“The Story of Us” is another big hit from Taylor Swift to her ex-lover, John Mayer—the two dated for some months between 2009 and 2010. The time might have been short, but Mayer must have had a major effect on Swift’s little heart (she was 19 while he was 32) because of the drama that followed their breakup. Like most of her tracks, “Our Song” was a story between her and her then high school and teenage boyfriend, Brandon Bordello. The two broke up when Bordello went to college but remained good friends. “Holy Ground” is among the most-loved Taylor Swift songs about exes, although she doesn’t clarify the song’s inspiration.

However, the discovery of a granuloma on his vocal cords delayed the release of the album until May 2012, and forced him to cancel the planned tour. The album received a generally favorable reception, though was less commercially successful than his previous work. Mayer began performing as a singer again in January 2013, and that year released his sixth studio album, Paradise Valley, which incorporates country music influences. By 2014, he had sold a total of over 20 million albums worldwide.[3] His seventh album, The Search for Everything, a loose concept album based around the theme of a romantic break-up, was released in 2017.

I’m finding that in a lot of my writing, [my breakthrough] helped me comprehend how I want to write and what I’m actually trying to strike at. I was listening to a lot of Them and Van Morrison, and I was working at the record shop that brought me joy, which was Rookys in the Lower Haight. And a lot of the sound that went into the sonics of this record are these specific types of New York City records made by people like Bert Berns, and Bob Crewe, and Ellie Greenwich. I wanted to write something that made me feel like James Salter’s Light Years, one of my favorite books, Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, or Mrs. Dalloway.

/ After everything and that little black dress / After everything I must confess, I need you. I feel so relieved after listening to any of those songs just once. She’s one of the hottest artists of the past decade, with popular music, a larger-than-life social media presence, and rabid fans. Taylor Swift is quite used to having every aspect of her personal life dissected by the media. She has been in relationships with a number of fellow celebrities and has made headlines for her tendency to write songs about those relationships after they’ve ended. Here’s a rundown of Taylor Swift’s most high-profile boyfriends, and the ones she dated the longest.

“I was actually at the VMAs the night she won the award for Best Video and Kanye West interrupted her speech," he revealed. “I was actually up on stage with her when that happened and as you can see, I really stood up for her." In a clip, Lautner can be seen awkwardly looking away. He then proceeded to act out an alternate version showing off some pretty crazy martial arts skills.

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First, Swift wrote and released “Dear John,” a song that bashed Mayer for mistreating her. Mayer revealed in an interview that the track humiliated BetterHalf does work him, and he didn’t do anything to deserve the hate. “Out of the Woods” is one of the best and most popular hits from Swift’s 1989 album.

The surprising pairing had many wondering if the relationship was more of a publicity stunt, but Swift apparently had her heart broken — again — because she ended up reportedly writing many of the songs on her “Red" album about the romance. Fans are convinced Taylor referenced her past relationship with John in “Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve," a bonus track from her 2022 Midnights album. The songstress previously explained that the track lyrics are from “sleepless nights scattered throughout my life." Although lyrics in the song reference moments in couple’s relationship — including their age gap and going to Thanksgiving dinner at Gyllenhaal’s sister Maggie’s house — Swift has never confirmed that she wrote the song about him. When her album Speak Now was released, the lyrics on “Dear John" stood out to Swift’s fans.

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Despite only dating for around four months, the pair still managed to have a pretty public breakup, with Taylor confirming that he ended things over the phone. Taylor Swift has been an absolute machine when it comes to music releases as of late. She dropped two whole albums during lockdown, Folklore and Evermore, and her latest ‘Taylor’s version’ re-release of Red has got us all discussing her past relationships (as well as who each song could possibly be about). Taylor’s relationship with Jake took place after her split with John Mayer — where Taylor had the biggest age gap in any of her relationships. As indicated in her hit breakup track “Dear John" from “Speak Now," she was only 19 to John’s 32.

Particularly one song on the album, titled “Could’ve, Should’ve, Would’ve”, which many speculated to be about her romance with the singer, John Mayer. This was the cue that let listeners know she was singing about the singer-songwriter. Fans were quick to point out that the first song about Mayer is nothing compared to this latest one in “Midnights."

Singer-songwriters Lizzy McAlpine and Alec Benjamin are joining Mayer on stage. Besides the obvious song title, there are multiple references to Mayer directly, including the mention of their over ten-year age gap. Sonically, Taylor purposefully added guitar slurring to the background instrumentals, a guitar playing technique seen all throughout Mayer’s music. This song is about using someone else as a metaphorical getaway car to escape from another relationship. It is a perfectly executed metaphor, with Taylor comparing what she does to this guy as bad as what Bonnie and Clyde did (robbing banks).

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“When I was a Fly Girl, the dreamiest thing happened. Somebody was like, ‘Somebody wants to meet you across the room.’ The room parted and on the other side of the room was John Stamos." Music critics lauded “White Horse" for its somber production and engaging storytelling, with many picking it as an album highlight. At the 2010 Grammy Awards, it won Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance. In the United States, the single peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Hot Country Songs chart, and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It also charted in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and received certifications in the former two countries. He got the idea for the song from journalist Kenneth Allsop who recommended penning lyrics related to his childhood.

Many believe that another Speak Now song, The Story of Us, is about their encounter at that award’s show – where Taylor tells the story of an on-off romance coming to an end and sings about being in a “crowded room" but not speaking to one another. “It’s called Half of My Heart and I want to sing it with Taylor Swift. She would make a killer Stevie Nicks in contrast to my Tom Petty of a song." If you weren’t aware of this particularly juicy moment in pop culture history you might be wondering, did Taylor Swift and John Mayer really date? Taylor and John dated briefly between 2009 and 2010, when she was 19 and he was 32. A sore point that scored its own famous, heart-breaking lyric in the aptly named song Dear John. After releasing her folklore and evermore albums in 2020, Taylor revealed she would be dropping the new versions of her old albums in order to reclaim ownership of her masters.

In her 2020 documentary, “Miss Americana," Swift recalls falling for the English actor. “I also was falling in love with someone who had a wonderfully normal, balanced life," she said. “We decided together we wanted our relationship to be private."