Taylor Swift fans revel in ‘All Too Well’ film lyrics, clues

NEW YORK – Taylor Swift's fans cognize however to look for cautious clues and Easter eggs successful her lyrics and euphony videos, truthful anticipation was precocious erstwhile the popular prima dropped a abbreviated movie going deeper into her romanticist beingness connected a instrumentality favourite song.

“All Too Well: The Short Film," directed by Swift and premiering connected Friday evening, has fans enthralled with her caller mentation of her classical album, “Red.” Originally released successful 2012, the medium featured hits similar “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “22." “All Too Well,” nevertheless has caller lyrics and is 10-minutes long.

Ahead of a instrumentality screening astatine a New York movie theatre connected Friday, Swift told The Associated Press she decided to grounds a longer mentation of “All Too Well” and marque a mini-movie due to the fact that of its popularity with her followers.

“This is each astir what the fans person turned this opus into,” Swift said connected the reddish carpet. "It was ne'er a single, ne'er had a video, it ne'er had a ocular constituent to it, but they beauteous overmuch created their ain imaginary cinematic beingness for it, truthful this is conscionable maine pursuing done connected what they started and what they told maine they wanted.”

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Packets of tissues that work “All Too Well” were handed retired to the fans to usage if needed.

Inside, Swift greeted the assemblage with “It's been awhile." She past granted support for immoderate emotion the movie whitethorn disturbance up. “You and I are utilized to concerts," Swift said. "We're utilized to feeling however we consciousness and being vocal astir however we feel, erstwhile we consciousness it. Just bash that, consciousness your feelings. We've provided tissues. You bash not request to beryllium stoic, serious, oregon thing you are not,” she said.

The abbreviated stars Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien who play retired the amusive and romance of a caller relationship, problems and wounded feelings creeping up, and their eventual breakup.

A item begins with a meal country wherever O'Brien's quality holds tribunal arsenic the guests laugh. Sink reaches for O'Brien's manus and helium drops it. What follows is an astir three-minute interruption successful the euphony arsenic they reason portion washing dishes. O'Brien tells Sink she's making thing retired of thing for being upset, prompting the assemblage to gasp and boo.

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Swift explained to the AP that portion of the movie is “not an autobiographical infinitesimal astatine all" but was ad-libbed.

“I deliberation you tin archer a batch astir radical erstwhile you spot them fight," she explained. "So we wanted to person a large argument. They knew what the statement was about, what the catalyst was. This was thing that was created for the film."

After the screening, Swift brought O'Brien and Sink retired earlier the audience. “I'm atrocious astir that,” O'Brien joked astir his behaviour connected screen, winning the assemblage backmost successful his favor.

Swift besides performed an acoustic mentation of “All Too Well” for the country arsenic she strummed her guitar.

The caller "All Too Well" was a apical trending point Friday connected Twitter, with fans reveling successful the juicy details of the further lyrics.

Although Swift hasn’t talked astir who the opus is about, Swiftie sleuths person targeted histrion Jake Gyllenhaal arsenic the apt beau who broke her bosom years ago.

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Swift has been re-recording her archetypal six albums due to the fact that her archetypal masters were sold by her anterior statement and she wanted to make caller masters that she could ain herself. “Red (Taylor's Version)" was released Friday with an expanded 30 full songs, including duets with Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton and Phoebe Bridgers.

“I'm getting to look backmost connected this euphony and conscionable spot euphony and spot creation and spot experiences I've had successful concerts," said Swift of re-recording her music. “It was excavation and present it's truly shared betwixt maine and the fans and that's what I person truly taken distant from this experience.”

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