It looks like a lyrical autobiography of emotional life.
First I thought about writing the shortest biography of Taylor Swift using her own lyrics as ‘psycho data’. Hands, chess boards and a fusion of metaphors; far better than any overrated pulp writer. Startup guys call her their model CEO and content guys say she is the best storyteller in the world now. When we look at her lyrics, it’s an honest expression of her own emotional life; a treasure for anyone who is digging down the Gen Z secret of happiness and sadness! High contrast indeed.
As a digger down there myself, I peeped into the webpages ,videos and finally listened to her beautiful voice and lyrics on Spotify and completed an almost successful life-lyrics match.
Here is who is who in Taylor Swift’s lyrics. Surely it is a Guessip but not pure gossip or AI.
1. “You Are in Love” | 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
Lyrics in Context
And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars / And why I’ve spent my whole life trying’ to put it into words”
Supposed to be about : Jack Antonoff and Lena Dunham
Why Do Fans Believe So ? Taylor herself once admitted it and in her own words ; “I wrote it with my friend Jack Antonoff, who’s dating my friend Lena. Jack sent me this song, it was just an instrumental track he was working on, and immediately I knew the song it needed to be. I wrote it as a kind of commentary on what their relationship has been like. So it’s actually me looking and going and, ‘this happened and that happened then that happened,’ and that’s how you knew you’re in love.”
2. “Out of the Woods” | “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”
Lyrics in context
“Your necklace hanging from my neck / The night we couldn’t quite forget / When we decided / To move the furniture so we could dance / Baby, like we stood a chance / Two paper airplanes flying, flying . . . “
Supposed to be about : Harry Styles
Why Do Fans Believe So ? In her own words; the inspiration for the song “a relationship where I was kind of living day to day, wondering where it was going, if it was going to go anywhere, if it was going to end the next day”
3. “Forever & Always” | “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)”
Lyrics in context
“Was I out of line? / Did I say something way too honest? / That made you run and hide like a scared little boy?”
Supposed to be about: Joe Jonas
Why Do Fans Believe So ? “Fearless,” released just after their breakup, and also features lyrics about Swift staring at the phone (she famously revealed that Jonas broke up with her on a brief phone call). As a retort, Jonas wrote the song “Paranoid.”
4. “End Game” | “Reputation”
Lyrics in context
“I wanna be your end game / I wanna be your first string / I wanna be your A-Team /I wanna be your end game, end game”
Who it’s supposed to be about: Joe Alwyn
Why Do Fans Believe So ?When Swift was dating Alwyn, things seemed to be getting serious. Not only does she talk about falling hard for this guy, but she says she wants to be with him forever.
5. “Marjorie” | “Evermore”
Lyrics in context
“Watched as you signed your name Marjorie / All your closets of backlogged dreams / And how you left them all to me”
Supposed to be about: Swift’s late maternal grandmother, Marjorie
Why fans believe so ? Swift’s grandmother’s name was Marjorie, and she is recounting all of the memories they had when she was a child and her grandmother was alive and the life lessons she taught her. Swift also mourns the fact that she lost her grandmother so young and wasn’t able to fully know her.
6. “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” | “Reputation”
Lyrics in context
“It was so nice to be friends again / There I was, giving you a second chance / But then you stabbed my back while shaking my hand / And therein lies the issue / Friends don’t try to trick you / Get you on the phone and mind-twist you / And so I took an ax to a mended fence”
Supposed to be about: Kanye West
Why Do Fans Believe So ? Swift references the infamous phone call between her and West and how he and Kardashian later twisted the truth about what they talked about.
7. “Lavender Haze” | “Midnights”
Lyrics in context
“I’ve been under scrutiny / You handle it beautifully” and “They’re bringing up my history / But you weren’t even listening”
Supposed to be about: Joe Alwyn
Why Do Fans Believe So ? Throughout the song’s lyrics, Swift sings about how Alwyn isn’t “listening” to all of the noise and has borne it all “beautifully.”
8.“Then I think about summer” | “Speak Now”
Lyrics in Context
“Then I think about summer all the beautiful times / I watched you laughing from the passenger side / And realised I loved you in the fall”
Supposed to be : Taylor Lautner
Why Do Fans Believe So? Tayler Swift About the Song: “It’s the first time I’ve ever apologised in song. It’s the first time I’ve ever admitted guilt in my music.”
It is believed to be about “Twilight” hunk Lautner, since it came out after they dated and co-starred in “Valentine’s Day” together.
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