You All Over Me

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"You All Over Me"
Digital edition cover of "You All Over Me"
Promotional single by Taylor Swift featuring Maren Morris
from the album Fearless (Taylor's Version)
Written2005
ReleasedMarch 26, 2021 (2021-03-26)
StudioLong Pond (Hudson Valley)
Genre
Length3:40
LabelRepublic
Songwriter(s)
  • Taylor Swift
  • Scooter Carusoe
Producer(s)
Lyric video
"You All Over Me" on YouTube

"You All Over Me"[a] is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift featuring harmony vocals from the American singer Maren Morris. Swift wrote the track with Scooter Carusoe in 2005 for her second studio album, Fearless (2008), but excluded it from the track-listing. She produced the song with Aaron Dessner for the album's 2021 re-recording, Fearless (Taylor's Version). Republic Records released "You All Over Me" for download and streaming on March 26, 2021.

An acoustic country pop and roots rock ballad, "You All Over Me" features chiming guitars, fiddles, looping synth drums, and subdued percussion. In the lyrics, a narrator is ruminating on a past romance that she cannot move on but ultimately accepts of what happened. Music critics commended the country production and Swift's songwriting for displaying a mature and authentic lyricism. The song peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Global 200 and reached the national charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Swift performed "You All Over Me" with Morris during a Chicago concert as part of her Eras Tour (2023–2024).

Background and release[edit]

After signing a new contract with Republic Records, Taylor Swift began re-recording her six studio albums in November 2020.[2] The decision followed a public dispute in 2019 between Swift and the talent manager Scooter Braun, who acquired Big Machine Records, including the masters of her albums which the label had released.[3][4] On February 11, 2021, Swift announced the first of her re-recorded albums, Fearless (Taylor's Version), a re-recording of her second studio album Fearless (2008). She also revealed that the record contained six "From the Vault" tracks which were songs written for the original that did not make the final cut.[5] In the following day, Swift released "Love Story (Taylor's Version)", a re-recording from one of the original album's tracks.[6]

On March 24, 2021, Swift announced the first "From the Vault" track from Fearless (Taylor's Version), titled "You All Over Me", and that it features background vocals from the American singer Maren Morris.[7][8] Swift originally wrote the song with Scooter Carusoe in 2005,[9] and a demo recording of it had previously been leaked online in 2017.[10] On March 25, 2021, a snippet of the song was played on Good Morning America.[9] It was released the next day alongside a dance remix of "Love Story (Taylor's Version)".[11] "You All Over Me" is listed as track 21 on the album, which came out on April 9, 2021.[12] On May 26, it was included on the streaming compilation, Fearless (Taylor's Version): The From the Vault Chapter, which features the five other "From the Vault" songs from the album.[13] On the June 3, 2023, Swift performed "You All Over Me" with Morris during the Chicago stop for her Eras Tour (2023–2024).[14]

Composition and lyrics[edit]

"You All Over Me" is 3 minutes and 40 seconds long.[12] Swift produced the song with Aaron Dessner, who recorded it with Bella Blasko at Long Pond Studios in Hudson Valley. Christopher Rowe recorded Swift's vocals at Kitty Committee Studio in London and Greg Kurstin and Julian Burg recorded Morris' vocals at No Expectations Studios in Los Angeles. Dessner engineered the track with Blasko and Jonathan Low. He also provided drum machine programming and instruments including acoustic, bass, electric, and high string guitars, keyboards, piano, percussion, and synthesizers. Other musicians on the song are Jonathan Kaufman (electric guitar, harmonica) and Eric Stick (drums). It was mixed by Serban Ghenea at MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach and mastered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound in Edgewater.[1]

"You All Over Me" is a country pop and roots rock ballad with an acoustic production.[15][16][17] A few critics found the instrumentation reminiscent to that of the original Fearless.[15][18] It features fiddles, chiming guitars, looping synth drums, and subdued percussion.[b] The song includes electric guitar riffs that NME's Hannah Mylrea described as "warm" and "understated",[15] while Chris Willman of Variety considered the instrument "abrasive" and out of place in the production.[21] Swift's voice on the track contains twang and Morris accompanies her in the chorus with low harmony vocals.[15][22][23] Mylrea thought the "crisp drum lines" and Morris' vocals respectively recalled those of the fellow album tracks "Come In with the Rain" and "Forever & Always". She also opined that the production has major influences from Swift's 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore.[15] In The A.V. Club, Saloni Gajjar felt that the song would have fit within the original album because of its music that combines country and pop.[24] Willman believed that it was courtesy of Nathan Chapman,[21] and The Line of Best Fit's Ross Horton thought the instruments gave the song "an almost cinematic sheen".[19]

As with much of the previously-released tracks from Fearless, "You All Over Me" has lyrics about a story told from the perspective of a teenage girl and sharing the lessons she has learned.[10] It is about the narrator's contemplation over a faded romance and details her inability to move on.[25][26] She is constantly being reeled back into the memories of the relationship and addresses the messiness it left on her: "The way the tires turn stone on old country roads / They leave it muddy underneath, reminds me of you".[21][26] The narrator eventually accepts what happened and moves on from the relationship: "I lived, and I learned / And found out what it was to turn around / And see that we / Were never really meant to be".[10] Some critics commented that "You All Over Me" and a few of its lyrics served as a prequel to "Clean" from Swift's album 1989 (2014), a song that also had the same subject of moving on from a relationship.[c] Ellie Bate of BuzzFeed News noted that the track's opening line resembled the opening line of the original album's title track, which describes "rain on a sidewalk".[18]

Critical reception[edit]

Critics praised "You All Over Me" for its authenticity and Swift's return to her country roots. Bate described the song as a "cozy, nostalgic trip down memory lane".[18] Mylrea rated the song 4 out of 5 stars and described it as "a time capsule of the Fearless era" and "musical déjà vu", comparing the song to other Fearless tracks "Come In with the Rain" and "Forever & Always". She also mentioned that Dessner's production of the song "runs the Fearless soundscape through a delicate Folklore-era filter", going on to compare the opening line of the song to Swift's "The Last Great American Dynasty" and highlighting its similarities to Folklore and Evermore.[15]

Several critics, such as Jason Lipshutz of Billboard, highlighted how the detailed lyrics and complex emotional narrative "You All Over Me" demonstrate "what set the singer-songwriter apart at a young age."[26] Willman praised the sentimental and metaphorical lyrics as a reminder of "how almost-fully-formed as a song stylist" Swift is and praising the abrasive but subliminal production. Willman further highlighted how the song was written when Swift was high school student, exhibiting Swift's long-term strength as a songwriter.[21] Jackson Langford of MTV described the song's production and lyrics as "magical" and "intimate", comparing it to that of her alternative/folk albums Folklore and Evermore (both 2020), though felt that more country influence would have benefited the song.[22] In a review of Fearless (Taylor's Version), Kitty Empire, writing for The Guardian, described the vault tracks as "something of a mixed bag" but picked out "You All Over Me" as a highlight, describing its nostalgic country sound as "rewarding."[27]

Commercial performance[edit]

On the issue dated April 9, 2021, "You All Over Me" debuted at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Swift's 130th Hot 100 entry, extending her record as the female artist with the most songs on the chart. It also entered the Billboard Hot Country Songs at number six, scoring Swift her 25th top 10 entry on the chart and Morris's seventh; it was also the second consecutive single from Fearless (Taylor's Version) to land inside the top-10, after "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" debuted at number one. "You All Over Me" collected 9.2 million streams and sold 12,000 digital downloads in its first week, debuting atop both the Country Digital Song Sales and Country Streaming Songs charts. It is Swift's record-extending 16th chart-topper on the former and Morris's fourth.[30] On the Rolling Stone Top 100, it debuted at number 26, selling 76,100 units and garnering 8.3 million streams in its first week;[31] the next week, it fell to number 95[32] but rose to number 48 following the release of Fearless (Taylor's Version).[33] The song also achieved success internationally, reaching number 52 on the UK Singles Chart, 35 on both the Billboard Global 200 and on the Irish Top 50 Singles charts, 34 on the Australian Top 100 Singles Chart, and 29 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Credits and personnel[edit]

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Fearless (Taylor's Version).[1]

  • Taylor Swift – lead vocals, songwriting, production
  • Maren Morris – featured artist
  • Scooter Carusoe – songwriting
  • Aaron Dessner – production, record engineering, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drum programming, electric guitar, engineering, high string guitar, keyboards, percussion, piano, synthesizer, recording
  • Eric Slick – drums, recording
  • Josh Kaufman – electric guitar, harmonica, recording
  • Bella Blasko – engineering, recoring
  • Christopher Rowe – vocal engineering
  • Greg Kurstin – vocal engineering
  • Julian Burg – vocal engineering
  • Jonathan Low – mixing, engineering
  • Randy Merrill – mastering

Charts[edit]

Chart performance for "You All Over Me"
Chart (2021) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[34] 34
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[35] 29
Global 200 (Billboard)[36] 35
Ireland (IRMA)[37] 35
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)[38] 3
UK Singles (OCC)[39] 52
US Billboard Hot 100[40] 51
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[41] 6
US Rolling Stone Top 100[31] 26

Release history[edit]

List of release dates and formats for "You All Over Me"
Region Date Format Label Ref.
Various March 26, 2021
Republic [42][12]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Subtitled as "(From the Vault)".[1]
  2. ^ As described by Ross Horton of The Line of Best Fit,[19] Hannah Mylrea of NME,[15] and Jonathan Bernstein of Rolling Stone[20]
  3. ^ Attributed to Kitty Empire of The Guardian,[27] Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone,[28] Chris Willman of Variety,[21] and Erin Browne of Vulture[29]

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