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"I Wish You Would (Taylor's Version)" is a new take of the song "I Wish You Would" It came out on October 27, 2023, as part of Taylor’s re-recorded “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” album.
While it still feels like the original, “I Wish You Would (Taylor’s Version)” has subtle changes that show how Taylor has grown as an artist. Her more mature voice and evolved musical style give the song a deeper feeling.
This is a song about an ex-lover who she doesn’t exactly think she will never ever get back together with. Although their relationship is over, she has no bitter feelings towards him. A part of her wishes he would try to get back with her, as she would not decline. It also flirts with the idea of a friends with benefits relationship.
A fan who attended the 1989 Secret Sessions held by Queen T herself posted the following story on Tumblr:
Taylor said that she wrote “I Wish You Would” a couple of months after her and Harry broke up, and they decided to become friends again and she said this was the first time she had become friends with an ex to the point where they were comfortable enough to talk about why the relationship didn’t work out. She said he told her about how, after they broke up, he bought a house literally one road adjacent to hers. Every day he would drive home, and accidentally turn into her street, and he told her how he just wanted to stop at her house and see her, but he never did. She said this song is about while he was in the car making the decision to get out the car and see her, she was sitting in her bedroom, wishing he would make the move and go back to her and just pitch up at her house. She compared it to a classic John Hughes movie where both parties want the same thing but neither has the guts to say anything. Honestly, she spoke so fondly of that relationship. She really does miss it.
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