Taylor Swift: Who’s Dear John and Better Than Revenge about?
The album, which was her third studio launch, was centered on love and heartbreak, and impressed by her experiences with romance.
As the pop star continues to tour across the globe, a lot of her followers who’ve been listening to the reworked album have discovered themselves questioning who a number of the love songs are about – particularly Dear John, Last Kiss and Better Than Revenge.
Here is all the things we all know in regards to the love songs and the individuals they’re presumably primarily based on.
Dear John
The energy ballad is written as a love letter from a youthful lady to an older man who’s being informed their relationship is over.
Swift sings: “And I lived in your chess game, but you changed the rules every day, wondering which version of you I might get on the phone tonight” earlier than the refrain takes off asking “Dear John”, “Don’t you think nineteen’s too young to be played by your dark twisted games when I loved you so?”.
She later sings: “And I’ll look back and regret how I ignored when they said, ‘run as fast as you can’.”
When the music was launched, it was broadly assumed that it was in regards to the star’s ex-boyfriend John Mayer.
Taylor Swift and John Mayer carry out in the course of the Z100’s Jingle Ball 2009
/ Getty ImagesThe two reportedly dated between December 2009 and February 2010. At the time, Mayer was 31 and Swift was 19, and the break-up was mentioned to be removed from amicable.
Neither Swift nor Mayer have ever formally confirmed that the rumours are appropriate.
Last Kiss
Last Kiss is one other love music from Speak Now that’s about Swift’s heartache over a breakup.
She confesses: “I never thought we’d have a last kiss, never imagines we’d end like this, your name, forever the name on my lips”.
Taylor Swift and Joe Jonas briefly dated in the summertime of 2008.
/ FilmMagic/GettyImagesSwifties are satisfied that the music is about Joe Jonas, whom she dated in the summertime of 2008.
One of the small print which have left followers satisfied is the road “I ran off the plane that July ninth”, which they declare is a nod to how Swift flew over to Dallas on July 9, 2008 to attend a Jonas Brothers present.
Better Than Revenge
In Better Than Revenge Taylor Swift shares her want to get revenge on a feminine romantic rival.
She sings: “I had it all, I had him right there where I wanted him, she came along, got him alone, and let’s hear the applause, she took him faster than you could say sabotage.”
Many counsel that the music is about actress Camilla Belle who dated Joe Jonas after he broke up with Swift.
The authentic music described her as “an actress” who’s “better known for the things that she does on the mattress”.
In the re-recorded model of the music, Swift has modified the lyrics as the unique one had been criticised for slut-shaming. It now says: “She’s an actress, he was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches,”