As of January 2020 the video has over 20 million views. Awards and nominations YearĪ lyric video for the song was released on Swift's YouTube channel on May 17, 2012.

Jason Lipshutz of Billboard also found the same description of the song - stating that it ' more in the modern rock vein than her usual country-pop oeuvre.' In June 2022, Insider ranked 'Eyes Open' as Swift's third best soundtrack song, only behind ' Safe & Sound' and ' I Don't Wanna Live Forever'. While reviewing The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond, Matt Bjorke named 'Eyes Open' as one of the 'standouts' on the record. The song garnered general critical acclaim from contemporary critics - most of whom favorably noted the song's more rock-oriented tone as compared to her previous releases. Swift describes the song as the opposite of the melancholic 'Safe & Sound,' stating that ' more frantic and fast-paced, a completely different shade of music.' Critical reception According to Swift, she wrote the song about Katniss's 'relationship' with the Capitol. Critics described the song's genre as rock. 'Eyes Open' is a song of four minutes and four seconds in length. The video consists of animation with the song's lyrics. A music video comprised as a lyric video was released on May 17, 2012, on Swift's Vevo account. The song was leaked before its official release date of March 20, 2012. Swift first premiered the song during a performance in Auckland for her Speak Now World Tour, before launching into the song she told the crowd: 'I'm really excited about it.but, I mean, you don't think I'd get in trouble if I played it now? Probably not, right?'. The song was one of two songs that Swift wrote and recorded for the soundtrack to the film, The Hunger Games, the other song being 'Safe & Sound'.

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