![]() ![]() ![]() But the lyrics hold better clues: “Just twin fire signs, four blue eyes.” Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal are both blue-eyed Sagitariuses. Here is our possibly fallible take on all 19 songs – 16 on the regular edition, and three more on the deluxe:Ĭlue: “I love you doesn’t count after goodbye”Īll we really learn from the hidden message is that this boyfriend probably dumped her, then had second thoughts and came back for another shot, which Swift wasn’t giving. Silly us! This time, we waited till all the clues were in hand before venturing any guesses. Which we did: Because we hadn’t seen the hidden messages before writing that piece, we mistakenly pegged “Story of Us” as being about Joe Jonas instead of its true subject, John Mayer. ![]() Two years ago, we did a song-by-song analysis on Speak Now, and Swift told us how much she enjoyed reading our piece on “what you think my songs were about.” Think was the operative word there, and should have been a tip-off that we got at least one dead-wrong. Naturally, we want to play Nancy Drew and join in the fun. And if you’re a music buff, you can only applaud her for prompting a new generation of pop fans to indulge in the nearly lost practice of staring at a lyric sheet for hours. Isn’t she simultaneously discouraging and encouraging this kind of voyeuristic speculation? Maybe, but she’s said in interviews that she doesn’t mind people guessing who the tunes are about if that means they’re focused in on lyrics. You could say she gets to have it both ways: refusing to talk about the specific subjects of most of her songs, but also teasing fans with clues that range from utterly opaque to dead give-away spoilers. It’s as if Swift’s giving us tacit permission to guess away. Which made for decoder-ring-style fun from the get-go, but which is particularly provocative now that there’s a national guessing game about which well-known boyfriend each number might be about. When you put together those capitalized letters, they spell out messages about the meanings or origins of the tune in question. But not since the late Sixties, when worried Beatlemaniacs scanned every microscopic bit of every album looking for confirmation that Paul McCartney had died, have so many fans spent as much time analyzing cryptic C-L-U-E-S as they are this week, now that Red is out and peppered with hints about the subjects of Swift’s songs.Īs you may know, on every album, Swift indulges in inappropriate capitalizations in the printed lyrics of her songs, and it’s not because she spilled a Coke on the shift key of her old IBM Selectric. Reading through the lyric booklet of Taylor Swift‘s Red, you may be surprised to come across the secret message that reads: ![]()
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