Taylor Swift fans have some interesting theories about who “Father’s Person” was written after streaming the singer’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
Throughout the song featured as track No. 4, the Grammy winner sings about finding someone “lost in the cold” when they were “young.”
“You remind me of a young me / I saw the possibility / I will be your father figure,” she clowned, “I have shown you all the tricks of the deal / What I ask is your loyalty… / My beloved protégé.”
Swift, 35, suggests that her “protégé” is turning her back on her and singing, “I saw your change… They don’t make loyalty like they used to.”
The hitmaker summoned “silly decisions” and “misplaced visions” of unidentified people, adding that they need to “get (the girlfriend) off” to “reach (her) dreams.”
“I was your father figure /We drank that brown liquor /You made a deal with this demon /You can see my D-K grow bigger,” she sings. “You want a fight, you found it / I surrounded the place / You will sleep with the fish / Before you know you are drowning.”
Swift then warned the mentee that he “chosen the wrong trigger,” adding, “this empire belongs to me.”
The “Lovers” diva didn’t reveal who she wrote about the Distrack, but Swift was theorized by Olivia Rodrigo, Scooter Brown and even Scott Boltzetta, CEO of Big Machine Records.
“The “Father Figure” is 100% about their feud with Olivia Rodrigo,” one person writes to X, suggesting that Swift is the speaker of the song.
Another agreed, “The father figure of Taylor Swift’s song is 100% about meeting her mentor and their final fallout, Olivia Rodrigo. The lyrics make it so obvious.”
When writing “Deja Vu” for her “Sour” album, Swift could deal with her fallout with Rodrigo, who previously admitted to being inspired by the 2023 hit “Cruel Summer.”
Shortly afterwards, Swift and her “Cruel Summer” collaborators Jack Antonoff and Annie Clark received credits for the song “Deja Vu” and were entitled to acquire a 50% stake, Billboard reported.
Rodrigo then dropped the 2023 track “Vampire” about her “Guts” album, “Blood Soccer, Femehkar.”
However, other Swifties argued that the song may have been written from the perspective of Braun and Borchetta as Swift’s “father figure” in the music industry.
“My father’s figure was not my favorite at first, but I felt it by the end… I felt that idk seemed to be from a Scooter Brown perspective,” one person tweeted, adding, “My father’s figure is about Scooter Brown.”
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Meanwhile, others suggested that the mutilated words were directed at Volchetta, writing “I hate Scott Volchetta and Scooter Brown after hearing my father.”
“My dad’s figure is F-K, like a scooter Brown and Scott Volchetta, a scooter. I love it.”
The feud with two Swift music executives began in 2019 when Borchetta sold her first six studio albums (Taylor Swift), “Fearless,” “Speak Now,” “Red,” “1989,” and “Resport” rights to Brown without approval.
By 2020, Braun had resold six albums to Shamrock Capital, and Swift had begun the process of re-recording and re-releasing the album, giving the title “The Version of Taylor.”
However, Swift hit a massive milestone in May when it revealed that it had bought back the rights to Master for the $360 million reported in a heartfelt letter to fans.
At the time, Brown told Page 6 that he was “happy” for Swift.
In an interview with “Magic Radio,” Swift confirmed that he wrote “father figure” from the perspective of the character, not himself.
“Oddly, there are lines that I think represent the way I write songs,” she told hosts Gok Wan and Harriet Scott. “This does not represent who I am as a person.
“Showgirl Life” is now available.
