You All Over Me
by Taylor Swift (featuring Maren Morris)

Album: Fearless (Taylor's Version) (2021)
Charted: 52 51
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Songfacts®:

  • Taylor Swift originally recorded this melancholy song for her second album, Fearless. It didn't make it onto the record, but some dedicated fans got to hear it when the track leaked online in 2017.

    Two years later, Swift said she would re-record her first six studio albums after her masters were sold along with her former label Big Machine Records . Fearless (Taylor's Version) is the first of the star's reworked albums to be re-released. It comprises all the 19 tracks from Fearless Platinum Edition, her soundtrack single "Today Was a Fairytale," and six additional songs that got scrapped from the record, including "You All Over Me."
  • The heartbreaking song finds Swift singing of how everything reminds her of a past romance. At first she was smitten by her lover, but then the relationship became toxic and she got "burned." However, Swift cannot erase from her memory the happy times they spent together.

    But no amount of freedom gets you clean
    I've still got you all over me


    Swift revisited the song's theme of struggling to move on from a lost love on her 1989 track "Clean."
  • The then-teenage Swift wrote the gentle acoustic guitar and banjo-led song with Scooter Carusoe (Kenny Chesney's "Better As A Memory"). It's the first collaboration between the two to make it onto a Swift recording.
  • Maren Morris contributes backing vocals to the softly spoken breakup song. "My favorite thing that I don't get to do very often is to slip into someone's world and just harmonize," shared Morris on her social media.

    The two are friends, and Swift once bought the Arlington, Texas, native on stage during her Reputation Stadium Tour to duet "The Middle" in Morris' hometown arena.
  • The National's Aaron Dessner co-produced the reworked version of the song with Swift. Dessner collaborated with Swift on most of the tracks on her Folklore and Evermore albums.
  • Swift released the song as the second single from Fearless (Taylor's Version) on March 26, 2021. She accompanied it with the Elvira remix of "Love Story (Taylor's Version)" because, "in this house, we dance and cry at the SAME TIME."
  • Taylor Swift brought some extra country vibes to her Chicago show on June 3, 2023, thanks to a surprise appearance from Maren Morris. The country star hopped onstage with Swift for the debut live rendition of "You All Over Me."

    "Tonight, I'm gonna play a song I've never played live before," Swift told the audience. "When I was re-recording Fearless, I thought it would be really cool to have one of my favorite artists sing on one of the songs 'From the Vault.' We are so lucky Chicago... because not only did that artist say 'yes,' but Maren Morris is actually here tonight."

    As Morris stepped onto the stage amid thunderous applause, Swift reminisced about their previous collaboration. She mentioned that their last shared stage moment was during the Reputation Tour and proclaimed Morris one of her favorite artists.

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