If you’re looking to the sequel to Taylor Swift’s 2012 album Red when her new record 1989 comes out this fall…think again! According to the singer herself, things will be very different this time around, with the album being labeled as strictly “Pop”….and not all about her ex-boyfriends!
“In this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken,”she told Rolling Stone. “So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boycentric.”
In fact, since breaking up with Harry Styles at the end of 2012, the 24-year-old says she has “not gone on a date,” and instead, has found comfort in her A-list friends like Karlie Kloss, Selena Gomez, Lena Dunham and many more. But not all the women in Hollywood are lining up to be besties with her — there’s even a song on 1989 called “Bad Blood,” about another female artist Taylor would not name.
“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not,” she explained. “She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’ [Last year], she did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’ And it wasn’t even about a guy! It had to do with business. She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational — you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”
And while Taylor says she knows the song and its lyrics will create major speculation, that’s not her intention. “I know people are going to obsess over who it’s about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out,” she admitted. “But there’s a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives.”
But that doesn’t mean Harry Styles won’t get any recognition on the record. To the mag, she implies that the song “I Wish You Would,” about an ex who bought a house two blocks from hers, is about the boy bander. There’s also “All You Had to Do Was Stay,” about a guy who was never willing commit, and a tune called “Out Of the Woods” — a tune about how Taylor and a then-boyfriend wound up in the hospital after a snowmobile accident, which surprisingly was never reported on in the media.
“People think they know the whole narrative of my life,” she said. “I think maybe that line [“Please don’t tell anyone about this”] is there to remind people that there are really big things they don’t know about.”
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