do more Taylor content!!!
John Mayer was over during this song and so was Lautner
I think it sounds a little tight because on re-recordings she forces herself to imitate her younger voice instead of singing freely the way she knows how to sing now
You should react to her live version of this song, just search Taylor Swift Better Man Bluebird Live, it's so much better than this version, it's more like Little Big Town's version and she slays it. ❤
I think she’s doing it to be stylistically country. I know she wrote this for Little Big Town.
"The song won a Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and was nominated for Best Country Song at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards."
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I don't think it really matters who the song was written about. Not all her songs even are about anycreature she knows, plenty of them are just purely imagined scenarios, told from the perspectives of purely imagined people. And personally I find it best to listen to all her songs assuming they're like that and not giving any thought to anything or anycreature in her life they could've been about. You really don't have to know any actual life context to enjoy them a lot of the time, and imo it's really best to just form your own interpretations independently of any of that.
Can the tension/tightness in her voice be due to the subject matter and how she's feeling at the time of recording.
Jake gyllenhaal
To me the tightness is a country thing
Definitely not about JM in my opinion. I believe it’s about JG.
No, it's not a "John Mayer song", it's a Taylor Swift song and is really annoying when people mainly focus on who are the songs thought to be about it and not for what they are. And yes, I know swifties does that a lot too and we all like to get the tea, but it's so unnecessary to talk about it and put it in the thumbnail/title.
I understand and agreee :DD love how true but respectful and kind you comment was 💛
@@just_swiftly_shake_it_off_1989 Yeah, I like her reactions but it bothers me when people do this, it make it look like there's nothing good or interesting to say about the music and they need to resort to gossips to promote the video.
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If memory serves me correctly, she wrote this song for a different country band years ago.