25 Best Taylor Swift Songs

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Surely, many readers scrolled right here first, to see which observe got here in at primary, they usually’re most likely not shocked to see “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” right here on the prime. “All Too Well” — the unique five-minute model from 2012’s “Red” — was already certainly one of Swift’s finest. In the shortened model, Swift pulled away the specifics of her doomed relationship to make a track of heartbreak and ache that felt universally relatable. In the 10-minute model (which she wrote first, although we needed to wait years to listen to it), she places these specifics again in, reveals extra about herself, and turns the track into undoubtedly her biggest masterpiece.

The 10-minute model is infused with the passage of time. “I remember it all too well,” Swift sings on the choruses, and it turns into clear that the track is about reclaiming the recollections, recounting the reality of her experiences. But the tip is what at all times kills me, when she turns her focus solely on her ex. “Just between us did the love affair maim you too?” she asks. There’s no reply, after all; there by no means is. But she nonetheless will get to say what occurred to her and reclaim her ache and heartbreak and anguish and switch it into one thing higher than a failed relationship and the one who left her bruised.