Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
‘You absolute loser’: Why Taylor Swift’s ‘The Manuscript’ could be about ex John Mayer
nypost.com“The Tortured Poets Department,” which dropped on Friday, she may have once again invoked John Mayer. Some fans believe her new song “The Manuscript” is about Mayer, 46.
The second verse of the song makes a reference to a relationship between people with a large age gap. In 2009, when Swift dated the “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” singer, Swift was 19 and Mayer was 32.The song’s lyrics say, “In the age of him, she wished she was thirty / And made coffee every morning in a Frеnch press / Afterwards she only atе kids’ cereal / And couldn’t sleep unless it was in her mother’s bed.” “john mayer you will never have peace,” one fan posted on X, formerly Twitter, next to an image of the lyrics from “Manuscript.” “the manuscript……..john mayer you will never live this down,” another fan said. “the manuscript oh john mayer you absolute loser,” another fan said.
Taylor Swift has a long history of writing about her exes on her albums — from Mayer and Jake Gyllenhaal to Joe Jonas and Harry Styles.This song isn’t Swift’s first time ripping into Mayer.
Her 2010 song “Dear John” famously bashed the “Your Body Is a Wonderland” singer after their breakup. And the pop superstar appeared to be at it again on “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” — one of seven more tunes on a surprise “3am Edition” of her “Midnights” album.
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