@@neeceexx you should check out "Safe & Sound" and "Eyes Open" that were originally part of the hunger games soundtrack, but when she released the TV she used the Red TV Album Cover. Also babe ft. Sugarland wich in my opnion is the best version because of sugarland's powerful vocals, IMO this song was made for two people to sing.
Ronan is about a 4 year old boy whose life was taken by cancer,his mum ran a blog called ‘rock star Ronan’ which Taylor and her family read and when he passed she reached out to the family and turned words from the mothers vlogs into a song and all the proceeds go to the Ronan Thompson foundation ronans mum and Taylor are still really close and Taylor even named her daughter poppy
@@cleo70I remember when the Thompson family was doing the press and interviews for Ronan (the song) and Maya announced her pregnancy. She said it was beyond difficult because she was still so raw with grief for Ronan and growing a new human being was this unstoppable reminder that the world does just carry on 😢 I can't even imagine how Maya specifically was both emotionally and physically navigating all of that on top of pregnancy hormones. The fact that Taylor fully credits Maya as the main lyric writer and song cowriter and based it on the words and imagery Maya used... Hundreds of millions, if not billions of people will now know this little boy's name for as long as human beings exist. It's like Taylor is saying to Maya, I can't give you back your baby... But he is going to live in so many hearts for the rest of time 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Ronan was a little boy with cancer whose mother kept an online diary available for others to read (Taylor followed their journey). When his disease took him, Taylor reached out to his mom and asked if she could write a song for them. She used much of the language Ronan’s mom used in her entries, and she listed her as a co-writer on the song. Ronan’s family also gets tickets to shows, and proceeds from the song are donated to childrens cancer foundations.
when people realize what forever winter is about you can always see it in their face. it’s that pain. that quiet. that shock. That’s an entirely different kind of heartbreak.
People thinking it's about a relationship hurts me because I know what it's about and it's heartbreaking that there are similarities between Taylor's feelings when she's in a relationship and her feelings towards a best friend. It feels really endearing and you know she loves everybody close to her 💔
To me this album is more than a breakup album, it’s a heartbreak album. All sorts of heart break….losing a friend, a child, a lover, yourself. This album is for the feels
Thank you!! You are the only one who has picked up the key chain reference and that it belonged to him not her! He was the hypocrite! No one has ever been clever enough to pick up on that before and I love that you did. ❤
I always knew it was his keychain but I was so oblivious to the hypocrisy it shows 🤦♂️ that makes so much more sense, I thought it was just imagery without meaning
Exactly! I commented basically the same thing, but you were it much better yourself. I've seen SO many reactions, and to this day no one had commented on that/picked that up
you should check out Safe & Sound and Eyes Open Taylor's Version that were originally apart of the hunger games soundtrack but when she released the TV she used the Red TV Album Cover since she wrote them the same time red came out.
10 min version was always 10 min, she cut it fot the first release. So she did not add newly written lyrics. This is how I understand the vault tracks anyway - written THEN but not released.
Yup, the label insisted she cut the length because 10mins wouldn't get radio play, jokes on them because not only is it all Swifties official version but also, it's the version that gets played on the radio.
@@antoinettecampbell3563it was probably already a pattern and she thought she was just different until she wasn't. Plus she didn't right this one as quick as others so he could have moved on to a few different girls in that time period it took. I don't know anything about Jake besides Taylor though. I forgot he even had a sister until a few weeks ago lol
I thought that before the 🛴 thing, they were descartes of the original red, and then Taylor gave this songs to the bands she did because there was no rerecordings, no either vault tracks. Then 🛴 fcked it all up but queen Taylor though of the rerecording, and with it, the vault tracks, and included these songs becoz they are actually red vault tracks.
@@SlowDreamss every time I watch another reactor doing Red and it’s time for Ronan it’s a special experience because I know I’ll be crying but so will the reactor 🥲
Forever Winter is rumored to be about one of Taylor's friends from High School who died 2 weeks after the release of Speak Now. I don't think Taylor has spoken about the song at all though. Its one of the songs I skip whenever it plays (along with Ronan). They are lovely songs but they make me feel very sad. lol Great reviews! I love hearing your opinions on songs. I can't wait until you get to 1989 and Rep eras!
I always have a moment of silence for Ronan when the song comes on (play the song through with the volume all the way down) because since Ronan’s mom is credited as a writer on the song she gets royalties and I’m pretty sure it’s donated to the Ronan foundation ♥️
Girl you are SO SMART, always finding connections and finding symbolic meanings on things I've never thought before!! Never stop this videos please😭😭😭😭 I LOVE YOU
I absolutely love state of grace acoustic. I definitely take it as the opposite side of the original track. Rather than being enthusiastic and hopeful for a new relationship, the narrator sounds exhausted and burnt out after a long attempt at a relationship. So beautiful!
Since this is your first “Taylor’s Version” album reaction, im not sure if you’re aware that when a song has “(From the Vault)” at the end of the title, it means that these are songs were made during the same period that the whole album was being created, but these “vault songs” are songs that never made it to the original album. They were scrapped out or left behind for one reason or another. So a cool thing that Taylor did during this whole “Taylor’s Version” project is she decided to include all these unreleased songs in all of her re-recorded albums. Idk if you already knew this or not but just thought I’d let you know in case you didn’t.❤
I will never not cry when listening to forever winter. I was going through something similar when I first listened to it and, dare i say it saved my life? Yes.
The way you pick out lyrics from other songs on the very first listen is absolutely second to none! Your breakdown of all too well 10 mins was so on point, you picked out call backs to other songs that it took me MONTHS to notice. I love your reactions SO MUCH ❤❤
I remember your first video on Taylor. I'm so glad you joined our club. Thank you for giving her a chance. That’s all she ever needs. When someone gives her a real listen they understand why we carry on about her all the time. Red is all about Jake.
Babe is a song that Taylor wrote for Red that didn't make it, so she decided to give it to Sugarland in 2018 (and she did a feat. of that song with them) and imo she sounds more emotional/angry in the 2018 than in her 2021 TV
in red tv she sounds over him... like shes retelling the story after shes moved on and a part of her still feels like why did he do this? yknow? thats what I feel is happening with the red tv version
@@catchingsomezzzss "i break down on the kitchen floor, how could you do this" lyrics isn't over him! She literally did Babe feat. in 2018 when she wrote it for RED
Watching her react to it is only the third time I've allowed myself to listen to it because I cry every. Damn. Time. Before this I've only listened to the original version, listened to it again for the TV release, and decided to watch it for this because I love her reactions even though I knew I'd cry.
Ronan shreds my heart. I try to listen to it for the royalties for the foundation. There is a interview with the mom about how the song came about. If that was my baby and Taylor kept them alive forever with her beautiful song taken from my words. Ugh
Great reaction NeeCee. The Ronan video is even more heartbreaking as it shows pictures of Ronan and he was a very beautiful boy, he had older brothers who were twins, the hand-me-downs would have come from them. Two years later they had a baby girl named Poppy Ronan Thompson. Taylor does not sing this song unless it is for the cancer org event or if Maya attends Taylor's concert as she did during Reputation, and of course to put it on her album. But all proceeds go to childhood cancer research.
Oh, honey, when you said you were ending with Ronan, I audibly gasped 💔 Ronan was a real kid. Taylor found his mom’s blog online years ago, wrote the song and listed her as a songwriter on it so she would get royalties from it
please do a reaction to the all too well: the short film!! The main actors are Sadie Sink--who you may know as Max from Stranger Things--and Dylan O'Brien--who you may know as Stiles from Teen Wolf or Thomas from The Maze Runner, etc. they are EXCEPTIONAL in it!! Especially Sadie. Her performance was ASTOUNDING, especially for a 19 year old. One thing to know in advance: the age gap between Sadie and Dylan is intentional since it represents the 9 year age gap between Taylor and Jake Gyllenhall, whom this album is mostly about. Sadie was 19 at the time, and Dylan 30. So, they had an 11 year age gap. Taylor also released a behind-the-scenes video from making the film on RUclips about a year later!! She directed it herself. She even has a Directors-on-Directors episode with Variety in which she talks about how she made the film and found her actors. A couple of fun facts as well: there's a really famous scene in the short film of Sadie sobbing on her bed, and before filming Sadie listened to her crying song, which is Savior Complex by Phoebe Bridgers lol!! So many cool connections. Lastly, the house that they use in the short film is Taylor's really good friends Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's cabin house in upstate NY. The bookstore in the film is a real bookstore in NYC!!
Your comments around Better Man and her wishing he was a better man, not that she had someone else who was better...woah. I never thought of it that way and it gutted me! Great commentary 😊❤
I always thought of it as her wishing he was a better man so she didn't have to go through that pain and permanent damage because it could still show up in her later relationships with 'better' men
Please check out safe & sound Taylor’s version and eyes open Taylor’s version!! They’re apart of the hunger games soundtrack and were added as apart of the Red era❤❤
It's not that they were broken up and so he wasnt there in The moment i knew, it's that they WERE together and he just didnt show up to said birthday "that was the moment I knew...(that we're over)"
This album truly is a gem. Makes you feel so many different emotions. Love her or not, you can't deny how deeply relatable these songs are. And I enjoyed revisiting all of them with you !
When you said during girl at home that all the songs sound so diff, I remembered something Taylor said about Red, she said that this album is not quite sonically cohesive a little patchwork quilty because thats what heartbreak is, its not a string of sadness or healing its up and down and back and forth ❤❤
1:09:16 thank you! You're literally the first person reacting to it that actually talks about the KEYCHAIN. I've seen manyvpeople saying this is an added line from later on, because she didn't know the word "patriarchy" and I'm alway like "but in the story this isn't even her thought process..."
girl at home is actually written about zac efron and vanessa hudgens! zac and Taylor were both in the Lorax movie and the song reflects on an interaction they had at the movie premiere, the OG version was seen by Taylor as more of a demo and had a very simplistic guitar sound. Taylor wanted more pop on the album but her team were hesitant to let her make that move out of fear of having too many songs moving away from the country style they wanted her to keep to!
OMGGG YAY FINALLY! SO EXCITED, ALSO, COULD YOU DO SPEAK NOW NEXTTT?? ITS MY FAV ALBUM, IVE BEEN SUBSCRIBED TO YOU SINCE FOLKLORE(ps. Hope ur doing better from the breakup❤️❤️)
About come back be here... although its not really stated, it's likely that it's not just the muse thats travelling a lot but Taylor as well, knowing her lifestyle. She could be on her own tour, going all around the world, dating some actor who has to travel to shoot a movie in italy...
Almost every song on Red is about Jake Gyllahanhaul, he was 30 and she was 20, turning 21 (The Moment I Knew) which is referenced in the 10-minute All Too Well. Taylor also dated John Mayer, he was 32 and she was 19!! Definitely bad judgment on his part. If you haven't reviewed the song she wrote when she was 19-20, called Dear John, I would recommend you see her sing it live at her Speak Now concert, it's incredible how she paints the story about him and lets him have it! She followed that up with another great song about him when she was 32, called Would've, Could've, Should've (the same age he was with her looking back at it with her 32-year-old eyes). It's an intense incredible song. Love all your videos and I click on them immediately when you post one! You get the meaning and the deeper meaning that a lot of reactors don't get on the first listen. I'd like to know whether she has become one of your favorite artists, or are you still not sold on her being one of the best? Do you listen to her a lot? If she is not one of your favorites, who is? Just curious?
I loved your reactions in both part one and part two. Oh thank you because you gave me a lot of enjoyment reliving red as you were experiencing it for the first time, but you are really insightful and I love how you pick up on all the little clues and words even when it's your first time listening. Also I know by now you've read comments about Ronan. Yes, a real little boy and it's written from the perspective of his mother, which is the perspective of the blog which his mother wrote, and which Taylor read. So wonderful that the proceeds of the song entirely went to the mom And the Foundation in the little boys memory. Taylor, actually listed Ronan's mother as a co-writer on this song :) 💕
All Too Well started out as a 10 minute song but was cut for the Red album. She mentioned that in an interview and the fans never shut up about it until she finally had an opportunity to give us what we want on the TV vault tracks. Or at least thats the lore... 😉
all too well was actually 24 minutes long initially when she originally made it backstage on tour with her band; we got some of those lyrics in the lover diaries but we still don’t have most of it. i still wonder if the fan theories that the original ending and outro were scrapped and changed is true… but needless to say (word to sabrina) she is truly an AMAZING writer to say the least!
I think what you were saying at 37:02 about the “crying in my room” line makes total sense! I think she may be getting at the fact that when she’s young, emotional songs about heartbreak or feeling strong emotions are cute, but once you’re an adult, the public might get fed up with those type of songs and tell her to grow up or be more mature instead of feeling these things that she was once praised for because it could be written off due to her youth
I actually like your perspective on red, evermore, ttpd, all of your reactions! I wanna tell you there are 2 more sons from red that were made for the hunger games. Safe and sound, and eyes open! Hope you’ll do more and have a day good
I wouldn’t trust whoever told you to end on Ronan and not ATW10MV. It’s such a heavy song. Also…! You should listen to Safe & Sound. It’s adjacent to Red TV. But it was the first “folklore”-like song she put out. When folklore was announced, people expected it to sound like Safe and Sound.
I appreciate your reaction to forever winter soooo much. It’s in my top 3 red tv songs. And you clocked the meaning so fast. So many reactors think it’s just about another man she dated like no lol. It’s about one of her best friends from high school, Jeff Lang. there’s this video of her at some public ceremony / award show or something, she mentions Jeff’s recent passing and how she sang a song at his funeral the day before and it makes me break down sobbing every time 😢💔💔💔
"Babe" the Vault Track were originally a song she has written in 2012, but later she worked with a band called Sugarland and was this band who released this song in a colaboration with Taylor in 2018, so you have another version of it if you wanted to listen. And also she has two songs she wrote for The Hunger Games movie in 2012, she released the TV version of that songs too with the cover of Red TV (i think she made it that way because that songs were originally released at the Red era in 2012)
Forever winter is my favorite Taylor song out of everything she’s ever written and hardly anyone ever gets the meaning on first listen and even when they do, they always say they don’t like it as much as the other tracks so the euphoria I felt seeing you GET IT is so incredible. Thank you, love your reactions always!
Yes- stop doing stupid crap you need to apologize for, and treat her well! Also, the video for I Bet You Think about Me is hilarious! Worth checking out!
Ahh I love how much you remember of her other songs so you can see all the connections! Your reviews are so good because you pay so much attention to all the little details and consider so many different perspectives. Cant wait for your next Taylor reaction! (P.S. sorry not sorry for voting for Red TV!)
The moment I knew is about her 21 birthday when her boyfriend didn't show up and her christmas light it's because her birthday is in December it's the same event same memory
Hello Neecee!!! You should react to remaining songs from Red era too, here's a list: 1. Safe & Sound (Taylor's Version) 2. Eyes Open (Taylor's Version) 3. Girl At Home (ORIGINAL Version) 4. Babe (Sugaland's Version feat. Taylor Swift) - with MV 😁 And the following MVs from this era: 1. I knew you were trouble MV 2. We are never getting back together MV 3. Begin Again MV 4. Everything has changed MV 5. 22 MV 6. Red MV (based on Red tour) 7. The Last Time MV (Not really a Music Video but it's on Taylor's Channel) 8. I Bet you think about me MV 9. All too well (10 minute version) Short Film ❤❤❤ I really enjoyed and loved your journey with RED album! 😊
you should definitely dive into Phoebe's discography!! There's a reason someone like Taylor is such a huge fan of her. Her songs are definitely complex (iykyk) so I recommend reading the lyrics on Genius and looking at the annotations after listening for a good explanation.
@@cinnamontoastbreadthis is a really unfair view on phoebe. she writes most of her songs and collaborates with her friends a lot (as seen with boygenius). and so what she has influences? all artists do and it’s not a 1:1 copy by any means. he wrote on 5 of her punisher songs not all or even most of them by that definition. plus her biggest influence is elliott smith anyway lol
OMG! Giiirl! Thank you! I just listened to the whole RED TV album with you for my first time ever! I had listened already ATW 10 min but listen it together with all the rest of the album, and your comments - oooh is soo good!!!
Sending you lots of love and hugs, NeeCee! ❤❤❤ Thanks so much for your content…even when it hits a little close to home. You’re a real one! (Commenting during Better Man, in case that is relevant)
We’ve known about All Too Well (10 Minute Version) for a while and Swifties has been asking for her to release the original full song for YEARS (she made it shorter for the initial Red album). It was such a huge thing when she released it, the song actually broke the record for longest song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart!
"Babe" actually became quite a hit for Sugarland when Taylor sold out the concept to them before she ever released it as a vault track, seeing as she did write it. I thought you might have recognized it from radio playlisting. My favourite thing is when people who have an unfair bias against Taylor listen to a song they dont realize was written by her and call it a banger when they wouldnt have said it if they had known. This also happened a lot with Cardigan, strangely, even though it was never released under someone else, they just didnt know it was her voice.
lol your reaction Better Man is hilarious, underrated song on her discography for real. I had to live with only the Little Big Town version for around 4 years, if she did not rerecord we wouldn't have her studio version 😶
Little Big Town recorded this song in 2017. I was so drawn to the song. When Red TV came out I was so surprised it was on the album and that Taylor wrote it
To answer who makes a 10 minute song, only Taylor can. Specially the way she did it, it was basically an adlib where her band noticed she was down so they started playing a random tune & ATW came out, it was basically a spontaneous poetic rant of pain & catharsis that was never supposed to be a song but someone recorded it & asked Taylor if she wanted the recording & well the rest is history
I get a little confused about it though, because I’ve heard this, but didn’t she also say at one point that All Too Well took her the longest to write?
@@LadyoftheUndergroundI’ve never heard her say that in an interview. I’ve only ever seen the interview of her saying how she was ranting and her band started playing. It was obviously not structured that came to be once she sat down with her co-writer and organized the song to what it became.
@@SweetNothing937 Ok, looked it up and it was the Vogue interview. She was asked “Which [song] took you the longest [to write]?” and she responded “All Too Well 'cause it's a really emotional song. I kept putting it down for months on end.” So I guess she had the initial stream of consciousness but the process of making it a finished product took many months 🤷♀️
Hey! I love your reactions, im so happy i found your channel. I have devoured so many of your videos :)I especially love how you break down lyrics! I wanted to let you know that Lana came out in an interview and said the reason why it seems she's not all over Snow on the Beach is because that was her (Lana) choice. She believes if a song is great, she will collab from a producer point of view. She also said she's very good at imitating artists and she's actually all over the song. I think Taylor actually gives her collabs full range to contribute however they want, yet Taylor seems to get the bad rap for not including someone enough or giving someone else more time than others. Lana's collab really showed us that we have no idea what goes on behind the scenes :)
Her birthday is December 13 so the Christmas lights are a part of the same memory in "the moment i knew"
…which is a part of the same memory as All Too Well 10MV
Ahhhh thank you for the clarification!!
@@neeceexxalso being December 13 the Christmas light should already be up
@@neeceexx you should check out "Safe & Sound" and "Eyes Open" that were originally part of the hunger games soundtrack, but when she released the TV she used the Red TV Album Cover.
Also babe ft. Sugarland wich in my opnion is the best version because of sugarland's powerful vocals, IMO this song was made for two people to sing.
"Too young to know it gets better" is one of my favorite lines EVER
Ronan is about a 4 year old boy whose life was taken by cancer,his mum ran a blog called ‘rock star Ronan’ which Taylor and her family read and when he passed she reached out to the family and turned words from the mothers vlogs into a song and all the proceeds go to the Ronan Thompson foundation ronans mum and Taylor are still really close and Taylor even named her daughter poppy
I have never heard of Taylor naming Maya's daughter. Also, she was named Poppy Ronan Thompson, and she was born 2 years later.
Devastating💔thank you for the insight
@@Violet316 mama maya posts about it on TikTok kinda often it’s a cute story
@@cleo70I remember when the Thompson family was doing the press and interviews for Ronan (the song) and Maya announced her pregnancy. She said it was beyond difficult because she was still so raw with grief for Ronan and growing a new human being was this unstoppable reminder that the world does just carry on 😢 I can't even imagine how Maya specifically was both emotionally and physically navigating all of that on top of pregnancy hormones.
The fact that Taylor fully credits Maya as the main lyric writer and song cowriter and based it on the words and imagery Maya used...
Hundreds of millions, if not billions of people will now know this little boy's name for as long as human beings exist.
It's like Taylor is saying to Maya, I can't give you back your baby... But he is going to live in so many hearts for the rest of time 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@neeceexxbabe react to the music video 😢
"she just keeps SAYING THINGS!" mood lmao
Me when i first heard tsmwel bridge
Ronan was a little boy with cancer whose mother kept an online diary available for others to read (Taylor followed their journey). When his disease took him, Taylor reached out to his mom and asked if she could write a song for them. She used much of the language Ronan’s mom used in her entries, and she listed her as a co-writer on the song. Ronan’s family also gets tickets to shows, and proceeds from the song are donated to childrens cancer foundations.
when people realize what forever winter is about you can always see it in their face. it’s that pain. that quiet. that shock. That’s an entirely different kind of heartbreak.
People thinking it's about a relationship hurts me because I know what it's about and it's heartbreaking that there are similarities between Taylor's feelings when she's in a relationship and her feelings towards a best friend. It feels really endearing and you know she loves everybody close to her 💔
To me this album is more than a breakup album, it’s a heartbreak album. All sorts of heart break….losing a friend, a child, a lover, yourself. This album is for the feels
Exactly
agreed, for me its the opposite of Lover which is all songs related to different types of love.
@@bammmitsrachelto me lover is an anxiety album 😭
@@fruitymonkey8641 thats absolutely true too lol
@@fruitymonkey8641 It's not just an anxiety album, it a DELUSION ALBUM COVERED IN GLITTER
Forever Winter always gets me tearing up 🥲
"Tell me when a breakup has ever been cohesive." FACTS!
Thank you!! You are the only one who has picked up the key chain reference and that it belonged to him not her! He was the hypocrite! No one has ever been clever enough to pick up on that before and I love that you did. ❤
I always knew it was his keychain but I was so oblivious to the hypocrisy it shows 🤦♂️ that makes so much more sense, I thought it was just imagery without meaning
Exactly! I commented basically the same thing, but you were it much better yourself. I've seen SO many reactions, and to this day no one had commented on that/picked that up
please watch the all too well film it's gonna blow your mind
If she watches that, I hope she'll watch the Sugarland MV of Babe too!!!
I’m watching all the Red music videos!
@@neeceexx ahhh, I'm now quite excited, hehe
Edit: also forgot to say thank you for all the enjoyable reactions you continuously deliver🧎♂️🧎♂️🧎♂️
@@neeceexxYAY!
@@neeceexxahhh yayyy!
"let's kill him 😃" LMAOOOO NEECEE
In the "moment I knew" shes actually just talking about her birthday party! Her birthday is December 13th, so thats why there were christmas lights up
I came to say this! I love that she's giving us all this insight and analysis when it's one of the most straightforward songs in Taylor's discography
you should check out Safe & Sound and Eyes Open Taylor's Version that were originally apart of the hunger games soundtrack but when she released the TV she used the Red TV Album Cover since she wrote them the same time red came out.
Trueeeeeee (babes you got blue search thingy)
Her 21st birthday was a very hard memory for her so she wrote 22 after recovery!
10 min version was always 10 min, she cut it fot the first release. So she did not add newly written lyrics. This is how I understand the vault tracks anyway - written THEN but not released.
Yup, the label insisted she cut the length because 10mins wouldn't get radio play, jokes on them because not only is it all Swifties official version but also, it's the version that gets played on the radio.
Well I’m sure she added „i get older but your lovers stay my age“ years later
@@itsjustasimplestory5007 yeah I have wondered about that, if she was a mastermind already then and knew 🙂
@@antoinettecampbell3563it was probably already a pattern and she thought she was just different until she wasn't. Plus she didn't right this one as quick as others so he could have moved on to a few different girls in that time period it took.
I don't know anything about Jake besides Taylor though. I forgot he even had a sister until a few weeks ago lol
@@jessicabjork1087 Well... This type of men have a pattern, it's not difficult to imagine that he would continue to date young girls
Fun Fact: Babe and Better Man were songs she actually wrote and gave to other bands, but then she rerecorded them as her own for Red TV 😁😁
Better Man would’ve been such a country pop hit from like Marin Morris or Kellie Pickler or someone ooooooohhh I’m kinda mad no one took it
@@cosmicorinnelittle big town took it though
I thought that before the 🛴 thing, they were descartes of the original red, and then Taylor gave this songs to the bands she did because there was no rerecordings, no either vault tracks. Then 🛴 fcked it all up but queen Taylor though of the rerecording, and with it, the vault tracks, and included these songs becoz they are actually red vault tracks.
@cosmicorinne Little Big Town did Better Man, and it is phenomenal. 💚
Bruhhhh what if she does this for rep
I cannot listen to Ronan without sobbing 😭
SAME HEAR! IM ON THE FLOOR CRYING MY HEAD OFF. 😭😭😭
@@SlowDreamss every time I watch another reactor doing Red and it’s time for Ronan it’s a special experience because I know I’ll be crying but so will the reactor 🥲
@@JuliaCheri so true...
Forever Winter is rumored to be about one of Taylor's friends from High School who died 2 weeks after the release of Speak Now. I don't think Taylor has spoken about the song at all though.
Its one of the songs I skip whenever it plays (along with Ronan). They are lovely songs but they make me feel very sad. lol
Great reviews! I love hearing your opinions on songs. I can't wait until you get to 1989 and Rep eras!
She never said exactly which song but it is believed that Forever Winter was the song she sang at his funeral.
I always have a moment of silence for Ronan when the song comes on (play the song through with the volume all the way down) because since Ronan’s mom is credited as a writer on the song she gets royalties and I’m pretty sure it’s donated to the Ronan foundation ♥️
@@AkkaylynFrom what I’ve seen, streams don’t count on mute!! Maybe turn it mostly down or (when applicable) take your headphones off instead?
@@LadyoftheUnderground really?? Omg, even in the car like if you turn down the car volume instead of the phone volume?
honestly i get skipping them cause they're sad, but they're both my favorite songs so i play it anyway lmao
as someone who’s favourite song is forever winter, it’s so refreshing to see someone actually listen and take in what the song is about, thank you :)
"Dear Reader will you still want me when I'm nothing new?"
Better Man hits hard
Girl you are SO SMART, always finding connections and finding symbolic meanings on things I've never thought before!! Never stop this videos please😭😭😭😭 I LOVE YOU
"there's a story with this boy from london" lol
The Moment I Knew is the embodiment of the “If He Wanted To, He Would” meme
I absolutely love state of grace acoustic. I definitely take it as the opposite side of the original track. Rather than being enthusiastic and hopeful for a new relationship, the narrator sounds exhausted and burnt out after a long attempt at a relationship. So beautiful!
Since this is your first “Taylor’s Version” album reaction, im not sure if you’re aware that when a song has “(From the Vault)” at the end of the title, it means that these are songs were made during the same period that the whole album was being created, but these “vault songs” are songs that never made it to the original album. They were scrapped out or left behind for one reason or another. So a cool thing that Taylor did during this whole “Taylor’s Version” project is she decided to include all these unreleased songs in all of her re-recorded albums. Idk if you already knew this or not but just thought I’d let you know in case you didn’t.❤
I will never not cry when listening to forever winter. I was going through something similar when I first listened to it and, dare i say it saved my life? Yes.
I'm glad you're still here. 🫶🏻
@@rebeccavliet2011 thank you sm❤️
The way you pick out lyrics from other songs on the very first listen is absolutely second to none! Your breakdown of all too well 10 mins was so on point, you picked out call backs to other songs that it took me MONTHS to notice. I love your reactions SO MUCH ❤❤
I remember your first video on Taylor. I'm so glad you joined our club. Thank you for giving her a chance. That’s all she ever needs. When someone gives her a real listen they understand why we carry on about her all the time. Red is all about Jake.
ur right about Forever Winter, this friend of hers who took his own life:(
Babe is a song that Taylor wrote for Red that didn't make it, so she decided to give it to Sugarland in 2018 (and she did a feat. of that song with them) and imo she sounds more emotional/angry in the 2018 than in her 2021 TV
in red tv she sounds over him... like shes retelling the story after shes moved on and a part of her still feels like why did he do this? yknow? thats what I feel is happening with the red tv version
@@catchingsomezzzss "i break down on the kitchen floor, how could you do this"
lyrics isn't over him!
She literally did Babe feat. in 2018 when she wrote it for RED
Once Taylor hits your feelings, you're officially a Swiftie. Whether you like it or not 😂🎉🎉🎉 welcome !
And don’t feel bad about crying to Ronan. I’ve watched a few grown men react and they cried too. I’ve heard it so many times and still cried with you.
And NeeCee did a few elegant tears....we've all seen grown men SOBBING to this song 😂😭😂😭😂😭😭😭😭
@@emmavink i started thinking about troy from hthaze 😅
Watching her react to it is only the third time I've allowed myself to listen to it because I cry every. Damn. Time. Before this I've only listened to the original version, listened to it again for the TV release, and decided to watch it for this because I love her reactions even though I knew I'd cry.
Ronan shreds my heart. I try to listen to it for the royalties for the foundation. There is a interview with the mom about how the song came about. If that was my baby and Taylor kept them alive forever with her beautiful song taken from my words. Ugh
Great reaction NeeCee. The Ronan video is even more heartbreaking as it shows pictures of Ronan and he was a very beautiful boy, he had older brothers who were twins, the hand-me-downs would have come from them. Two years later they had a baby girl named Poppy Ronan Thompson. Taylor does not sing this song unless it is for the cancer org event or if Maya attends Taylor's concert as she did during Reputation, and of course to put it on her album. But all proceeds go to childhood cancer research.
Oh, honey, when you said you were ending with Ronan, I audibly gasped 💔
Ronan was a real kid. Taylor found his mom’s blog online years ago, wrote the song and listed her as a songwriter on it so she would get royalties from it
please do a reaction to the all too well: the short film!! The main actors are Sadie Sink--who you may know as Max from Stranger Things--and Dylan O'Brien--who you may know as Stiles from Teen Wolf or Thomas from The Maze Runner, etc. they are EXCEPTIONAL in it!! Especially Sadie. Her performance was ASTOUNDING, especially for a 19 year old. One thing to know in advance: the age gap between Sadie and Dylan is intentional since it represents the 9 year age gap between Taylor and Jake Gyllenhall, whom this album is mostly about. Sadie was 19 at the time, and Dylan 30. So, they had an 11 year age gap. Taylor also released a behind-the-scenes video from making the film on RUclips about a year later!! She directed it herself. She even has a Directors-on-Directors episode with Variety in which she talks about how she made the film and found her actors. A couple of fun facts as well: there's a really famous scene in the short film of Sadie sobbing on her bed, and before filming Sadie listened to her crying song, which is Savior Complex by Phoebe Bridgers lol!! So many cool connections. Lastly, the house that they use in the short film is Taylor's really good friends Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's cabin house in upstate NY. The bookstore in the film is a real bookstore in NYC!!
I was just thinking this…she’s ready for the film!! I hate it when people see it too soon, but you are ready girl!!!
the fact that Girl At Home is about Zac Efrom makes this 10X better😂
this is news to me..this is during the lorax era? lmao
That's news to me too! Was he with Vanessa at the time??
@@claudiabcarvalho i think so!!
@@apprecihate yup!!😂
I thought I had heard that "come back... be here" was possibly about Zac? Lol, everybody's got theories 😂
Your comments around Better Man and her wishing he was a better man, not that she had someone else who was better...woah. I never thought of it that way and it gutted me! Great commentary 😊❤
I always thought of it as her wishing he was a better man so she didn't have to go through that pain and permanent damage because it could still show up in her later relationships with 'better' men
Please check out safe & sound Taylor’s version and eyes open Taylor’s version!! They’re apart of the hunger games soundtrack and were added as apart of the Red era❤❤
UP ☝️
100%, Safe and Sound is in my Taylor top 5. Just beautiful.
I cannot listen to ronan without bawling my eyes out
I recently got out of a long term relationship and better man is THAT song to sob to 😭
NEECEE the whole video : WELL YES!
Me: crying, laughing, agreeing 😭
It's not that they were broken up and so he wasnt there in The moment i knew, it's that they WERE together and he just didnt show up to said birthday "that was the moment I knew...(that we're over)"
Yeah I figured that out as the song went on
@@neeceexx infound out right after writing this😭
@@neeceexx Even more devastating is that it was her 21st birthday and how he made such a big deal about their age difference and then didn't show up
This album truly is a gem. Makes you feel so many different emotions. Love her or not, you can't deny how deeply relatable these songs are. And I enjoyed revisiting all of them with you !
Ronan got me sobbing 😭 but I love your video!♥️
Ronan is def a song that makes me cry EVERY SINGLE TIME, even thoguh i've never experienced smth like that.
Fr! Except I kind of have experienced something similar
When you said during girl at home that all the songs sound so diff, I remembered something Taylor said about Red, she said that this album is not quite sonically cohesive a little patchwork quilty because thats what heartbreak is, its not a string of sadness or healing its up and down and back and forth ❤❤
your reaction to Better Man made me laugh so much while also feeling the pain 😭
1:09:16 thank you! You're literally the first person reacting to it that actually talks about the KEYCHAIN. I've seen manyvpeople saying this is an added line from later on, because she didn't know the word "patriarchy" and I'm alway like "but in the story this isn't even her thought process..."
you are looking stunning queen! post breakup glow is here and present!
Excellent job as always! You are incredibly smart and so detailed oriented, love your channel!
Beautiful reaction to Ronan ❤😢
Love that reactions!!! BUT GURL the harmony on “the air was cold” LIKE OMG
Feels illegal to be this early...girl I'm so excited I really love your taylor album reaction!!!
Thank you for the reaction!🩷
she had no business turning “girl at home” into such a bop on the re-record but it’s amazing 😭🙏
girl at home is actually written about zac efron and vanessa hudgens! zac and Taylor were both in the Lorax movie and the song reflects on an interaction they had at the movie premiere, the OG version was seen by Taylor as more of a demo and had a very simplistic guitar sound. Taylor wanted more pop on the album but her team were hesitant to let her make that move out of fear of having too many songs moving away from the country style they wanted her to keep to!
Girl, the way you make he connections between songs at the first listen is nothing short of incredible! Love your reactions ❤
OMGGG YAY FINALLY! SO EXCITED, ALSO, COULD YOU DO SPEAK NOW NEXTTT?? ITS MY FAV ALBUM, IVE BEEN SUBSCRIBED TO YOU SINCE FOLKLORE(ps. Hope ur doing better from the breakup❤️❤️)
About come back be here... although its not really stated, it's likely that it's not just the muse thats travelling a lot but Taylor as well, knowing her lifestyle. She could be on her own tour, going all around the world, dating some actor who has to travel to shoot a movie in italy...
Almost every song on Red is about Jake Gyllahanhaul, he was 30 and she was 20, turning 21
(The Moment I Knew) which is referenced in the 10-minute All Too Well. Taylor also dated John Mayer, he was 32 and she was 19!! Definitely bad judgment on his part. If you haven't reviewed the song she wrote when she was 19-20, called Dear John, I would recommend you see her sing it live at her Speak Now concert, it's incredible how she paints the story about him and lets him have it! She followed that up with another great song about him when she was 32, called Would've, Could've, Should've (the same age he was with her looking back at it with her 32-year-old eyes). It's an intense incredible song. Love all your videos and I click on them immediately when you post one! You get the meaning and the deeper meaning that a lot of reactors don't get on the first listen. I'd like to know whether she has become one of your favorite artists, or are you still not sold on her being one of the best? Do you listen to her a lot? If she is not one of your favorites, who is? Just curious?
I loved your reactions in both part one and part two. Oh thank you because you gave me a lot of enjoyment reliving red as you were experiencing it for the first time, but you are really insightful and I love how you pick up on all the little clues and words even when it's your first time listening. Also I know by now you've read comments about Ronan. Yes, a real little boy and it's written from the perspective of his mother, which is the perspective of the blog which his mother wrote, and which Taylor read. So wonderful that the proceeds of the song entirely went to the mom And the Foundation in the little boys memory. Taylor, actually listed Ronan's mother as a co-writer on this song :) 💕
All Too Well started out as a 10 minute song but was cut for the Red album. She mentioned that in an interview and the fans never shut up about it until she finally had an opportunity to give us what we want on the TV vault tracks. Or at least thats the lore... 😉
all too well was actually 24 minutes long initially when she originally made it backstage on tour with her band; we got some of those lyrics in the lover diaries but we still don’t have most of it. i still wonder if the fan theories that the original ending and outro were scrapped and changed is true…
but needless to say (word to sabrina) she is truly an AMAZING writer to say the least!
COME BACK BE HERE STANS RISE
It’s my fave song on the album idc
I think what you were saying at 37:02 about the “crying in my room” line makes total sense! I think she may be getting at the fact that when she’s young, emotional songs about heartbreak or feeling strong emotions are cute, but once you’re an adult, the public might get fed up with those type of songs and tell her to grow up or be more mature instead of feeling these things that she was once praised for because it could be written off due to her youth
I actually like your perspective on red, evermore, ttpd, all of your reactions! I wanna tell you there are 2 more sons from red that were made for the hunger games. Safe and sound, and eyes open! Hope you’ll do more and have a day good
Forever winter is about Taylor’s friend who struggled with depression and then unalived himself,it’s so heartbreaking I cry every time I listen to it!
I wouldn’t trust whoever told you to end on Ronan and not ATW10MV. It’s such a heavy song.
Also…! You should listen to Safe & Sound. It’s adjacent to Red TV. But it was the first “folklore”-like song she put out. When folklore was announced, people expected it to sound like Safe and Sound.
I appreciate your reaction to forever winter soooo much. It’s in my top 3 red tv songs. And you clocked the meaning so fast. So many reactors think it’s just about another man she dated like no lol. It’s about one of her best friends from high school, Jeff Lang. there’s this video of her at some public ceremony / award show or something, she mentions Jeff’s recent passing and how she sang a song at his funeral the day before and it makes me break down sobbing every time 😢💔💔💔
I loved the hairbrush as guitar lmao
"Babe" the Vault Track were originally a song she has written in 2012, but later she worked with a band called Sugarland and was this band who released this song in a colaboration with Taylor in 2018, so you have another version of it if you wanted to listen.
And also she has two songs she wrote for The Hunger Games movie in 2012, she released the TV version of that songs too with the cover of Red TV (i think she made it that way because that songs were originally released at the Red era in 2012)
Forever winter is my favorite Taylor song out of everything she’s ever written and hardly anyone ever gets the meaning on first listen and even when they do, they always say they don’t like it as much as the other tracks so the euphoria I felt seeing you GET IT is so incredible. Thank you, love your reactions always!
girl at home got a different production on the TV. Please listen to the Original version so you see how different it sounds
There's still more on Red like "Safe and Sound" and "Eyes Open" which in her EP "The MORE Red (Taylor's Version)"
Yes- stop doing stupid crap you need to apologize for, and treat her well!
Also, the video for I Bet You Think about Me is hilarious! Worth checking out!
The video is epic possed off Taylor! Great for a good laugh.
GIRL how good is better man
Ahh I love how much you remember of her other songs so you can see all the connections! Your reviews are so good because you pay so much attention to all the little details and consider so many different perspectives. Cant wait for your next Taylor reaction! (P.S. sorry not sorry for voting for Red TV!)
The moment I knew is about her 21 birthday when her boyfriend didn't show up and her christmas light it's because her birthday is in December it's the same event same memory
Hello Neecee!!!
You should react to remaining songs from Red era too, here's a list:
1. Safe & Sound (Taylor's Version)
2. Eyes Open (Taylor's Version)
3. Girl At Home (ORIGINAL Version)
4. Babe (Sugaland's Version feat. Taylor Swift) - with MV 😁
And the following MVs from this era:
1. I knew you were trouble MV
2. We are never getting back together MV
3. Begin Again MV
4. Everything has changed MV
5. 22 MV
6. Red MV (based on Red tour)
7. The Last Time MV (Not really a Music Video but it's on Taylor's Channel)
8. I Bet you think about me MV
9. All too well (10 minute version) Short Film
❤❤❤ I really enjoyed and loved your journey with RED album! 😊
1:03:32 😭😭😭😭
I am always so impressed by you, you just always get it.
you should definitely dive into Phoebe's discography!! There's a reason someone like Taylor is such a huge fan of her. Her songs are definitely complex (iykyk) so I recommend reading the lyrics on Genius and looking at the annotations after listening for a good explanation.
why listen to Phoebe? The guy from bright eyes writes most of her songs and the "influence" Phoebe draws from is just his style
@@cinnamontoastbreadthis is a really unfair view on phoebe. she writes most of her songs and collaborates with her friends a lot (as seen with boygenius). and so what she has influences? all artists do and it’s not a 1:1 copy by any means. he wrote on 5 of her punisher songs not all or even most of them by that definition. plus her biggest influence is elliott smith anyway lol
Girl, you are glowing ✨
OMG! Giiirl! Thank you! I just listened to the whole RED TV album with you for my first time ever! I had listened already ATW 10 min but listen it together with all the rest of the album, and your comments - oooh is soo good!!!
Sending you lots of love and hugs, NeeCee! ❤❤❤ Thanks so much for your content…even when it hits a little close to home. You’re a real one! (Commenting during Better Man, in case that is relevant)
1 hour ago girly!!!🪩🪩🪩❤❤❤
We’ve known about All Too Well (10 Minute Version) for a while and Swifties has been asking for her to release the original full song for YEARS (she made it shorter for the initial Red album). It was such a huge thing when she released it, the song actually broke the record for longest song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart!
subscribed since your folklore reaction 🔥
"Babe" actually became quite a hit for Sugarland when Taylor sold out the concept to them before she ever released it as a vault track, seeing as she did write it. I thought you might have recognized it from radio playlisting.
My favourite thing is when people who have an unfair bias against Taylor listen to a song they dont realize was written by her and call it a banger when they wouldnt have said it if they had known. This also happened a lot with Cardigan, strangely, even though it was never released under someone else, they just didnt know it was her voice.
I'm so glad you appreciated The Moment I Knew. It was and still one of my top 5 from Red.
lol your reaction Better Man is hilarious, underrated song on her discography for real. I had to live with only the Little Big Town version for around 4 years, if she did not rerecord we wouldn't have her studio version 😶
just so you know, girl at home was really country in the og and in the taylor’s version she completely changed it and made it more pop
Girl I must say now that I'm early once, I LOVE your energy SO SO much
Little Big Town recorded this song in 2017. I was so drawn to the song. When Red TV came out I was so surprised it was on the album and that Taylor wrote it
I love this transition from "what I'd heard of Taylor was boring-> I didn't know Taylor sang this!"-> singing in the hairbrush 😂
To answer who makes a 10 minute song, only Taylor can. Specially the way she did it, it was basically an adlib where her band noticed she was down so they started playing a random tune & ATW came out, it was basically a spontaneous poetic rant of pain & catharsis that was never supposed to be a song but someone recorded it & asked Taylor if she wanted the recording & well the rest is history
I get a little confused about it though, because I’ve heard this, but didn’t she also say at one point that All Too Well took her the longest to write?
@@LadyoftheUndergroundI’ve never heard her say that in an interview. I’ve only ever seen the interview of her saying how she was ranting and her band started playing. It was obviously not structured that came to be once she sat down with her co-writer and organized the song to what it became.
@@SweetNothing937 Ok, looked it up and it was the Vogue interview. She was asked “Which [song] took you the longest [to write]?” and she responded “All Too Well 'cause it's a really emotional song. I kept putting it down for months on end.” So I guess she had the initial stream of consciousness but the process of making it a finished product took many months 🤷♀️
“Shout out to Lana!” That’s cooooooold. Like snow on the beach 😅
Just listened to the intro and that “you were supposed to write about heartbreak” comment has to be about Ronan. I’m calling it now
It was actually about Forever Winter... But the same sentiments were expressed about Ronan 😂😭
Hey! I love your reactions, im so happy i found your channel. I have devoured so many of your videos :)I especially love how you break down lyrics! I wanted to let you know that Lana came out in an interview and said the reason why it seems she's not all over Snow on the Beach is because that was her (Lana) choice. She believes if a song is great, she will collab from a producer point of view. She also said she's very good at imitating artists and she's actually all over the song. I think Taylor actually gives her collabs full range to contribute however they want, yet Taylor seems to get the bad rap for not including someone enough or giving someone else more time than others. Lana's collab really showed us that we have no idea what goes on behind the scenes :)