From Whirlwind Romance to Raw Breakup Ballad: The Story Behind Taylor Swift's "All Too Well" Among Taylor Swift's emotive discography laying bare her personal chronicles of love and loss through piercing lyricism, few compositions encapsulate the crushing rise and fall of a relationship quite like her magnum opus "All Too Well". Released in 2012 on Swift's album "Red", the nearly six-minute song narrates the story of a fiercely passionate romance doomed to fail, recounted through vivid details and lived emotion with the wistful hindsight of maturity. Far from a straightforward...