Taylor Swift doesn’t want fans to fill in the blank spaces.
The Grammy winner shared her thoughts on Tuesday about how “a corner of[her]fan base” takes her love for music to “really extreme places.”
In an interview with the New York Times, Swift acknowledged that there was “nothing[she can]do for people who are doing detective work and trying to figure out the details.”
The pop star confessed that it “gets a little weird” when “people act like it’s a kind of paternity test” by deciding “this song is about that person” or asking “who is it about? What is this?”
“It’s like, ‘He didn’t write the song, I wrote it,'” Swift quipped.
However, the performer explained that this is “part” of his fame and that he needs to “have a strong sense of (his) awareness of (his) art and (his) relationship to it.”
Swift continued, “Then you just have to like it a little bit. (LOL) Yeah, I hope you like it, and if you don’t like it now, I hope you like it in five years.”
The Grammy winner said that even if someone “never” likes her work, she “does it” for her anyway.
Over the years, fans have linked many of Swift’s songs to the “Love Story” crooner’s past relationships.
For example, not only do many believe that “Dear John” is about John Mayer, whom Swift briefly dated from 2009 to 2010, but the “Gravity” singer herself slammed the diss song in 2012, calling it “terrible.”
Fans also believe that “Back to December” was inspired by Taylor Lautner, Swift’s ex-girlfriend in 2009.
Meanwhile, “All Too Well” is rumored to be about Jake Gyllenhaal, who was her boyfriend from 2010 to 2011.
Swift’s hit songs “Forever & Always” and “Style” are pegged to ex-girlfriends Joe Jonas and Harry Styles, respectively.
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Many of the songs on Swift’s 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department appear to be about her six-year relationship with Joe Alwyn and subsequent fling with Matty Healy.
These days, various songs on the songwriter’s album The Life of a Showgirl seem to reference her romance with fiancé Travis Kelce.
She and the Kansas City Chiefs player, 36, began dating in 2023, got engaged two years later, and are planning to wed in New York City in July.
In one of the record’s singles, Swift sings about how the athlete makes the first move and ultimately saves her from “the fate of Ophelia,” a character from Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Hamlet.”
In Swift’s most bawdy song to date, “Wood,” she detailed how the “curse” of a bad relationship was “broken” by a “magic wand.”
“Forgive me for sounding cocky/He made me feel bad (oh!)/And opened my eyes,” she sings. “A redwood tree / It’s not hard to see / His love was the key / That opened my thighs.”
Kelce spoke about the eyebrow-raising song on his New Heights podcast last year, calling it “amazing.”
