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Taylor Swift · S5 E3
All Too Well
The original ten-minute version that doesn't officially exist yet. Why it had to be cut. Why it never goes away.
Taylor Swift sits down with Liz Rose in a Nashville studio and starts talking about a scarf, a kitchen, and a boy she cannot stop thinking about. She does not stop for ten minutes.
"All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)" -- Taylor Swift, live on Saturday Night Live (November 13, 2021). The night after releasing the full version, Taylor performs all ten minutes on live television. No cuts, no edits, no safety net. She stands at a piano and sings the song the way it was always meant to exist: complete, uninterrupted, and devastating.
All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version)
The ten-minute version opens with verses the original album cut removes entirely, containing the most specific details Taylor has ever recorded: a car ride, a mother's reaction, the moment she realizes she is screaming in a room alone. Jack Antonoff builds the production across ten minutes without ever reaching a traditional pop climax. The bridge strips everything back to Taylor's voice, nearly unaccompanied, at its most raw. The song does not end; it just stops.
TAP TO REVEAL: What happens to the original ten-minute version?
“The original version of this song was about ten minutes long. I remember I played it and they said, "You have to cut this." That was the most painful edit I ever had to make on any album.”
— Taylor Swift, various interviews, 2012-2014
All Too Well: The Facts
Treacherous (Taylor's Version)
The prequel to "All Too Well." Where ATW documents the damage after the crash, "Treacherous" is the moment right before it: "I'd be smart to walk away, but you're quicksand." Taylor knows the relationship will hurt her. She walks in anyway. Listen to it as the first chapter of a story that takes ten minutes to finish.
When the ten-minute version debuted at number one in 2021, it broke a chart record. What was it?
The ten-minute heartbreak is written, but Red also contains the opposite: a song so catchy that Nashville will never look at Taylor Swift the same way. Next: "We Are Never Getting Back Together," and the twenty-five-minute session that changes everything.
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