When it comes to relationships – and revenge – pop superstar Taylor Swift lets her music do the talking…At 22, Taylor Swift is one of the biggest singer-songwriters in the world. Already the recipient of six Grammys and cited by Forbes magazine as the highest-paid celebrity under 30, having earned £35 million last year, Taylor has, in just a few short years, moved seamlessly from the country charts to mainstream popularity.
Her songs, paeans to young love and the delicious pain of heartbreak, have an added frisson given that Taylor freely admits she writes songs about her life, and given, too, that she has an impressive back catalogue of boyfriends. Rumoured exes include actors Jake
Gyllenhaal and Twilight’s Taylor Lautner, musician John Mayer and singer Joe Jonas, and they are all believed to have been subjects of Taylor’s catchy songs.
While she scrupulously avoids mentioning them by name, they aren’t always shy about outing themselves (Mayer declared himself ‘humiliated’ by Taylor’s 2010 song ‘Dear John’). The release of every new album sends her legion of fans – commonly known as Swifties – scurrying to decipher her lyrics with the zeal of Bletchley Park code-breakers.
