A Guide to Every Song Taylor Swift Has Supposedly Written About Ex John Mayer: ‘Dear John’ and More

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Taylor Swift knows there’s no better song inspiration than relationships — and she’s seemingly written several tunes about her whirlwind romance with John Mayer.Sparks flew between the two after collaborating on Mayer’s 2009 single “Half of My Heart.” However, their relationship sparked some controversy for their large age gap as Mayer was 32 and Swift was 19 at the time.Their age difference is something Swift not-so-subtly called out in her 2010 breakup track “Dear John” off her album Speak Now, singing, “Dear John, I see it all now, it was wrong / Don’t you think 19’s too young to be played by your dark, twisted games when I loved you so? / I should’ve known.”Swift previously attempted to play coy when asked about penning the track about Mayer. “How presumptuous!” she told Glamour in October 2012. “I never disclose who my songs are about.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesIn 2019, the “Shake It Off” songstress announced she would be rerecording her first six albums — Speak Now included — after losing control of her masters to music manager Scooter Braun.

Ahead of the July 2023 release of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), Swift encouraged fans to spread kindness online instead of hate. “I’m not putting this album out so that you should go and feel the need to defend me on the Internet against someone you think I might have written the song about 14 million years ago,” she said during a June 2023 stop on The Eras Tour before performing “Dear John.”The night before the rerecorded album’s release, Mayer added fuel to the rumor fire by sharing a cryptic message via Instagram.

In a slideshow of pics, he posted a snap of the words “Please Be Kind” written in the sky at one of his concerts.Keep scrolling for