{"id":611589,"date":"2026-04-28T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/611589\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:04:08","slug":"fans-trying-to-figure-out-who-songs-are-about-is-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/611589\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Trying to Figure Out Who Songs Are About Is ‘Weird’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a> dove deep into her songwriting process in a new video interview with The New York Times<\/a> \u2014which just named her one of the 30 greatest living American songwriters \u2014 and got candid about the persistent online speculation surrounding who her songs are about.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s no secret that Swift has often mined her own personal life for some of her most loved songs \u2014 including \u201cAll Too Well,\u201d \u201cCruel Summer\u201d and \u201cLove Story,\u201d which she reveals in the interview was about an older man her parents wouldn\u2019t let her date \u2014 but her confessional style has also had some downsides. Though Swift told the Times it\u2019s \u201cgreat\u201d that she has \u201cso many\u201d fans now, she admitted that \u201cthere\u2019s corners of my fanbase that are going to take things to a really extreme place.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s nothing that I can do about that,\u201d Swift continued. \u201cThere\u2019s people who are going to try to like, do detective work, figure out the details \u2014 who is that about? What is this? When it gets a little bit weird for me is when people act like it\u2019s sort of like a paternity test. Like, \u2018This song\u2019s about this person.\u2019 Because I\u2019m like, \u2018That dude didn\u2019t write the song. I did.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThough Swift conceded \u201cthat\u2019s part of\u201d being a pop star, she added: \u201cYou have to hold tight to your perception of your art and your relationship with it, and then you just have to kind of like, \u2018There it goes, hope you like it! If you don\u2019t now, hope you do in five years! And if you never do, then I was doing it for me anyway.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBesides, according to Swift, criticism can actually be good material. She told the Times that negative feedback has \u201cbeen a huge fuel\u201d and \u201ca jumping-off point\u201d for her songwriting. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere are so many songs in my career that would not exist \u2014 like \u2018Blank Space\u2019 would not exist if I hadn\u2019t had people being like, \u2018Here\u2019s a slideshow of all her boyfriends,’\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then \u2018Anti-Hero\u2019 is a song that I\u2019m so proud of still, like that song doesn\u2019t exist if I don\u2019t get criticized for every aspect of my personality that people have a problem with or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, in the internet age, Swift said there is such thing as too much criticism. \u201cMy favorite thing when I sit down with new artists or songwriters is I\u2019m like, \u2018Why are you reading your comments?’\u201d Swift said. \u201cThat\u2019s too much of it. Like, you\u2019re inundating yourself with too much criticism that doesn\u2019t really have a focus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut she encouraged young artists to not let online hate \u201cmake you stop writing or make you edit yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf it\u2019s an interesting point for you to respond to, then that\u2019s a gift for you to be able to write something \u2014 maybe you wouldn\u2019t have written something that day,\u201d she continued. \u201cBut don\u2019t like\u2026 God, don\u2019t go to the Notes app and post it. Like, write about it. Make art about this. Don\u2019t respond to like, trolls in your comments. That\u2019s not what we want from you. We want your art.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Swift\u2019s full video interview with The New York Times here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift dove deep into her songwriting process in a new video interview with The New York Times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,4915],"class_list":["post-611589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}