‘You All Over Me’
If the rest of the “From the Vault” songs are this good, Taylor could seriously be looking at a second Album-of-The-Year Grammy for “Fearless.” I guess I was expecting 13 year old scraps from the original “Fearless” album, but this is not that. This song is terrific, better than several of the songs that made it on the album. It makes you wonder how much of it was written at the time and how much of it was fleshed out present day.
To me, it doesn’t sound exactly like the rest of “Fearless.” It’s certainly country so the similarities are there, but it doesn’t sound like 2008 country. It sounds like what great country music could be in 2021, if it weren’t for the repetitive pop-hybrid garbage that’s been coming out of Nashville for the past decade. Given the slight changes made to “Love Story,” I wonder if perhaps that’s what she’s going to give us, a timeless country album remade to be just a little more timeless and show the country music industry how off base they’ve been since she left.