Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal’s separation in 2010 may have been explained by the singer.
On her 2012 album, Red, the 31-year-old singer has released a new 10-minute rendition of the breakup song that appears to suggest a nine-year age disparity played a factor.
It would have been wonderful if we were younger, you said / And that made me want to die,” Swift sings in the song, which she has never confirmed is about Gyllenhaal.
Grammy Award winner dated 40-year-old actor from October to December of 2010 according to reports. Swift began working on the emotive track in early 2011.
Some of the newly recorded lyrics hint that Taylor was particularly hurt by the breakup.
They say all’s well that ends well but I’m in a new hell / Every time you double cross my mind,’ the lyrics read.
Though he may have been opposed to age-gap relationships at the time, Jake has changed his tune over the years.
Late last year, Donnie Darko began seeing a model 15 years his junior, Jeanne Cadieu, a 25-year-old French model.
Aside from All Too Well, Taylor’s rework of Red contains six previously unreleased songs.
One of the newly unearthed tracks, “I Bet You Think About Me,” has been linked to Jake by a recent review in The Sun.
Her separation with Jake was widely considered to be the subject of several songs on the original album.
‘You can’t help who you fall for, and you and I fell like an early spring snow,’ the critic quotes the song as saying. However, as you pointed out, we’re not that similar after all.
Her songs accuse her love interest of laughing at her dreams and rolling their eyes at her jokes.
Mr. Superior Thinking, do you have all the space that you need?’ taunts Taylor, whose ex-boyfriend Jake was already well-known for films like Zodiac and Brokeback Mountain.
‘I don’t have to be your shrink to know that you’ll never be happy and I bet you think about me,’ the singing sensation continues.
New track: A new review of the album in The Sun theorizes that one of the six unearthed numbers, I Bet You Think About Me, is also about Jake; Jake see in October.
Taylor, who is nearly a decade younger than Jake and dated him for two months at the end of 2010, says her used-to-be is ‘scared not to be hip, scared to get old.’
Red’s re-release has been the subject of so much conjecture about the rumored Jake material that by Thursday he had already started trending on Twitter.
We Are Never Getting Back Together and I Knew You Were Trouble, two of the most popular songs from the original Red, were largely believed to be directed towards Jake.
While the original song All Too Well had a 10-minute length, the shortened version only had five-and-a-half minutes of music.
On Friday, Taylor will finally give fans the full 10-minute song as it was originally composed.
For some, Jake’s sister Maggie Gyllenhaal’s name came up in the song’s lyrics when he sang, “I forgot my scarf there at your sister’s place.”
A few years later, Maggie appeared on Watch What Happens Live and said, ‘I’m not sure what that scarf is about.’ ‘I don’t know for sure, but it could be the case.’
Taylor told Vulture a year after the first release of Red that she had ‘heard from the guy that most of Red is about.’
‘He was like, ‘I just listened to the record, and that was an extremely bittersweet experience for me,” she said. The experience was like going through a scrapbook.’ The experience was pleasant.’
Music entrepreneur Scooter Braun, who handles artists such as Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, is warring with Taylor.
Immediately after Scooter purchased the company that holds the masters for Taylor’s first six albums, their public battle of wills began.
Now that their feud has intensified to such an extreme, she is rerecording all six of her albums so that she can release the versions that she owns.
In April, she released a reworked version of her second studio album, Fearless, and is now releasing Red.