Who Is Taylor Swift Writing to On Her New Album?

vivfox · #1 08-26-2010, 12:39 AM

Written by JJ on Aug-25-10 11:47pm

Taylor Swift has a knack for taking complicated real life events and turning them into memorable pop songs. An unlucky guy named Drew got the Taylor treatment with "Teardrops On My Guitar" and Joe Jonas was the inspiration behind "Forever & Always" -- a song that basically calls him a lying, capricious heart breaker.

Taylor says her upcoming album, Speak Now, is comprised entirely of songs written as open letters to specific people in her life. Anyone named Taylor Lautner is probably not too thrilled.

While the track list hasn't hit the Internet yet, we take a look at a few potential songs to figure out who Taylor might be writing to on the album.

1. "Powerless" (For Kanye West)

Not content with basically letting Kanye West off the hook on the whole VMA interruption thing, Taylor puts together "Powerless." The surprise mash-up of Kanye's "Power" and "Fearless" lambasts his attempted comeback and grandiose non-video for his new single. The video starts where "Power" left off -- with Kanye about to have his head cut off by naked women with swords. Taylor interrupts it with her own video inexplicably set in a high school where Kanye is played metaphorically by a good looking Georgia boy in faded blue jeans.

2. "I Lycan You Too" (For Taylor Lautner)

After she so openly dissed Joe Jonas in "Forever & Always," Taylor's fans are eagerly waiting to see if she'll write about "the werewolf from Twilight." She doesn't disappoint with a new single about their hairy relationship, but things end on an upbeat note as she declares that even though they didn't work out, "I Lycan You Too."

3. "Best When I'm On My Own" (For Stevie Nicks)

What first sounds like a girl power ballad about not needing some loser boyfriend soon reveals itself to be a letter to Stevie Nicks suggesting that after the Grammy Awards incident they never duet again. Taylor concedes she was never meant to sing "Rhiannon" but suggests that Stevie's husky voice was equally unsuitable for "You Belong with Me." Taylor sings that while Stevie is "like a cat in the dark / With eyes like the Georgia stars / I think that we should go it alone / Cuz I'm best when I'm on my own."

4. "Tear Drops On My Autotuner" (For T-Pain)

After collaborating on "Thug Song," T-Swizzle pens an open letter to T-Pizzle, consoling him on the death of autotune. "He says he's so in love with a box that makes his voice sound right / I wonder if he knows the DJ wouldn't play his song tonight / He's the reason for the teardrops on my autotuner / Keeps me wishing he'd dropped that gimmick sooner / He's the song in the car they keep playing / Don't know why they do."

5. "Sorry Joe (But You Kinda Had It Coming)"
(For Joe Jonas)

Taylor feels terrible about villifying Joe Jonas in a Top 40 pop song that's incredibly popular with his target audience. She tries her hand at writing him an apology, but despite her best efforts the song comes out as a warning to future boyfriends that they "Better not mess with me / Or everyone will hear about it on MTV."

http://www.zimbio.com/Taylor+Swift/a...ting+New+Album

vivfox · #2 08-26-2010, 12:40 AM

Remember, this is not a factual list. It's just a fan of Taylor's poking a little fun.

Sahara · #3 08-26-2010, 06:08 AM

^^ Thank God for that, I was completely convinced and about to write a long and angry post

ButterCookie · #4 10-22-2010, 02:59 PM

I was looking for the Grammy thread, but this one is way better

Silly little mouse took all the comments to heart, didn't she. Why we gotta be so mean, guys?

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/10...an-listen-now/

God I'm laughing like a Hyena with a fractured funny bone.

kokoro · #5 10-22-2010, 03:47 PM

Oh God, you mean it's real? When I heard about it and read the utterly juvenile lyrics I thought it was someone with a lot of time on their hands making up a song to poke fun at Swifty. I should have known better.

tilthefirefades · #6 10-22-2010, 03:54 PM

wtf. This is why I haven't listened to the radio in years.

Heartboy · #7 10-22-2010, 05:14 PM

Taylor is awesome!

I heard 'Mean' is about all the ****in' rude people on youtube.

DefDumbandBlond · #8 10-22-2010, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by ButterCookie

I was looking for the Grammy thread, but this one is way better

Silly little mouse took all the comments to heart, didn't she. Why we gotta be so mean, guys?

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/10...an-listen-now/

God I'm laughing like a Hyena with a fractured funny bone.

Me too god LMAO. Is it our fault she wasn't on tune when she sang with Stevie then got grief over it? Bahaha. Like we were saying earlier I bet us being trolls on that forum inspired it.

SortaSavageLike · #9 10-22-2010, 06:28 PM

Hell, Bob Welch came out of hiding and criticized Taylor's performance on this forum.

Poor girl's gonna spend the rest of her life writing FU songs to everyone on the planet.

Heartboy · #10 10-22-2010, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

Hell, Bob Welch came out of hiding and criticized Taylor's performance on this forum.

Poor girl's gonna spend the rest of her life writing FU songs to everyone on the planet.

WOW, that was pretty rude of him. Stevie is just as guilty on writing 'F' You, Screw You, Bite me, Kiss Me, Love Me songs.... They both have that in common.

nailatixela · #11 10-22-2010, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Heartboy

WOW, that was pretty rude of him. Stevie is just as guilty on writing 'F' You, Screw You, Bite me, Kiss Me, Love Me songs.... They both have that in common.

Pretty rude? The whole entire forum did....and for good reason! Get a grip buddy, the comments against Taylor had nothing to do on what kind of 'blank you' a certain song was.

DefDumbandBlond · #12 10-23-2010, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by nailatixela

Pretty rude? The whole entire forum did....and for good reason! Get a grip buddy, the comments against Taylor had nothing to do on what kind of 'blank you' a certain song was.

She killed Rhiannon and then had Stevie look ridiculous singing about sitting on benches or whatever the f the line is. Scarred4Lyfe.

Sahara · #13 11-11-2010, 07:37 PM

I'm laughing very hard at these lyrics (especially when I start applying them to Ledgies

) ... but I'm going to be humming this all week. Stupid catchy song.

All we are is mean ... and liars ... and pathetic!! ... and alone in life ... and mean!

(I'm not usually mean, by the way. You guys are a terrible influence.

)