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Taylor Swift pulls back the curtain.
The pop star spoke to Amazon Music listeners about five songs from her “very fatalistic” new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
“It’s a dramatic, artistic, tragic take on love and loss,” she explained.
Swift, 34, didn’t name names during her speeches on “Fortnight” and “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” but she gave a rare glimpse into the relationships that inspired them.
The Grammy winner said she “always imagined” the first one taking place in an “American city where the American dream that you thought would happen to you didn’t happen.”
She explained: “You’re not done with the person you loved and now you have to live with that every day, wondering what would have been, maybe seeing them walk out.
“And it’s really a pretty tragic concept,” Swift continued. “So I was just writing from that perspective.”
The Eras Tour singer called the other breakup song a metaphor “from the perspective of a child’s toy being someone’s favorite toy until they break you, and he doesn’t want to play with you anymore.”
She remembers being “so liked by one person at the beginning” of a romance before things went south.
“Then all of a sudden they break us, or they devalue us in their minds, and we’re still holding on to, ‘No, no, no, you should have seen them the first time they saw me.’ They will come back to it. They will come back to it,” she noted.
Swift called the track “a song about denial” in which one “can live in this world where there’s still hope for a toxic, broken relationship.”
Swifties want to know
The songwriter also spoke about his motivations behind writing “Florida!!! “, “Clara Bow” and “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”
She didn’t, however, address the songs that eagle-eyed fans think are about her exes Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy and John Mayer.
Swift also refrained from commenting on “thank you aIMee,” a viral diss track that appears to shade Kim Kardashian amid their years-long feud.
While the reality star, 43, remained tight-lipped about the scathing lyrics, even during her “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” interview on Monday, Healy, 35, spoke out – via his aunt.
“Nothing surprises him. … He and she know what happened,” Debbie Dedes told the Daily Mail over the weekend, going on to call the 1975 frontman “very happy” with his girlfriend, Gabbriette Bechtel.
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