How old was Taylor Swift when she dated Jake Gyllenhaal?

Taylor Swift teased a new music video short film for her song All Too Well today via Instagram, capping “Red season” and reminding Swifties of her brief relationship with actor Jake Gyllenhaal.

Swift, who is credited as the writer and director of the short film, captioned the teaser: “November 12. Remember it.”

How old was Taylor Swift when she dated Jake Gyllenhaal, and for how long were they together?

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How old was Taylor Swift when she dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal?

Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal started dating in October 2010. They were together for three months, and separated just before New Year’s Eve, per US Weekly.

When they started dating, Taylor Swift was 20 years old; Jake Gyllenhaal was 29. Their birthdays are a week apart: Swift’s falls on December 13, while Gyllenhaal’s is on December 19.

At time of separation, therefore, they were 21 and 30 respectively. They are now 31 and 40.

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How did Swift’s relationship with Gyllenhaal affect her music?

Swift released her fourth album, Red, on October 22, 2012.

In a November 2020 interview with Rolling Stone (RS) magazine, Swift described Red as her “only true breakup album”.

She trimmed 30 songs down to 16. The result was, per RS, “her most sprawling, uninhibited work”. The album’s “messy sonic contradictions anchored the emotionally chaotic story Swift was trying to tell”, i.e., the story of their breakup and its aftermath.

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“I love Jackson Pollock,” she told the magazine. “I see this album as my splatter-paint album, using all the colours and throwing it at the wall and seeing what sticks.”

The lyrics of its fifth track, All Too Well, include references to “a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed”. As one Genius contributor has noted, on September 28, 2020, Gyllenhaal uploaded a picture matching that description to his Instagram.

Twitter reacts to Swift’s All Too Well re-release

News of the upcoming release of Red (Taylor’s Version), compounded with today’s All Too Well teaser, has sent Twitter into overdrive.

As several users have highlighted, the age difference between Dylan O’Brien and Sadie Sink is pretty close to the age difference between Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Red (Taylor’s Version) features 30 tracks, including two versions of All Too Well. The second, which is the final track on the album, reportedly runs to 10 minutes.

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