Taylor Swift has a talent for writing about the highs and lows of being in love, and considering her past relationships with Joe Jonas, John Mayer, Harry Styles, Tom Hiddleston, and Calvin Harris, she has no lack of material to draw on.
The musician has previously acknowledged that her prior lovers have provided her with a wide variety of feedback on her music. Swift claimed that she had a conversation with her ex-lover about the breakup track as she was discussing the song “All Too Well,” which was released in 2012 and is based on her brief affair with Jake Gyllenhaal. The song is about their split.
“I just listened to the album, and that was a really bittersweet experience for me,” he said at one point. It was quite similar to looking through a picture book. In 2013, she reminisced on the experience to New York Magazine and said, “That was nice.” “Much more pleasant than, say, the shouting and wild e-mails that I received from this one guy.
It is a much more adult way of looking at a relationship that was beautiful until it became horrible, and both individuals felt harmed by it; however, one of those persons happened to be a composer. This is a much more mature way of looking at a love that was wonderful until it became dreadful. So, what are your plans moving forward? Did you not look me up on Wikipedia before you decided to ask me out on a date?
The native of Pennsylvania said that her writing technique consists of “usually me just trying to get past something and understand something I’m going through by writing about it.” The Reputation concert special was released on Netflix in 2018. Swift also used this opportunity to reflect on how her relationship with the song “All Too Well” has evolved in the years since its first release.
“There’s the life of this song, where this song was born out of catharsis and venting and trying to get over something as well as trying to understand it and process it,” the artist said. Then there’s the life where it was out into the world, and you changed it into something entirely new for me,’ she told her supporters at the time.
“You turned this song into a collage of memories of watching you scream the words to this song or seeing pictures that you post to me of you having written the words of the song in your diary or you showing me your wrist and you have a tattoo of the lyrics to this song underneath your skin and that is how you changed the song ‘All Too Well’ [for] me and that is how you changed the song ‘All Too Well’ [for] me.”
However, not all of her tunes are anthems for moving on after a relationship. Following the start of her romantic relationship with Joe Alwyn in 2017, the singer discovered that she had a musical connection with the actor.
“Joe and I both really like listening to melancholy tunes. Music has always served as a unifying force for us… We are the most depressing writers. Simply said, we can’t get enough of melancholy tunes. What can I say?” The conversation took place on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music broadcast in December 2020, after the two artists had worked together on Swift’s Folklore album.
“And I say it was a surprise that we started writing together, but in a way, it wasn’t because we have always bonded over music and had the same musical tastes,” she said. “But it was a surprise that we started writing together.” And he is the one who constantly introduces me to new music by other artists, many of which end up being some of my favourites.
Scroll down to find out which celebrities Taylor Swift is singing about in hit songs-
Forever & Always (2008) – Joe Jonas
Lyric: “Did I say something way too honest? / Made you run and hide like a scared little boy?”
Better Than Revenge (2010) – Camilla Belle
Lyric: “She’s not a saint / And she’s not what you think / She’s an actress. / She’s better known / For the things that she does / On the mattress.”
Back to December (2010) – Taylor Lautner
Lyric: “I miss your tanned skin, your sweet smile / So good to me, so right / And how you held me in your arms that September night / The first time you ever saw me cry.”
Dear John (2010) – John Mayer
Lyric: “Dear John, I see it all now it was wrong / Don’t you think 19’s too young to be played by your dark, twisted games? / When I loved you so, I should’ve known.”
Innocent (2010) – Kanye West
Lyric: “It’s okay, life is a tough crowd / 32, and still growin’ up now / Who you are is not what you did. / You’re still an innocent.”
Mean (2010) – A music critic
Lyric: “Someday, I’ll be living in a big old city / And all you’re ever gonna be is mean.”
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (2012) – Jake Gyllenhaal
Lyric: “I’m really gonna miss you picking fights / And me falling for it screaming that I’m right / And you would hide away and find your peace of mind / With some indie record that’s much cooler than mine.”
Red (2012) – Jake Gyllenhaal
Lyric: “Like the colors in autumn, so bright just before they lose it all”
All Too Well (2012) – Jake Gyllenhaal
Lyric: “Left my scarf there at your sister’s house”
Begin Again (2012) – Conor Kennedy
Lyric: “And you throw your head back laughing like a little kid / I think it’s strange that you think I’m funny ’cause he never did.”
Bad Blood (2014) – Katy Perry
Lyric: “Band-Aids don’t fix bullet holes / You say sorry just for show / You live like that, you live with ghosts”
Out of the Woods (2014) – Harry Styles
Lyric: “Your necklace hanging from my neck / Two paper airplanes flying, flying.”
Style (2014) – Harry Styles
Lyric: “You got that long hair, slicked back, white T-shirt.”
Look What You Made Me Do (2017) – Kanye West
Lyric: “I don’t like your little games / Don’t like your tilted stage / The role you made me play / Of the fool / No, I don’t like you.”
…Ready for It? (2017) – Joe Alwyn
Lyric: “Younger than my exes / But he act like such a man … Burton to his Taylor / Every love I’ve known in comparison is a failure.”
Gorgeous (2017) – Joe Alwyn
Lyric: “You should take it as a compliment / That I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk … Ocean blue eyes, looking in mine / I feel like I might sink and drown and die / You’re so gorgeous / I can’t say anything to your face / ‘Cause look at your face / And I’m so furious / At you for making me feel this way / But what can I say? / You’re gorgeous.”
I Did Something Bad (2017) – Kanye West
Lyric: “If a man talks s—t, then I owe him nothing. I don’t regret it one bit, ‘cause you had it coming.”
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (2017) – Kanye West
Lyric: “Friends don’t try to trick you / Get you on the phone and mind-twist you / And so I took an axe to a mended fence”
I Did Something Bad (2017) – Kim Kardashian
Lyric: “They got their pitchforks and proof, their receipts and reasons / They’re burning all the witches, even if you aren’t one / So light me up (light me up)”
Don’t Blame Me (2017) – Calvin Harris / Tom Hiddleston / Jake Gyllenhaal
Lyric: “I’ve been breakin’ hearts a long time / And toyin’ with them older guys.”
Getaway Car (2017) – Tom Hiddleston
Lyric: “But you weren’t thinkin’/ And I was just drinkin’/ Well, he was runnin’ after us, I was screamin’, “go, go, go!” / But with three of us, honey, it’s a sideshow / And a circus ain’t a love story /And now we’re both sorry.”
Call It What You Want (2017) – Joe Alwyn
Lyric: “I’m laughin’ with my lover, makin’ forts under covers/ Trust him like a brother / Yeah, you know I did one thing right”
Call It What You Want (2017) – Katy Perry
Lyric: “All the drama queens taking swings / All the jokers dressing up as kings”
Lover (2019) – Joe Alwyn
Lyric: “Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? / With every guitar string scar on my hand / I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover / My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue / All’s well that ends well to end up with you.
The Man (2019) – Leonardo DiCaprio
Lyric: “They would toast to me, ‘Let the players play’ / I’d be just like Leo in St-Tropez.”
London Boy (2019) – Joe Alwyn
Lyric: “You know I love a London boy / I enjoy walking Camden Market in the afternoon / He likes my American smile, like a child when our eyes meet / Darling, I fancy you / Took me back to Highgate, met all of his best mates / So I guess all the rumors are true / You know I love a London boy.”
Invisible String (2020) – Joe Alwyn
Lyric: “Green was the color of the grass / Where I used to read at Centennial Park / I used to think I would meet somebody there / Teal was the color of your shirt / When you were sixteen at the yogurt shop / You used to work at to make a little money.”
Peace (2020) – Joe Alwyn
Lyric: “Your integrity makes me seem small / You paint dreamscapes on the wall / I talk s—t with my friends, it’s like I’m wasting your honor,” she sings. “And you know that I’d swing with you for the fences / Sit with you in the trenches / Give you my wild, give you a child.”
Invisible String (2020) – Joe Jonas
Lyric: “Cold was the steel of my axe to grind / For the boys who broke my heart / Now I send their babies presents / Gold was the color of the leaves.”
The Lakes (2020) – Joe Alwyn
Lyric: “Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die / I don’t belong and, my beloved, neither do you / Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry.”
Coney Island (2020) – Jake Gyllenhaal
Lyric: “Did I leave you hanging every single day / Were you standing in the hallway / With a big cake, happy birthday.”
Long Story Short (2020) – Kanye West / Kim Kardashian
Lyric: “Past me, I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things / Your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing.”
Coney Island (2020) – Calvin Harris
Lyric: “But when I walked up to the podium, I think that I forgot to say your name.”
Long Story Short (2020) – Joe Alwyn
Lyric: “When I dropped my sword / I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door / And we live in peace / But if someone comes at us, this time, I’m ready.”
It’s Time to Go (2020) – Karlie Kloss
Lyric: “When the words of a sister come back in whispers / That prove she was not in fact what she seemed.”
It’s Time to Go (2020) – Scott Borchetta
Lyric: “Sometimes giving up is the strong thing / Sometimes to run is the brave thing / Sometimes walking out is the one thing / That will find you the right thing.”
All Too Well (2021) – Jake Gyllenhaal
Lyric: “And I was never good at telling jokes but the punch line goes / I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age.”
All Too Well (2021) – Jake Gyllenhaal
Lyric: “But I’m in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind / You said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine / And that made me want to die.”
Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve (2022) – John Mayer
Lyric: “If clarity’s in death, then why won’t this die? / Years of tearing down our banners, you and I / Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts / Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first,”
Karma (2022) – Joe Alwyn
Lyrics: “Karma is the guy on the screen / Coming straight home to me”
