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2014Grammys: Taylor Swift's Angry Performance to Jake Gyllenhaal (The Breakdown)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
http://www.hollyscoop.com/taylor-swift/breakdown-taylor-swifts-angry-performance-jake-gyllenhaal.html
A Breakdown of
Taylor Swift's
Performance to
Jake Gyllenhaal
by: Matt Dekneef
January 27, 2014
Taylor Swift gave a riveting performance of “All Too Well” at the Grammys last night, which any Swiftie can tell you is Tay Tay’s songwriting act of retribution against ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal.
You could basically see it all over her emotional performance and this breakdown is a friendly reminder of the song’s origins.
For the uninitiated, the ballad starts with lyrics about a “scarf” and “upstate weather” — clear references to Jake, who she dated in the fall of 2010.
When you Google “Taylor Swift Jake Gyllenhaal” the suggestions literally include the word “scarf.”
Even Google says so.
....
Anyway, she performed the tune and after all these years, she did not hold back.
It was powerful enough to likely chill Jake to the bone.
Because she's angry.
The angriest.
In this case, we doubt he would echo this Tumblr-able sentiment.
As we watched her try to exorcise the demon that was their failed romance out from her body--
--we knew there was one person in this world we did NOT want to be at that moment.
You can see it gleaming in her eyes: “That was for you, Jake…”
Daaaaamn, rock on.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
"All Too Well"
I walked through the door with you, the air was cold,
But something 'bout it felt like home somehow.
And I left my scarf there at your sister's house,
And you still got it in your drawer even now.
Oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze.
We're singing in the car, getting lost Upstate.
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place,
And I can picture it after all these days.
And I know it's long gone,
And that magic's not here no more,
And I might be okay,
But I'm not fine at all.
'Cause there we are again on that little town street.
You almost ran the red 'cause you were looking over me.
Wind in my hair, I was there, I remember it all too well.
Photo album on the counter, your cheeks were turning red.
You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-size bed
And your mother's telling stories about you on a tee ball team
You tell me 'bout your past, thinking your future was me.
And I know it's long gone
And there was nothing else I could do
And I forget about you long enough
To forget why I needed to...
'Cause there we are again in the middle of the night.
We dance around the kitchen in the refrigerator light
Down the stairs, I was there, I remember it all too well, yeah.
Maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much,
And maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up.
Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well.
Hey, you call me up again just to break me like a promise.
So casually cruel in the name of being honest.
I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well.
Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it
I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it
After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own
Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone
But you keep my old scarf from that very first week
'Cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me
You can't get rid of it 'cause you remember it all too well, yeah
'Cause there we are again, when I loved you so
Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known
It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well
Wind in my hair, you were there, you remember it all
Down the stairs, you were there, you remember it all
It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well
Aloysius J. Gleek:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyABmY_NdsA&noredirect=1[/youtube]
Taylor Swift
performing at The Grammy's 2014
'All Too Well'
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Published on Jan 27, 2014
delalluvia:
Man, no wonder she has such a bad reputation.
She's pretty vindictive in breakups.
morrobay:
...although the "I Knew You Were Trouble" singer continues not to name names, she reveals to the magazine that she's "heard from the guy that most of Red is about."
That guy, by all accounts, is 32-year-old Gyllenhaal, who famously romanced the country-pop sensation for about two intense months almost exactly three years ago, only to break her heart when 2011 arrived. But the "Source Code" hunk believed to have inspired the anthem "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and other Red hits wasn't angry about the breakup songs, Swift says.
"He was like, 'I just listened to the album, and that was a really bittersweet experience for me. It was like going through a photo album.'
That was nice," an impressed Swift recalls. "Nicer than, like, the ranting, crazy e-mails I got from this one dude."
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