“Everything has Changed” by Taylor Swift (ft. Ed Sheeran)
All things considered, love songs are the most common which the music industry has to offer. And as far as such pieces go, they’re often based on the idea of how the vocalist’s life has been holistically edified since striking up a relationship with the addressee. According to Taylor Swift, such is also the lyrical intent of “Everything Has Changed”, as implied by the title.
Thus in the first verse, we have Tay Tay relaying a feeling of smittenness towards Ed. In the second, Sheeran expresses a willingness to, most simply put, open up his entire life to Taylor. And this does read like fresh romance, since the pre-chorus revolves around the vocalists’ strong desire to get to ‘know each other better’. And the actual chorus implies that this may be a love-at-first-sight type of scenario.
Music Video of “Everything Has Changed”
The filming of the music video to this track, under the direction of Philip Andelman, was conducted in California (Oak Park) and Texas (San Antonio). It features a cinematic storyline in which the vocalists are depicted as children.
And in early 2022, Ed Sheeran got around to dropping “The Joker and the Queen (Remix)” featuring Taylor, thus marking their third collaboration. The music video for that song actually serves as a sequel to that of “Everything Has Changed”.
Release Date of “Everything Has Changed”
This track, which came out on 16 July 2013, marks the first official collaboration between Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran. However, as we have noted in the past, the pair wrote another song, “Run“, before “Everything Has Changed”, though the former didn’t get around to being released until 2021.
This song is from 2012’s “Red”, one of the best-selling albums in Taylor Swift’s catalog.
Big Machine Records issued “Everything Has Changed” as the sixth of seven singles from “Red”. The song managed to chart in nearly 10 countries, most notably peaking at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart. And even though the tune didn’t similarly impress on the Billboard Hot 100 (where it reached 32nd place), the song still achieved double-platinum certification stateside as of 2018.
More Facts
The two vocalists are also the authors of “Everything Has Changed”. The pair is said to have accomplished the writing of this song at Taylor Swift’s home, actually playing on a trampoline in the process. The producer of the track is Butch Walker.
This track won the following awards:
- 2014 Radio Disney Music Award (Best Musical Collaboration)
- 2014 BMI London Award (Award Winning Songs)
- a couple of 2015 BMI Awards (Award Winning Songs and Publisher of the Year)
This song actually leaked well before it was officially released. This is despite serious measures being put in the place to prevent such from happening.
Swifties know that Tay Tay re-recorded the entirety of “Red” and re-released it, that time around under Republic Records, in 2021. Part of that process also included re-recording “Everything Has Changed”, with Sheeran also re-participating.
It was initially Taylor Swift’s idea to collaborate with Ed, who by 2014 had also established himself as an international music star.
Taylor is known to drop songs which speak to her real-life romantic history. In that regard, it has been speculated that “Everything Has Changed” may be about Conor Kennedy. Conor is a member of America’s prominent Kennedy political family. He and Tay Tay dated in 2012.
