Taylor Swift Says It’s ‘Weird’ When Fans Turn Songs Into ‘Paternity Tests’ to Figure Out Who She’s Talking About: ‘That Dude Didn’t Write the Song. I Did’

By Ellise Shafer

Ellise Shafer

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Taylor Swift dove deep into her songwriting process in a new video interview with The New York Times —which just named her one of the 30 greatest living American songwriters — and got candid about the persistent online speculation surrounding who her songs are about.

It’s no secret that Swift has often mined her own personal life for some of her most loved songs — including “All Too Well,” “Cruel Summer” and “Love Story,” which she reveals in the interview was about an older man her parents wouldn’t let her date — but her confessional style has also had some downsides. Though Swift told the Times it’s “great” that she has “so many” fans now, she admitted that “there’s corners of my fanbase that are going to take things to a really extreme place.”

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