Taylor Swift is re-recording her albums. Image Source: Vanity Fair
Grammy-winning singer Taylor Swift has recently dropped a teaser of her upcoming short movie “All Too Well”, which she has written and directed. The 31-year-old singer announced the project on Friday with a teaser showcasing a car driving down a scenic road surrounded by fall foliage. She took to her social media to share the teaser and captioned the post, “November 12. Remember it.” The much-awaited announcement for the singer's short movie was made in the last moments of "Good Morning America," which is usually reserved for major Taylor Swift news.
“All Too Well”, is going to star actors, Dylan O’Brien and Sadie Sink, and the movie’s title is a reference to her song “All Too Well” from her album “Red”. Taylor Swift's first version of Red was released almost nine years ago, and the new version will feature tracks co-written by her good friend Ed Sheeran, Phoebe Bridgers, and Chris Stapleton. Taylor claimed when the album was first published that the hit tune "All Too Well" was originally written as a much longer song, but that she'd cut it down significantly. She said, "It started out as a 10-minute song, which you can't put on an album."
The singer gave a glimpse inside the experience of writing the song during an appearance on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums podcast in 2020. Taylor Swift said, “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. I just started singing and riffing and ad-libbing this song that basically was ‘All Too Well.’ It literally just was that song, but it had probably seven extra verses, and it included the f-word. I remember my sound guy was like, ‘Hey, I burned a CD of that thing that you were doing in case you want it.’ And I was like; ‘Sure’. I ended up taking it home and listening to it. And I was like, ‘I actually really like this, but it definitely is like 10 minutes long, and I need to pare it down.’”
In 2019, Taylor Swift shared with GMA’s Robin Roberts that she has planned on re-recording her old albums after her fallout with Scooter Braun. The news made it to the front page and the story ended up where it was mentioned that Scooter Braun owned all her albums till 2017.
Talking about re-recording albums, Taylor Swift mentioned, “It’s something that I’m very excited about doing because my contract says that starting November 2020. So, next year, I can record albums 1 through 5 all over again. I’m very excited about it. I think that artists deserve to own their work. Not only that, but I just feel very passionately about that.”
Focusing on the short film, this will not be the first time Swifties have seen her in a film, as she has previously been in Cats, The Giver, and Valentine's Day. What's fascinating is that Sadie Sink is currently 19 years old, while Dylan O'Brien is 30 years old, which is very comparable to Swift and Gyllenhaal's ages when they were dating.
Taylor Swift's song "All Too Well" is a wonderful song about a romance that has ended and all she has left are her memories to keep her warm. It's said to be related to her romance with actor Jake Gyllenhaal. In the short film, Dylan O'Brien plays Taylor Swift's love interest, but we've come to anticipate the unexpected from the singer. There may be a whole other perspective here that will be revealed on 12th November 2021.
