Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model) hit streaming and the dialog over which of her former lovers every tune is about has been reinvigorated
Calling all web sleuths, armchair detectives, English Lit. majors and naturally, Swifties of each persuasion — it is time to, as soon as once more, decode Taylor Swift’s Communicate Now album.
Taylor dropped a re-recording of Communicate Now on July 7, 2023, over a decade after the unique hit the cabinets of now-defunct document shops again in 2010.
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Swift has been re-recording and re-releasing her first six albums in an effort to regain management of the grasp recordings of her efforts after a really messy sale of stated masters.
These new recordings have reinvigorated her already rabid fanbase and have given new life to one in every of Swifties’ most beloved pastimes: decoding the lyrics to her songs.
And, if we’re truthful, the detective work is usually determining which of Taylor’s previous boyfriends impressed which tune.
Saying the re-release of Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model), the songwriter stated on social media: “I first made Communicate Now, fully self-written, between the ages of 18 and 20.”
“The songs that got here from this time in my life have been marked by their brutal honesty, unfiltered diaristic confessions and wild wistfulness. I really like this album as a result of it tells a story of rising up, flailing, flying and crashing … and dwelling to talk about it.”
As displayed in her social media observe, Taylor has a penchant for writing elegantly and vaguely about her life, emotions, and course of. This love of allusions, of opaque metaphor, and cleaning soap opera storytelling additionally drives her songwriting.
The thriller — and the unnamed boys — retains her followers endlessly captivated.
However that does not imply we do not have clues … loads of very apparent clues.
“Praying for John [Mayer].”

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Mine
The lead single on Communicate Now has lengthy been believed by followers to be concerning the late Glee star Cory Monteith.
Nevertheless, Taylor has by no means confirmed that rumor. What she has stated concerning the tune has been extra concerning the expertise that impressed it … which, because it turned out, was extra about the potential for a relationship.
Taylor informed Rolling Stone it was about “a boy I favored at a sure time.” She went on to say it was her speculating about “what it might be like if I truly let my guard down.”
“This can be a scenario the place a man that I simply barely knew put his arm round me by the water,” Taylor additionally stated of the tune whereas talking with Yahoo Music, “and I noticed all the relationship flash earlier than my eyes, nearly like a bizarre science-fiction film.”
“After I wrote the tune, issues kind of fell aside, as issues so usually do. And I hadn’t talked to him in a pair months. And the tune got here out, and that day, I bought an e-mail from him. And I used to be like, ‘Sure!’ As a result of that one was kind of half-confession and half-prediction or projection of what I noticed.”
Sparks Fly
See the liner notes on this one.
The album’s notes contained what many imagine is a hidden message: “Portland, OR.”
Swift archeologists unearthed an historical Myspace submit from October 2006, which sees Taylor recall an evening she performed at a Portland bar, Duke’s. She was the opening act for nation singer Jake Owen.
The Myspace posting raved about Jake. Swifties have additionally famous that Sparks Fly mentions falling in love at an empty bar.
Again to December
All indicators level to Twilight in December.
Taylor Lautner believes the tune is about him … and nobody thinks he is so useless for considering it.
He and Taylor had a quick romance after costarring in Valentine’s Day, splitting in December 2009.
Lautner went on to pattern in Could when he informed TODAY that he felt “secure” with the upcoming re-release of Communicate Now, and stated it was a “nice album.”
Nevertheless, what made him go viral was when he stated he was “Praying for John [Mayer].”
Mayer has beforehand stated the tune “actually humiliated” him.

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Communicate Now
This one shouldn’t be about her … based on Taylor.
“One in every of my associates … the man she had been in love with since childhood was marrying this different woman,” the singer informed Yahoo! Music again in 2010.
“And my first inclination was to say, ‘Nicely, are you gonna converse now?’ After which I began fascinated about what I might do if I used to be nonetheless in love with somebody who was marrying somebody who they should not be marrying. And so I wrote this tune about precisely what my recreation plan could be.”

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Pricey John
Break up letters … Age gaps … and title drops.
There’s plenty of allusions and attainable clues right here. However everybody appears to agree this one is about her dalliance with John Mayer.
The lyrics point out an age distinction between the 2 lovers (Swift was 19 when she dated Mayer, who was 31).
Whereas Taylor beforehand talked about how “powerful” the tune was to put in writing, she stated throughout a present on her Eras Tour in June earlier than performing Pricey John: “I am 33 years previous. I do not care about something that occurred to me after I was 19.”
“I am not placing this album out so that you could go and will really feel the necessity to defend me on the web towards somebody you suppose I might need written a tune about 14 billion years in the past after I was 19,” Taylor added. “I don’t care. We have now all grown up. We’re good.”
Mayer has beforehand stated the tune “actually humiliated” him.

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Imply
Imply has lengthy been believed to be about critic Bob Lefsetz, who referred to as her “younger and dumb” after her 2010 Grammys efficiency.
Taylor later admitted on 60 Minutes: “The issues that have been stated about me by this dude floored me and leveled me.”
“I don’t have thick pores and skin. I hate studying criticisms. You by no means actually get previous issues hurting you.”
She then carried out Imply on the 2012 Grammys.

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The Story of Us
Taylor did verify that Pricey John and The Story of Us are each about the identical man, which suggests, if the web is right, John Mayer is the inspiration.
“The Story of Us is about operating into somebody I had been in a relationship with at an awards present, and we have been seated a couple of seats away from one another,” she beforehand informed USA Immediately. “I simply needed to say to him, ‘Is that this killing you? As a result of it is killing me.’ However I did not. As a result of I could not. As a result of we each had these silent shields up.”
Many suppose the tune is about their CMT Awards look in 2010. The liner notes, as soon as once more, give a clue with the phrases “CMT Awards.”
By no means Develop Up
“By no means Develop Up is a tune about the truth that I do not fairly know the way I really feel about rising up. It’s difficult,” Swift as soon as wrote on her web site, per Genius.
“Rising up occurs with out you figuring out it. Rising up is such a loopy idea as a result of loads of occasions once you have been youthful you would like you have been older. I look out right into a crowd each night time and I see loads of ladies which can be my age and going by precisely the identical issues as I’m going by. Each now and again I look down and I see a little bit woman who’s 7 or 8, and I want I may inform her all of this. There she is changing into who she goes to be and forming her ideas and desires and opinions. I wrote this tune for these little ladies.”
That is a phrase which that individual used one time in an e-mail … so I purposely wrote it within the tune, so he would know.
Enchanted
“I began writing that within the resort room after I bought again, as a result of it was simply this optimistic, wistful feeling of ‘I hope you perceive simply how a lot I liked assembly you,'” Taylor beforehand informed Yahoo! Music about an expertise assembly a dude in NYC. “Utilizing the phrase ‘wonderstruck’ [in the lyrics] was accomplished on goal, as a result of that is a phrase which that individual used one time in an e-mail … so I purposely wrote it within the tune, so he would know.”
“ADAM” seems within the liner notes.
Owl Metropolis singer Adam Younger then wrote a weblog in 2011, the place he stated: “I am so tremendously honored that Taylor would write such a chic tune and thereby supply a gracious nod in my route. For sure, I used to be misplaced for phrases and completely smitten. I could not cease smiling.”
Higher Than Revenge
Taylor has truly modified the lyrics to this tune along with her re-recording.
Followers shortly observed the change on “Higher Than Revenge” upon its launch, 13 years after the unique.
The lyrics “She’s an actress, however she’s higher recognized for the issues that she does on the mattress,” has not aged properly.
Now, although, the road has been tweaked as, “She’s an actress, he was a moth to the flame, she was holding the matches.” Because the tune is believed to have been written about an actual individual (Joe Jonas’ subsequent girlfriend after Swift, Camilla Belle). Although Swift by no means confirms or denies any real-life inspirations, this new line is actually sitting higher with some followers.
For years now, Swift has been adamant that girls shouldn’t be judged for who they date and the way they date. This highly effective stance has solely made the road much more problematic in hindsight, as many have interpreted it as “slut shaming,” one thing that flies towards every thing Swift stands for.

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Harmless
Harmless was in response to Kanye West interrupting her 2009 VMAs speech.
“I feel lots of people anticipated me to put in writing a tune about [West],” she informed NYMag.com. “However, for me, it was vital to put in writing a tune to him.”
“It does not actually add something good if I begin victimizing myself and complaining about issues. As a result of I am happy with that efficiency on the VMAs final yr, the place my followers helped me get by it,” she stated. “And there was loads that went down backstage that I’ll at all times be glad about, and the followers within the subway know precisely what occurred that night time. I really feel every thing. I’ve by no means had this thick pores and skin that may’t be… It isn’t like I’m bulletproof in any sense of the phrase.”
I do not care that you’ve tattoos. I do not care that you’ve a niche between your tooth. I really like you for who you might be.
Haunted
Taylor as soon as blogged, per Genius, the tune was “concerning the second that you just notice the individual you’re in love with is drifting and fading quick. And also you don’t know what to do, however in that time frame, in that section of affection, the place it’s fading out, time strikes so slowly. Every part hinges on what that final textual content message stated, and also you’re realizing that he’s type of falling out of affection.”
“That’s a extremely heartbreaking and tragic factor to undergo, as a result of the entire time you’re making an attempt to inform your self it’s not occurring. I went by this, and I ended up waking up in the course of the night time scripting this tune about it.”
Followers imagine it is one other tune about Taylor Lautner, because the tune was initially written for the New Moon soundtrack, starring Lautner.
Final Kiss
This is some extra detective work.
Taylor as soon as informed Ellen DeGeneres that her tune Without end and All the time was written after her break up from Joe Jonas.
The phrases “eternally and at all times” seem within the liner notes of Communicate Now for the observe Final Kiss.
You do the mathematics.

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Lengthy Dwell
“This tune is about my band, and my producer, and all of the individuals who have helped us construct this brick by brick,” Taylor as soon as blogged about her tune Lengthy Dwell, per Genius.
“The followers, the individuals who I really feel that we’re all on this collectively, this tune talks concerning the triumphant moments that we’ve had within the final two years. ‘Lengthy Dwell’ is about how I really feel reflecting on it. This tune for me is like taking a look at a photograph album of all of the award exhibits, and all of the stadium exhibits, and all of the fingers within the air within the crowd. It’s kind of the primary love tune that I’ve written to my workforce.”
Ours
Taylor as soon as stated on VH1’s Storytellers that Ours was written a few “man no person thought [she] needs to be with.”
“So I wrote this tune particularly simply to play it for him, simply to point out him, ‘I do not care what anybody says,” she continued. “I do not care that you’ve tattoos. I do not care that you’ve a niche between your tooth. I really like you for who you might be.’ And that tune ended up truly making it on a document [Speak Now] and changing into a No. 1 tune.”
I turned to one in every of my associates and stated, ‘It is like watching Superman fly away.
Superman
There’s loads of guesses on this one however none that actually stick.
And based on the songwriter it was actually nearly an offhand comment she as soon as made a few man she was “enamored” with.
“This tune bought its title by one thing that I simply stated randomly in dialog,” Taylor informed a stay viewers as soon as of Superman, based on Style of Nation. “[When] he walked out of the room, I turned to one in every of my associates and stated, ‘It is like watching Superman fly away.'”