Songfacts®:

• This mournful ballad was the only time on 1989 that Taylor collaborated with Nathan Chapman, the main producer of her first four albums.
• Asked by Pop Crush which of her 1989 tracks does she listen to the most on her iPod, Taylor replied: "I think the one that I kept going back to, over and over and over again, is a song called 'This Love,' actually. It's a song that I wrote by myself. It's kind of like hypnotic in a way, and it kind of is somewhat romantic and wistful and relaxing."
• According to a copy of Swift's diary included with the Target deluxe editions of Lover, the first draft of "This Love" was written on October 17, 2012. That was five days before her previous album, Red, hit the shelves.
• "This Love" is the only track on 1989 that Swift wrote solo. It originated as a short poem:
  
  This love is good, this love is bad
  This love is alive back from the dead
  These hands had to let it go free
  And this love came back to me
  
  After Swift wrote it in her book, she went to bed and thought of a melody for the poem, then realized it could be a song.
• Swift re-recorded every song on her first six albums after Scooter Braun acquired the singer's old label, Big Machine Label Group and her master recordings. We got a sneak peak of her re-recorded version of this track, dubbed "This Love (Taylor's Version)," in the trailer for Amazon Prime Video's coming-of-age series, The Summer I Turned Pretty.
  
  A day after the preview, Swift released the revamped version on May 6, 2022, via Republic Records.
• "This Love" is the second "Taylor's Version" track from 1989 to be re-released, following "Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version," which she dropped on September 17, 2021.