Swifties are heading “Back To December” despite the fact that it is June! On June 29, Taylor Swift released her song “Back to December (Taylor’s Version)” in conjunction with the premiere of the Season 2 teaser for The Summer I Turned Pretty.
The 33-year-old rushed to Twitter to share the re-recorded song as well as the trailer for the programme. “Crying (Taylor’s Version),” she captioned the video humorously. The original song was published in 2010 and was on her album Speak Now, which will be re-issued on July 7.
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Soon after the song was released in the trailer, many Swifties took to the reply section of her tweet to react to getting the single one week before the album drops. “NO IM CRYING HELLO?!”, one fan jokingly replied to the songstress, while another added, “LITERALLY CRYING!” Many of the blonde beauty’s fans also took to the comments section of the show’s tweet of the trailer to gush over the hit song. “I’M ALREADY SOBBING AND I’VE REWATCHED THIS TOO MANY TIMES,” one admirer quipped, while another wrote, “Not back to December,” along with crying emojis.
As Swifties are aware, the song was created with Taylor’s ex Taylor Lautner, 31, in mind. During a 2016 interview with Lea Michele and John Stamos (see here), the Twilight star confirmed this.
Swift and Lautner dated for a short time in 2009 after meeting on the set of the film Valentine’s Day the same year. In the song, she sings, “I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile / So good to me, so right,” referring to the 31-year-old.
Despite their breakup, he still supports his ex’s work and even responded to the album announcement with a TikTok video on May 17. Lautner got down on his knees in the video and quipped that he was going to “Pray” for Swift’s ex, John Mayer, 45, about whom she famously penned the song “Dear John” on her 2010 album.
“I think it’s a great album. Yeah, I feel safe,” the Hollywood hunk told TODAY.com at the time. “Praying for John.” Lautner has since moved on and married Taylor Dome in 2022.
Swift announced the Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) album during her Nashville Eras Tour performance on May 5. When she took the stage, the “Anti-Hero” hitmaker told her Swifties that she had been “planning something for a while.”
She made the announcement in front of a jumbotron, which displayed the album’s cover art (watch here). “I plot I scheme I plan…. I think rather than me like speaking about it I thought I would just show you, so if you would direct your attention to the back big screen,” Taylor gushed. As mentioned above, fans can expect the album next week!
