The song has received universal acclaim from music critics, who praised her song writing skills, and her ability to tell a story through a song, with many highlighting it as a standout on the album. Billboard gave a positive review to the song saying "Just like that, Swift snaps back to her core demographic: "All Too Well" is sumptuous country, with Swift "dancing 'round the kitchen in the refrigerator light" in the memory of a romance that has seemingly been buried in time. The tune would have fit snugly on "Speak Now," and even touches upon some of the same themes as "Mine," but on "Red" it serves as a reminder that these songs will always remain in Swift's wheelhouse." About.com gave the song 4 out of 5 stars, saying that the song is "A mincing guitar figure." PopCrush praised the song, saying "Swift easily slips back into the more melancholic, confessional ballad. Sonically, it’s spare, yet it’s lyrically stuffed and dense with details." Similarly with Idolator, stating that "And yet, it’s the tense “All Too Well” that hits the hardest: Swift drops the devastating image, “We’re dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light,” before reaching an almost hysterical unraveling with the despondent cry, “I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here.” It’s dramatic, but with Swift, it always is. That’s a good thing." Slant Magazine particularly lauded the song within its scathing album review, saying ""All Too Well" is arguably the finest song in Swift's entire catalogue: The arrangement slowly crescendos from coffeehouse folk to arena rock as Swift adds new details from a doomed relationship, until she unleashes one of her best-ever lines ("You call me up again just to break me like a promise/So casually cruel in the name of being honest") and the song explodes into a full-on bloodletting." The Prophet Blog said that "her skill as a true songwriter shines the brightest on “All Too Well”, where Swift processes a past romance with Jake Gyllenhaal (“Hey you called me up again just to break me like a promise,” she wails) from which the scars have clearly yet to heal. It flies in the face of the anti-Taylor brigade who label her tunes immature by delivering the kind of emotional thwack that very few of her contemporaries are able to match."
When she was about to perform Our Hymn last night she was saying how she checks twitter/facebook/TC to see what should be singles, she has to know everyone's need for All Too Well to be released, now we just have to see if they listen to us
I was thinking that too, especially since there are ones who call her a **** the second she tweets
But who knows she might... like when she tweeted the fans quoting All Too Holy and all
When she was about to perform Our Hymn last night she was saying how she checks twitter/facebook/TC to see what should be singles, she has to know everyone's need for All Too Well to be released, now we just have to see if they listen to us
With good reason they didn't listen to 'Enchanted' and 'Haunted' suggestions. One is 6 minutes long and the other would have no place on either pop or country radio.
'Never Grows Old' is the country hymn that got away there. I know the soccer moms driving their kids to school and hearing that on the radio would have caused some feelings. Album-selling hymn tbh. Get all generations of country fans out there supporting the album. Instead we got 'Blahs'.
Not most of them being fill-ins just to make her look worse
Harry has been with 3x as many people and no one cares. You could probably find a million famous guys who've dated 10x as much as she has. But I cant name them off the top of my head because they dont get any flack for it.
You know She doesn't like reading negative things about Herself, poor Her. 
