buck owens was the guy in we are never getting back together.
buck owens was the guy in we are never getting back together.
who is the guy in we are never getting back together?
buck owens
the video, which is done as one continuous shot, begins with swift in colorful pajamas recounting the events of her off and on again relationship with her ex-boyfriend (played by noah mills). the video then segues into swift going into her living room where her band is dressed up in animal costumes and swift belts out the chorus of the song. the video then goes to a tv where swift says "like, ever." and then to the dining room where we see she returns to recounting the events of her relationship and receives a phone call from her ex who is calling her from a nightclub. swift hangs up on him and he walks off screen into the nightclub. it then goes to the two in a truck having an argument then to them having a stroll in the park. swift then runs off and we see her on the phone telling the person on the other line how she and her ex are not getting back together and her frustration of their entire relationship. the video then segues back to swift's living room where a party is going on and her ex shows up unannounced trying to woo her back and she slams the door in his face. the video ends with swift on her window ledge where she was at the beginning of the video, singing the last line of the song.
we are never ever getting back together
upon initial release, the song received positive reviews from music critics. robert myers of "the village voice" felt that the song, while "good", was "not swift at her best" and speculated that the decision to release it as a lead single was made for commercial reasons: "i doubt 'never ever' is even close to being the best song on "red"; it's a teaser, an indication to her fans of what's coming up. that sounds like commercial calculation of the worst kind, but i don't think it is. swift's connection with her audience is possibly more important than her connection with her boyfriends. and there is one brilliant touch: the spoken bit that comes after the middle eight." grady smith of "entertainment weekly" drew comparisons with avril lavigne and praised the "undeniable, instantly catchy hook". while describing the song as "joyous", he nevertheless expressed concern that the song's "juvenile sensibilities" marked a regression following swift's work on "speak now". jody rosen of "rolling stone" noted that the song's "hooks, plural, have a zing that's more stockholm than nashville. but it's unmistakably taylor: a witty relationship postmortem, delivered in inimitable girlie-girl patois. and this bit – "i'm just, i mean, this is exhausting. like, we are never getting back together. like, ever" – might be the most sublime spoken-word interlude in pop since barry white died."
we are never ever getting back together