My initial reaction to I Bet You Think About Me was similar to yours, but honestly… seeing the music video now… I think it’s Taylor being cheeky and playing the role that she was cast in by either how people (JG) saw her or how the country industry wanted her to be. Kind of like she did with Blank Space.

Forever Winter is NOT about Jake. She had a VERY close friend commit suicide the week Speak Now dropped, Forever Winter was posthumously begging him not to.

the devil works hard but the taylor swiftologist works harder

The thing is, you need to know a lot about Jake Gyllenhaal to understand I Bet You Think About Me and that no, it was no satire she really was feeling that way when they were dating. Yes, you are right that Taylor didn't grow up poor by any stretch of the imagination, but Jake was quite literally Hollywood royalty. She was upper middle class growing up but he was rich RICH growing up, he grew up in Beverly Hills and his mother was an actress that had been nominated to an Oscar and then was a successful movie producer, she was besties with Jamie Lee Curtis who called herself "Jake's Hollywood godmother" because she was the one who introduced him and his older sister to the movie scene (yep nepotism at its finest) and he even mentioned in an interview that the PAUL NEWMAN taught him how to drive. And on his father's part well, his family was literally swedish aristocracy (LITERALLY related to the current royal family). Meanwhile, when Taylor dated him was during the autumn that she was releasing Speak Now, and while yes she was the new hot thing that had just won several Grammys, she only had two albums out and was a young country singer that had never experienced that level of VIP access to the upper class circles, as she puts it. So yeah while she has never been poor I do believe the daughter of a banker and a stay at home mum would have felt intimidated visiting California with him (where they went together before she did her Ellen interview) and seeing the level of opulence he grew up with, and if his family's inner circle of friendships growing up included people like Paul Newman and Jamie Lee Curtis I very much doubt they would have felt super impressed with a young Taylor with only two albums out at the moment she visited (which was right before Speak Now)

Not going to lie Nothin’ New might be one my new favorite sad songs. The production is so good. And Phoebe makes it even better.

Forever Winter is pretty much agreed on by most people it’s about Jeff Lang, her best friend who died from an OD.

i’m terrified of the reputation recording. that’s probably her most complex album production wise. Like they contain so many tiny tiny details like if she fucks up king of my heart i’m gonna fight

omg i love how real you are with your opinion and not just 100 p supporting everything taylor does no matter what - it's a way more fun and unique watch xx

Apparently, Forever Winter is about a friend that committed suicide. Can't remember the name but she mentioned him in an award acceptance speech.

When you said ‘her vocal is louder than the track’ that is my biggest note of this album: she sounds sooo close to the mic in every song, it didn’t need to be that way, and i hope she dials back literally going forward

What I think is: she had a “10 minute” song that did NOT sound like that at all in the past and now she’s even more talented than she was she decided to make this masterpiece that we just heard… especially the end of the song really reminds me of the “Folklore” style, so I do believe the inicial song was longer, but I pretty sure she changed some of the lyrics. The “I was never good at telling jokes but the punch line goes: I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age” she couldn’t have written this verse back in the day… only nowdays. But whatever: the song is just * PERFECTION *

FINALLY Some respect is put on Run's name 😭😭😭 I feel like everyone brushed past it but it's sooo good ??? Like the imagery of it all, the tempo, the vocals, the way they respond to each other whattt this is what Taylor Swift's collabs with male singers is all about !!

the just between us, did the love affair maim you too? part makes me cry every time...the ending gets me so bad

I definitely agree, I don't think this 10 minute version of all too well was written in 2011, I think she had a VERY rough 15 minute work tape that she revisited while recording folklore/evermore, and pieced some unused lyrics together with new lyrics to form this new version. I mean the last 3 minutes are a dead giveaway of that - the lyrics and melodies are NOT something she was writing 10 years ago. But it's such a masterful piece of art. Like how cool would it be if another artist like katy perry or lady gaga or beyonce went back to a song they wrote 10 years ago and rewrote it to fit their current era 🥲💞

Omg you worked so hard to give this full album reaction to us in less than a day!

Stan blondie but you can’t deny that yes 100% correct, she didn’t take her time with some of the songs. I know for a fact she didn’t considering some of the vocals were recorded in Belfast, and it was only 3 months before the album came out that she was there. It’s funny because folklore was an album where all the creators were apart but you’d never think it, but I’ve a gut feeling she probably did vocals and sent them off to someone who was producing.

idk if someone said this already but Forever Winter is about Jeff Lang, Taylor's friend who killed himself around the time of Speak Now's release. She sang at his funeral and if you watch her accepting the 2010 BMI songwriting award, she talks about it and you can really see how much that shook her.

29:30 there is absolutely no way she wrote that and then cut it from the track and didn't use it in another song. It's just too good

thank you for being so honest with your reviews of her re-recorded songs because honesty is why I’m here watching you right now so please don’t ever stop. Love you!

Coming straight from the 1989 TV reaction video just to see your reaction to the Max Martin tragedies 🤣🤣🤣 “As anticipated, a giant snooze fest” got me WHEEZING

messege in a bottle grows on you later that turns scary, Im obsessed with it.

your reaction was definitely the most honest one i’ve watched!!! automatic subscription bestie omg. freaking love your energy!!!!!

Listening to "Nothing New" with the retrospect is so empowering as a listener, can't imagine what it's like for Taylor to sing this song now

“If she fucks this one up, she’s going to jail…”😬 How I feel about Sparks Fly and I’m scared🙈

I'm actually a new swiftie, it was after evermore when I got into Taylor Swift. I listened to Red for the first time when Taylor's Version was released and I always thought "Girl At Home" should've had a country song production rather than electropop. It was only after your video that I realised there actually IS one existing since long before😭 Thanks Zach.

For Girl at Home I had the same reaction and I even said I wouldn’t listen to Taylor’s Version of it however the song is come around for me. I still do think the original is 100% better however I think she tried to do a 1989 Version of Girl at Home like she did with Love Story and maybe she originally wanted it like this (I don’t see her wanting it that way) and Scott wouldn’t let her as it was to synth pop which led it to being a country song.

Oh my goodness the fact that Message In A Bottle is my new favorite bop and that I actually love the Girl At Home Remake (although it sounds more like the Willow Remix...)- I guess these songs are really dividing the fandom and I love seeing it

was about to settle in for a movie but this is way better

after listening to the album I was waiting for you to upload it in a couple of days BUT YOU POSTED IT TODAY????? I stan

The way Taylor says “it was always on your terms” gives me chills every time

Better Man was the one I was most excited for. When I found out she wrote it I was like, “Um Taylor, where’s your version girl?” I like her version better than the LBT one.

Unpopular opinion: I love the new Girl at Home (as well as the original). It's so fun and brings a unique life to a song that kinda blends in with other (better) stuff on Red (I Almost Do, ATW, SBT, etc), which was the issue with the original. And being the closing song on the deluxe edition (not including SoG acoustic, which I think is fair considering it's just another arrangement of a song already on the album), it seemingly marks a direct line between Red and 1989 in sound.

Agreed with some of the production… can’t imagine Taylor wouldn’t have heard that herself… 🤔

I listened same order as you, so I thought by the time we got to Girl At Home we were in the homestretch and safe territory. I thought my headphones had broke at first.

I was trying to Mastermind a comment cause you made so many valid points, hurt my feelings, and had me cry laughing multiple times. So glad I found you to binge (another Midnights' blessing)!!! You are Gorgeous and elegant. You are a vibe, the moment, and an aesthetic mood ✨

Dude, honestly same thoughts, especially the lyrics in “I Bet You Think About Me”. I don’t get some of the sound and production choices she made with some of the songs, but I really loved what she did with Run, The Very First Night and All Too Well. 💕

when i first heard all too well 10 minute version, all the added parts just sounded like filler..but now analyzing the lyrics it's sooo good

Yours and Madelines opinions are the only swifty opinions I care about cause y’all are ALWAYS right!!! Thank you for your service in critiquing I Bet You Think About Me cause no one else is talking about it!!!!!! Taylor is so ugh sometimes 😅

thanks, finally a person who understands exactly how i felt after listening IKYWT, it sounds sooo different from the original. i like the original way better. However, i loved the other ones.

Sooo…can we agree that “Message In a Bottle” is kind of a segue into 1989?

I love your enthusiasm!! It’s infection. I am not even a fan but definitely gonna listen to this after watching your video!

Love someone, especially the biggest swiftie I know, loving "The last time". Is my second favorite song of Taylor EVER (first is ATWTM, i'm basic, sue me). I absolutely adore this song, the lyrics, the duet. You're so right, is better than Exile, even if I love this song too. As always, love your honesty, is so refreshing. Keep doing the awesome work!

how did he not burst out in tears during ronan

In "I Bet You Think About Me" ...When she talks about the farm, and that he on the other hand was this rich man, etc... and you think it's "delusional writing" I don't think she's writing what she actually thinks, but about what he made her feel, like she was this little country girl, and that he was better than her, from the music he likes to the city he's from, etc. He (Jake) was always condescending towards her and her music, her age, her jokes, her lyrics, everything.

I love your expression at 12:50 when you realise Message in a Bottle isn’t as good as you hoped it might be 😅

I would’ve forgiven the Girl At Home remix if she included the original I loved her sm even if I couldn’t really get it as a young girl 😭

My initial reaction when i heard We Are Never... was "She needs to redo this, unacceptable... just, no". That high-pitched "WeeEE" makes me cringe and I try to laugh it off.😅 But loved most of the other rerecords on the album!

To be honest, I hated the original Girl at home. This new one is one my favorite tracks

I loved every song, no real complaints. The “we-EE” doesn’t bother me, if anything I like it more! As a fellow Holy Ground fan, this rerecording wasn’t too upsetting for me, but I prefer the original a tiny bit, although I can settle for it. HOWEVER. Holy Ground TV’s final “part” of the song has subtle high pitched minor piano sounds and while I don’t really mind too much, it is kinda distracting. Girl At Home is forever improved, period. Going from the worst song on Red to being middle tier just because of epic production change? Yes PLEASE!!! Kinda unfortunate that you didn’t like Girl At Home TV, I think she allowed herself to change it up because she knew nobody really liked it before.

I agree with you in that i don't think she necessarily had the entirety of the atw 10 minute version made in 2010/11 but I do think a lot of it was written in the way she says. I think that Taylor was much more image-conscious then and while she might've written a lot of this at the time, maybe didn't feel that she could use all of it. I mean she was 21... we saw her as a saint and for the most part I'm sure she was. But that's how she wanted to be seen. She definitely could've still written 'fuck the patriarchy' for example.

I like your reaction because its critical and not just praising the hell out of it unlike the other reaction youtubers. Also, I do think that ATW 10 Minute Version is written later/now because I don't think Taylor has achieved that kind of layered songwriting yet in 2012.

Me over here bopping out to the new girl at home as it is my new favorite! 😂😂

"Why are they so different in the beginning?" So, I think she purposefully put something in all of them so that we can't listen to old songs mixed with new ones lmao I TRIED making a playlist of the new versions but with a few old versions (wanegbt, for example), and they sound like they come from different studios. So I can't pick and choose the versions I like best without a scare jump, I have to commit either to OG or TV. We can't get the best of both worlds. She is so evil.

how can you doubt she wrote those lyrics during that time when songs like red, treacherous, state of grace, og all too well were released during those times. the songwriting on them is literally on the same level if not superior.

I’m gonna get killed for this but I liked holy ground. Not as good as the original but I didn’t find it terrible. And the new girl at home is way better than the original in my opinion, it just took a few listens to get what she’s going for

I’m watching this while doing history homework and I guess this counts as revisiting history so it’s on topic

You NEED to break down that "Olivia Rodrigo has the blueprint and Taylor Swift doesn't like it" comment because I think I agree with you but I can't explain why I feel like that is the case.

I was honestly surprised by your take on. I bet you think about me. For me, honestly. It's one of my favorite songs. So kind of like, how in blank space she wrote about the media character. I think I bet you still think about me is her writing from the character debut Taylor Swift, not the real Taylor Swift.

Love how you sing all the backgrounds vocals!! ITS A VIBE 🎉❤

I love the new version of Girl at Home!!!!! Much prefer it over the original, but I’m sure others were as disappointed as you lol

I find it so funny that even though I know you're being emotional with her but you also heard the birthday shenanigans in atwtmv and went "Womp Womp." crazy editing cuz i got to the IKYWT part. garage band was quite the flashback thank you

The real tea I got from ATW10min was that Gyllenhaal was the first boyfriend Scott Swift actually approved of. And then he treated her like shit. I think Taylor throwing in ‘fuck the patriarchy’ is her way of unpacking her ongoing dad issues. It’s clear that, as much as she craves approval and adulation from everyone, she especially needs male approval - this is clear from looking at her male vs female friendships and collaborations. I think that this need goes back to wanting to impress her dad and needing more of his approval than she received. Can relate. 😢

Also the new version on Girl at home is so much better and makes me want to shake my ass in the air, although now it sound more like a 1989 track I prefer the new one over the og

combing through old videos while i'm at work and can i just say. 1. the red flannel works for you 2. drop the candle info pleaseeee 3. the interior decor is so pinterest fall vibes especially with the red cd, the flowers and the candles etc, i love it!!!

The best way to do a music reaction video is with headphones, so you can judge the production properly.

THANK YOU FOR THE GIRL AT HOME REACTION! i'm literally in tears from laughing so much. I came in expecting you hating ALL the songs and seeing you liked some of them made me a happy, cause it's sucks that you're favorite album gets ruined. so I hoped you at least will enjoy some and this won't ruin EVERYTHING for you on Red. but yeah, there are some atrocities on this re-recording. i'm worried for my baby Speak Now (album) and reputation re-recording. cause she ruined a lot on Fearless TV as well. My biggest issue is why the fuck they don't use real instruments??? Jack and Aaron how to play guitar. like why are they using these synths on songs that used guitars?? WHY?!?! Your reaction to Message In A Bottle!!! wow. so funny. this song is so bad. it's literally a Disney song. "she's serving singing...... but nothing else" LOL I actually like I Bet You Think About Me cause Taylor said in a radio interview that they wrote it as supposed to be a joke and not that seriously. but your reaction is priceless to the lyrics of gated communited and such. so funny. Yes! so happy you liked 'The Very First Night' it is generic but it's more fun than Message In A Bottle. oohhh you're right, this one could easily replace Stay Stay Stay. you're so right!! Holy Ground doesn't sound the same. it sounds slower! All in all I agree with you. the re-recordings of the old songs sound unfinished. like something missing with the production AND layered vocals. there aren't any layered vocals! it happened in Fearless TV as well with You Belong With Me. her vocals sound so upfront. like she recorded them so close to the mic. so it seems she ruins her biggest hits. I wonder if the changes in the beginning of the songs are so that Big Machine wouldn't be able to claim they did a copycat of the master recordings...

It's interesting Max Martin isn't credited as a producer at all, do you think she asked him and he chose not to?

Seeing you get THE FUCCCCK down to 22 is giving me life!!

In her interview with Seth Meyers when she was talking about re-releasing her music she said that she lurks online and said “the fans tell me which songs should’ve gotten videos so I’m making the videos” - but we haven’t gotten any music videos to old songs yet, have we?! 😥

i think forever winter was about her friend who overdosed, like she wanted him to not literally k word himself

Honestly, I thought my headphones were dying on Girl at Home. Half of the instrumentals felt like sounds that would play on a broken phone or something. I guess she just wanted it to stick out because it got little recognition, but I think the og was better. I will still listen to the newer version, but I like the og better.

THE VERY FIRST NIGHT STANS RISE

I am so glad you hold the opinion that she didn’t write some of these vault lyrics in 2010/11/12 saaame

no because jake had a keychain that said "fuck the patriarchy"

Holy Ground DOES deserve justice!!!!!!!

"WHhhhhHHHHuuuUUUuuuttttt" in response to your Message in a Bottle reaction lol! It's soooooooooo gooooood!

I am bingeing all of your videos and I can't find the all you need to know before Red TV, my OCD is gonna kill me 🤯

The moment I knew part was so funny 😂 sometimes your opinion can be pushed aside for a minute when the beat goes hard

no like deadass what she did to holy ground and girl at home broke the geneva conventions. straight up war crimes!!! loved your reactions though, and am very much looking forward to more of your insight on the podcast!

Scoobert can get my 0.3c for wanegbt and Holy Ground, I'm sorry but the new versions are UNLISTENABLE

the prayer in the beginning 😭😭😭

Elvira Anderfjärd and Jeff Bhasker must be held accountable for their war crimes to achieve justice for girl at home and holy ground

Actually The Very First Night is about the time she started to date Harry Styles. There are a lots of references, such as the Polaroid picture, the roads, “we were built to fall apart” i mean OOTW🤨 riding etcc

Girl at home is just awesome, if songs dont hit u the way it was …………

not the intro prayer pls HAUSHAJHSJAHS

Okay your reaction to I Bet You Think About Me tells me you don't understand the affluence of the Gyllenhaal family. Taylor isn't calling herself a poor country girl, but her childhood upbringing is leagues below Jake's and that's the contrast she was trying to paint a picture of. Her father had a stable job but they weren't an influential family before she became THE Taylor Swift.

Thank you for these elite opinions as per ushe bestie

When you were talking about holy ground DOO Doo dOo I literally fell the down the stairs laughing 😭

I couldnt listen to Ronan even before i became a mom. After becoming a mom it's just traumatizing

Finally someone reacted without complaining about the number of songs on there 🌟🌟

I became a swiftie the days before this release bc my friend was fangirling over it so I listened to all to well sv and then watchedall too well 10 minute version short film and became a swiftie right then and there, It was rare I was there I remember it all too well

this video makes me so HAPPY

babe ive been waiting for this video all dayyyy thank you for reacting and editing this video!!! she really slandered holy ground and girl at home XD

The way you tried so hard to get into message in bottle and count is so funny 😂

I absolutely love this video!

I feel like you may have forgotten that she was a lot younger when these vault tracks were written. The Red album was just the tip of the iceberg for the maturation of her writing and sound.

The last time ate exile up with ease. How did exile got so popular yet the last time is left to collect dust in red??? Maybe bc im big on production but exile is boring to me compare to the last time

All too well was 10 minutes originally. There are interviews (GMA i believe for sure) of her talking about how she had to cut it down ( and stated that it was hard). Sure she probably tweaked it some before her legendary rerelease of it knowing that it needed to be it's best 😊

I’m late to this! But I love that you think she wrote ALLTW later! I agreed! She realized the hype around and wanted to give us something. Ok, but that was not written in 2012!

Enjoyed this. Love your reactions. I find it hard to know whether a re record is better because I find myself wanting it to just be as similar as possible to the original but I know making it identical is impossible. After a couple of listens I forget the differences though.