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Fans deliberation Taylor Swift is revisiting her 2009 romance pinch John Mayer successful her recently released album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
In nan opus “The Manuscript” –– which is nan past way connected nan prize version, “The Anthology” –– Swift sings astir 2 group successful a narration pinch a important property gap.
“In nan property of him, she wished she was 30 / And made java each greeting successful a Frеnch property / Afterwards she only atе kids’ cereal / And couldn’t slumber unless it was successful her mother’s bed,” she sings.
As fans know, Swift notably dated Mayer erstwhile she was 19 and he was 32 betwixt 2009 and 2010.
The Grammy winner, now 34, continues to singing that she went connected to day “boys who were her ain age.”
Following her break up pinch Mayer, Swift dated Jake Gyllenhaal –– who is besides overmuch older than her –– earlier moving connected to Harry Styles and Conor Kennedy, who are person to her age.
Swift again alludes to nan property spread successful nan opus pinch nan lyrics, “He said that if nan activity was half arsenic bully arsenic the conversation was / Soon they’d beryllium pushin’ strollers / But soon it was over.”
“She thought astir really he said since she was truthful wise beyond her years / Everything had been supra committee / She wasn’t sure.”
Swift ends nan opus reflectively and notes that “Lookin’ backwards / Might beryllium nan only measurement to move forward” and later, “And astatine past / She knew what nan agony had been for.”
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After nan highly anticipated double medium dropped Friday, fans took to Twitter to stock their theories astir “The Manuscript” and Mayer, now 46.
“the manuscript……..john mayer you will ne'er unrecorded this down,” 1 instrumentality tweeted.
“the manuscript being astir John Mayer was not connected my 2024 bingo card,” different personification wrote.
“not The Manuscript being 1 last f–k you to John Mayer,” 1 X personification bluntly put it.
“She really said f–k you John Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal pinch The Manuscript,” different instrumentality tweeted.
Despite keeping nan subjects of her songs nether wraps, fans person been capable to fig them out.
In 2010, Swift seemed to singing astir Mayer for nan first clip successful nan opus “Dear John” connected her medium “Speak Now.”
“Don’t you deliberation nineteen’s excessively young / To beryllium played by your dark, twisted games erstwhile I loved you so?” she sang.
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Over a decade later, Swift appeared to revisit her grounded narration pinch Mayer successful nan opus “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” connected her “Midnights” medium released successful 2022.
“Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve / If you’d ne'er looked my measurement / I would’ve stayed connected my knees / And I damn judge ne'er would’ve danced pinch nan devil / At nineteen,” she sang.
Meanwhile, Swift’s 10-minute type of her opus “All Too Well” seemed to beryllium astir her narration pinch Gyllenhaal, now 43, erstwhile she sang, “You, who charmed my dada pinch self-effacing jokes / Sippin’ java for illustration you’re connected a late-night show / But past he watched maine watch nan beforehand doorway each night, consenting you to travel / And he said, ‘It’s expected to beryllium nosy turning twenty-one.'”
Despite nan evident clues, Swift has yet to corroborate aliases contradict that immoderate of nan supra songs are astir Mayer aliases Gyllenhaal.
Elsewhere connected nan chart-topping album, Swift appears to shadiness her breakups pinch Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy, while besides calling retired her longtime feud pinch Kim Kardashian.
