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You All Over Me

"You All Over Me" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift featuring harmony vocals from the American singer Maren Morris. Swift wrote the track with Scooter Carusoe in 2008 for her second studio album, Fearless (2008), but excluded it from the track-listing. She produced the song with Aaron Dessner for the album's 2021 re-recording, Fearless (Taylor's Version). "You All Over Me" was released for download via Swift's website on March 26, 2021.

A ballad that combines styles of Americana, country rock, and roots rock, "You All Over Me" has an acoustic and midtempo production. In the lyrics, a narrator is ruminating on a past romance that she cannot move on from but ultimately accepts what happened. The song received generally positive reviews from critics, who discussed the similarity to Fearless and praised the songwriting, production, and both artists' performances. It peaked at number 35 on the Billboard Global 200 and reached the national charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Swift performed "You All Over Me" with Morris during a Chicago concert as part of her Eras Tour (2023–2024).

After signing a new contract with Republic Records, Taylor Swift began re-recording her first six studio albums in November 2020. The decision followed a public dispute in 2019 between Swift and the talent manager Scooter Braun, who acquired Big Machine Records, including the masters of her albums which the label had released. By re-recording the albums, Swift had full ownership of the new masters, which enabled her to control the licensing of her songs for commercial use and therefore substituted the Big Machine–owned masters.

On February 11, 2021, Swift announced the first of her re-recorded albums, Fearless (Taylor's Version), a re-recording of her second studio album Fearless (2008). In addition to re-recordings of the original album's tracks, Fearless (Taylor's Version) contained six "From the Vault" tracks which were songs written for the original that did not make the final cut. Swift explained that these tracks were left out of Fearless for various reasons, and that including them on the re-recorded album proved that "the artist is the only one who really knows that body of work". The following day, she released "Love Story (Taylor's Version)", a re-recording of the album's lead single.

On March 24, 2021, Swift announced the first "From the Vault" track from Fearless (Taylor's Version), titled "You All Over Me". She wrote the song with Scooter Carusoe in 2008, and a demo recording of it had previously been leaked online in 2017. Swift subsequently revealed that the American singer Maren Morris would be featuring background vocals on the song. According to her post on social media, the reason she chose Morris was to "experiment, play, and even include some of my favorite artists".

On March 25, 2021, a snippet of "You All Over Me" was played on Good Morning America. It was released for limited-time download via Swift's website the next day. The song is listed as track 21 on the album, which came out on April 9, 2021. On May 26, it was included on the streaming compilation, Fearless (Taylor's Version): The From the Vault Chapter, which features the five other "From the Vault" songs from the album. On June 3, 2023, Swift sang "You All Over Me" with Morris on acoustic guitars during the Chicago stop of her Eras Tour (2023–2024).

"You All Over Me" is 3 minutes and 40 seconds long. Swift produced the song with Aaron Dessner, who recorded it with Bella Blasko at Long Pond Studios in Hudson Valley. Christopher Rowe recorded Swift's vocals at Kitty Committee Studio in London and Greg Kurstin and Julian Burg recorded Morris' vocals at No Expectations Studios in Los Angeles. Dessner engineered the track with Blasko and Jonathan Low. He also provided drum machine programming and instruments including acoustic, bass, electric, and high string guitars, keyboards, piano, percussion, and synthesizers. Other musicians on the song are Jonathan Kaufman (electric guitar, harmonica) and Eric Stick (drums). It was mixed by Serban Ghenea at MixStar Studios in Virginia Beach and mastered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound in Edgewater.

"You All Over Me" is a ballad combining genres of Americana, country pop and roots rock. Having an acoustic and midtempo production, its instrumentation features fiddles, mandolin, chiming guitars, looping synth drums, and subdued percussion. The song includes electric guitar riffs that NME's Hannah Mylrea described as "warm" and "understated". Its opening was identified by critics to either be plucked strings or a subtle synth line. Swift's voice on the track contains twang and Morris accompanies her in the chorus with low harmony vocals. Mylrea thought the "crisp drum lines" and Morris' vocals respectively recalled those of the fellow album tracks "Come In with the Rain" and "Forever & Always". She also opined that the production has major influences from Swift's 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore. Jon Freeman from Rolling Stone commented that it had an atmosphere "full of swirling". The A.V. Club's Saloni Gajjar felt that the song would have fit within the original album because of its music that combines country and pop. For Variety, Chris Willman believed that it was courtesy of Nathan Chapman.

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