The grounds is compelling.
A 13-year-old interrogation with Taylor Swift is going viral connected X aft fans seemingly worked retired the celebrated ex who she was talking astir successful the clip.
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The interrogation with ITN is from astir 2012, erstwhile Taylor was 22 years aged and promoting her 4th workplace album, Red. While connected a reddish carpet, she was asked what the “worst gift” she’d ever received was — and she was much than blessed to answer.
“The worst acquisition I ever got was erstwhile I had this feline I was dating astatine the time, helium gave maine each these presents that helium would want, not that I would want,” Taylor began. “Like, each these books helium thought I should read, and each these apparel that were what helium wore alternatively of what I wore and… We didn’t last, so.”
And, with the payment of hindsight, Swifties lone had 1 of Taylor’s celebrated exes connected their caput aft watching the clip, with 1 fashionable effect reading: “Is this Jake lmfao.”

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“Oh, one cognize she’s taking astir Jake here,” idiosyncratic other echoed, portion 1 much reiterated: “definitely Jake.”
This is, of course, successful notation to Jake Gyllenhaal, who Taylor embarked connected a short-lived but earnestly high-profile narration with backmost successful 2010, erstwhile she was conscionable 20 years old, and helium was 29.

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While the romance lone lasted a substance of weeks, it seemingly sparked a full ton of inspiration successful Taylor arsenic Jake is wide believed to beryllium the muse behind immoderate of Taylor’s astir beloved songs — including her 10-minute-long mega-anthem “All Too Well,” and her 2012 deed azygous “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”

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Another of the songs thought to beryllium astir Jake is “I Bet You Think About Me,” which was primitively written for Red backmost successful 2012, but wasn’t released until she re-released the medium successful 2021 with immoderate marque caller bonus tracks “from the vault.”

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And the accordant taxable passim these cardinal evident Jake songs seems to beryllium that helium was, for deficiency of a amended word, a spot of a snob towards Taylor erstwhile they were dating, which perfectly ties into the mentation that helium would beryllium the benignant of idiosyncratic to bargain idiosyncratic the things that helium liked alternatively than what they did.

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For example, successful “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” Taylor sings: “You would fell distant and find your bid of caput with immoderate indie grounds that’s overmuch cooler than mine.”

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Discussing the ex who inspired this opus astatine the time, Taylor told USA Today: “He made maine consciousness similar I wasn’t arsenic bully oregon arsenic applicable arsenic these hipster bands helium listened to. So I made a opus that I knew would perfectly thrust him crazy.”
Then, successful “I Bet You Think About Me,” Taylor makes circumstantial notation to an ex and his friends discussing books that weren’t adjacent connected her radar, singing: “I tried to acceptable successful with your upper-crust circles… They beryllium astir talking astir the meaning of beingness / And the publication that conscionable saved 'em that I hadn't heard of.”

Meanwhile, Taylor suggests that trying to support up with her ex’s expectations of chill yet ended up wearing her down successful “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)," wherever she sings: “Your Brooklyn broke my tegument and bones." The song's accompanying abbreviated movie besides appears to notation the evident discomfort she felt erstwhile astir her ex's blase friends, with the pistillate protagonist shown desperately trying — and yet failing — to acceptable successful with them astatine a meal party.

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