Most people think All Too Well is about Jake Gyllenhaal. That's the misconception — and it's why most people miss what makes it one of the greatest songs ever written. The full 10-minute version sat on a hard drive for nine years. When Taylor released it, it broke Don McLean's 50-year Guinness World Record, beat records that Elvis, the Beatles and Michael Jackson never could, and sent Gyllenhaal's Instagram into lockdown. But the real reason she released it had nothing to do with him at all. In this episode: the numbers that show how massive this song really is, the Scooter Braun story nobody talks about, and why this is not a breakup song.

Behind The Lines — we go deeper than the chorus.

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