Who Are Taylor Swift's Songs About?
From Harry Styles to Joe Alwyn, Here's Who Fans Think Taylor Swift's Songs Are About
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The telling lyrics: "The burgundy on my T-shirt when you splashed the wine onto me / And how the blood rushed into my cheeks, so scarlet, it was / The mark you saw on my collarbone, the rust that grew between telephones / The lips I used to call home, so scarlet, it was maroon"
Who it's supposed to be about: Jake Gyllenhaal or Harry Styles
Why? Most glaringly, maroon is a deeper shade of red, which happens to be the name of the album that explored much of Swift and Gyllenhaal's ill-fated relationship — especially her single "All Too Well." The lyric "the mark you left on my collarbone" could be an allusion to the iconic red scarf Swift references in "All Too Well," which Swift said was a "metaphor" — not an actual scarf — at TIFF in September 2022. Alternatively, the song could be about Styles, with the line "the rust that grew between telephones" possibly representing their challenging long-distance 2012 relationship.