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Swift wrote "All Too Well" as the first song for Red, while embarking on her Speak Now World Tour. " All Too Well" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, taken from her fourth studio album, Red (2012), which was released on October 22, 2012, by Big Machine Records. For other uses, see All Too Well (disambiguation). West released a song called "Real Friends" on The Life of Pablo, so this phrasing is likely a nod to that.This article is about the Taylor Swift song. He's an honest person, he's open and he'll say things and he's wrong a lot of times and he'll confront it." (In September, TMZ reported that West was working to reconcile with JAY-Z.)Ĭhorus: This is why we can't have nice things, darling Because you break them I had to take them away This is why we can't have nice things, honey Did you think I wouldn't hear all the things you said about me? This is why we can't haveīridge: Here's a toast to my real friends They don't care about that he-said-she-said I know he knows, because we've never let this much space go between one of our disagreements, and we've had many, because that's who we are. "He knows that he crossed the line," JAY-Z said during an August interview.
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West had gone on a couple rants about JAY-Z during his concerts (particularly about their kids never playing together). The term "honey" is used frequently in West's famous track "Bound 2", making Swift's use here perhaps a deliberate nod to West's song. "She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message." This is why we can't have nice things, honey "Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single "Famous" on her Twitter account," her publicist said in February 2016, after the song was released. "I had to take them away" could allude to Swift publicly distancing herself after the song came out. Here, Swift insinuates that West-who sang about Swift in "Famous," "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous (Goddamn) /I made that bitch famous""-is the reason their friendship had to end. Pre-Chorus: So why'd you have to rain on my parade? I'm shaking my head I'm locking the gatesĬhorus: This is why we can't have nice things, darling Because you break them I had to take them away In February 2016, West would release "Famous." Its Swift lyric would ultimately lead to the crumbling of their friendship. It was so nice throwing big parties Jumping in the pool from the balcony Everyone swimming in a champagne sea And there are no rules when you show up here Bass beat rattling the chandelier Feeling so Gatsby for that whole yearĪround the time Swift and Kanye West became officially friends (in February 2015 at the Grammys, they publicly made amends), Swift was at the height of her fame. Here, the lyrics via Genius, with all the West references annotated. (Because, as Swift forewarns in her introduction to the album in her Reputation magazine, "We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them they have chosen to show us.") Swift wrote the song with her friend Jack Antonoff, so the lyrics here are likely to at least be partly inspired by her real-life experience with West. The lyrics seem to explore the two's friendship after the 2015 Grammys and how it went sour. Taylor Swift's Reputation is finally here, and if there's any song designed to address Kanye West's reignited feud with her, it would appear to be the all-important 13th (Swift's favorite number) track, "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things."