(That’s not even all the Jake-hate grist on this album: There’s a whole new song, “I Bet You Think About Me,” that’s also purportedly about him.) And most prominently, the new material highlighted the age difference between Swift and the man she was singing about: The short film’s O’Brien is 11 years older than his co-star, Sink, and Swift adds pointed lyrics like “And I was never good at telling jokes, but the punchline goes/ ‘I’ll get older, but your lovers stay my age.’ ” Gyllenhaal, Swifties were quick to note, is currently dating a woman in her mid-20s. Some fans cavalierly decided to treat these details like specific allegations against Gyllenhaal. But the new version of “All Too Well” reopened the wound, and Swift’s additions and flourishes heightened the already potent emotions: She added an almost certainly apocryphal line in the song about how he hypocritically had a “fuck the patriarchy” keychain and one about how he stood her up on her 21 st birthday, and in the video, Jake stand-in Dylan O’Brien drops Taylor stand-in Sadie Sink’s hand at a dinner and fights with her about washing the dishes. Fans were interested, but it had all happened so long ago, and I don’t think anyone but the most militant Swifties held a strong grudge against Gyllenhaal.
Gyllenhaal should enter witness protection, some asserted, or at the very least turn his phone off for the foreseeable future.įor years, the scarf had been a fun idyll in the fandom, one of those pop culture mysteries that would never be solved. Fans wondered about the scarf for years, asking Swift about it, even asking Jake’s sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, about it, and with these new additions to her canon, Swift seemed to be telling fans that they were right on the money all along-and unofficially declaring it open season on Jake. In the song, Swift sings about a scarf she left at her ex’s sister’s house, supposing that he still has it all these years later because it reminds him of her. (The pretty well settled fact is that the two dated for a few months-truly, a few months-in late 2010, when she was 20 and he was 29.) The additional materials added to the song is not coy about feeding into and playing up the theory: They are monuments to the myth of Taylor and Jake, validating fans’ years of obsessing over the details in the song’s lyrics that seemed to map perfectly onto the romance, chief among them the infamous scarf. Though Swift herself has never confirmed it (or denied it), that “All Too Well” is about the singer’s relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal has been a cornerstone of Swiftie lore for years.
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