![]() ![]() When the guy fails to show up at midnight for her birthday - a story she’s already told in “The Moment I Knew” and “Happiness” - her dad tries to cheer her up. She goes deeper into the story, venting her grief and rage, getting so savage it makes “Dear John” sound like “I Will Always Love You.” She hits harder about the age difference, sneering, “I’ll get older, but your lovers stay my age.” She quotes Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, seven years before busting out that reference in “Lover.” The legend is that this was the rough draft, before she cut it down to size, now finally done in a proper studio take with Jack Antonoff. The new “All Too Well (Original Version)” sums up Swift at her absolute best.
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