Is Taylor Swift’s new album Red about Jake Gyllenhaal?
TAYLOR Swift is relaunching her album Red - which originally dropped nearly a decade ago.
Fans believe the 2012 collection of songs was at least partially inspired by her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal.
Is Taylor Swift's new album Red about Jake Gyllenhaal?
Taylor Swift announced on June 18, 2021, that a revised version of her album Red will be released in November.
The launch of the original album - which featured 16 songs - came after Swift had a brief relationship with Gyllenhaal.
Swift, who is also an actress, says the re-release of the album will feature 30 songs.
"I've always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken," she wrote as she broke the news.
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"It moves on a different axis, at a different speed. Time skips backwards and forwards fleetingly.
"The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar voice.
"In the land of heartbreak, moments of strength, independent, and devil-may-care rebellion are intricately woven together with grief, paralyzing vulnerability, and hopelessness."
She added: "Imagining your future might always take you on a detour back to the past.
"And this is all to say, that the next album I'll be releasing is my version of Red."
When did Swift and Gyllenhaal allegedly date?
It is believed that Swift and Gyllenhaal dated for two months in 2010.
One of the songs on the original album, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, may have been about the actor, according to fans.
"Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person," Swift wrote.
"It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end.
"Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past.
"Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators.
"And I'm not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in a passionate solidarity, or if it was a simple time, but something was healed along the way."
Swift's romantic exploits have been well documented. She has been linked to British actor Joe Alwyn since 2017.
Is Taylor Swift directing a music video?
Swift teased a music video on November 5 on her Instagram page for the 10-minute song All Too Well. The song is included in the re-released version of Red.
The caption was short, sweet, and to the point. "November 12. Remember it."
Her post did not include clips of the actual video or those who will be featured in it. However, the video does show a long autumn-lined road with the words All Too Well, The Short film.
The 30-second video says it stars Sadie Sink, Dylan O'Brien, and Taylor Swift, written and directed by Taylor Swift while a car slowly drives up the leafy road.
Her album Red and the short film were released on November 12.
What are fans saying about the short film?
When the short film, All Too Well, was released alongside the re-recorded 2012 album, Red, fans immediately took to social media to share their opinions of the video.
The video resonated with many fans who said it brought a sense of nostalgia for their past and brought back memories they didn't realize they had.
Many individuals posted on Twitter saying the song brought tears to their eyes and they are listening to the 10-minute song, All Too Well, on repeat.
One comment on Twitter said, "Ok but the part where she was screamin n he was sittin there nonchalantly without a care in the world…yea i remember it all too well."
What songs will be added to the re-release of Red?
In the re-release of Swift's album Red, additional unheard songs will make their debut, including a duet with singer Ed Sheeran.
The album will also include a 10-minute version of her song All Too Well.
The tracks on the album are:
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1. State of Grace (Taylor’s Version)
2. Red (Taylor’s Version)
3. Treacherous (Taylor’s Version)
4. I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor’s Version)
5. All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)
6. 22 (Taylor’s Version)
7. I Almost Do (Taylor’s Version)
8. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor’s Version)
9. Stay Stay Stay (Taylor’s Version)
10. The Last Time (Taylor’s Version)
11. Holy Ground (Taylor’s Version)
12. Sad Beautiful Tragic (Taylor’s Version)
13. The Lucky One (Taylor’s Version)
14. Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) (Taylor’s Version)
15. Starlight (Taylor’s Version)
16. “Begin Again (Taylor’s Version)
17. The Moment I Knew (Taylor’s Version)
18. Come Back…Be Here (Taylor’s Version)
19. Girl at Home (Taylor’s Version)
20. State of Grace (Acoustic Version) (Taylor’s Version)
21. Ronan (Taylor’s Version)
22. Better Man (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
23. Nothing New (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
24. Babe (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
25. Message In a Bottle (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
26. I Bet You Think About Me (feat. Chris Stapleton) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
27. Forever Winter (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
28. Run (feat. Ed Sheeran) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
29. The Very First Night (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
30. All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)
