Taylor Swift is pulling back the curtain.
The pop star gave Amazon Music listeners commentary about five songs on her “very fatalistic” new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
“It’s about a dramatic, artistic, tragic kind of take on love and loss,” she shared.
Taylor Swift gave insight into five songs from “The Tortured Poets Department.” AFP via Getty Images
The singer shared commentary with Amazon Music listeners. Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
She began by breaking down “Fortnight.” Taylor Swift/Twitter
Swift, 34, did not name names while dishing on “Fortnight” and “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” but she gave rare insight into the relationships that inspired them.
The Grammy winner said she “always imagined” the former took place in an “American town where the American Dream you thought would happen to you didn’t.”
She explained, “You ended up not with the person you loved and now you have to just live with that every day, wondering what would’ve been, maybe seeing them out.
“And that’s a pretty tragic concept, really,” Swift continued. “So I was just writing from that perspective.”
The song is about a “toxic, broken relationship.” Taylor Swift/YouTube
She also addressed “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys.” Getty Images for The Recording Academy
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The Eras Tour performer called the other breakup song a metaphor “from the perspective of a child’s toy being somebody’s favorite toy until they break you, and then don’t want to play with you anymore.”
She recalled being “so valued by a person in the beginning” of a romance before things turned south.
“Then all of a sudden they break us, or they devalue us in their mind, and we’re still clinging on to, ‘No, no, no, you should’ve seen them the first time they saw me. They’ll come back to that. They’ll get back to that,’” she noted.
The songwriter did not clarify which of her exes, if any, the songs are about. Getty Images
Swift clearly roasts her and Joe Alwyn’s six-year romance elsewhere on the album. GC Images
Swift called the track a “song about denial” in which one “can live in this world where there’s still hope for a toxic, broken relationship.”
Swifties want to know
The songwriter also spoke to her motivations behind writing “Florida!!!,” “Clara Bow” and “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”
She did not, however, address the songs eagle-eyed fans believe to be about her exes Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy and John Mayer.
She also sings about her fling with Matty Healy. Claude Yao Sahi @hijoshotit / Shutterstock
Swift is currently dating NFL star Travis Kelce. Getty Images
Swift also refrained from commenting on “thanK you aIMee,” a viral diss track seemingly shading Kim Kardashian amid their years-long feud.
While the reality star, 43, has remained mum about the scathing lyrics, even during her “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” interview Monday, Healy, 35, has spoken out — via his aunt.
“Nothing surprises him. … Him and her know what went on,” Debbie Dedes told the Daily Mail over the weekend, going on to call the 1975 frontman “very happy” with his girlfriend, Gabbriette Bechtel.
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