Quotables: Taylor Swift Needs to Take A Minute
“My first album came out when I was 16, so I would write about my life as I saw it, as I felt it, and then what happens is as you get more successful, which you’re lucky if that happens, you have more and more people paying attention to what you’re doing and you’ve been doing it the same way your entire career as a songwriter, but all of a sudden the perspective has changed. They use kind of you writing songs about your life as a way to play detective and for me I have a really strict personal policy that I never name names, so anybody saying that a song is about a specific person is purely speculating. You’re going to have people who are gonna say, ‘Oh you know, like she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends,’ and I think, frankly, that’s just a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They’re all writing about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love life and no one raises a red flag there.”
--Taylor Swift discusses her infamous habit of writing songs about her famous boyfriends, and while she certainly has a point, she is pretty much wrong.
All right, look, we all know that everyone who writes songs writes songs about relationships. That's obvious, and we don't need to argue that point. And while Taylor is right that there is a lot of speculation about who her songs are about, she's conveniently leaving out the part that she really encourages that speculation. Remember those clues she leaves in her liner notes? If you look, all the letters to the lyrics in the songs are typed in lowercase, but random letters are capitalized, and those letters spell out messages. For instance, the clue to "Everything Has Changed" from her last album read "Hyannis Port," which just so happens to be where the Kennedy family lives, including Conor Kennedy, a guy that Taylor was frequently seen with for a time. And she's trying to say that she doesn't want us to talk about that?
We love you, Taylor, and you've gotten so much better lately, but don't pretend like you've never been a little weird. Admit it and move on. Things will work out better for you that way, girl, promise.
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