"Back to December" is a country pop song with a length of four minutes and fifty-five seconds. Swift and her ex, matching their gazes across frames, and blurring focus tastefully. About Our Ads [artist id="2389485"]Taylor Swift[/artist] is sorry, and she wants one of her former boyfriends to know. Scream Queens co-star Lea Michele pushed Lautner to reveal the tidbit to fans after bringing up his past relationships. [11], The song's narrative is in first person, and depicts Swift apologizing to a young man whose heart she broke. [28] "Back to December" also became Swift's fifth song to have failed to reach the top spot on the Hot Country Songs, instead peaked at the top three (the previous songs were "Teardrops on My Guitar" at number two, "Picture to Burn" at number three, and both of "White Horse" and "Mine" at number two) and her ninth overall song to reach the top ten, but failed to reach the top spot (the previous songs were "Tim McGraw" at number six, "Fifteen" at number seven, "Fearless" at number ten, and four Top five songs previously mentioned. Wishing I'd realized what I had when you were mine. [20] The song has since reached a position of number twenty-five. [[[:Template:Allmusic]] "allmusic {{{Speak Now > Overview}}}"]. Song about second chances. [29][30] Her rendition in that event was graded as a "B-" in the Los Angeles Times, noting that "a brief end-song breakaway into OneRepublic's "Apologize" seemed unnecessary". "Your guard is up,and I know why" He clearly doesn't feel comfortable around Taylor. A montage of Swift writing a letter is shown alternately with scenes of her boyfriend strolling around the town. Back to December is written as an 'apology somg' to Taylor Lautner saying that she's sorry for hurting him. Caulfield, Keith; Pietroluongo, Silvio (October 21, 2010). Because she had been hurt by her past loves, taylor S naturally assumed that he was going to hurt her, too, even though he wasn't, so in order to keep her heart from getting broken, she dumped him before he had a chance to hurt her. [4], Leah Greenblatt from Entertainment Weekly ranked these couplets from the song; ("Your guard is up and I know why, because the last time you saw me is still burned in the back of your mind / You gave me roses and I left them there to die"), at number two out of ten best couplets from Speak Now sheet. December Lyrics: Stumbled 'round the block a thousand times / You missed every call that I had tried / So now I'm giving up / A heartbreak in mid-December / You don't give a fuck / You'd never It is from her third studio album, Speak Now (2010).. In the good, or bad, or the apology, the person I wrote the song for deserves this. The video begins with a young man seen walking alone in a small town to the snowy football field in a winter morning. "I realised I loved you in the fall..." However, she was really careless with him hence the break-up. On her brand-new track "Back to December," she's in full-on apologetic mode. But in the last two years I've experienced a lot, [including] a lot of different kinds of learning lessons. [33] In Australia, the song entered at number 26 on the week ending October 31, 2010. The two began dating around 2009, and Taylor name-dropped her boyfriend when she performed a monologue songon Saturday Night Live that year.