‘You’re an absolute loser’: Why Taylor Swift’s ‘Manuscript’ could be about John Mayer’s ex
They will never get back together.
Taylor Swift is known for writing songs about her exes — and on her new album “The Tortured Poets Department,” released Friday, she may have once again cited John Mayer.
Some fans believe her new song “The Manuscript” is about Mayer, 46.
The second verse of the song refers to the relationship between people who have a big age difference. 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: “At his age, she wished she was thirty / And she made coffee every morning in a French newspaper / And then she only ate baby cereal / And she could only sleep in her mother’s bed.”
“John Mayer You’ll Never Have Peace” single A fan posted on X, Previously on Twitter, next to an image of the lyrics of the song “Manuscript”.
“Manuscript……John Mayer will never live this down.” Another fan said.
“Manuscript, John Mayer, you are an absolute loser,” another said said a fan.
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 the first time Swift has ripped into Mayer.
The “Your Body Is a Wonderland” singer became famous for her 2010 song “Dear John” after their breakup. And the pop star appeared to be back on track for “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should Be” – one of seven other tunes on the surprise “3 a.m. Edition” of her “Midnights” album.
“Give me back my childhood, it was my first/And I’m pretty sure I would never dance with the devil,” she sang in that song.
She also directly implied in that song that she was 19, the same age she was when she dated Mayer.
In “Manuscript,” Swift also has a line about dating “boys who were her own age.”
After her relationship with Mayer, Swift moved on with Conor Kennedy, Styles and Calvin Harris, all of whom were closer to her in age than Mayer, and her current beau, NFL player Travis Kelce, is the same age as her, 34.
She also apparently wrote about Mayer in “The Story of Us” from the 2010 film “Speak Now.”
“Every now and then I reread the manuscript / But the story is no longer mine,” she sings in “Manuscript.”
So the “manuscript” could be a direct reference to this other path.