Taylor Swift says the red scarf in her hit song All Too Well is a 'metaphor.' The 32-year-old pop star released the track and its accompanying 10-minute short film towards the end of 2021.

According to the Grammy winner, the red scarf was always just a metaphor. Swift was at TIFF to promote her 10-minute short-film version of "All Too Well," which stars Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien.

Lenny even once talked about the scarf in an interview with GQ in 2020, saying, “it was big and it was cold.’” Honestly, a good reason to wear a giant scarf. “Okay, the scarf is big, but ...

A post shared by FLUFFLE STILT SKIN (@ms.flufflestiltskin) Whether the scarf is real, intended as a metaphor, or both, fans and music critics agree it's more than a simple piece of outerwear.

In 2012, Lenny Kravitz was photographed wearing a comically enormous scarf — and it became a meme. Now, 10 years later, Kravitz wore it in his first TikTok.