Turns out Taylor Swift meant it when she sang about “never, ever getting back together.”
Now that Travis Kelce has put a hoop on it, the Swifties have been celebrating their lady discovering her everlasting man, and saying to goodbye all the others for good.
Well, possibly not for good, since any informal Swift listener (a lot much less the Swifties) know All Too Well that a considerable portion of her previous work was inspired by misplaced love, and/or love that simply didn’t work out.
So in step with that, let’s make a journey in the time capsule to revisit some of the well-known but notorious exes who inspired Swift to place pen to paper, from after her debut all the option to a bunch of tortured poets.
The singer dated Joe Jonas, who’s a member of the group the Jonas Brothers, for a couple of months in 2008.
Young love could be powerful, and after they break up, Swift appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres’s daytime speak present the place she stated she was “cool” with it.
“When I find that person that is right for me, he’ll be wonderful,” Swift stated at the time. “When I look at that person, I’m not even going to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.”
She went on to elucidate that “I looked at the call log, it was like 27 seconds. That’s got to be a record.”
Yikes.
Swift additionally shared that she had recorded a track about their relationship at the time, form of final minute, titled “Forever & Always,” for her sophomore “Fearless” album.
But many followers additionally assume the tracks “Mr. Perfectly Fine,” “Better Than Revenge,” and “Last Kiss” are additionally about Jonas.
She even referenced him in her opening monologue when she hosted “Saturday Night Live” in 2009.
“You might think I’d bring up Joe, that guy who broke up with me on the phone,” Swift said. “But I’m not going to mention him in my monologue. Hey, Joe! I’m doing real well and I’m hosting SNL, but I’m not going to write about that in my monologue.”
The pair received previous it although, and through a 2019 look once more with Ellen DeGeneres, the two girls had been enjoying a spherical of “Burning Questions” and the host requested Swift about the most rebellious factor she did as a teen.
“Probably when I, like, put Joe Jonas on blast on your show,” Swift stated. “That was too much. I was 18. Yeah. We laugh about it now, but … that was mouthy.”
Swift was 19 when she dated fellow artist John Mayer, and let’s simply say issues didn’t precisely go nice.
Fans shortly clocked her “Dear John” tune – from her third studio album, 2010’s “Speak Now” – as probably being about Mayer, particularly as a result of of the lyrics: “Dear John, I see it all, now it was wrong / Don’t you think 19 is too young to be played by your dark twisted games, when I loved you so?”
Yikes, once more.
Even Mayer himself thought the track was about him.
“I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I’d already been dressed down,” the musician told Rolling Stone in 2012. “I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you’ve ever been, someone kicked you even lower?” (Triple yikes!)
“Twilight” star Taylor Lautner appeared to have spilled tea on himself after relationship the celebrity who shares his first title.
Lautner and Swift had been linked for a bit in 2009 after costarring in the film “Valentine’s Day” collectively, nevertheless it wasn’t till years later that we received to sip the tea, when his “Scream Queens” costar Lea Michele requested him throughout a Facebook Live about probably having inspired a Swift track.
“That’s what she does,” Lautner stated at the time. “She writes songs.”
Michele couldn’t determine the title of the track, however believed it had one thing to do with a hat. Lautner cleared it up for her.
“It’s called ‘Back to December,’” he stated.
But there’s no Bad Blood right here. In 2023, Swift brought Lautner on stage as a shock throughout her “Eras” tour cease in Kansas City for the debut of the music video for “I Can See You,” which costars Lautner.
Lautner and his now spouse, who can also be named Taylor (that’s quite a bit of Taylors), talked about their assist of his ex throughout their podcast “The Squeeze” at the time.
“We’ve been very excited about this secret for the last few months,” he stated. “We’ve known how freaking awesome the video is for awhile now so (we) were just stoked for everybody to see it.”
Hold on, as a result of this one received Dionne Warwick concerned.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Swift briefly dated in 2010, and followers have determined that a couple of of her songs had been about their time collectively, together with however not restricted to, “We Are Never Getting Back Together,” “State of Grace,” and “The Moment I Knew,” all off her fourth studio album from 2012, titled “Red.”
That first one particularly received consideration, as the actor is a well-known indie music fan and in “We Are Never Getting Back Together,” Swift sings, “And you would hide away and find your peace of mind / With some indie record that’s much cooler than mine.”
Fast ahead to 2021, when Swift launched a brief movie music video for her single “All Too Well” off her “Red (Taylor’s Version)” album.
While the unique monitor had lengthy been believed to be about Gyllenhaal as effectively, the brief movie all however confirmed it because it featured an actor who might have been his double.
There can also be a line in the track the place Swift sings, “And I left my scarf there at your sister’s house / And you’ve still got it in your drawer even now.”
That’s the place Warwick came in.
“If that young man has Taylor’s scarf he should return it,” the legendary singer tweeted.
“It does not belong to you,” she added. “Box it up and I will pay the cost of postage, Jake.”
Folks form of beloved that Warwick determined to not simply “Walk On By” the entire scenario.
There was solely One Direction this relationship was going.
Swift and Styles set tongues wagging after they had been noticed by paparazzi strolling collectively in November 2012, and issues appeared much more heated after they had been photographed sharing some New Year’s Eve smooches the following month.
But the boy bander turned out to not be her perpetually, and he’s believed to have inspired “Style” and “Out of the Woods” – off her smash album “1989” from 2014 – and “I Knew You Were Trouble,” off “Red.”
In “Out of the Woods,” Swift sings the lyric “Baby, like we stood a chance / Two paper airplanes flying,” attributable to the truth Styles as soon as wore a paper airplane necklace, and in the music video for the track there are a number of Easter eggs together with her sporting a blue gown which seems to be quite a bit like the gown she wore leaving a visit they reportedly took to the British Virgin Islands collectively.
One of her longest relationships is definitely Swift’s final public one before she discovered Kelce.
The songstress dated British actor Joe Alwyn for greater than six years before they split in 2023.
The yr before, she revealed that her track “Lavender Haze” from 2022’s “Midnights” album was linked to their relationship.
“Like, my relationship for six years, we’ve had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid stuff – and we just ignore it,” she said in a video shared on social media. “This song is sort of about the act of ignoring that stuff to protect the real stuff.”
And whereas it’s believed that he inspired a number of different songs – together with the happy-go-lucky “London Boy” off of 2019’s “Lover” – he additionally truly collaborated with her on a couple of.
Under the pen title William Bowery, Alwyn helped Swift write “Exile” and “Betty” from her 2020 “Folklore” album; “Champagne Problems,” “Coney Island,” and the title monitor “Evermore” from the identical yr’s “Evermore” album, and “Sweet Nothing” from “Midnights.”
Alwyn apparently left a long-lasting impression given that her 2024 album was titled “The Tortured Poets Department,” which featured the a lot much less glad “So Long, London,” additionally believed to be about the actor. Even the album title itself appeared to be a nod to him, as Alwyn and his associates – fellow actors Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott – beforehand shared that their group chat is titled “Tortured Man Club.”
While not essentially heartbreak of the romantic form, Swift’s long-held feud with Katy Perry, believed to have stemmed from a dispute about backup dancers, most certainly served as the foundation for her 2014 hit “Bad Blood” off “1989.” Happily, the pair later reconciled and ultimately Perry appeared in Swift’s video for “You Need to Calm Down” in 2019, sporting, you guessed it, an enormous burger costume.